Anyone bored of GT5 (or almost)?

[UM_Racer24]

I've hit a wall myself. I'm lvl 27 A-spec, and lvl 30 B-spec respectively. I'm 93% done with the game with only endurance races left to do. I'll probably reach lvl 28 A-spec, but don't have the desire to grind past that point, just too daunting.. PD needs to patch in a mid race save feature.

I'm not totally bored with it. But I will start playing it more passively. Hopefully PD will continue to add content. As others have stated, there are far too few events. Also the career mode should have been structured like the seasonal events.

 

[the Interceptor]

I did something I've never done with any new Gran Turismo before after such a short amount of time: I took it out of the PS3. Instead, I started a new career in GT2, just to see how it stacks up to #5.

Not bad so far. The graphics are a catastrophe of course, but racing against the AI is much closer. And, dare I say it, the car sounds are better? There's more life in it for some reason.

 

[Luminis]

I'm bored. THe driving is very nice and all, but that's only keeping me entertained for so long. Hotlapping for hours on end isn't exactly keeping me interested.
Most of the time, GT5 is running in B-Spec mode now while I'm playing something else. Currently Lufia II on my trusty Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

 

[rileyra]

Seems like most of the people that are bored with the game aren't playing online... That's kinda the main goal in the game is to run A-spec/B-spec to build up your garage so you can race other people, not AI. Online Multiplayer = win

 

[brambos]

Seems like most of the people that are bored with the game aren't playing online... That's kinda the main goal in the game is to run A-spec/B-spec to build up your garage so you can race other people, not AI. Online Multiplayer = win

I certainly hope online is not the intended goal of the game. Even if online gaming against teens with too much time on their hands would interest me at all (which it doesn't) it can never be an excuse for a lazy lack of offline content from PD's side.

 

[Luminis]

Seems like most of the people that are bored with the game aren't playing online... That's kinda the main goal in the game is to run A-spec/B-spec to build up your garage so you can race other people, not AI. Online Multiplayer = win

Dunno about you, but I never saw something like "Broadband internet connection required for longevity" on GT5's box

 

[bombe32]

Seems like most of the people that are bored with the game aren't playing online... That's kinda the main goal in the game is to run A-spec/B-spec to build up your garage so you can race other people, not AI. Online Multiplayer = win

Fact is that is sucks a**: soft racing tyres everywhere, lag and freezes. Had 4 attempts to do a race yesterday, but everytime the race was done and people were returning to the lobby I could do nothing but restart the game. And it's NOT my connection, this is the only game that I cannot play online.

 

[Hig-GT]

GT2 took me months to make any head way with.

GT5 I practically have completed after a few weeks.

I am now racing online because I am now at the beginning of level 31, and I really don't want to grind away to level 32, so A Spec is over.

B Spec I am level 27 and I have to grind from the beginning of level 27 to get up to level 28. So B-Spec is also over.

GT5 offline is over for me now after about the 5 weeks I think I've had it?

I am currently racing online with a couple of people I have met during races or on here. I am enjoying that atm, came from the back of a fifteen car field in five laps to win the race by 0.031 lol!

AND

I am doing the ocassional timed lap around Nurburgring, trying to get cars like the Zonda R etc. around in a fast time by getting really good set ups put together. I did a 6.11 in the Zonda R today, and I enjoyed every minute of that.

I feel it is a shame what they have done with A Spec, I think maybe for GT6 they should have GT6-A and GT6-B. This way we can have a disc full of twice as many events for both sides, but then we still have the potential to win the same cars that we'd usually win in B-Spec. I personally don't want B-Spec, so get rid of that and make GT6 a real racers game full of great and random events, and a couple of strange events aswell to add to the fun Personally for GT6 I would prefer it if PD would re-make GT3 with the new more detailed graphics as that had a lot of events, add in GT5 events to that aswell, that seems a perfect recipe! PD LISTEN!

 

[bombe32]

^^ Twice as many events is no where near enough with so many cars. I would like them to remove about 600 cars and replace them with 100-200 new ones that are more exciting to drive and look at, supercars in general, instead of those Nardo Concept and CIEN Concept - add the real ones and a some of the newer ones.

Split cars up to classes: road cars, GT300, LMP etc.

Events should require that you own more cars. A lot more restrictions.

Better AI and better online.

 

[PedanticNerd]

So it seems as if this thread is split between three groups of people:

Those who need more race events to enjoy the game
Those who are satisfied with tuning and hot-lapping
Those who are satisfied with online play

I'm personally one of the former. I've said it before and I'll say it again - GT5 needs a longer career mode. There are many people who enjoy Gran Turismo primarily for its enormous single-player offering, and we've been left dissatisfied because this time around it hasn't delivered.

Those of you who get your enjoyment from outside the career, you're lucky because the game has satisfied what you want from it.

This probably sounds more harsh than I mean it to, but you must respect that we all want different things from GT5. From what I can see, 2/3 of us are happy.
The remaining 1/3, however, and this includes me, are not.

 

[MasterDriver]

Anyone who is bored of it....boggles my mind.
If you use a wheel and are still bored then call me Susan, because i don't know how you could be. Definetly not if your a Sim/GT enthusiast. If your a casual gamer then I can understand it.

The idea of the GT series is mastering the cars and the tracks. You can combine them in near infinite ways. You shouldn't be even remotely bored. Oh yea... Then you got the Online aspect.

 

[bombe32]

Anyone who is bored of it....boggles my mind.
If you use a wheel and are still bored then call me Susan, because i don't know how you could be. Definetly not if your a Sim/GT enthusiast. If your a casual gamer then I can understand it.

The idea of the GT series is mastering the cars and the tracks. You can combine them in near infinite ways. You shouldn't be even remotely bored. Oh yea... Then you got the Online aspect.

It's a game, not a driving school. Even though it says it's a driving simulator we need competition or a feeling that we accomplish something.

What's the fun about tuning a car when you have no use of it? Come on...

And just look at the poll: 50/38 when I looked. 43% is bored of the game, meaning that PD did do something wrong.

 

[Hig-GT]

I admit I haven't got a wheel yet, I was hanging on and on to breathe life back into GT at the end but now the wheel I was looking at has gone up to £150 and I refuse to pay that.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

*laughs* I'm not even bored with GT4 yet! I imagine I'll never get bored with GT5. I'm noticing that a lot of people who are bored with the game have already completed it even though GT5 has only been out a single month, which says to me they've overkilled race after race to make it to the top. And it's like...of course you're bored. I would get bored too if I won race after race, rarely facing any true challenges.

Most of those that are bored with the game aren't challenging themselves, basically.

 

[nickg07]

I just want to pass days and buy rare cars from the ucd
. Thing is I have only one more a spec event to do the fgt one and I don't enjoy it but I can't afford many cars without resorting to extreme grind fests earning 117k per time.

So I set up new account did the seasonal events again which easy gets you to level 23 with like 4 mill so what ill do is use the save game cheat buy the good car and send to my main profile then reload the save game so I have my money and can buy new car and repeat every 24 hours. I hate to cheat but the lack of cash in gt gives me no alternative.

But honestly I don't even know why I'm doing it because these cars wont help me in a spec as I've done so much of it.

I did one endurance race got pittance for it and I wont be doing any more I don't find it fun and the cash prizes and prize cars suck.

 

[Hig-GT]

Most of those that are bored with the game aren't challenging themselves, basically.

And it is our fault that we don't find GT5 challenging?

 

[brambos]

Those who are satisfied with tuning and hot-lapping

This and just collecting and trying new cars is a huge part of the draw to GT for me. But GT5 needs to bring back a lot of the tracks that used to be in GT3/GT4/GTPSP to make that more interesting. (It feels like even GT PSP had more varied tracks than GT5... how is that even possible?)

 

[PedanticNerd]

This is the problem!!!

We all want different things out of Gran Turismo and that's fine because it offers them.
There's so much confusion in this thread because one person is saying they are bored of X feature and another counters by saying Y is great while another can't stand Z... it's getting nowhere.

Please respect the fact that other people are dis/satisfied with the game because of a different aspect to you, rather than just saying you love or hate the game as a whole because the feature you care most about is great or rubbish.

Those who are saying us who like the game for its career have just 'blitzed through it' for glory, we haven't. We've been complaining so much because there are not enough race events in the game! You may take the career at a slower pace because, maybe, you're more into tuning, car collecting, or whatever, but that doesn't have to make our cause incomprehensible.

Many of the features in GT5 are extensive, enjoyable and very well implemented, and I'm not going to beat anybody down for saying it. I love this game too, and I agree with you all.

But what has always made a GT game for me is the sheer magnitude of the single-player career. I haven't got what I wanted out of GT5, so that's why I'm here.

With respect, please don't immediately counter that your favourite aspect is amazing and I should take the game slower or whatever. This is the way I've always played GT (or any) games, and in this one I can't.

 

[brambos]

*laughs*

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Thanks, consider yourself bookmarked

 

[nickg07]

Im even tempter to pull out gt4 on ps2 as I have save game just to enjoy cars and races with dfgt.

 

[jabofu]

Dunno about you, but I never saw something like "Broadband internet connection required for longevity" on GT5's box

I dont know about you, but a durable online-multiplayer is a fundamental part in a racing game(/simulation) nowadays.

Seems like most of the people that are bored with the game aren't playing online... That's kinda the main goal in the game is to run A-spec/B-spec to build up your garage so you can race other people, not AI. Online Multiplayer = win

You say the online multiplay is a "win". I cant see this at the moment. First there are so many settings about the racing quality, which are only helpful for dial up connections. Even the normal setting isnt accurate enough to have a clean and close race, because it limits everything too much. Then everybody races his 800 hp+ car with soft slicks and driving aids. There are some rooms whith limitations, but then the fun mostly ends in the first corner, because everybody wants to be first by then. The cars have to be in classes like "the other game" otherwise it will stay hopefully unorganized and messed up.

And if you are a German, like me, then you will experience another problem. I dont say that every player of the next mentioned origin is as shortsighted or racist as many i met. But if you join 80 % of the lobbys hosted by players from UK (England) you can be sure to be kicked instantly after they saw your flag. I repeatly tell you that not every brit behaves like this, but it is racism at its best. Yes we have a bad history, but who doesnt?

Well, I am pretty done with this "game". I completed all Special Events, which were amazing and challenging, 70 % of the A-Spec mode, plus my lvl 12 b-spec career. I only come back from time to time to enjoy the very immersive driving experience. Using a Fanatec Porsche GT3 RS V2, which is quite amazing with GT5, except the not properly working clutch.

 

[Luminis]

I dont know about you, but a durable online-multiplayer is a fundamental part in a racing game(/simulation) nowadays.

Which does by no means excuse the fact that the game lacks so severly in the offline aspect, at least as far as I am concerned.
Especially since we're not talking about a PC come featuring user created content here.

 

[rileyra]

I certainly hope online is not the intended goal of the game. Even if online gaming against teens with too much time on their hands would interest me at all (which it doesn't) it can never be an excuse for a lazy lack of offline content from PD's side.

You are assuming that everyone who plays online is a dumb little kid which isn't the case. Sure there are plenty of those out there but there are also a large if not larger amount of older players. I've been quite content playing against people on my psn friends list.

Dunno about you, but I never saw something like "Broadband internet connection required for longevity" on GT5's box

It's the way many games are going nowadays... Online multiplayer is becoming more and more the focus because of limitless replay value. Every other racing game has online as a core functionality... I'm sure PD intended it to be with GT5 as well. I think many posters here are just too stuck in the old GT series elitist mentality and are too unwilling to accept change. Games can't possibly stay the same forever. Hell look at FinalFantasy, one of the longest running franchises. Their latest few release have all had redesign to the core game mechanics in attempts to make the games more accessible to a wider audience(Easier). I won't argue that PD shouldn't have made the A-spec longer, because they should have and what is there has a poorly designed career path. It's clear to me that PD slacked on the offline modes and is focusing on online. Look at the patches we've seen. Mostly online fixes. I am fine with this though because to me offline is just like the campaign modes for the CallOfDuty games. It's training for multiplayer. Where you can race against actual people who can be as skilled if not more skilled than you are. Rather than racing against an easily beatable AI...

Fact is that is sucks a**: soft racing tyres everywhere, lag and freezes. Had 4 attempts to do a race yesterday, but everytime the race was done and people were returning to the lobby I could do nothing but restart the game. And it's NOT my connection, this is the only game that I cannot play online.

How do you know it's not your connection? What's your NAT type, did you add your ps3's ip to the DMZ in your router? Not all games use the same ports so you cant use other games as the sole basis for saying your connection is fine. There have also been cases where manually setting your DNS on the ps3 could resolve the room connection issues for gt5.

What's wrong with using racing soft tires? Seems like the obvious choice to me unless you are wanting to do custom challenges with people.

 

[rileyra]

I dont know about you, but a durable online-multiplayer is a fundamental part in a racing game(/simulation) nowadays.



You say the online multiplay is a "win". I cant see this at the moment. First there are so many settings about the racing quality, which are only helpful for dial up connections. Even the normal setting isnt accurate enough to have a clean and close race, because it limits everything too much. Then everybody races his 800 hp+ car with soft slicks and driving aids. There are some rooms whith limitations, but then the fun mostly ends in the first corner, because everybody wants to be first by then. The cars have to be in classes like "the other game" otherwise it will stay hopefully unorganized and messed up.

And if you are a German, like me, then you will experience another problem. I dont say that every player of the next mentioned origin is as shortsighted or racist as many i met. But if you join 80 % of the lobbys hosted by players from UK (England) you can be sure to be kicked instantly after they saw your flag. I repeatly tell you that not every brit behaves like this, but it is racism at its best. Yes we have a bad history, but who doesnt?

Well, I am pretty done with this "game". I completed all Special Events, which were amazing and challenging, 70 % of the A-Spec mode, plus my lvl 12 b-spec career. I only come back from time to time to enjoy the very immersive driving experience. Using a Fanatec Porsche GT3 RS V2, which is quite amazing with GT5, except the not properly working clutch.

You can restrict aids and turn penalties on high. That will cut down on the bad driving. Best thing is to drive against friends or find a group of clean racer to play with. As for the Brits being racist deal I wouldn't know. Come join a US room if the ping isn't too bad. You're all from Europe as far as we're concerned

 

[bombe32]

How do you know it's not your connection? What's your NAT type, did you add your ps3's ip to the DMZ in your router? Not all games use the same ports so you cant use other games as the sole basis for saying your connection is fine. There have also been cases where manually setting your DNS on the ps3 could resolve the room connection issues for gt5.

What's wrong with using racing soft tires? Seems like the obvious choice to me unless you are wanting to do custom challenges with people.

If I had the wrong NAT type I should be kicked out immediately? What I think is that it's unstable when there are days where you get kicked off the server so many times.

Soft racing tyres on cars with <500bhp = unrealistic. You could just go and play NFS instead if you want this kind of car physics.

 

[rileyra]

If I had the wrong NAT type I should be kicked out immediately? What I think is that it's unstable when there are days where you get kicked off the server so many times.

Soft racing tyres on cars with <500bhp = unrealistic. You could just go and play NFS instead if you want this kind of car physics.

NAT 3 has been known to have issues online in multiple games. NAT 2 is generally the best possibility. Example of this is I replaced my router over the weekend(for other reasons) and when I first fired up GT5 I either couldn't connect to a room or couldn't stay connected, was getting dropped immediately. Ran network test on ps3 and it showed NAT 3. I Then put the ps3's IP in the DMZ and rebooted the router. Reran the network test on the ps3 and it was then showing NAT 2. From then on I've not had a single connection problem with GT5.

 

[CardiffGiant11]

I'm somewhat bored with it ONLY because I've sort of hit the wall. I'm not a good enough driver to win many of the Events in the second highest tier and I'm failing at many of the remaining special events that are open to me. I've raced online a bit and played with B Spec but usually when I play I find myself just doing practice laps. If I didn't stink at rally racing so bad I'd have those special events to tackle but I'm sort of stuck at Level 20 and the only remaining events I can enter I get spanked.
Edit-Forgot to mention the seasonal events I find impossible. I'm lucky if I can get 10th place in them.

 

[United6694]

Shouldn't we all just be happy it finally came out?

 

[Mr. Boy]

I'm somewhat bored with it ONLY because I've sort of hit the wall. I'm not a good enough driver to win many of the Events in the second highest tier and I'm failing at many of the remaining special events that are open to me. I've raced online a bit and played with B Spec but usually when I play I find myself just doing practice laps. If I didn't stink at rally racing so bad I'd have those special events to tackle but I'm sort of stuck at Level 20 and the only remaining events I can enter I get spanked.
Edit-Forgot to mention the seasonal events I find impossible. I'm lucky if I can get 10th place in them.

Well then you'll have to find some time to practice and improve your driving skills. If you can't do that then turn on all the assists (except ASM which slows you down). You really shouldn't be hitting the wall at level 20.

 

[stevetam]

Take a break from the game, leave it on the shelf for a few weeks. I'm going to get LBP 2, and I just got a new super cheap xbox with F3 and Black Ops. Of course a game will get boring if you always stick with it, with some rotation and on and off games will never get boring!

I find after a nice session of Black Ops or driving in F3 in Fujimi Kaido, it is really refreshing to take one of my numerous premium cars in photo travel or gun around in a junker or exotic in arcade mode. The poorly thought out match making in arcade mode eventually turns into a seasonal event, beat em all is actually pretty fun.

EDIT: Addition: I got 'bored' in GT5P because I though I did all the events and got all the cars I wanted (Okay, not the F2007), and started saying GT5P sucked. becuase I hit a brick wall of boredom. Well that wasn't the case after two really good races at Eiger Norwand. And the I decided to learn to tame tail happy cars by doing Time Trials of Suzuka with a stock Ford GT to improve my skills. This is the supposed lasting appeal that people are talking about, not hitting a brick wall because you have 'everything' you want. (I thought I had everything I wanted, and here I am buying every colour of hte F430 Scuderia...such as waste of credits )

EDIT 2: Although I agree that the A-spec Mode is too short, I din the length of races can be increased a tad bit, but the number of events has to increase. I remember with GT4 I couldn't see hte end to the game. I would really like it to be that way.