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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Badwheels
wolftree said:
I'm sure he really cares about what losers on RD think when he takes his supercar from his garage to drive to the office every morning.
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If he has a supercar as you say, you can bet your butt he cares about what RD people think. He needs someone to keep being a sucker so he can keep putting gas in it. Why do you think he keeps going to the well ?
 
Damage Inc
jaysus the fecking toxic shite here is mind boggling....

If they can bring something like PC2 to the table with those graphics I'll be happy (maybe it'll get me away from rF2).
 
Richard Wilks
gianlucaP said:
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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The Madness engine is head and shoulders above anything else in the genre. No further proof needed.
 
Mekonrider
Why do people seem to think this has no chance of doing anything? I'd put my on this over Rennsport.
 
Richard Wilks
gianlucaP said:
Instead they need to prove a lot of stuff my friend, because apparently they aren't using the Madness Engine anymore (and they can't, if this has been sold to Codemasters when they acquired the SMS) and because they promised "UE5 graphics with RF2 physics".
So they have to provide that and also be sure to deliver better quality and performance than the competitors. Or you think that Kunos, Reiza, S397 and the others won't do nothing in the next three years?
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You tell me. Reiza is basically modding their previous engine for more than 2 years now. Kunos has done a tech demo (AC 1) and a half baked GT game (if we compare it with how complete F1 from codies is) in almost 10 years. S397 has done not much besides a new UI and new content for years. In the meantime, Ian Bell released 3 new games, and is going for 4th in a new engine. So it's easy to see who has actually been producing things, and who has been living out of community good will (and fanaticism) for years.
 
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After PC3, Ian Bell is just about the least trustworthy sim developer I've come across. I sincerely hope this one won't be a disappointment, but I'm about 98% certain the game we will might get won't be anywhere near as good as he promises.

It's also pretty "interesting" one of Bell's devs has already made 2 videos, 1 of them slamming GTR 2's AI and the other slamming AMS 2's physics. Even though he's IMO correct on both points, rule #1 of being a respectful businessman is to not bad-mouth your competitors. Plus, AMS 2 is running on Bell's Madness Engine (which, with the best will in the world, has subpar physics, despite the beautiful graphics and great performance), so if anything that video seems like an own goal.
 
Copef1
After reading this thread I can only surmise that Ian Bell is living rent free in a lot of your heads. It's amazing how many people are triggered by the mere mention of his name. I am starting to wonder if RD needs a safe space where Ian can't be mentioned. Is it really worth getting so emotional over?

If his new studio turns out a game/sim, read the reviews, watch the videos, and decide if it looks like something you want to pay for. It's not like Ian hasn't been involved with successful sim racing software before. It is possible they turn out something great, and if not, don't buy it, and move on with your life.
 
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Copef1 said:
After reading this thread I can only surmise that Ian Bell is living rent free in a lot of your heads. It's amazing how many people are triggered by the mere mention of his name. I am starting to wonder if RD needs a safe space where Ian can't be mentioned. Is it really worth getting so emotional over?

If his new studio turns out a game/sim, read the reviews, watch the videos, and decide if it looks like something you want to pay for. It's not like Ian hasn't been involved with successful sim racing software before. It is possible they turn out something great, and if not, don't buy it, and move on with your life.
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So true. And on top of that it triggers the worst hate on whatever sim is not the favorite of a given member posting. This thread is toxic not only towards Bell, but in general.
I find that hilarious.
One thing is anyway a fact: Ian Bell has put together what is still today the most advanced engine in terms of physics model, Madness Engine. Whether we like it or not it's a fact.
As is a fact that he fu..d it up by not sticking to it until it was well tuned out of greed to monetize everything.
We can pick whichever side of the coin we want as the most important but the two facts remain.
 
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lucifer sam
Copef1 said:
After reading this thread I can only surmise that Ian Bell is living rent free in a lot of your heads. It's amazing how many people are triggered by the mere mention of his name. I am starting to wonder if RD needs a safe space where Ian can't be mentioned. Is it really worth getting so emotional over?

If his new studio turns out a game/sim, read the reviews, watch the videos, and decide if it looks like something you want to pay for. It's not like Ian hasn't been involved with successful sim racing software before. It is possible they turn out something great, and if not, don't buy it, and move on with your life.
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While I think your insistence on using 2016 youtube buzzwords is really cringy, I do agree with the larger point. Wait for the game to come out then criticize it, and if you don't like the guy do what I do and just refuse to buy the game. It isn't that hard at all. But hey its the internet, people love getting very angry and hosting hate CJ's. I don't even care for Ian I just think everyone getting upset is rather silly.
 
MiddleAgedMan
I'm connected to Ian bell on LinkedIn - He is currently the CEO of Mad Coin. Go to their website and it's just a landing page - that's it!
 
Copef1
lucifer sam said:
While I think your insistence on using 2016 youtube buzzwords is really cringy, I do agree with the larger point. Wait for the game to come out then criticize it, and if you don't like the guy do what I do and just refuse to buy the game. It isn't that hard at all. But hey its the internet, people love getting very angry and hosting hate CJ's. I don't even care for Ian I just think everyone getting upset is rather silly.
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Like "cringy" isn't 2016? At least you got the point. I am curios though, does your hatred for Ian mean that even if they turn out the best sim ever made, you won't buy it?
 
GT-Alex
F_B said:
Wow, what an awful logo that is.
Regarding the game: showing polished screenshots is not enough, especially when Ian Bell is involved.
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Do we think it's taken out straight from a stocks images site like his previous one ?
 
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lucifer sam
Copef1 said:
Like "cringy" isn't 2016? At least you got the point. I am curios though, does your hatred for Ian mean that even if they turn out the best sim ever made, you won't buy it?
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It is infact very 2016. I don't deny it, just using the terms of the time to make sure you understand what I'm getting at. And it REALLY depends on the content for the last part. If Ian was making a sim focusing on more obscure historical content and the content is well done I'd certainly buy it, especially if it had pre war cars and tracks. All it really means is that the bar is higher for me to actually buy the game, it'd truly have to have something unique to offer. I mean it's unfair, but why should I support someone I don't like? I mean people have done this forever
 

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