It’s been a long road for Sony’s newest racer. Is it a smooth ride or fraught with engine trouble?
Driveclub
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Digital Foundry : Whether it's via FPS Boost or bespoke software upgrades, backwards compatibility on the current-gen consoles delivered an unexpected delight - the ability to liberate older console games from their 30fps limits, running them at 60 frames per second or even higher. FPS Boost did the business for Xbox Series consoles on an impressive range of titles, but there was always the sense that PS5 could do more. It's a hunch that checks out as a range of frame-rate unlocks are available for PS5, covering many must-have games - the major caveat being that only exploitable consoles running on older firmwares are invited to the party.
you love to see new life being breathed into older titles but damn the process to get there. It should be automatic that these work for everyone... not just those who exploit their systems. Really wish Sony and MS would keep this program going officially.
Damn this sucks. I want this shit so bad, but I’m not jailbreaking my console. And frankly I shouldn’t have to. I’m not a tech person, but is it really that hard for developers to unlock the framerate? Or would that have to be a large patch?
Yep, this sucks having to require a jailbreak for something that should be standard in our industry by now. I learned my lesson when PS4 was jailbroken and I didn't keep a console on low firmware for years, but now I'm holding onto two low firmware PS5s specifically because there are features I'll be able to do that you can't do on official firmware, so this will pay off for me soon enough.
Driveclub was a headline game at the start of the PS4’s life. A fabulous game – eventually - but what now, with the servers turned off? Is it worth your time? JDR starts its engines in today’s Brutal Backlog.
Bikes expansion might be one of the most underrated games of last gen. Incredible driver and bike animations + DC weather is craze.
Cultured Vultures: We won't stop until everyone appreciates how brilliant Driveclub is/was.
i went to the article and theres only a couple racing games, cant find the button to move page on through all the adverts.
Dirt rally doesn't even make the list? Errm OK then.
Driveclub is over rated as well, with middle of the road handling and the 30fps killed it upon arrival for me.
Getting a lot of decent reviews now nice :)
Seems Gamespot is in a strong minority. Driveclub appears to be a solid racer, sticking around a 7.5 / 8 which is good for a new IP. I'm still gonna play the trial edition before deciding to buy it or not, just blows my Logitech G25 isn't compatible! QQ
Seems reviewers are only down rating this game because of lack of cars but lets be honest here Sony didn't and still don't know if this game will be a hit so they don't want to pay massive fees for licenses until they know its going to be a hit. Also making 100's of cars look as good as they do on this game which is officially the best looking driving game on consoles now takes time. Forza can go back on previous games and pull older car models and up resolutions etc.. to save a lot of time whereas they had to start fresh here. A sequel will mean a lot more cars no doubt if this game sells well. Also who says Sony can't have 2 1st party racers?? There's a ton of space for them I mean MS has 2 first party shooters and does pretty damn well.
What really winds me up is the fact reviewers are killing this game for cars list when they clearly leave games like NFS alone who don't have hundreds of cars either.. But reviewers still just cannot help but compare this game to Forza and GT rather than its own game.
Forza Horizon 2 got an 8.8 from them.
Drive club Metacritics reviewers 74 users 64
Forza Horizon 2 reviewers 86 users 84
Enough said.