I think its a great feature and i can see the majority using it from now on. Its only similar to checkpoints in other games.
Why don't you like the idea?
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I think its a great feature and i can see the majority using it from now on. Its only similar to checkpoints in other games.
Why don't you like the idea?
As your racing, there shouldn't be check points or save progress. Races should last longer than 5 laps and full races should be available.
If you total your car, tough, you should not be able to rewind.
I can understand having lives in platform games and having check points on FPS (read check points and not save at any point you want), as I think that they fit into the genre. But with sports games mainly, it shouldn't happen. Would you have a replay feature on Fifa, in case you missed that chance? Or a replay feature on Fight Night, just in case you didn't weave away from that hook which dropped you?
The basis of racing is pushing your car to the max for extended periods, whilst managing wear and fuel and other competitors. If you make a mistake you lose time, positions and could rertire from the race. It takes away a massive part of the game if at somepoint you push just a little bit too hard and go off slightly on a corner and loser a place, or lose it under breaking on an entrance etc.
It's frustrating sure, when you know you've made a mistake, missed the apex, dropped it on the curb or what have you, but 'that's racing'.
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You don't have to use it.
If anything, it's good for while you are still learning a track, because at the end of the day you are only playing against the computer, so it's up to you if you want to rewind. When you play it online or with friends, it is going to be down to skill with no 'cheating'.
If anything, it's good for while you are still learning a track, because at the end of the day you are only playing against the computer, so it's up to you if you want to rewind. When you play it online or with friends, it is going to be down to skill with no 'cheating'.
You can't compare it to other sports games, because one big mistake on the last lap usually means its game over and you have to start again. In football and boxing you have other chances.
Don't forget that it can be used for other things other than single player races. It will be a great tool for the video makers and also for perfecting certain corners.
I myself will use it very rarely in the career mode. If the AI is as crap as FM2 then crashing is the only way to get some sort of a challenge.
If you had a big crash on the first corner and you knew that there was no way to win the race, what would you do without a rewind feature?
Portal - Pretty self explanatory really.
Bioshock - Proved that at atmospheric, story driven and truly emersive FPS can still exist.
Fallout 3 - The perfect single player open world RPG, it shows just what can be done with a good and charatcers but also how much pure content you can put in a game.
Of course these are all opinion, but still.
Bioshock - Proved that at atmospheric, story driven and truly emersive FPS can still exist.
Fallout 3 - The perfect single player open world RPG, it shows just what can be done with a good and charatcers but also how much pure content you can put in a game.
Of course these are all opinion, but still.
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nothing really springs to mind, suppose portal and wii sports
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what? it brought a new level of physics, 'feel' weightedness.. great online experience.. multiple modes within a single match (flag, deathmatch, prop speaker, whatever).. and did it so well that it makes entrenched bestsellers like COD feel light weight, flimsy and outdated.
when ppl were lapping up said COD games like they were the best thing ever, and then KZ comes out and blows it out of the water, you think it will be influential.. if its not COD could lose some fanbase!
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questioning how that is influential? apart from graphics, what sets it aside from morrowind (the earlier game)
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I think the problem is, most people in this thread seem to agree, that whilst the games have been good, nothing really influential has come along, bar that of the Wii going of on a tangent with it's motion stuff
Course I can compare it to other sports games. After all Motor racing is a sport. If you make a mistake on the last lap, then you should lose the race, or some time. Pretty much every sports game strives for realism, do they not? What's realistic about a rewind function??
The video making I'd agree with, but that's why most games include a replay function and not a rewind function.
If I had a big crash on the first corner, I'd certainly be ****** off, no doubt about it. If my car was totalled then it was totalled. I certainly wouldn't want to rewind it as these things happen.
If you're playing online and at the first corner your car gets totalled accidently, what do you do?