Grand Prix Rejects

dr-baker wrote:

DOSBoot wrote:

dr-baker wrote:Just a quick question: Is Grand Prix Legends as editable as Grand Prix 2 is? If so, how does one go about doing so?

Somewhat. You need a few specific programs in order to do that. But there are several nice mods and tracks avaliable around. This link should have everything you are looking for.

Ah, that looks brilliant. Thank you. One of these days, I am going to master the game, then (and only then), I might start an F1R Historics race series... Will likely be a few years away yet, though!

Good luck. I've owned the game for 3 years now, and it's still quite a challenge to drive.

dr-baker wrote:Just a quick question: Is Grand Prix Legends as editable as Grand Prix 2 is? If so, how does one go about doing so?

DOSBoot wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

DOSBoot wrote: Somewhat. You need a few specific programs in order to do that. But there are several nice mods and tracks avaliable around. This link should have everything you are looking for.

Ah, that looks brilliant. Thank you. One of these days, I am going to master the game, then (and only then), I might start an F1R Historics race series... Will likely be a few years away yet, though!

Good luck. I've owned the game for 3 years now, and it's still quite a challenge to drive.

I've had it some time myself, but never really had the time to play it (even with the disc permanently in my laptop's disc drive...). So maybe a decade then?

Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
Easily the best pc game I have played

roblomas52 wrote:Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
Easily the best pc game I have played

Clearly you need to play more PC games.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
Easily the best pc game I have played

Clearly you need to play more PC games.

Well it is pushing my mums PC to the absalute limit an I have no steering wheel either hence immense pane after 2 laps of Kyalami in a DB7 Volante

TV Tropes and Kimi Raikkonen made me thought something about Daytona USA:

(Player crashes the car)
Crew chief: Try to go easy on the car!
Player: Just leave me alone, I know what I am doing!

Sure, I am may seem like a slowpoke here...

roblomas52 wrote:Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
the easiest pc game I have ever played

Fixed

Anyone going to get Trackmania2 Stadium? Downloading the demo now, I had a blast with the original.

johnnyCarwash wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
the easiest pc game I have ever played

Fixed

Not fixed actually because I assume you had a steering wheel setup whereas I don't and I have to use the up, down, left, and right keys to make the car move.

roblomas52 wrote:

johnnyCarwash wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Woah
My reaction on TOCA race driver 2
the easiest pc game I have ever played

Fixed

Not fixed actually because I assume you had a steering wheel setup whereas I don't and I have to use the up, down, left, and right keys to make the car move.

you have your point.
I love the whole TOCA race driver series, I prefer the 3rd one though! Not got to play the GRID series yet

Grid is very good but there is grid 2 on the horizon and if you pre order now, you get Brands Hatch DLC included

roblomas52 wrote:Grid is very good but there is grid 2 on the horizon and if you pre order now, you get Brands Hatch DLC included

Brands Hatch is DLC? You have got to be bathplugging kidding me. Not cool, Codemasters. Not cool at all.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Grid is very good but there is grid 2 on the horizon and if you pre order now, you get Brands Hatch DLC included

Brands Hatch is DLC? You have got to be bathplugging kidding me. Not cool, Codemasters. Not cool at all.

Soon it's going to be "buy the game, all cars and tracks cost extra".

I'm getting real tired of the gaming industry's sh*t now...EA and Codemasters seem to be leading the way in "How To Alienate Customers and Make a Fast Buck".

Ataxia wrote:

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Grid is very good but there is grid 2 on the horizon and if you pre order now, you get Brands Hatch DLC included

Brands Hatch is DLC? You have got to be bathplugging kidding me. Not cool, Codemasters. Not cool at all.

Soon it's going to be "buy the game, all cars and tracks cost extra".

I'm getting real tired of the gaming industry's sh*t now...EA and Codemasters seem to be leading the way in "How To Alienate Customers and Make a Fast Buck".

Simraceway and RaceRoom Racing Experience have a different approach, where it's free to race but you have to buy the cars...

Ataxia wrote:

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

roblomas52 wrote:Grid is very good but there is grid 2 on the horizon and if you pre order now, you get Brands Hatch DLC included

Brands Hatch is DLC? You have got to be bathplugging kidding me. Not cool, Codemasters. Not cool at all.

Soon it's going to be "buy the game, all cars and tracks cost extra".

I'm getting real tired of the gaming industry's sh*t now...EA and Codemasters seem to be leading the way in "How To Alienate Customers and Make a Fast Buck".

Yeah, I'm not liking the way DLC for racing games is going nowadays. As much as I love Forza Horizon, it really agitates me that they recycle some cars from Forza IV for their monthly car packs since they didn't appear in Forza Horison. So I gotta pay for some cars I already have on Forza IV I which I already invested quite a bit? Really makes me mad! But I want those cars, so what else am I going to do? I miss the old days of DLC in the 1990s, and early 2000s when they were there, and most could be downloaded for free. Gone are those days now.(Although there is the modding community for such games like Rfactor.)

DOSBoot wrote:Yeah, I'm not liking the way DLC for racing games is going nowadays. As much as I love Forza Horizon, it really agitates me that they recycle some cars from Forza IV for their monthly car packs since they didn't appear in Forza Horison. So I gotta pay for some cars I already have on Forza IV I which I already invested quite a bit? Really makes me mad! But I want those cars, so what else am I going to do? I miss the old days of DLC in the 1990s, and early 2000s when they were there, and most could be downloaded for free. Gone are those days now.(Although there is the modding community for such games like Rfactor.)

The whole Forza Horizon/Motorsport 4 DLC thing is really aggravating. They design the models, all 400 and some, then only bother putting 25% of them in Horizon. The ones they didn't put in initially then get thrown in a few months later with two new models as DLC. FM4 didn't really bother me because they were all new cars, and I bought almost all of the packs (sans one, never got around to it). Horizon does because its like they never even tried with it.

Mind you, Horizon is one of the most fun racing games I have ever played. I was really upset that I beat it so quickly. After all, FM4 lasts for 4 weeks game time. But this DLC garbage is ridiculous.

rFactor is pretty cool because of all of the mods. I'm really enjoying it so far.

Hound55 wrote:

DOSBoot wrote:Yeah, I'm not liking the way DLC for racing games is going nowadays. As much as I love Forza Horizon, it really agitates me that they recycle some cars from Forza IV for their monthly car packs since they didn't appear in Forza Horison. So I gotta pay for some cars I already have on Forza IV I which I already invested quite a bit? Really makes me mad! But I want those cars, so what else am I going to do? I miss the old days of DLC in the 1990s, and early 2000s when they were there, and most could be downloaded for free. Gone are those days now.(Although there is the modding community for such games like Rfactor.)

The whole Forza Horizon/Motorsport 4 DLC thing is really aggravating. They design the models, all 400 and some, then only bother putting 25% of them in Horizon. The ones they didn't put in initially then get thrown in a few months later with two new models as DLC. FM4 didn't really bother me because they were all new cars, and I bought almost all of the packs (sans one, never got around to it). Horizon does because its like they never even tried with it.

Mind you, Horizon is one of the most fun racing games I have ever played. I was really upset that I beat it so quickly. After all, FM4 lasts for 4 weeks game time. But this DLC garbage is ridiculous.

rFactor is pretty cool because of all of the mods. I'm really enjoying it so far.

That's exactly how I feel about it. In Forza IV, the car packs were well worth the extra cash, and I bought every one of them. But in Forza Horizon, they haven't been that impressive. There have been a few new vehicles along with it, but they could do better. But don't get me wrong on Horizon, it's a great game well worth playing. Perfect blend of arcade, and simulation, has a great open ended atmosphere towards it, and the multiplayer mode is much better than Forza IV' in my opinion. In fact, I think it's way better than the most recent Need for Speed games. That says a lot in my mind.

As for Rfactor, their modding community alone is worth picking up. I have pretty much every F1 season between 1973-2009. As well as several others. My favorite being the DRM Reviavl mod. It's quite an experience driving old Group 5 Capri around the Nordschleife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSR6SsXVK6c

Even worse with Horizon's DLC Season Pass was the fact that it cost even more then the Forza 4 Season Pass (and almost as much as the price of the game at launch, in fact)... and that was with 4 less cars per pack, most of which were just reused models anyway. The excuse I've heard for the re-used models as DLC is that there wasn't enough disc space to put all the cars on, but if that was the case, why didn't they add a second 'install disc' like Forza's 3 & 4?

Attention Minecrafters!

Nuppiz! Cynon! darkapprentice77! AndreaModa! And others! I have a challenge for you.

Start a new world - in Survival mode, no cheats - with the seed mute and Large Biomes ON - this won't work without it; follow these instructions and it will work in 1.5.1, I've tested - even if my version of this world started in 1.4.something.

You will spawn on one of three tiny islands, just north of an enormous mushroom biome, which is seven and a half times the size of what could be expected from a regular mushroom island with Large Biomes turned off. All you have to start your challenge with is two oak trees (and think what you could make with the wood that ensures you'll never run out of food in these surroundings, ever, even from day one...) and some bits of tall grass.

From these modest beginnings, your quest is to build a working village on the mushroom island.

It must contain at least one of all the generated village structures - each of the three designs of farm hut, a large L-shaped house, a church, a forge, a butcher's shop, a library and a well, plus plots for wheat, carrots and potatoes. In mine, I've also included a field of sugar canes, small plots for pumpkins and melons, an extra large house that I've turned into a pub (and which needs to be expanded slightly), and four animal pens, each one housing one of the four types of animals that don't spawn natively in mushroom biomes. My village fits into a 60x40 space, so it can be done in a very compact way, though there's nothing to say that the village shouldn't be larger.

Two of the animals will, of course, have to be imported from far away lands by getting them to swim overseas (and I do mean far away lands - the closest non-ocean-island land mass I can find is over 7 km away!) while a third can be brought in in a more... compact way. Search around for long enough and you'll find that there is no need to leave the mushroom biome to be able to grow pumpkins, melons, sugar, potatoes and carrots on a massive scale - and the last two of these vegetables provides a clue to the only practical way you'll ever be able to populate this village.

My village is effectively complete - it has all the structures and all the animals and has a thriving population, it just needs a last bit of minor tweaking caused by the annoying tendency for animals (and now, I find, villagers...) to escape through the boundary fences. Those can be fixed easily enough, though...

So, is anyone going to give it a go?

PM me if you get really stuck... I might offer a few handy hints. This is where I got the seed from - a few tips to start with, one of which should be particularly helpful, are contained in this video.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:This is insanely awesome. Skip to about 6:15 to see the actual gameplay.

I love how the program rage quits at Tetris, pausing the game preventing a loss

Just ran a 6 lap race at Monza on Grand Prix Legends (you know, that old game of the 1967 F1 season that's ridiculously hard) and finished 13th out of 19 cars in a gorgeous-sounding Ferrari 312. Quite chuffed with that!

I made a sublime overtaking move on one of the Eagle-Weslake cars into the first Lesmo, which on the old configuration of Monza before the chicanes, is the first real heavy braking spot on the circuit, simply by going way too hot into the corner, throwing it up the inside, and managing to powerslide out inches from the outside barrier as there's no run-off at all. Entirely unintentional and I was expecting a massive crash, but hey, it paid off! GPL is full of moments like that because the racing is so hairy, edge-of-your-seat stuff, especially when using keyboard controls.

We'll skim over the fact I had a huge crash on the last lap and lost 12th place to Mike Parkes!

Anyone getting Project C.A.R.S in November this year?

Here's one, does anyone here play iGP Manager?

https://igpmanager.com/

It's a bit like BATRacer, only less intense with three races a week, and you don't have to buy the premium package to do well. I'm currently in my second season, finished third overall in the first year with ageing Swedish driver Nils Kvistad who retired at the end of the season. I now have promising Canadian youngster Owen Tremblay on my books and I'm third in the championship so far after three races. It's a nice little thing to spend a little time doing every few evenings, plus the live timing screens during the races are pretty cool.

If you're wondering what to do with your time in the evenings, check it out, it's easy to pick up and good fun!

Who is Hockenberg on NationStates? The guy claims he is a F1 Reject...

Edit: Whoops, forget he is darkapprentice here.

FMecha wrote:Who is Hockenberg on NationStates? The guy claims he is a F1 Reject...

Edit: Whoops, forget he is darkapprentice here.

Yup, that's me. Made the name by combining Hockenheim and Nurburg.

Although this has nothing to do with motorsport, this was the official gaming thread, so...

Does anybody know of the best free football manager game on any platform?

JeremyMcClean wrote:Although this has nothing to do with motorsport, this was the official gaming thread, so...

Does anybody know of the best free football manager game on any platform?

I used to be hooked on Soccer Manager, but I quit because it was distracting me from more important things!

Also, it's not free, but by now you should be able to get a copy of Football Manager 2011 or 2012 for not much money. It's worth every penny. It's by far the best football sim on earth.

Stramala wrote:Also, it's not free, but by now you should be able to get a copy of Football Manager 2011 or 2012 for not much money. It's worth every penny. It's by far the best football sim on earth.

The FootMan is good, but very hard to learn. Still, it's way better than any of EA's managers from the last years. But the best football management game of all time is Anstoss 3, by Ascaron. Ironically enough, all FIFA Manager games were created by former Ascaron employees, who've worked on Anstoss before. So some of you may have indeed played one of the spiritual successors of Anstoss 3. But the "original" is still the best for me. It's much more light-hearted than the EA managers. For example, you could send your squad to training camps on the moon or the mars. You could also use doping on your players, or even bribe referees or opposing teams or players. Anstoss 3 is also easily accessible, but still very deep. In short, it's very fun to play.

The not-so-controversial FMecha will stick his neck to the line and darely say this unpopular opinion (posted here because it has something to do with video gaming): Ridge Racer Type 4 is overrated.

The "gotta catch em all" approach to the cars in that game to the cars are annonying, everyone knows that, right? And the whole RRR series seems like an "excuse plot" for me. The Grand Prix mode, which features the whole RRR thing, feels a bit, you know, lifeless, and the rules makes me it feels like a certain GPM2 team order, "do or die". 8 cars on track made the lifelessness of the RRR increase further, while as you know the original Ridge Racer and Rage Racer have more cars on track, IIRC. There are more stuff I would like to say, but I ain't nobody got time for that atm.



Oh, and Gran Turismo 6 has just been announced - it is confirmed to be a PS3 title. Trailer.

I've been getting into Ferrari Racing Legends recently (using a steering wheel), and if there's one thing I gained, it's even more respect for the drivers in the 50s and 60s (haven't made it to the 70s yet). I have found it almost impossible to string together a clean lap of Rouen in the 1967 F1 car, likewise with Monza.

Also, the fictional track of Misty Loch is pretty much the closest thing you can get to a nightmare.

tommykl wrote:I've been getting into Ferrari Racing Legends recently (using a steering wheel), and if there's one thing I gained, it's even more respect for the drivers in the 50s and 60s (haven't made it to the 70s yet). I have found it almost impossible to string together a clean lap of Rouen in the 1967 F1 car, likewise with Monza.

That's interesting, I know they don't really compare but I find Monza to be the easiest of the Grand Prix Legends tracks, and Rouen not too far behind, along with Kyalami and Silverstone.

So, I've been playing through Gran Turismo 3 for the first time in a while, and have a gripe. Who on EARTH though it would be a good idea to use Test Course as a racing circuit? All I do is hold down "X" for 6-7 minutes, it's got absolutely no fun factor in it at all.

Ataxia wrote:So, I've been playing through Gran Turismo 3 for the first time in a while, and have a gripe. Who on EARTH though it would be a good idea to use Test Course as a racing circuit? All I do is hold down "X" for 6-7 minutes, it's got absolutely no fun factor in it at all.

You need to stop using overpowered cars for those races. Test Course is massive fun if you have a challenging Indy-esque race which only works if you lack a major power advantage. See "Like The Wind" in Gran Turismo 4, one of the best races in the game.

Does anyone have Race 07? If so how do you convert the cars to rFactor?

the new xbox, or "Xbox One" was announced yesterday.

No backwards campatibility
Online only (games can be played offline, but the system requires an internet connection)
Used Games will cost you a fee to play, although no ones how much
To function properly, it requires you hook your cable tv to it.


As I said in my post on the PS4, gaming is dead. Funny enough, Sony stock went up 8% yesterday after the announcement, which is funny since Sony stock tanked after they announced their system......


In other news though, Steam released Age of Empires 2 for $20 and oh my god its so good. I do miss sleep though.

Wallio wrote:As I said in my post on the PS4, gaming is dead.

And as I said in response to it,

Gaming is fine, and will continue to be so no matter what happens on consoles. You're just being Chicken Little. Perhaps a headless Chicken Little. Video games are a larger industry than movies, and have been for years. Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot, and repeatedly (which is a worrying trend as of late), but the industry will still go on.

For those that didn't catch the announcement of the Xbox One, or, as I will be henceforth calling it, the Xbone, here is an abridged version. Also, GameSpot is running a Twitter battle between the PS4 and the Xbone. It's not looking pretty for Microsoft.

Well, this pretty much confirms it, I'm done with games consoles. I've bought one each of the fifth, sixth and seven gen consoles, but this is where it ends. I'm done with this garbage, the 'big three' assuming they can treat consumers like garbage. I am not playing ball with these money grabbing whores. It's PC or the highway.

After looking at both consoles, there's no way i'm upgrading for the foreseeable future. If I do upgrade, it'll be the PS4, not the Xbox One.