Hmmm...without me..

You gotta love a happy ending.

Back he goes, under the bridge...

Can this thread go to the pool room/cool wall/famous archive forum?

If LFS were an arcade game I'd want my quarter back.

I'm not going to lie, I want my 24 pounds back.. but I wanna keep LFS

Quote from Harry_NOR :

its like "Need for speed" or something.

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Yeah, the only difference is a wor(l)d.

As long as the cost of usage of LFS does not rise and fall with the actual petrol price, it is not real. But hey, how close can you get considering the LFS package?

i hope he doesnt leave and gives LFS a bit more time yet, there is more to come in the game, sometimes forums can cause someone to say stuff they shouldnt, or it can scare people away from really getting used to the game for what it should be. i know this, ive had my clashes with people but i still love this game with all my heart and im so glad i never left it when i said i would!!!

just give it time mate. Maybe you need to try a different car, here ill give you a suggestion of a car to try for a bit on some public servers. Take out the XFR and find a reasonably busy server, and i promise you will see why some people love LFS. the close pack and awesome tracks make for some really enjoyable racing.

just dont give up so soon!!!

to make a post like that isnt very immature and its just trolling. we dont need people like that in lfs.

Quote from richy :

i hope he doesnt leave and gives LFS a bit more time yet, there is more to come in the game, sometimes forums can cause someone to say stuff they shouldnt, or it can scare people away from really getting used to the game for what it should be. i know this, ive had my clashes with people but i still love this game with all my heart and im so glad i never left it when i said i would!!!

just give it time mate. Maybe you need to try a different car, here ill give you a suggestion of a car to try for a bit on some public servers. Take out the XFR and find a reasonably busy server, and i promise you will see why some people love LFS. the close pack and awesome tracks make for some really enjoyable racing.

just dont give up so soon!!!

So true!!!

Quote from Gabkicks :

to make a post like that isnt very immature and its just trolling. we dont need people like that in lfs.

i know what you mean but im sure the guy didnt intend it to be trolling but was just expressing what he felt at the time in a really rushed manner

i think if he keeps on playing LFS it wouldnt be a bad thing, infact he would just contradict himself which is way better than just showing him where the door is.

you know forums can be a really awkward thing sometimes, and people dont always express themselves in the way they intended to from the start. infact he probably found it very frustrating that he didnt get his message accross in the way he wanted to, and maybe will take a different approach next time.

But i could be wrong.

saying LFS is like need for speed is blasphemous
it is almost an unforgivable crime.

it is true that it is easy to come across the wrong way online. its one of the reasons i have a rule against talking to people online over IM about important things

I like how all u guys get pissed off when he compares it to NFS. personally I don't think any racing games/sims are realistic.


They are a bunch of unrealistic things about LFS.
1.99% of the cars arent real
2.None of the tracks are real


Even if someone created an Xrt and blackwood you would be crazy if u think u could jump in the car and pull a 1:25.

Quote from lalathegreat :

1.99% of the cars arent real.

~16% of the cars are "real", you're a bit off.

Quote from lalathegreat :

I like how all u guys get pissed off when he compares it to NFS. personally I don't think any racing games/sims are realistic.

They are a bunch of unrealistic things about LFS.
1.99% of the cars arent real
2.None of the tracks are real

Even if someone created an Xrt and blackwood you would be crazy if u think u could jump in the car and pull a 1:25.

Realism doesn't have anything to do with whether the cars and/or tracks exist in reality. Because then any game with existing cars in it would be realistic to you? Reality and realism are not the same thing just because the words both have real in it.

and therein lies why he is still a demo racer

its true that you cant get true realism from any racing game, due to limitations of computers, 2d graphics (even if its 3d graphics, its still on a 2d screen 19" wide), sound coming from just a few speakers, and more...

if the original poster had given reasons, im sure this thread would have been a bit better. ill try and speak for him in wht i think are the unrealistic / arcadey things about LFS... of which we all know and have an answer for. ie the sim is still under development.

1) the damage and pinging of cars off of barriers.

2) the graphics lacking some details such as dirt.

3) weather effects are lacking.

4) the way public servers are short races, not taken too seriously, and are a pick up and play style.

well thats all i can think of that the OP would of meant with his post. and we could of given good reasons for why they are like that.

Ofcourse racing games can never be truly 100% realistic. Because when they would be completely realistic we would get hurt or killed if we crash into a barrier at Blackwood
LFS simulates reality, it does not recreate reality.
So I won't state that LFS is 100% pure realism, but the arguments he gives are not the right/correct/relevant ones.

Points 1,2+3 I'm sure we'll see in LFS in the future though.

You can't blame point 4 on the game though, that one is determined by the hosts/the community. I agree there should be more longer races, but I wouldn't want to do without shorter pickup races. Because I don't always have time to do long races. And one of the strong points of LFS is the ability to get into a race very quickly if you feel like it, and not always have to qualify, race for 50 laps, or wait untill a race has finished before you can race. But there should be more diversity I agree.

yup i agree with you, i was just trying to assume what he was thinking when he posted.