Wow how did you guess? I drive GPL purely for status and to brag. When
I go out and hang in the bars, all the other guys have lame pickup
lines, but me,, haha I have GPL ,, something like "hey baby whats your
name, oh and by the way my best lap at Nurnburgring is 7:35, so can I
get your number? :rolleyes:
sounds to me like your just getting frustrated at how difficult GPL
can be but there in lies its beauty...
Have you ever seen a group of people so passionate about a 3 year old
game ? More here then just show off or s*** :-)
No other sim gets your *** pumping or your adrenaline flowing like
GPL, sometimes its hard to believe its just a sim..
>> I've got this "game" GPL for quite a while now
>Well, that might be the source of your problems...
>> patched it to newest
>> version,
>And no other patches? No GPLEA, no soundpack, no extra tracks?
>> but I really don't see why so many people think this is such a
>> great sim.
>I guess not on the above.
>> It is ugly (compared to todays games) has a terrible sound, and
>> these old cars are not funny to drive.
>Definitely not on the above then; and even with the stock sounds, I'd never,
>ever, ever call any of the sounds of those cars terrible. Come on; the Honda
>V12, Ferrari V12, BRM H16, Repco V8, Cosworth V8, the Weslake V12...you just
>don't get much of a better-sounding group than that. Something tells me you
>find the sound of an unmuffled Civic rather pleasant. *gag*
>And likewise, I'd never call a Lotus 49 or Brabham BT24 'funny to
>drive'...I'd call them some of the most beautiful and high-performing pieces
>of art on the face of this earth. I have to wonder about what someone
>considers 'fun to drive' if one of those isn't...let me guess, a Civic
>again? 'Cause, you know, getting sideways is never ever ever any fun, so
>use a front-wheel-drive and take that possibility right out...
>> My guess is, that it is just to show
>> off and say "I'm a GPL-driver".
>If the game were really as bad as you say, that'd mean nothing.
>The support for Force Feedback is lousy
>> unless you spend hours and hours to tweak it to your wheel. That is
>because
>> the game is so old, that FF was not invented when this game was sold in
>> stores.
>Your point being? It was added, after all, along with Direct3D, not out of
>market demand, but out of the love for this game by some programmers at
>Papyrus.
>> I'm NOT surprised there has never been a GPL2.
>I'm not surprised a single soul has yet to agree with you.
>> Mvh
>> E.L.
>Milhouse
