PS4 Review- Best be sitting down when reading it.

[Mr Crisp]

Score 5 out of 10 with this conclusion from the reviewer:

Assetto Corsa is a frustrating drive with a punishing learning curve that never truly pays you back for your time investment. It fails to provide an effective way to learn its complicated intricacies and lacks features that a game of its ilk requires. It's also simultaneously the best and worst presented racing game of the past few years, with superbly detailed cars and tracks hampered by awful long-distance scenery and ugly roadside textures. Ultimately, this is a disappointment that lacks the heart required to truly celebrate the cars it has so lovingly recreated.

http://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/assetto_corsa

By the way I have never heard of `Push Square`.

I'm just going to leave this here and go for coffee...

[KuBr0]

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/assetto-corsa

metascore getting dragged down by idiots who obviously failed to understand who the audience of this game is ... Shiny rewards? Blinking lights & sounds? Dynamic ideal line? LOL? what the .... ?

[Mr Crisp]

I only looked up PS4 reviews so far but the concensus is that the UI is the worst, the presentation is `mixed` but most say the cars are very very well detailed and the handling is superb- but they're mostly comparing it to `console racers` like Forza and complaining about lack of `tools` ie to mod the car and then in the same paragraph complain about the `steep learning curve and no help in learning the cars`- but you want to slap 600bhp in a 150bph road car, ya?

LOL

It was to be expected I suppose, with quite a few 50/100 scores and complaints that its `no fun`.

[Stepy]

The problem with AC is that the driving is excellent but thats it ,there is just not enough "game" for consoles users, no rain, night, no working start lights / pit lights,no animated marshalls, no loading screens, music, championship mode, what we do have is the awful career mode and if you want the AI to stop during races you have to go a Grand Prix distance.

Kinda had a feeling it wouldn`t fly on consoles, i love AC its my favourite sim Just wish it had more basic features like other racing games, more tracks and generaly a bit more polish all round.

[OngNoot]

He could not do a full clean lap.....right ? xD

[Talkie Toaster]

I feel sorry for the Kunos and 505 guys, this was bound to happen on the console platform.

[Mr Crisp]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Talky Toaster:

I feel sorry for the Kunos and 505 guys, this was bound to happen on the console platform.

Yeh, I think it was inevitable given the `fixed` nautre of console games as well as the comparing to well established racing games made by big companies like Turn10 and Sony.

On the PC we're willing to look past flaws and missing features as we expect nice regular updates and we have mods, so PC crowd is more accepting of it being kinda `unfinished` in places but consoles? No, you pay a large amount for a disc and you expect that to be the game without further updates.

Its a shame the same thing is being said again and again about AC on consoles `it lacks content`- yeh compared with Gran Turimso's `cut and paste` cars, sure.

[Phantom]

I absolutely love AC, but let's face it...AC could never dent Forza or Gran Turismo on their own turf. Those titles are crammed with bells and whistles which is what console gamers go for, against them AC just seems too hollow to have any real impact, such a shame as kunos have a beautiful game that unfortunately lacks the depth of what other racers offer.

I may not like saying it, but once the next Forza and Gran Turismo come out AC will have a very short lived life on console!

[Dan]

I always figured AC would be a poor fit for consoles... It's certainly true that it's barely half a "game" - on PC we don't care, because it's a fantastic *sim*, and when you actually put the time in, use a decent FFB wheel, and learn to race well, you create your own fun, rather than needing a game to lead you on with a carefully proscribed sense of progression - careers, garages full of purchased cars, AI designed to feel like characterful hollywood-movie rivals, rather than serious racing drivers, etc, etc.

I think Kunos went into this knowingly - they know there'll be a small genuine sim fan community on consoles, with the right mindset and decent wheels. I guess it's just an added bonus if they rake in a bunch of extra sales from other people who fancy themselves sim-racers but don't realise what they're used to aren't really sims.

Given the fundamental mismatch between AC and console audiences, averaging 79% doesn't seem like a bad start.

What I *do* wish would happen, is that publications revisited their PC reviews, as AC is a substantially improved game now over the initial PC release, and I suspect the current 85% metacritic average would turn out somewhat differently if it was reviewed as it is now.

I guess in the grand scheme, none of that nonsense matters... AC will never be a mass crowd-pleaser, no matter how much better the presentation got, appealing to a wider audience requires compromises that Kunos seemingly aren't willing to make... the best we can do as enthusiasts is ensure we keep supporting them.

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

the kind of "professional response" was to be reconned with, I think.
After all those guys are used to score games based on a standardized set of expectations and some sort of in-game progression. So nothing new here.

I actually cannot blame the guy for writing this. His angle of view is perfectly understandable. Simulations like this are a niche of their own. You either like the core of their raison d'être or you won't be taken in by them. Let's just hope the effort the guys at Kunos and 505 put into it, actually pays them back in the end. Would be cool to broaden the reach of sim-racing in general to the potentially less tech-savvy crowd.

Cheers!

[magicmazuma]

The box should simply say; People that are looking for a Forza/Pcars experience should not bother with this title..

Apples and Oranges. ;)

[Boss 429]

Thought they would have revamped the career mode for console or added a custom championship mode at least,surprised they didn't.

[Fatty McGassy]

I think "gamers" have lost their way when it comes to racing or driving as close to the edge as possible.

Any AC/racer would take feel over graphics any day, and that's what this game has delivered. Kunos F'd up releasing a 30fps game to people that fight over 1080p etc to prove their console is better...

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Diposting pertama kali oleh fiese Fee™:

100 people 100 opinions,who can I trust`?

ŷourself. and anyone that you already have figured out and know how to interpret their oppinion...
...really: a non-driving-enthusiast wrote a piece about "just another videogame" which did not conform to the general concept most other AAA videogames follow.
(pardon my ignorance if that is not what happened here)

What happened to informing ourselves about the sources whose oppinions we trust?

[Ravnhood]

I don't know what Kunos was expecting. AC doesn't fit anywhere but here in its current state. Gamepad optimization should have been a huge focus, as should a career mode. Ignoring those two things are the same as saying they don't want the console market's money.

[KuBr0]

Diposting pertama kali oleh magicmazuma:

The box should simply say; People that are looking for a Forza/Pcars experience should not bother with this title..

Apples and Oranges. ;)

I dont have the box since I bought it for my PS4 as a digital copy, but I know one of the reviewers was saying that its stating something similar on the back of the box, that his is a real simulator, not a simcade, be aware, or smth like that :D