Very nice! Damn sweet actualy :D
I've got one major request though:
I've been rideing motorcycles, specificly sportbikes, for over a decade now (Ducks are too rich for my blood, but my little Yamaha YZF-R6 is still quite the sport). And I generaly can't stand motorcycle raceing games as nearly every one I've tried leans the camera over along with the bike in turns.
Yes, the bikes must lean over to navigate turns (quite fun too)...but riders twist thier heads so they don't experience that disorianteing "whole world leaned over" view such games all to often present...there are countless photos and video clearly showing this all over the net, TV, magazines, races on TV, movies, etc...yet time and time again game developers (whom maybe don't ride, I suppose) tack that goofy leaned over camera effect on....please...please! DO NOT include it!
It's cheap, shallow, and completely unrealistic...rideing, especialy at the viscural edge of performance is an organic experience...man meshing with machine, you don't even think about how to control the bike you just do...your eyes are looking at where you want to go (not 20-30 feet infront of you) and your body through the mechanicals of the bike gets you there...at full out knee scrapeing lean delecate and absolute throttle control keeps you going, your hands keeping the front wheel from wedgeing you into the pavement, your feet and legs stearing your path of travel aided by your body effecting the bikes balance...it is so far from the very mechanical experience that games present...you can be within a thousands of a millimeter in your physics engine reproduceing the performance of these bikes...but if the feel is off, it's all for nothing....and the quickest way to screw it up is that damn "lean the bike, lean the world" camera trick.
...sorry just had to vent a bit, this irks me to no end :P
...sorry, just had to vent a bit, this irks me to no end :P
I've got one major request though:
I've been rideing motorcycles, specificly sportbikes, for over a decade now (Ducks are too rich for my blood, but my little Yamaha YZF-R6 is still quite the sport). And I generaly can't stand motorcycle raceing games as nearly every one I've tried leans the camera over along with the bike in turns.
Yes, the bikes must lean over to navigate turns (quite fun too)...but riders twist thier heads so they don't experience that disorianteing "whole world leaned over" view such games all to often present...there are countless photos and video clearly showing this all over the net, TV, magazines, races on TV, movies, etc...yet time and time again game developers (whom maybe don't ride, I suppose) tack that goofy leaned over camera effect on....please...please! DO NOT include it!
It's cheap, shallow, and completely unrealistic...rideing, especialy at the viscural edge of performance is an organic experience...man meshing with machine, you don't even think about how to control the bike you just do...your eyes are looking at where you want to go (not 20-30 feet infront of you) and your body through the mechanicals of the bike gets you there...at full out knee scrapeing lean delecate and absolute throttle control keeps you going, your hands keeping the front wheel from wedgeing you into the pavement, your feet and legs stearing your path of travel aided by your body effecting the bikes balance...it is so far from the very mechanical experience that games present...you can be within a thousands of a millimeter in your physics engine reproduceing the performance of these bikes...but if the feel is off, it's all for nothing....and the quickest way to screw it up is that damn "lean the bike, lean the world" camera trick.
...sorry just had to vent a bit, this irks me to no end :P
...sorry, just had to vent a bit, this irks me to no end :P