A depressing thought

This is it - forever. No one, ever again will produce such racing cars that were to be seen on the worlds circuits in the 60's. Even if they did, they would look out of place, look silly even on today's tracks. This is it - forever. No one ever again will produce such a great sim as GPL. It didn't make enough money, it wasn't a success. Even if GP3 is as good as GP2 was in it's day, I don't think I would stop racing GPL. I'm going to be playing it, when I'm 40 or 50 :o( -- Rob Swindells "Add life to your days, not days to your life." "The greatest substitute for talent is hard work." "Doing it, is better than watching it, is better than simulating it." "I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

And just think, some day your hardware will no longer be compatible and able to run it. You'll have to keep one old machine in the corner with Windows ME on it.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:11:05 GMT, "Peter 'kayakr' Ashley" >And just think, some day your hardware will no longer be compatible and able >to run it. You'll have to keep one old machine in the corner with Windows >ME on it. Windows ME. Yuck. No thanks. I'll stick to Win98.

Flame bait here: Although GPL will always be the 1st best sim for that era, you may get a little fun out of driving the historical Porsche's (1940's to today) in NFS5. The physics look pretty amazing. Check out the post I just made about the new NFS5 QuickTime movies. You might be surprised! --David Cook

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> This is it - forever. No one, ever again will produce such racing cars > that were to be seen on the worlds circuits in the 60's. Even if they > did, they would look out of place, look silly even on today's tracks. > This is it - forever. No one ever again will produce such a great sim as > GPL. It didn't make enough money, it wasn't a success. Even if GP3 is as > good as GP2 was in it's day, I don't think I would stop racing GPL. > I'm going to be playing it, when I'm 40 or 50 :o( > -- > Rob Swindells > "Add life to your days, not days to your life." > "The greatest substitute for talent is hard work." > "Doing it, is better than watching it, is better than simulating it." > "I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

Just imagine what GPL2 or GPL3 might be like. Or NASCAR Legends 2 (with the GPL engine)! If it were only as simple as Papy finding a more liberal publisher. Hell if I know. Very depressing indeed. -- ----------------------------------- Morgan Vincent Wooten http://members.tripod.com/~morganv/ -----------------------------------

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:12:25 +0000, robswindells

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>This is it - forever. No one, ever again will produce such racing cars >that were to be seen on the worlds circuits in the 60's. Even if they >did, they would look out of place, look silly even on today's tracks. >This is it - forever. No one ever again will produce such a great sim as >GPL. It didn't make enough money, it wasn't a success. Even if GP3 is as >good as GP2 was in it's day, I don't think I would stop racing GPL.

A glimmer of hope (but only a glimmer) - in the early 80s, everyone said that the affordable small sportscar market was dead, unprofitable, and would never come back. The TR7 was used as an awful warning. Then along came Mazda with the MX5, and now we have the Lotus Elise. So the situation's not *entirely* hopeless (I almost convinced myself there...). You need one brave company that will commit even though it knows it a previous effort made a loss, and won't sacrifice the gameplay (physics above all) for "arcadeyness". Having an arcade mode is fine, as long as it's only a thin veneer (who used Arcade mode on F1RS for more than a day?). In effect, GPL2 would have to be <grits teeth, screws up face in pain, forces out the dread words> a "loss leader". If my numbers come up on the lottery (especially if its a double rollover!), I hereby promise to put a sizeable chunk of that into GPL2 development. You read it here first! -- David. "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

"Define your life with a corny cliche":-)

hehe, me too - I will donate all my earnings to it when I'm a Formula One driver :)

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> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:12:25 +0000, robswindells > >This is it - forever. No one, ever again will produce such racing cars > >that were to be seen on the worlds circuits in the 60's. Even if they > >did, they would look out of place, look silly even on today's tracks. > >This is it - forever. No one ever again will produce such a great sim as > >GPL. It didn't make enough money, it wasn't a success. Even if GP3 is as > >good as GP2 was in it's day, I don't think I would stop racing GPL. > A glimmer of hope (but only a glimmer) - in the early 80s, everyone > said that the affordable small sportscar market was dead, > unprofitable, and would never come back. The TR7 was used as an awful > warning. Then along came Mazda with the MX5, and now we have the Lotus > Elise. So the situation's not *entirely* hopeless (I almost convinced > myself there...). > You need one brave company that will commit even though it knows it a > previous effort made a loss, and won't sacrifice the gameplay (physics > above all) for "arcadeyness". Having an arcade mode is fine, as long > as it's only a thin veneer (who used Arcade mode on F1RS for more than > a day?). In effect, GPL2 would have to be <grits teeth, screws up face > in pain, forces out the dread words> a "loss leader". > If my numbers come up on the lottery (especially if its a double > rollover!), I hereby promise to put a sizeable chunk of that into GPL2 > development. You read it here first! > -- > David. > "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really." > (Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

-- Rob Swindells "Add life to your days, not days to your life." "The greatest substitute for talent is hard work." "Doing it, is better than watching it, is better than simulating it." "I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

Rob, Well I'm 52, and I'm still playing it. Joel Willstein

The icon I mostly use in W98 is the MS-DOS prompt icon, with the GPL icon being a close second :) Andre