What really bugs me is driving games. I used to enjoy driving games, but nowadays it seems that every driving game wants me to start off by doing dozens of laps

What really bugs me is driving games. I used to enjoy driving games, but nowadays it seems that every driving game wants me to start off by doing dozens of laps in some crappy car to save up enough in-game cash to buy a slightly less crappy car, with which I repeat the process over and over until eventually I've saved up enough to buy the shiny supercar on the game's box which I wanted to drive in the first place. No thanks: been there, done that. If you ask me, the best driving game of all time was Outrun. It plonks you in a Ferrari at the start line of a race, and you drive as far and as fast as you can in the time allotted. The more you play the game, the better you get, and you're rewarded by being able to see more of the world, but it doesn't reward you for just slogging through.