Tourist Trophy Photo Thread

[makenzie71]

one thing I noticed that's kind of cheap is that in a race you can plow into a wall at full speed instead of braking into the turn and BAM!  It'll slam you back on the track about a second faster than had you done it "right"...

[My Name Is Dave]

one thing I noticed that's kind of cheap is that in a race you can plow into a wall at full speed instead of braking into the turn and BAM!  It'll slam you back on the track about a second faster than had you done it "right"...

Note to self...

[Jake D]

Yeah, the wrecking is kind of hokey, but can you imagine if it took like 30 seconds to walk over, pick up your bike, etc.  You'd have to re-start every race that you crashed.  I would loose my mind.  So I guess the way it is is fine, even if I feel cheap for winning a race that I crashed. 

Oh, yeah.  There are three camera views.  One third person and two first person.  In one first person you see the dash, wind screen, the clip on's, and your hands.  In the other, you just see the speedo.  I prefer the one with just the speedo. 

[My Name Is Dave]

Yeah, I did a little search and came up with the 3 views. Any particular reason you like the one with just the speedo and tach at the bottom better than the one where you can see the instruments and windscreen? Just curious...

[makenzie71]

It's less cluttered...not "busy".  I prefer the 3rd person view because I like to be aware of my immediate surroundings...and the bikes sound cooler...

[Jake D]

The first person view with windscreen kind of blocks my view of the track.  They are so dark.

The third person view I tend to over ride the bike and turn too much. 

[My Name Is Dave]

Cool, I'll check it out. Have you guys messed with how you can customize your rider style at all? I have been using the neutral style but I think I'm gonna go to Lean Body so I can get tighter turns. But what about the way you can totally customize your head angle and some sort of yaw and all that? Anyone mess with that yet?

[makenzie71]

I use lean body...your COG is lower in the turns but you're more apt to lowside.  I tried to do a custom thing to match my own style...but then I remembered I suck so I went back with a default lean body style.

[My Name Is Dave]

This thread has yet to go down the crapper so far- more than I can say about 80% of them in the past week. Things are getting crazy in the main forum.

It was so funny to just suck ass at that game while my brother and my buddy were kicking ass. They're good at GT, so they kinda carried it over to TT. I felt pretty silly, being that I'm the only one out of my friends who actually rides.

For the hell of it I tried the second test in the expert license exam where you take the Busa through the turns. If a real one is half as scary as the one on the game, those are insane. I tried it once and got the hell outta there. The R1 made me pucker a little also. Those are ridiculous.

Can't wait to get home and wreck some more!

[Jake D]

I adjusted my rider position.  Slightly.  I bent is arm more, leaned him over a notch in turns, and stuck his inside knee out a little. 

The Duc 999R is tons freakier than the 'Busa.  I was actually riding the Busa okay.  I haven't tried the expert test yet. 

Another bike that just freaked me out was the ZX10R and the CBR1000RR.  The F4 is smoother. 

One key that helped me tons is at first I wasn't applying the rear brake at all.  Just the front.  The rear brake is R2. 
So when I am on the gas, I hold L2 (tuck) and X (gas).  When I need to brake, I left go of both at the same time and push Square and R2 and you stop a lot faster and then hit the apex and rolll and then it is back on the X/L2 combo.  Sweet game.

[My Name Is Dave]

I adjusted my rider position.  Slightly.  I bent is arm more, leaned him over a notch in turns, and stuck his inside knee out a little. 

The Duc 999R is tons freakier than the 'Busa.  I was actually riding the Busa okay.  I haven't tried the expert test yet. 

Another bike that just freaked me out was the ZX10R and the CBR1000RR.  The F4 is smoother. 

One key that helped me tons is at first I wasn't applying the rear brake at all.  Just the front.  The rear brake is R2. 
So when I am on the gas, I hold L2 (tuck) and X (gas).  When I need to brake, I left go of both at the same time and push Square and R2 and you stop a lot faster and then hit the apex and rolll and then it is back on the X/L2 combo.  Sweet game.

Cool, good tip. I've been doing a sort of mashing between L2, R2, Square, X, and the gears. Pretty much a shitshow of jamming the buttons as I try to smoothly take the corner. It's a pretty awesome method. Psyche!

I haven't tried the 999R. But I did enter the contest to win a real one. Crossing fingers...now! I could really use (see: sell) one.

[makenzie71]

I can NOT stand the F4 1000...stock it's sluggish and with an exhaust it sounds broken.  It has a ridiculous top end, too...I'm sorry but an F4 will not pass a lighter, more powerful bike (I was passing a K5 GSXR 1000 left and right...).

I'm not impressd with the CBR's, either.

So far my favorites are the Mille Factory and K5 1000.

Also I don't see how you guys can stand the whole shifting thing...I have to run it auto.  All my games I have to run that way.  When they come up with a way to make shifting realistic then maybe I can do it...

[My Name Is Dave]

I can NOT stand the F4 1000...stock it's sluggish and with an exhaust it sounds broken.  It has a ridiculous top end, too...I'm sorry but an F4 will not pass a lighter, more powerful bike (I was passing a K5 GSXR 1000 left and right...).

I'm not impressd with the CBR's, either.

So far my favorites are the Mille Factory and K5 1000.

Also I don't see how you guys can stand the whole shifting thing...I have to run it auto.  All my games I have to run that way.  When they come up with a way to make shifting realistic then maybe I can do it...

I don't ever play racing games on auto. It seems like a lot of the challenge would be lost if the bikes had automatic trannys.

[Jake D]

That explains a lot.  I use it on auto too.  I tried to shift on GT4.

Can't do it.  It is hard enough on auto.

The F4 might not be as fast, but I can beat the Aprilla with it.  The Gixxer, CBR, and ZX10R are faster, it seems like, but squirly.  I like the F4's sound with the pipe.

[My Name Is Dave]

Ok, I thought that it seemed complicated with having a manual gearbox, but I felt that using an auto would be too easy. It sounds like there's still a lot of challenging aspects to the game with an auto. I'm gonna try that tonight and see if I can finally go one whole lap without lowsiding in the sand.

[makenzie71]

I don't like the manual feature because there's ZERO feedback.  You're missing several key factors that make shifting in a game realistic...mostly you can't stall, you get ZERO feedback and it's basically paddle-shifting...and paddle shifting is just a hair under tiptronic (and equivelant) trannies on the ubergayometer.

Trying to be realistic in a game is already removing 3 senses and imparing to a great the degree the other 2 that are actually paramount in real life...in my opinion, trying to shift screws with what little you have.

[My Name Is Dave]

...and paddle shifting is just a hair under tiptronic (and equivelant) trannies on the ubergayometer.

Ha ha! Oh shaZam!, that's too funny. Well done.

[Alphamazing]

Yeah, amen Mak. I can't play racing games without using a manual tranny. The autos are just... well, crap. Just like in real life.

I wish they made this for Xbox...

[makenzie71]

you misread, alpha...if I can't have the real thing, I don't want to deal with it at all.

[Alphamazing]

you misread, alpha...if I can't have the real thing, I don't want to deal with it at all.

Ohh, so I did. I still like the ability to engine brake when I want to rather than having an automatic upshift for me when I don't want it to, or to be able to hold RPMs through a corner and not have the tranny doing something I don't want it to.