Race Driver Grid - What a POS!

[-Slacker-]

I'm on my second race and I have yet to finish it after 234.543.234.12432435 consecutive tries. It's not that the game is too difficult, it's just a couple of little things that manage to make the god damn thing unplayable.

How the hell is a little, wooden, EMPTY crate on the side of the road supposed to bring a one and a half ton car from 100 mph to a full stop instantly, like a brick wall? I'm driving along, making good time, but with 10 cars behind me that can throw me off course if they so much as touch me, then some asshole taps me on the side while I turn and I run into a freaking CAN OF SODA and crash! Then I have to start the thing all over again, because, although I crashed and pretty much wrecked the car, I didn't wreck your car quite enough, so no rewind for me. Then you give it another go, SHOMEHOW you manage to advance past the point you last crashed, go into a turn behind some building when, suddenly, it's this HUGE FUCKING TRUCK parked in the middle of the god damn racing track! I mean what kind of shit is that?

OK, no biggie, RESTART. Tra-la-la, na-na-na, you get to the truck part again (now you know how to avoid it), you turn, BAM, schmuck behind you rams into you and propels you into the truck ANYWAY - and then there's the comentator 10 seconds late "hey, careful on that next turn, that one's a doozie !" no &^%$#ing shit it's a doozie you prick what do you think I've been trying to do over the past HALF HOUR??

SON OF A GOD DAMN BITCH OK let's try again! Crash, bam, kablaaaaam ok doesn't mater I managed to get into first place and it's the last corner before the finish line NICE! Ok, steady, careful to what's behind the corner - good! I try to steer BUT MY DAMN STEERING GOT BUSTED FROM ALL THE UNAVOIDABLE COLLISIONS AND I CRASH 10 FEET FROM THE FINISH LINE!!

Screw you CODEMASTERS I'm never buying one of your travesty games EVER ok maybe I will ... on second thought I might even finish the game,
'cause I'm an asshole like that and what am I gonna do

Anyway just thought you should know the end

 

[mmntech]

Dirt 1 was a great game. I didn't like Grid or Dirt 2 as much.

In Dirt 2, the schmuck CPU players will ram into you, their fault, then scold you by saying "hey, watch where you're going!". That got old fast. Plus the events were less varied.

 

[mwmorph]

Sounds like someone doesn't know how to play the game.

Option #1 would be learn to drive so you stop crashing.

Option #2 is to stop racing in Japan until you get better since Japan has tighter technical circuits with trucks and crap and in general has the least fun events (Drift, touge, other shitty races).

Option #3. Pause game after a crash, go into instant replay. Rewind back up to 12 seconds and then use flashback manually from instant replay screen.

As for AI crashing into you. it depends on how you drive. I find it's always me crashing into ai when I take a position too aggressively, never really AI hitting me. Yeah if you do Aryton Senna moves all day they're going to hit you if you take a corner into their blind spot and speed into them.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I haven't played GRiD myself but Codemasters are the undisputed champions of racing games so I'm thinking the OP just doesn't know how to play.

 

[Elcs]

Played a lot of Grind and never experienced what the OP did.

I initially found the handling difficult and sometimes felt frustrated by it but I enjoyed it. Good and solid racing game.

 

[skulkingghost]

GRIS is one of my favorite racing games of all times, use the pause instant replay, but I did not have the same issues as you as far as what stopped my car / etc, everything seemed extremely fair and well laid out, I played it on PC with a 360 controller though, if your using a keyboard I highly recommend you swap it out for something better.

 

[DarkForceRising]

The only trucks I can recall ever seeing were on drift courses and possibly a track or two where they were parked in front of a wall and thus marking the boundary (those might have been drift tracks as well).

As for the rewinds, as others have mentioned, you can manually enter the pause menu and hit replay and rewind. Heck, if memory serves, the 360 controller setup has a dedicated rewind button (X?) that you can use at any time.

I can understand your issues with the AI. Time and time again I'd slam into a driver at 80 mph and he didn't budge. I'd almost spin out. Other times someone would come up on my blind spot, tap my rear quarter lightly and I'd spin out totally. It seemed like collision physics were biased against me heavily.

Some of the races are difficult, especially the longer ones, but none of them were impossibly difficult like you're describing. I hate to say this, but it really does sound like you're bad at steering. Are you using a keyboard or a wheel/controller?

 

[-Slacker-]

I finished second. This game sucks. What kind of racing game is this where the player has to settle for second?

edit: Yeah, the manual rewinds are helping, but hiding the rewind option in the replay option is not very good game design...

 

[GullyFoyle]

I finished second. This game sucks. What kind of racing game is this where the player has to settle for second.

Here's a selection of games, more your style: easy games.

As for Grid, I played a lot of American stock-car races with my Mustang, and I found that the way to get in to first place was speed recklessly into the corners, take the inside track, and use the other cars to help keep you on the track (bash them out of the way). Once you're in first place, you can try to race more conservatively, just try not to wreck.

 

[CP5670]

As for Grid, I played a lot of American stock-car races with my Mustang, and I found that the way to get in to first place was speed recklessly into the corners, take the inside track, and use the other cars to help keep you on the track (bash them out of the way). Once you're in first place, you can try to race more conservatively, just try not to wreck.

That's exactly what I did. You can ram everyone into the barriers on the first sharp turn. The tricky part is getting into first place; GRID's game mechanics make it easy to stay first after you get there.

 

[n7]

LOL!

This isn't a ride-the-rail garbage racing game like NFS.

You have to actually learn how to drive w/o crashing.

GRID is my favorite racing game i've ever played, but it isn't easy...takes time to get decent at it.

 

[Harrod]

I thought it was a pretty easy game, sometimes I play and try not to take damage. Usually I intentionally hit the opponents in the wheels when they are in corners to try to disable them.

 

[mmntech]

I haven't played GRiD myself but Codemasters are the undisputed champions of racing games so I'm thinking the OP just doesn't know how to play.

Sombody's forgetting their Gran Turismo / Forza / GTR2 holy trinity.
Those are sims so the cars respond closer to the way they would in real life. A common complaint with Codemasters racing games is their "floaty" controls. There's definitely a knack to it. Its easy to oversteer.

 

[Tristicus]

Grid is awesome. So is Dirt2.

 

[minmaster]

ever heard of flashbacks?

 

[Barfo]

Sounds like someone doesn't know how to play the game.

/thread

 

[quadomatic]

I feel like Grid is pretty difficult, but that's not a game flaw...it's a great game

 

[CurseTheSky]

GRID is a fairly good game. Definitely more arcade-like than realistic / sim, but fun nonetheless.

You need to learn how to control your car. Stop playing Grid World for a bit and just fire up a quick race. Select Pro Muscle, and drive the Mustang GT-R concept - it has a great balance of power, handling, etc. Choose a fairly simple track with a few wide turns and start practicing.

Practice slowing down before corners, but NOT slamming on your brakes. The AI does a fairly good job of avoiding you and other objects so long as you don't completely surprise it. Being an arcade style racing game, you should be aiming to slide lightly into corners. If you're going completely sideways or slowing down enough to make a turn without heating the tires screech, you're doing it wrong.

Finally, as others said, stay out of Japan. I've sunk many hours into the game and I still have trouble with some of Japan's tracks. The American tracks are usually the easiest, Europe intermediate, and Japanese are by far the hardest.

 

[Mike Gayner]

GRiD is an excellent game. OP is a n00b.

 

[Ancalagon44]

GRID is unfortunately a very difficult racing game. Dunno why, just is. I think part of it is that the physics engine seems to favour the AI cars - hit one and you go flying, not the other way around. I stopped doing all Japanese races except those on a circuit, because they were too difficult. Enjoyed the American and European races though.

 

[Rhoxed]

Finished the game without problems, great game. Sounds like you need a controller or some sort of better controls, you should not be hitting any crates!!

 

[AstroManLuca]

You can change the difficulty level. On the easier difficulties it's pretty easy to win every race. I found it refreshing, though, to find a racing game where the goal isn't necessarily to win 1st place in every single race. No one does that in real life. Even the best race drivers only win a certain percent of the races they enter.

Glad you at least figured out how flashback works. Now you need to figure out how the rest of the game mechanics work.

 

[borisvodofsky]

I'm on my second race and I have yet to finish it after 234.543.234.12432435 consecutive tries. It's not that the game is too difficult, it's just a couple of little things that manage to make the god damn thing unplayable.

How the hell is a little, wooden, EMPTY crate on the side of the road supposed to bring a one and a half ton car from 100 mph to a full stop instantly, like a brick wall? I'm driving along, making good time, but with 10 cars behind me that can throw me off course if they so much as touch me, then some asshole taps me on the side while I turn and I run into a freaking CAN OF SODA and crash! Then I have to start the thing all over again, because, although I crashed and pretty much wrecked the car, I didn't wreck your car quite enough, so no rewind for me. Then you give it another go, SHOMEHOW you manage to advance past the point you last crashed, go into a turn behind some building when, suddenly, it's this HUGE FUCKING TRUCK parked in the middle of the god damn racing track! I mean what kind of shit is that?

OK, no biggie, RESTART. Tra-la-la, na-na-na, you get to the truck part again (now you know how to avoid it), you turn, BAM, schmuck behind you rams into you and propels you into the truck ANYWAY - and then there's the comentator 10 seconds late "hey, careful on that next turn, that one's a doozie !" no &^%$#ing shit it's a doozie you prick what do you think I've been trying to do over the past HALF HOUR??

SON OF A GOD DAMN BITCH OK let's try again! Crash, bam, kablaaaaam ok doesn't mater I managed to get into first place and it's the last corner before the finish line NICE! Ok, steady, careful to what's behind the corner - good! I try to steer BUT MY DAMN STEERING GOT BUSTED FROM ALL THE UNAVOIDABLE COLLISIONS AND I CRASH 10 FEET FROM THE FINISH LINE!!

Screw you CODEMASTERS I'm never buying one of your travesty games EVER ok maybe I will ... on second thought I might even finish the game,
'cause I'm an asshole like that and what am I gonna do

Anyway just thought you should know the end

Calm the heck down..... You need a controller with analog triggers for the acceleration...

Learn to play manual, so you can drive like crazy and downshift going full throttle. the way you're suppose to play would kill the engine in real life, but the game doesn't care.

The obstacles are changed via the patch.. it makes them either break or fall over instead of dead stop.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Have they fixed the "modify your car and it screws everything up" crap yet?