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GT Planet, here is another thread about GT4 racing.
As we know, racing games in which all the drivers race on rails and are perfect are wholly unrealistic. There are racing games where drivers make NOT ONE MISTAKE on the track. Games which want you to face nameless racers with precisions of Formula One racers isn't realistic. At times, I've seen in Gran Turismo 2 where a driver spun out during an endurance race. I was in my Tommykaira ZZII (remember, GT2. Mid/rear drivetrain), and a Ford GT40 Road Car spun out and I had to dodge that driver (even though I lapped him). Oh, and another thing. When I raced the "Stars and Stripes" event, I seen all these American cars, and then this one dude has a Corvette C5R, and I backed out because I didn't want the race to be one-sided. After all, I'm supposed to be in the powerful cars blowing out everybody like a college football game (remember OU blowing out Texas A&M 77-0?)!
Anyhow, do you have any considerations to make racing more interesting, so that you are not facing perfect racers? I say if you're racing powerful, modified street cars, you shouldn't expect to have Derek Bell or Boris Said challenge you to race after race. Likewise, even if you did Pro-level GT World Championship racing, "even monkeys fall from trees" as someone said on GTPlanet. So it goes both ways. What are your recommendations in terms of how the pack races?
One consideration is to have some rivaling racers. You know, have a racer battle someone for position much like that one lap at Homestead in the Grand-Am series. I think I even remember a JGTC race where the Raybrig NSX spun out into the grass at Fuji and while he was spinning out on the wet grass, he'd get back on track. He'd be facing the wrong direction, and the front of the NSX met the front of the Nomad Lamborghini Diablo, and a hellacious crash occured. I felt that hit when I seen that on the show "On the Limit." I mean, racers shouldn't have to be perfect. Remember my "Losing" topic in the "Drifting and Other Motorsports" category? I'm not saying that every racer should make mistakes, but I think you should be able to make up for others mistakes if you choose to.
How about your suggestions for on-track action? And note how this topic doesn't mean anything like celebrations and pageantry.
As we know, racing games in which all the drivers race on rails and are perfect are wholly unrealistic. There are racing games where drivers make NOT ONE MISTAKE on the track. Games which want you to face nameless racers with precisions of Formula One racers isn't realistic. At times, I've seen in Gran Turismo 2 where a driver spun out during an endurance race. I was in my Tommykaira ZZII (remember, GT2. Mid/rear drivetrain), and a Ford GT40 Road Car spun out and I had to dodge that driver (even though I lapped him). Oh, and another thing. When I raced the "Stars and Stripes" event, I seen all these American cars, and then this one dude has a Corvette C5R, and I backed out because I didn't want the race to be one-sided. After all, I'm supposed to be in the powerful cars blowing out everybody like a college football game (remember OU blowing out Texas A&M 77-0?)!
Anyhow, do you have any considerations to make racing more interesting, so that you are not facing perfect racers? I say if you're racing powerful, modified street cars, you shouldn't expect to have Derek Bell or Boris Said challenge you to race after race. Likewise, even if you did Pro-level GT World Championship racing, "even monkeys fall from trees" as someone said on GTPlanet. So it goes both ways. What are your recommendations in terms of how the pack races?
One consideration is to have some rivaling racers. You know, have a racer battle someone for position much like that one lap at Homestead in the Grand-Am series. I think I even remember a JGTC race where the Raybrig NSX spun out into the grass at Fuji and while he was spinning out on the wet grass, he'd get back on track. He'd be facing the wrong direction, and the front of the NSX met the front of the Nomad Lamborghini Diablo, and a hellacious crash occured. I felt that hit when I seen that on the show "On the Limit." I mean, racers shouldn't have to be perfect. Remember my "Losing" topic in the "Drifting and Other Motorsports" category? I'm not saying that every racer should make mistakes, but I think you should be able to make up for others mistakes if you choose to.
How about your suggestions for on-track action? And note how this topic doesn't mean anything like celebrations and pageantry.
mwa hahaha that would be ace.
