History YMMV / Asphalt

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and Metal Jesus Rocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question. Gameloft did however offer premium versions of ''Airborne'' and ''Xtreme'' to placate those who are turned off by the freemium business model, though you'd have to sign in to either Apple Arcade or Netflix in order to play those games.

** ''Asphalt 3D'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS has shoddy visuals, terrible framerate issues even without 3D enabled, ArtificialStupidity from both rival racers and the police, tons of bugs, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the in-game announcer refers to the KTM X-Bow as "Ex-bow" when it's supposed to be pronounced "Cross-bow"]].
** ''Asphalt Injection'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita has better graphics than ''3D'' and less bugs overall, but still suffers from ArtificialStupidity and terrible collision detection, and motorcycles have been omitted from the vehicle lineup

** ''Asphalt Injection'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita has better graphics than ''3D'' and less bugs overall, but still suffers from ArtificialStupidity and terrible collision detection.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and WebVideo/MetalJesusRocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question. Gameloft did however offer premium versions of ''Airborne'' and ''Xtreme'' to placate those who are turned off by the freemium business model, though you'd have to sign in to either Apple Arcade or Netflix in order to play those games.

** Requiring players to obtain cars for career mode in ''Legends'' that are nigh impossible to obtain without spending one's life savings. Players should be able to fully complete career mode without needing the best cars in the game.

** The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of ''Asphalt Urban GT 2'', where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the ''leader'' of the street racing pack and that one ''alone''. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, ''Need for Speed''-style, but the fact that you're required to go for ''just one particular racer'' leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible, which was so easy enough to do in the regular race mode that you could spend the first two laps eliminating the competition and cruise through the third as a victory lap as there's no one else left in the race anyway.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and WebVideo/MetalJesusRocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question.
** Gameloft did however offer premium versions of ''Airborne'' and ''Xtreme'' to placate those who are turned off by the freemium business model, though you'd have to sign in to either Apple Arcade or Netflix in order to play those games.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of ''Asphalt Urban GT 2'', where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the ''leader'' of the street racing pack and that one ''alone''. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, ''Need for Speed''-style, but the fact that you're required to go for ''just one particular racer'' leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible, which was so easy enough to do in the regular race mode that you could spend the first two laps eliminating the competition and cruise through the third as a victory lap as there's no one else left in the race anyway.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and WebVideo/MetalJesusRocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and WebVideo/MetalJesusRocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question.
** Requiring players to obtain cars for career mode in ''Legends'' that are nigh impossible to obtain without spending one's life savings. Players should be able to fully complete career mode without needing the best cars in the game.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: For starters, the increasingly pervasive use of microtransactions has turned off a number of players, especially when some of the more desirable cars either take a LOT of grinding to unlock or are locked behind a rather extortionate paywall, the cost of which rivals that of full-priced games just for what amounts to be a 3D polygonal model of a car and logic to get it to work. This also led to some backlash among fans of WebVideo/GameSack and WebVideo/MetalJesusRocks who were both paid to make a promotional video about the series' history. Ironically enough, Metal Jesus was called a "Judas" for selling himself out in that video in question.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of ''Asphalt Urban GT 2'', where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the ''leader'' of the street racing pack and that one ''alone''. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, ''Need for Speed''-style, but the fact that you're required to go for ''just one particular racer'' leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible, which was so easy enough to do in the regular race mode that you could spend the first two laps eliminating the competition and cruise through the third as a victory lap as there's no one else left in the race anyway.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of ''Asphalt Urban GT 2'', where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the ''leader'' of the street racing pack and that one ''alone''. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, ''Need for Speed''-style, but the fact that you're required to go for ''just one particular racer'' leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible, which was so easy enough to do in the regular race mode that you could spend the first two laps eliminating the competition and make the third as a victory lap as there's no one else left in the face anyway.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Cop Chase mode in the mobile phone versions of ''Asphalt Urban GT 2'', where for whatever reason the designers decided to have players go after the ''leader'' of the street racing pack and that one ''alone''. Surely most gamers would want to take down as many street racers as possible, ''Need for Speed''-style, but the fact that you're required to go for ''just one particular racer'' leading an illicit street race is baffling when there's a "Beat 'em All" mode whose goal is to write off as many opponents as possible.