Possibly because for what seems to be a reasonable proportion of GT fans, GT is all they play. You're an exception, you've tried other stuff and don't like it and that's fine. But for a lot of people it seems like they play GT, they've only ever played GT and will only ever play GT. And they still think that they're qualified to state that GT is the best.
Well..... sort of. There is quite a goulash of experiences in here. It does seem that most of those who are sim racers and RL racers tend to fall on the opposing side. But there are some who really appreciate this crazy game like MX5racer, who races his Miata in real life and finds GT6 to represent his car's behavior admirably. My late and dearly missed Supra MkIII was portrayed in GT5 and 6 pretty well, better in GT6 because of the physics. I keep mentioning amar212 as a devoted fan who plays just about everything, thanks to his job as a gaming journalist, though he probably would regardless. Whether he's taken a car around a track or just a curvy stretch of road as I have, I don't know, but he has credentials few have in the racing genre. We are here, maybe not in overwhelming numbers, but we exist.
It's not hard to understand why people from that side want Gran Turismo to be better, when they have games with better sounds, a little better physics, a focused and well fleshed out racing environment to the point they have league racing rules and the whole enchilada. Plus, there's that whole online thing cooking along well, with extensive communities and leagues. What's more, many of their games are enhanced with an active modding community, providing sometimes exciting and copious add-ons to the stock games.
What is hard to come to terms with is the harsh attitude which sometimes gets downright mean from some of them, towards Kaz and PD or even us. A few of the old hands have left because the neighborhood has gone downhill, and you almost have to watch your back around here if you're a fan. A few like Griffith500 who have been trying to moderate the atmosphere in here, have evidently realized that it's like asking a flood to please stop rising and be so wet. Yeah, people will be humans, and we have flaws.
Some of us fans think GT6 is fine, it just needs those features to finally come out. Some of us think Kaz is floundering to one extent or other, and needs to focus on what worked in Gran Turismo before that made just about everyone happy, as well as look at what works in other racers, like those sims I'm not all that fond of yet keep bringing up because they do many things right. So I'm one of those guys who doesn't want GT7 to just be another "GT5 but different" like GT6 is. I want that game to make everyone take notice because it's a real, mean (but nice), serious Gran Turismo for the next generation and the New Millennium. Like Shift tried to be, like Forza is trying to be, what P CARS might be. I know some think I'm loony for thinking so, but I know they can pull it off. The team has crazy skill. Kaz has experience. They just need to apply it and not get too Japanese.
That's strange D, it sounds like you need to configure your wheel.
I definitely do. My autocrossing relative came over saturday and helped get everything running properly, as he's also something of an IT guy and PC tech, and has extensive experience with his own gaming rig. I suggested getting the Logitech drivers for the wheel, but he thought the Windows drivers were good enough, though maybe he assumed the G25 template in AC meant that it had its own driver build. I'll definitely take that under advisement.
We got it running well enough, and he enjoyed it, though I was stunned at how wonky the wheel had integrated to the game. I was expecting something like the feel in the GTRs and Live For Speed, but the FFB pretty much died in the center eighth of travel, making steering very unsure. I'll have to save your settings and poke them in this weekend when I get some spare time - assuming I do, I have another massive move to do. But... I don't know. AC seems like Race Room with some street cars, another game I ponder trying from time to time. I'm beginning to think that P CARS will be the final shot at an enjoyable sim racer, since it has more appeal for me than AC. Of course, those won't be the last sims on the market, so we'll see.
The PC I believe is an Athlon quad core around 2.8ghz running Win7, 4 gigs ram and a Radeon 5450 or so with a gig of ram in it. Which I believe is still below the minimum recommended for AC. Still, it works just fine with the resolution toned down, and some AA applied. I'll make it a point to hop over to the AC threads if I need help with some ironing.
