Well...I never tried Ride1...but I can ride faster and more consistent in Ride 3 (when comparing to Ride2). None of them are simulatores...even with all aids off (which is the settings I used too). Some bikes are easy to ride...others not really.
To give you an idea...I got tired of Ride 2 in a week..and I'm still playing Ride 2 since launch date. I admit that's related to the 60fps (I play in Xbox One X) more than the gameplay itself.
Regarding the AI... in some races they are too slow...other races they are almost impossible to beat. It really depend the race and level itself.
Yeah even in ride 1 the a.i. can be pretty fast. Tks.
It still has a realistic feel i think, even if its not the deepest most hardcore sim ever. Certainly 100 times more than driveclub bikes. I don't see it as arcade at least.
Thanks for info. I'll see i guess.
By the way, is motogp more arcade style or more realistic compared to ride series?
Edit: did listen to your last vid here with gpz900. It does sound pretty good. Tks.
Thats from my era hehe, it was the newer smaller superbike that beat just the big 1100 sport bikes back in 1983, 1984.
Edit: tried the bimota tesi 1d es, nice bike from 90s with that alternative swingarm suspension. The 2cylinder engine sounds ok and not too synthetic too.
I wonder if ride 2 or 3 have custom races or championships? It'd be nice to choose your a.i. opponents. Especially that sometimes in quick races in ride1 with certain bikes the a.i. are pretty fast even on easy, for me at least when just learning the track and bike especially. Well if the bike is just rented and not upgraded too.
Edit: it seems there's a new free dlc today for ride3
- Ducati Paul Smart 1000 (2006)
- 1 Volume with 5 new events
@Scaff what about you Scaff, if i can ask. Do you feel there is a difference in realism, good sense of challenge between ride 1 2 and 3? Is 3 more arcade? I know you did say you think ride 3 is the better game though.
that's the shy emot right? Hehe
Edit 3: ride3 is on a flash sale here in Canada sony store, half price for both the base and complete versions. I'm really tempted at least for the base game. I just worry if the feel has changed to a less realistic weighty handling in 3. Cheers.
Edit4: just tried ride3, i was impressed by the presentation and menu, general quality, I'm easy to impress for milestone maybe, since my latest are ride1 and a little of rossi game hehehe. Did try that 1st race with the Ducati, feels good for now, haven't pushed it much.
Edit5: well i did a little more testing with the ducati v4, i was starting to feel like others said that the aids seem on still on pro with all off. then i noticed there is still a tcs you can adjust and turn off with the down button on the dpad and there is a controls calibration setting where you can off an electronic aid for gaz and brake controls on it too. It makes a difference and it's more direct. Also i noticed the bike stand up when braking in a corner, making it go straight, but it's because i let go of the tuck-in in curves to easily press the downshift but when u keep tucked-in it responds fine and you have to be carefull when you accelerate to not let the rear slide too much and wipe out, accelerating smoothly and shifting your weight back, ..you can still shift your weight back and forth when tuckedin even if the animation doesn't show it much. It's really good i find now, just maybe it doesn't much wheelie still often, in 2nd and 3rd gear even when the bike is straightened out, i find that hard to believe a little. I set the tuck-in on circle on ps4, then the upshift on triangle, the rear brake on x and the downshift on square. It works pretty well, i can keep the tuck in pressed and lightly use the rear brake still with the thumb, and i can upshift of course while keeping it tuck-in. Only the down shift i need to let go the tuckin briefly but its still ok since the movement to tuckin and out pretty smooth and not instant. Plus you need anyhow to sit back often when braking and downshifting, except ehen in the curve already. You do need to use manual tuckin otherwise the rider will sit-up when braking.Having fun with it. Cheers guys.
Oh by the way. I dont know if it was
@Exup who mentioned this but yeah the controls are much smoother in ride3, you're not fighting the controller but just the bike. I wonder how motogp18 compares to this. Also i noticed the cockpit view is a little like in rossi game, with the cockpit itself doing most of the shifting from side to side and not your head, which i find a little unnatural, but without the difficulty of judging the pointing to apex, not sure yet why, maybe partly because the gp bikes are more of a handfull. Well i guess most of you know all this and I'm late on this but just sharing hehe. Ok cheers.
Edit 6 lol: i just noticed now that the helmet view is really different feom the cockpit view, it's perfect. I was still having a little difficulty aiming in curves but the helmet cam feels so good natural. To bad the sound is muffled a little. Now i have to check the helmet cam in rossi game, maybe its same thing. I checked videos of motogp18 and its same in cockpit and helmet as ride3, great. Hope 19 will have the same. It be nice to have the option of unmuffled sound in helmet view. Thanks to all previous posts here and
@Scaff for nudging me toward the newer game, it's certainly a good step forward seems to me.
Now I'm tempted even more by motogp18, maybe I'll wait for impressions of 19, see if all is really better still, especially that it will have historic bikes too. Quiet around here hehe ok. Im having fun with the latest free dlc Ducati paul smart 1000.
I tried it in rossi and it's a little similar but not as good really in helmet view. Tried in ride1, helmet view not same as ride3 and motogp18, its almost same as the cockpit view except for an overlay of a helmet contour lol. All feels much better in ride3 to me, time to delete the old.
Edit7 hehe, may 15th: new update 1.13 for ride 3, note says heavily improved network replication in onl multiplayer races.
Edit8: not sure if this is allowed and best way to keep adding comments but here we go...
This game whew, i don't know if the reviewer on teamvvv had an agenda or if ride3 has been so hugely updated since launch but just the sounds are amazingly better than ride1. Each bike i tried up to now has been great even in helmet view. I just tried the yamaha yzf-r6 1999 and this thing howls like hell, revs to 18000rpm, I'm surprised by this if real wow. I did notice the hud says 18000 but the gauge says 16 or 17 redline. It makes me smile and giggle just riding it haha. All runs smooth and fast loadings. Each bike feels unique and good up to now. And the helmet view natural and fun. Even the triumph twin has a soothing relaxing sound to just cruise along. Just wish an endless list of tracks. Having fun just doing quick races with the starting bikes. And i have functioning mirrors wow hehe, im so used to ride1's useless mirrors that i still have the habit to look back instead haha. One thing i wished is a clutch or at least the blip sound when downshifting, maybe when you upgrade the gearbox it sounds more like a blip downshift, need to try, i know in ride 1 some bikes it did that. Also some bikes are missing it seems, at least i didn't notice the rc30,which i liked in ride1. But this is on another level to me. The season pass is on discount in N.A. by the way. Hope anyone can notice this even if it's not a new post, i dont know.
Just saw that the upgrades are saved with each set-up, i thought at 1st there was a bug that didn't keep my upgrades, but it's just because i was loading a set-up with old upgrades. You do have to install each upgrade after buying it. Also noted that the sounds change when you upgrade the exhaust.