I, too, agree 100%. After playing with N4 for a few more hours, you have
listed the major problems with it and I agree with your sentiment that after
this amount of time (I thought N4 WASN'T being rushed out the door like NH),
it is a bit underwhelming.
I am confident that patching will fix all of the major problems....but
during what time frame? Given the time it took to patch N3 and NH...it
doesn't look good.
Marc.
> I don't think you guys understand Usenet.
> If you don't like someone's post, don't reply. If you're
> insulted/offended by someone's post, kill filter the person. Berating
> someone is just a waste of bandwidth.
> Like Marc, I too am disappointed with the quality of N4. N4 is not an
> entirely new game. In fact, the Nascar Racing series hasn't seen an
> entirely new product since the first one came out; each subsequent
> release amounting to incremental improvements over the previous.
> I expected N4 to be much better than it is. Sure, the physics model
> is great and the graphics are improved. But that's it. Everything
> else is the same as in N3, or worse. I don't expect a game that is in
> large part derived from previous installments to be markedly worse
> than it's predecessors in any aspect.
> However, a large part of the game is broken - single player. The AI
> is dysfunctional at every track, though I haven't tried the plate
> tracks yet. What's the point of a company chasing after every
> driver/sponsor to include in their game, only to portray them as if
> they were trying out for roles in Days of Thunder?
> Given the time between N3 and N4 (remember that N3 was supposed to
> contain GPL's physics), I'm disappointed N4 contains so little new.
> Someone posted earlier about increasing qualifying field sizes - great
> idea! Nope, not in N4. How about a *.rpy-to-avi/mpg/whatever
> feature. Great way to promote the game. Too radical an idea for
> Papyrus I suppose. A season-to-season offline "career" mode? Again,
> nope. Doesn't anyone at Papyrus have some imagination?
> It's great that Papyrus focus' so much on physics and graphics to make
> their games more realistic, but there are quite a few other aspects to
> a game that make it immersive and enjoyable. I hope they make some
> effort in whatever their next release will be to come out with
> something NEW.
> So, don't like my opinions? Well flame me if you like but the best
> thing you can do is ignore my drivel or kill filter me for daring to
> besmirch the good name of Papyrus.
> DD.
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:33:23 GMT, "Kevin Anderson"
> >Marc, Do us all a favor and return the game. if you don't like it don't
play
> >it. And it would be a real bonus for us if you deleted the newsgroup off
> >your mail reader.
> >Thank you, and hope you find a game up to your standards