Thread 717918834

What ever happened to the Car Combat subgenre? Was Twisted Metal the only one to actually do it right?

same thing that happened to the thug pumper combat, your dad tried so hard at it he beat everyone else and they left

Cyberpunk has cars that fire missiles and rockets n shieet. Get some wanted stars and this is the closest thing you'll get to a modern Twisted Metal game.

Video games are an art form. People conceive of a vision by whatever means, be it dreams, philosophy, or some other reason. Many times they are simple toys. It depends on the scope of the vision. Consider a game like Mario, which took platform jumping and added screen scrolling, plus powerups that increased the excitement temporarily. This is a coherent final vision, and once it is achieved, there is no need to do it again. Barring some form of improvement or small tweak, like we see in SMB3 or SMW.

Modern gaming is a corruption of this artform. Buyers have been tricked into becoming consumers. Which means they're just digesting the stories of the day forever in perpetuity. The idea that they can play any game they want is almost meaningless to them, because the game itself not what they're looking for. You are a part of this with your "Car combat subgenre" question. If you wanted the game, you'd play it. But you don't want the game. You want a new game. And so this farce continues. Groups of people come together to attempt to steal and otherwise usurp the attention of the masses which is paid almost exclusively to the most potent forms of addiction. In other words: Why would anyone steer a clunky vehicle to shoot their opponent when it's far more rewarding to turn jump, leap, and fire with the agility of a man? Satisfaction comes quicker in more simple games.

You see, games are not continually released, sequelized, casualized, etc because they're going fulfilling a need or improving on anything at all. Games are released to extract money from the biggest group of fools over and over and over again.

should have revived it during the battle royale bubble but sony was too lazy with it

They had zero chance of survival in the esports and liveservice addiction era. They were fun for a few hours at sleepovers but would instantly have the fun optimized out of them if a multiplayer one was attempted today.

>>717918834 (OP)
>>717852884
>two Twisted Metal threads on /vee/
>TWO
>there was another one last week
Hell yeah motherfucker, TM renaissance soon brothers

>>717918834 (OP)
what what ever happened? the ps5 killer app is a car combat game

>>717921217
it's probably because of that TM tv show getting a 2nd season

>>717918834 (OP)
>>717921217
After not seeing any for years I've suddenly seen a bunch of car combat indie games in the last week so I assume that is why people are suddenly talking about Twisted Metal again.
>Fumes
>Chaos on Wheels
>Redline Crooks

Haven't tried any of them to see if they are shit or not

>>717918834 (OP)
Only Twisted metal 1 and 2 were good. The others are middling at best.

>>717921819
fumes is fun, but a little shallow. it has a good base, it just needs to have more meat. hopefully the devs keep updating it.

>>717922010
3 was bad, small brawl was fun, Black was the peak of the series, reboot was dogshit

Harbor City will never be finished because Needles got his insomnia sorted out, hence why Harbor City only exists in fragments

>>717922010
>>717922810
2 was the best because muh nostalgia member berries, but also I enjoyed Black quite a bit.

I also have a fond memory of Vigilante 8 a lot, game had SOVL

What happened to this game?

>>717922810
reboot is superior in every conceivable way
>b-b-b-but mr bubbles wasn't given a special le funny ending :(
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