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  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•What are your favorite racing games?English
    5·
    15 days ago

    I have a work-in-progress list here, strictly games I would consider “must play” in the genre. Notably missing the Ridge Racer and Tokyo Xtreme Racer games because I haven’t played enough of them to have an opinion.

    https://howlongtobeat.com/user/atmur/lists/40754/Peak-Racing-Games

    Mostly arcade and simcade racers though. If you’re interested in sims:

    For modding, Assetto Corsa is basically the modern rFactor.

    For offline racing, Automobilista and Raceroom have pretty solid AI. Note: Raceroom’s pricing model is dumb, kind of like iRacing just without the subscription.

    For career mode, Project CARS 2 (not 3) is basically the only sim that even tries.

    For online racing, ACC and iRacing are unmatched.

    For rally, you’re already playing DR2. Richard Burns Rally is also shockingly good for its age.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Wreckfest 2 officially announced at THQ Nordic showcaseEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Oh hell yeah I’ve played almost all of both series.

    Flatout 1 is alright, hasn’t aged especially well. Suffers from being completely overshadowed by its sequel in every way.

    Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage is still my favorite Bugbear game, with Wreckfest being a close but firm second.

    Flatout 3 is.

    Flatout 4 is honestly not terrible, but still feels like a cheap imitation of the first 2 games.

    Burnout 1 also suffers from sequel shadow.

    Burnout 2 is a great arcade racer that no one talks about because…

    Burnout 3 is quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made. Absolute masterpiece.

    Burnout Revenge is somehow just as good. Whether I prefer this or 3 depends entirely on how much I enjoy traffic checking on that day. I posted Junkie XL - Today to the music community a few days ago because I was playing Revenge recently, what a soundtrack.

    Still haven’t played Dominator, should probably get around to that.

    Burnout Paradise is also excellent in its own right, but I think going open world took away some of the charm that the previous games had. Tracks were so well designed in 3 and Revenge. Still love Paradise too, but 3 and Revenge are just absurdly good.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•RuleEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

    My first job was in a grocery store deli, and let me tell you that is the worst job to have if your mental health sucks. My last few months there were spent hoping to get hit by a bus so I didn’t have to go to work. My last two weeks were the worst two weeks of my life. The customers I dealt with were some of the meanest people I’ve ever interacted with, all over a $7 bag of gross fried chicken and pasta salad.

    This was a several years ago, I have since gotten a job in IT that doesn’t make me want to die, but this reminded me of one of few funny stories from my time in the deli:

    Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.

    We had a Lemon Capellini salad available. Capellini. Big sign in front of it, can’t miss it. Pronounced exactly how it looks. Capellini.

    More than half of the people who ordered it could not say that word. A lot of people would stumble through the first two syllables and give up. Some people would throw in some extra letters and create a new word on the spot. Most people avoided saying the word entirely (“lemon salad”). At least one person asked for “lemon speghetti,” and I think I had two or three people ask me how it’s pronounced.

    Capellini.