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- Airrider1
Well, to be honest the original Veyron was kind of shonky to drive. Yes, it was fast and luxurious (something that should have been shown to the player by making only the most complicated, technical, odds-beating automotive engineering feat of the new century a Premium, damn it) and even when going at top speed it is as stable as if it were a slot car. However, the engine noise was too detached from the occupants inside, the ride was bad and it handled as if it felt as heavy as it was. Physics dictated that these were the sacrifices that had to be made so the car wasn't unreliable or not worth its price at best and an unmanagable death trap at worst.
Yes, it has no racing history or anything outside of its technical achievements, its notoriety and its staggering costs, but I find that ironically it's because race car technology is now being surpassed by road car technology. Here is a car you could probably drive for hours in sumptuous comfort, then drive at a top speed higher than that of any racing machine designed today. There are people who make Bonneville streamliners to get up to these speeds but you wouldn't be able to drive a streamliner very far down your local streets would you?
What they should do sometime is introduce the Super Sports in a download with all those changes made to fix these things, and made it a Premium car to boot so we can really connect with all that artistry inside and out. Thing is, in GT5 we are not presented with the real car but a simulation on a television screen, so we can only judge on the details we're given. For all the Veyron's real-world accomplishments and accolades we can't really experience it and we can't even get as close as the Premium cars do. In GT5 there are Standards that simply drive better, put out faster laps and are genuine objects of desire, not things to have fanboyish fights about. It's the same reason I don't care about this X2010 vs FGT crap because both are just exercises designed to push the limits of what's supposed to be possible in motorsport and driver skill in general due to sheer capability. The fact that these kinds of discussions are so prevalent that people are now apparently codifying these things as stuff like "Gayron" threads seriously makes me want to hang up my keys and quit since I feel like we can't experience cars anymore for the sole reason of just because we can. Cars are what they are in GT5: they could have been more of this or that, but what we got is kind of all we can measure them by, and for that reason alone I can't come down on one side of the fence or the other.
Of course the Veyron isn't a perfect car, and what car truly is? However, given all that, if you want me to get to a conclusion that makes sense in this thread, I consider merely the fact it's a Standard and not a Premium a disappointment. It needed better representation in this game. Even if it performed exactly the same way the player should have been introduced to its world. Ferdinand Piesch had an absolutely insane vision for a supercar that probably should not have been physically or economically possible, but here it is, and its name is the Bugatti Veyron.
Yes, it has no racing history or anything outside of its technical achievements, its notoriety and its staggering costs, but I find that ironically it's because race car technology is now being surpassed by road car technology. Here is a car you could probably drive for hours in sumptuous comfort, then drive at a top speed higher than that of any racing machine designed today. There are people who make Bonneville streamliners to get up to these speeds but you wouldn't be able to drive a streamliner very far down your local streets would you?
What they should do sometime is introduce the Super Sports in a download with all those changes made to fix these things, and made it a Premium car to boot so we can really connect with all that artistry inside and out. Thing is, in GT5 we are not presented with the real car but a simulation on a television screen, so we can only judge on the details we're given. For all the Veyron's real-world accomplishments and accolades we can't really experience it and we can't even get as close as the Premium cars do. In GT5 there are Standards that simply drive better, put out faster laps and are genuine objects of desire, not things to have fanboyish fights about. It's the same reason I don't care about this X2010 vs FGT crap because both are just exercises designed to push the limits of what's supposed to be possible in motorsport and driver skill in general due to sheer capability. The fact that these kinds of discussions are so prevalent that people are now apparently codifying these things as stuff like "Gayron" threads seriously makes me want to hang up my keys and quit since I feel like we can't experience cars anymore for the sole reason of just because we can. Cars are what they are in GT5: they could have been more of this or that, but what we got is kind of all we can measure them by, and for that reason alone I can't come down on one side of the fence or the other.
Of course the Veyron isn't a perfect car, and what car truly is? However, given all that, if you want me to get to a conclusion that makes sense in this thread, I consider merely the fact it's a Standard and not a Premium a disappointment. It needed better representation in this game. Even if it performed exactly the same way the player should have been introduced to its world. Ferdinand Piesch had an absolutely insane vision for a supercar that probably should not have been physically or economically possible, but here it is, and its name is the Bugatti Veyron.
Far from perfect, obviously, but spectacular and challenging to drive well. The perception of understeer is far greater than the actual understeer, due to the epic speed it gathers.
