Comments on: iOpener Signs Deal With Simbin

By: Sensekhmet

Sensekhmet — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:10:57 +0000

Raikku, I didn’t and I probably never will. I don’t have a credit card and even if I did I can’t see how an expensive pay-to-play game/sim could come before my real life money devouring hobby.
Hell, I didn’t buy anything for my self (save for the DFGT, because my Saitek R100 broke and a cheap Sony MP3 player… because someone stole my old one) in 3 years, every penny goes into racing. I’m a motorsport junkie and I’m on the edge because I ‘used up’ my second car a few months ago. I’m trying to finish my master’s degree to finally get a ‘real’ job. After that it’s getting two cars (daily driver and competition car) and racing until I die or coffers run dry again.

By: Raikku

Raikku — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:49:00 +0000

Khmet, you’ve already tried iRacing? I suck there(although C now), but so many real life pro’s said that it’s close so i guess it should be then.

By: Sensekhmet

Sensekhmet — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:06:18 +0000

I agree, it might be an exaggeration, but not a big one. Fire up a modern game, any game and I bet you won’t find the bleak, sterile feeling of racing sims. They just feel like playing with toy cars on an empty table as far as overall gaming experience is concerned.
I might be biased, because I am close to motorsport in real life (amateur competitor and FIA licensed marshal) and in my opinion there really isn’t much save for physics that modern sims take from real motorsport. Because of that I’m a poor simracer, I just can’t get immersed into a game, sometimes I feel like dozing off mid-race!

By: ral42

ral42 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:03:40 +0000

“What is better than racing against the real pros?!”

Racing with other people close to my skill level who are racing under the same conditions, in real-time, whenever I want. Sound familiar?

By: DW

DW — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:34:10 +0000

Sensekhmet: Forget WRC, IRC or even ERC sim would be great.I hope Simbin comes up with something that’s really new: right now we all simrace using technology that’s 10 (or 15?) years old!

While I take your point that gMotor2 is dated and at the end of its life, you exaggerate its age. Try installing SCGT - I did about a year ago - and you will see how far we have come in the last 10 years - it really has nothing in common with say GTR Evo.

By: F1_fan_1

F1_fan_1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:48:54 +0000

ctv: isnt iopener collaborating with the belgian gt? (belcar or somthing?) i think this is the way they are brining us another gt game…

Or the Dutch Supercar Challenge. I remember seeing a car from that series in a vid.

By: ctv

ctv — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:26:51 +0000

isnt iopener collaborating with the belgian gt? (belcar or somthing?) i think this is the way they are brining us another gt game…

By: O11

O11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:40 +0000

Mr. A is right.
I read about that in a magazine way back. The plan was to let you race in realtime against live telemetry from the FIA GT races.

By: Sensekhmet

Sensekhmet — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:54:51 +0000

Forget WRC, IRC or even ERC sim would be great.
I hope Simbin comes up with something that’s really new: right now we all simrace using technology that’s 10 (or 15?) years old! Maybe save for iRacing and Richard Burns Rally, but the first will remain unaccessible for a lot of people while the latter is an unfinished, dead game, regardless of new fantastic cars and tracks and online plugins (sorry!).
What we need is a next-gen sim: not only in the 3D/physics engine department, but the whole experience. Let’s face it, our sims feel dead, it’s like comparing Eye of the Beholder to Fallout 3. Yes, both are fantastic RPGs but try EoB today… it deserves the respect and place in history but it belongs in a museum! And so do the sims we play.
Oh, and I’ve made a comparison of RPGs but it works in other genres too: Wolfenstein 3D vs. Call of Duty World at War, for example. See what I mean?

By: Mr. A

Mr. A — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:36:59 +0000

I remember Henrik Roos talking about technology like this when I met him at Anderstorp, before even the first GTR was released. So I’m not surprised to see Simbin being interested in implementing this tech into their games.

By: flips

flips — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:17:57 +0000

With Playstation putting WRC into GT5, doesn’t that mean that the license is going to be tied up for a bit? Or are they not always exclusive licenses like F1?

By: Uff

Uff — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:50:54 +0000

But adding new tech to a new tech may result in something interesting.
Let’s hope to see something new and interesting, after Race On!

By: xilix

xilix — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:53:49 +0000

Adding new tech to old tech, doesn’t make the old tech new.

By: joseki

joseki — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:50:34 +0000

This deal sounds interesting but I’m still hoping that the upcoming World Rally Championship simulation is made by Slightly Mad Studios.