My second ever post, and I've only been here 2 hours. Wow...
So, hey everybody, Lap 10/11 of Grand Valley Endurance. Driving a minolta. In the pitstop now (on pause). Enjoying coffee and cigarette. Car go fast. I win.
It occurred to me at beginning the of this race, once I had overtaken the entire field despite not yet reaching the first corner, that this race might perhaps be a bit easy. That I might win it. That I could, in fact, do 30 laps in reverse only using the handbrake, and still win it.
In fact, I might give that a go.
And all that got me to thinking...
"Very few races in GT4 (or any other GT game for that matter) are intrinsically difficult, owing to their restrictions (or lack of) on what cars you can enter with."
Who hasn't entered a race armed to the teeth with a 1000HP+ race car, to find themself up against a bunch of crappy vitzes and civics? It happens all the time. Indeed, the only races where you are genuinely obliged to worry about tuning (and indeed, driving reasonably well) are the very high end ones (where all the cars are as good as yours) and the very low end ones when you first start playing (where you are worrying about whether that 6,547 credits you have should go on weight reduction or a sports muffler). Okay, there are a few exceptions.
If my memory serves me correctly, GT2 had horse-power limits on races, as in, "you can only enter this if your car has this HP or less". At the time I thought it was a good idea.
Now, however, almost all races can be entered with a car that not only beats the socks off the others, but looks comically ridiculous on the starting line in being so-obviously-out-of-place.
What would be wrong with reintroducing these regulations, or other ones like them? Like...
* You can only enter this race if your car has (or doesn't have) stickers on it.
* If your car jumps on the hilly bits of Seattle, you can't enter.
* Only the sorts of cars that women might consider buying can enter this race
* Any advantage you have in HP must be offset by obligatorily tuning your car really badly.
etc...
I know that the GT games pride themselves on realism, but a race which puts a formula one car against a yaritz doesn't seem very realistic to me...
So, hey everybody, Lap 10/11 of Grand Valley Endurance. Driving a minolta. In the pitstop now (on pause). Enjoying coffee and cigarette. Car go fast. I win.
It occurred to me at beginning the of this race, once I had overtaken the entire field despite not yet reaching the first corner, that this race might perhaps be a bit easy. That I might win it. That I could, in fact, do 30 laps in reverse only using the handbrake, and still win it.
In fact, I might give that a go.
And all that got me to thinking...
"Very few races in GT4 (or any other GT game for that matter) are intrinsically difficult, owing to their restrictions (or lack of) on what cars you can enter with."
Who hasn't entered a race armed to the teeth with a 1000HP+ race car, to find themself up against a bunch of crappy vitzes and civics? It happens all the time. Indeed, the only races where you are genuinely obliged to worry about tuning (and indeed, driving reasonably well) are the very high end ones (where all the cars are as good as yours) and the very low end ones when you first start playing (where you are worrying about whether that 6,547 credits you have should go on weight reduction or a sports muffler). Okay, there are a few exceptions.
If my memory serves me correctly, GT2 had horse-power limits on races, as in, "you can only enter this if your car has this HP or less". At the time I thought it was a good idea.
Now, however, almost all races can be entered with a car that not only beats the socks off the others, but looks comically ridiculous on the starting line in being so-obviously-out-of-place.
What would be wrong with reintroducing these regulations, or other ones like them? Like...
* You can only enter this race if your car has (or doesn't have) stickers on it.
* If your car jumps on the hilly bits of Seattle, you can't enter.
* Only the sorts of cars that women might consider buying can enter this race
* Any advantage you have in HP must be offset by obligatorily tuning your car really badly.
etc...
I know that the GT games pride themselves on realism, but a race which puts a formula one car against a yaritz doesn't seem very realistic to me...
