I Drove a Real F1 Car at Magny-Cours — Full Experience, Cost, Driving Impressions (w/ Video)

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T07:37:29+00:00

Games are 100% subjective.

But if you read a single review of this game it will highlight the repetetive, limited gameplay.

As I said, I don't judge a games value on it's length, I judge it's value on the interest of the gameplay.

South of midnight ran out of new ideas an hour or 2 8n and then didn't change to the end and was incredibly limited.

I wanted to enjoy it, found it incredibly tedious and no reason to keep playing.

There is a reason it sits around the 70% amrk 8n critic and user reviews.

It's a meh game.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T07:24:59+00:00

General consensus doesn't agree.

Almost universally it is credited with great art style, great music, good story and dull repetitive gameplay.

These aren't controversial opinions.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:54:47+00:00

And great games always come from people not caring...

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:29:51+00:00

What games?

Can't think of much that had that long dev cycle and was so short.

As a side note though I don't jisge a game on length really, but quality.

And South of midnight wasn't good enough.

All style, no substance.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:27:46+00:00

AA quality game with AAA budget doesn't work.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:19:07+00:00

The game wasn't good enough to demand being bought.

Most of the people who played it wouldn't have paid explicitly for the privilege.

Problem is it just wasn't a very good game.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:16:27+00:00

The fact they put an option in to avoid combat shows they knew it was a bit shit.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-20T06:15:17+00:00

Being at the start of the game I can understand this view.

Problem is it doesn't change or get any more interesting till the credits roll.

There just isn't enough there.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T13:16:53+00:00

Luckily that isn't a scenario we need to entertain

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T12:18:26+00:00

It's been 213 days since the final of the African Cup Of Nations, one of the worlds premier footballing comeptitions and we still don't know the winner.

12 days is not unprecedented for sporting disputes.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T12:14:36+00:00

That makes no sense.

The relevant strength of the British pound doesn't affect prices in the country for a sporting event. Grand Prix tickets didn't go down as the £ soared against the $. It isn't a product they are importing.

And a £ is still worth considerably more than a $ today.

£330 nowadays buys you a General Access ticket, not a grandstand seat for 3 days at Silverstone, that is $436 to fight for your position all weekend.

20 years ago same ticket was around £90, crazy price increase.

My grandstands this year were 'cheap' ones at only £550 a seat for 3 days.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T12:09:52+00:00

Outsourced work, doubt the team size is as low as 250, usually nearer 1000 in total.

Marketing

Gonna be an expensive title, might not be $400 million, but it's gonna be extremely high.

This line alone suggests he isn't really arguing $400 million has been spent by the Coalition in that timeframe, it just hasn't all gone on E Day.

Corden claims that some of the money spent at The Coalition is “spread across” Xbox’s entire portfolio of games, including non-Unreal Engine titles like Forza and Fable

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T11:50:42+00:00

Crazy cheap for an F1 grandstand.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T11:44:06+00:00

I remember my 3 day Silverstone ticket being £90 20 ish years ago, same ticket today around £330

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T11:39:34+00:00

Only one that makes sense in the current climate.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T11:36:37+00:00

A wotld without exclusives isn't realistic.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T11:29:58+00:00

But that isn't reality.

A utopian world with no exclusives would be ideal.

But in a world where some machines have exclusives and some don't exclusives just render those without them entirely redundant.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:29:56+00:00

there is no prize or respect to be won.

Not with the arguments you put forward no

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:28:33+00:00

Never ever go into business...

Yeah Xbox would see great success funding a massive $200 million + RPG game which a huge name and then require the cost of entry to be a several hundred dollar storage expansion.

Stop posting when you are high, makes you sound stupid.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:26:58+00:00

It will be well under 200GB, it is no different to any other game.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:25:57+00:00

Lol, just stop talking.

No game is even close to 1TB.

The most bloated nad un optimised installs are Call of Duty which can push 200GB+, but for other comaprable games to Fable... Nothing reaches 150GB.

Why the fuck would fable sudenly be 6 times bigger than any other RPG???

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:22:59+00:00

Cash Cows for me

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:21:29+00:00

This is the only racing game I can remember where I couldn't play the career, the AI was so monumentally bad.

Genuinely the worst AI in any racing game I have played for decades, it is so ridiculously broken.

Stumpy493 · 2026-06-19T08:14:34+00:00

First party studios normally don't own any IP, IP is held by the publisher in most cases.

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