so using your logic the pause button should be disabled at all times during a race yes?...
No
There is a very fundamental difference between pausing a race and saving a race. Saving allows people to go back in time during a race if they do something wrong and restart from a previous position.....or cheating as it is also known. It also allows you to turn off the race and use the PS3 for something else.
Pausing does not. You are still required to run the full 24 hour race before you do anything else and you cannot reload a previous position if you do something wrong.
It makes the race an......oh whats the word.......endurace
they don't show any more dedication, just that you have that type of time in your life to do something...
yes they do. You are dedicating your PS3 to finishing the race before you do anything else with it. That is a higher level of dedication to the race tan somebody that does it in 20 min chunks inbetween COD marathons.
(isn't that obvious?)
as for not being able to "do anything else" what about those that pause the game and go to sleep?
I meant not being able to "do anything else" with your PS3. Sorry I thought I made that clear.
no you don't...it would do nothing other than allow more people to experience the complete game that they paid for...
talk about needing your ego stroked....why does it matter? do you need to see yourself placed on a pedestal above all the common folk that are not as dedicated as you?...
How about you just get over yourself?...your motivation should not be so that others know you completed the race without saving...
the internal motivation, and pride you get in knowing that you personally completed it the "right" way, while others didn't should be enough...
having the 24 hour race be a 10 lap event with a speaded up time shift to simulate 24 hours of day/night and weather cycles in 30 mins of racing would also "allow more people to experience the complete game that they paid for..."
would you be happy if they did that?
As for stroking my ego......perhaps you are misunderstanding something rather fundemantal about video games. People play them because the skill required to complete them makes the game fun. I could write a game where all you do is press X and a big sign flashes up saying "Congratulations.....you won!"
do you think anybody would play it? Of course they would not. Without a challenge there is no fun in playing.
Games start out easy to be accessible for as many people as possible and then get progressivly harder to challenge the people that play them the longest to push their skill......because that is what makes a game fun.
The 24 hr endurance races in GT5 are the very last thing you unlock. They are designed for people who have played the game long enough to unlock lvl 35-40. They are designed to be the toughest part of the game since they will be the final thing that you do.
Your arguement is no different than saying that every game out there shoud have an easy button that makes sure anybody can finish the game no matter what their skill level just so that everybody can finish the game.
Imagine an option where at the start of a race you press the easy button and every other car in the race stands stationary whilst whilst you drive 20 yards to the finish flag to get the same rewards as somebody that ran the entire race.
Yeah everybody can finish the game and hey if you dont like the feature then just dont use it. But dont try to claim that that wouldn't devalue the game to the point of making playing it pointless. If not then why doesn't any other game maker do that?
what if you don't have friends that are interested in racing for those lengths of time??...you're just being completely unreasonable because you want the rest of the forum to bow down to your awesome dedication to everything GT5...
Then don't race that way. Do it by yourself. Again your claiming that every race in the game has to be for the lowest possible level of player. remove the chalenge from every race and what is the point of even playing anymore.
no, it just wouldn't make YOU happy
So your claiming that the people that dont want to complete any of the endurace races because they want a save feature would be happy with having to race for 8 hours without being able to save?
There are already endurance races shorter than that that people say they wont race without a save......why would they suddenly be happy with 8 hours before you can save.
Clearly it's not "just me" that would not be happy.
they don't have to complete the full race before doing something else right now...you can simply pause and do something else like watch TV or leave the house and have a life outside of GT5...all you're promoting at that point is wasting electricity and shortening the life of your PS3...
Again I was talking about not being able to use the PS3 for something else. That shoud have been obvious.
or it could be E. Just plain egotistical...like i've already explained...it doesn't destroy anything other than the fact that you get to put yourself on an imaginary pedestal for everyone to bask in your eternal glory because you completed the 24hr endurance race...in a video game...
and as I have explained yes it does. Remove the challenge of a game and you remove the reason to play it.
Or are you honestly trying to say that you would be happy repeatedly playing me "press X to win" game.
there are so many other things that are incredibly UN-realistic about GT5, that the last thing you should be worried about is whether someone can save their game in the middle of an endurance race...
-if i drive head on into a wall at 180+ my character should die, and i should have to restart my GT5 game file...
- crashing my car should total it and make it beyond repair
- what are Cr.? i should have to pay REAL money for these cars
- I should have to pay travel costs for my entire race team to go from Laguna, to The Ring, as well as their salaries
- I shouldn't be able to practice my driving at any track in the world without taking the time to book the private track day, pay for it, travel there etc...
- my driver should get injured in crashes and force me to stare at the cockpit view of a hospital room for months on end until my driver is "better"
- racing an entire championship consisting of 10 races, all in different countries is impossible, you should have to wait at least 24 hours between races in different countries
all of these things are equally ridiculous to your feelings on saving during endurance races...if you disagree with any of them...your argument about endurance races is null and void...
Agreed there are lots of things that I think can be changed. However I was addressing the topic of saving games in an endurance race since that was the comment I was replying to.
Are you honestly suggesting that I cant express any one opinion about a feature without providing a laundry list of other features I would also liked changed in every post?
