As long as the cars handle in a consistent and enjoyable manner I get the same enjoyment from an arcade racing game as I do from LFS. On the face of it they offer the same thing, the ability to maximise your skill and the cars limitations against a variety of opposition. If you want anything more than that in the sim racing community then you need to enter into organised leagues, or spend the money and get iRacing. Those things are not an option for me, my shifts at work are random, so I can't enter into leagues or pay a lot of money for something I might not play for weeks. F1 2010 offers the opportunity to have a career mode, where you work your way up the grid and get rewarded for winning races or performing well, and it requires no extra effort on your part to do it.
How realistic the physics are only becomes an issue for me when a game claims to be a simulation when it's clearly an arcade game. Otherwise it's just what comes naturally, for example it took me longer to get to grips with PGR than LFS, because LFS made sense to me, it was based on real world physics so the cars did things I was expecting. So whilst in PGR I can be 3 or 4 seconds off the best laps, in LFS I usually get to within half a second of the WR on most combinations.
How realistic the physics are only becomes an issue for me when a game claims to be a simulation when it's clearly an arcade game. Otherwise it's just what comes naturally, for example it took me longer to get to grips with PGR than LFS, because LFS made sense to me, it was based on real world physics so the cars did things I was expecting. So whilst in PGR I can be 3 or 4 seconds off the best laps, in LFS I usually get to within half a second of the WR on most combinations.
Kubica is the best driver on the grid, I doubt Alonso would want to be his team mate. Also Renault are investing more into the team, and securing good investments from Russian companies, Kubica has also said he is very happy at the team, so I think he will stay there with Petrov as his team mate for 2011. At least I hope that's the case.
Nah, if a Volvo hit Finland at 140mph they would have to write off Finland.
I love all the sim racing snobs, the physics are good enough for the actual F1 drivers to enjoy, but not realistic enough for the spotty nerd that's never driven a car before. :doh:
It doesn't look better than DIRT, and when you crash into something at 140mph in DIRT you destroy your car, in this game your wing mirror falls off.
I don't think the damage is too bad actually, and they have already said it's something they will be working on for the next title, and we all know Codemasters knows how to do damage properly.
What a shocking excuse for a rally game. Everything about it is terrible. It looks and plays like an old Playstation game, a bad one at that.
Well I'm going to jump straight into a 7 year career on the hardest settings using only a gamepad and record it all and put it on youtube. I keep thinking it's a brilliant idea, but I'm not too sure if 15 minutes of spinning HRT and swearing would be that popular. 
That kid is in serious need of a slap for being such a smart arse.
I don't know what kind of stupid point you're trying to make there, but all of the riders are absolutely aware of how dangerous the sport is, and to say they probably see it as a game of football is just plain insulting. It makes it sound like they have no respect for their own lives or that of their competitors.
What about my local track Thruxton? The only change I've seen in my lifetime was the addition of the tunnel into the paddock.
The Call of Duty series is incredibly popular, Modern Warfare 2 has broken just about every record for sales in the industry, and this new game looks to be even bigger and better. It definately deserves its own thread, but perhaps you guys don't need to read every single thread posted on the forum? It's not like the title was "Megan Fox porn video", you knew what to expect when you opened it. I also can't help but notice the same old comments you see about anything popular creeping into the thread. If it's been going on long enough, or it has enough fans, someone will dislike it and feel the need to tell the world why they dislike it. Some of them will have legitimate reasons, but mostly it's just people trying to set themselves apart from the crowd without actually studying the very thing they are criticising.
I got my Hauppauge HD PVR today, got it up and running and ready for F1, the file size is small enough and the reliability is good enough for me to record full length races, I am even considering doing a live stream of a whole race just for fun.
If that's the UK then I live under a giant checkered flag. 
Very eventful race, I thought Petrov, Sutil and Kobayashi had great races, especially Kobayashi and Petrov who are doing a brilliant job as rookies considering the lack of testing they have. That Force India is bloody quick in a straight line though, should be interesting at Monza.
People criticising Vettel should think back to Hamilton and the mistakes he made in his first couple of seasons. The pressure of fighting for a title obviously exposes a drivers weaknesses, and the younger guys perhaps didn't realise they had those weaknesses. Hamilton seems to have matured a lot last season, and despite a tricky situation and a bit of an off today he still kept his head and got the maximum points. So Vettel should improve too given time, although by then Kubica will be destroying everyone, because for me he is the best driver on the grid.
EDIT: I'm not so sure you can blame Tilke for boring tracks, it's clear he can make a decent track if he is allowed to, but given a brief of a totally flat carpark venue built for a government for the purpose of tourism rather than a passion for motorsport there's not much he can do. I think we need to judge him on the Austin track, if he messes that one up then it's definately his fault, because they want a hilly track that reflects the best corners from classic tracks like Silverstone and Spa.
People criticising Vettel should think back to Hamilton and the mistakes he made in his first couple of seasons. The pressure of fighting for a title obviously exposes a drivers weaknesses, and the younger guys perhaps didn't realise they had those weaknesses. Hamilton seems to have matured a lot last season, and despite a tricky situation and a bit of an off today he still kept his head and got the maximum points. So Vettel should improve too given time, although by then Kubica will be destroying everyone, because for me he is the best driver on the grid.
EDIT: I'm not so sure you can blame Tilke for boring tracks, it's clear he can make a decent track if he is allowed to, but given a brief of a totally flat carpark venue built for a government for the purpose of tourism rather than a passion for motorsport there's not much he can do. I think we need to judge him on the Austin track, if he messes that one up then it's definately his fault, because they want a hilly track that reflects the best corners from classic tracks like Silverstone and Spa.
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Excuse me for shortening your post in my quote there, but +1. That's the first intelligent and mature post I've read in this thread.
Let's Play is the kind of thing I would be aiming for. I've got everything ready to go, did a test commentary on a Modern Warfare game and found my mic was terrible, so I've fixed that, the only thing I need now is my HD PVR and maybe a crash course in Premier to make use of some snazzy graphics.
Here is the channel it will be on...
http://www.youtube.com/Pretendgamers
...I just finished making a new background for the channel last night, my name on there is Mess is Law.
Here is the channel it will be on...
http://www.youtube.com/Pretendgamers
...I just finished making a new background for the channel last night, my name on there is Mess is Law.
I'm actually planning to do a youtube series on this game, nothing hyper serious but I would like to see something other than Modern Warfare commentaries and Halo montages dominating the gaming sections. The plan is to start the game with no assists and full difficulty and record a full length season. One episode for each race, 5-7 minutes of talking at the start, probably showing my fails in practice, then a few minutes of highlights. I know there are lots of Codemaster haters and racing sim snobs that think everything has to be hyper realistic, but I personally like the mix between simulation and arcade that Codemasters come up with, the balance is just about right, and this game will hopefully be the best F1 game ever made.
Glad I didn't pre-order this game now, how did they end up making a game with less content than the first one? I guess I will have to wait for Rockstar to destroy it with L.A Noire.
I've just finished watching the Silverstone race on ITV player, and I'm left wondering why drivers get penalties for running a bit wide on a corner and not for ramming other cars out of the way. I want to watch clean drivers like Paul O'Neill racing in his old Integra and still getting podiums, not thugs in BMW's and Honda's playing banger racing.
Cosworth are the most reliable once again, it's just a shame they are down on power slightly.
I didn't think Italians were into their car racing much, other than F1 that is. But I guarantee you that if this were a Valentino Rossi endorsed bike sim then 99% of the players would be Italian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEA4d6JZ_4&feature=fvst
These games are part of his legacy, DIRT2 was slagged off for focusing too much on the X-Games stuff, but that was the stuff Colin was doing late in his career, and now Codemasters have listened and focused a lot more on WRC I'm sure there will be Colin Mcrae tributes every 5 minutes in this game.
Just been playing the demo on the xbox 360, and it's everything I hoped for. The detail is amazing, not just on things like bullet holes and car damage, but stuff like drinking a bottle of cola or having your car washed and refilled at the gas station, or even flushing toilets and turning taps on. The simulation driving is really fun too, it makes driving at high speed quite a challenge, and peeling away from a set of lights leaving a trail of thick tyre smoke behind you is awesome. I was really worried that they would ruin Mafia, and I'm so glad it doesn't seem like they have.
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