> I would settle for the small things someone already mentioned, like toe in
> damage, wall riding bug eliminated by actually having the wall rip the car &
> Tires apart like it would in real life if you rode the wall. but even with
> these thing you trade off the ability to have a decent race... Hell even now
> most of the morons online with all the driving aids and other things still
> cant handle any track but Dega... Daytona is a stretch of their abilities,
> and don't dare goto a real track like Darlington or Richmond... you know
> what I mean too.
> I like that the game is somewhat scale -able but I don't see papy or anyone
> for that matter ever going hard core, like they got burned on GPL. Which is
> a shame, because this Genre of game (NASCAR version) could have really used
> the SUPER ***.
I think the grognards here (a term from my war*** side, but it
fits here too) underestimate how difficult it is to drive a reasonable
simulation of a race car. I have been at it for two years, but I'm
nowhere near good enough to try to compete online with you guys
(to judge from the lap times I see posted here). A newbie where
NR2003 is his first real sim (and not some arcade fluff) yes will be
all over a track like Darlington (or will be going so slow that he
continually-unintentionally-causes the leaders to wreck-deliberate
wreckers aside).
I don't dare turn off anti-lock brakes (the few times I did my tires
didn't last more than 7 laps-either that or I underbrake just a bit and
I'm in the wall) or traction control (or I'm spinning pirouettes down
the track every other corner). Yes I suck-I freely admit it-but Joe
Average isn't going to devote endless hours carefully and rigourously
honing his skills like a lot of people here do. And that's just NR200X-
in GPL I have a ton of fun, but also a ton of wrecks, and I can't imagine
ever being good enough to do some of the shit I see in replays (taking
the Masta Kink at 180 MPH. with your right tires scant inches from
that right guardrail, lap after lap!? More power to ya, you creature from
another world you...).
It is fashionable to bash people who can't drive the tougher tracks-
and yes there are wreckers-but there are also people who are the
rawest of rookies, trying their damnednest to harness an 800 HP
beast of a car, and I can't really blame them if they are in the wall
before the end of lap two at Richmond. And they represent the vast
majority of people who bought the game. So go do your thing in
the league races, but let's tone down the snobbishness a bit, eh?
We all were newbies once.
John DiFool
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