Don't you hate it when you do that?

[Driving Park]

When your doing a long race and have been dominating for the whole race, and then on the final lap you get really nervous because you don't want to make a mistake, and then you make a brutal mistake because you're so nervous, and it costs you the race. Happens to me a lot.

:-)

 

[Parnelli Bone]

The K-car cup.

Why? Man, I think the K-car races are some of the more fascinating ones. Even tho they are slow, the Keis really fight for position, and consistently evaporate your racing lines so you have to think of new ways to get around them...and that's not easy (especially at Motorland).

All this assumes you keep your power low, of course, and aren't blowing them away & crashing into them.

Buying the Caterham 7 Fire Blade (because it meets the requirements for the K-car cup and isn't total 🤬 🤬 ) and then finding out you can't because it's a "special car"

Why on earth would you use a Caterham for such slow races, anyways?? But I'll agree with you about not being able to use "special" cars for actual races! That is ANNOYING AS HELL

2) exiting a replay when I actually wanted to take a photo, and then screwing up a second time by exiting the event altogether instead of selecting Show Replay, thus losing the replay forever

Yeah, I hate that! I've lost so many good replays after my head has gone on "auto-pilot" and exits a menu when I wanted to save a replay.

At one point, you are able to browse menus fast because you know it. Then after a while of not playing you still have the knowledge that "you still know the menu word-for-word". But then you accidentally click on the wrong icon by accident due to the fact you forgot clicking a certain direction brings you somewhere else.

True. The menu system in earlier games is so much faster. I remember when GT2 seemed cumbersome and slow... With GT4, I can actually switch channels as I wait for some of those menus to come up.

 

[Viper-Fan]

You are saving up money and you have the prize car to sell, you go to sell it but instead change into it and have to sit through autosaves.

That is very annoying, especially when you're in a rush. That and crashing when you let concentration slip for a second

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

When you're overtaking around a corner, you see the opening exiting the corner, get all excited and try to slam the accelerator resulting in wheelspin and you don't overtake anyone.

 

[mafia_boy]

I hate it when I let friends play on GT4 only to discover that after 10 minutes they've bought 3 cars that you already had in your garage and you've gone forward a week when you've left it at that date to buy those black beauties you've played for ages to get to.

Mafs!!

 

[Nift]

I just hate when I am naive enough to take on any AI in a tight but fast part of any track, and the AI car pushes me just enough or to send me out of control.

There are parts of each track I just don't think trying to pass an AI car is smart. The AI seems to follow its own line regardless if you have position or not.

 

[TheBigMan045]

Have to agree about the loading times due to short attention span I always watch tv for a while then cut back after its loaded. Another thing that annoyed me (my fault) leading the FGT race at High Speed Ring by 4 laps come in for a pit stop change channel and when ive come back I was 2 laps down still won though

 

[SolidSnake15]

I agree with mafia_boy. I'm sure some of you have heard of me blaming my brother for messing up my racing games. But he just thinks he's the best racer they ever had out there.

And, similar to Nift's post, I hate passing the AI on some of the turns. They just send me flying into the wall. Then the other 4 AI racers barrel inot me when I'm trying to get back on track!

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

I just hate when I am naive enough to take on any AI in a tight but fast part of any track, and the AI car pushes me just enough or to send me out of control.

There are parts of each track I just don't think trying to pass an AI car is smart. The AI seems to follow its own line regardless if you have position or not.

Here here. They seem to do it on Circuit De La Sarthe alot to me, if only I waited til I knew I could pass them safely, you just get used to passing as soon as the opportunity arises.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I'm a tad embarrassed to admit this!

I hate it when I start a race and it's got a "rolling start" that runs for what seems like hours so I momentarily change channels to see what's on regular TV. Oooh. I didn't know Forensic Files is on!. Cool...it's one I haven't seen. Hey why the DS2 vibrating in my lap?

DOH!!!!

 

[PARAGON GT]

Here is one that I think that we all have done at some point.

Last night I ran the 70's race in my Gran Prix Red 240zx that I had just painstakingly won from the Z club race. (Painstakingly because it took 10 tries to win a red one. White, burgundy kept poping up over and over . . .)

At any rate, I easily win the series and win another white '70 GT-R.
Well I go back to my garage, arrange the cars by manufacturer and scroll over to my already set white '70 GT-R. It was sitting just above the one that I just won. I click on it thinking that I might sell it off because I have a nice new one with zero miles on it. But I decide against it because I have already time into setting it up, and it only has about 150 miles on it, so its not like its in bad shape.

So . . . I go into that pre-loaded motion for going to sell off a car. Click back, push down, select the car, chose sell to bring up the stats, click on sell, confirm sell . . . And it was at that moment as the car began to fade away, I realized that the game had reorganized the order of the cars putting the lower milage one first, and my preset car second, reversing the order that they were origionally in. And my already set baby was gone.

I can't tell you how many times I have done this when I go through to clean out my garage.

Oh well . . .

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Also when you arrange cars by drivetrain and I was trying to find just the most powerful FF car or something and for some stupid reason I click on one just to have a look and then it randomly rearranges the order meaning I have to go back to start of FF cars to restart my search.

 

[celebi10]

1. Racing while in the lead by 10+ seconds. Then you subconsiously drive like those sunday drivers and then realising that everyone has caught up.

2. Accidently selling a car for free.

3. Trying to figure out how to give some of your friends money in GT4 by buying their cars with 2 memory cards and after buying 50 cars you finally realise you are only losing money.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Ooh, no.3

 

[dimplz]

ouch for no.3 cause i did that and realised the mistake hour later

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

What about when you're racing b-spec at opera paris and down the back straight you have him on increased pace and overtake, you forget to take it off and put him on medium pace for the corner there and he runs into the wall that juts out as a result, losing many places he doesn't have time to gain back.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Yeah man, that's very true at Laguna Seca, too....there's one turn...a left one as you go down the hill after the corkscrew. I have yet to see Bob do well here unless I scale back his action to "Slow Down" or "Cruise". (1 or 2) Yet the actual corkscrew itself can usually be taken with a setting of 3 in a moderately fast car.

That's why you gotta monitor B-spec as much as possible. It will screw up otherwise!

 

[Open Addict]

......That's why you gotta monitor B-spec as much as possible. It will screw up otherwise!

thats why i have chosen to disregard b-spec and do the racing myself. even it it means doing a 24hr race over a week.

 

[viperin]

G'day all,
Greetings from Oz

Finally getting ahead of your ghost in a Licence test and knowing this time you are finally going to get Gold - only to hit downshift instead of upshift at the critical time

This really hurts.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Welcome viperin, I'm from Oz as well, another aussie and I run a tuning shop here called Aussie Tuners, but anyway welcome to GTP. 👍 That would be annoying hitting downshift at the wrong time.

 

[fast fun 2]

The K-car cup.

Buying the Caterham 7 Fire Blade (because it meets the requirements for the K-car cup and isn't total 🤬 🤬 ) and then finding out you can't because it's a "special car"

Ill vouch for that

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Yes, racing does require more than one ball
Modifying gear ratios, getting the right set-up you want, then later going back and accidentally changing autoset meaning your work is undone.

 

[viperin]

Welcome viperin, I'm from Oz as well, another aussie and I run a tuning shop here called Aussie Tuners, but anyway welcome to GTP. 👍 That would be annoying hitting downshift at the wrong time.

Thanks for the invite, that is very neighbourly of you . I will read through the thread and get a handle on what is going on. I do not get a lot of time to play these days but I will see how I go.

Thanks again.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Here at GTP we are all neigbours, wait that sounds kind of corny, bah. See you around eh, as soon as I get full time work soon I don't imagine I'll have much time either, but we all seem to manage