After the most about cams is already said, I add my reply just for the record. I've never been that much of a fan of TMF/TMU, so when Canyon arrived, life became good...
At this point I'm reaching my max there. No, I'm not a miracle kid (dad), but with both my son and myself charted in the top 5 of my country and both in the top 50 of the world, we did our thing. Spending countless hours trying to win another 1/100 of a second in order to beat the best. Which, as you might have noticed in the "ranking part" of my reply, didn't work out eventualy...
When the rumours where getting stronger about Valley and Stadium, we were happy people. New tracks, new challenges, new possibilities. After waiting and waiting and waiting while the people from Nadeo were working their butts off to get Storm up and running, we were dreaming about the new TM2 envi's. Last week the moment was there. And, as expected from true addicts, we jumped right in to it. With the following results: after my son had played for some time, he litteraly threw up because of the gameplay graphics. It's like being in a rollercoaster after having too much french fries and diet coke... I myself haven't played that long yet, but then again, I'm not able to because I get a mega tunnelvision or litteraly start to shake after a few runs. Although we both have a hyperactivity disorder, this was never that much of a problem in Canyon. On the contrary, our attention deficit was often a gift instead of a limitation.
After playing Stadium for a day or two, we both noticed something was wrong/different, but we couldn't put a name on it. Not realizing that is was probably nothing more than the cam positions. Besides the feeling of driving on a glass pane instead of a race track. Don't get me wrong, I don't want 65 new Canyon tracks (I would actualy, but that's not the issue here
), so a new envi is wonderful, but it all feels like a mega downgrade. While Canyon could compete with some other great race games in the sence of looks and feel, Stadium gives me the feeling of playing Lego Racers or something. In Canyon you ride a track, in Stadium you ride ABOVE a track.
Maybe bringing back the Canyon cam 2 would do the job. SO PLEASE DO!!
The reason for this whole story is that I read more replies from people complaining about their stomache and if, and I repeat, IF the current Stadium version really does this to your head/body, it might cause more problems to people who are somewhat more sensitive and it's something that should be looked into...
