Kazunori Yamauchi: “Things Are Just Getting Started”
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In an interview with Red Bull’s own “Play!” video magazine, Kazunori Yamauchi talks about GT5 and a bit about his future:
“There is still a lot of stuff to do for me. I’ve been making games for over 15 years now, and really, things are just getting started.”
That’s good news, of course, for all the fans eagerly awaiting GT5‘s promised updates and, of course, Gran Turismo 6. Watch the show above for more (there’s even an interview with Sebastian Vettel) – thanks to all who sent this in!
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December 7th, 2010 at 12:51 pm - #Yellowfever
Oh and premium cars, nice but I don’t care I drive from bumper cam as it is easier at high speeds. I hope Kaz focuses on the driving experience with the patches 1st not the appearance related ones.
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December 6th, 2010 at 9:40 pm - #Dustyr
Server going down for service tonight maybe the update will launch tonight aswell
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December 7th, 2010 at 1:24 am - #Dragonitti
I use to say Poly-phony like they do in the vid. But then I started to think that it was pronounced like you would say “Polifphony”
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December 6th, 2010 at 9:25 pm - #canadasux
GRAN TURISMO 5 … COMING SOON!
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December 6th, 2010 at 7:48 pm - #Andse1
I hope Polyphony Digital will learn some from this, and make Gran Turismo 6 the ultimate racing game…
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December 6th, 2010 at 7:03 pm - #AGTFan
A lot of very good points are made on these forums. I hope PD and Yamauchi-San take note.
GT5 has too many flaws and omissions. Coming from a AAA Japanese games company, which by nature would be quite detail oriented, and in development for six years we rightly expected a a polished product.
But GT5 is far from that. If you pay hundreds of dollars for a special edition of a product you expect polish. In that respect GT5 has let a lot of people down.
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December 7th, 2010 at 7:15 am - #Squidwert
+1 well said
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December 6th, 2010 at 5:43 pm - #Pedz
If he adds the latest Fiat Panda 100hp I’ll be an extremely happy chappy :P, but anything added on would just add to the awesomeness of this game, although I do hope they rework the online sections
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December 6th, 2010 at 4:12 pm - #FlareKR
Lol at Poly-”phony” Digital, and the stereotypical Japanese folk music in the background :-D
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December 6th, 2010 at 3:32 pm - #SwiftPro
Good morning hate, hate, haterrss… if you people don’t like GT5 then sell it… now. Maybe something more casual will suit your needs, i recommend NFS: Hot Pursuit, then when you eventually grow up you’ll appreciate quality ‘aka’ GT5.
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December 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm - #Detroitbb
Or maybe they’ll sell GT5 and pick up something that actually lives up the ‘sim’ label (like any of the SimBin games).
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December 6th, 2010 at 4:13 pm - #FlareKR
Or they can go to Hell and keep making AI bots for the A-Spec.
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December 6th, 2010 at 4:21 pm - #Squidwert
or Rfactor , live for speed , netkar , GP legends , iracing etc, i’m not a hater or a Forsa lover GT5 is not worth the wait or the hype.
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December 6th, 2010 at 3:06 pm - #Squidwert
well i’m glad i’ve not got it. i’ve played it and it’s just like GT4 but for a few more nuts and bolts. after years of delays it’s a big fail for PD. defo not the best car sim in the world by a long way.
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December 6th, 2010 at 5:46 pm - #Pedz
the cars handelling has dramatically changed, if you said it was GT5P with a few more nuts and bolts, I’d believe you, but thats just wrong…
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December 6th, 2010 at 2:06 pm - #Mike
Garto…
“Haven’t you heard too much realism spoils a game? So it may be GT 5 a driving sim, but it doesn’t necessary mean, EVERYTHING is the same.
If you want to experience realism, get a real car! I know I do :D”- I have a real car. Ive had many real cars actualy. In Sweden, youre car wouldn’t be legal to drive if it had as bad lights as the cars in GT5. Actualy, I don’t think you would be alive if your cars had that bad lights.
“Yes the AI is horrible, but have you ever tried racing in the “same” class of cars as them?”
What do you mean? That the Ai gets smarter when you have a better car? The Ai is stupid because it doesnt care about you, it just drives in it’s own invisible racing line.
“As for the livery editor, it can be added. Why not? GT 5 is only out less than 3 months. Why whine when you haven’t seen progress?”
- Yes, I whine cause I haven’t seen any progres since GT4 that came many years ago. They didn’t add a livery editor in 5 years so I very much doubt they will do it now in a update…
“You remind me of my 5 year old son who demand results immediately.”
- You can’t take it that someone is criticizing GT5. That’s more like a 5 year old boy. And yeah, I want results immediately when they once have released the game and I have payed hard earned money for it.
“As for damage, do you seriously want to debate this? You’re racing with the car, not trying to crash it, dummy! Learn to drive properly and you’ll enjoy racing rather than smashing into everything.”
- It’s supposed to be a racing simulator and the year is 2010. I don’t need to say more.
“As for the looks of the cars, well yes, all of them do not look great, but can you find me another game that rivals GT 5? Are you seriously gonna compare GT 5 with Forza? Are you “that” blind?”
- I havent compared GT5 with Forza, I just said that Forza’s Ai is thousands of times better. That the standard cars looks like something from PS2 is another issue.
“I do hope you will sell your game. Honestly, DO not ever buy another Gran Turismo game again. You are just another whiney kids who complain just about everything just because it isn’t “perfect” in your little world.”
- I probably will sell it, and I won’t buy another GT game again if Poly don’t shape up and learns that the gaming industry is evolving and what was “ok” 1998 is not ok today.
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December 6th, 2010 at 3:30 pm - #Skiddy
Mike, why did you buy the game in the first place?
It was well known that livery editor will not be in the game.Never heard PD bragging about their superb AI in the first place.
You knew there would be 800 not so good looking cars in GT.
Damage? This is first GT with damage system. Did you really expect it to be perfect?
You keep mentioning year 1998. Gt4 was relesed way after that and it didn’t have half of the new stuff that GT5 introduced (no premiums, no night drive, no livery, rain, NASCAR, KARTS) all it had was more tracks and cars than GT3.
Finally,did you not read all of the reviews before you got the game or you saw a couple of trailers and Photomode screenshots before the final decision???
Preorders can be canceled you know.
I know you’re pissed, but be a man and live with the fact that you rushed into buying the game. You have only yourself to blame for being unpatient like a child. No use whining about it on forums.
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December 6th, 2010 at 3:52 pm - #Detroitbb
*It wasn’t ‘well known’ that there wouldn’t be a livery editor in GT5 – just vague Kaz/PD mentions of ‘maybe’.
*PD always brag/boast about their improved AI routines, but they pretty much always seem the same with each new Gran Turismo game.
*We knew that the 200 premium cars would be more detailed (interiors/underneath/engine bay), but nobody expected PD to use the exact same car models from GT4. The least they could have done is to upgrade the low-resolution textures!
*Some people might have expected perfection as Kaz and PD are known as perfectionists… but most were caught off guard by how poorly implemented the damage system was. And I’m just speaking about visible damage – the mechanical damage aspect was the most disappointing.
*’Unpatient’ isn’t even a word (in any language)… perhaps you meant ‘impatient’?
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December 6th, 2010 at 4:16 pm - #Skiddy
@Detroitbb
Thnx for the “impatient”, i’m not from english speaking country.However..
Kaz is perfectionist, but also human.I ‘ve never,ever saw any official confirmation of livery editor.
You cannot prove that they didn’t do anything about the AI. And I didn’t hear them saying that the AI will be incredible, amazingly smart or anything like that.
And yes, Mike was impatient like a small child for not waiting for the reviews before spending his hard earned money. If more of you did just that (wait a little longer) you wouldn’t be whining here, PD would not sell as much copies and that, ladies and gentlemen, would be the right sign for Kaz and PD that they’ve went the wrong way.
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December 6th, 2010 at 1:13 pm - #Chrisorris24
Gt Academy registration is up!
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December 6th, 2010 at 1:06 pm - #Gulyo
I wanted to sell after 1 week ( buy Forza instead ) but I didn’t … didn’t regret it at all … get’s better and better !!!
BUT PLEASE :
MORE premium cars !!!!!
MORE race modification ( 16-17 pcs. available >>> SHAME FOR THIS GAME ) !!!!! -
December 6th, 2010 at 12:04 pm - #Apollo
Ummm, it says his CAREER is just getting started, NOT GT5!
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December 6th, 2010 at 12:14 pm - #Tom
I wouldn`t start my career with this crap
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:59 am - #yomamma
Jordan, i thought GT Academy USA was supposed to start today. Am i mistaken?
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:25 am - #marky5244
They sold us what is clearly an unfinished product and for that I am very disappointed with PD and Sony. I know there are some big new features like weather and time of day but there are features in the interim GT5P that didn’t make it into GT5 – e.g. leaderboards, credits earned online – and other obvious features are missing – e.g. rwd and fwd of replays, online matching, HUD removal (and the flashing gear indicator!) – and then there is the toned down damage, limited number of tracks, lack of integration of the racing licences. It all feels cobbled together to make a release of some sort to get our money.
The big three things I want to see sorted in DLC…
The physics are great (plus point for GT5, thank you!) but the wheel FFB lacks so much feeling that it damages the enjoyment of the game – I think the GT Academy TT was better.
The AI – why do they brake so early and drive so slowly through the corners. It makes overtaking them far too easy! And don’t they know that when they rear end you they should back off rather than shoving you off into the gravel?
Arcade mode needs to be extended. I want to be able to select my opponents and I want to select the AI strength with a slider rather than just levels A, B and C (like GT5P!).
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December 6th, 2010 at 12:45 pm - #ssupr@96
I agree. The price tag for buying a collectors edition, and limited selection options stateside, and to get an incomplete product. I enjoy the challenges, they’re hard and intense. The handling physics are great. The AI, Kaz just can’t get it right -period-. If I raced on a real track the way these AI’s raced a lot of money would spent on maintenance due to ramming into people in front of me or being rammed from behind. Most would be black flagged or suspended. That’s missing. When looking at the cost associated with the creation of GT5, I don’t see the cost being returned to the gamer. I see a new Citroen car, or an X-1 car that could’ve been created on PD’s physics engine, not Red Bull or Citroen’s offices. The cost associated with testing must have been extreme. Like I said before and its been repeated several times throughout this forum. If I could’ve sacrificed something to get either more premium cars, or more highly detailed cars, it would’ve been damage. I would like to be outside of the car when the pit crew starts working, the HUD setup makes viewing in cockpit difficult. Make more of a domestic car effort in choice selection of cars added to GT5. If 50 miata’s are added and 2 of them are premium, whats the point? Why are there highly detailed WW2 cars in a game that is a racing simulator? If that’s the case, please add a Sherman Tank premium edition so we can race that on rally courses please. That doesn’t make sense right? Exactly. I do understand go-karts, that makes sense, but some of the other additions, just to say you have 1k cars plus is not a good reason to buy GT5
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:07 am - #Tom
Its not about satisfying everyone, its about keeping promises and dont look so satisfied like Kaz in that interview, we are millions of fans which are not satisfied with the product we bought, because a lot of things that were promised and things we take for granted in a 2010 game is missing. He says he`s most satisfied with the course maker, I tried it once and it gave me nothing. I suggest they just drop GT6, and call it a day now, the time and other developers have reached and gone beyond PD.
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:05 am - #buffig
I absolutely love GT5 and in my book it would easily get a 9/10. I do howver think that it has been positioned as a halfway house. They’ve only just started implementing Kaz’s grand vision. Everywhere you look in GT5, you see the shadow of GT6. You say to yourself,”In #6, there will be 600 premiums and no standards, “In #6, there will be more challenges and they’ll be more fully fleshed out”. “In #6, all the tracks will have day/night transitions”…This is the case wherever you look. A user really shouldnt have to use a spreadsheet to check if the car they have chosen can be bought from this shop or that shop, then if it can be played from a specific view point or if it can have race mods, then if the track they’re racing on has certain features…For all intents and purposes, GT5 was never released, the game which sits in all our PS3s is in fact GT6 Prologue and I still love it.
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December 6th, 2010 at 10:12 am - #Mike
Yeah it’s a amazing game…. if it were 1998.
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December 6th, 2010 at 10:54 am - #PH
The above comments only prove one thing, PD could continue adding features and content from here until the day GT6 launches and there’d still be things missing.
The automotive world is too large to satisfy everyone.
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:46 am - #ExtremeGT5
Whine whine
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December 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am - #pasigiri
Well as far as fixes:
- brake upgrades is one (how that did not make it in is a mystery in itself although it’s not as straight forward as many might expect i.e. pedal feel)
- blocky shadows (I know this was addressed earlier)
- some premium cars that should have been in the game from the get go (Audi RS3 through 5 and TT-RS, VW Scirroco+Golf R, Bugatti in premium, Koenigsegg, Ford Focus RS, to name a few that surprisingly did not make it in but a VW bus and buggy make it in as premiums).-
December 6th, 2010 at 10:02 am - #pasigiri
almost forgot:
- ALL of the wheels available to put on ANY premium car I want. Not a certain selection I can’t control. -
December 6th, 2010 at 10:15 am - #pasigiri
and again (sorry)
- realistic areo parts
For example, take the RX-8. It has an actual Mazda areo kit that consists of a front lip, sides, and rear trimming. There is also the infamous Mazdaspeed kit. All this available from Mazda. Same with the 350/370Z; Nismo kits are available from Nissan. This is something Forza hit exactly; REAL cosmetic/areo parts. The fact that PD went out of the way to come up with there own “kit” designs is beyond me.
- and when upgrading wheels, can the wheels be fixed to FILL the wheel well (to see what I’m talking about, buy the Masirati and put custom wheels on it and take a look for yourself). -
December 6th, 2010 at 2:02 pm - #GranTurismo Disciple
@PasiGirl, I’m a bit dissapointed that their is no premiums for the rs3 to 5 also. And why don’t they have the new shape audi A4 touring car as a premium? That thing is awesome.
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December 6th, 2010 at 9:38 am - #Skiddy
PD made this game for the not so hardcore drivers. I guess they wanted to make a game for a wider spectra of gamers. That’s why it has rally, Nascar, karts (yeah, very cool IMO). They toned down the modification and tuning options (fully customisable transmision – yeah right). I would just like them to patch the game up completely (no BUGS), and add more options (leaderboards, custom tracks, HUD options). I’m a casual player, but I like realistic driving games. But I don’t like F1 style tunings and setups, I really don’t have time for that. I want to drive and GT5 is perfect in that area. Most of the people that are complaining got hyped to much I guess.
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They can’t please everybody that’s for sure. I agree the game could use a bit more but the basics are there, physics is the most importrant aspect as we want the car to feel like the real thing. For me it’s about the driving. Changing rims and painting the car seems useless to me. I am driving it not looking at it. I never went by somebody on the track and have them tell me how pretty my car was. To me that stuff is for arcade racers. Online rewards and more tuning option and the game is perfect to me. With mechanic damage I am happy I don’t need physical damage, does nothing for me to know my bumper is falling off. I can’t see it anyways.