GR Racing Thread - now under new (F1) management

Victor Mildew wrote:I find gran turismo so clinical and dull now, and going back to the first game on my miyoo mini, it still has a rawness and sense of real motorsport to it that's just been lost along the way. I can't really put my finger on why, but maybe the car lineup used to be in the more attainable feeling range, so more grounded. Now it's all billion pound supercars and race cars, but back then you'd happily spend the first 20 hours driving a Subaru estate car

I think 5 was the start of the shift towards more po-faced lifestyle car wankery than being an actual fun game.

Was about to break into the 8:20s round the ring only to spin at the third to last corner :fp:

was about 7 seconds up on my previous lap, so it’d have just taken me into the 8:20s, annoying!

Realised why I like the McLaren as well, it’s got a little hint of the pod racer sounds from Star Wars :lol:

plus it handles like a dream round the ring, Porsche is fun but it wants to put you into the barriers far too often for my liking.

Not liking the sound of the handling on F1 2024.

It's probably for the best, this will be the first in 5 years I don't bother buying. Here's my playtime for each F1 game from Steam/EA:

F1 2020 - 118 Hours
F1 2021 - 140 Hours
F1 2022 - 66 Hours
F1 2023 - 20 Hours

F1 2022 was by far the worst, to be honest 2023 hasn't been bad in terms of handling etc (though the AI was noticeably worse than even 2020) - I just haven't had the time.

I really don’t get how the F1 games are just getting worse and worse each year now, the F1 license needs to go to someone actually passionate about creating a realistic game, even in a sim you can make it playable on a pad, ACC is playable on a pad, it’s not great but it’s perfectly playable and if that’s all you had, you’d probably be able to make it work quite well in my opinion, with a lot of practice of course.

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown news coming on the 30th! With an ARG starting this Monday to hype up whatever that reveal is.

It's got to be the release date. Right?

DarkRula wrote:Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown news coming on the 30th! With an ARG starting this Monday to hype up whatever that reveal is.

It's got to be the release date. Right?

twitter.com/testdrive/status/1794117195888263490

Crumbs, I'd forgotten about this one, Rula! It has been in development for years, hasn't it? I will join you in looking out for the announcement!

jawa_ wrote:Crumbs, I'd forgotten about this one, Rula! It has been in development for years, hasn't it? I will join you in looking out for the announcement!

Yeah, they'd first announced it back in 2020 with just a teaser. Every year after has felt like that was meant to be the year it released.

That ARG begins 5pm on Monday, looking at the smaller countdown timer. The reveal comes 9am on the 30th.

Never played a Test Drive game, might catch up on the announcement at some point.

GR Racing Thread - now under new (F1) management

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