The Future of the Racing genre

[Barkley]

vivster said:

Darwinianevolution said:
There's a difference between dirving normally and racing. Driving normally is routine and doesn't have that much spectacle per se, but driving is a fast-paced sport. People's interests still would be enough for the genre to exist, I don't even think it would suffer from automatic driving, tbh. If we somehow invented automatic robots that played football for us, would that make FIFA obsolete and make people stop buying them? I don't think so.

I for once do not give a shit about cars or driving, yet I'm still enjoying racing games. But that's because in the time I live, driving is actually a mainstream thing that people do and that requires some amount of skill.

Even though I myself might be a counter to this theory I think it still holds up. While today it actually requires skill, it won't that much in the future because of all the technological assists even in manual cars.

I've never driven a car either, and it's not necessarily skill that makes me enjoy a game. Speeding through a city at high speed in a vehicle is just inherently fun. I dont' think you need to ever do something or even ever see someone do something to have fun doing it in a game.

You can have fun with completely fictional vehicles the activity is fun regardless. Mech's, Spaceships, Goats (goat simulator). Moving an entity in a game is fun, the physics behind it is fun. It doesn't need to have a parrallel in real life to be enjoyed.