Old Games Freakin' Rock

[Danny Boy]

I have played NFS (the old ones) and I see no emotional build up, or any substance of a plot.. It's pretty much only a racing game.

But also racing games should mediate emotions like a real driver would feel.

No. They shouldn't. Racing games can be whatever the heck the developers want. The same goes whit every single game genre. Games do not need to be emotionally realistic for them to be good games. Portal 2 for example. It did not made me feel like I was a lab rat constantly being tested. It actually made me fell exited while solving the puzzles as well amused while hearing the extremely funny lines of each character. Lines of which dragged me off from the realistically frustrating scenario that would take place if valve followed your Ideals.

And to be honest. Having comedy that take us away from reality makes Portal much more special if it were to be a emotional realistic experience.