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Player2 on 22 August 2012
PullusPardus said:
Player2 said:
PullusPardus said:
KylieDog said:
Playing a video game is nothing like driving a real car. Sorry Forza/GT fans.

have you driven a RACE car before?

there is a difference between a road car and a race car you know.

Forza and GT have road cars, you can use these to do a comparison.


Legal road cars have too many assists and traction controls added to them and also a bit of weight, and airbags ...etc so that they can be safe, on races they remove all these.

Isn't the weight in GT the official weight values given by Nissan, Toyota, etc?

Removing airbags, and unnecesary stuff is what the reduce weight upgrades do. If you do a lap with the stock car...

Anyway, comparison video (without asists in both), GT4 vs real life (same car, track, etc):

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

1.41 in the game, 1.57 in real life.

It would be better in GT5, but still...



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HiddenConcept on 22 August 2012
Player2 said:
PullusPardus said:
Player2 said:
PullusPardus said:
KylieDog said:
Playing a video game is nothing like driving a real car. Sorry Forza/GT fans.

have you driven a RACE car before?

there is a difference between a road car and a race car you know.

Forza and GT have road cars, you can use these to do a comparison.


Legal road cars have too many assists and traction controls added to them and also a bit of weight, and airbags ...etc so that they can be safe, on races they remove all these.

Isn't the weight in GT the official weight values given by Nissan, Toyota, etc?

Removing airbags, and unnecesary stuff is what the reduce weight upgrades do. If you do a lap with the stock car...

Anyway, comparison video (without asists in both), GT4 vs real life (same car, track, etc):

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

1.41 in the game, 1.57 in real life.

It would be better in GT5, but still...


All in all, fear does not affect you when playing a game and in an actual car.



TeddostheFireKing on 22 August 2012

I drive on the left side of the road in GTA just because I can :P



Chris Hu on 22 August 2012
Navane said:
Actually, it's not that far removed. The same basic concepts still apply. I own a racing wheel for Gran Turismo 5 and while real life driving is definitely different, just being able to practice steering on a racing wheel is a good way to build up experience for the real thing.

Again, you can't ever learn how to drive in a video game (at least, not yet), but getting your coordination down with a racing wheel will definitely help.


I don't know about that I suck using a racing wheel but I'm a pretty decent driver in real life (never got into an acident).  Also in real life people never go as fast as they do in video games the fastest I ever drove in real life was about 90 mph but that was really late at night and their was almost nobody else on the road.



superchunk on 22 August 2012

I've driven in US and Australia. Its just not an issue and even less so in a video game. IRL the only issue came in making a turn in an intersection where I almost went to the wrong side of the road. But, that was once in downtown Brisbane.