Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-103.224.107.5-20171127231506/@comment-33524487-20171128202013

RR3 Michael P wrote: Side by side Youtube video.

Player makes GRID look hard to control, graphics look very nice I saw that earlier. Really hard to watch because of the player's lack of control (I put it down to lack of experience and it's not the only video like that).

One thing RR3 has going for it is the control is really smooth and it's genuinely enjoyable to drive using tilt. I've seen other videos of Grid though and it looks pretty smooth in the right hands.

It definitely doesn't look quite so simple to roast the bots in Grid. Again, this might be due to the players in the videos but I did notice that you get penalised for going off track and the bots don't seem to be quite so "on rails" as in RR3 (one of the least impressive aspects of RR3... left alone, the bots very rarely do anything outside of their processional line hugging and you only ever see them do anything differently at the start of a race when it's congested). It's not clear if the bots in Grid are more life like...

Another big draw is being able to choose your difficulty setting. I really detest the bot/TSM system in RR3. Yes, I can game it to work in my favour but the very idea that it's a bad idea to try do as well as you can, waiting at the line for bots to catch up is a good method to avoid excessive wait times and gold costs and that bot slowing strategies are even a thing, let alone an accepted and seemingly encouraged part of the game just winds me up.

I have to jump through hoops to get the bots to the difficulty level I want. It's not intuitive, it's not particularly fun, it feels nothing like what a racing game should be about but when it comes down to choosing between needing to spend gold to upgrade or waiting hours for servicing and bot slowing, there's really no contest.

Simply changing the difficulty level works and avoids all that nonesense.

Graphics-wise, it's hard to tell on low resolution YouTube videos. RR3 is far from average and looks great but Grid does look to be higher quality from what I've seen. But that's a matter of opinion. Some people prefer crisp and clean. I'll have an opinion when I get to see Grid on my S8's WQHD display :)