Ian Bell | Straight4Games and Hyper-Realistic Screenshots

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Ian Bell is at it again. As has been announced, the Englishman's new studio will be developing racing games. And boy, if the tweets are no lies, whatever they have in their pipeline is some hyper-realistic stuff!

Straight4Games​

The new studio will not be called, as previously announced, MildlyAnnoyedStudios, but rather Straight4Games. This was announced in a Tweet that Ian Bell put out on his private Twitter account.

The programmer from Hertfordshire revealed the following logo to be used for the game development studio.
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The New Game Engine​

The studio's first job seemed to be working with a new engine. According to a previous tweet from Ian Bell, the used engine might be Unreal Engine 5, as he said:

Imagine RF2 physics, tweaked in an Unreal 5 world... I do. Dreams can come true.
- Ian Bell, Mar 31, 2022

The known detail is that this new engine, according to recent Tweets is capable of hyper-realistic renderings of car interiors, as seen in the following screenshots.

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According to answers in the original Tweet by Ian Bell, these screenshots are "100% in-engine".

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The first project of Straight4Games is said to be GTR Revival, a reimagining of the classic GTR games developed by SimBin and Ian Bell's own Blimey! Games.

What do you think of this news? What do you think of the screenshots? Let us know in the comments down below!
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Every single time this tool comes up with some new scam RD hypes the bejeezus out of whatever garbage he is peddling and every single time it actually came to a product customers could (pre) buy it ended up being a far cry from what the man has promised.

I see this as entertainment only.
so you're saying dont listen to RD when they endorse something?
 
I am developing a new racing sim, it will be called "The mother popping sim car simulator", it will be the best sim for the next 75 years.
Here you can see some of it at it´s current state.
 

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When I saw this article title before publication my immediate thought was oh boy this is going to be fun, and I'm not talking about the game.
Let me point out that Ian Bell is a member here and our ToS says personal attacks on other members breach our board rules.
So please keep that in mind before posting.
 
When I saw this article title before publication my immediate thought was oh boy this is going to be fun, and I'm not talking about the game.
Let me point out that Ian Bell is a member here and our ToS says personal attacks on other members breach our board rules.
So please keep that in mind before posting.
Kenny, while I appreciate the reminder, it’s also a bit of a conflict of interest, no?
 
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Finally something we really need. Judging by the screenshot we are now able to drive in cockpit view but from the back seats.. amazing. Now I can Finally get the wife or my mother in law to be a virtual " Back seat driver"

Does in come in VR?

can you set crew chief to nag all the time.
Or loud children shouting "are we there yet"

This could be so realistic.
 
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Funny, i see a lot of AC fanboys here cursing at Ian Bell yet again... how is that AC2 coming along boys?... or are you still waiting for the russian hacker to make you pay for more features that kunos couldn't be bothered to include?... :rolleyes:

Like one user said above, at least he is again pushing to drive the genre forward, instead of just deeming things "not necessary" like other devs... so let's first see what comes out of it before judging.
 
As soon as I hear that name I completely lose interest. Is he a pathological liar?
There is a known core of unreliable actors, their involvement in any project is not good.
But give him his due, the others are teams...he did everything by himself.
 

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