Racing Game Curse

[deceptionfalls]

One thing I have observed after playing many many racing games is that I am afflicted with a curse that makes it so I drive perfectly through all the laps in a race, literally flawless, I be taking corners and using the proper racing lines, 1st place from start to finish, but then when I get to the final lap and I'm close to the finishing line -- I make one or two small mistakes, and another car overtakes me, and I lose the entire damn race in the final stretch.

Happens mostly with NFS games for some reason, happened once on Gran Turismo in a long, long 100-lap endurance race, lost at the very end .

Does this happen with you guys too? Am I just really really bad at racing games? Or is the dreaded racing game curse real? Spooky.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Nope, never not even once. What can I say, I'm just blessed by the god of driving. (which is also me)

 

[Frickinfrik]

Here’s another Racing game curse: Rubberbanding A.I.


A method of cheap and unfair artificial difficulty. The bane of all racing games. I hated it in Mario Kart, I hated it in Burnout, and I hated it in Sonic and All Stars Racing. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had to restart a race because of cheating A.I.

 

[moonbits]

Racing games are so brutal with that, one mistake is all over. They require so much discipline when the other racers do pose a challenge. You are alright, it happens to everyone.

 

[Cu1tur3D_Gam3R]

One thing I have observed after playing many many racing games is that I am afflicted with a curse that makes it so I drive perfectly through all the laps in a race, literally flawless, I be taking corners and using the proper racing lines, 1st place from start to finish, but then when I get to the final lap and I'm close to the finishing line -- I make one or two small mistakes, and another car overtakes me, and I lose the entire damn race in the final stretch.

Happens mostly with NFS games for some reason, happened once on Gran Turismo in a long, long 100-lap endurance race, lost at the very end .

Does this happen with you guys too? Am I just really really bad at racing games? Or is the dreaded racing game curse real? Spooky.

When I be playing Burnout 3/Revenge, having a perfect drive, but as soon as I enter the final lap, a couple of ill-fated crashes ruin my flow & I have to restart the race. So you're not the only one that has this curse.

 

[jon2]

Choking in the Clutch Time

 

[Varyag]

One thing I have observed after playing many many racing games is that I am afflicted with a curse that makes it so I drive perfectly through all the laps in a race, literally flawless, I be taking corners and using the proper racing lines, 1st place from start to finish, but then when I get to the final lap and I'm close to the finishing line -- I make one or two small mistakes, and another car overtakes me, and I lose the entire damn race in the final stretch.

Happens mostly with NFS games for some reason, happened once on Gran Turismo in a long, long 100-lap endurance race, lost at the very end .

Does this happen with you guys too? Am I just really really bad at racing games? Or is the dreaded racing game curse real? Spooky.

That's nerves, you get nervous and commit a mistake in the most crucial moment. It's quite well known among simracers.

the other half is good old rubberbanding AI.

 

[deceptionfalls]

So the real curse was the human mind all along...

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Man, I got Split/Second flashbacks.

 

[Potapota]

This definitely happens to me too. Also with things like rhythm games. You know when you have just casually went through 80% of a song with a huge combo, realize it, get nervous and then make a mistake like a dummy. I think souls bosses are also pretty notorious for kicking your ass with a sliver of health left.

 

[trickybus]

The last lap is always where something goes catastrophically wrong simply because you have so little time left to course correct. You can afford to make mistakes in the earlier laps so those may not even register the way last-lap burnouts do.

There's also this shit.

 

[AkiraSO4]

Oh if you hate that sort of thing, stay away from Driver 2. One mistake and it's mission failed in that game. No difficulty curve whatsoever.

 

[sneakyguts]

any mario kart when you 1st and near the finish line some mf throws a blueshell and it hits you then you finish the race in 4th

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Yeah, sometimes you get too anxious or too relaxed. On GT7 online I made some (not awesome, but not bad) qualification laps, but on the actual race I end up last because of bad corners and other skill issues.

The last lap is always where something goes catastrophically wrong simply because you have so little time left to course correct. You can afford to make mistakes in the earlier laps so those may not even register the way last-lap burnouts do.

There's also this shit.

He just put the sports tires bro

 

[Konkaluu]

Here’s another Racing game curse: Rubberbanding A.I.


A method of cheap and unfair artificial difficulty. The bane of all racing games. I hated it in Mario Kart, I hated it in Burnout, and I hated it in Sonic and All Stars Racing. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had to restart a race because of cheating A.I.

Snes F-zero, Extreme-G from N64, all have this cheat A.I, I hate it.

 

[DeadLikeDisco]

Here’s another Racing game curse: Rubberbanding A.I.


A method of cheap and unfair artificial difficulty. The bane of all racing games. I hated it in Mario Kart, I hated it in Burnout, and I hated it in Sonic and All Stars Racing. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had to restart a race because of cheating A.I.

Rubberbanding in 2000s racing games haunts me to this day. The worst of the worst will forever be in MC3 + the horrid traffic that somehow appear at just the right time to ruin a whole tournament run i had

 

[Varyag]

Rubberbanding in 2000s racing games haunts me to this day. The worst of the worst will forever be in MC3 + the horrid traffic that somehow appear at just the right time to ruin a whole tournament run i had

that game haunted my nightmares. turns out it's 100% on purpose, too! The game DOES spawn cars directly on your path to ruin your race. There is a dynamic difficulty mechanic that almost nobody who played that game knows about (because we were 14 and never read game manuals) that makes the game harder the more races you win in a row. If you were like me, and reset the race every time you lost, you won all races in a row, setting yourself up for maximum artificial difficulty bullshit.

 

[Kamako]

Another pet peeve of mine is in games like Walt Disney's World Quest: Magical Racing Tour,
when the track simply flickers out of existence and you find yourself racing through the void world, praying for another crack in the seam of reality through which to re-enter the world of the race track