ymenard wrote
This is my letter : PLEASE all do so, we can't accept to be dissed by such
gamers. Im just sick and tired of those arcade drivers who have no
knowledge of the hard-core market and their needs.
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First of all, greetings. My letter is to complaint about the review you made
about Grand Prix Legends. I can easily represent the whole people by saying
that we will boycott your website if changes aren't made to the review.
It has some great innacuracies and seriously some points that make me think
he NEVER reviewed the game.
First of all, let me say that most of the game reviewers aren't hard-core
simracers, and this is the market for GPL, as such air sims like Longbow,
etc... GPL is a serious simulator that acts and feel like the REAL 1967
Formula 1 cars. Nothing less, nothing more. From all the other simracing
titles, GPL is at least 1year if not 2 years ahead of the others, and really
put every of them in the dust. That includes old and even current titles
such as ColinMcRae Rally, MonacoGP from UbiSoft, any Microsoft racing "game"
and even every Papyrus title. It is a big step forward in racing accuracy
and virtual simulation. The biggest step EVER. Your reviewer really show he
has no knowledge in racing simulations.
" The musical score is spartan at best. I don't really think that it
matters much in this type of game, however. I can say that the music
does nothing to set the mood of the game nor does it give me any
sense of enjoyment just for music's sake. I quickly turned it off.
HEY ? AVAULT ? Did he really reviewed it ? He's LYING. There's no music in
GPL. By saying he quicly turned it off, he's LYING !!! PLEASE, WE WANT A
PUBLIC APOLOGY. The reviewer has no idea about what he tested. This
pathetic. If Avault doesn't publicly say they are sorry about the harm they
did to the hard-core racing community, we are seriously boycotting your
website. This is just a stupid reviewer that probably tested it for 15mins.
By saying he turned off the music, with DOESN'T EXIST, he is just
pathetically "talking shit".
"After being frustrated with how hard it was to drive the car I
tried running over a few officials, but they might as well not
have even been there. "
This really represents how "arcadish" his view of racing simulators is. He
is telling us he can't master it, so it's crap. It really humiliates us,
the racing simulation community that is researching for the real thing
always. We won't accept canned physics and unrealistic features. I was
shocked by such comments from Avault, a professional *** website.
"Gamers need some sort of encouragement that they are doing better;
they don't need to be thrown into a complex driving model that is
going to take weeks to get competent at."
Well, I am sorry, but practice is really the key. Nobody can hop in a
real-life racecar and think he can beat the track record. It needs practice,
practice and more practice. If he can't master GPL, it's not our fault. But
please don't dis GPL because of that. What if a game reviewer came and told
"I can't master Quake 1 so it must be crap". It's just immature comments and
really humiliates the racing community with such comments.
"It would have been nice if Sierra would have included a more
arcade-oriented version of the physics model"
And another point that represent that the reviewer probably tried it 15 or
so minutes. This it the major ADVANTAGE over every other racing title. The
game engine is REALISTIC at 100%. This is the approach Papyrus has did
since year. They are a racing simulator company, not an arcade ***
company. Their goal is to make a realistic virtual reality racing simulator.
Not an arcade game. Another point that shows that the reviewer has no
knowledge of the racing market and their needs. Another *** to us.
"Sierra expects the gamer to know how to set up the car for each
track in order to obtain the best track times. The manual has nothing
in it to show people what each setting does and how to go about
setting up a car for a certain track."
WHAT ? Did he really read the manual ? He probably NEVER read it, since
there's 50page on how to tweak the car setups for GPL. FIFTY !!!! Each
settings is told in great details. So tell me, did he really tested the game
correctly ??? If he can't setup a car, it's not my fault. There's plenty of
_ARCADE_ games made for that. But PLEASE don't humiliate us, the hard-core
simracers in research of the best accuracy that carsetups are worth
nothing. If the person doesn't know how to set up his car, he isn't the
targeted market for GPL. Still, the default setups are incredibly well done
and made by real-life racecar drivers to suit the average driver with a good
field of comprehensive and raceable setups. Another ***. Just read
rec.autos.simulators and you will see that we are _ALL_ raging against the
reviewer. We are really tired of people who hits on realistic simulations
just because they are too hard.
"The graphics are good as far as these types of games go, but
they give no sense of awe or wonder. "
Another bad point. All what I wrote are FACTS, and really shows that the
reviewer has no knowledge of the racing market. The graphics are top notch
in ACCURACY. Sure, "games" like Need4Speed III have great graphics. The
designers and artist have no limits of their imagination and can create
anything they wan't. But in racing simulations, it's acurracy that counts
and another time, Papyrus made the step higher with incredibly REAL-LIFE
graphics. Every real-life details that was in 1967 is REALLY there. All of
them. The track engine is incredible. No other company can beat them, with
banking, evelations, camber on the track, etc.. The other companies can't
do that. Papyrus can. The reviewer doesn't know that.
"I can still picture most people returning Grand Prix Legends a
few days after they buy it."
Hahahaha. Please. That's why it's the most praised racing simulation in the
HISTORY ? Remember, we had Gp2, Nascar1 and Nascar2 who all had 90% and more
ratings from every *** magazine. And how he say that it's ***with 2 and
half star ? And it's why it's presently in the top5 in sales ?
We need a public apology. It's such ***that I felt bad for himself after I
read that. Of course, if you ship him with the newest Jane's Air combat, he
will probably say it's ***because it's too difficult for him. Another
"gamer" without a knowledge of what's a real racecar and how it should
perform. In the future let him review arcade racing games, but let to
another the point of reviewing hard-core racing simulators, who has a market
and has plenty of people who like them.
- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> Good race at the Brickyard!
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