u/DazzRat

First DiRT Rally pace notes / co-driver

I've played a ton of DiRT Rally 2.0 but still love to go back and play the first one because it's got a different feel and it does a few things better.

That being said, I can't believe some people insist the co-driver callouts in 1 are so much better. I like both voice actors fine, and for the most part the pace notes range from workmanlike to very decent across both games; however, the co-driver in 1 has a few sections that are flat-out suicidal.

Particularly in Finland. There's one very long stage that I know all too well, and there are around five horrendously bad sections where the co-driver utterly fails to give proper warning or doesn't say shit until you're already on top of the unexpected curve, as he was too busy rattling on about meaningless bumps or the obvious ditch outside. The most egregious is toward the end of this grueling stage where he ho-hums you about a blind left-four over a crest jump that should be "caution! braking" well in advance of the approach -- so if you haven't memorized the route but are instead reacting to the co-driver and taking him at his word, you will likely go sailing down the hill and into a tree at about 80 mph, either front-first or with a side impact, unless you get shit-ass lucky.

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u/DazzRat — 7 days ago