Golf R’s have barely depreciated. I don’t get why you think the Golf R wagon would...

I don’t need AWD or 316hp. Can I just have one with 200-250hp and FWD, with a 6spd? With GTI suspension and plaid seats. I’d cheerfully pay $35K or so for it.

The MK8 is a beautiful car. As an Alltrack owner, I wish we got the golf R wagon instead but unfortunately the market has spoken: The US just doesn’t seem to want any wagon that isn’t an outback. I do, and there are dozens of us, but the rest of the market would prefer CUVs.

Those days games were very often made by one guy with maybe another making the music, most of my favorite C64 games were done that way.

Yeah, between the dirt track, the Esso ad, and the number plates on the roofs it’s definitely a depiction of british banger racing. It was probably existing artwork that the publisher bought the rights to use on their cover.

Definitely looks like a UK view of stock car racing; uk stock car racing tends to be a pretty close relative of banger racing, and escort would be pretty representative for 1984:

U.S. Gold was a British publisher with a penchant for skimping on the budget. Sometimes they’d hire one guy to make an entire commercial game in the course of three months. They’re infamous for Commodore 64 port of Strider they commissioned after scoring the home computer license, for example.

I wouldn’t put it past…

Yep, all true. Convertible hard tops have some disadvantages, like more weight, mechanical complexity, and taking up more space. But ragtops have lots of drawbacks, too: they’re expensive to replace (and you will have to replace it), you really need to mostly park them indoors, you’ve got to be careful where you park…

A fad since 1957.

Or then it is just bafflement over someone deciding to act like a caricature of a fanboy in the first lines of a game announcement that has nothing to do with Bioware.

If you live in regions with 4 seasons, a power hardtop is the difference between a frivolous pleasuremobile (actually, that sounds better the more I think about it) and a practical year-rounder which you can park downtown late at night.

*throes, not death “throws”.

Right? BioWare hasn’t been in the cRPG game since I was a teenager (And I’m pushing 40). Seems like a really needless jab that doesn’t sell me on anything. Just say it’s like Baldur’s Gate. Done.

Worth mentioning that almost 100% of the cars mentioned in this article had their retractable hardtop system designed by the same company: Karmann Group roof-components (of Karmann Ghia) now owned by Magna-Steyr.

I think if something’s been a thing for 25+ years, it;s probably past the “fad” point. It’s not like pogs or fidget spinners.

Who hurt you? Why make this article basically a jab at (old) BioWare when you could just focus on this game with a passing mention of Infinity Engine games? Also, Pillars of Eternity (and others) are sitting right there to fill that void.

I kinda like the SSR, though it still gets ragged on incessantly.

I feel like comparing it to a Bioware RPG like you do in the title isnt the best comparison, you said Bioware and immediately i thought Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Knights Of The Old Republic. I dont think many people are going to think “CRPG” when you say Bioware RPG, i ended up feeling a bit let down because of it lol

That movie clip is what happens when pure, concentrated awesome is crammed into 3 minutes.

Actually, we could probably just go with this: