Not getting TDU straight away

[reece_sis]

I have decided that I am not getting TDU straight away. :noooo:
But I will be getting it. Its just that I need a new game and the game was delayed just too much. sour:
Just thought I would say.

[tenebra_uk]

I want to see how long you last before running to a game shop for your copy lolblue:

[reece_sis]

I want to see how long you last before running to a game shop for your copy lolblue:
If mum gives me money :p

[Insecure_n00b]

If mum gives me money :p

I miss when my mum gave me money

[TheAngel]

Well, my dad still gives me money (and I´m 20...) For example yesterday he gave me 400€...

[Insecure_n00b]

Well, my dad still gives me money (and I´m 20...) For example yesterday he gave me 400€...

Can your dad give me 400€?

[TheAngel]

I don´t know... I wouldn´t bet on it...

And hey, I´m his little boy who just moved to the big bad world, from safe little Finland :-p

[craigie22]

hmmmm very very very bad world italy

so bad. I wouldnt send my kids there lol

my parents give me money to shut up about stuff like this :)

[Gaskellorama]

I must admit, i do want TDU but i have got to the point where Forza 2 is so close that if TDU were delayed again i would pass on it because an 8 player (if that's what its been reduced to) Moor isn't going to be as fun as a 12 player circuit race (in my opinion, realistically you'll find your favorite section of island and race it till the death before you move on)

It's almost like Atari have left it to the point where although there is still a following, because the gap between PGR and another decent driving game has been so long, 2 have come along within a couple of months and now people have a choice of what to buy!

Personally i think they missed out on a bit of a cash cow, and the excuse given of a cheaper launch by merging all format to one launch hasn't happened because other than the E3 demo there hasn't really been much info other than 360 info on the game.

I know Eden have been improving the gameplay physics etc. but TDU has now got to the point that if i had to i could wait to get this 2nd hand from game at a bargain, if i couldn't afford to buy it at release, and maybe Atari can learn that by setting a pesemistic release date and bringing it forward will have a much better effect than having an optimistic deadline and delaying it over and over again after all this game is to good to be another Juiced!!!

[craigie22]

and also they are releasing it around the same time as the kids (like me) go back to school. They've missed out on the holidays.

[Luken10]

Yeah im in the U.S. and the release date is the day that my school starts. But I get to play with you guys on a friday so no homework because its the first day of school. :chapeau:

[leighton]

I miss when my mum gave me money


so its nothing to with being delayed. Its lack of funds.


Ill send you some money!











NOT! :salut2:

[reece_sis]

bf2 was sold out, might have to get tdu!

[Crazed_Dodgem]

hmmmm very very very bad world italy

so bad. I wouldnt send my kids there lol

my parents give me money to shut up about stuff like this :)

it's not, they have pizza's and lamborghini :nuts:

[craigie22]

...you forgot ferrari!

bf2 sucks. It gets soooo boring after a couple of online games and offline sucks more than online. Unless you're talking about the pc version

[ChrisKob11]

Hmm i think that you (reece_sis) will buy the game 1 day after it's released tonguegre

[Crazed_Dodgem]

...you forgot ferrari!

bf2 sucks. It gets soooo boring after a couple of online games and offline sucks more than online. Unless you're talking about the pc version

and lasagne and maserati and alpha romeo and pagani and ducatti and MV augusta and Fiat and Pasta and lots more, do you see why i only gave 2 examples now :p

[stalker700]

The statment: Italy has good Pizzas is a lie ! :noooo: Sweden on the other hand.. rolleyesa

[TheAngel]

The statment: Italy has good Pizzas is a lie ! :noooo: Sweden on the other hand.. rolleyesa

Come here to say that, and I´ll kick your ***... :nuts: I´m not italian, but this country has the best pizza in the world... And yes, I have tasted swedish pizza..

[craigie22]

i've tryed sweedish food - at Ikea :nuts:

not nice :(

[Axe_Gaijin]

i've tryed sweedish food - at Ikea :nuts:

not nice :(

Well heck... not really the place for haute cuisine is it? :aie:

[Crazed_Dodgem]

The statment: Italy has good Pizzas is a lie ! Sweden on the other hand..

hang on, isnt the o' sledgy-full one (tenerbra) from Italy...

you are sooo sledgie pulp tonguegre

[craigie22]

yeah but sweden man is from sweden and is therefore responsible for at least one item in every house!

my whole room is swedish :nuts:

SO

SWEDEN - good furniture crappy food
ITALY - good food crappy furniture and a mod :)

[Crazed_Dodgem]

and

Italy - Great supercars
Sweden - rubbish car (Saab), great supercar company (koenigsegg) and a company that makes cars that are safer than a tank (and weigh more too!) (volvo)

[craigie22]

and they sound swedish :)

[Axe_Gaijin]

and

Italy - Great supercars
Sweden - rubbish car (Saab), great supercar company (koenigsegg) and a company that makes cars that are safer than a tank (and weigh more too!) (volvo)

Well Volvo has come a long way since the 80s you know. Yes they still make heavy & safe cars, but I think the current line-up is quite stylish and they do know how to make fast cars. *dreams of a 850 T5 Estate* mdr1

[stalker700]

We also invented the Matchstick! and Alfred Nobel was swedish, he came up whit dynamite.

[Crazed_Dodgem]

yeah but still, SAAB is complete rubbish, i mean, if you watch their adverts, they say they can make cars that stick to the road because they know about aerodynamics from their plane building side of the company, if they can do that, then why cant rolls royce say that they know how to make sodding fast cars because they build jet engines tonguegre

*imagines jet engine powered rolls royce Phantom* drool

[craigie22]

lol i would buy one, if i had half a billion pounds tonguegre

volvos are actually amazing cars, we were gonna get one but they were too expensive lol

[Axe_Gaijin]

yeah but still, SAAB is complete rubbish, i mean, if you watch their adverts, they say they can make cars that stick to the road because they know about aerodynamics from their plane building side of the company, if they can do that, then why cant rolls royce say that they know how to make sodding fast cars because they build jet engines tonguegre

*imagines jet engine powered rolls royce Phantom* drool


Saab used to be great, they made cars nobody esle dared to make, it's been going downhill eversince GM took a hold of them.
New Saabs are just revamped Opel/Vauxhall. :cry:

[reece_sis]

IM GETTING TDU! mdr1 mdr1 :atari: mdr1 mdr1

[lillnickevinge]

lol i would buy one, if i had half a billion pounds tonguegre
volvos are actually amazing cars, we were gonna get one but they were too expensive lol
How can you call Volvo amazing ? I am swedish myself, and i don't understand why you would want to buy a Volvo :hin: It's possibly the most boring car in the world !

[craigie22]

boring, but they are the safest car in the world and there are really nice looking and the interior is luxurious.

[lillnickevinge]

I think Mercedes-Benz make safer cars, and also, i think Volvos interiors are kinda plasticy..

[craigie22]

not the one we were gonna buy :)

my dads job involves driving round the country to some really rough areas. Areas you wouldnt want to get your mobile phone out of your pocket for example, and lots of his stuff has been nicked and his car has been broken into twice.

Buying a mercedes isn't the best thing to do when you have that type of job. Neither was the Volvo so we got a mondeo :) in a colour that i call 'puke' Its the most unnickable car ever made! Even though its been broken into already lol

[lillnickevinge]

Lol, i understand why you didn't buy a Merc then tonguegre

[stalker700]

Even thou i am a patriot, i have to agree. Volvo's and SAAB's are really boring and plastic. They are nothing comapred to german cars.

[lillnickevinge]

Meh, german cars are great, but i think most of them seem so soulless and perfect.. I like german cars, but i love italian cars. 10sur10

[craigie22]

i love german cars. Particularly the VWs and BMWs

italian cars are nice but nothing compared to english cars!

[stalker700]

Still, no car can beat the Lada! Soviet engineering.

[lillnickevinge]

Oops, forgot english cars! :) Sorry cragie :wink2: They are nice too, espc Astons :bravo:

[craigie22]

yes expecially astons tonguegre

[greenwich720]

which are american

[Vieon]

which are american

Stop talking out of your backside please :)

It was designed by a Brit and is built in Gaydon, Britain. I think the only thing American in it is the powerplant, but feel free to correct me (KoenigViper) if I'm wrong.

[Crazed_Dodgem]

not the one we were gonna buy :)

my dads job involves driving round the country to some really rough areas. Areas you wouldnt want to get your mobile phone out of your pocket for example, and lots of his stuff has been nicked and his car has been broken into twice.

Buying a mercedes isn't the best thing to do when you have that type of job. Neither was the Volvo so we got a mondeo :) in a colour that i call 'puke' Its the most unnickable car ever made! Even though its been broken into already lol

hang on, you get struck by lightening, get your car broken into, and then again, anyone who breaks into a mondeo is out of their mind. ever considered moving to somewhere more sane (like wales :) )

oh and the last sweden comment from me, abba and bjorn smell.

[stalker700]

Liar ! :'( they don't smell! Theyre just, Diffrent.

[craigie22]

they smell different

and someone would have to be stupid to break into a mondeo

someone would have to be crazy to break into a puke coloured mondeo

and someone would have to be out of their mind to break into a puk coloured mondeo and nick nothing :nuts:

[KoenigViper]

Stop talking out of your backside please :)

It was designed by a Brit and is built in Gaydon, Britain. I think the only thing American in it is the powerplant, but feel free to correct me (KoenigViper) if I'm wrong.
Correct. Other than an American influenced powerplant, and being owned by an American company, she's a British manufacturer.

[Crazed_Dodgem]

i know, saying Aston is American is like saying Caddilac is swedish (basically caddys are modified saabs-or so says jeremy clarkson) they may use swedish bits of cars, but Cadillac sure aint Swedish

[Axe_Gaijin]

Nah, Cadillac don't need to be Swedish, they allready suck enough on their own. superg

[reece_sis]

IM GETTING TDU! mdr1 mdr1 :atari: mdr1 mdr1
Did anyone see this :mad: madred:

[craigie22]

we did

we just ignored it

LOL

[Crazed_Dodgem]

raise your hand if you care...

(not you reece!)

anyone...

what do you want, a medal? tonguegre

just kidding mate

[TheAngel]

Yeah, I think quite a few other people here are also getting the game...

[pegse]

did you know koenigsegg is the fastest car top gear have ever tested on the airfield at a staggering 174mph zooommmm (take that zonda you argintina noobs) mdr1

[Vieon]

did you know koenigsegg is the fastest car top gear have ever tested on the airfield at a staggering 174mph zooommmm (take that zonda you argintina noobs) mdr1

Actually it's 193 in the CCX. tonguegre

[pegse]

maybe the one i saw was old it could be the ccr (is that it?)
and i didn't know the roof came of it, it would be nice to get it in the TDU game

[Axe_Gaijin]

Did anyone see this :mad: madred:

Oh wait... what was this thread about again? rolleyesa mdr1

[Crazed_Dodgem]

Actually it's 193 in the CCX. tonguegre

they also had the fastest hotlap, however, only after a modification, BY THE BRITISH mdr1

CCX - about 5th in leaderboard
CCX with BRITISH spoiler - 1st on leaderboard

[KoenigViper]

I think Mercedes-Benz make safer cars, and also, i think Volvos interiors are kinda plasticy..

You may think what you please, but it's proven Volvo is about the safest car manufacturer in the world.


Their vehicles are not very exciting to drive except for the S60 R. But I do like them, and I like how much better their styling and ride has improved since the past.

Now the R models with 300Bhp have a very impressive ride and power for any Volvo. The only other Volvo I've driven that achieves this is the XC 90 with the V8 with 311Bhp.
It just appears to set a little higher than I imagined.
But back to the 2 R models, they are impressive and the only Volvos besides the XC 90 that I wanted to drive.

The next Volvo I plan to test drive is the S80 V8 model.
It has great styling that I like, and has some nifty little features. Park Place Volvo has only reported to me so far that most to S80s are orders and there's only 2 on the lot unsold.

[Crazed_Dodgem]

80's volvo's were designed with lego :)

[LabaLaba]

they also had the fastest hotlap, however, only after a modification, BY THE BRITISH mdr1

CCX - about 5th in leaderboard
CCX with BRITISH spoiler - 1st on leaderboard
It isn't a british spoiler. It has been Koenigsegg's option since the CC model.

maybe the one i saw was old it could be the ccr (is that it?)
and i didn't know the roof came of it, it would be nice to get it in the TDU game
It was the CC.
Yes it would be be nice to have CoupeConvertibles that you can get the roof up and down in TDU. I mean cars like Koenigseggs, MC12, SLK, XLR-V.......

[Axe_Gaijin]

The first car I've ever driven was a Volvo 343. And it was HORRID!.
It was my drivingschool's car so not much for choosing :) It was heavy, steered heavy and was slow.... soooooo slow. It was a diesel aswel, which made it even slower. (we didn't have them fancy fast TDI we got nowadays ;))
Two weeks before my final exam he got a VW Golf 1.9, boy what a difference!

Later I drove a 244 for the place I worked, again big heavy slow thing, but miles better then the 343. (the other company car was a Lada 1500 combi, deffinetly the worse car I've ever driven).

My dad had 2 Volvos since he used to work at the Volvo plant here in the Netherlands (currently Nedcar, and in financial promblems) A 345 and currently a '93 440 1.8. I can tell the latter is a verry nice car to drive, it doesn't feel half as big as it is. :)

I used to hate volvo's but they do make good cars nowadyas, and have done in the past, just the 80s was a dark age for the brand.
A volvo 480ES Turbo, PV544, P1800 or 124 "Amazone" are cars I wouldn't mind owning :p

http://www.volvowereld.nl/?page=mobile

[DJ_on_a_Hill]

not the one we were gonna buy :)

my dads job involves driving round the country to some really rough areas. Areas you wouldnt want to get your mobile phone out of your pocket for example, and lots of his stuff has been nicked and his car has been broken into twice.

Buying a mercedes isn't the best thing to do when you have that type of job. Neither was the Volvo so we got a mondeo :) in a colour that i call 'puke' Its the most unnickable car ever made! Even though its been broken into already lol

You need this... (http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm) :nuts: :nuts:

awww fudge...:( broken link....

Follow this path to see it...

up in the top go to 'Animations and then scroll down the list until you see "Auto Theft"... :nuts:

[De_Charel]

Ok, first off... If you say volvo's are boring you probably never heard of the company EVOLVE. No?
Evolve is to Volvo what AMG or Brabus is to Mercedes.

They build things like the Volvo S40evolve:
http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/05/s40evolve04_02.jpg
S40 Evolve (http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/evolve_s40.asp)
Type: Inline-5, Turbocharged
Displacement cu in (cc): 154 (2521)
Power bhp (kW): 425(317)

or the S60R:

http://www.evolvecars.com/albums/IrwindaleSpeedwayPhotoshoot/CIMG0597.sized.jpg

So you see, volvo's don't need to be boring :)

[DJ_on_a_Hill]

Inline 5?? That's weird... :mefiant:

[De_Charel]

It's a Volvo Thing :p

Like The D5 is typical volvo power... or the T5 :)
Better then a 4 in line and about as powerfull as a 6 in line like in Alfa's or BMW's

[the_woozle]

Inline 5's are really interesting actually. They sound really unique in tunnels and parking garages as well.

[De_Charel]

Offtopic:

They are amazingly good,
ok, since everybody is so into volvo here, a little bit of history... :laugh:

Volvo has always been very into Safety and things like that so there has never been much money left for engines. Because of this they have always used Renault engines in their cars (don't know about the really really old ones...) that might be the reason for the not very sporty reputation of their cars, not considering the awfull look of the old cars. But in (i hope i get this right) 2001 everything changed when volvo left Renault and their engines and started putting their own custom engines in their cars. A little later they developed the D5 which is their top of the line Diesel engine, might not sound like fun but believe me, that thing goes like...euh...well fast.. :rolleyes: :)

Now let's just wait and see if the new engines are as reliable as the old renault ones.

Oh and i used to own a 343R-sport as my first car... :) (123hp Wooot! :P)

some info 343R-sport (http://www.volvospy.com/resources/300/343rsport.php)

Ontopic:

I'm going to buy the game when it comes out straight away, i just can't wait to get my hands on it (pc version).
It looks great and sounds even better...
now it's just saving to buy myself a good pc to run it on.
I'll guess i'll play it on my old pc for now (5 years old) and wait until Vista and Directx 10 comes out next year...

[Axe_Gaijin]

Inline 5?? That's weird... :mefiant:

It's not that strange. Mercedes has used them in trucks/lorries and VW/audi have used them in cars as well. Probably even more brands.

Although the most common would be an inline-4 or a V6 there's numerous of different engine configurations. Inline, V, Boxer(flat), rotary (wankel, technicaly not using cylinders of course), 2,3,4,5,6 cylinders etc etc :)

[lillnickevinge]

you probably never heard of the company EVOLVE. No?
Ofc i've heard of EVOLVE, im swedish man ! And koenig, i like the new S80 too, really comfy ride ! But i really don't like the XC90, i mean have you ever sat in one ? Everything is made out of cheap plastics, even the aluminium is plastic! ;) The R models and the S80 is nice, but i don't like the others.. Volvos are quite expensive, and for that much money, i'd rather buy something nicer..

[De_Charel]

True, True...

i'm not a big XC90 fan either... or X5 or Cayenne Turbo S or Q7 quattro.
They are all hideous! But! i like the Range Rover Sport :)... but i wouldn't choose it over a defender.

The S40 and S80 are indeed expensive and if you want them tuned they come close to a Carrera 2 in price.
But you still got the Volvo underdog advantage...
Ok, it won't impress people if you say you got a S40, but they will be impressed if you say you got a porsche. Unless you drag race them... then the volvo S40evolve has a big HP advantage over a Carrera. (425 vs. 355)

Better buy a 911 then :nuts: 420Hp ^^

To be honest i wouldn't buy them either, i'm more a Mitsu Evo fan :)

[lillnickevinge]

I don't like any tuned cars, and maybe i don't like Volvo because im swedish. There's like 3 volvo models in the top 10 sales list here in sweden, so you see them every day all the time :o

[De_Charel]

Yeah i noticed when driving to Norway from Belgium :nuts:

like 7 volvo's per km on the E6 higway :)
Who do I have to thank for the traffic jam after Götheburg... was stuck for 2 hours... :mad:
some guy said, " oh this happens every friday..." :rolleyes:

oh well... got home safe and brought my girlfriend along (she's Norwegian)

By the way i love Sweden, Amazing Roads and real fun to drive!
Too bad i wasn't driving my TDI... would have had a lot of fun...

[Girrari]

It's a Volvo Thing :p

Like The D5 is typical volvo power... or the T5 :)
Better then a 4 in line and about as powerfull as a 6 in line like in Alfa's or BMW's

Correction!

Alfa doaesn't have in-line 6 cilinder engine. Only V6.

[reece_sis]

http://www.xerocreative.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/locked.gif
Got this from another thread. Lock this now plz