While reinstalling all those PC games, I couldn’t help but get distracted, since a lot of them are still unfinished. I remembered that I was still about 2/3 of the way through the career mode in DiRT, and so I finished it off tonight. About the only really notable thing was that the final series was a mix of different types and forced you to use a specific vehicle against a field of the same vehicle, instead of letting you choose yours and varying the others like usual.

I only did them on the easiest difficulty for now, though. The reason for that is twofold: one, just to get them out of the way so I can consider the game finished, without having to retry each race a few times, and two, because of the weird reward structure. When you beat a race, the prize amount for winning it is reduced if you do it again, but it also reduces the reward for all lower difficulties, too. If you want to maximize your earnings, you have to beat each one in order of difficulty, from easiest to hardest, so that you get the full amount at each difficulty level.

I’m not sure if it’ll have any further lasting appeal now that I’ve beaten it though, especially since the multiplayer is rather weak. Oh well, I need to get back to rFactor some day anyway…