I'm wondering if grid autosport can really be this bad

I am such a sucker for hype, it's just not funny. I bought Grid Autosport because I thought it would be sim-lite but sim nonetheless. Not a bit of it, it's nothing but an arcade racer made worse by all the excessive atmospherics, over-the-top eye candy and scripted nonsense. So, buyer beware.

- Menus are insanely counter-intuitive and a pain to navigate, especially with keyboard
- Driving physics are over-simplified at best, a joke at worst, there's no sense of mass or traction
- Cockpit view is an afterthought, pasted on, non-adjustable, you cannot see apexes much of the time

I suppose this could be entertaining if you want escapist "racing" drama but its claims to be a simulation are just silly. I freely admit that I've been "spoiled" by AC but Codemasters should not attempt to sell Grid Autosport as a racing simulation when it cannot meet the minimum reasonable standard of realism.

Maybe the street racing will make the purchase worthwhile. If not, it's will not survive the summer on my HD and I advise you all to be less impressionable than I was when it comes to the hype.

 

Dont worry. It will probably still get rave reviews, earn a bunch of money and win some awards while people will still go without ever even hearing about AC, iRacing, RFactor etc..

Yea.. 86% at PC gamer. There's not a single article about AC on PC Gamer
8.3 IGN... no articles about AC.

 

Even VVV gave it a really good score..
I couldn't stand the grid series, as you said, it's all VERY counter intuitive..

 

I will probably have the chance to try autosport today but the first comments that I'm reading on the web are very bad. All I can say is that the first grid was a blast, it was giving you all that you can expect from a driving game (obviously not a sim, but you weren't choosing grid for that). When grid 2 came out I was quite excited but the game was awful. Right now I'm not expecting too much from autosport (especially reading comments in forum), the thing that I'm still looking for more than everything else in the PC-game world is AC without booking system

 

I saw the PC gamer review, and thought - hey, might as well give this a shot ... But I've learned the hard way not always trust early reviews, so I jumped onto the Steam forums - and lots of threads and reviews were negative, even warnings against it. I think I will spend the money wisely on beer instead.

 

Beer is always something good to spend your money on. But hey, they did atleast mention AC an pcars in the pcgamer review.

 

I have bought it and dont get to play it until the 27th, however after reading various review I think it may have been a poor decision :-(

Still, at least it will tide me over until AC career mode is available in 2022

 

VVV...lol.....joke on console...joke on PC

 

Isnt that the sad truth. All the reviewers bought (getting free games and tickets to events etc) so they dont want to be shoved out in the cold giving golden ratings after testing 2 tracks and 1 car... So transparent and the sheeple buys into it everytime. Yeah, people never learn from history - its a known fact.

 

Codies has always been about offering a fun experience, not too difficult to pick up and play, but way more realistic car control than the real arcade games out there, meaning enough depth to the experience.

Only buy it if you want to have something semi-sim to play on evenings where a real simulator race would require too much concentration and you want a simpler relaxing blast.

P.S. Codies does have some of the best AI around, the graphics (on PC at ultra with much AA) look very good, wheel support is functional and accurate. I enjoyed DiRT 2 and 3, bought GRiD 2 on sale and even there got my money's worth. GRiD Autosport comes out in EU on Friday, so I'll see how it compares then

 

Well you can't knock VVV, they do explicitly state in their "GRID Autosport Preview part 1" that it is "Not a Simulator"
For folks who prefer simulators that is a clear "do not touch" however I have been drawn in by the "eye candy" light just a smidgen or two, looking at footage and even heading to see the Steam Store for pricing and deals but get saved by the "Not a Simulator" from VVV ringing in my ears

 

What makes it worse, is that they have had pro racing drivers test the game in development (I dont want to mention names, seems unprofessional). Whether or not codemasters paid attention to the pro drivers is a different matter altogether.

I've not got the game though but have seen videos of people playing it, and it looks awful from the videos. Maybe fun for 10 year olds with no motorsport/racing in the family, but for those after any kind of simulation in gaming, its going to be frustrating.

 

I bought the steam key after seeing Darren on inside sim racing's test of the game , it was piss cheap . He seemed to enjoy it after turning every single assist off but still called it sim-cade . Race driver grid was a laugh if it's more like that than Grid 2 it should be fun to play , different kind of fun to Assetto but there's room for both unless you have a really small hard drive .

 

Far too much snobbery with "Simracers" - human beings are all unique, I may well want to play a sim one day and an arcadey driving game the next day.

I dont eat the same food every day as i like variety - what is wrong with wanting the same variety in gaming??

 

The thing that puts me off any codemasters title is their lack of support. Once GRID v1.0 was released they more or less washed their hands of it and were not prepared to fix any of the major problems i.e speed hacks. They did eventually patch it 3 times but the fixes were circumvented within hours.
Bought a couple of other CM titles and they were buggy as hell too, so no more of my cash will go to them.

 

That's fine if that's what you like, I didn't mean it in a snobbery way. I just loose interest very quickly in arcade style driving games, but that's me it's a pity as my son feels the same but on the other side of the fence so no playing on the same games

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Yeah i agree , however much realism you can cram into a sim i never want it to be 100% authentic and have to climb into some contraption from a saw film so i actually get injured when i crash , also by supporting codemasters maybe dirt 4 will happen and be more rally orientated .

 

As soon as you see sim anywhere in mention you're in for using your wheel. But when you have such review of wheel feel you quickly realize its not playable with wheel. This is why I'm waiting for a proper driving arcade. Say driving club might finally fit in when it hits the market. My keyboard will be happy.

 

Besides AC I've got Need For Speed Shift / Shift 2 Unleashed / A bunch of SimBin titles/ Grand Prix Legends / Nascar 2003 / All Gran Turismo titles.
If I buy a new racegame/sim it has to be better than the ones I've got, or I'd rather fire up one of the games I've got already. Nothing snobbery here.

 

I don't know how Codies get away with releasing these kind of games year after year.