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[MSZ]

The Crew 2 has pedestrians, that was the reason why Toyota wasn't in the game. They removed pedestrians in Motorfest so they could bring in Toyotas.

 

[leggy2fast]

That’s strange. I feel that there’re already sufficient CPU cars travelling on the free roam map, and any more would’ve made it unmanoeuvrable without crashing with the speeds you can do on the highways. It doesn’t really feel that empty, does it?

Like other folks said, I think it's the lack of pedestrians. I know there are ratings involved and that sort of thing, but seeing no one outside at all goes into uncanny territory for me. I'm sure for you it might feel very different as the game takes place where you live so I'm going from an outsider perspective, as someone who's lived in some hella big cities and I'd def miss that if it was in my town haha

 

[AerodyManiac]

Like other folks said, I think it's the lack of pedestrians. I know there are ratings involved and that sort of thing, but seeing no one outside at all goes into uncanny territory for me. I'm sure for you it might feel very different as the game takes place where you live so I'm going from an outsider perspective, as someone who's lived in some hella big cities and I'd def miss that if it was in my town haha

Ah, understood. I suppose how TDUSC sometimes lets you drive into the most unexpected of all places (alleys and even the sea!) played a role in Nacon deciding to not have any pedestrians in the game too. As I said, it’s my first time playing an open-world racing game in a long time, so travelling unbounded and on a whim is sufficient of a stimulation for me to process and ignore what’s happening on the sidewalks

 

[McLaren]

Neither The Crew 2 nor Forza Horizon have pedestrians. GTA 5 is not a racing game. It just has a racing mode among many others. Basically no racing games have them because it forces the age ratings to be higher, even if it's not possible to run them over. Motorfest feels just as lifeless as The Crew 2 and it's largely because of their incredibly generic presentation styles.

I don't know how the rating system works overseas, but in the US, both Crew Games & NFS Unbound (which has pedestrians who flee) are rated T for Teen because of the fact 2 of the games have specific abilities/missions where you are incentivized to run into other cars & adult musical lyrics. Nothing noted in by the ESRB about pedestrians likely because of the fact they can not be hit/harmed by the player.