02-03-2025, 08:35 PM
Thought of playing my PS4 for the first time in about a year and chose F1 2019. Just thought whether I can still play F1 games, well...
Every race is pretty much summed up as:
- Always last place, both qualifying and the race itself
- Hard to overtake as the other cars are faster
- If I do manage to get close enough, always get a collision warning
- The car is stiff to control and cannot turn properly often heading towards a barrier or off road
- Alternatively it spins out and very hard to control (the two extremes that I don't like)
- This is despite breaking at the right places and using the guideline, a case of knowing exactly what to do but it just couldn't do it
- Have to retire IN a race and qualifying due to a crash, extremely lucky to even complete a lap
- Reputation goes down because they expected more
- This is despite choosing the lowest team in career mode where they don't expect much in positioning (who ever thought Williams is the low team, can understand Ferrari/Mercedes being the top ones and couldn't choose them after being in last place in the F2 part)
- No fun when it happens all the time...
Then I thought of playing the other games (that I had access to). Struggled at 2015. 2016 summed up as the cars are made of glass and one knock = retire! Oh with awful handling, screen tearing and that start (pressing the clutch for a couple of seconds with the accelerator then release the clutch). 2018 has much of the same issues as above and the start but now with a vindictive nasty woman who yells at you and had a really annoying sound bug where it sounded like crickets. 2020 crashed with a black screen before going into the first race, then again the actual event was mostly put off due to COVID anyway. 2021 couldn't even do the first event in Breaking Point and 23 couldn't do the second event in Breaking Point 2. I didn't have 2017, 24 and 22 had briefly when it came out but was very crash prone, the technical kind and not the car.
It's going to take a miracle to even play a game and at this point, going to retire from gaming. A long time hobby now gone...
Every race is pretty much summed up as:
- Always last place, both qualifying and the race itself
- Hard to overtake as the other cars are faster
- If I do manage to get close enough, always get a collision warning
- The car is stiff to control and cannot turn properly often heading towards a barrier or off road
- Alternatively it spins out and very hard to control (the two extremes that I don't like)
- This is despite breaking at the right places and using the guideline, a case of knowing exactly what to do but it just couldn't do it
- Have to retire IN a race and qualifying due to a crash, extremely lucky to even complete a lap
- Reputation goes down because they expected more
- This is despite choosing the lowest team in career mode where they don't expect much in positioning (who ever thought Williams is the low team, can understand Ferrari/Mercedes being the top ones and couldn't choose them after being in last place in the F2 part)
- No fun when it happens all the time...
Then I thought of playing the other games (that I had access to). Struggled at 2015. 2016 summed up as the cars are made of glass and one knock = retire! Oh with awful handling, screen tearing and that start (pressing the clutch for a couple of seconds with the accelerator then release the clutch). 2018 has much of the same issues as above and the start but now with a vindictive nasty woman who yells at you and had a really annoying sound bug where it sounded like crickets. 2020 crashed with a black screen before going into the first race, then again the actual event was mostly put off due to COVID anyway. 2021 couldn't even do the first event in Breaking Point and 23 couldn't do the second event in Breaking Point 2. I didn't have 2017, 24 and 22 had briefly when it came out but was very crash prone, the technical kind and not the car.
It's going to take a miracle to even play a game and at this point, going to retire from gaming. A long time hobby now gone...