Most of you who play this game will know that I have been one of WMD's and the rest of them's harshest critics on here. And other places until I was banned/deleted/whatever.
So my uncle who is in his 60's and a fanatical player of Gran Turismo tells me over Easter than he has bought Pcars! I look in horror but try and hide my disappointment.
BUT!! He has it on the platform it was designed to be used on, a next gen console. So, he listens to my issues and I can see nodding heads and obvious understand as to how it was developed on PC but released mainly as a console title etc etc.
And I am pleasantly surprised. He is using a decent wheel and in the game it works OK, not fabulous but OK. It plays OK too, the handling is a bit iffy in places, but no worse than GT6 and the cars and tracks available are undoubtedly impressive.
As far as he is concerned the only drawbacks (I didn't really play it long enough to warrant many) are the unnecessarily massive range of wheel adjustment that even to me and him who are seasoned simmers was baffling. He wants a simpler system with simple Windows profiler type ranges, we couldn't work out how to harden the centre spring, how to change the degrees of input, very, very simple changes that should be central to the setup.
Mainly the fact that when you highlight a particular area you get no help in the right hand text area to help you with what that might change. SO you are stabbing in the dark.
Other issues for him were the weird difficulty issues where a 85% difficulty in one car might be fairly easy, yet the next race might be utterly impossible. He is not prepared to pay for online passes so as yet has not found the online to be a problem and likely will never bother.
Also the common one of AI on wets being as fast as they are on dries and their rather random behaviour.
But I will say as a console game it is up there, I would certainly try it on PS4 and that is all I can really say.
The behaviour of the way some of their people operate and have operated is the main reason I felt it necessary to make a noise in lots of places, and this has been echoed by plenty of other people since, plus the unnecessary hype that was focused on PC players especially when the game was really and is pretty much a console game.
For me it plays very nicely on a console, far better than any version I EVER played on a PC I have tried it on, and this I think is one of the main things people need to realise about the game.
So there you have it, I tried it, didn't mind it and would even buy it. But ONLY on console.
So my uncle who is in his 60's and a fanatical player of Gran Turismo tells me over Easter than he has bought Pcars! I look in horror but try and hide my disappointment.
BUT!! He has it on the platform it was designed to be used on, a next gen console. So, he listens to my issues and I can see nodding heads and obvious understand as to how it was developed on PC but released mainly as a console title etc etc.
And I am pleasantly surprised. He is using a decent wheel and in the game it works OK, not fabulous but OK. It plays OK too, the handling is a bit iffy in places, but no worse than GT6 and the cars and tracks available are undoubtedly impressive.
As far as he is concerned the only drawbacks (I didn't really play it long enough to warrant many) are the unnecessarily massive range of wheel adjustment that even to me and him who are seasoned simmers was baffling. He wants a simpler system with simple Windows profiler type ranges, we couldn't work out how to harden the centre spring, how to change the degrees of input, very, very simple changes that should be central to the setup.
Mainly the fact that when you highlight a particular area you get no help in the right hand text area to help you with what that might change. SO you are stabbing in the dark.
Other issues for him were the weird difficulty issues where a 85% difficulty in one car might be fairly easy, yet the next race might be utterly impossible. He is not prepared to pay for online passes so as yet has not found the online to be a problem and likely will never bother.
Also the common one of AI on wets being as fast as they are on dries and their rather random behaviour.
But I will say as a console game it is up there, I would certainly try it on PS4 and that is all I can really say.
The behaviour of the way some of their people operate and have operated is the main reason I felt it necessary to make a noise in lots of places, and this has been echoed by plenty of other people since, plus the unnecessary hype that was focused on PC players especially when the game was really and is pretty much a console game.
For me it plays very nicely on a console, far better than any version I EVER played on a PC I have tried it on, and this I think is one of the main things people need to realise about the game.
So there you have it, I tried it, didn't mind it and would even buy it. But ONLY on console.
