Replay Control...

Now I'm not talking controlling the camera, I'm talking about being able to fast forward and rewind, go to certain sections (like SSX), or at least be able to go to a specific lap.

So many times my brother and I have been practicing drifting and we would do something great on the 8th or 9th lap. And of course we would want to see it again. The challenge is we have to wait 10 mins for the replay to get there. That's really, really annoying. We should be able to pick the lap we want to watch and when. Not to mention fast forwarding.

What do you all think?

Yeah i've always wanted to be able to skip to a certain section of the race. Usually it's just a few seconds of the replay i want to watch (a flash overtaking manouv. or a sweet drift, or both... together) and it sucks having to wait till the lap.

I'm gonna be annoyed if there isn't a more indepth replay option such as thus in GT4.

once, on like the 70th lap of the Cote D'azur Mistral, i had my best lap EVER in the 787B and i wanted to see thast lap again, but Hell would freeze over before i would go through the 1st 69 laps again...

Yeah I would like to fast forward and rewind the replay. And maybe cut out a section, to make your "best of" compilation.

It would be nice to change camera position, but they have the best replays already in my opinion. They seem to pick good camera positions, and the camera movement makes it look like a real camera moving.

Maybe GT5. Add it to the list.

For a game that prided itself so much on the replay features initially, GT hasn't done much to evolve them really. Something as simple as time compression/expansion would be welcome.

Nobody is really sure yet, but we all know what you are talking about. The photo mode, as I read somewhere, is supposed to allow you to take actual shots from replays. This may be hinting, using some logic, that they will have a "fast forward" feature. However, they may just be pricks and put the X button as the "take pic", which would suck, because you would have to wait till the 55th lap of a race to take your photo.

Edit: didn't really answer your question, my point is, why would they have FF in photo mode and not in replay (if there is FF)?

I would like the basic VCR functions plus the camera mapped on the right analog stick so you can move it to any angle.

If I recall GT2 would allow you to skip laps, but only in the free run or time trial mode. If they could just implement that in all replays and maybe a pause (with no menu over it), i'd be happy.

Only think i want is a fast forward/rewind mode thingy.

Super Slow Motion would also be a great addition to GT4´s replays.

I´ve been recently playing Rallisport Challenge 2 on XBOX, and you can control replay speed with the controller´s triggers (from freeze to fast forward). The final result is outstanding.

Imagine beeing able to watch in super slow motion a nicely controlled drift, or catching some air on the Nurburgring´s jumps, or when jumping on two wheels by hitting the kerbs. That would really add to the replay´s quality, don´t you think?

By the way, I totally agree with having the "skip lap" feature on replays.

I may be wrong, but I think the Photo Mode is limited to 16 predefined locations, and not part of general replay.

Nice to hear about Rallisport Challenge 2. At least someone is trying something new.

I find the GT games the only games I use the replay feature extensively on. Some replays in other games are not very good. I remember in WRC, the car seemed like it was floating and moving unrealistically.

Yeah, the replays are tremendous. It's just the waiting and waiting and waiting. I mean sometimes, your trying to get this one corner and you just can't get it, so you want to check out multiple attempts to see what you did. Or you took a corner really well and you want to see it multiple times to see how you did it.

Those are the advantages that this kind of feature would give us. Sure, we could download it onto our computers. But why should we have to spend 70 -150$ just so we can search through the replays?

This is a little off-topic but since somebody mentioned camera angles mapped to the right thumbstick, I say they should include it in the actual gameplay, swaying the camera to the 3/4 view (front or behind) like in PGR2. I alway find myself using the thumbstick to ogle the car from different angles while driving, and since I started up a new game in GT3, I instinctively went for the thumbstick and then remembered that the game doesnt have the feature, which strangely dissapointed me.

If you could have analyzer type replay inspections & control for full races, that would be absolutely fabulous. Also, I think something should be done about the "replay save complete" business. You know how the replay stops recording after about 70 minutes? I think there should be an option to have it intelligently pick which laps to save when it gets to that point, or if you could place your own replay markers while doing the race to tell it which laps to save.

Originally posted by Swift
Now I'm not talking controlling the camera, I'm talking about being able to fast forward and rewind, go to certain sections (like SSX), or at least be able to go to a specific lap.

So many times my brother and I have been practicing drifting and we would do something great on the 8th or 9th lap. And of course we would want to see it again. The challenge is we have to wait 10 mins for the replay to get there. That's really, really annoying. We should be able to pick the lap we want to watch and when. Not to mention fast forwarding.

What do you all think?

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Yeah i would like it when i do an endurance race and want to fast foward to a different lap or something.

I think most if not all would agree, fast toward, rewind, pause, slow motion, and skip to start of a user specified lap number and other things would be great. Also when paused or slow motion etc., I do not want anything else on the screen except what is suposed to be in the replay. It would also be nice to be able to have it change view to other car in two player mode every so many seconds as specified perhaps in replay options menu.
How many people have ever used their VCR to record the game as they play. I have but not very often, it works very nice.
How many people really use the lap anayliser option in GT3 ?
I have tried it but not enough to understand how to get any benifit from it. I hope that we can somehow save are online replays to a web server, even if we have to rent web space, maybe race leagues or clubs could be formed and members could share the web space. I do not expect this for GT4, but if online racing is half way decent it would be nice for leagues etc; to validate tournament type of races etc. Or here is a thought I hope at least we can save the online replay to a memory card or the playstation 2 hardrive. Then maybe online users would have the ability to watch your replay or even copy the replay from the memory card or hardrive. Hey if they have online fleamarket, trade parts or cars, then certainly if would be no big deal to swap replays amongst users. And while I am on the subject let us have the ability to swap the photos that we take with the new photo section of GT4. I can see it now, GT4 is going to be a true evolution of the game in many ways, and will be simply amazing with endless playabilty for anyone that truly loves and enjoys cars, especially cars of all types covering over 100 years of car history. Although I desire the game to come out now as much as anyone else, I want to thank the makers of GT4 for striving for the best GT game as of yet and continuing to make the best car game ever. Maybe even the often talked about drag racing special feature will be a hidden bonus, just give us a 1/4 mile strip and two lane, it would be nice taking the muscle cars and making some of the newer cars cry for mercy. GT4 what a rush