Simbin bundle at steam sale

hello everyone, in case you want it, there is a simbin mega bundle at steam for 8 usd

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/18370/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_5

GT legends
GTR
GTR 2
GTR evolution expansion pack
RACE wtcc
RACE 07
RACE injection
STCC

& some other minors expansion packs.

at least for me GT legends is well worth the 8 usd of the whole bundle

 

Im tempted as gt legends is the only game i dont have but still ive run into too many issues with the simbim collection of games that im just done with it, they have a lot of nice content but its a no from me.

 

Thank you very much, bought it right away, only had GTR from the lot, so for me it's a great deal! Thx again.

 

That pretty awesome deal. I own everything in that bundle already tho.

 

didnt have any of them,so £5:20 what a bargain.

Cheers!

 

That sounds impressive, however, these are very old titles by now, and you feel it when using them. They were good by the standards of their time, but cannot hold their ground today anymore. Not worth the money when considering the contemporary titles available today.

Also, how many racing games do you need and can use reasonably, with reasonable frequency and intensity?

Spend a little more and get one or two of the modern ones. Much better deal in the long run. No way I could get back to driving GTR2 and the likes again. Feels too inferior, looks too inferior.

 

This bundle has been on sale quite often recently. I remember someone on the forum suggests me try GTR2 driving school to learn some basics, and I conveniently found it on sale like this after putting GTR2 on wishlist for like 2 days. If memory serves, there has been 3 times that Simbin Mega Bundle was on sale in the past 6 months. Also I think last week or the week before, the bundle, as well as all the individual titles in the bundle, was on sale on humblebundles.com.

I sometimes get an illusion that they are using the f2p R3E to boost the sales of the bundle

 

Loved that old Simbin stuff. But, I have very limited time to drive on my PC these days, so I'll always just default to the sim I like best.

 

GT legends I think is the best of the bunch and back in the day it was quite a good sim. It just does not hold up today and I would only recommend it to someone with a old weak computer that can not run something like AC.

 

I loved GT Legends and GTR 2 and I drove the heck out of them back in the day but I heard that these sims will no longer run on modern systems/OS. When an offer like this comes to Steam, are we supposed to assume that the games have been adapted and tested on an up-to-date system so that there is some assurance that they will work?

 

They run well on my Win 8.1.

 

I don`t know .. still prefer them to AC at this moment and I probably have 3times more game time in GTR Evo last month than I have in AC overall .. FFB works for me better, physics are reasonably good, game options are much better than AC, with sound mods I use it sounds better, you have nice selection of cars and tracks, AI is much much better, fully customizable chapionships, weather if you feel like driving in rain .. I don`t need five good finished sims, so far I have two:

-> GTR Evo, GSC as my "daily" sims,
-> AC and rF2 as "checking what is new and waiting for progress" sims
-> R3E as "did they fix floaty FFB?" sim
... with pCars hopefully comming as "I need something easy and fun but I don`t have console to play GT or Froza" who knows if it is sim ...

For that money you could get hours of fun simracing with very little to complain about ... it is worth just for times when you get bored or feel like driving something else

 

They do work in windows 8.1 if you run them in compatibility mode (except the force feed back and effects do seem weaker that they should). Every once a while I will run GT Legends, funny thing no matter how much I play it, it always says I have played 10 minutes.

 

I used to run GTR2 many years ago, then seemed "arcadish" when I moved to rFactor...these days same story between AC and GSCE...in the same order.

 

My GT Legends and GTR2 run very well without compatibility mode. I think you should give it a try. Maybe it is the compatibility mode that causes the FFB problems.

As a new player I feel GTR2 easier than AC easier than GSCE (I just can't drive the Camaro). I wonder if there is something like an "sim/arcade meter" which puts all the available titles in a rough, relative scale in terms of reality.

 

The Camaro is the most fun and rewarding car to drive in GSCE. After you master it when you go back to AC even the F40 will seem a piece of cake. Try using the following settings for the Camaro:
900 deg wheel, with a 33 degrees steering lock in game setting and a 1250 in the RealFeel plugin ini file.

 

I was running 270 degrees rotation and default setup in game, and I never tried the RealFeel plugin thing... speak of which I did feel disconnected to Camaro when I last played GSCE. The car felt unwilling to slow down or turn in, and I got little feedback from the wheel. Maybe that's the reason I could not drive the car at all.

 

GTR2 is the best one for me

 

GTR2 - 24 hour races at LeMans or Spa with rain and nightfall is still pretty awesome. You can scale the time so you get nightfall in a 30 min race....watch out for that blinding morning sun!

 

Is Race 07 supposed to be GTR2's sequel? How are the two compared with each other? After getting the mega bundle I feel at lost what to do with it apart from going through the driving school.