From what I’m seeing, the two games are oriented differently. Dakar 18 is trying to reproduce the most close to the real thing experience, with realistic environment and realism features. On the other side, despide having a great navigation system, Dakar Desert Rally is more arcade oriented. Map is huge and beautiful with a huge work on it, but environments are not realistic at all. There’s a lot of desert highway styles tracks that could be seen in a MX VS ATV game. The game is really beautiful but forces environment diversity and level design to be non realistic (too much palm trees everywhere, too much water anywhere, planes crashed into the map, riding under old abandonned structures and boats). That just doesn’t make any sense for a Dakar game. It looks great but it suck you out of the game realism of what Dakar is supposed to be. In real life, Dakar is sometimes very repetitive, with huge dunes above eyesight, Dakar 18 replicated it quite well. Desert Rally is looking beautiful, sand physic is great, animations are awesome, models are amazing. The game is better with speed feeling, driving is more enjoyable with better physic. What we need is Dakar 18 with all graphics enhancement and Desert Rally driving physic. I’ll buy Dakar 18 to play it and when I’ll be finished with it, maybe Desert Rally just for fun. But for realistic experience, it’s better to stick to 18 I think
Got the game, been playing for 3 days now and the thing that I've noticed is that the events differ between the difficulties. Simulation difficulty gives you access to whole Dakar calendar from 2021 to 2022 and I'm yet to find any unrealistic scenery in these stages.
The new game looks and plays incredibly, everything is improved. Shame about the constant crashes though. Why can't they solve this, it's been "fatal error" for years now.
18 had ability to exit vehicle and call for help, dig yourself out They managed to just enhance graphics in four years, mess up AI drivers to the point where are you scared as shit to get close Do physics that makes sense in 50% of the game and the rest is WTF and stripped you from the ability to get out of the vehicle
@@kg0173 nah, not after what I have seen today The moment I caught up with another six drivers, it turned into absolute mayhem, I kept back but They were just wrecking, and when the bike stayed on the ground, another three just killed themselves of the one bike on the ground, not to mention that When I reached speed limit, I just got rear ended hard It's ok if you driving 200km max but, not in 450+ where you need to actually keep an eye on the damage Also, they are super fast when you driving amongst them, but the minute they despawn, I won by almost ten minutes
A couple of days ago they released an update that aims to improve the AI, to stop them from acting suicidal and crashing into you when they get close to you.
Seems like texture on 18 is a little better. I wish they would have left the option in 22 to be able to be towed and leave the vehicle to dig yourself out.
I find it kinda funny that so many people here are complaining about the new game... there were so many bugs and the physics were so shitty in Dakar 18 that it was basically impossible to finish the career in 60% of the vehicles in the game. did you ever finish the whole Dakar rally in a UTV, quad or a bike? I didn't think so. even the cars were almost undrivable! and it looked like ass, even in 2018.
18 is better more fun, ddr AI will kill you anytime, there is speed limit but AI is ferocious, simulation mode is hell for motorcycle, you not only race but survive for your life from these killer machine trucks and cars
DDR on freeroam is what I’ve been waiting for all my life . Forget about racing AI and see if you can get your motorcycle to the top of that mountain in the distance. Best open world driving game ever made in terms of beauty, things to discover, and feeling of exploration. If it had BeamNg crash physics, it would be perfect.
New game seems like soft focus. Textures and atmosphere are smoother. Colours are much more saturated and bright but also less contrast. New game is very generic. Seems more dated.
@@LaVaZ000 the visual presentation is less crisp and more in line with the stock graphical style employed by current gaming trends. Which is heavy use of bloom and soft textures with a high degree of colour saturation.
@Faceless_Exe to be fair to the new game it probably has had several updates since I last played it. It was unplayable last time I tried. Glad your having fun with it 👍
Just another game focused on graphics rather than content and it is not even that much better looking, really. They basically made Forza Horizon Dakar Rally.
hay algo que la gente nunca se da cuenta, es que siempre una imagen con mas brillo va a ser mas debil el color, al ultimo dakar le pones un poco menos de brillo y apenas mas contraste y eso hace que los colores tengan profundidas.... como mas peso, mas presencia... el brillo ablanda toso eso,,,,, soy de los que usan los teles con poco brillo justamente par darle impacto al color y no blanquearlo por asi decirlo....... las texturas se nota que el ultimop dakar es superiro, por otra parte el ultimo dakar transmite mas velocidad (incluso si miras el velocimetro en todas las imagenes los veiculos llegan a la misma velocidad pero en el dakar 18 pareciera que vas en bicicleta jajaja, en fin...... saludos!
