- AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR OREGON DRIVER
- AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR OREGON LICENSE
- AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR OREGON SIMULATOR
Coursing over the high-desert landscapes of Eastern Oregon or driving through the rain and wind of the Columbia River Gorge outside of Portland? Yes, sir. The prospect of pushing 10 gears and 18 wheels up and down the I-5 corridor in the Rogue Valley or following one of the twisty highways to the coast to visit my old stomping grounds in Coos Bay? Yes, I'd like to do that. But when they announced Oregon DLC? Hooboy. Even when it came to American Truck Simulator, I didn’t bite when they wheeled out California. I never liked Europe’s truck designs and I wasn’t itching to pull a tractor-trailer through France, Austria, or anywhere else on that side of the Atlantic.
AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR OREGON SIMULATOR
Sure, “American” got my attention more than Euro Truck Simulator did. Mine's easy.īut none of those things I admire made me buy American Truck Simulator.
AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR OREGON DRIVER
I admire the profession and do my best, as a driver in a small passenger vehicle, to not drive like a jerk when I’m around semi-trucks. I also admire the mental fortitude a long-haul trucker has to have in order to even do that job. They look like bull elephants on parade, sound like freight trains on wheels.
But I admire the trucks' power and beautiful lines. I was too shy as a kid to pump my fist at a trucker to get them to honk their air horn. He did decide that was his last load, though. He safely pulled his rig over to the side of the road, finished having his heart attack, and then pulled back onto the freeway to wrap up his route once it was safe to do so. One day he was having a heart attack while driving. Was a long-hauler his entire adult life, after he was done being a foot soldier in the U.S.
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In case the Oregon license plate doesn't tip you off as to where we live, we have lots of decals to really drive the point home. And boy, do Oregonians love their Heart in Oregon stickers. I wonder, do people in your state have those rear windshield stickers that are an outline of your state with a heart in the middle? Those are called “Heart in Oregon” stickers here. The military took me as far in one direction as Japan, and my wife took me as far in the other direction as Washington D.C.
Well, I’ve encountered another one of those types of main characters in American Truck Simulator–Oregon. The name of the main character is right there in the title, too. When you can name those traits above about Skyrim, or you know that Peter Parker cracks wise through the streets of New York City, and that Assassin’s Creed has been everywhere from the Holy Land to the New World to the Greek Islands-that’s when you know you’ve encountered a game where the location is one of the main characters, if not the main character. You can name those things because, like that real estate tycoon informed us, location matters.
Or where the first Assassin’s Creed takes place, or Black Flag, or where the newest one, Odyssey, happens. I also bet you have a pretty good idea of where Marvel’s Spider-Man slings his webs. I bet you cannot only name where the last Elder Scrolls game takes place, but you can identify different Nord cities based on their architecture, different climates that range the landscape, and where you might find giants herding their mammoths versus where long-tusked horkers gather in family packs.
But I would add that location also matters when it comes to video games.Ĭritics are fond of saying things like, “But the city/dungeon/countryside where the game takes place is the real main character.” Sounds like hyperbole theater to me. Some real estate tycoon once said, “There are three things that matter in property: location, location, location.” I don’t doubt the wisdom of that.
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