Evening Reading

Anyone else not interested in licensed cars in video games?

To me it just seems boring, I don't care about the brand and it often means you see the same kind of car in several games. And it gets you horribly lame crashes because car makers don't like to see their stuff getting damaged or looking like the driver could be hurt. All invincible super cars please, a bit denting and scratching is fine but please nothing too destructive.

Now recently again with NFS Hot Pursuit, from the Burnout makers them self, a snore fest of a crash system which gets beaten by Burnout 3 on PS2.

Also it limits the creativity, I'd rather see made up cars that are more diverse than what exists in real life. For example I liked the cars in Burnout Paradise way better than these real ones.

Or at least make it GTA like, name them differently but use a proper damage system. I was hoping that 3 years after Burnout Paradise we'd get even nice crashes but the real cars came and with them the indestructibility.
I mean the drivers are already the man of steel-superman, at least the car gotta crumble.

I see where the fans of licensed cars in video games are coming from, and I don't mind it in realistic racing games or simulators or the like that are sports themed, but in arcady racers I don't like it for the above reasons.