You know you're playing GT3 too much when...

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- you play for 5 hours, go to bed, and then dream of playing as you sleep for the next 8 hours
- the steering wheel on your road car feels like it belongs in a bus
- you bounce off armco driving on the road and are genuinely surprised to find damage on your car
- you spend hours logged onto websites discussing playing GT3 - in addition to the hours you spend actually playing the game
- when driving on the road you look for monkeys in overhanging trees
- no matter how hard you look you can't find paddles behind the spokes of the steering wheel of your road car to change gear
- you forget about indicating to change lanes
- you see 300km on the trip meter on your road car and head up to the auto shop to get oil
- 'just one more lap' becomes a personal mantra
- you start referring to Porsches as RUFs
- you're in your road car and start thing 'if I just stiffen the front springs, lower the ride height and adjust the anti-roll bar, I should be able to kill the understeer'

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I'm ashamed to say I've done more than a few of these things. ;)

Another sign you're addicted to GT3 is that you continue to play despite the screaming inflamed carpal nerve in your right hand...

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Originally posted by vat_man
- you play for 5 hours, go to bed, and then dream of playing as you sleep for the next 8 hours
- the steering wheel on your road car feels like it belongs in a bus
- you bounce off armco driving on the road and are genuinely surprised to find damage on your car
- you spend hours logged onto websites discussing playing GT3 - in addition to the hours you spend actually playing the game
- when driving on the road you look for monkeys in overhanging trees
- no matter how hard you look you can't find paddles behind the spokes of the steering wheel of your road car to change gear
- you forget about indicating to change lanes
- you see 300km on the trip meter on your road car and head up to the auto shop to get oil
- 'just one more lap' becomes a personal mantra
- you start referring to Porsches as RUFs
- you're in your road car and start thing 'if I just stiffen the front springs, lower the ride height and adjust the anti-roll bar, I should be able to kill the understeer'

Please feel free to make contributions!!! :D
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yo ! vat man , you couldn't have put it any better man , looks like there are lots of people suffering from the sony syndrome , gotta love it !!:p :p
 
Originally posted by vat_man
- you play for 5 hours, go to bed, and then dream of playing as you sleep for the next 8 hours
- the steering wheel on your road car feels like it belongs in a bus
- you bounce off armco driving on the road and are genuinely surprised to find damage on your car
- you spend hours logged onto websites discussing playing GT3 - in addition to the hours you spend actually playing the game
- when driving on the road you look for monkeys in overhanging trees
- no matter how hard you look you can't find paddles behind the spokes of the steering wheel of your road car to change gear
- you forget about indicating to change lanes
- you see 300km on the trip meter on your road car and head up to the auto shop to get oil
- 'just one more lap' becomes a personal mantra
- you start referring to Porsches as RUFs
- you're in your road car and start thing 'if I just stiffen the front springs, lower the ride height and adjust the anti-roll bar, I should be able to kill the understeer'

Please feel free to make contributions!!! :D
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:D :rotfl: :D
Absolutely brilliant!!

I have to confess I spend far to long on GT3, be it the game during the week or this message board at the weekends, when I'm not on the game!

i did have a knightmare that i'd forgotten how to drive a "regular" car, having failed my driving test the first time round and waiting ages for some new lessons (in between which i brought the game w/ Wheel)

I have found taking cornors is different now in a real car, the first right hand (90 degree) i did in my lesson was perfect, brake in and accelerate out from half way, getting moaned at for going just over the speed limit (5mph!!)
 
When you actually reach for your cigarettes on your dashboard when in reality your not in your car your playing GT3. :)
 
When your in the right lane(driver's left) at a red light, and you see 5 cars ahead of you, you continuously rev your engine and when the light turns green began to weave in/out of them to get to the front of the pack :rotfl:
 
I never signal when I change lanes anyway. One time there was road construction going on, and this new beetle thought that he was going to go all the way up in the left lane and cut in at the last minute so he wouldn't wait in line. He came up on my left side and I closed the gap between me and this semi. He kept trying to get in and flicking me off when *BOOM*. He slammed right into to one of those big orange barrels filled with sand and water that means you should get over. He was going about 50. That will teach him to try and gain position on me.
 
Originally posted by Nico
I never signal when I change lanes anyway. One time there was road construction going on, and this new beetle thought that he was going to go all the way up in the left lane and cut in at the last minute so he wouldn't wait in line. He came up on my left side and I closed the gap between me and this semi. He kept trying to get in and flicking me off when *BOOM*. He slammed right into to one of those big orange barrels filled with sand and water that means you should get over. He was going about 50. That will teach him to try and gain position on me.
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dude that is pretty crappy but oh well it was funny :)

its funny because i drive a van (hehehehe really) and i can do nothing like in gt3, ouch.
 
Well, maybe if he hadn't been such a fag about it, I might have let him in. The car looked brand new, too. Only thing missing was the window sticker. When I drive in real life I'm pretty brutal. I've run people off roads and into signs, trees, mailboxes, you name it. Good part is that none of these occurances are my fault. Usually people not yielding to me and me not backing off like they think I will.

Here's a good story for you. I'm on a long straight 2-laner. The yellow line is dotted and there is a pack of cars coming towards me in the other lane. This blue buick tries to pass a big truck that's going slow and gets into my lane thinking he can get around the truck before he hits me. I'm in my 300ZX TT, so I drop it down into 3rd putting me at about 5500 rpm and I gun it. The guy gets really scared and can't get back in his line. He runs off the road and into the ditch. I was rollin on the way home. :rotfl:
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH thats ****in great man! i also own a '65 plymouth barracuda, not many of those on the road and it kicks the **** out of so many cars on the road, its a lot of fun. Doesnt handle like any car in GT3 though
 
Man, when I get in my road car I just want to get my arse to wherever I'm going, not get involved in games with other road users!

If I'm by myself I'll have fun with cornering, but I just like to sit in my lane and mind my own business. I blow up cars, not bend them...
 
"Another sign you're addicted to GT3 is that you continue to play despite the screaming inflamed carpal nerve in your right hand... "

Too true! Damn that 'playstation thumb'!!

How many of us have played on for hours through the pain - my hand was once sore for three days even after I had stopped playing!!
 
Okay, off the cuff, here's some more:

- after three hours you finally chip 4 thousands of a second in the Run & Settings, prompting a huge 'wahoo!' that wakes your partner...
...at 2.17am

- on Saturday morning, propped on the balcony of your home with a coffee and the paper, you start criticising the cornering techniques of people driving through the corner in front of your house - including the mum in the Land Rover Discovery with about twenty kids and half a great dane hanging out a back window

- you continue to read magazine reviews of GT3, even though you've read them on the net and you've had the game for over two months

- you buy the Logitech GT3 wheel despite having the Fanatec wheel, rationalising the purchase with your partner on the basis of it being compatible with your PC, even though the real reason is you desperately want analogue throttle and brake

- you begin plotting fake sick days from work just to play GT3 (unfortunately your partner has the car so you can't go bodyboarding).

- you've got more miles logged on GT3 than on your road car - and you drive to work - and you've had two interstate road trips

- you actually care that you've improved from a bronze to a silver in one of your license tests - even though you've only ever got under the pass time in one of the tests of that level in the first days you got the game, and you were drunk at the time

- you find the live telecast of the Grand Prix boring and go and play GT3

:D
 
you guys have pretty much covered it!!!

the only one i could think of is when you pull a great driving move passing all traffic and start wishing there was a replay!!

this is a great thread!! :lol: :rotfl: :lol:
 
Originally posted by vat_man


- you find the live telecast of the Grand Prix boring and go and play GT3

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Dude!!! I've done that...well, it was with Petit Le Mans...but it inspired me to play GT3 anyway. :D

I did cut some "lady" off in traffic once....(note the quotes). She was to my right in a right turn only lane...even though it was clear and she COULD have taken a right, she didn't. So being the brilliant thinker I am :rolleyes: I realize she's planning to jump in front of me (there was a considerable line behind me). So the light changes and I plant it (she does too...I guess I was right). We go neck and neck for a few seconds...I look over and she's yelling something...finally she hits the brake...the curb was coming up, you know. Blows the horn, I flip her off....

Now, before you flame away, I know the mature thing would have been to just let her go...no sense in gettind phrigged up....but people who think they can drive any damn way they please just piss me off to no end. If she'd made a mistake...well...she could have asked to jump in...but it's clear she was just being a biy@tch. Maybe she'll think about it next time. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
How about timing how long it takes you to get to work every day, or knowing that it takes 3 and a half minutes to get from I495 to Sunrise Highway.:)

How about looking at the car ahead of you on a bend, and thinking that if you power into the turn on the inside, you can bounce off him, getting the better line.;)
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
How about timing how long it takes you to get to work every day, or knowing that it takes 3 and a half minutes to get from I495 to Sunrise Highway.:)

How about looking at the car ahead of you on a bend, and thinking that if you power into the turn on the inside, you can bounce off him, getting the better line.;)
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been there, done that, got the t-shirt.... :)

Although I don't usually think of bouncing off the other car...whenever someone in front of me takes a corner reeeeeaaalllly sssslllllooooowwwwly I think,"I could just cut them off on the inside and be gone..."

Fotunately for all of you, I can suppress SOME of my urges. :lol:
 
... When you can quote the max-modified power of cars in the street.

As in "Hey, honey, did you know that you can get that car up to 950bhp in GT3?"

My wife loves that!:rolleyes:
 
Heheheh...
When your driving you cut left-of-center so you can keep head of the pack, only to be confronted with a pair of headlights that bring you back to reality......;) :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by Eric01TypeR
Heheheh...
When your driving you cut left-of-center so you can keep head of the pack, only to be confronted with a pair of headlights that bring you back to reality......;) :thumbsup:
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When I am done doing "Real Racing" such as series races and stuff in simulation mode, I tell my self I should turn the game off and go to sleep. Instead I go to Arcade mode and test out the Random cars in my garage that I've never raced...for an hour or two.
 
... when you start working out the APR on a loan for that stage 4 turbo, just so you can have it by next race

... when you tell your boss at work you've been 'the accounts all afternoon', when what the accounts are is how much you need to spend to get to 900bhp
 

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