Its funny how two unrelated things can impact each other.

A while ago someone started a thread about "guilty pleasures" , Mine would have to be video games.
Pushing 50 years old and still playing the latest games seems to be looked down on , guess it makes me immature or something lol

Anyway I popped in need for speed the other day and after playing for a bit I had to chuckle. Ive always loved race games , but was never awesome at them , who cares they're for fun right?
I always had a big problem with........ Target Fixation ,
I'd come around a corner face to face with a car, and start wiggling the stick left and right like a mad man trying to decide which way to go. Usually ending up just staying where I was and smashing into the car coming at me.

Now after being back on the bike for a few years I look PAST the car im about to hit, and gently guide my vehicle around the imminent race ending collision and carry on. (more often anyway )

Hasn't helped me with the MotoGP games though , I still suck at them lol

Anyone here played those games?

 

I suck at those games too. Just can't get used to driving with a stick as a steering wheel.

And fyi, https://cbrforum.com/forum/off-topic...asures-157073/

 

Ya man, wheel is the only way to go. Love it for the car games. The H pattern shifter just adds so much to it (for the 3 or 4 games out there that support it fully) .
But as for the Ride and Ride 2, or the moto gp games. even the wheel just doesn't seem right when your running a bike around the track. Seems a little sacrileges lol

 

I'm in my mid 30's, and grew up with the Gran Turismo franchise. However, I only ever had the DualShock controllers. Several years ago I got a force feedback wheel with a used Xbox 360 I bought, and it came with Forza (4 i think it was). That's literally the only game I've played with a wheel, and while it was fun, I was so much better at GT with joysticks. I got MotoGP 14 right after I bought my street bike. I was so used to GT racing, especially on the world circuits that MotoGP also uses, that I really never had too much fun with the game. I always found myself wanting to set lap times that were just not possible on a bike, and I'd eventually pop GT 5 or 6 back in.
I remember suffering from target fixation back when NFS Hot Pursuit 2 came out. More often than not I'd slam head on into an oncoming car at 200 mph. It's interesting how games and reality can share similarities. I grew up riding dirt bikes, and I remember my dad always saying look at where you want to go, not at what you want to avoid.

 

That is so true....followed by "look ahead and you'll shred"

 

I've had such problems, but only first week of riding a new bike.

 

The GT series up to 5 were great.
Always loved the wheel with them though, could never match my times with the controller but was a hell of a lot more fun lol

Its funny how many people I know that picked up the moto games after getting a bike myself included lol
Still haven't seen one that turned out to fully enjoy them though , always end up back to a car racing game lol

Anyone remember what arcades were? , the motorcycle games you sat on the bike to race actually weren't bad compared to today. (mind you nostalgia has a way of making thinks seem much better than they actually were )

 

I played excitebike....

And Atari stunt cycle in the arcades before that.