Time Machine
Time Machine
Just dropping by to say hi! I still reminisce about the time when I was extremely active in FM.
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Nice pictures
CM along with other game developers build in replay obsolescence into their games.
For example: When trying to run a multiplayer public lobby you have to wait for a 2nd player to enter otherwise you could sit there for literally hours if not forever for a race to start. And that means no in game credits to buy additional cars, etc. After most racing games of 3-6 mos. , the lobbies with multiple drivers are few and far between. Just in time for the developers etc. to come out with another game for us to spend our hard earned money on.
One of the nice features that a game like FM4 has (and they are by no means perfect, i.e., no weather or night driving) is that it allows you to run races WHILE waiting for people to jump in. Many a night I’ve run tons of races with the AI and only a few people have jumped in. But I was able to run races online instead of sitting there and picking my nose, my butt etc.
In GT5/6 you can start a race by yourself which begs the question why? Of course the answer is why not or for a practise race as Parcells has done more than a couple times for the awesome series Grimm has going on over at GT PLanet. You dont win any credits racing by yourself but then Parcells had 1.4 billion credits in GT6 before I ever drove a car so grinding was/is never an issue unless you count the almost 5 hours it took me to acquire those 1.4 billion credits.
GT5/6 has both sometimes both at once...nearish 35% of tracks offer either/or
GT5/6 has this and more. Parcells absolute favorite feature of GT is once the race parameters are set (and there's a good deal of great features) which can be done quickly and easily (saved race settings for non-rookies) is anyone in the lobby (including the host) can go onto the track and practise while the host waits for joiners or whatever until he/she decides to start the race.
Having experienced this feature there's nothing worse than going back to FM4 and having to wait in the lobby picking the same things oldmodel does for people to get their act together and ready up while I could be out on the track getting my first practise in.
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This response to oldmodel's innocent post is not intended to belittle his opinion, beliefs, religious affilliations or anthing else you can conjure up nor is it an advertisement for the GT series or a damning of the FM series. The more likely scenario is Parcells just smoked some real good Kush. I wish I knew the name of it cause this shit is fucken awesome!
LOL. I only used FM4 as an example because I can not offer an assessment of the GT5/6 series as I have not played them. FM4 does allow the saving of race parameters which I use a lot. And at this stage of FM4's life cycle. If you don't like my setup. LEAVE. There are plenty of rooms open that provide hot laps.
But looking at the cheapie price of PS3's these days I might just buy one and there still might be more than 10 people on for me to run with.
I've never had that good Kush. But I get a lot of great Tush at home.
Parcells is baaaaaaaack.
Those were the days.
My desktop. not my photo, but I'm in there somewhere...
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Me n partner STEWIE!
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Me behaving amid the chaos...
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Me in front of Fitzy
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And that's a quick pass through, I got too many pictures...
Lotta racing memories in there!
Awesome gallery, oldschool!
Those were some good times.
Yes nice photos oldschool. And a funny post I found from another thread that makes me sad that I never really got to participate in actively because of my RL schedule. Change is not always good. 1st post.
http://forums.codemasters.com/discussion/5733/the-good-dlc-policy-that-never-happen#latest
That brought tears to my eyes........... "NOT SEEING ANY OF MY F@#$ING CAR LIVERIES ON ANY OF THOSE PICTURES!" nice pics by the way.
Well, yeah, it's all about me Ink!
Seroiusly, it's probably because most of them were from my replays?
Or cars i was showing off.
Lotta really old stuff in there too.
How about a couple more?
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