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Codemasters reveals Grid, coming September 2019
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I'm excited. Race Driver: GRID and Grid 2 are amazing.
Autosport is fine, but the campaign structure sucks.
Autosport is fine, but the campaign structure sucks.
Race Diver Grid and Grid 2 are great games. Autosport is okay, but the campaign was so tedious and boring.
another fun thing about this announcement is nobody will have to wait long for gameplay. Shortly after E3 if not earlier.
I'll just get this out of the way first.....
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
Now.....with that out of the way, I'm down for a new Grid and will buy this asap. However, I really REALLY hope the handling is like Grid 2. Grid 2 is one of the greatest racing games of ALL time, and those of you who know me from Neogaf know I've been preaching the gospel on that game for YEARS! Such an underrated masterpiece that was raked over the coals by people whining that it didn't have a cockpit view. Well, I'm sure this one will have a cockpit view and if it also has VR support I'll blow the lid off Forza 7.
My body is ready!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
PLEASE HAVE VR SUPPORT!!!!!
Now.....with that out of the way, I'm down for a new Grid and will buy this asap. However, I really REALLY hope the handling is like Grid 2. Grid 2 is one of the greatest racing games of ALL time, and those of you who know me from Neogaf know I've been preaching the gospel on that game for YEARS! Such an underrated masterpiece that was raked over the coals by people whining that it didn't have a cockpit view. Well, I'm sure this one will have a cockpit view and if it also has VR support I'll blow the lid off Forza 7.
My body is ready!!!
Enhanced Steam is confused.
Let's hope that score will remain true in mid-September.
Didn't like the weird handling in the first GRID. Don't recall if I played 2. My favorite in the series was TOCA Race Driver 3.
What's come to define the series throughout my experience with it is simcade handling verging towards sim, kind of PGR-ish on the scale, satisfying interactions with opponents, diverse grid of motorsports and dynamic AI. Think this is the first racing game series where I saw AI cars messing up.
Let's hope that score will remain true in mid-September.
Didn't like the weird handling in the first GRID. Don't recall if I played 2. My favorite in the series was TOCA Race Driver 3.
What's come to define the series throughout my experience with it is simcade handling verging towards sim, kind of PGR-ish on the scale, satisfying interactions with opponents, diverse grid of motorsports and dynamic AI. Think this is the first racing game series where I saw AI cars messing up.
I hope they bring back the emphasis of the first one in having a team and specifically, an AI teammate driver. That was the most unique and fun part of that game.
Please don't bring back the piss filter though, that was horrible.
Also, how many people work at Codemasters? Their output of games is insane recently.
Please don't bring back the piss filter though, that was horrible.
Also, how many people work at Codemasters? Their output of games is insane recently.
I hope this will be like Grid: Autosport and the ToCA series, rather than some fully arcade fluff.
Codemasters has been making a series of questionable decisions for a while, particularly with their marketing. OnRush released with little to no marketing muscle behind it, in fact they withheld unedited gameplay merely three months before release. For a new IP. The sales for it say it all. Along with Onrush, they've been set on a reveal to release window that has been frankly too short and scheduling the release dates in less than optimum dates. I really don't think their games are large enough or established enough for them to carry their marketing by name alone, especially since full gameplay reveals are after a lull following reveal. Now there's today with the totally confusing announcement of a new game with the same name as one of their most successful games from 10 years ago which has recently been ported to the Switch, with very little in the trailer to help clarify any of it. Personally, too, it seems like they're now resorting to past ideas and IPs rather than attempting anything much different or innovating substantially.
For years I've never understood the stark divide between Grid 1 and 2, after my experience with Grid 1 I couldn't much stand the handling model, I found GRID 2 to be a game with a very strong first impression and a better experience overall and one that I at least wanted to finish. But even it wasn't all that great, becoming rather grating in later events and its handling model became all the more unpredictable at higher speeds.
For years I've never understood the stark divide between Grid 1 and 2, after my experience with Grid 1 I couldn't much stand the handling model, I found GRID 2 to be a game with a very strong first impression and a better experience overall and one that I at least wanted to finish. But even it wasn't all that great, becoming rather grating in later events and its handling model became all the more unpredictable at higher speeds.
teeeeeeeeeeeeechnically speaking the games are
- Race Driver: Grid
- Grid 2
- Grid Autosport
That whole "naming a thing the same name as the original thing even though it's a new thing" thing doesn't work when films do it and it doesn't work when a game does it either.
If they're rebooting by going back to the original and mimicking that style I'm interested.
Always felt the first game in the series had a certain character that was really great - but they lost it across the sequels.
Always felt the first game in the series had a certain character that was really great - but they lost it across the sequels.
"unrivalled moment-to-moment racing, GRID returns with an all-new experience where every race is the chance to choose your own path, create your own story and conquer the world of motorsport."
Man it's like they just pull random words out of a magic rabbit hat filled with marketing taglines and phrasing.
Man it's like they just pull random words out of a magic rabbit hat filled with marketing taglines and phrasing.
Really need to change the name to avoid confusion of a remaster or re-release.
I mean Grid isn't even that old, plus the mobile version was recently free and still in people's minds.
I mean Grid isn't even that old, plus the mobile version was recently free and still in people's minds.
Anybody have hands on impressions? There are gameplay videos out there but I don't see any actual write ups.
Definitely leans more arcade over realism, but works really well IMO - the game is not at all trying to align itself with the likes of GT or Forza, much more along the lines of Driveclub if even a little more arcade handling. I'm actually playing it on Steam right now and really enjoying it.
Definitely leans more arcade over realism, but works really well IMO - the game is not at all trying to align itself with the likes of GT or Forza, much more along the lines of Driveclub if even a little more arcade handling. I'm actually playing it on Steam right now and really enjoying it.
I was worried I'd smell toast after reading that headline. Loved the original (one of the few racing games I ever go into) so hopefully this is good.
That fact should already tell you how confident they are in it.
Codemasters held a press/youtubers event a few days ago. The impressions seems pretty good so far, at least from the youtubers that I follow (SuperGT and Paragleiber).
The irony being that the reason for it being delayed a month was to increase its exposure.
Codemasters have seemed totally inept at marketing their games this generation. Between sending out the new IP Onrush to die by only beginning marketing 6 months before release to revealing with this game the reboot of a franchise while the original game of the same name is re-releasing on the Switch, and several other oversights you can point to. They really haven't appeared to learn from these past mistakes at all.
Wow, that actually seems like a lot these days.....especially for a non AAA game.
Jimmy Broadbent is really enjoying it too. I like his sim videos.
they did but expectedly more of a performance analysis. Just haven't seen many high profile outlets mentioning it at all.
The "marketing" money is being spent sending big youtubers preview copies to promote the game. That's it really.
There's a lot of videos right now.
I didn't even realize this was first supposed to be out already, and now coming next week. But the footage has me hyped, it looks really good and fun. Loved the original. The presentation was ace and the gameplay was more towards arcade which compliments sim racers well.
There is a lot of career gameplay from full versions on YT. That Shirrako hack is playing it as well. Codemasters sucks at marketing nowadays.
There is a lot of career gameplay from full versions on YT. That Shirrako hack is playing it as well. Codemasters sucks at marketing nowadays.
This guy thinks Grid 2 was a great game? That's a rare opinion.