Great Point Marc
I'm fed up of GPL fans being labeled as closed minded fanatics who will
immediately knock down any other the racing sim. It total BS. Has it ever
occurred to you that GPL is worth it's mass following? It is clearly the
most accurate sim out there to date hence the reason why it is praised. It
is a brilliant game and I would rate it over GP2 and from what I have read
the warez GP3 without hesitation. If a decent sim comes out I for one would
get hold of it ASAP. WSC and NASCAR 4 to me look like very interesting games
and if they turn out to be realistic in physics (which I believe they will)
I will buy it without a doubt. I call myself a GPL fanatic, I love the game
but I also spend plenty of other time playing games like SCGT (which I
totally enjoy and feel is a very underrated game). If you want a fanatic to
"nitpick" GPL I will say that the AI behavior is average, absence of wet
weather is also a downer, and the lack of driving aids gives the game a
terribly steep learning curve. Trust these features annoy me but there are
only a few and these are overseen by the fantastic online support and
gameplay found in GPL. In the end if you exclude the physics engine it is
the amount of these "nitpicks" that separates the strength and playability
of a racing SIM. So as you may see I'm not saying GPL is perfect because
really it isn't, but it's floors are minor in the whole perspective of the
game and hence I feel it is the most perfect game out there at this point in
time. If another game out of the box is better than GPL, hell I will
obviously praise it more no matter what form of racing it is. Again, I PLAY
OTHER SIMS LIKE SCGT, F12K, MSGP2 AND ENJOY THEN A LOT so don't say I'm
closed minded to any game other than GPL!!!!!!
From what I have read, LOTS AND LOTS of features that are undeniably
important to modern formula are missing, e.g. 107% rule, Penalties, camber,
track camber etc are missing. This is really really pathetic and in the end
I feel this will separate GP3 and other games to come from the SIM greats
out there. When I play the warez version I will give more detailed thoughts
BUT I WILL certainly take in mind that this is an early release and make no
final judgments.
One last point, I feel that the GP2 physics engine isn't enough to be able
to keep the GPXX series alive in the SIM department especially where games
like GPL exist and games like WSC and Nascar 4 are in the waitings. Gp2 I
feel is canned, after re-installing it I found it unplayable AND again I can
play games like F12K and SCGT and totally enjoy them!!!! Don't get me wrong
I used to praise GP2 and be a fanatic until GPL came out and dated the GP2
engine IMO.
***y hell that was a long post, but I had a lot to get off my back!!!!!
BTW if GP3 is better that GPL, I WILL PRAISE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Dan Brown
> Can we stop with this GPL crap. Everyone here would have been ecstatic if
> GP3 had blown GPL out of the water in terms of quality and realism.
> Period. It (at least the version 1.0 that is out now) barely registers
> above GP2 on the radar. Sorry. Until something better is released,
people
> will continue to play and talk about GPL. If you don't like it, stop
> reading a newsgroup dedicated to racing sims. Do you really think people
> will obsess and spend lots of time on the low quality uninteresting not
> rewarding titles in a forum like this?????
> Marc.
> > You can bet that the same people who are complaining about their
> dissapointment
> > in the Beta version will dislike and nitpick the retail released version
> as
> > well. If you are predisposed to disliking something you will invariably
> find
> > the faults in it. No matter how good any sim released this year is, it
> will
> > take time to supplant GPL's "legend" even if that sim is in fact
superior.
> But
> > over the next 2 years even the most diehard GPL fanatics will be won
over
> by
> > the charms of GP3 or Nascar 4 or Nascar Heat or WSC or some other sim,
> because
> > they will be fresh unconquered territory,and those titles will slowly
come
> to
> > dominate the discussions here.
> > Of course you will have the nitpickers who are in fact "closet" GP3 or
> Nascar4
> > lovers, playing the games moreso than even GPL, while continuing to
gripe
> about
> > their secret new obsession here in RAS. It's just human nature.
