Re: Is GPL Arcade?

You think that's bad? Hell we can't even run the tracks backwards!!! You get some wussy message about being disqualified! What rubbish!! -- don <vbfg> "Getting hit by a meteorite is an accident... everything else is driver-error." "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I mean, what kind of game is this? You'll be telling me it doesn't have > checkpoints next... > -- > David. > "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." > (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

The amount of drifting is right up there with Ridge Racer. Pure arcade rubbish! :-) Stephen

Yes, but it is the best we have to play with.

GPL is not arcade in my opinion. Although it might be since my girlfriend did a 14:xx.xx at the Ring and said "That�s not too bad is it? It�s only about 5 minutes slower than you." BR Thomas Soerensen * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

GPL certainly is arcade! After only one year of practice, I did manage a FULL lap at Monza without crashing once! And the lap was fast too: 1.58.29. :-) If that's not a proof of the deep arcadish nature of this game, nothing will be. The slowest driver in Paris: Cyrille Vanlerberghe Bruce Kennewell <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message : [email hidden]... > Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD*in!! > :-) > -- > Regards, > Bruce Kennewell, > Canberra, Australia. > ---------------------------

Jan Hovius wrote:

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> > It sure is!! > > lets face it: Once you've played Psygnosis F1, MGPRS2 or even F1-2000 > there's no way you'll return to GPL! > > -- > Jan Hovius > >

You're right, this sim is bad, there's no way cars could spin that easily, if it was really so in the 60's noone would ever finish a Grand Prix! The spins are canned, because, let's face it, you are indeed sitting in not much more than a can in this sim! And no way can suspension move that much, everyone knows that ANY racing car must have very stiff suspension, and also oversized tyres, large exhausts, a nose down attitude and bulging bodywork with flames painted on the sides! The way you have to repeatedly press keys on the gamepad to go through a corner is also terrible. How am I supposed to overtake all those guys with those funny sounding names (Brabham, Bandini, Surtees - sounds like a bad gangster movie, who came up with these?) with such bad controls? There is just a little man waving a flag at the start! Puh-lee-ase! No starting lights and no TV presenter speaking while you are driving. You call this hardcore????!!!! 

prenom nom speaking: Sorry for my configuration error, and for the uninformative *prenom nom*. I should have made a test before sending a reply, quite a mistake for my first post here in this NG. :-( Cyrille Vanlerberghe PS: I love GPL, but I think GPL hates me... prenom nom <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message : 8c2cg4$3go$[email hidden]... > GPL certainly is arcade! After only one year of practice, I did manage a > FULL lap at Monza without crashing once! And the lap was fast too:1.58.29. > :-) > If that's not a proof of the deep arcadish nature of this game, nothingwill

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> be. > > The slowest driver in Paris: > Cyrille Vanlerberghe > > Bruce Kennewell <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message : > [email hidden]... > > Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD* > in!! > > :-) > > -- > > Regards, > > Bruce Kennewell, > > Canberra, Australia. > > --------------------------- > >

"Bruce Kennewell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD*in!!

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> :-) > -- > Regards, > Bruce Kennewell, > Canberra, Australia. > --------------------------- > > >

No it is not. I cannot find any place to insert two quarters for a 1P game. MRSisson

Wow, Can you ask your girlfriend how she goes so fast for me? Whats here secret, she's hours ahead of me:-) Seriously !!! :-) Thomas Soerensen <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> GPL is not arcade in my opinion. > > Although it might be since my girlfriend did a 14:xx.xx at the > Ring and said "That�s not too bad is it? It�s only about 5 > minutes slower than you." > > BR > Thomas Soerensen > > * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network

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Yes, but it is the best we have to play with. Bruce Kennewell <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD*in!!

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> :-) > -- > Regards, > Bruce Kennewell, > Canberra, Australia. > --------------------------- > > >

GPL was kinda 50/50. Obvoiusly, It has now been surpassed by hardcore sims like Spirit of Speed 1937 Bruce Kennewell wrote in message <[email hidden]>...

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>Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD* in!! >:-) >-- >Regards, >Bruce Kennewell, >Canberra, Australia. >--------------------------- > > >

It wasn't too long ago that you expressed desire to go to work for them (fueled partially by them located close to you?) Now you have a chip. What gives? Rick ymenard wrote in message ... >I hate Ubisoft's F1 games, so it makes your point irrelevant 8) >

On Fri 31 Mar 2000 04:08:35p, Stephen Ferguson wrote: >The amount of drifting is right up there with Ridge Racer. Pure >arcade rubbish! No background music either, as PC Format pointed out with their usual incisiveness. And the way that, when you try to ram the enemy boss (who goes under the cunning alias "Surtees") off the road, you end up breaking your car! I mean, what kind of game is this? You'll be telling me it doesn't have checkpoints next... -- David. "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

I thought the French were masters of the love-hate relationship? ;-) Not testing required here... it's considered too snobby. Jan. =--- cyrille vanlerberghe <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8c2dvp$3vc$[email hidden]... > prenom nom speaking: > Sorry for my configuration error, and for the uninformative *prenom nom*.I > should have made a test before sending a reply, quite a mistake for myfirst

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> post here in this NG. :-( > > Cyrille Vanlerberghe > > PS: I love GPL, but I think GPL hates me... > > <snip>

Well...Remco said to ask it and the responses would absolutely *FLOOD* in!! :-) -- Regards, Bruce Kennewell, Canberra, Australia. ---------------------------

"Phillip McNelley" <[email hidden]> wrote > As in ... THey love everything French and hate everything non-French > you mean ? Naw ;) I hate Ubisoft's F1 games, so it makes your point irrelevant 8) -- But am I really French?? -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you...

On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:30:01 GMT, "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I thought the French were masters of the love-hate relationship? ;-) As in ... THey love everything French and hate everything non-French you mean ? PM

LOL! I think you may have strained a sarcasm muscle there, Gregor! <G> -- JB In article <[email hidden]>, Gregor Veble <[email hidden]> wrote: > Jan Hovius wrote: > > > > It sure is!! > > > > lets face it: Once you've played Psygnosis F1, MGPRS2 or even F1-2000

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> > there's no way you'll return to GPL! > > > > -- > > Jan Hovius > > > > > > You're right, this sim is bad, there's no way cars could spin that > easily, if it was really so in the 60's noone would ever finish a

Grand > Prix! The spins are canned, because, let's face it, you are indeed > sitting in not much more than a can in this sim! > > And no way can suspension move that much, everyone knows that ANYracing > car must have very stiff suspension, and also oversized tyres, large > exhausts, a nose down attitude and bulging bodywork with flamespainted > on the sides! > > The way you have to repeatedly press keys on the gamepad to gothrough a > corner is also terrible. How am I supposed to overtake all those guys > with those funny sounding names (Brabham, Bandini, Surtees - soundslike > a bad gangster movie, who came up with these?) with such bad controls? > > There is just a little man waving a flag at the start! Puh-lee-ase! No > starting lights and no TV presenter speaking while you are driving.You > call this hardcore????!!!! > >  > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

"Rick" <[email hidden]> wrote > It wasn't too long ago that you expressed desire to go to work for them > (fueled partially by them located close to you?) LOL! Rick that pop's in without knowing anything about the subject. Is it needed to continue on that? Derek Smart.. err Rick you have no clue about my past relations with the company that is Ubisoft, whatever I worked or not with them in the past, and how that has changed my view of their line of product, game engine, working environment, etc.. It's none of your business. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

they didn't accept his application <g> "Rick" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> It wasn't too long ago that you expressed desire to go to work for them > (fueled partially by them located close to you?) > > Now you have a chip. What gives? > > Rick > > ymenard wrote in message ... > > >I hate Ubisoft's F1 games, so it makes your point irrelevant 8) > > > >

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 03:07:55 -0500, "Rick" <[email hidden]> wrote in message <[email hidden]> : >Again, I'm not prying or hacking this information out of your machine. I'm >merely reading my NG subscriptions which include these articles you've >written. Omegamen in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.... Cheers, Richard

I never mean't to pry but would it be fair to say that anything you posted to a public NG such as RAS _was_ my business, given I'm a subscriber? On several occasions your posts contained various torrid details of your hopeful employment prospects with Ubisoft. And, after that, your scorn for someone NOT giving you a free ride/ticket to the 1998 Daytona, so you could flash your face to Papyrus in person, in hopes of making a good impression. And, hopefully get a job offer. Again, I'm not prying or hacking this information out of your machine. I'm merely reading my NG subscriptions which include these articles you've written. This subject matter takes a special interest given that your father is one of the engineers(?) who designed the space shuttle. It would seem more lucrative to follow in your father's footsteps, rather than become just another starving playtester. ("playtestor" - D.R.W., circa 1997) Rick ymenard wrote in message ...

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>"Rick" <[email hidden]> wrote >> It wasn't too long ago that you expressed desire to go to work for them >> (fueled partially by them located close to you?) > >LOL! > >Rick that pop's in without knowing anything about the subject. Is it

needed >to continue on that? Derek Smart.. err Rick you have no clue about my past >relations with the company that is Ubisoft, whatever I worked or not with >them in the past, and how that has changed my view of their line ofproduct,

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>game engine, working environment, etc.. It's none of your business. > > > > >-- >-- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> >-- May the Downforce be with you... >-- http://www.WeRace.net >-- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise >how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. > > >

Jan Verschueren <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message : dqbF4.1582$[email hidden]... > I thought the French were masters of the love-hate relationship? ;-) > > Not testing required here... it's considered too snobby. > > Jan. > =--- Actually, Jan, I'm more Belgian than French! ;-) But GPL doesn't know it, and it still hates me a lot... (23 crashes in 1 lap at Mexico! Anyone done better?) Cyrille > cyrille vanlerberghe <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:8c2dvp$3vc$[email hidden]... > > prenom nom speaking: > > Sorry for my configuration error, and for the uninformative *prenomnom*.

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> I > > should have made a test before sending a reply, quite a mistake for my > first > > post here in this NG. :-( > > > > Cyrille Vanlerberghe > > > > PS: I love GPL, but I think GPL hates me... > > > > <snip> > >

"Rick" <[email hidden]> wrote > I never mean't to pry but would it be fair to say that anything you posted > to a public NG such as RAS _was_ my business, given I'm a subscriber? Sure, and anything you posted to a public NG such as RAS _is_ my business also, but I don't give an arse. There is no need for me to talk to you about my private life. Whoever I worked for is none of your business, and If I want to talk about it I will choose to do so, and to whom that is interested to read my message. > On several occasions your posts contained various torrid details of your > hopeful employment prospects with Ubisoft. And, after that, your scornfor > someone NOT giving you a free ride/ticket to the 1998 Daytona, so youcould > flash your face to Papyrus in person, in hopes of making a goodimpression. > And, hopefully get a job offer. Me? Working at Papyrus? I couldn't even pass customs in the US (for reasons that I won't talk about) for more than 6months. I of course send application whenever I can, just in case, but I doubt I'll ever get there. I look forward to any job in any gaming developpers, and Im not shy to say such a thing. Am I challenging the online-me? Somehow, yes... > This subject matter takes a special interest given that your father is one > of the engineers(?) who designed the space shuttle. It would seem more > lucrative to follow in your father's footsteps, rather than become just > another starving playtester. ("playtestor" - D.R.W., circa 1997) Is monetary issue the only thing important in life? I have much other important things in my life to aspire than that. Keeping good relations with my friends, stabilising my family, participating actively in the society in which I live, etc... I clearly not the type of person who wants in the future a bungalow, two cars, a lawnmower and a nice fence. Not that there's anything wrong with that <g> Im proud of what my father has done, but that doesn't mean I wish to take his steps. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.