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I played a video game for more than an hour or so for the first time in months. Had 3 hours where I had to be in the house and on call, but with all the family out and all the house jobs done. So I've been playing Pacific Drive. I tried it when it came out when I was visiting an extended family member, but bounced off it hard. I'm liking it a lot more this time. It feels like it's been patched and tightened up a lot compared to back then and the really granular difficulty and accessibility settings are great (even though I've barely used them except to help with my slight motion sickness I sometimes get when playing).
I too have played some Pacific Drive. It's a very chill game. But I will say that the discussion of it and the narrative really overplay how much time you are in the car vs doing other things. Sure you are looting stuff so you can build stuff for your car, but in a 20 minute gaming session I'm maybe in the car for 4 or 5 minutes.
I bounced off of it because I was expecting a sci fi driving game, but like you said it's mostly scavenging outside of the car.
I have that outer space rally game and that Star Wars racing game to possibly fill the scifi driving/racing game hole in my heart in the near future lol.
That upcoming game might be the first Star Wars thing I ever buy because despite actively being disinterested in a Star War my heart has craved a new burnout - with tracks please, I know people love Burnout Paradise but it's not for me - for decades at this point and it's apparently that but space bikes or whatever from much of the old Burnout team.
Open world racing games were a mistake lol. I still like them every now and then, but man it's a bummer when Forza is just Horizon now.