NASCAR The Game: Inside Line Patch Expected Later This Month, Details Included

[Hunkerdown]

Anyone know anything?

[Louielouie3]

Can't give any more news when there isn't any news to give. Same as before, we'll know when the patch is submitted to Microsoft.

[Hunkerdown]

Quote: Originally Posted by Louielouie3

Can't give any more news when there isn't any news to give. Same as before, we'll know when the patch is submitted to Microsoft.

If there is even a patch, history of this studio and patches not to good.

[PaperBoyx703]

Thinking about picking up a NASCAR title again stopped playing NASCAR 09 right before the servers went dead and was 15th in the top leaderboards without Tona' whoring.

Just want to know if this is worth my time because I actually did get NTG11 and shelved it within a few days and waited all through that god awful patch submission/failures/resubmission period all for nothing IMO.

Purchased a wheel and strongly considering going into iRacing.

So I basically want to know, how this plays on PS3 with the recent patchwork online?

[Lieutenant Dan]

Quote: Originally Posted by PaperBoyx703

Thinking about picking up a NASCAR title again stopped playing NASCAR 09 right before the servers went dead and was 15th in the top leaderboards without Tona' whoring. Just want to know if this is worth my time because I actually did get NTG11 and shelved it within a few days and waited all through that god awful patch submission/failures/resubmission period all for nothing IMO. Purchased a wheel and strongly considering going into iRacing. So I basically want to know, how this plays on PS3 with the recent patchwork online?

Hey Paper...what's up?

Man, if you 'strongly considering' iRacing I'd probably go in that direction. I mean, I think they are very difficult to compare. N:IL is a decent console racer when it's firing, but iRacing is just a whole other level of racing. The trick with it is the costs involved and the hardware requirements, but I think you've got the latter covered with your new Angry-Birds-Deluxe-'Puter. Have a good look at the structure of iRacing and if it appeals, I'd just go for it.

If I had the time and resources, I'd do iRacing.

[PaperBoyx703]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lieutenant Dan

Hey Paper...what's up? Man, if you 'strongly considering' iRacing I'd probably go in that direction. I mean, I think they are very difficult to compare. N:IL is a decent console racer when it's firing, but iRacing is just a whole other level of racing. The trick with it is the costs involved and the hardware requirements, but I think you've got the latter covered with your new Angry-Birds-Deluxe-'Puter. Have a good look at the structure of iRacing and if it appeals, I'd just go for it. If I had the time and resources, I'd do iRacing.

Hey Dan!

Yeah I am going or thinking about doing their 3 month promo for $15 and see if I can remain interested in it and since it has to do with racing Im sure I will.

I might still pick up N:IL though, I wouldn't mind a lil' bump n' run action with yah Dan

[Lieutenant Dan]

Quote: Originally Posted by PaperBoyx703

Hey Dan! Yeah I am going or thinking about doing their 3 month promo for $15 and see if I can remain interested in it and since it has to do with racing Im sure I will. I might still pick up N:IL though, I wouldn't mind a lil' bump n' run action with yah Dan

I'd be so into that, you could check out my Leeeroy Jenkins rolling starts where I illegally run out in front of the pack and take the penalty! j/k

I've got N:IL on 360 though, so I guess that won't happen Please post and PM me to your post if you wind up with iRacing as I'd be really interested to hear your impressions of it.

[TCrouch]

I've had more fun with this game in the past 2 days than the past 5 months combined. Why is that?

Because I quit using my Fanatec CSR Elite wheel and picked up a standard controller, turned the assists on except for the Auto-Brake, and set the game to Hard and started a new career. Every race has just 5% length because I can't stomach running a race requiring a pit stop, then watching the AI pit a good 5 or 6 laps earlier than required, and lapping the field because I pitted once.

In any case, I started with a pretty crappy little car, but managed 11th at Daytona. Holding my line with a controller--not so easy at a plate track. But at Phoenix I could really eat them alive in turn 1, then had a tougher time in turn 3 and 4, leading to a 16th overall.

Vegas they destroyed me, somewhere around 35th or 38th--but I never do well at Vegas with a default non-upgraded car, and at Bristol I qual'd 11th. But the tires fell off, and I dropped back to mid 20's by the end of the race.

Bottom line, even without the patch to fix the AI pit issues, I can see why people playing with a controller and just looking for that "hey it looks like what I see on TV!" feeling would like it. If I try to play it without my sim-goggles on, and just pitch the car around with a wiggly controller like I was playing Pole Position on an NES with a d-pad, it feels pretty damned good.

Just so many missed opportunities with this game. But at least I found a way to have some fun with it, months after I bought it. All it took was completely discarding my expensive equipment I have for racing games, and any sort of thought of realism. But I finally got the gameplay I wanted--competitive, and not dominant. I am up to the Texas race without a win, and only 1 top 10. Most of it is due to making a ton of mistakes mid-corner with a controller, but I'll take what I can get at this point.