Tourist Throphy

[HyperTek]

Anyone else play this game? I think its pretty bad ass for a bike game. Kinda hard to make a bike simulator, esp since there cant be any riding seats *unlike car simulator games where people go all crazy with a steering wheel/pedel setup.*

[CaoBoY]

i think it sucks. its fun for like 10 minutes. after you quit laughing about going 150mph and falling, its not fun anymore.

[Var]

Tourist Trophy is the worst motorcycle game i've ever played. The best on the other hand would be Riding Spirits on PS2 and on the arcady side the Moto-Gp series on Xbox

[Megadang]

I like it a lot. I played moto gp 2 on the xbox and didn't like it. Just learn how not to fall, exit turns quicker and you'll enjoy chasing the bike ahead of you.

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I think I went in to it expecting way too much
exact same tracks but your on a bike
it is entertaining, but gt4 obviously owns it
rather play metal gear..

[yokotas13]

I think its a revolution with motorcycle games.

Have any of you actually changed the riding positions, or played with teh suspension geometry of your bike? The realism of your position, and adjustments, and other factors are HUGE and REAL....yes you have to have a love for bikes to play it, and that is what its meant for....People that love and ride motorcycles (like me!!)

It is a phenominal game that is way above any other motorcycle games in realism and features. Hands down!


peace, Grant

[Var]

I ride motocycles too and I find this game to be ridiculously fake unless there are realism settings that i could not find in the menus. Next time you are riding, dive into a corner and slam on the front brake and see if what happens in the game really happens to you. Or snap the throttle fully on and off mid corner and see if you dont highside. Or give it full throttle in 5th gear and see if your bike wheelies. This game is crap, i was just waiting for another rider to chime in . Giving the bike throttle is supposed to rotate you around the corner. In this game it just pushes you wide. Getting back on the track after you go off, you fishtail for way too long. You can't spin the rear tire around turns to tighten up your line. You can't lock your front brake in a turn. All you have to do is not go off the track and you can't crash. I only played it for about 20 minutes and spent another 20 minutes going through the menus. Let me know if there is something i'm missing cause i'd love to give this game another chance.

[TheSquidd]

New MotoGP on 360 FTW.

[Phlip]

I bought Tourist Trophy the week it came out, I played it a couple weeks, realized that is was FUCKING difficult, if not goddamned impossible, if only because of it's lack of realism. I loaned it to my brother, who has WAY more time to play video games than I do, and he fed me back the same assessment. I am dead set on buying Moto GP 4 first chance I get and playing that instead.

[exitspeed]

I ride motocycles too and I find this game to be ridiculously fake unless there are realism settings that i could not find in the menus. Next time you are riding, dive into a corner and slam on the front brake and see if what happens in the game really happens to you. Or snap the throttle fully on and off mid corner and see if you dont highside. Or give it full throttle in 5th gear and see if your bike wheelies. This game is crap, i was just waiting for another rider to chime in . Giving the bike throttle is supposed to rotate you around the corner. In this game it just pushes you wide. Getting back on the track after you go off, you fishtail for way too long. You can't spin the rear tire around turns to tighten up your line. You can't lock your front brake in a turn. All you have to do is not go off the track and you can't crash. I only played it for about 20 minutes and spent another 20 minutes going through the menus. Let me know if there is something i'm missing cause i'd love to give this game another chance.

It sounds as if it is relying on the GT4 game engine too heavily. Most of those characteristics sound more automobilish.

I hope they figure this out, becuase the next GT will more then likely have motorcycle's in it as well.

[Var]

New MotoGP on 360 FTW.
i heard it was the shit..gotta go play it soon.

[TheSquidd]

There's a demo available on Xbox Live. Frickin sweet. Using the on bike view is just nuts. One thing I'll give TT is that you can choose from tons of street bikes. But as I've always said about Polyphony's games, variety < entertainment. 500 cars doesn't mean FUN.

[Omarius Maximus]

Well I think its not realistic for it's own good. Its hard to modulate the brake and accelerator with a ps2 controller. Imagine controlling the throttle of a ZX-10R with a button that has maybe 2 mm of travel. Everyone would end up high siding the damn thing. The same goes for braking into corners. The game automatically assumes that you give the correct amounts of throttle and breaking while in the corner, or else it would be practically impossible to play on a ps2 controller.

It would have been nice if they had truly realistic mode though...

[slider2828]

Dude I race motorcycles and it is right on.... and NO you can't dive into the corner then brake, its always break, trail brake, then let go.... A hi Look at what Rossi does, fucker dives into the corner with almost full breaks on until the APEX and powers it out, why do you think he wins? Rides to the limit. Awesome game, very real in all aspects, you just gotta learn how to play it, its easy.... BTW anyone else get all golds?

You can brake like that, but I found it much easier with the pro controls than anything. Full on both brakes BEFORE the corner (you need to know braking markers), then you start your turn while with the front brake on, take off the front brake while 50% leaned over and off the rears while 75% leaned over. Yes accelerate out of the corner, in real life, you are supposed to throttle THROUGH the apex, and not off, this DOES help rotate your bike as it basically is like drifting through a turn. (Basic idea is that you unload the front to allow the front to steer, and to slightly slide the rear out, 30/70 weight transfer as you go out of the turn.)

Only thing I don't like is lack of modification and O the hardest thing to get IS NOT golds man... hardest bike to get is a TZR250 Race version, you have to race against 2 TZR's and beat them both on the Tsukuba track, very hard..... think about like 120 HP in like a 250 bike, I was smoking 600's and 1000's easy...

Sorry game is a little easy for my taste too...... MotoGP 3 and 2 was good back then, but definitely not a similator.....

[Var]

Dude I race motorcycles and it is right on.... and NO you can't dive into the corner then brake, its always break, trail brake, then let go....

that's exactly my point. do that in the game and nothing bad happens..do that in real life and report back.

A hi Look at what Rossi does, fucker dives into the corner with almost full breaks on until the APEX and powers it out, why do you think he wins?

every single rider does that. Rossi wins cause he just does it better

Awesome game, very real in all aspects

umm negative :loco: play riding spirits

[slider2828]

Nah for rossi, you can tell based on rear view and side view aspects, you see front end HELLA tucked in right before the apex...... like on some rear end vids, you can see him dive right behind the other bike, compared too other people, just dive...

You ever notice there is something called in Aussie terms "backing it in"
as the bike leans over they counter-steer and the rear drifts outwards... away from the line of front tire making a "blackie"...

http://media.putfile.com/MotogpLifessweetdrug

On this video, you will see Nicky Hayden and Rossi, truly back it in. Then you will also see Gibernau, Rossi, and Loris Capirossi, really drift through the corner..... Its all throttle control, especially when you counter steer a LOT on the bike, sounds like drifting to me? and you steer with the rear end.... Thats how it works..... ESPECIALLY that was why you are SUPPOSED to throttle through the turns and it turns the bike.... ALL motorcycling is really counter-steering.....

[Var]

and there's none of that in toursit trophy. so it loses automatically. there's no steering with the rear wheel

[Var]

btw did you see the race today? crazy first turn accident.

[slider2828]

You can kinda do that in tourist trophy with the pro control options. F/R brakes are separate.... Yah I saw practice... Man but I need a motogp account. Wanna hook me up?

[Var]

no man..the actual race..it was nuts. 6 riders washed out on the entry for the first corner. Capirossi and Gibernau on the Ducs veered into eachother, Gibernau locked his front brake and flipped over and sent Capirossi into Melandri, both of whom locked the front and fell over, then they slid into Pedrosa's rear tire who had to straighten out and pushed into Hopkins . They went into the gravel where Pedrosa fell off and meanwhile Nakano or di Puniet (one of the Kawi guys dont remember) had to straighten out to miss Gibernau and his bike as he slid into the gravel. I wish i could capture video from the site and send it to you. Melandri went out on a stretcher i think he got sandwiched between his bike pushing him into Pedrosa's as they went off the track.

Sorry for the off topic


i guess you can download the small clips. here's a link of the crash

http://www.mountainracer.com/Var/GPCrash.wmv