YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is exactly what I needed to hear!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW I think they meant stoner's phillip island livery. Estoril was classic read, Phillip island was the super slick white version. No capped career, create a bike or real team, new interface! I can't speak for everyone else but that was all I need to hear! Thanks steve for getting us this info. I can now sleep easy . Is it March yet?????

I am sorry to see you so happy Andrew. Not a word of how it's going to look more realistic. You're happy with this?  Who cares about a career if it's so unrealistic to look at?  Guess you wont be asking for laser scans anytime soon..  realism takes a back seat again

So, more chase view, no moving cockpit, no head tilting no proper looking.... Sounds like arcade heaven to me.   Too bad the main emphasis is on arcade... yet again.  How many years before they simply offer a view that matches the rider of the motorcycle's view? 10-20?

Does anyone want to see the motorcycle racing experience similar to what Rossi sees?  With his EYES, through his helmet, not his imaginary, floating camera.  Nooone? bleh  How is it that the real experience of being all over the place(up, down, side to side, back and forth, behind screen, above screen, screen way away, back in front etc etc, in and out and all around and over and over again) can be reduced to a dot on the center of the screen that NEVER moves position!  gheeesh.  Beyond arcade.

It's going to be a rehash of all the other titles with (wow - yay)  "new colors" and "new numbers"  wow.   But we will NOT see anything close to what the real riders see... Why is that?   Kinda wanky me thinks.  No wonder real riders scoff at the 1980ish views.

So much for buying MGP090.  I predict the same, lame low numbers of online players.  the same lame option of mixing the mile high view with no proper cockpit views, the same crappy netcode and all because the non motorcycling game makers are not pressed for delivering realism.  Gone is the hope for proper online races and a race environment.  More quick races with arcade BS as the only option. I mean, how can we compare cockpit to chase when the chase looks at the apexes from the air and the cockpit rider's head is stuck, fixed and cemented to look only one way?  The chase takes away the effort to judge the apex and the current, fixed rider view "eye cuffs" the person "simulating" the rider's view.

Then, adding insult to injury, they mix the stats and scores between the two lol.  Retarded.

It seems hard to believe that players would want anything other than the primary view fixed before asking for other things.  It's called fundamental perception and it not even considered worth a mention by even real riders! lol   I hang my head...

So much for following the real MotoGP2010 with my realistic fun game in hand..  I knew. after seeing the podcast,  the devos aren't really into delivering more realism, they're not being asked to do so with passion by the community, they're being asked for games/arcade features. In that regard, they're doing a hec of a job.

It's another Tetris affair...  Oh I know I'm a broken record.. but I give up.

have on..enjoy.

Fair enough.   It'd be nice to get off the real bike and jump on to a sim of the real view I can really relate to!  Maybe you're right,  I was just as emphatic when I campaigned for a forced cockpit in SBK09.  Never thought I'd see it but they put it in and we're loving it. Now we are strong arming them for the proper leans and looks.

Maybe you're right though Andrew!  I am glad you got some of your goodies.  Looking forward to seeing what you think of MGP09/10 and I hope it's better for you than MGP08, for all of you guys.

Just remember to keep asking for laser scanned tracks(why put your time in on fantasy ttracks?), proper control support, tire physics, bike physics, proper leaderboard/stats keeping.  Those things will help all of us, no matter the view.

It's going to be a long wint-- <--- I wont even say the word!  hehe  Lets hope we can find some rewards at the end of it!

Nov 5, 2009 -- 7:21AM, steve wrote:

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Q: If you had to compare the physics engine (IE the way the bike moves around the track) to a previous version would it be?

A. Gp1 (climax)

B. GP2 (climax)

C.GP3 or above(climax

D.Tourist Trophy

E. Gp500

A: We would say it’s probably most comparable to a mix of the Climax MotoGP series and Tourist Trophy.

really?

so can u explay us u got stuck wiv NAMCO middle pivot bike? thks!

Thanks for the answers Steve & as someone else put it " I don't want to shoot he messenger" but:

I can't believe that such simple questions are being answered, i mean for every 1 question about helmet design being included in the game there must surely be about 10  questioning the technical aspects of the game (Handling/Physics, Mongy looking riders, online stuff,etc,etc), I can only speak for myself but I'm still waiting for answers on some of these things !,

I'm almost suprised that no-one asked if the bike will have two wheels or if the riders will have heads ? - they're both questions that don't need to be answered so i'm sure the dev team would only be too happy to warrant them with an answer.

Another concern is that this whole "Arcade based" Q&A has been raging on for ages - when will it be over, when can we get onto the meatier modes instead of talking about one we may probably never play ?