I am very critical of bike 'sims', as how a bike works is very hard to properly simulate for whatever controller is used. You would need a bike to sit on that leans over and stands up with counter steering before i'd show any interest. I love riding bikes but can't see an affordable controller in the near future to provide a real bike sim experience, even the very expensive set ups are way off the mark. For example this ignores how a bike physically works, it's simple and crude(yes i am very hard to please when it comes to this lol):
I'll stick to cars for my sim racing experience and real bikes for super-manning the road and track.
Hahahaha, I'm in agreement with you. I'm not too worried about the actual act of countersteering in game though. What I'd like to see is the bikes actually reacting semi realisticly. Pretty much all the "sims" I've seen have the bikes looking very solid, with little movement over the bike as a whole. When the front end starts to get light, it seems as though there is a canned effect, and the bike jiggles stupidly. Same goes for the rear end. Any pumping from the rear tyre coming out of a corner looks stiff and OTT. Just all the subtle things that they can capture in a car sim, but seemingly not a bike sim.
The other thing is the bikes are always to light looking in the full lean to lean, like in a chicane. The bikes drop in so fast, and then come up so fast, and if the rider makes a small correction mid corner, the bike pops up and down with no effect on the cornering.
Maybe if they had a very stiff bar control, that got stiffer with speed, so that it was up to the player to control the speed of entry and exit of lean, and well as the controller being able to lowside the player if he is calling for too much lean. There should never be an imgame limit as to how much you can lean...
In the end, I'll just hop on ma bike and head out on the roads....thats much simpler....XD
Anyway....back to youtube things and stuff...heres some stuff I shot at Skope 2008 and 2012, Ruapuna, Christchurch. Big ass lumpy V8's are always interesting XD
CANAM's
F5000's with some great sounds