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Why Must You Do This To Me, MotorStorm?
wardrox | 10:36 AM on 06.09.2008 35 comments




I haven't had more fun with my PS3 than the first 4 hours I spent playing Motorstorm.

The races are fun, the cars are varied and the setting is awesome. Crashes are funny and erupting over the finish line in a ball of fire never gets old. Could this be the first game I play where I think to myself at the end "yeah, that was a good game". The first game I can use as a shining example of me not being so negative?

No.

Sigh. Throughout the first few hours of racing I couldn't help but notice a few little problems appearing here or there. The AI for example. Your opponents clearly all drive along set paths, and they seem determined to get themselves on the racing line. This means you can frequently be side-swiped by another vehicle out of the blue. Your opponents will do this, even if it's clear it will total both cars.

On other occasions, your opponents will box you in quite happily until somebody is flipped (especially crap if they are in bigger vehicles than you). If you get to close to the rear of another car or truck, they slow down. The AI just seems dumb.

Then there are the issues of never escaping the main group of vehicles. I don't know if it's the fact that "boost" is crap, or if the AI has elastic, but I just can't seem to escape the other racers. If I crash 10 times during one lap (sadly, not exaggerating), I can usually catch up to the main group within half a lap. If I have a perfect race, the pack will still be right behind me.

This becomes annoying when, for example, I have had a perfect 3 laps, and get taken out on the final corner but some random AI and proceed to come last.

My slowly building rage came to a boil when I was put in a race on a bike, against other bikes and buggies. The buggies will happily take me out, and bikes only need to touch a pebble before they crash and explode. Coupled with a track actively designed to cause you to race through narrow, rock filled gaps, and you get ragedrox.

I'm sorry, but it's not fun. I'm sure the designers use the time old excuse of "oh, but it's more difficult" to make up for design faults, but come on. Make the enemies smarter, not dumber and more likely to take me out.

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itemforty's Destructoid Blog
This gets to the point where realism is just not fun unless EVERYTHING is realistic (e.g. other drivers actively NOT trying to scratch up their cars, etc). Sad.
greeneggsnsam's Destructoid Blog
I downloaded the demo, and while it was fun, I could see that the game would offer nothing other than more of the same.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
The game would be fun if it didn't take so god damn long to load.
Tablet's Destructoid Blog
Awww poor Wardrox but remember you can always trade it on for somthing better
EternalDeathSlayer's Destructoid Blog
That's just them being a bit lazy. It's true.

But the game is for the most part very well designed.

I thought it was, anyway. I just couldn't get past one glaring omission: No split-screen racing of any kind. Either you're alone or you're online.

Either way, you're alone.

So I traded that shit in.
wardrox's Destructoid Blog
No split screen isn't too bad for me, I can only afford one controller.

That and my negativity drove away my friends.
Justice's Destructoid Blog
I don't see what you see in this game Wardrox, it was a big disappointment when I played it at my mates. It is fun yes, but I didn't feel there was any variation in the landscapes if you get where I'm coming from.
Rifter01's Destructoid Blog
Wardrox avatar.... No longer.... Happy??
wardrox's Destructoid Blog
Rifter, the avatar change was only ever meant to be temporary. The happydrox avatar will probably come back for PAZ :)
Pedro Blandino's Destructoid Blog
it's official your the most negative person i know.
http://negativegamer.com/

and i thought i was bad.
Anus Mcphanus's Destructoid Blog
Yeah this is why I stopped playing the game. It was just too frustrating and difficult and I didn't think anything really changes and fuck the loading times
njsykora's Destructoid Blog
Come play some Mario Kart, until you play that everyday for 2 months you don't get to bitch about racing games being unfair.
aborto thefetus's Destructoid Blog
I played the demo of this and I fucking hate it. I may be jumping the gun since it was only a demo of the game and not the actual product, but it just flat out infuriated me. It seems whenever I went over a certain speed my car would explode and that just pissed me off to no end. You shouldn't be friggin punished like that for going fast in a racing game.

Although I think my hate of it is largely because a troll that was on Destructoid awhile back kept praising it making it sound like the second coming of Jesus, which it isn't.
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
[Content deleted due to violation of the cblog rules and regulations]
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
YOU BITCH TOO MUCH.


vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
Mattfoo is the new Reaprar?
Excremento's Destructoid Blog
Who the F*** is Mattfoo?
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
I am your grandfather.
NotAZombie's Destructoid Blog
@ VA

Not even close. He can't fucking spell for shit and isn't funny. Reaprar is at least funny sometimes.
brainderailment's Destructoid Blog
I only played the demo. I didn't buy it.
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
NotAZombie why must you hate on a FOO??

Your on dtoids top 10 gay list. You top chee. Dude face it, your a fag. Now excuse me as I make the same gay post 10 times in a row. New avatar.


FAG.
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
I quote the infamous NotAZombie

"Blindeside I loved your smash contest even though everyone hated it."


Proof your a fag.
Qraze's Destructoid Blog
this game has pushed my buttons and now i haven't played it in 8 months. also they nic and dimed the fuck out of that game and it only had 8 fncking stock courses. motorstorm2 is looking good but i can't do the grind any more, trying to win one match playing it 20 times to get that fncking useless semi or buggy. no more broken controllers for me.
Qraze's Destructoid Blog
hey mattfoo. don't fncking post your racist pictures here. you don't even have motorstorm let alone a ps3, yet here you are.........................
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
MATTFOO

Just quit while you're ahead you stupid fucking twat. Seriously. It's getting pathetic. No one fucking likes you, bitch.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
@EVERYONE:

A simple

would have sufficed
Electro Lemon's Destructoid Blog
What the fuck is going on? Jesus, it was just a post. There's really nothing in here to spark controversy.

Don't turn Dtoid into Youtube, guys. We're better than that. Act with a bit of fucking civility, will you?
Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
Wow... what OB/GYN Ekans said.
Puppetpallmich's Destructoid Blog
hey guys whats going on in here

also lemon wtf, did that cobra turn u into a pussy or what. u may be judas, but if u remember judas was a bad ass cuz he got paid son.

also mattfoo is epic, i see nothing wrong with his posts (cept the nagger stuff which i understand why it got removed) he can bash and make fun of people if he wants, the sites open to ur opinion how ever u wanna express it, within reason (atleast it should be) we are all just having fun and everyone should be able to take a joke. just like how vexed alex should go back to 1up.com.

go with the motto: its always funny
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
Harassment doesn't have anything to do with opinion, Puppet, you hopelessly unfunny and awkward human, you.
cjpkiller's Destructoid Blog
matt, I thought the game was shit too, once you get over the graphics its worthless.
Cheeburga's Destructoid Blog
InafterobligatoryCheejoke.
LarkOhiya's Destructoid Blog
hidden, but still viewable. at least he gave us that much.
MATTFOO's Destructoid Blog
chee i love u


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