For the most part, you’ll be dropping and picking up people with some variations in locale and number of stops.īus Simulator is wholly lacking in personality beyond these first couple of hours.
But players will quickly find out that these first couple hours aren’t very representative of the experience as a whole. It makes the game feel a little more personal, if a bit clumsy in the delivery.
“Hey, June, how’s your daughter?” type stuff. Along the tutorial route, you will start to pick up customers and Mira greets each and every one of them smiling and asking about some personal aspect of their lives. I would highly recommend playing the game this way as it feels more natural than the mouse or keyboard steering configurations. Thankfully, playing this game with a controller gives the player a radial menu in which they can access most of the more obscure functions. Mira tells you how to start the bus, turn the lights on, along with the 20+ other things these kinds of games walk you through. You have just recently been hired as the first driver in the initiative to revitalize the city’s public transportation line. Mira acts as the game’s tutorial and backstory device. You start the game meeting the most excessively kind and patient woman in the world, Mira Tannhauser. But the actual act of driving the bus and dropping folks off can be pretty fun. You don’t have to deal with people not paying a fare or someone puking on the floor in the back (thankfully). Fortunately, the game only simulates the most base level functions of being one. Unless you yourself are a bus driver, playing as one in a video game might not sound like the most exciting thing in the world. But I might have been pleasantly surprised by what I found. I wanna get going right out of the gate! Not be tutorialized to oblivion. So as you can imagine, I might not have been super psyched to jump into Bus Simulator 18. It’s, unfortunately, the antithesis of what I look for when I play a game. These games are often heavy on the instruction side of things and require a great deal of patience in order to really grasp how to play the game. You won’t exactly know how to operate an F-14 Tomcat by playing a whole bunch of Digital Combat Simulator, but you sure will feel like you would. From the agricultural thrills of games like Farming Simulator to living the life of a Trucker (sans Lot Lizards) in Euro Truck Simulator to the esoteric umbrella of systems that is Dwarf Fortress games are able to make these seemingly dull tasks seem like rewarding experiences. Simulating the mundane has been a long-standing tradition in video games.
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