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

Many ambitions but little will to work
 
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I've not much hope for anything too good from the guy who gave us pCars, but I've lost nothing until I've actually handed money over for it.
Another sim to choose from can only be a good thing. If it's good, I'll buy it, if it's another disappointment, I'll get amusement from following the criticism instead. Either way, there's fun to be had.
 
SvenUilhoorn
Kenny Paton said:
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.
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Posted something like this before, but I think the author kind of knows what's coming, especially if you start of with "Ian Bell is at it again". Feels a bit like entrapment to me..

Plenty of other stuff and news if you want to generate clicks then as well..
 
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Natasha Arias
Wilko Jones said:
Wishing Mr. Bell all the luck and good fortune in the world. Hopefully his new studio and game will do well, but more importantly; this doesn't get Hoovered up by EA.
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And you now what happens when Electronic Arts put their hands on something. They turn great things into.............................:roflmao: [ put whatever word you want]

gianlupaP:
In which way?
If the game is developed with the UE5, we have to thanks Epic for that level of detail and is not the first racing sim that uses the unreal Engine.
If he's bringing road cars to GTR, I doubt that this can be considered a step forward for the franchise.
GTR Revolution is probably a game like Project Cars, with road cars and race cars. This would explain the Audi of the screenshot, because they could have showed the same level of detail in the cockpit of a FIA GT1 race car.
Either this or they are developing two different games, just like they tried to do back in the pCars days, with World of Speed.

We all would love to have a GTR 2 remaster with the UE5 graphics and RF2 physics. Unfortunally the SMS (because it's still them) can't make it.
They proved already in the past to be oriented mainly to the console market, because that's where the money is. Doesn't matter what they say, show or promise: the only way to prove me wrong is to release a real GTR 2 remaster, with UE5 graphics and RF2 physics.
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I'm tired of GT3/GTE and GT4 cars. I know everyone prefer those cars because they are popular. But I would like to see a dedicate sim with all kind of open wheels cars using UE5:D
 
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passenger
Well, the title of the studio says 'games' not simulation, so even though this guy
mentions rFactor 2' s physics, you have to be skeptical.
 
K
Simbin UK S4G checklist:
-find a "nostalgia effect" game name [DONE]
-promise best racing game ever [DONE]
-upload YT videos against your previous games [DONE]
-send screenshots every 3 months to RD [DONE]
-look for investors [TO DO]
-disappear from the net if you fail above [TO DO]
-repeat after 4 years [TO DO]


Please stop publishing these articles... Come back when you have a demo.
 
Shovas
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Remember that conversation at the end of Charlie Wilson's War about the guru and good and bad things happening?

We'll see.

That's become my philosophy with a lot of things.

At this point, even if it ends up like Project Cars, at least we'll get a flashy looking racer that might set some new bars that other sims will follow in the coming years.

Clearly they "can" produce a proper sim engine, given what Reiza's done with Madness, but Bell & Co have never shown the commitment needed to bring the game to sim level like Reiza has done.

So, we'll see.

At least we'll get classic car content :thumbsup:

PS. I challenge Bell to match and exceed Power & Glory's cars and SHO PnG Retrofit's vintage tracks, real-life championships, and classic 24 hour races :ninja:
 
vitorhs
kk08 said:
Simbin UK S4G checklist:
-find a "nostalgia effect" game name [DONE]
-promise best racing game ever [DONE]
-upload YT videos against your previous games [DONE]
-send screenshots every 3 months to RD [DONE]
-look for investors [TO DO]
-disappear from the net if you fail above [TO DO]
-repeat after 4 years [TO DO]


Please stop publishing these articles... Come back when you have a demo.
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Ian don't have nothing to do with Simbin have quite a while, like 15 years!. He was behind the NFS Shift and Project Cars games and love or hate it, but they exist.
 
K
Anybody can publish some "screenshots" with the help of Photoshop and the rest... So, this looks like a lot of hot air at the moment.

This goes into my "I'll believe it when the sim is here" folder.
 
M D Gourley
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Welcome back Mr Bell....look forward to seeing what you come up with and hopefully includes one hell of an awesome 'PHOTO MODE' as well:inlove:...Best of Luck
 

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