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Now don't be hating on paint. If you manage to get really high on paint-fumes beforehand, I imagine watching paint dry can be very interesting.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Me and a buddy tried racing on the Nissan speedway track in Forza 2, with the fastest cars in the game. We managed 60 rounds before we set of in opposite directions.Gildan Bladeborn said:
God, the monotonous sound of the engines as we drove at full speed constantly.
Oval racing is just not interesting to watch.
Racing on regular tracks can be quite fun though. More turns, more variables, more variety, more excitement.
How is anyone "pushing their luck"? Someone started a thread where they voiced their opinion on something.RAKtheUndead said:
Sorry, but just because you don't agree with someone saying something is boring (something you were wrong about anyway, we are talking about NASCAR specifically, not racing in general, as I already pointed out so your article isn't even relevant to the OP) doesn't mean anyone is "pushing their luck". Some people find video games boring and I do not and for some reason, I'm OK with that.
Honestly man. Relax.
The Forza games are truly a terrible way to properly experience oval racing due to the extremely limited amount of cars competing at one time. Forza has only about 8 or so cars on a track at one time, while actual NASCAR races have about 42 cars on a track at one time (not including the 5-20 cars that might get knocked out due to accidents during the course of a race). Plus, in Forza all of the competing cars always race in a way that avoids other competitors without really bunching up into tight packs, so you don't get the tightly packed groups of cars you see in something like an actual NASCAR race.Jonluw said:
Nissan Speedway also isn't the best representation of most real-world oval courses due to the fact that you don't need to brake at all, as even most NASCAR courses require some form of brakeing in order to even make it around a single turn. The only oval course in the Forza games that truly represents most real world oval courses is Twin Ring Motegi, and even that isn't a proper taste of what most NASCAR courses are like.
Try driving around THAT in a NASCAR stock-car without using your brakes.
If you truly want to feel what oval racing is really like, try racing against a full grid in something like the ol' Papyrus NASCAR Racing simulators. It may be monotonous against only one other person/a few other people, but when you are tightly packed within a group of 10-or-so cars with only a few inches to spare between you and the guys in front of you, next to you, and behind you, monotonous is word you won't even consider using.
I am aware that the Forza games don't simulate NASCAR well. It was actually just me and my friend playing, with no AI controlled cars at all. The reason I wrote the first post there, is that playing NASCAR in Forza is a lot like watching NASCAR in real life.Skywolf09 said:The Forza games are truly a terrible way to properly experience oval racing due to the extremely limited amount of cars competing at one time. Forza has only about 8 or so cars on a track at one time, while actual NASCAR races have about 42 cars on a track at one time (not including the 5-20 cars that might get knocked out due to accidents during the course of a race). Plus, in Forza all of the competing cars always race in a way that avoids other competitors without really bunching up into tight packs, so you don't get the tightly packed groups of cars you see in something like an actual NASCAR race.Jonluw said:
Nissan Speedway also isn't the best representation of most real-world oval courses due to the fact that you don't need to brake at all, as even most NASCAR courses require some form of brakeing in order to even make it around a single turn. The only oval course in the Forza games that truly represents most real world oval courses is Twin Ring Motegi, and even that isn't a proper taste of what most NASCAR courses are like.
Try driving around THAT in a NASCAR stock-car without using your brakes.
If you truly want to feel what oval racing is really like, try racing against a full grid in something like the ol' Papyrus NASCAR Racing simulators. It may be monotonous against only one other person/a few other people, but when you are tightly packed within a group of 10-or-so cars with only a few inches to spare between you and the guys in front of you, next to you, and behind you, monotonous is word you won't even consider using.
I am not arguing that playing a proper NASCAR game is boring, but rather that watching a race is. And I think the excitement of playing on the Nissan Speedway in Forza can easily be likened to that of watching a race.
