The Future of NASCAR Gaming

[bluestreak10]

Quote: Originally Posted by mgoblue

IMO iRacing is a bit daunting to those who aren't hardcore racing gamers. I know for me I like a Nascar game I can play sometimes, enjoy, but not have to run a billion laps to learn how to tweak the setups and whatnot.

if they had a free demo i would try it but im not payin for something that i can't try out without having to pay.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by pk500

Fallacy. Most people will share a setup in a practice server if you ask politely, and you can find a ton of solid setups at the iRacing forum and other setup sharing sites.

Oh, I know the community is awesome. I'm more just saying that I'm not a good enough race game driver and realistically I'm not going to put in the laps necessary to get really good. I'm not bashing iRacing at all, it's just a bit too sim for me.

[snapplers]

I don't think you guys have seen this yet!

Although it isn't totally dedicated to NASCAR, it will be a significant part of it!

Check out the teaser trailer below. Because I'm a newbie I cannot post a direct link, so take it and put it back together in the address bar.

Type in youtube (.) com / watch?v=COCr0CqVmc0

[DakkoN]

It's been known since E3 last year that NASCAR was going to be included in Gran Turismo 5. Gran Turismo 5 is due to be released in October 2010. So saying that no NASCAR games are being released this year is pretty uninformed and silly.

[bkfount]

Quote: Originally Posted by DakkoN

It's been known since E3 last year that NASCAR was going to be included in Gran Turismo 5. Gran Turismo 5 is due to be released in October 2010. So saying that no NASCAR games are being released this year is pretty uninformed and silly.

NASCAR in GT5 is just a feature, and we certainly don't know how much of it is in the game. 16 car fields is hardly true NASCAR sim anyways.

NASCAR as a sport just doesn't translate to anything other than sim racing. EA got the license to try to expand it beyond the sim PC crowd, and they failed because the market isn't there. If any other developer thought it was worth the effort to put out a NASCAR game, there would have been takers.

[stlstudios189]

It's already been a year since Nascar 09 was released in Fall of 08. I am getting sick of all these games getting dropped and gamers getting left w/o a new release.

[morieeel]

Was addicted to Payprus's Nascar series and Grand prix legends when I was gaming on a PC. Since all my gaming is on consoles now, I cant get used to racing on a console. I tried the EA series and formula one games for PS3 but it just not the same even with a wheel for some reason.

[pk500]

Quote: Originally Posted by DakkoN

It's been known since E3 last year that NASCAR was going to be included in Gran Turismo 5. Gran Turismo 5 is due to be released in October 2010. So saying that no NASCAR games are being released this year is pretty uninformed and silly.

Gran Turismo 5 was due to be released two years ago. I'll believe it when we see it. If you think it's going to be released this October, then I have oceanfront property in Saskatchewan to sell you.

Plus BK is right: A 16-car NASCAR field? What a joke. Polyphony has promised a damage model for GT 5 -- hey, it's about time after 12 years of the series! -- but who knows if it will be any good, as GT always has favored eye candy over realism.

The only legitimate, new NASCAR gaming alternative right now is iRacing. It's tested, tried, true and phenomenal. No console version of NASCAR is even in the same area code as iRacing.

In fact, I fired up the old gold standard of NASCAR sims, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season by Papyrus for the PC, and it felt old and sub-standard compared to iRacing. The Papyrus team that made NR 2003 and Grand Prix Legends has morphed into the iRacing team, so the DNA from those great sims is in iRacing.