rec.autos.simulators

>It's an interesting game, but unless you have hours and hours of free time,
>to devote to honing your skills (read that, no life(-: ) you'll find that
>GPL is most frustrating!
>I would also speculate that most of the people who post to this newsgroup,
>defending GPL as the next best thing since Christ are people with too much
>time on their hands, or folks who don't have a life.

>Probably the under 18 crowd who live with Mom and Dad, and spend their
>evenings after school in front of the computer playing games for hours on
>end.

>It's an interesting game, but unless you have hours and hours of free time,
>to devote to honing your skills (read that, no life(-: ) you'll find that
>GPL is most frustrating!

>I for one prefer being able to jump into a car/sim and within a half hour of
>playing around with it, be able to be competitive on a given circuit with
>the computer AI drivers.

>I don't have the time to fiddle around with car setups, to study replays or
>the time to put into a game like GPL just to develop my driving sim skills.

>Does this mean that I dislike GPL ? ..................No,
>Does this mean I'm a lousy driver?  ..................No,

>All I'm saying is that I would welcome any cheats or tools that I could
>download and incorporate into this game to give it the drive-ability of
>games like ToCA, or NFS ....

> Another game comes to mind, just as difficult, perhaps even MORE
> difficult to master, yet I can't remember seeing a bad review on it...
> SODA. I can remember it getting 85-90% ratings in a few mainstream
> publications.

> Now for the heretical part, but please let me qualify my comments
> before you string me between two Ferrari's and take off in separate
> directions...

> I love cars, motorcycles and sims that pertain to them. I ride and
> occasionally race dirt bikes, I've owned and driven trucks off-road.
> I played SODA a lot, and I played GPL a bit, but...

> I lost interest in it rather quickly. It just doesn't grab me.
> I appreciate the physics model, and I see the greatness, believe me.
> I have a hard time quantifying this, because although I'm not a rabid
> fan of modern vintage racing, I'll watch it whenever it comes on, and
> I do love the cars themselves.
> Someone can call me a lightweight for not liking a sim with difficult
> physics, but doesn't the fact that I stuck with SODA sort of prove
> otherwise? Am I the lone outcast that feels this way?
> Basically, it's a great sim, just not great for me? I dunno.

> --

>         http://www.racesimcentral.net/~fusion1
>     (dirt bikes, rat bikes, rental car abuse...)

> >Tim, I would agree with your comments about GPL....

> >It's an interesting game, but unless you have hours and hours of free time,
> >to devote to honing your skills (read that, no life(-: ) you'll find that
> >GPL is most frustrating!

> >I for one prefer being able to jump into a car/sim and within a half hour of
> >playing around with it, be able to be competitive on a given circuit with
> >the computer AI drivers.

> >I don't have the time to fiddle around with car setups, to study replays or
> >the time to put into a game like GPL just to develop my driving sim skills.

> >Does this mean that I dislike GPL ? ..................No,
> >Does this mean I'm a lousy driver?  ..................No,

> >All I'm saying is that I would welcome any cheats or tools that I could
> >download and incorporate into this game to give it the drive-ability of
> >games like ToCA, or NFS ....

> All of the above is YOUR opinion based on YOUR experience.  As such, I've got
> no problem with it.  You're entitled!  But you fell off track quickly when you
> continued with the following ...

> >I would also speculate that most of the people who post to this newsgroup,
> >defending GPL as the next best thing since Christ are people with too much
> >time on their hands, or folks who don't have a life.

> >Probably the under 18 crowd who live with Mom and Dad, and spend their
> <evenings after school in front of the computer playing games for hours on
> >end.

> >Don't take that as a flame....., hell I did the same thing when I was a kid,
> >but folks who love racing, and racing sims, but who have families, jobs and
> >responsibilities other than to themselves (like me) don't have the kind of
> >free time required to develop the skills necessary to excel at GPL.

> All of that is a bunch of lame generalizations, assumptions, theories and
> judgements not based on fact.  You should give up while you're ahead.

> Pinebox

> I for one prefer being able to jump into a car/sim and within a half hour of
> playing around with it, be able to be competitive on a given circuit with
> the computer AI drivers.

> I don't have the time to fiddle around with car setups, to study replays or
> the time to put into a game like GPL just to develop my driving sim skills.

> Does this mean that I dislike GPL ? ..................No,
> Does this mean I'm a lousy driver?  ..................No,

> All I'm saying is that I would welcome any cheats or tools that I could
> download and incorporate into this game to give it the drive-ability of
> games like ToCA, or NFS ....

> I would also speculate that most of the people who post to this newsgroup,
> defending GPL as the next best thing since Christ are people with too much
> time on their hands, or folks who don't have a life.

> Probably the under 18 crowd who live with Mom and Dad, and spend their
> evenings after school in front of the computer playing games for hours on
> end.

> Don't take that as a flame....., hell I did the same thing when I was a kid,
> but folks who love racing, and racing sims, but who have families, jobs and
> responsibilities other than to themselves (like me) don't have the kind of
> free time required to develop the skills necessary to excel at GPL.

> And therefore may find it a bit frustrating, causing them to loose interest
> rather quickly. Taking this into account, I would say that the various game
> magazine reviews that have been kicked about on this forum lately are fair
> and accurate, despite what the die hard, "I've given up all my free time to
> GPL" types would have you believe.

> > It's an interesting game, but unless you have hours and hours of free time,
> > to devote to honing your skills (read that, no life(-: ) you'll find that
> > GPL is most frustrating!

> > I for one prefer being able to jump into a car/sim and within a half hour of
> > playing around with it, be able to be competitive on a given circuit with
> > the computer AI drivers.

> > I don't have the time to fiddle around with car setups, to study replays or
> > the time to put into a game like GPL just to develop my driving sim skills.

> > Does this mean that I dislike GPL ? ..................No,
> > Does this mean I'm a lousy driver?  ..................No,

> > All I'm saying is that I would welcome any cheats or tools that I could
> > download and incorporate into this game to give it the drive-ability of
> > games like ToCA, or NFS ....

> > I would also speculate that most of the people who post to this newsgroup,
> > defending GPL as the next best thing since Christ are people with too much
> > time on their hands, or folks who don't have a life.

> > Probably the under 18 crowd who live with Mom and Dad, and spend their
> > evenings after school in front of the computer playing games for hours on
> > end.

> > Don't take that as a flame....., hell I did the same thing when I was a kid,
> > but folks who love racing, and racing sims, but who have families, jobs and
> > responsibilities other than to themselves (like me) don't have the kind of
> > free time required to develop the skills necessary to excel at GPL.

> > And therefore may find it a bit frustrating, causing them to loose interest
> > rather quickly. Taking this into account, I would say that the various game
> > magazine reviews that have been kicked about on this forum lately are fair
> > and accurate, despite what the die hard, "I've given up all my free time to
> > GPL" types would have you believe.