Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-212.15.168.195-20180121062739/@comment-33870577-20180831144539

ImprobabilityDrive wrote: This game will comfortably reach its tenth anniversary with no sequel in sight. And there's absolutely no need for a sequel. It's a great game and it's by far the best complete car racing game available for mobile devices. Competition (called GT Racing 2) is long dead.

Any other game has different target audience — there are many drift(ing) games out there, even more drag-racing games, there are highly unrealistic games such as the Asphalt franchise, there was pretty great Need For Speed Most Wanted now replaced with NFS No Limits (where you go from dead stop to 600 kph in about five seconds and you can't use brakes but the customization is great), there are many go-left-go-right type of games which are all basically just Temple Run or Subway Surfers but with cars and/or bikes. There is also a lot of hill climbing games and so on.

Yet none of those, no matter of their oftentimes stunning visual appearance, is in a same league as RR3 when you want something… well, real. Real world tracks, real existing cars with RR3 base performance numbers being almost a clone of their numbers IRL, and most importantly — overall racing experience. RR3 is FAR from any sim (I'm actively playing iRacing on daily basis so I base my experience on it). When it comes to realism (physics, tire model, damage model etc.) it's not even close to a simcade like GT Sport (another game I play, but not that frequently and I'll come to this later).

But it's a hardcore sim compared to any other mobile game. That won't change anytime soon. If you want a quick race you can have it. If you want something long(er) you can have it. Want to drag race? It's available. Want to drift? It's very limited but it's certainly available and not that bad once you master it. Want to customize your ride? Heck, you can do that too and to a damn good level! You want fly and do 360 or 720 or just act like a tornado? Asphalt is for you. You have a thing for massive nitro boost and speeds faster a fighter jet (a bit of exaggeration)? Asphalt again and also NFS No Limits (plus a heap of boring clones creatively named something like Real Cars on Asphalt: No Limits Airborne 🙄). I mean, you can do a lot of things in RR3, just not those fully arcade-ish.

If you want to just go fast and have fun then RR3 is definitely not for you. If you enjoy spending hours and hours just to improve your own PB or you just like to perfect your entry and exist from each lap in Suzuka GP or Spa... Umm, well, you have no choice on mobile devices but RR3 😁 And it's a damn great choice! Sure, those store prices are hilarious, it's also a never-ending battle with but then again - it's just another layer of realism, to be honest. Because, let's take Formula 1 as example, there are no teams without financial struggle, some less, some more, but none of them can comfortably spend millions and millions, not even Ferrari and Mercedes (they actually use F1 as a smart marketing investment).

Regarding graphics… Graphics can be improved without reworking a whole game or releasing a sequel just for the sake of better graphics. I'm far from FM fanboy but I got to give them credit — they know how to milk their player base 😁 Majority of us with time, minority with real money, but in the end FM is definitely in the black not a single doubt about that. Which gives they're 100% aware (because it's simple, after all) of their active player base and all of devices with RR3 installed and running.

As long as majority of those devices are still incapable to smoothly run their gen 2 (let's call it that way for the sake of story) graphics they will keep it at its current state. And I'm fine with that because, honestly, it's not flashy, it's not full of mad detail, it's not pixel perfect, it's not razor sharp (anti-aliasing really sucks in RR3, tbh)… but it looks real! Not GT Sport or Assetto Corsa Competizione real, but infinitely more realistic than Asphalt for example.

And now I'm back to previously mentioned GT Sport... I enjoy iRacing more than any other game. But visually it doesn't look that good as GT Sport. Yet it's better in every single way if I want to play a full sim. When I want some quick casual non-mobile races I play Crash Bandicoot (yes, it's a racing game, actually - a racing game against yourself any your growing urge to smash that damn Playstation into pieces 😅) and GT Sport. Just like I used to play NFS No Limits until I got bored of it (it's too limited with controls to try something new, heavily repetitive and restricting in any possible way, a lot of rigged lottery involved with crates and similar crap) and found RR3. Got hooked so much that I immediately uninstalled NFSNL and Asphalt 8. That was also a time when I simply got bored to death with arcades and got completely disappointed by NFS Payback. Switched to simracing or as close to possible to it (RR3). Never looked back.

Tl; dr: RR3 is great and fun but it's not for everyone. It's definitely for 99% of us here (otherwise we wouldn't be active here and daily in RR3, eh?). At some point graphics will be improved. The game can easily live many more years with a rolling-release model. Just like there's no macOS 5 (yes, I'm aware that 10.13.6 is out but that's just an updated version, not a completely different OS) or Windows 14, lol. Is there anything wrong with that for RR3? Nope. But at some point it will be a problem for newcomers because of (too) many cars available. Firemonkeys' first step to combat that problem is their new "On-Loan" approach for career series, OMP and WTTT. Let's see how it's going to change in another couple of months, years… They basically killed their competition with superior product and, at this point, only they can kill their own cash cow. Hopefully they won't.

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