I'm not kidding. I played through 95% of the game (literally) with the ACS and TCS on. Then while reading magazine articles about the Evo 7, I read how the writer loved how he could enter turns at high speeds, flick it into a drift and have the four-wheel drive pull him out of it. So, I tried this "drifting" with my red 500hp Evo 7 and couldnt pull it off, no drift angle, no slipping. I would just plow straight into the wall without the rear ever breaking free. I thought, "what the hell is going on here Mr. 'Real Driving Simulator'". Then I remembered how the Evo 7 has all that LSD and center diff. voodoo going on with the active yaw control and such, then realized "Hey, TVRs don't have any traction control in real life, so why does it have it in the game?" So, I went about turning it off, and tried the turn again and yelled "HOLY CRAP" when I went through the turn sideways, and THEN hit the wall. From then on, I knew I could only get the true experience with both of these artificial aids turned off.
This was later confirmed when my friend was interested in buying a new car and had a fancy for the S2000 and wanted an opinion of it. I told her about the magazine review, and how they said controlling slip angles in turns with it is so much fun. When I told her they had that car in GT3, and that it was a driving sim with real physics, not just another arcade game, she asked me to try it out in the game and tell her how it handled (since up till then I had not driven it in the game).
Well the ASM and TCS were automatically on when I bought it and I tested it out but couldnt get any slip angles out of it like in the article, so I turned off the aids but still couldn't get any good slip angles out of it. Then I put on sim tires (up until now I had been intimidated by the warning on them and my previous ham-fisted bad experience in both GT3 and GT2) and I nearly bust a nut the handling was so much fun. When she asked how the S2000 handled I told her "Orgasmic".
Between these two times there was a significant hiatus in my playing GT3 because of other games and some crud with life, but after the latter experience, I have not been able to stop playing for any long period of time, always with driver aids off and always with sim tires.
Sorry for being so verbose, I have a propensity for doing that.
(I also bought sim tires for all my 125 cars right after that with my considerable bank account [I'm not kidding, bought it for all of them in one sitting because I was so angry at myself for not getting the full experience because I was afraid of losing])
)...oh, and never in my insane mind try and use the cudo at Complex string and staying on the raod to prove my driving skillzz(10 mins is not fast at all..)...
