NASCAR Title in Development, From Eutechnyx

[woody2goody]

If it's for PS3 I'll definitely give it a look.

I had some of the EA efforts but they were patchy at best.

I think NASCAR is really good and I like the games, but in previous games I've tended to win or come last. I hope it adopts F1 2010's style of already giving you a good setup when you get to the track, and just allowing you to tweak it to suit your driving style.

Plus I find NR 2003 far too hard

[bluengold34_OS]

This is really good news. I am going to have to try and sneak an interview with these guys, once the games released!

EDIT:

Well I was excited until I read that they hired the lead developer of the EA NASCAR series to head this project. Thats no knock on EA, but the NASCAR series hasnt been the most impressive. I will hold judgment, but to me, that wasnt the best move to make!

[King10Sooted]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

This is really good news. I am going to have to try and sneak an interview with these guys, once the games released! EDIT: Well I was excited until I read that they hired the lead developer of the EA NASCAR series to head this project. Thats no knock on EA, but the NASCAR series hasnt been the most impressive. I will hold judgment, but to me, that wasnt the best move to make!

That guy was also involved in some Papyrus games if I recall correctly. I think EA just didnt really give a **** about NASCAR and it showed. If he is given a little more room to do what he wants it may not be a bad thing. We will have to see how it turns out I guess.

[Chaos81]

Quote: Originally Posted by King10Sooted

That guy was also involved in some Papyrus games if I recall correctly.

Executive Producer
Papyrus Design Group

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

Responsible for all online aspects of Papyrus' racing game franchises:
- Design, development, integration, delivery & operation
- Business development
- Website & community
- Manage large internal & external teams & partners

[bluengold34_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by King10Sooted

That guy was also involved in some Papyrus games if I recall correctly. I think EA just didnt really give a **** about NASCAR and it showed. If he is given a little more room to do what he wants it may not be a bad thing. We will have to see how it turns out I guess.

Thanks....that makes me feel a little bit better. I would agree, it seems like the "suits" over at EA tend to control a game, more then the rpoducers and developers. I got that feeling from the exit interviews Mike Wang did about EA as he left and went back to NBA 2k.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chaos81

Executive Producer Papyrus Design Group (Privately Held; Computer Games industry) 1994 — 1997 (3 years ) Responsible for all online aspects of Papyrus' racing game franchises: - Design, development, integration, delivery & operation - Business development - Website & community - Manage large internal & external teams & partners

Nice find Mike, and it seems like he really wasnt a developer of the game, but more on the backend of things and implementation. I am suprised the guys at iRacing didnt take him with them.

[Tidefan6869]

I wonder if they check OS any? A suggestion thread might be a good idea. I would love to have the career mode from Thunder 04 (it was either 03 or 04 can't remember now) where you had the crew chief, engine builder, chassis builder, body builder, and shop that you had to pay for and hire better builders to get the better cars. If they could do that a take into affect that everyone else, AI, will also be building better cars they could have a great career mode. I'm not sure about running lower levels of Nascar b/c EA had bad games with them in it so it kinda left a bad impression on me. I read on their forum that some saw that an offical anouncement would be at the end of the month.

[Chaos81]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

I am suprised the guys at iRacing didnt take him with them.

Papy was together until 2002-2003ish, according to that he left in 1997. He would have been long gone by the time iRacing came around. Looks like he was already with EA at that point.

[King10Sooted]

Either way, this has to be better than EA's NASCAR games... right?