You are all taking the comment way too seriously. Obviously, a sim doesn't simulate g-forces and the like. That's a given. The fact that you bring that up is stupid.
If you look at the 3rd or fourth comment you will see that the "pad users know jack" comment was meant for a different group entirely. But I will say that pad users can only get a very limited sense of what the games physics feel like5. As for games not being able to simulate certain things, your right. But the feel I get through my fanatec GT2 is pretty much the same as get when I'm driving my own car. I was a pad user myself, don't take that comment personally dude.
This is what I was talking about. The feel through the wheel allows you to feel and drive in much the same way as a real car.
Honestly, do all of you commenting on "It's just a video game blah blah" Actually have a good wheel and setup?
If you don't have a fanatec with some good pedals, you don't really get a vote as you aren't feeling the same thing through the wheel as I am.
It feels as if some people are too "Old school" to come to grips with the fact that technology has reached the point where we can learn alot of things about race driving through a simulator at home. It's just possible nowadays.
As for my real world driving experience, I have driven plenty of cars, with the highlights being a Gallardo and an STI. I have also attended multiple racing schools, and driven an Indy Car over 170 mph at a driving experience.
I apologize if I seem a bit pompous and annoyed, but I absolutely hate the mentality of "These are just video games and anyone who says otherwise is just a 12 year old with a wild imagination."
You have no clue. Go troll somewhere else.
/rant
EDIT:
Just need to ask, what car do you drive/have driven? I dont get how you guys can relate to any of these super cars/high end cars if you have never driven any?(maybe you have actualy this is just an assumption) I'm not calling anyone out im just wondering. I mean i can understand these statements, but mostly for the lower grade cars. How many of you have actually been behind a high powered car to actually make statements like these?(Again, just a simple question, I'm not calling anyone out.)
Reason i bring this up is because most people dont get the everyday opportunity to drive most of these high end cars, and then go to a game and say "This feels just like my Koenngsingsinsign." So wouldn't it be a bit wrong to address cars, that a said person has never driven? (3rd time I'm going to say this; Maybe some of you have so I'm not calling anyone out, just asking a question as to how you guys come to your conclusions about most of the cars and said physics with a wheel)
And who said anything about super high end cars? I believe that all of my statements so far have been in general about the physics, force feedback, and wheel feel of modern racing sims. Not at all about any specific models of cars. Whether a certain car behaves like it does in real life is completely down to which sim you are playing and how that specific developer did in the modeling of a specific car, and is completely irrelevant to the point I am trying to get across, and that is that playing racing sims with the right setup feels similar enough to real driving and racing that you can learn many of the skills needed for race/performance/stunt driving.