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Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode (aftermath.site)
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[–] 32 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I want that too, but for some reason it's become like pulling teeth to get local split-screen multiplayer in a racing game anymore, and that's a mandatory feature for me. Luckily we got Screamer this year.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    What is screamer?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago

    It's an arcade racer with an anime sense of speed and an anime story mode. The story mode has its hits and misses, but the core loop is that your right stick is used for drifting (on the default control scheme), you build boost with a Gears of War style active reload system, spending boost additionally builds a second meter, and that second meter can either be spent on takedowns or defense against takedowns. It's awesome, and it has split-screen multiplayer.

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    • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately I don‘t really care about speeders let alone cruisers. If it was all about Podracing and the maps had more variety it would be a different story.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    it's not... only podracing?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    The game has mainly landspeeders, speeder bikes, and skim speeders.

    Pod racers can be used during specific race events in the campaign, certain Arcade scenarios, or the multiplayer mode.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    Tap for spoilerA big part of the story revolves around the use of podracers and the ethics and the question of fairness of a league that permits them if it ends up removing entire races from being able to compete.

    Sebulba is also a big player in the story.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    How is the audio for this game? Do you have good speakers or headset? Preferably speakers... Seems very few have a home surround system anymore. That used to be what I looked forward to in any games, the realistic car sounds, especially. Other games, the true surround sound helps in FPS or other action games.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Denuvo

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    [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Crazy to reach for this game over RedOut 2. No other game gives me a sense of speed like Redout.

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It looks like fun but not $60 worth of fun.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    Yea. It's a $30 game at best.

    Not saying it's a bad game just it isn't a full priced title. It's an arcade game with a pretty coat of paint and a popular IP attached.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    Not saying it’s a bad game just it isn’t a full priced title.

    I understand the complaint that it doesn't have enough content for the price, and that's fair if that's how you feel. However, new AAA games these days are 70 to 80 USD. $60 isn't the full price for a AAA game anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    Those are overcharged titles. $60 is the full price of a game. Anything over is an overcharged title. I refuse to accept the attempt to inflate the price of games by the bigger publishers.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Why is $60 the full price and not $50, as was the standard for AAA titles before that?

    When accounting for inflation, both a $60 game purchased in 2021 (just 5 years ago, when that was still the norm for AAA games) and a $50 game purchased in 2001 are more expensive than buying a $70 AAA game in 2026. Meanwhile, AAA game budgets have exploded.

    Another way to look at it: Galactic Racer in 2026, at $60, would be $49 in 2021 or $32 in 2001 when accounting for inflation.

    Galactic Racer feels like a AA game, and has a modern AA price, both relative to new AAA game prices for the last few years and relative to prices in the past when accounting for inflation. It is fair to not like that or feel it is overpriced, but it does line up.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    If anyone's curious:

    $60/$49 = ~1.22, or ~22% more from 2021 to 2026 (~4.5%/yr) $49/$32 = ~1.53, or ~53% more from 2001 to 2021 (~2.7%/yr)

    Time periods are vastly different of course (5y vs 20y) but inflation has accelerated drastically since the pandemic (specifically 2021).

    None of this is representative of spending power, of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Bud, this isn't up for debate. They charge what they charge. You can refuse to buy games at that price and you have every right to do so, but your personal decision to not buy games on release does not change their price on release.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    It looks great, I just wish they didn't ship it with Denuvo.

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    [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Redout 2 did it better

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