Grand Prix Rejects

Ferrim wrote:

East Londoner wrote:On my copy of GP4 (which I seldom play nowadays, thanks to A-levels), I find that the cars belonging to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Tomas Enge, when under CPU control, have a massive performance disadvantage compared to the rest of the field. They'll qualify 6-7 seconds off the pace, and wind up 5 or 6 laps down if they make it to the end of a race. Wierd

Did you update the game with the 9.6 patch? I remember there was a performance issue with the original release and the field spread was too big. In the patched version the only issue (that I know of) is that Alonso's and Yoong's performances are swapped.

Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.

dr-baker wrote:What's fragging?

dr-baker wrote:

Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.

What's fragging?

dr-baker wrote:

Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.

What's fragging?

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

Phoenix wrote:Not a racing game, but some days ago, after revising for an exam I decided to play some Counter-Strike 1.6. On a match against the CPU, a player called Ron fragged someone called Dennis. It made me chortle. I also had Matt and Mark kill Martin too.

What's fragging?

dr-baker, U NO Gamer. I salute you, sir!

AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!

Another hilarious game in my awful PC racing games collection is a game called GT-R 400 which again I got for next to nothing at CEX, and resembles a load of 3 lap dashes around fictional tracks in either a Mosler or an Ascari! I'm thinking Sammy Jones might take a break into the sportscar world at some point during his career possibly!

Which reminds me, could anyone recommend a decent sportscar simulation game that I could try and run a championship off? It needs to be a PC game, and pretty old, I wouldn't say newer than about 2004 else my laptop won't deal with the graphics?

Wizzie wrote:

AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!

Another hilarious game in my awful PC racing games collection is a game called GT-R 400 which again I got for next to nothing at CEX, and resembles a load of 3 lap dashes around fictional tracks in either a Mosler or an Ascari! I'm thinking Sammy Jones might take a break into the sportscar world at some point during his career possibly!

Which reminds me, could anyone recommend a decent sportscar simulation game that I could try and run a championship off? It needs to be a PC game, and pretty old, I wouldn't say newer than about 2004 else my laptop won't deal with the graphics?

While I haven't played it in ages, I highly recommend GTR2 although I don't know if it would fry your laptop or not.

AndreaModa wrote:Bought myself SEGA Rally 2 recently from CEX (basically a pawn shop for games, dvds, electronic/computer equipment, etc) for 50p! It's rather easy, and I do enjoy how you can race a Stratos against an Impreza, it's like a 'best of' of rally cars!!

FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?

AndreaModa wrote:

FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?

No I didn't know there was any!

Cheers for those suggestions by the way guys, a quick look on ebay shows I can pick up Total Immersion Racing for less than a bus ticket so I think I might be going for that one!

AndreaModa wrote:

FMecha wrote:It was long since I played SR2... have you used the cheat there?

No I didn't know there was any!

Cheers for those suggestions by the way guys, a quick look on ebay shows I can pick up Total Immersion Racing for less than a bus ticket so I think I might be going for that one!

Nuppiz wrote:First balance test for GPM2 2011 Mod (yes, I'm finally working on it!): Vitantonio Liuzzi qualifies 7th in the HRT...

Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.

Ferrarist wrote:

Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.

And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."

Ferrarist wrote:

Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.

And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."

kostas22 wrote:

Ferrarist wrote:

Klon wrote:Somehow I think we should keep the focus on racing here, otherwise we'll end up with people bragging about their Parasect raised from the egg onwards managed to give Lance's last Pokémon the final hit in Pokémon Gold ... oh wait.

And I wanted to ask for a good dance simulation program, so we could hold the "F1 Rejects Helio Castroneves Dance Competition."

Dancing with the Stars? Hell no. Let's do some Dance Dance Revolution

Benetton wrote:This happened in Formula One 2003 on the PlayStation 2.

The season was crazy. But I did mix it up a bit by crashing people out on tracks in which it was possible. Therefore the many winners.

Drivers who won that season were M. Schumacher, Barrichello, Montoya, R. Schumacher, Raikkonen, Coulthard, Alonso (Me), Trulli, Button and JOS bathplug BOSS VERSTAPPEN (in Nurburgring).

Coulthard won the title with 65 points in Suzuka. 6 drivers were in contention in the final race.

Klon wrote:Meanwhile, I remembered another GPM2 gem I posted somewhere else.

andrew wrote:in f1 04 once I crashed with HWMSNBM and I was out. As you you your engineer tells you who won, well I got a stunning message saying baumgartner was won the race, he's finished. My only reaction could be

East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.

I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.

East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.

I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.

East Londoner wrote:Formula One 2004 was incredibly buggy, with annoying non-responsive controls. Sometimes, if the AI cars were due to make a pitstop, they'd suddenly slow to a complete stop at random points around a track for a second or two. Bloody annoying.

I was doing a career mode on said game a few years back. I was in my second season with Minardi, having started racing halfway through the first season. I had picked up a few points finishes, but I was an absolute rubbish qualifier, and after a poor start to the second season, Minardi told me to improve my performance at Imola, otherwise I'd be demoted back down to test driver. Having completely mucked up my flying lap, putting me in 20th and last place, I put in a barnstorming performance (helped by Imola being my best track) and won the race comfortably. But because I messed up in qualifying, Minardi promptly demoted me to test driver! I deleted my career in anger straight after.