rec.autos.simulators

1. "The best game nobody played": Battlezone. I can only agree with
that. There was already discussion about how depressing it is a great
game like this sold so poorly.

2. "The best driving game": Need For Speed III. Irk! Other nominees
were Ubisof't F1RS and Grand Prix Legends, and NFS3 beat them both?
Oh well, maybe NFS3 has more mass appeal...

Zog

I have the game and only played through half of it. The game is extremely
well done but there is something about it that just didn't grab me like
some games do.  If I had to pinpoint the main problem, I think the
sluggish vehicle control is what turned me off a tad too much. If the
vehicles were controllable and snappy like say Q2, then I think I would
have totally loved the game but then the realism would be gone of course.

Hell no!  Personally, Viper Racing gets my best driving game vote.

I didn't even know there was other games that were non-racing ;-)

(Nor that I do care)

Well..

They are called GAMESpot's..

It they would had been named SIMSpot's it would had been a blasphemy, but
that company is obviously targeting the mass market.  I would agree with
NFS3, who is an excellent arcade racing game.

-= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
-= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-= May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Best overlooked game after BZ?  Gotta be G-Police.  Best 3d-accelerated
beveage coaster I've ever owned.

--Eric

Brian Short

Yeah, that's pathetic. Viper Racing was also 1000 times the game NFS3
was. NFS3 lasted all of about a week on my hard drive.

Joe

Just because traffic is bad in your area, I wouldn't necessarily seek a
judicial remedy.

What will they do next? Say G-Police is better helicopter game than
Longbow 2 because G-Police is easier to play for a beginner?

Joe

Grand Prix Legends is another - to compare it with NFS3 doesn't make
sense. It's a game you have to play a lot of in order to get anything
of out it, whereas NFS3 is the opposite. Serious game vs. arcade game,
but both are fun overall. Mass appeals wins, but the better game...?

        Bleech.

        Looks like Blizzard slipped them some cash. Starcraft won way to
many awards. To even think it was nominated for Game of the Year, and
Baldur's Gate wasn't shows something was wrong.

James Dusek

Baldur's Gate was out for less than two weeks of the year. That might
have had something to do with it.

I have a question for Starcraft haters though....  was there *any*
other RTS game worth playing in the last year?  I seriously can't
think of one.