I normally don't spend much time in the GT5 section. The game always seemed so far away and I thought it was pointless so read through hundreds of new posts every day, the majority of which appeared to be endless bashing (of each other or their opinions) and intricate arguments over minute details, few, if any, knew for certain. So until recently, I confined myself to lurking there once or twice a week just to stay abreast of anything new, but didn't actively participate in the forums.
However, since Gamescom started, I've been spending a lot more time in the GT5 area and I'm as excited as anybody else about it's features and that we'll finally be able to play it in less than 3 months. As most of you know, I've been drooling at the prospect of hosting an online endurance race from Le Mans using classic 1960s cars. 👍
But one thing I've found very curious are the things people in the GT section have been getting so excited about. Some things such as:
- Private lobbies.
- 16 player online mode.
- Great tracks such as Monza and possibly Spa.
- Working headlights.
- Realistic rain effects.
- Working windshield wipers.
- Great cars such as the Ferrari 330 P4 or Pagani Zonda.
- White Flags (blue flags, yellow flags)
- Realistic and life like physics.
- Skid marks.
And it struck me as somewhat ironic that Supercar Challenge, a game we've been playing for nearly a year, has ALL of these features and more. It's here now. It's been here. And the game can be had for <30 EUR. But instead of flocking to this game (at least while waiting for GT5 to be released), it's ignored or dismissed by the vast majority of GT fans and PS3 sim racers. And those of us who (still) play Supercar Challenge are operating in almost cult-like status. Why?
There's no doubt that when it comes to visuals, SCC can't hold a candle to GT--the graphics, while hardly terrible, appear to be last generation. And the game did and continues to suffer from a number of bugs and quirks. But it's almost to be expected coming from a small developer. Yet I can't understand how these same people who won't give SCC a second look, will sit there and write ridiculous and drooling posts over a simple white flag in GT. (Yeah, we've got that). If I could record the sound of the Zonda out of Supercar Challenge and post it in the GT5 section, I can almost guarantee that people would be going through the roof, praising their love to Kaz for creating such wonderful sounding cars.
I think Supercar Challenge may go down as the greatest PS3 sim racer...that most people never even heard of. I have little doubt that I won't be playing SCC much once GT5 is released. But I'm curious and slightly bemused that so few people picked it up while waiting for GT. Is our opinion of this game just too high? Or are GT devotees so blinded by their love of anything from PD that they won't give other sim racers a chance? I wonder.
in a promotion sale in mediamarket,while they wait for GT5 release...they're both loving it-and doing pretty good at it,btw
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by people who read some bad reviews,or played the game for a couple of hours,thought it was too difficult(=the physics are crap because I'm such an ace,and if the physics didn't sucked I wouldn't be going off track so often
) and traded it for Killzone II or LittleBigplanet-and yes I know a couple of this cases
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- quite obviously very few did! I think there are a number of GTPlanet sim-racers who abandoned GT5P for PC racing, which is fair enough, but I still have friends on my PS3 network who I know have NEVER played anything but GT5P.
