Demon's souls online functionality for single play

[Sergan]

I don't know you guys played Demon's souls but it has a pretty cool online feature.
Which is when you are connected to the PSN you see other players play real time in ghost style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Hc85xHMA4
You can have no interaction with them and they have no impact on your gameplay,
but somehow just seeing other players fighting right there makes you feel...well I don't know how to put it.
Anyway the stage becomes so vibrant with them.

Then I thought this might work for racing games too.
Like when you want to practice driving a car or just have fun
randomly selected players driving the same car appear in ghost and you can drive with them.
You don't know who they are and they also don't know about you.
In this way you can drive more relaxed and learn from others unlike competitive onlineplay.
I think it would be good especially for beginners who are a bit intimidated by the idea of racing against others to get better.
But the most important thing is that you can feel the sense of community though.
Like "someone somewhere playing this game right now and having fun like me."

What do you think?

 

[Spagetti69]

Personally for me, I get annoyed when my own ghost appears when hotlapping it puts me off. Some might like it though.

 

[Stonemonkey]

Looks like there might be 'free run' in between online races instead of just a lobby with a list of names, there might be ghosts of the others currently in the room. Maybe the collision on/off setting for races would allow for solid or ghost option in free run too.

I can't really imagine an online free run mode where you see other random free runners ghosts though.

 

[CoolColJ]

if they made the ghost more transparent and reduced to shadow only when the car is very close to you like in Enthusia then for sure

 

[Micdog49]

I think it could work, so long as the ghost was ^ more transparent when you get closer to it. I got sick of not being able to see in GT5P.

It would still be competitive, as it is with the human race.

 

[cicohipe]

And you should be able to invade other peoples races as black phantoms and take them out too... no but seriously this could work in some kind of a sunday practice day style event, where cars are all just messing around, but not as ghosts but as actual cars, and have it held as an official pd event.

 

[Rob192005]

Personally for me, I get annoyed when my own ghost appears when hotlapping it puts me off. Some might like it though.

I hate that,like you said it puts me right off. =/

 

[Gaz Vonhammer]

I love demons souls online,but i'd rather the GT mode be fully online.Buy as a option it would be cool.

 

[Lemminkainen]

Sounds great! In GT5 it would be just like going to a track day!

You could race on the same track with all sorts of different cars at the same time, stop when you want, change tires when you want, find a similar car to follow around for a reality check...

Yeah I like it.