GP2 - 20 second replays

I will buy it, and it sounds great.. but I think that the 20 second limit on replays is simply MORONIC! After being spoiled with 2 hour replays of my indycar and NASCAR races (32MB machine), I alreadly know I am going to feel ripped off, and pissed off at this limitation. I already want a patch for this, and I haven't even bought the game yet. What is up with that? Saveable race replays of significant length is WAY MORE IMPORTANT that some of the other features I have heard mentioned. What good is cool crashes, flying cars, etc. if you can't replay it and save it. Tim V

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:17:10 -0700, Tim Villanueva

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>I will buy it, and it sounds great.. but I think that the 20 second limit >on replays is simply MORONIC! After being spoiled with 2 hour replays of >my indycar and NASCAR races (32MB machine), I alreadly know I am going to >feel ripped off, and pissed off at this limitation. >I already want a patch for this, and I haven't even bought the game yet. >What is up with that? Saveable race replays of significant length is WAY >MORE IMPORTANT that some of the other features I have heard mentioned. >What good is cool crashes, flying cars, etc. if you can't replay it and >save it. > Tim V

I totally agree with you that the video replay system of GP2 is very disappointing indeed. Being used to ICR2's beautiful VRS, I think the GP2 VRS is very poor both on replay duration and functionality. The text on the box of GP2 saying "look at previous races again with the VRS" is purely misleading, because this only accounts to hot laps - not to full races. Hans.

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> I will buy it, and it sounds great.. but I think that the 20 second limit > on replays is simply MORONIC! After being spoiled with 2 hour replays of > my indycar and NASCAR races (32MB machine), I alreadly know I am going to > feel ripped off, and pissed off at this limitation. > I already want a patch for this, and I haven't even bought the game yet. > What is up with that? Saveable race replays of significant length is WAY > MORE IMPORTANT that some of the other features I have heard mentioned. > What good is cool crashes, flying cars, etc. if you can't replay it and > save it. > Tim V

What about the 20 second limit ? It's only for the instant replay !! If you have 32 MB RAM you'd be able to save any hot lap you did after completing a race (even during a race if you want to), so go ahead and save the whole race and watch all the spectacular crashes from all different angles !! See Ya, Eddy

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>> I will buy it, and it sounds great.. but I think that the 20 second limit >> on replays is simply MORONIC! >> What is up with that? Saveable race replays of significant length is WAY >> MORE IMPORTANT that some of the other features I have heard mentioned. >> What good is cool crashes, flying cars, etc. if you can't replay it and >> save it. >What about the 20 second limit ? It's only for the instant replay !! >If you have 32 MB RAM you'd be able to save any hot lap you did after >completing a race (even during a race if you want to), so go ahead and >save the whole race and watch all the spectacular crashes from all >different angles !!

How do you do that??? The idea behind "hot laps" is to be able to save LAP data - in other words, you have to completely FINISH the lap before you can save it. If I crash and total the car, you can't save the (hot) lap. I can turn on invicibility & smash up a few other cars and save after I cross the finish line, but that's not the same... :) One way you could save a hot lap in which your car is completely wrecked would be (I presume) to actually CRASH your car right before the finish line and have your remains all tumble across the line. :) Don't leave it too late though, because if most of the crash is after the finish line, you won't see it at all. Anyone try this? Another annoyance: You can't save the 1st lap! (Since you start in front of the finish line). The starts contain some of the most spectacular crashes (at least for me) :). 20 seconds is pretty useless - I want to share my crashes/near escapes with others. It's also very distracting to be driving along and then play a replay for 20 seconds, then continue driving. Give us a menu driven SAVE REPLAY feature like in Nascar/ICR ! Please? -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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