You vs The World (GT4 Online)

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How do you think you will fair online in GT4?

  • I will be the best

    Votes: 9 8.9%

  • Better than 80%

    Votes: 30 29.7%

  • Better than 50%

    Votes: 32 31.7%

  • Better than 25%

    Votes: 6 5.9%

  • I'm on the bottom of the food chain.

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • I dont know. Never raced online

    Votes: 22 21.8%
  • Total voters
    101
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I searched for a topic like this and couldn't find one so please spare me the 'this is old' commnts

Way back when I played GT3 I got to looking around online and finding lap times of guys. Here, at this very site there was a topic called Wankel Open, where the rules were 787b, and Midfield. Put up your best time (No course cutting)

I was able to get within something like .050 of the best speed. Then some guy came by and lowered the time by about .1 and put me .150 behind, but I didnt care, thats close enough.

Sure I havent played GT3 in a while, but I always get better as time passes. I also am very busy racing other sims, so I dont think rust will hurt me too much.

I also have compared my times to well known GT drivers like jmr, Weise, etc. My findings were I was able to come within one second to most of their times in a 787b or R390 GT1 at courses such as deep forest and grandvalley.

I once joined a lap time league which I guess was full of noobs, and was easly able to put up better times then them quite easily.

Also encouraging is the fact that I race a considerable amount online, against other real drivers, in situations where there is a couple of laps to go and someone is right on your tail and you have the pressure not to make a mistake. Alot of guys probably are fast driving by themselves in timetrial or something but to have a living, breathing human ahead of you or behind you can add a tremendous amount of mental pressure on you. It is SO much easier to make a mistake. Fotunatly, I am VERY comfortable with people driving right on my bumper, so I think that will give me an edge on other people who are new to online racing. I can see myself staying on a noob's bumper and just waiting for him to make a mistake, just to slip by with easy.

I have another memory of being at an Auto Tech school and a friend of mine bringing GT to class one day. He was able to beat the others in class quite wasily but when he faced me (I hadnt played the game in months) I was able to beat him by 20 seconds in a 5 lap race using Corvette C5Rs.

From what I've seen, I think I'll fair OK. I'm a second or 2 behind the best in the world, which means I should be better then 80% of the guys out there. Im not going to complain about that. 32,000 miles of GT3 better have been for something How about you?
 
In online races I think I will be better than most but will not be up there with the best, at least not for a while anyway, I'd like to get there eventually though.
 
i'm only interested in beeing better then my friends, since they are the only ones i intend to race online. For reasons previously discussed in the "why online will suck" thread
 
I've only played 2 online racing games I think, Live For Speed which I had barely any practice in but I wasn't last atleast! & Race Driver which I did quite well when I wasn't purposefully trying to get my Mini onto 2 wheels around every corner :lol:


So I don't really know, against some people here I'm probably mediocre but its hard to compare when most here probably got engrossed in GT3 unlike me. Hopefully if GT4 is what it claims to be & I get addicted online etc... then I should be competitive. So I voted 50%.

I bet some people in this forum rate themselves higher than their skill level actually is though :sly:
 
I bet many of them do, but one thing you have to remember with online games especially racing ones is that a good 60 -70% of the players end up being complete crap so you only have to fight against 30 -40% of them.
 
live4speed
I bet many of them do, but one thing you have to remember with online games especially racing ones is that a good 60 -70% of the players end up being complete crap so you only have to fight against 30 -40% of them.
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thats true, hmm actually I have played PGR2 online using xbox connect & was able to beat most people easily (they were crap :lol: ). But I just get annoyed with PGR2s handling :grumpy:
 
Right now I'll say above 50%, but I'll just wait until GT4. Then it'll be a true test of my skills, and I'll see if I'll still get passed even when I'm at my limit.
 
I know I'd be better than 50% but not quite 80% off the bat. I used to do well in the on-line racing I did on another board, usually slightly above middle of the pack. Given sometime with the wheel and GT4 I beter I could push 80%+.
 
You know there will be a lot of N00bs. They will dominate. In all reality, I think at least 20% are newbies to GT4. I don't think im all that good, but in WRS, im classified as D2 class. That has to be all right. I might be overestimating myself, but I think GT4 will have a lot of newbie drivers and/or inexperience drivers.

I voted for 80%.
 
I said better than 80%. I am amazing at GT3, so I will be amazing at this game too. It took me a lot of races to get good though.

Anyways, there are lots of good people out there, but there will also be lots of bad people. Lets just hope that this game has no cheats or glitches online.
 
haha, there's something ironic about 50% of voters saying they'll beat 80% of the competition. That's where I clicked though because I'll be dedicated to racing and playing and tuning and learning, and really, that sets you head and shoulders above most people you'll race online in normal circumstances. Come the real events, I'll be lucky to qualify.
 
Never has an option suited me so well:
I dont know. Never raced online.

And yeah, this poll is getting interesting...
 
I voted 50%, but its too soon to guess. I won´t have a wheel to race with, and I don´t know if this will be a huge disvantage or not in races with assists off.

But racing games is what I play best, and GT is my favorite game, so I hope to be good at it.
 
Well I have played the GT series since day one , I have put alot of time into GT & have completed all 4 games , I would consider myself " very good "@ playing against the computer / friends , and doing time trials online .I regularly hit top tens with lap times ....
However , as I have seen most people have voted for the " better than 80% " ,
I will say this ......

Its all very well playing against the computer & doing online time trials , or beating your local community of friends , BUT.........

Racing in a crowd online will prove to be a very different kettle of fish indeed....

I have voted " BETTER THAN 80 % " ...... And would be well pleased if i actually managed to achieve this.......

Never underestimate the opposition.......We dont know who's out there waiting to take the title of GT's finest................... :)
 
I will say 80% for stock car (those less than 300hp), and 50% for the race machine.
I drive better with stock or those modified stock cars, but not those race prep machine, especially those Toyota GT1 and Mazda 787 or those Tuscan or something like that. (may be my skills limit me to drive those high power car) but i am very confidence with those modified stock car that's below 450hp
 
I put myself bottom of the foodchain, lol, i am good but it remains to be seen how good i can really go. I prefer not to bignote myself, i race better that way.
 
I find the poll numbers very interesting.

The ones I believe the most, and the ones to watch out for, are the ones who voted "I don't know".

I voted 50% or better only because I am trying tp prepare myself for the GT4 onslaught. In truth, I have no idea how we will be judged (graded) or how quickly I'll get onto GT4. There are a lot of hot drivers out there, some are here.

Cheers,

MasterGT
 
DiabolicalMask
Never has an option suited me so well:
I dont know. Never raced online.

And yeah, this poll is getting interesting...
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I know how you feel. It is a sickening feeling going online for the first time, especially in a game that you feel your good at and enjoy, and not knowing whether you will be decent or not compared to the world.

Fortunatly for me, the 2 online games I play the most, NR2003 and Madden, I am as good as I think I am.

That doesnt mean I think I'm the best, I just play/drive at the level I thought I would vs online opponents. So yes, I've been kicked in the butt by guys in NR2003 and Madden, but I've also dished out my own butt kickings as well. So all is well. :)
 
I think I am in the 50%-80% range but I vote "Better than 50%" instead. I know I am definitely not "The Best" from my results in GTDB website.
 
MasterGT
I find the poll numbers very interesting.

The ones I believe the most, and the ones to watch out for, are the ones who voted "I don't know".

I voted 50% or better only because I am trying tp prepare myself for the GT4 onslaught. In truth, I have no idea how we will be judged (graded) or how quickly I'll get onto GT4. There are a lot of hot drivers out there, some are here.

Cheers,

MasterGT
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I can see where your coming from but when you've got so many different sources on the web to compare times with for GT3, GTC and GT4P you can get a good idea of what the competition in GT4 will be like. It's true though that until we get the game we can't be certain how well we'll do, I'm basing my choice on experience with other online racers, ie loads of crappy players I could beat with little effort but then the great drivers did the same to me on many occasions. There has always been far fewer great drivers than crappy ones. Also I wanted to et into the spirit of the thread, it would be boring if everyone said I don't know until I play it evcen though that is relly the only true choice in the poll
 

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