u/Max_Rockatanski

I played RR7 for the first time in the year of our lord 2026, that game is 20 years old now and I'm shocked how the racing genre has fallen ever since.
Yeah we got better graphics, physics etc but the overall presentation of this game is miles ahead of anything I've seen in the last 20 years! It's cohesive, engaging, exciting and it all adds up to the fun so much. I'm not just talking menus, fonts, animations, but very distinctive circuits built around unique landmarks that hit just right and make themselves memorable.

When compared to a ton of modern racers it's like they don't even give a shit about the menu. A lot of them don't even have a distinctive visual identity, it's like they completely skip this step. And you can see how much it cripples those games when you, let's say upgrade your engine in RR7 and a little badge shows up on your rev meter to show what part you've installed. Small stuff like this! Or even the rev needle having that little blur at night. It's shit like this that makes you care because they cared making it.
And don't get me started on tracks, now it feels like they make some terrain first and run a track through it. That's it. In RR7 (and other ridge racers too) it's like they go "Ok what would be fun to see when driving, what would be fun to drive on?" and they go from there. I don't see that almost at all in modern racers.

I dunno dudes, all I know is that playing this game for the first time I noticed all of that and it brought in so much fun to the experience that I haven't felt in years playing racing games.

"Welcome to the Mad Max Factory, the ultimate destination for officially licensed Mad Max movie vehicles and memorabilia. Under the direction of George Miller and Doug Mitchell, we meticulously recreate the legendary cars from the franchise, ensuring each piece captures the raw power, craftsmanship, and spirit of the films."
Sounds pretty amazing, they offer 25 Mad Max vehicles, officially licensed replicas built to spec.

I don't know about you, but I actively avoid doing any mainline story missions and I go on side quests and collect everything I can instead. It's the perfect game for that, just start new game and immediately start wandering around, it's super relaxing.

I was running 12.50 until the HDD started choking up so I decided to start 100% fresh with a new drive. Complete wipe. During the swap the console asked for 12.00 (or higher) instead. I took a gamble, gave it 12.00 and it worked just fine! The only issue is that VuE takes waaaay longer to do its thing but it works either way. I heard it was impossible, anyone knows why that happened?

Sorry but I haven't seen ANY reviewer ever mention what this film is really about and they completely miss the point writing it off with:
"Why prequel about her, we know she's in Fury Road!"
"We don't need her backstory"
"It was too long and boring"

Look, I know media literacy is in the shitter, but this film literally explains right at the start what it's about, can't get any more clear than this:

"As the world falls around us, how must we brave its cruelties?".

It's about Furiosa's life being ruined and her resisting becoming a freak like Dementus. There. It's not about action, it's not about gigantic set pieces, it's about her life being ruined one chapter after another until she's confronted with the man who did it and her battle is not with him at that point. She could've crushed his head like a watermelon with that mechanical arm of hers. The battle is within herself to stay human and have her revenge at the same time.
Turning Dementus into a tortured plant that grows life (peach, symbol you know) and inspires the Wives to escape and overthrow a tyrant? That narrative is awesome, wonky CGI be damned. But you gotta see this stuff and stop treating this film like Fury Road 2.0. It's not meant to be that film.