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Not all games are built the same way which is why I believe that tutorials are very important to games because it's going to throw more light to how you can play the game. 

Depends on the game, for ones in genre like racing I find that it’s pretty annoying since 99% of racing games are basically the same. 

If every game was so similar to each other that there was no need for tutorials at all we'd bee in a pretty sorry state. Without thier own indigenous control quirks games just wouldn't have thier own identity. A case can be made that if a game is easy to play without a tutorial, that's a sign of a game that's got a very well suited and intuitive control set up, but I still would like to think every new game has something a little different to offer.
 
 
I'm hearing you on JRPG's. Don't get me wrong, I love the genre, but they almost always have to take some getting used to. I touched on that when I reviewed Tales of Arise recently.

Racing games are constantly evolving, so you can't have one favorite. A new game comes around from time to time to dethrone the others.
So here are my favorite racing games over the times:
 
Test Drive 3 1990 Stunts 1991 The Need for Speed 1995 Motorhead 1998 Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed 2000 Gran Turismo 4 2004 Test Drive Unlimited 2006 Gran Turismo 5 2010 NFS Shift 2 2011 Project Cars 2 2017  
Honourable mentions:
Car & Driver 1992 Fatal Racing 1995 Destruction Derby 1995 Need For Speed 2 SE 1997 Gran Turismo 1998 Gran Turismo 2 1999 1nsane 2000 Street Legal Racing 2003 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 2010 Gran Turismo 6 2013  
I was a racing game fanatic, well I still would be, if there was any racing game worthy of the name.
I also love racing simulations that I excluded from this list.

For fun; Burnout by far (specifically burnout paradise).
For realism; Gran Turismo 

It's between the Burnout franchise, Need For Speed Franchise up to Most Wanted, The original Gran Turismo and GT 2, and Forza.

My favourite has been the Burnout franchise (minus Burnout Paradise), especially Burnout 3. The series has sadly been dead for quite some time. I haven't really been that into racing games since, but I did enjoy what I've played of the Forza: Horizon games.

I think it's awesome that VGR has hit 100,000 posts.  Congrats to everyone.

VGR Forum has just achieved an incredible milestone. We now have more than 100,000 posts! It seems like just yesterday we hit 10,000 posts. Our community truly has grown by leaps and bounds. I want to personally thank each of you for your contributions to our conversations here on the forum. You are what has made VGR the welcoming, thriving community it is today. I can’t wait to see how our forum will continue to grow and flourish over the years ahead.
If I could, I would thank every single member individually here. As it is, I know that I cannot possibly get around to everyone. But I want to at least highlight the contributions of some of our core members:
@Shagger: You have done a wonderful job as our first moderator on VGR keeping everything running smoothly and creating a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere. And even with all of your hard work as moderator, you still find time to compose detailed replies to threads. Thank you so much.
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Thank you all again for everything each of you has done for VGR forum—and to all of our members for being a part of the VGR family. I am so happy with what we have built here together.

When you're at the office, 8 Ball Pool is entertaining and isn't greatly competitive so you don't have to worry about your nerves. You can play a game in 5 - 10 minutes with random people. Check out the official game on Miniclip or in the Google/Apple store for mobile.

How about T-Rex Run, if someone calls you out you can just tell them your internet is down!
 

It kinda helps you to know and monitor how you get addicted to playing a particular game and control it the sooner the better before it goes out of hands. 

She and I have been together for 17 years.

Even my cousins complained such thing too, when we are having fun playing together back in the days. I am comfortable playing with the analog button than the normal side buttons. Everyone has choice, just as you've made your choice known. 

Those up and down, left and right side button are my traditional favorite when it comes to controlling my characters. Analog is hard for me to use. 

That's exactly. She isn't a barrier to what one can do. What matters is being fit and agile, then such person will game for many years. 

Age is nothing but numbers in my opinion. I believe it's one's health that comes to play when it it comes how long one can play. 

Exactly, age doesn't matter at all. Once you get all the strength to play, there is nothing that can stop you from playing. 

Age doesn't matter in one's career, what matters most is the well-being. If you're fit enough you can simply stay with your services for many more years. Same goes to gaming, when my health isn't bad during old age, I'll keep on playing. 

I've spent majority of my time offline playing racing games, ranging from motorcycle GP, asphalt, GT etc. 

I'm guessing it's a cheaper quality of plastic, or maybe it's the moulding? I know you mean about this, with even the much improved Dual Analogue controller (with the concaved sticks). You can only clean your fingers so much before your naturally produced grease makes their way onto them.

Idk what it is, but it seems if you keep your PS1/PS2 dualshock controllers for a long time, they tend to get gunky and slimy feeling. I think the rubber on the analog sticks starts to go after being left alone for such a long time. Or it just collects dust way too easily. Does anyone else have this issue with old controllers with rubber sticks? Like they feel sticky and sometimes it falls apart. Do you guys know a way of protecting controllers from this? I'm thinking of just wrapping all of my controllers in plastic bags to protect them more from dust and debris when not in use. 

For a racing game (Forza, NFS Gran Turismo) it doesn't bother me so much, because racing events IRL are dependent upon companies sponsoring the races. So it doesn't really bother me when I'm coming out of turn 4 and I notice several billboards along the outer wall. Alright, cool.
But it would aggravate me to see, let's say, the Illusive Man pulling out a pack of Camel No 9's and a Zippo lighter in every cut scene he was in. Crap like that would aggravate the hell out of me. It just seems like a shameless plug.

If you play sports or auto racing games, ads in games and billboards and the like are more common.

Lol, you're there buddy, even adults do behave like kids when it comes to such moment in gaming. I can always express tension during such moment.