More Gran Turismo 5 Damage, NASCAR Details
GameInformer magazine’s interview with Kazunori Yamauchi (a small part of which was quietly posted on their website back in September) was just included in their latest issue, and is now, of course, getting quite a bit more attention. Here’s what Yamauchi had to say regarding damage in Gran Turismo 5:
“The damage physics are going to be applied to things like a bent suspension arm, tires hitting the wheel wells of a car, deformation of the body affecting alignment, the loss of power to the engine. We’re still working on setting the sensitivity level of of the damage. You can have it so if you have a single hit your car isn’t going to be able to be driven anymore. It’s a matter of adjustment.”
We’ve known about damage affecting the car’s handling for quite some time now, but his comment suggesting an adjustable range of sensitivity is raising a few eyebrows. Although adjustable damage could certainly make it into the game, I think Yamauchi’s (or, more precisely, his translator’s) use of the word “you” could refer to himself and the development team, as he suggests their software is flexible enough to provide them a wide range of options. It can certainly be read the other way, however, and I hope I am wrong – adjustable damage would make the game demanding for hardcore racers, yet still approachable for casual gamers.
Photomode fans also get new details on GT5‘s implementation of the popular feature:
“I think the quality of the image that you can get is going to be not even comparable. We’re trying to make it so that at a minimum you’ll be able to take 8 megapixel pictures. We might be able to raise it up to about 20 megapixels, but I can’t promise anything.”
Similar to his quote on damage, we can’t say for sure if resolution will be a user option, but the ability to produce your own screenshots like this is a very exciting proposition. Yamauchi made another noteworthy statement regarding the challenge Polyphony Digital has faced with the inclusion of NASCAR:
“The most difficult part is actually NASCAR. Their rules are really, really complex. It’s almost the difference between soccer and American football. I’m not quite sure of just how much of NASCAR’s rules we’ll be able to implement but we’re going to try.”
It’s exciting to learn that the NASCAR events will present at least a subset of the unique challenges that come to racing in the popular series. If anything, it at least suggests it won’t simply be a regular GT race with NASCAR vehicles and drivers. Perhaps the same can be said for WRC… point-to-point rally stages, anyone?
Thanks to Justin for sending this in!
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December 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm - #peter
gives up something new already Jordan!!
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:20 am - #gooner sems
well nascar and WRC are brilliant features without a doubt but we need some clarifications on the damage really confusing also can we expect a demo or a dlc for christmas
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December 1st, 2009 at 8:29 am - #noname
Release date in Denmark is set to 5th March.. Even though I doubt it. But all danish stores says that its gonna release at march 5th.
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December 1st, 2009 at 5:12 am - #Tiga
@Sam__ NY
I didn’t diss anybody…that’s why I started with ‘no offence to anyone’@DaveTheStalker
Totally agreed, noted and understood.@ 8@No$
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November 30th, 2009 at 8:55 pm - #ICANT55
8@No$
I agree with the last part of your comment.Hill climb/point to point races would be sick, and full stage wrc stages would be very nice (like dirt one) added to the already tracks would take this game to a whole new level,Add that with a ridiculous amout of sick ass cars and deep tuning and this game will make out light bills go up for a long time to come lol. Pd give us the tracks/circuts/stages in full lengths !!! no matter how long,tough etc -
November 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pm - #8@No$
Well the damage news are great !! I would love to adjust the damage level but i am not quite sure that he meant players will be able to adjust it, i think that was for programmers. Anyway if a fixed level of damage was to be included, then i would like the real level of damage, in which a hard crash gets you off the race, this is fair. Real damage, or no damage at all. But adjustability would be awesome with rules like in the hard races there would be full damage etc.
So much about the Nascar! Focus that time in WRC instead! Nascar is boring, the tracks are boring and the cars are boring. It may be a super-hard championship in real life with too much of a heat and the cars are very difficult to drive under these conditions, but they are like RC models with a cover and the tracks are all like the same.. (except if there are races on the road tracks too, in which case it would be far more exciting)
Give us special stages, give us hill climbs, give us gravel, snow, dirty slippery asphalt… Yes… Well if you could give us both the nascar and the wrc to satisfy everyone it would be great, thank you :-) -
November 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pm - #DaveTheStalker
@TIGA If you’ve been paying attention, you know that NASCAR is not holding GT5 back from being released NOW. It’s the DAMAGE mongers. They [the media] were not satisfied with the first stage of damage presented at Games Comm., forcing PD to put the game on the back burner and focus on a more substantial damage model [at release]. Patching the game was not good enough. So, now we have to wait until April at least, maybe a global release on March 30, but I’m not banking on it. Thank you damage mongers.
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November 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm - #Napoleon_Ist
Nascar? i thought it was just 40 generic cars racing in a dumb oval circuit… :|
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November 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pm - #NBH
The way I understand it, it sounds like the level of damage will be set in the game and that PD are trying to find out where the sensible level is rather than it be adjustable by the player. I reckon they should just allow the player to set it but in certain races/challenges it should be fixed at a certain level, so easy events have minimal damage but pro events have very real damage. I know nothing about NASCAR so I’m hoping it reflects the actual races. GT is now a simulator with the official NASCAR licence so it should get all the rules in there, it’s not just a few of the cars racing round ovals, it is now THE game for NASCAR and it has to do it properly.
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pm - #Ben Williams (UK no.13 on prologue)
They gave out PSN Shirts i am going to wear one in college whilst I win the fm3 competition on 360 at college. Any decent gt player will make mince meat of the top FM3 players imo
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:19 pm - #Mike M
Ben-
It’s the same guy that told me GT5 is coming out Dec. 1st, 2009 :)
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:16 pm - #Ben Williams (UK no.13 on prologue)
went to playstation HUB at the metro-centre, gateshead today. Asked the guy re: GT5 release date…
A few months after JAP release he said. I said how many = a few, he is like 3 or 4.
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November 30th, 2009 at 11:52 am - #Sam__ NY
@Tiga, You basically just dissed the most competitive motorsport in the world.
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November 30th, 2009 at 9:23 am - #Tomaz
I’m getting tired of everything.
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November 30th, 2009 at 6:38 am - #Tiga
Oh for God’s sake…..don’t tell me that what is holding GT5 from its release is Nascar rules.
No offence to anyone, but car going around an oval with no corners isn’t really that much of a deal.Looking forward to the damage effects and the WRC, though.
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November 30th, 2009 at 6:05 am - #Mustangmiha
I’m getting tired of NASCAR and damage.
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November 30th, 2009 at 4:15 am - #steven
I think that in as usual all depends on the words Kaz’ translator choose. If he says ‘I’ and it is translated into ‘you’ everything can get a different meaning. So all we gotta do, I suppose, is diligently wait till it’s March and see what we get. All we know now (or do we) is that the Long Wait for its successor might be shorter than the interbellum we live in now :)
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:58 am - #Mike M
z06-
Get a bigger screen or better still if you like the pic enough- print them- the whole point about higher pixel is that it allows to print. If it’s close to 20mb, even poster size is possible without much degradation. But if all you do is show it on your monitor, resize it- downsizing a bigger photo can only mean good thing.
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:19 am - #z06
Haha Congrats Jordan!
YES!!!! PHOTOMODE! PHOTOMODE!!!!!!! Finally! Some info on photomode(unless some breezed over without me knowing) I spent countless hours with photomode, but I think 8mp is excessive…personally I don’t like pictures that I cannot see fully..Thanks Jordan, you’ve made my day.
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I think they should just leave GT GT. and make a completly new game for just nascar. thats the only thing EA did right. no offense i like GT but this whole nascar mix thing is kind of a joke. i mean let me guess were going to have to unlock the nascar part, which sucks. the graphics look great though. 1 more question does this mean we have to wait for GT 6 for more nascar? o yeah what about the stupid wings are the going to still have those or going back to the spoiler? Go Denny Hamlin #11 my champship pick…. $cr&w johnson #48