This is a good guide, for sure! I like HokiHoshi’s wheel guide as well. It’s a relatively short video and explains the different settings. It also covers what types of settings that suits different types of wheel bases, as the same settings will feel different on a DD-wheel compared to a gear- or belt driven one.
Regarding Jimmy’s video, I’m a longtime fan of his and I’ve watched his videos since 2018. I just don’t think the constant nagging at Forza Motorsport is a very fresh look for him when we all know that he works for Gran Turismo as a presenter and the conflict of interest that brings. It’s his opinion though and I respect it.
Like someone else already mentioned, play what YOU enjoy and don’t let anyone else dictate what you should like
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this relationship with GT started with him playing the game. A game that offered good competitive racing, while Forza was still “working” on FRR. So if Forza did that, that video from a few days ago could have been mentioning Forza instead of GT. It’s not like he was randomly assignassigned to “team GT”. It’s not Jimmy’s fault that GT is several steps ahead of Forza. Even now we see that Forza has no intention of changing that.
Jimmy Broadbent started streaming Sim racing content from his mum’s garden shed during a debilitating case of extreme agoraphobia. He has since recovered and has been able to parlay his experience Sim racing into a successful real racing career. He has competed in a few seasons of the British Praga cup series, winning one season together with his co-driver.
He has also taken part in numerous endurance racing events at the Nurburgring as part of a team with fellow YT personalities who are also professional racing drivers. Their team has won several class championships.
But before dismissing him as nothing more than a lazy couch potato influencer, maybe ask how many real world championships you’ve won. Or how many laps during an endurance race in real life you’ve completed at the full Ring 24hr circuit.
His opinion expressed in his video is just that; His opinion. No one is forcing anyone to agree with it. But maybe he might actually know a thing or two about racing to form that opinion.
If you’re on here and you enjoy the game, keep playing. No one is stopping you.
Idk how ppl can say this is a dead game. The player population has never been better and its rare for me to join a server these days that doesnt have at least 20 people(id say 80-90%.) Even if im up at 4 am its still usually 10 people when for months youd be lucky to get five.
Most matches have tons of level 100-500 people meaning people are trying it and dropping alot of hours.
Even the rivals which provide reward cars or liveries/driver suits are racking up tens of thousands of drivers. If there’s one thing you can’t really worry about any more in this game it’s player count.
I remember watching his first video and he never gave the game a chance, I have watched his vids for years and really felt that he would give It a fair go but no he loaded the game did not like the ffb and never even tried to adjust anything.
To be fair on that front, they hyped it up, it should have worked out of the gate. It didn’t need to be perfect. Lowering the pnuematic to 60 and raising mechanical to 140, lowering damper to 20, would probably have been enough to make it feel good for most people. You shouldn’t have to sit through an hour long video like mine to understand how to make it work. None of the setting are intuitive to adjust and some are flawed, which doesn’t help.
I think when it comes down to it, if a game isnt fun no ones going to dive deeper into it. If you look at how this game presented itself at launch for him, the ffb wasnt great, the cars you start with cant be tuned until you get parts to do so, you cant get the parts until you race enough with a car you cant tune to feel better. You also dont have a choice when and how you upgrade. This has to be done with every car.
This was obviously not an ideal game loop. The upgrade progression mechanic was a really bad idea. It likely cost them thousands of players and a lot of bad press which cost them thousands more.
You add in bugs, long loading times, crashes to dash or desktop, the graphic presentation was not great, the ui is clunky, what you get is an unsuccessful recipe for disaster.
Conversely, you look at Horizon and it starts you off dropping you down on top of a volcano and going off a huge jump, you then switch to a car and drive through a huge dust storm you then finish in a brand new hyper car. This gets people intrigued, this hooks them into diving into the game more and wanting to see what else the game has to offer.
You look at gt7, a more similar game to this. A super slick presentation that oozes quality and care. You do start with slow cars, but the only restrictions you have to upgrading is how much money you have. But theres not just racing to get you invested, theres license tests which pull you in, which also include a leaderboard to add a little competition. You feel as though youre working towards something, unlocking a greater experience.
Compared to these two examples, motorsport was frontloaded with numerous obstacles before you could have fun. It felt like what it ultimately was, which was a grind. You grind out one car, just to have to grind out the next. This was bad game design and execution, this is why the game failed to do what games are supposed to do which is to have fun.
I think he never had any interest in the game, and that’s fine.
My only issue is presenting GT7 as a sim. You can swap a Chiron engine into a Lexus coupe. The tyres are so nuts so you get high 5,s low 6s at the Nordschleife in a swapped Delta Integrale that doesn’t look like it’s about to enter World Time Attack.
Both games have their issues, both are different, which is great. I wish Codemasters had the budget to go all out on a Race Driver GRID. The more the merrier.
It’s best that you don’t know. G4 (i wrote G7… Oops.) Was a video game orentated TV channel. For a while it was decent entertainment, and tried to present a fair view of gaming, and quirky cultures. It didn’t last though and wenr off the air. A little while ago it tried a resurgence but due to ditestable hosts and other things that preached at its own audience, it pushed its viewers away and cratered pretty hard.
I’m not getting into Sessler but, lets just say he lived long enough to see himself become the villain.
