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Hi Tyler, great to see you on the forum and thanks for the in-depth introduction, of course I remember the NeoGaf’ers. 😉 and it will be great to see more of you here as we get better organised. I’ll sort the font btw, it’s a touch too large but helpful for my eyes which aren’t always the best. This forum is still a work in progress and there are new elements planned in the coming months and years.
Great to see your feedback on your racing gaming history, that is something I really want to explore with this site in terms of a great history of racing games out there. Ah Forza 5, well we’ve all got to start somewhere 😉 and at least it drove you to using a wheel, now there’s no going back.
Loving the telemetry data, look forward to seeing your feedback, feel free to create a OT or dedicated thread for your sim physics chat. Ben Green will be on the forum later this year and it will be great to involve him and other racing drivers in physics debate.
Btw. the new VVV site really looks fantastic! You should be really proud, @Alan!
Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it! It’s been a lot of work bringing this together over many months and a relief to finally be able to interact with it.
That’s a great idea for content, I have many more myself but alas I’m at the limit of my workload. If we find more writers and video content creators who want to contribute, that will definitely be on the list.
Hi Mister30, thanks for joining the community, the newsletter was designed to launch with the new site, alas the site took slighter longer to build than expected so the newsletter was delayed, but it should start up next week.
We’ve still got some bit’s n pieces being worked on and then be better organised next month.
Hopefully I should be back to streaming again very soon as well.
My feeling is that Ferrari are losing faith in Vettel, he’s had a couple of years with a competitive car and produced a range of unforced errors and poor judgement. On paper Leclerc is a No:2 driver, but I think next year could be a huge test for Vettel if he doesn’t win the championship this year.
Kimi could be a back up, Ferrari and Sauber may want his experience in developing their 2021 car.
Yes Jules was really displaying his obvious talent, super quick and committed. There was no doubt he would have been at Ferrari in 2016.
The trouble with Formula 2 or GP2 is, it doesn’t often correlate to F1. Plenty of drivers who have excelled in the lower formulas have failed when making the step up. We’ve seen a similar example with Stoffel Vandoorne, dominant performances in the lower classes just haven’t translated to the top flight. Why is this? Team motivation, set-up, understanding, skill? Did he have a car advantage in lower formulas that made the difference? Impossible to say. But I do feel that Charles could do with another year at Sauber, Ferrari has always been a team for the more experienced driver and change might not be best for them this year.
Kimi may be dull to watch and a shadow of his former self, but he is a good No:2 driver and whatever happens, that is how Ferrari works best.
Thanks Matt, does your FB group make videos of those races?
RDR2 will be awesome!
Yes, photomodes help with getting angles on cars,really helped me, all about getting the profile of a car and at race tracks you just need lots of zoom to get those angles.
Sounds like you have a fun few days of racing ahead, keep us posted in the Motorsport section.
Yes I expected it will be the E3 demo, very limited but shows off the technical prowess.
PC version is definitely preferable, Kevin’s review will be up in the coming days, he’splayed a lot more of it than I have.
Hi Nelly, welcome to the forum.
Yes I like to think of us as the gamer generation, we grew up with the early tech and the tech grew with us. I think that gives us an even greater appreciation for the range of games and experience that they offer.
That’s 3 very special games on your list, I’ll be aiming to play all of those as well and we’ll have some FH4 coverage coming very soon.
Hi Matt,
Welcome to the site and a big thanks, glad you like it and great to hear of your gaming experience. I remember TOCA having that incredibly realistic audio at the time, especially when stones hit the car, alas it ll looks a bit shoddy these days.
Yes, Driver SF was a great game, amazing multiplayer modes and hugely underrated. Looking back you had an open world game at 60fps with loads of detail and such ambition to the gameplay. The game is ripe for an HD rel-release on a future format, keep the same modes and bring is back Ubisoft!
What are you playing at the moment? Oh and do share some of your motorsport photos from time to time.
I didn’t like the way Ferrari operated back in the day, left a sour taste in my mouth after watching the races at times. There was one race (my memory is a bit vague now), I think it was Suzuka ’97, when Eddie Irvine was blocking Jacques to the point that he was clearly willing to take then both out should Jacques go for the overtake. Slowing a car down was one thing, but this was another, the fun went out of it, I guess this just wasn’t Formula One in my book.
Though the record books see the success of Ferrari and Schumacher during this early 2000’s period, it was a dreadful period for Formula One as a whole. The viewing audience fell, the field unable to compete. As for the boo’ing, this is all part of the Tifosi, it’s part of the Ferrari culture you love about them. I remember watching Monza on TV when I was young and it felt terrifying hearing the passion and aggression of the crowd at that time but being there I love it, it was all pantomime.
As for Mercedes, I have found that Valtteri’s attitude has changed this year. His driving becoming sloppy and desperate, his attitude becoming more cocky than confident, overall more erratic and less consistent. He’s just not a contender any more and given some of his recent driving conduct at Hungary and Spa that makes him dangerous to overtake, again adding to that negative feeling when watching.
I accept team tactics, but if there was one move I didn’t like, it was calling the mechanics into the pits when they clearly had no intention of stopping. Not to fool the other car, as used to be the case, but to use the mechanics as a human wall to alter the course of the Ferrari entering the pits. This was supposed to be banned, I don’t like it, I don’t respect it.
Yeah, its designed to run on XBox One X and PS4 Pro as the target platforms so I’m assuming the graphics will be highly scale-able, of course on an RTX is has the potential to look amazing, but then by the time it’s released we’ll probably see new gen cards.
It’s always difficult to be definitive on these things, the MegaDrive and SNES gave so much joy, but the PS1 was such a leap. The Playstation blew our minds, it made games possible that were previously unthinkable. Though many of my personal top 10 games are MD and SNES, I could never get bored with the PS1 selection. Games were simpler is design, yet more complete. There was a more daring vision to development ideas and the scale of some tiles such as Magic Carpet, G-Police and Colony was was on another level.
I was going through the shed recently, took a few photos of the boxes, these all represent the stuff of dreams. Gaming from a simpler time before online gaming over-complicated everything.
