I played the demo... I really didn't like the whole N pause thing, I found it made it harder to figure out which gear you were actually in, or should I say which gear you would be in when the clutch came up. To be fair to me though, I was playing it at 4am, not exactly the best time to be doing anything except sleeping, but I think the fact it even indicates neutral is an example of how it's not always best to totally simulate everything because you don't have all the senses you would have if you were actually driving a car.
An example of a simulator not simulating everything would be GT's flashing gear indicator to act as a track marker because you don't get the same sense of speed or the peripheral vision you'd have in real life; in the same way here it seems overkill saying you're going into neutral between gears, I mean of course you are, but you don't think of it like that when you're driving, you think of going from 6th to 5th, not 6th to neutral, then neutral to 5th.
I also found the actual driving to be something like sitting in the passenger seat with a stick and a Russian phrasebook instructing a Frenchman to drive for you; in other words it didn't feel like it was doing what I wanted and was really quite uncooperative. And the racing line lied. This is what I remember of it, anyway.
That's pretty spot-on. Let alone the driving physics.
They don't let you X to accelerate because it's not an analog button. Imagine pressing a button to accelerate you car. How would that possibly work?
There is no automatic transmission. I suspect in automatic the game just does the stick shifting for you. It seems more realistic to me.
Yes, the "X" button is analog, I understand is was claimed at the PS3's release it isn't, but on my first 80G (was the big one then) it was analog, just not as good as the PS2's analog button, and now also on my 2nd 80G (small one now) it is also analog.
FYI, I drive with the analog sticks, and don't even bother trying anything other than on/off with it, because in NFS world, 30% throttle still spins the tires, and spins me out, so now I tap it on and off, works all to well.
Well, I don't agree. The only time you would notice "that N thing" if you are downshifting while accelerating. The only time you are supposed to downshift while accelerating is if you're an actor in a fast and furious movie. Downshifting while decelerating goes perfectly well and upshifting is fine aswell.
Does it matter that you're not "supposed" to do it? I can downshift a real car, from any gear to the lower, and I've never waited in neutral revving the car against the limiter.
Also, when you crash, or are crashed into by someone else, you might
need to downshift when accelerating, which has apparently not happened to you? Once maybe? Twice?
I really don't know if you intended it or not, but your post comes across extremely condescending, as though only idiots could ever have this problem, and as though it's not a factor, because everyone so good as you would never be caught foolishly downshifting when accelerating.
But I guess you did mean too, with your "fast and furios" movie remark. That gives your post a general 👎 and a
bought this game only to have the nurburgring on the ps3 while waiting for GT5 and I must say I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm practicly only doing single races on the nordschleife.
Once you remember what everything is, with how different it looks, yeah, the "nurb's ok, but you can't get close races on it to often.
EDIT: Anyone else notice the over-using of the phrase "podium finish"? I'm so sick of hearing it, I don't even want to consider myself having gotten it.
But it sure feels like some cars limit the speed you can change gears, even if you have the auto clutch off.
