"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
12/12/2014 at 16:07 • Filed to: None
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"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
12/12/2014 at 16:07 • Filed to: None | 2
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I thought I already posted this. Huh.
ACESandEIGHTS
> Kake Bake
12/12/2014 at 16:11 |
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I guess that's good except no dirt and gravel tracks to take it out on. XBone needs a rally racer and 2015 would be a good time to do it.
Brian Silvestro
> ACESandEIGHTS
12/12/2014 at 16:11 |
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^this^
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Kake Bake
> ACESandEIGHTS
12/12/2014 at 16:15 |
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Well, there are tarmac rallies. In FM4 I used to pretend that the 'Ring was a point-to-point rally stage (a really wide one). It made me feel less dumb for using the hill-climb and rally cars.
I'd like to see a decent rally game, too. But the audience isn't there and the WRC license is being poorly treated.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> Brian Silvestro
12/12/2014 at 16:17 |
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I don't want to make myself sick thinking about it. If racing games are a dying breed, then rally racers are the distant cousin that died years ago of a hereditary disease.
Still, Codemasters would be capable of knocking one out I'm sure. Microsoft holds the Rallisport Challenge title I believe. They could come through (yeah, right).
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ACESandEIGHTS
> Kake Bake
12/12/2014 at 16:20 |
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It's that latter part that's worrisome. It enjoyed some success in the McRae and post-McRae era, but even Dirt 3 which isn't all that old achieved some success. Suppose you're right though. Dirt has been the only entry in the genre in the past 8+ years, and if it doesn't sell well, there's just no point.
In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you
> ACESandEIGHTS
12/12/2014 at 17:13 |
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FH1 had the Rally DLC (YOU CAN MAKE ANY CAR A RALLY CAR, even a GOD DAMN LAMBO!!)
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Kake Bake
> ACESandEIGHTS
12/12/2014 at 18:37 |
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Hopefully Dirt 4 will return to the series roots.
Codies seem to have squeezed as much from Gymkhana, Ken Block and the concept of hooning as they could—and Dirt Showdown kind of got the last bit of silliness out.
There have been some promising tweets from a Codies dev to the effect that all of that stuff is absent from 4.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you
12/15/2014 at 11:20 |
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Which was a solid idea. The rally DLC failed though as every rally was on a closed course, had no connection to the real world/map, and seemed ambitious but half baked.
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ACESandEIGHTS
> Kake Bake
12/15/2014 at 11:23 |
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Dirt Showdown was one of the worst purchases I ever made. Godawful. Some people speculated before that game that it would be Dirt 4. And then there were those cryptic tweets from early 2014 about how 2014/2015 would hold one or more rally titles from Codemasters. Yet there's no buzz about it now, no press. I'm resigned to it being pretty much over. If it is, it's a shame since every generation has had one or more defining rally titles. Except this one so far.
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Kake Bake
> ACESandEIGHTS
12/15/2014 at 11:32 |
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It might be on a back burner so they can work on the next F1 game (which is probably their priority) and GRID 3 Autosport 2 IV: A New Hope.