March 1st Virtual Solo...

[Jedi1]

I would love to check out Race Pro.

Matt I have a meeting tonight at 6pm that I have to go to. Should be home around 9ish. Is that too late to call?

[waflet]

hideeho
what kind of connections does your tv have? hdmi, component, a/v?

[Jedi1]

yes

[waflet]

hideeho
cool, hdmi is much easier to deal with, only 1 cord. i will also, probably, need an extension cord for the wheel. any will do it's just a 2 prong.

for comparison i'll bring pgr4 & forza 2.

[TouringBubble]

You can call at 9:00 ... but you can also call before 6:00. I'm taking a half day and my tuning appointment just fell through, so I'm free. Maybe free enough to make a new LFS course ... =)

[Jedi1]

I won't let Forza into this house! . It was hear and when I got rid of it I swore it would not come back, lol. PGR is awesome though. IN my opinion PGR is leaps and bounds better than Forza ever thoguht about being.

[TouringBubble]

I could bring Mario Kart ... lol. Honestly though, real drivers can get infuriated at Mario Kart ... you race perfect and you get hit by a damn exploding turtle 20' from the finish and end up 6th.

[Erv]

darn blue shells, i'll bring dirt and grid

[Jedi1]

I have Dirt, traded grid in though.

[Erv]

but grid ai is THE BEST of ANY CONSOLE

[Jedi1]

odd how it can have great AI and such crap gameplay, lol. I got bored with it in a hurry to be honest.

[Erv]

its like porsche cup AI. aggressive, and they know lines and they follow them

[TouringBubble]

Grid looks impressive, but I only really did the mad tyte 5th gear drifting in a Soarer ... I have no real input. I <3 DiRt though.

[Cholewa]

grid is shit. I played the demo and it's just unbelievably terrible. The support for my wheel/pedals was awful. It was like using a controller where I was either full throttle or no throttle, no matter where I was in the pedal.

GT5 is where it's at (even if prologue is just a demo, it still rules) and I stand by that. If you would like, I will bring the ps3 and gt5p to dick around with on the tv.

[waflet]

hideeho
do you rember those battery operated rolling road toys? the one you turned on & a paper roll scrolled under a plastic car physicaly attached to the steeringwheel. the car would flop to which ever side you turned the wheel to but the paper always scrolled by in the same direction & at the same speed. that is what grid & dirt felt like to me. i got both from game fly. while neither was sent back quicker than import tuner chalenge & juiced 2 (both went back the same day) neither stayed very long.

while i really enjoy pgr i REALLY HATE having to get kudos instead of lap times to beat stuff to unlock cars which you MUST have to be competative online. once you get the cars & race online it is a wonderfull game.