DiRT3

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Originally Posted by bennizw

I really hope 1 1/2 minute stages don´t take up a majority of the game. If so, it´s even worse than WRC 5.

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I've started a thread on Codies forum about this, hopefully they will take it as a constructive critic ;)

I twitted Paul Coleman, to confirm If the majority of stages In the game are so short,
and how many stages of each country, are over 1:20!!!

(Keep In mind, that after some practice, time for those short stages, will drop down to around 1min...)

Can't believe WRC3 has some very long stages and we can't have a few 7/8 km stages in Dirt3 :s

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Originally Posted by pino

Can't believe WRC3 has some very long stages and we can't have a few 7/8 km stages in Dirt3 :s

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Perhaps the target market don't have the attention span?

"Moooooooooooooooooom! Make the rally racing game stop being so long and realistic!!!!" :(

" I would be asleep if stages were 8 min long " that's a quote from Codies forum :s Personaly I start to get warm after driving the first 2 min...how can someone fall asleep ?

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Originally Posted by pino

" I would be asleep if stages were 8 min long " that's a quote from Codies forum :s Personaly I start to get warm after driving the first 2 min...how can someone fall asleep ?

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They're not into rallying obviously :) The thing with DiRT games is that the handling is fairly innocuous so as long as you don't try to go too fast around the corners you're not likely to have problems, boring.

Long stages also give you a good option if you have an off. With really short stages you make one mistake and that's it, whereas with a proper stage you can be 5 seconds down at the first split but then hammer it through to be up by the finish. It's so disappointing, I even feel that a 3 minutes stage is too short so to have one under 2 minutes is just pointless. Proof again that Codemasters are talking **** when they say that they're bring the franchise back to proper rallying.

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Originally Posted by barryfullalove

Long stages also give you a good option if you have an off. With really short stages you make one mistake and that's it, whereas with a proper stage you can be 5 seconds down at the first split but then hammer it through to be up by the finish. It's so disappointing, I even feel that a 3 minutes stage is too short so to have one under 2 minutes is just pointless. Proof again that Codemasters are talking **** when they say that they're bring the franchise back to proper rallying.

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Proper rally racing maybe :laugh:

I'll admit there simply isn't a market for a proper hardcore rallying game. If they did turn DiRT into a proper rallying game then little 13 year olds would be crying into their Monster because they can't make it through the first corner.

But there is a trade off, CMR2 was a fairly decent rally game and that sold well (I think). The stages still weren't quite as long as a lot of us would hope but at least there was only 1 or 2 stages out of 11 (per country) that was under 2 minutes.

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Originally Posted by barryfullalove

But there is a trade off, CMR2 was a fairly decent rally game and that sold well (I think). The stages still weren't quite as long as a lot of us would hope but at least there was only 1 or 2 stages out of 11 (per country) that was under 2 minutes.

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and short stages are a part of it as well. It's nice to have a manic sprint :)