Has NASCAR Stalled Out on the New Generation of Consoles?

[dochalladay32]

Quote: Originally Posted by RunN1st

They need to take NASCAR Thunder 2004 and remaster it with current rules, schedule, tracks and drivers. Don't touch the code and features just remaster and add what's missing.

As much as I liked 2003/2004, they still aren't as good as they could be. Always felt like to me you could find that prime setup that just allowed you to qualify top 5 every race, and then easily pull away from the field, and you were better at pit strategy than the computer, and win after win came in. 2003's career mode was nice in that you started off weak enough that it didn't start right off, but it didn't take long to get your cars and crew built up and the setup let you dominate. I want realism and it seems no one has been able to achieve that, on a console at least, for NASCAR games.

[cuda_man]

I was thinking the same thing the other day. With Daytona coming up in February, ETX or whoever is developing a 2015 NASCAR title should have already announced their intent on having one ready.

Developers have struggled with trying to write a game that is capable of being both accepted by the die-hard sim crowd as well as accessible to the casual gamer. Dave Kaemmer said in an interview that Papyrus had a hard time selling the idea of building the NASCAR Racing series on the GPL engine because, slow sales of GPL aside, Sierra thought that it would be unsellable unless it was able to be played by a 5-year old.

One NASCAR franchise not mentioned was Hasbro/Monster Game's NASCAR Heat. Much like NR2003, it has been highly modded, updated, and also has a strong online presence. The PS2/GC Dirt to Daytona was also very playable, with a good career mode in which the player stared on dirt street stockers, before moving into modifieds, then trucks, then Cup. I always like them because they were a balance between the hardcore Papyrus sims and arcade-based EA Sports titles.

[Segagendude]

Off topic, but I'm actually yearning for a quality Indycar game. No, im not interested in joining Iracing or rfactor to get it..

[mercalnd]

Quote: Originally Posted by Segagendude

Off topic, but I'm actually yearning for a quality Indycar game. No, im not interested in joining Iracing or rfactor to get it..

It was announced many months ago that Project Cars will feature the Indy 500 and all the cars and drivers from the 2015 Indycar season. Perhaps they'll throw in the missing tracks as well as DLC.