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kanariya on 10 June 2009

Someone is mad. :(



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kanariya on 10 June 2009
deadt0m said:
I truly don't give a fuck about racing sims at all, but let's be serious for a second here. To call Gran Turismo a racing sim, or to act like Gran Turismo even approaches realism, is mentally bankrupt. Any "racing sim" where your car exists in a bubble of force that prevents collisions or damage is not a "sim" at all, it is a pile of bullshit. Watching fanboys jump to the defense of Gran Turismo and talk about how realistic and awesome it is, as if they spend the time they aren't playing games or acting like douchebags on forums driving around in their sports car at 180 mph, makes me want to vomit.

Like I said, I wouldn't play Gran Turismo or Forza if you paid me, so I have absolutely no vested interest in this discussion, I'm just sick and tired of reading the same bullshit threads on this forum every single day, filled with the same worthless tools acting like they are fucking Mario Andretti.

Here is the bottom line: if you think a racing game where your car is immune to damage is anything even APPROACHING a sim, you should be forced to go through life in a helmet for your own safety, and should be castrated so that you can never have children as fucking stupid as you are. Mario Kart is closer to a racing sim than Gran Turismo is, because at least in Mario Kart there are negative consequences to running into things at high speeds.

In conclusion: if any of you tools actually owned a high performance automobile, or had any fucking clue whatsoever about the physics of driving such a car at extreme speeds, you would not be on VGChartz engaging in console-driven flame wars about racing games, you would be driving those cars or at the jobs which allowed you to pay for them, so spare us your meaningless armchair thesis on the subject of realism please. And if you think a game with damage-immune cars is at the forefront of realism, you're probably too stupid to even read this, so I probably just wasted my time.

 

http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/news/d3226.html

 

This should be a good read for you.



Squilliam on 10 June 2009

I guess if the Xbox 360 exists only to punk the PS3, then Forza 3 exists only to punk GT5. GT is probably the biggest single thing Sony has related to the Playstation brand, they have a very big incentive to take that away from them or at least reduce its power.



Tease.

deadt0m on 10 June 2009
kanariya said:
deadt0m said:
I truly don't give a fuck about racing sims at all, but let's be serious for a second here. To call Gran Turismo a racing sim, or to act like Gran Turismo even approaches realism, is mentally bankrupt. Any "racing sim" where your car exists in a bubble of force that prevents collisions or damage is not a "sim" at all, it is a pile of bullshit. Watching fanboys jump to the defense of Gran Turismo and talk about how realistic and awesome it is, as if they spend the time they aren't playing games or acting like douchebags on forums driving around in their sports car at 180 mph, makes me want to vomit.

Like I said, I wouldn't play Gran Turismo or Forza if you paid me, so I have absolutely no vested interest in this discussion, I'm just sick and tired of reading the same bullshit threads on this forum every single day, filled with the same worthless tools acting like they are fucking Mario Andretti.

Here is the bottom line: if you think a racing game where your car is immune to damage is anything even APPROACHING a sim, you should be forced to go through life in a helmet for your own safety, and should be castrated so that you can never have children as fucking stupid as you are. Mario Kart is closer to a racing sim than Gran Turismo is, because at least in Mario Kart there are negative consequences to running into things at high speeds.

In conclusion: if any of you tools actually owned a high performance automobile, or had any fucking clue whatsoever about the physics of driving such a car at extreme speeds, you would not be on VGChartz engaging in console-driven flame wars about racing games, you would be driving those cars or at the jobs which allowed you to pay for them, so spare us your meaningless armchair thesis on the subject of realism please. And if you think a game with damage-immune cars is at the forefront of realism, you're probably too stupid to even read this, so I probably just wasted my time.

 

http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/news/d3226.html

 

This should be a good read for you.

 

When he starts 8 duplicate threads about Forza 3 that might mean something to me.

 

In other news, Michael Phelps plays Legend of Zelda, so bust out your NES if you want to make it to the olympics.



kanariya on 10 June 2009

Do you know what GT Academy is? lol



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deadt0m on 10 June 2009
kanariya said:
Do you know what GT Academy is? lol

Industry leaders PlayStation and Nissan have come together to create the ultimate competitive driving test – GT Academy. GT Academy is an eight-month European competition which combines virtual and real-life racing to make the wildest dreams of two aspiring race drivers come true.

 

I never said that no one who has ever played GT could drive a race car, I said that no one who could drive a race car was on VGChartz starting 4-6 new flame wars about GT vs. Forza every single day.  Did you know that some pro basketball players play NBA Live?  I guess that's where they learned to shoot, dribble, and dunk.  You have absolutely no point at all, and clearly only skimmed what I wrote to begin with.

 

Since you're clearly such an expert on the subject, though, please explain to me the intense realism behind uncrashable cars.



kanariya on 10 June 2009
deadt0m said:
kanariya said:
Do you know what GT Academy is? lol

Industry leaders PlayStation and Nissan have come together to create the ultimate competitive driving test – GT Academy. GT Academy is an eight-month European competition which combines virtual and real-life racing to make the wildest dreams of two aspiring race drivers come true.

 

I never said that no one who has ever played GT could drive a race car, I said that no one who could drive a race car was on VGChartz starting 4-6 new flame wars about GT vs. Forza every single day.  Did you know that some pro basketball players play NBA Live?  I guess that's where they learned to shoot, dribble, and dunk.  You have absolutely no point at all, and clearly only skimmed what I wrote to begin with.

 

Since you're clearly such an expert on the subject, though, please explain to me the intense realism behind uncrashable cars.

 

Well, it's the THING to talk about these few days. Give it another week and they will go away.

 

FYI, NBA players do play NBA games. And some GMs use NBA Live as a scouting tool. For example, Daryl Morey the GM of Houston Rockets has been using NBA Live to scout.

 

Sometimes video game satistics and skills can really apply to real life.



yo_john117 on 10 June 2009

The guy who wrote this article is a total idiot.  He doesn't know one thing about Forza if he's saying its arcady, what a stupid tool.



FilaBrasileiro on 10 June 2009
Strategyking92 said:

Maybe you are just kinda gay

My view is the following:

Arcade racers:

hydro thunder

mario kart

Sim racers:

Forza, PGR, GT

But apparently GT = RACING TRAINER to you.

Jesus christ dude, get back to reality.


No, you're just coming out of the closet, I didn't mean that in an offensive way but that's how you come across when you wink at another man, really fucking gay, but that's what you are or want to be.


Your list just tells me you're a casual arcadey racer, and like I said, it's okay, people have different tastes, but you just don't know what the hell you're talking and therefore you don't really get what the OP is talking about when he's talking about damage.

 



deadt0m on 10 June 2009
kanariya said:
deadt0m said:
kanariya said:
Do you know what GT Academy is? lol

Industry leaders PlayStation and Nissan have come together to create the ultimate competitive driving test – GT Academy. GT Academy is an eight-month European competition which combines virtual and real-life racing to make the wildest dreams of two aspiring race drivers come true.

 

I never said that no one who has ever played GT could drive a race car, I said that no one who could drive a race car was on VGChartz starting 4-6 new flame wars about GT vs. Forza every single day.  Did you know that some pro basketball players play NBA Live?  I guess that's where they learned to shoot, dribble, and dunk.  You have absolutely no point at all, and clearly only skimmed what I wrote to begin with.

 

Since you're clearly such an expert on the subject, though, please explain to me the intense realism behind uncrashable cars.

 

Well, it's the THING to talk about these few days. Give it another week and they will go away.

 

FYI, NBA players do play NBA games. And some GMs use NBA Live as a scouting tool. For example, Daryl Morey the GM of Houston Rockets has been using NBA Live to scout.

 

Sometimes video game satistics and skills can really apply to real life.

I know NBA players play NBA games, that's EXACTLY what I just said.  That doesn't mean they are good at basketball because they played NBA Live, it means that they are good at basketball and they played NBA Live.  Just like that guy's race win doesn't mean he is good at racing because of Gran Turismo, it means he is good at racing and Gran Turismo.

 

How many more times are you going to reply to me without addressing the fundamental issue here:  How can a racing game with uncrashable cars be considered realistic?