Trophy Trucks

[XxOmegaFoxX]

Looking at picking this up. I have DiRT, DiRT 2, and DiRT 3 and it is among my favorite racing series. However I'm concerned because there is a lot of talk about Rally and Rallycross, and while those are certainly among my favorite disciplines I always enjoyed the Trophy Truck/Buggy races as well. I hated Gymkhana (and Ken Block) so that is no loss. Have they mentioned Trucks/Buggies at all?

Thanks,
Jeff.

[BrySkye]

Not officially. Whether its on the road map or not is another matter, but for now anything beyond Rally/Rally Cross is apparently in our hands once we head into about July.

Personally, instead of heading back in the direction of buggies/trucks, I'd rather the time and budget went into a greater selection of Rally cars.

[Daunt]

I second Bry. If they open up mods then there you go, otherwise, stick with Rally please. No hill climb Semi trucks either :P

[XxOmegaFoxX]

Originally posted by BrySkye:

Not officially. Whether its on the road map or not is another matter, but for now anything beyond Rally/Rally Cross is apparently in our hands once we head into about July.

Personally, instead of heading back in the direction of buggies/trucks, I'd rather the time and budget went into a greater selection of Rally cars.

To each their own I suppose, adding Buggies/Trucks (especially if they licensed the TORQ drivers) would open sales open to a much greater audience than just Rally/Rallycross. I always looked at DiRT as the definitive dirt motorsports game, becoming the definitive DiRT rally game is a step back in my opinion. I'll probably buy it either way, but whether Trucks/Buggies are included will be the difference between waiting for a Steam Sale or buying it now.

Thank for the response,
Jeff.

[BrySkye]

Originally posted by XxOmegaFoxX:

Originally posted by BrySkye:

Not officially. Whether its on the road map or not is another matter, but for now anything beyond Rally/Rally Cross is apparently in our hands once we head into about July.

Personally, instead of heading back in the direction of buggies/trucks, I'd rather the time and budget went into a greater selection of Rally cars.

To each their own I suppose, adding Buggies/Trucks (especially if they licensed the TORQ drivers) would open sales open to a much greater audience than just Rally/Rallycross. I always looked at DiRT as the definitive dirt motorsports game, becoming the definitive DiRT rally game is a step back in my opinion. I'll probably buy it either way, but whether Trucks/Buggies are included will be the difference between waiting for a Steam Sale or buying it now.

Thank for the response,
Jeff.

It's a step back in that it's a step closer towards the Colin McRae Rally series, but ultimately that's exactly what a lot of us wanted.

When DiRT Showdown was released as a spin-off, the concept most of us had in mind was the likes of the X-Games/Gymkhana/Buggies/Trucks (more American-centric stuff basically) going in its own direction with that series while another game would focus on Rally, which is what many of us are hoping from, well, DiRT Rally.

[Daunt]

Originally posted by XxOmegaFoxX:

To each their own I suppose, adding Buggies/Trucks (especially if they licensed the TORQ drivers) would open sales open to a much greater audience than just Rally/Rallycross.

Yes but time spent in working on adding trucks takes it away from the obvious focus of the game. Which means lesser quality simulation in rally or slower development (but more often than not the former). So while you'd gain the casual fan, you'd lose the hardcore simmers that have been waiting for about a decade or so for another rally sim.

[XxOmegaFoxX]

Originally posted by BrySkye:

Originally posted by XxOmegaFoxX:

To each their own I suppose, adding Buggies/Trucks (especially if they licensed the TORQ drivers) would open sales open to a much greater audience than just Rally/Rallycross. I always looked at DiRT as the definitive dirt motorsports game, becoming the definitive DiRT rally game is a step back in my opinion. I'll probably buy it either way, but whether Trucks/Buggies are included will be the difference between waiting for a Steam Sale or buying it now.

Thank for the response,
Jeff.

It's a step back in that it's a step closer towards the Colin McRae Rally series, but ultimately that's exactly what a lot of us wanted.

When DiRT Showdown was released as a spin-off, the concept most of us had in mind was the likes of the X-Games/Gymkhana/Buggies/Trucks (more American-centric stuff basically) going in its own direction with that series while another game would focus on Rally, which is what many of us are hoping from, well, DiRT Rally.

If they stuck with the DiRT formula then I would agree that is a valid direction. But DiRT showdown was more like a Twisted Metal game than it was a racing game. I would like to see a separate game in the direction of DiRT 2 for sure, I thought that was a lot of fun. They wouldn't need the bro guys to congratulate you after every race or anything but the atmosphere was pretty good and the locations were cool as well.

I'm interested in this game because the driving seems more realistic. I have a G27 for use with iRacing and rFactor and it always felt awful using a wheel for Grid and DiRT so hopefully they can get that part right in this one.

Thanks,
Jeff.

[Lantea]

Originally posted by DauntlessK:

I second Bry. If they open up mods then there you go, otherwise, stick with Rally please. No hill climb Semi trucks either :P

I agree that for this game they should stick to the traditional rally car disciplines such as Rally, RallyX, Hill Climb, etc.; but I would not say no to couple of big rigs making it back for hill climb, that was kind of fun in Dirt 1. ;)

[Doc8Ball]

........I kind of like the idea of the Hill Climb Semi's....as long as they keep it sim. I would really like to see them bring more groups/ classes. So you could go from Road legal to WRC style chassis......Or at least have the rally car's street legal counterpart "lightly modified" in the game for a "slower" less "controlled" run. And it would give a good reason for them to add 900 degree support :)