Gran Tourismo 5.....delayed....again

And this is why you never, ever speak to a blueshirt.

 

The damage modeling better be good or else the whole "Best racing sim" bull**** goes out the window...again.

Can't be a good sim if you can slam into an wall at 180 mph, bounce off, and continue racing.

 

You’re probably going to be disappointed. Companies just don’t want to see their cars broken and banged up in something as high profile as Gran Turismo.

 

I was trying not to be visually agitated while I was waiting. I wanted to answer her questions, but I felt like it would only lengthen the process.

I've not crashed yet, but I'm sure the damage modeling won't be good enough. If it is as I have read, I hope that they can patch it to make the damage more aggressive.

 

Just messing around with the photo mode.

 

I hope they can patch load times and more aggressive damage. Probably in that order lol.

Edit: I guess what I take as loading times, may be at times the game polling the server (which apparently is busy as **** today; not surprising).

 

From what I read there isn't any damage on any cars but the "premium cars." Same thing goes for the driver view, photo mode, and supposedly overall the non-premium cars looks less attractive than the premium cars. Of course this information was from around the web before the release so I am in no way saying it's true, maybe those that own the game can confirm? However it was enough to get me to cancel my pre-order and from what I saw from the IGN review I'm sort of glad I did. Looks like a really good game but fell short of what it could have been. In terms of a true sim-racer I doubt you could ever hope for more, so for people that love that sort of thing I'm sure they'll love it.

 

I took that, then I realized you can set all sorts of aspect ratios with the camera (and even take 3D photos).




Edit: guess the aspect ratio doesn't show up well in linked images.

 

Apparently more detailed damage is unlocked at higher levels.

 

Yeah you have to pick your cars carefully. I've noticed before starting the game that the challenges have different car requirements. But I enjoy that part of the game greatly. The game forces you to buy different japanese, european and american cars from vintage to modern and it's fun trying to get used to how each car drives and their own tendencies. They educate you about each different car as well which I like. I'm starting to get into it and having a lot of fun. I think i'm only at level 12 though.

 

The future of GT5:

 

How hard is this game to play? The last GT I played was on playstation 1 and I really enjoyed doing the challenges and unlocking and upgrading the cars etc. However I never get racing games because I suck at them. Also I downloaded the GT5 demo and found it quite difficult to race. Is the game like the demo, or is it easier?

 

I think it's easy to race (or easy enough) so long as you follow the basics. It also helps immensely if you have a wheel like a logitech driving force GT.

 

I'd say amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Play...YPOO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291241322&sr=8-1

It was on sale for $99.99 the other day.

I think I picked it up at GameStop for that price like a year or so ago (they may have it for that price now).

 

It's meh. Simulation is simulation.

I play GTA4 because, I know if I lose the race I can always drag the winner out of his car and beat him down at the end of the race.

 

Sure they do. Take a spin with Forza 3

 

I said high profile.

 

How is the night and rain? Those are areas that F3 can't compete because it doesn't have it.

I'll probably pick GT5 up this weekend. How big is the patch?

 

Oh I see. You don't think they are on the same level. 4M+ copies sold, special tie in with Audi, the fact that the manufacturers went to Turn10 to get their cars into the game. OK. Sure...


I like them both but don't give me that.

 

Gran Turismo has actually embedded itself into international car culture. Forza Motorsport is simply a good video game that happens to be about driving. One is not like the other.

 

I still haven't played it....

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-gran-turismo/708089

They gave it a 9 but didn't make it sound like a 9

 

I heard it has stoopid long loading times. Any truth to that?

 

Got this for xmas...been playing it since. It's alot of fun, but the damage modeling is a joke. Why bother adding it if it doesn't effect performance? I wanted to test it so I reversed course on the high speed loop and hit another car head on at about 175 mph. My REAR quarter panel folded up in what looked like a bad photoshop. I bounced off, and was able to continue racing with no handicaps to my car's performance.

"Most realistic driving simulator" my ***.

 

I do drive realistically. It's well known I have a high performance vehicle and kinda know what I'm doing behind the wheel.

But you can't claim to be the most realistic driving simulator when you leave out important aspects.

 

Don't remember what level I am, haven't played since I posted that (Damn Fable III)...but that's pretty dumb anyway bro. Does your car not get any damage when you only have a learner's permit?

I'm not saying the game isn't a great game. I just hate that they tout themselves as the most realistic simulation, when - and this is the key part - personally I think FMS is better.

 

Well that's another thing I don't like about it. Do we really need 12 variations of the Viper? Believe me I love playing the game, but I think the resources would have been better spent ironing out all the warts instead of packing in every single version of the Skyline. No one is going to drive every car in the game.

But that's just my opinion.

 

Having all those cars is incentive for completionists.