How good is your other half?

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HaHaHa as if JESUS no WAY
I just put my missis on gt5 with a g25 wheel, oh dear god, she can drive a real car on normal roads at least I think? Really couldn't get it in a straight line and didn't manage 2 successful gear changes without slamming it into N!

Driving a Clio because she has one.

Anyone else tried putting the other half online?

(notice how I use other half, I am not saying women can't drive!)

Give me some husband/wife bf/gf classics.
 
I put the wife on track once, never again. All I can say is, thank god there is no option in repairing damage. I would have been broke if there was.
 
My friends and I gather each year for New Years to celebrate and practice some safe drinking and driving on the Nordschiefe, and eventually it gets competitive. One year, the wives got into the mix, and although they were much slower, they did show improvement lap after lap.

Q: Why can't Hellen Keller drive?
A: Because she's a woman.

That being said, my sister consistently has better reflexes than I do. Just sayin.
 
Mignun
I put the wife on track once, never again. All I can say is, thank god there is no option in repairing damage. I would have been broke if there was.
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I second that. Put her on the Indy circut, fist wall appears, no brake, no nothing, just ramming the wall. Poor thing has no control...
 
Well..my lovely girlfriend has crashed all cars she has driven in gt5 bar one..the midget...for some unknown reason she kicks my butt when we do midget races in arcade. This fondness for the midget started during the Kei Japanese seasonal last month..I believe I started a thread which some of you may read back then titled.."I caught my girlfriend playing with my midget"..
 
I've never tried playing with just my left hand. How might one go about this? I could try turning the controller upside down but this would still be a co-op effort of sorts...
 
Time_Attack
I've never tried playing with just my left hand. How might one go about this? I could try turning the controller upside down but this would still be a co-op effort of sorts...
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Awsome reply.
 
I think you guys are forgetting to factor in the time it takes to learn to use a steering wheel. I was terrible the first few times behind a wheel, then you also have to learn the track and how to race.

Just because they drive cars in real life doesn't mean they'll know what to do on the track.
 
It took me some time to get in to driving GT2 and all the other driving games that came after that. Interest is crusial to get the motivation to get past the starting hurdles so it's more about that than women being somehow worse drivers. In our house my wife has the driver's licence while all the driving i have ever done has been virtual... :D
 
My girlfriend actually has her own personal account on my PS3 and plays sporadically...she's actually pretty good. She has made it through most of the license tests using my DFGT! She's definitely a keeper! :sly:
 
She wanted to drive a Fiat 500 using my wheel when the game first came out. She proceeded to crash into every wall possible, stopped midlap, throw a hissy fit, and said the game isn't realistic at all.:dopey:

She likes to watch me drive Nordschleife but won't touch the wheel anymore.
 
All the years I've spent playing Gran Turismo I used a DS3 type controller and whenever I let the wife try it she just couldn't get the hang of it but just last month I got a DFGT and what do you know,I put her in my RM'd Cappy and she was turning laps at Indy at 140mph without any problems...now I come home to find her grinding laps to buy herself cars she wants...go figure....
 
"I've never tried playing with just my left hand. How might one go about this? "

It's easy. Right analog for steering, R1 for braking, R2 for acceleration.

Yeah, I know you're joking, but still.
 
i'm still on a dual shock, and ain't nobody gonna be able to run a dual shock well first go-round. so, no. (saving the wheel controller bit til GT6).
 
MM1000
"I've never tried playing with just my left hand. How might one go about this? "

It's easy. Right analog for steering, R1 for braking, R2 for acceleration.

Yeah, I know you're joking, but still.
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i use R2 for the gas as well... best change i ever made. then i changed the brake to the triangle button, not R1, because suits me better. i swear i couldn't drive anything with the default button's near off/on acceleration.
 
My wife is terrible at racing games. In Forza Motorsport 3 she tried it with every single assist turned on, including the one that brakes for you, and she still struggled to get the car around the track. After losing a heap of races, she did finally start to win the early races, but still with all assists on, including the one that brakes for you.

I didn't have my racing wheel at the time I was playing FM3, though. I got it for F1 2010. I let her try that with the wheel, and she found it impossible. However, I don't think it was just that it was with the wheel, as she found it impossible to stay on the track even with the controller. Driving an F1 car definitely is out of her league.

She did GT5 for a little bit, but I think it was before I got my DFGT. As I recall, she did fairly badly here, too, even with all the aids.
 
10Ten
i use R2 for the gas as well... best change i ever made. then i changed the brake to the triangle button, not R1, because suits me better. i swear i couldn't drive anything with the default button's near off/on acceleration.
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I use both R1 and R2 for acceleration, and L1 and L2 for brakes.

This makes it really easy for me to feather the brakes carefully, or apply a poor man's ABS (rapidly clicking on and off the L1 button).

My X triangle etc buttons control the car's features, and right stick is my look around (like everyone else, I'm sure).

But if I want to race with a single hand (such as when I used to grind) I found using R1 for brakes and the right stick to steer is actually not bad. I can pull very good times that way, though my braking is not precise, so I have to plan out my braking points a bit obnoxiously.
 
My wife is a level 40 A & B spec. She has her own setup for playing and races with me, and my friends online. She wins some and does OK.
 
My girlfriend does alright with FF's, but give her anything that will swing the back end around and she's done for. It's either full power or full brakes with her. I tried to explain to her how sometimes coasting or feathering the throttle is faster than full power but she replied "It's a race, I'm going to go as fast as I can all the time. That's how you win isn't it." Got her to race the Zonda once, funnest 5 minutes of my life.
 
My gf is not match for me :p shes ok but got confused when "the blue line thing went red then i crashed" XD i even gave her a 150pp advantage lol
 
I pretty much made my girlfriend try Autumn Ring Mini in the kart with my wheel, big mistake... I mean she hates games, but she got so into it I didn't get a go for about an hour. She also got really competitive and thought she had an amazing time (around 50 seconds), challenged me to beat her... My first lap was 35, my second was 30. It was not pretty.
 
My wife still holds the track record at Daytona (pro, super car) in our house. A 2:07.016 no less. The best I've done is a 2:08.159 with a tuned Bugatti Veyron. (1225 Hp. @ 1424 Kg.) Now she's lost interest and says "Are you STILL playing THAT game??"...some games in life you just can't win..
 
I had my girl friend playing GT4, and we had some fun BMW duels. Somehow, she grew out of it just in time for GT5. I get the same thing: "all you do is play that ..... Racing game?!"
 
I've set my mom to sit in the driver's seat to let her drive a car in GT4 one time, and said it was a wonderful experience to take the grip of a steering wheel for a video game, just like she usually does in commuting the workplace or going over somewhere by a car. Would have been a drab work if I had instructed her to use a pad instead of a wheel.
 
My wife and I used to have the odd showdown in multiplayer, but it was usually GTR v Civic or something like that. That seemed to even things out a bit.

She is about as interested in GT5 as she is in golf unfortunately.
 
My wife has been to six of our UKGTP LANs.

Though four of those were in our house.
 

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