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GT6 @ gamecom 2013
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To quote a question after the demonstration: "Will we be able to customize are cars by adding our own photos to them and what not?"
Answer: "That's something we're currently working on and are planning to show more of at the Tokyo Game Show".
Oddly, he doesn't believe a full livery editor will be available yet. Must be a translation issue of sorts.
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- Neomone
It's a shame the sound in the video is so average.
He says "hyaku (obscured) gurai kiro", which would be "a hundred (something) approximately kilometers". With the noise and stuff around, I can't hear that middle word. If the word is "heihou", it's a hundred square kilometers. I have no idea how you'd say a hundred by a hundred in Japanese.
Honestly, you sort of have to give the benefit of the doubt to the professional interpreter sitting beside the guy. Unless someone else has better ears than me and can hear that word, I don't think we can reasonably argue against it.
The other bonus is that if word starts going around the internet that it's 100x100km and it's actually not, PD will probably put out word to correct it quick sharp.
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- Jump_Ace
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- Course Maker innovations, what are they exactly?
- GPS feature - will it allow to record GPS data and import it in the Course Maker to produce user-created tracks?
- any more "Original Courses" (legacy tracks) besides Apricot Hill? Midfield, Grindelwald, Red Rock Valley, Taity Road..?
- will all tracks get day/night and weather change?
- oil-change in pits for multiplayer?
- will we see return of the Official Matchmaking online races as in GT5rologue?
- will GT6 have online Seasonal Events as GT5?
- will GT6 Mobile Application work on the Vita too (on top of the smartphones and tables, as announced)?
- will GT6 allow for head-tracking via PSEye to be used in other modes besides Arcade races (if any)?
- will the Red Bull X1 return for GT6?
- will there be "Car Creator" (create your own vehicle) in GT6?
Thank you in advance
Normally we come to you on those questions buddy. It's like a Twilight Zone episode or something, hehe.
Great list of questions for sure.
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- dawko-san
GranTurismo91610x10 km is still pretty awesome. I can't wait for this course maker.
So you're saying in GT6 we can make a track 10x10km big? I can't believe it... I highly doubt that PS3 had enough resources to do it. It's basically 4 times bigger than Nordschleife, right?
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- ecko_driver81
Respectfully disagree. Translator-san has made some silly mistakes before- one this year (at silverstone) actually caused Kazunori to stop, look over with a bit of a scowl, and say "I did not say that". That's not good! From my observation, Translator-san comes off as someone who does not share our automotive passion, nor an authentic interest in the developement of Gran Turismo. Has anyone here who has met him, and talked for any substantial time with him, have anything to say about that? I'd love to be wrong here, but from what I've seen- I'm not sure he's in the right arena.
I'm not trying to slam the guy as a person, but this mis-translation, ill-communication 🤬 between PD and the rest of the world is getting a bit old.
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You're wrong. He's from California, and his love of cars led him to become a professional translator for Japanese automotive companies. Before Polyphony Digital, he worked for Subaru, translating technical manuals and vehicle documentation into English. In addition to translating for Kazunori at these events, he translates all of the text you see in the games.
I think the issue is that precisely translating real-time conversations is hard, no matter your proficiency in the two languages.
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- spagetti69
The translator issue is as old as the hills. There really should be a better way of communicating in 2013.
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Babelfish?
People are working on this kind of thing, it's not easy (tried Google translate recently?). Or do you mean that Kaz should just learn English? Didn't he say that he would do a worse job than Translator-san anyway (in effect)? You know, some people just aren't that good at languages.
Also, some things aren't straight forward and "logical" (translation is complex, but always tractable with enough human input; interpretation is an absolute art) - look at the confidence people had about predicting the weather less than 100 years ago...
So, did I miss the clarification? Is it 100 km squared or 100 square km? At Silverstone it was only "tens of square kilometres"; i.e. something like 3 km on a side minimum - this seems like quite a jump all of a sudden!
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An interpreter is as good as it gets for real time questions and the like, unfortunately. Unless you get people to submit questions beforehand and pre-organise the answers. The difficulty is that TL-san has maybe five seconds tops after Kaz stops talking to start giving the answer in English.
Then there's that languages really aren't interchangeable. There was one part where he was talking about one of the companies designing for Vision GT. He went on to the next one (might have been Nissan, I forget), and just said "Nissan mo". In Japanese that's a legitimate sentence, "Nissan too", but in English that sort of sparse language is borderline rude, and tends to confuse people. It needed to be "And Nissan are doing the same things as well" or something along those lines, and it's big mental leap to keep going back and forth between a language that can deal with that level of ambiguity and one that can't.
I'm sort of surprised that they didn't really seem to have pre-organised the whole thing for the presentation. I'd have thought Kaz would be more or less working from a prepared speech, and TL-san would have translated it back at the office and would just be adding in bits that Kaz ad libbed. It didn't really appear that way.
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- GTP_SEMS
Interesting tidbit from the video,seems we will be getting the next gen GTR ASAP
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Oh really? Well how about you make one then? Will that make you feel any better? It's not their fault.
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- kudos00
I'd say that he clarified that it's 100 square km. "Tens of square kilometers" makes me think that's the case, otherwise Translator-san might have said at the 15 year anniversary event "hundreds of square kilometers" had it been the larger figure.
Someone asked a question about Goodwood's rally track and Kaz said that he likes it, but isn't sure if it'll be ready at the time of GT6's release (just clarifying that if the video gets taken down or if someone didn't read the comments.
Actually, it was confirmed that Willow Springs and Silverstone have time change and weather features (it's unknown whether or not it'll be 24 hours), but in the picture, it shows that Silverstone has neither of them. Grand Valley has the same symbol as Silverstone which looks like it's the symbol for a set time of day.
We know now that Matterhorn will have both features and same for Autumn Ring which we only figured before that it had time change. I'm doubting that they'll feature the 24 hour time change. Autumn Ring Mini is missing the reverse track symbol and it's still not known if Matterhorn will have a reverse layout; yes, it's an original track, but look at Cape Ring.
HOT damn!
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Thom Lee
We all appreciate it and you made my day by saying the frame rate is better and as well is anti Aliasing. 👍
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- Wardez
Really nice article up:
https://www.gtplanet.net/gt6-course-maker-livery-editor-gamescom/
Super happy that Spa and Daytona are getting day to night cycles!
And this whole thing:
Sounds very promising
https://www.gtplanet.net/gt6-course-maker-livery-editor-gamescom/
Super happy that Spa and Daytona are getting day to night cycles!
And this whole thing:
Sounds very promising
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- R063R_GL4560W
I want to be able to recreate roads in and around the town where I live to see how they would feel as a racetrack. Out of town, country roads, into a village, more country roads back into town - one lap. REPEAT.
I thought that's what I was getting when I saw the course editor function on GT5 and was then hugely disappointed when I explored it.
I'm now more excited about GT6. Someone has said Nurburgring is ~16 sq km? So more than five times the size of that???
I thought that's what I was getting when I saw the course editor function on GT5 and was then hugely disappointed when I explored it.
I'm now more excited about GT6. Someone has said Nurburgring is ~16 sq km? So more than five times the size of that???
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R063R
I did say it
I mean Nordschleife is 26km long I think I'm not sure though... But hey, you'll not need a perfectly revamped course maker to recreate your town roads... You use the GPS app which will be announced soon
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With Gamescom all but done,GT6's track list is still the best thing going for it and it is what's pulling me to it,pretty meh showing though hope they unleash their magic less than a month from now at TGS.
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Classic
Me too. Hoping we still have some kind of options to make something more like a real track though. Long sweeping corners, banking and stuff.
