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[–] sheepishly@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now this is the gaming news I want to hear

[–] jeze64@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give me a cannonball run that has real roads and realistic speed and traffic

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I always wanted from The Crew. It's sense of scale is all off though

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Did you see the news The Crew is Shutting Down their servers in April? If you bought this game, and live somewhere where your consumer protection agencies might have teeth you could help this guy put up a defense against companies bricking games you paid for.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it come with the random fly that hits the windshield?

[–] jeze64@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Like Cruis'n' USA!

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jeze64@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll play it, you'll go marginally faster than a bus, and you'll like it!

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They should make it so you can find chaos emeralds and turn into super or maybe even “hyper” sonic to go double or triple the speed

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If nothing interesting happens in the game for 8 or 3 hours, why would you willingly play it? Also, why is Sonic only 2⅔ times faster than a bus, isn't the point of Sonic that he can run at the speed of sound?

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Desert Bus was released as a protest game. In the 90s video games were demonized for being nothing more than violence simulators. Penn & Teller took that as a challenge and had some developers make the most non-violent game they could think of.

It was made as a novelty. The people who made it knew it was boring, that’s the joke. The main group that still actually plays it is a charity group who suffers through it while getting donations for Child’s Play charity.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you, this is very interesting.

[–] cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vinesauce Joel's playthrough of it is also very iconic

[–] trigonated@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joel also has a real-time flight from Sweden to Brazil in Flight Simulator that's very entertaining despite being several hours long.

[–] cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I remember that

[–] jeze64@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago

You're asking questions you donut want the answer to.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get a group of friends and drink while doing it?

Nothing interesting happens at a mall, pub, but people still enjoy those solo with friends.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, that does sound hilarious. Especially if there is a mod that you get a DUI in the game if you drive poorly.

[–] BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard he only hits the speed of sound when he's rollin' around.

But part of the legacy of Desert Bus is that it was a big charity series that kind of set the stage for GDQ later in gaming history. A sort of virtual road trip.
So a lot of people have nostalgia for it.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I would have assumed boost is modern Sonic's equivalent to rolling, but after learning more about the game, I understand...

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I hope Loading Ready Run finds this