Switch's first racing sim 'Gear Club' launches tomorrow

I've literally never heard of this game until a day before it comes out...It looks fine (visually, and what little gameplay is shown seems...uh, normal, I guess?) but it'll still come down to price and reviews for me. If it costs too much or takes a beating from critics (of which there probably won't be many besides strictly Nintendo-focused sites, but still) I'll probably just put my money on a name I recognize instead. If it's the opposite (cheap and at least gets passable reviews) then maybe I'll try it out. I mean, I'm just as likely to play my Xbox One (for Forza games) as my Switch, so between the two (I'm not counting PS4 because GT Sport sounds icky) it'll really be about whatever's cheap enough to justify the fact that I'll only play it once in a blue moon.

Not gonna lie, this game seriously looks like generic racing simulator without much of a flare of anything else, sadly. Not that I'm big into racing games as it is, but this definitely did nothing for me from the trailer, sadly. I wonder if we'll get any other kind of first party racing games for the Switch that aren't Mario Kart in the near future. 

1 hour ago, Venom said:

I mean, I'm just as likely to play my Xbox One (for Forza games) as my Switch, so between the two (I'm not counting PS4 because GT Sport sounds icky) it'll really be about whatever's cheap enough to justify the fact that I'll only play it once in a blue moon.

 

I didn't know you were into racing games, Venni! I like the occasional one, but I haven't even dug into my copy of Forza 6 yet, ha. This looks interesting, though, and the fact that it's on Switch is a plus; hopefully we'll be able to do a review of it sometime in the near future.

7 minutes ago, Royzoga said:

I wonder if we'll get any other kind of first party racing games for the Switch that aren't Mario Kart in the near future. 

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I doubt it, or at least I doubt that we'll ever get a first-party racing sim, unless Nintendo picks up a Western studio to produce it. Still, I imagine we could see a Need for Speed title on the Switch somewhere down the line. Maybe even Project Cars 2?

3 hours ago, Jason Clement said:

 

I didn't know you were into racing games, Venni! I like the occasional one, but I haven't even dug into my copy of Forza 6 yet, ha. This looks interesting, though, and the fact that it's on Switch is a plus; hopefully we'll be able to do a review of it sometime in the near future.

I don't play them all the time, or ever talk about them apparently, but I do really enjoy them when I'm in the mood. Sometimes I just feel like driving stupidly fast and acting like a maniac on the road, so I rush home from wherever I am to do the same things in a virtual setting.