• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      111 month ago

      Definitely not. Test Drive Unlimited 2 leaps to mind, which while it certainly had racing events and racing related content in it, you could also just drive around doing nothing in particular as much as you wanted.

      There are several other racing oriented games that nevertheless had open worlds and you’re never actually forced to race anybody in any of them, albeit usually at the expense of sacrificing any game progression and thus having a rather limited vehicle selection. Need For Speed Underground 2 and Forza Horizon, for instance.

      • @PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
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        41 month ago

        The same is true for almost any open world game with vehicles. Casually driving a car in GTA while obeying the traffic rules has been a thing from the very beginning.

        This still feels different somehow, though.

  • @frazw@lemmy.world
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    101 month ago

    Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

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      Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…

      Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn’t the topic at hand at all. I’m super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a comment about if a truck driving sim that seems to be mostly just about driving will suddenly implement something political and unpleasant (when we know they probably will not, that’s not the vibe they are going for) and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans.

      On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.

      • @Lifekraft@jlai.lu
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        31 month ago

        I get what you say but in this case the comment was still kind of funny in a satyrical way.

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          Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn’t funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was “annoying snarky comment” and less “incisive, witty, funny and topical joke”. Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn’t one of them. Glad you enjoyed at least, as well as the other people who upvoted, nice to see people getting value out of it where I couldn’t.

    • @jumjummy@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      No, that’s a DLC. Second most popular one behind “driving while being a minority”. With that DLC you get pulled over and harassed randomly.

      • 3DMVR
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        yeah other countries arent xenophobic at all they love minorities, as a minority im glad I live in california, I dont hear great things about elsewhere, family from europe are always suprised by the diversity

  • @alanjaow@lemmy.world
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    61 month ago

    I was disappointed when I saw that there are few roads in the game (my expectations were far too high). I was hoping for, idk, 70% of roads? Really, some sort of driving game using google maps data would be pretty awesome, if a nightmare to process all the images. Hmm, data storage would be an issue too… streaming would be too slow (I think).

    • @REDACTED@infosec.pub
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      31 month ago

      Seriously, I’ve been dreaming about world-scale videogame (world generates as you explore based on every useful satellite data we have) where you can just drive around.

      Flight simulator comes close, but it’s flying.

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          11 month ago

          It does, but mostly because we’re talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte…

    • EarMaster
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      21 month ago

      I wouldn’t be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular…

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    31 month ago

    Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.

  • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    21 month ago

    Man I love this game. That be kick ass. I still want them to add the ability to eat food. All those fast food and gas stations and can’t eat.

    • @Kardore@lemm.ee
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      11 month ago

      Several of the teasers showed off a WIP Crown Vic. As a truck driver IRL that owns a Mercury Grand Marquis, it feels like this update is made just for me!

      • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        I’ve played both games for years. There were mod, but half of them are shitty or don’t work. One I tried just gave me black textures. Unless there’s some paid marketplace I don’t know about, the mod options for drivable cars are shitty.