Anyone else wish there were a PC version of GT4?

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No. My PC ain't up to running it. And I don't feel like building a computer till this one is truly outdated. (1.3ghz, 160gb total storage, cd-r, 256mb ram, 128mb PCI video card)
 
Kremithefrog
No. My PC ain't up to running it. And I don't feel like building a computer till this one is truly outdated. (1.3ghz, 160gb total storage, cd-r, 256mb ram, 128mb PCI video card)
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Mate that is a ancient PC. Way out dated. Even my PC is out dated and its alot better than your PC.
 
I'd like to have seen GT4 on a PC, but I know it's a marquee product for sony. Yep, a game that defines the console platform it's made for. Why would they want to draw attention elsewhere. GT4 is like a top franchise player on a pro basketball team.

I come from the computer gaming world. I got sick of doling out large sums of cash just to get a game working the way it should. PC Gaming's a monster, you have to feed the need (for good hardware) constantly.

At least with consoles everyone can enjoy the same performance and gameplay of which the maker intended. You don't have to constantly lose and arm and leg paying for a decent gaming pc or video card.

On the same token I miss the complexity of pc games. Console gaming is different, no editing files, no keyboard to use for your fps, which sucks.
 
eastley
Mate that is a ancient PC. Way out dated. Even my PC is out dated and its alot better than your PC.
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To computer nerds it is. I use my computer mainly for internet, music, videos, and homework. It works great for all of it. Especially considering I came from a 200mhz system back in the day (got this computer new, so whenever 1.3ghz were close to top of the line in in-store machines). When I say out dated, I mean can't perform normal functions worth a crap, just as that old 200mhz couldn't do anything good and crashed a lot. I also play gta3, vice city, and nfsu occasionally on here with zero problems. Sure I can't play half-life 2, but I wouldn't play it for more than 10 minutes anyways.
 
Kremithefrog
To computer nerds it is. I use my computer mainly for internet, music, videos, and homework. It works great for all of it. Especially considering I came from a 200mhz system back in the day (got this computer new, so whenever 1.3ghz were close to top of the line in in-store machines). When I say out dated, I mean can't perform normal functions worth a crap, just as that old 200mhz couldn't do anything good and crashed a lot. I also play gta3, vice city, and nfsu occasionally on here with zero problems. Sure I can't play half-life 2, but I wouldn't play it for more than 10 minutes anyways.
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I'm no computer nerd...

With your PC I wouldn't even have to play a game and it'll die with stuff I do with mine. Just using Microsoft Office I can make your PC DIE!!!
 
eastley
I'm no computer nerd...

With your PC I wouldn't even have to play a game and it'll die with stuff I do with mine. Just using Microsoft Office I can make your PC DIE!!!
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If you're doing anything that would make my pc die, then you're a computer nerd. Sorry, it's true. Heck, I guess I could probably copy paste so many pages that it couldn't handle it. That'd be pretty nerdy to spend the time doing that though.
And I've done a couple things to make my computer run better than the average computer. Page file on separate drive for now until I fill main drive, useless stuff not running,etc.
 
My only arguement is control. Sure, you could attach it to a Logitech Formula Force Pro box and sell it as a $150 package deal, but that's not a great idea. You could get people to keyboard it, but, have you ever tried playing a racing sim or even an arcade-ish game like NFS: Underground with a keyboard? It's a real challenge, especially for response and that awkward cramped feeling of playing a game using pure keyboard controls (I've played maybe nine games out of one hundred that pulled that off right, and four of them have DOOM somewher ein the title).

To make a long story short, I'd love it if it did, but the only people that would buy it would be pretty hardcore into the idea of hainvg to spend or have already spent another $100 on a racing wheel for their PC.
 
TruenoEightSix
My only arguement is control. Sure, you could attach it to a Logitech Formula Force Pro box and sell it as a $150 package deal, but that's not a great idea. You could get people to keyboard it, but, have you ever tried playing a racing sim or even an arcade-ish game like NFS: Underground with a keyboard? It's a real challenge, especially for response and that awkward cramped feeling of playing a game using pure keyboard controls (I've played maybe nine games out of one hundred that pulled that off right, and four of them have DOOM somewher ein the title).

To make a long story short, I'd love it if it did, but the only people that would buy it would be pretty hardcore into the idea of hainvg to spend or have already spent another $100 on a racing wheel for their PC.
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I have spent all my life using the DS2 controllers on PS2 and Keyboard on the PC. SO I am way use to it. Infact i'm 5 seconds slower with a DF on both systems in any game.
 
With regard to the controllers... you can run a PS2 controller on the PC (there are adapters for it that are commercially available) and you can run an xbox controller on it (you can either buy an adapter or make one; the xbox controller has a usb interface with a proprietary connector)

There are also joysticks out there, and of course wheels... there used to be a wheel that had a modular controller module on the back that allowed you to hook it up to a PC or a Playstation, but that has been discontinued.
 
I'm for 100% behind the GT4 2 PC thing but it will never be released.

About the Consoles, they will always be behind PC. A Playstation, Xbox or GameCube are always for a couple of years on the market without changing the graphics engine etc. instead of PC that changes and becomes better month by month.

Every 2,5 till 3 years I buy a new pc and in between I sometimes buy new parts. And actually every year you could buy a new PC if you really want to keep it high-end.

When GT4 would be on PC it is easier to get it online, updates, additional cars, tracks, wheels, spoilers, ... . But then it would never be renewed and GT5 isn't necessary anymore.

The same story with Midtown Madness 2 --> You get a lot of extra's to download for the game. Thats why they release MM3 only on Xbox.
 
Costs: PS2+GT4+Memcard+DFP = £300

Decent PC: £800 +

And the fact that developing for PC is very much hit and miss. Incompatibilities, driver error, updates, lockups, BSOD. How often do you by a PC game, install it and everything works from day one? The list of people needing help with PC games from newsgroups say it all.

I use my PS2 for gaming and my PC for work.

I've got an 3 GHZ Athlon with 1 GB mem, 320 GB diskspace and still can't run todays PC games at an decent speed. The fact that you need min 256MB ram to run your basic Windows XP, kind of put me off the "PC as a games machine" bandwagon...

PS2 is only 300 MHz and have almost no ram at all, but handles games like GT4 surprisingly well.

I would have liked to see that on my PC...

PS. PC and Direct X still can't do a smooth horizontal scroll like the good old AMIGA did... Anyone remember those Shadow of the beast games with 7 layer paralax scrolling? That was smoooooth! :)
 
helseth
Costs: PS2+GT4+Memcard+DFP = £300

Decent PC: £800 +

And the fact that developing for PC is very much hit and miss. Incompatibilities, driver error, updates, lockups, BSOD. How often do you by a PC game, install it and everything works from day one? The list of people needing help with PC games from newsgroups say it all.

I use my PS2 for gaming and my PC for work.

I've got an 3 GHZ Athlon with 1 GB mem, 320 GB diskspace and still can't run todays PC games at an decent speed. The fact that you need min 256MB ram to run your basic Windows XP, kind of put me off the "PC as a games machine" bandwagon...

PS2 is only 300 MHz and have almost no ram at all, but handles games like GT4 surprisingly well.

I would have liked to see that on my PC...

PS. PC and Direct X still can't do a smooth horizontal scroll like the good old AMIGA did... Anyone remember those Shadow of the beast games with 7 layer paralax scrolling? That was smoooooth! :)
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3 Ghz Athlon, what exact chip is that? And PC games are basically Grpahics card related. SO what graphics card u got on that system?
 
I'd love to see it on PC :D Then I could have a place to actually put my wheel...
 
eastley
I'm no computer nerd...

With your PC I wouldn't even have to play a game and it'll die with stuff I do with mine. Just using Microsoft Office I can make your PC DIE!!!
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with a post like that, yes, you are a nerd
 
helseth
PS. PC and Direct X still can't do a smooth horizontal scroll like the good old AMIGA did... Anyone remember those Shadow of the beast games with 7 layer paralax scrolling? That was smoooooth! :)
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Ahh, I remember my AMIGA days with fondness. A computer that worked splendidly, was quite a bit ahead of its time and still outperformed my PC up until the mid-90's :D. I use to love the fact that I could play Tetris on it whilst formatting a disk to a PC format and still have it do the format faster than the new PC standing next to it could.

I still have two of them in my garage along with a mountain of software and audio/video editing hardware but I suppose, if I'm realistic, I'll never use them again :(.

Happy days.
 
GT on a PC should be great assuming they didn't do a sloppy conversion. Of course if it was completely developed for PC, unlike GTA3 etc..., it would be much better still. Plus then I probably wouldn't need a PS3 & could instead improve my PC. Apart from GT4 I don't really use my PS2 anymore.

I'd love to create addon cars for GT4 :D
 
Thirdeye
I'd love to see it on PC :D Then I could have a place to actually put my wheel...
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Thats true.


About that nurburgthing. Imaging 20 cars in one race instead of 6, that would be cool.
Like in GTR, you have a lot of cars on the racetruck.
 
eastley
Have you ever played with a very complex Database in Access? It can kill a system no worries at all. Evil Program.
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yes i have, and no doubt. and i'm not saying i'm not a nerd either. i'm just saying that running around saying "my micro$oft office will pwn j00r computar lolol!!!11" is something a nerd would do :P now, if you'll excuse me i have to get back to finding a decent linux solution to replace exchange 2000 in a small office environment ;)
 
Super Jamie
yes i have, and no doubt. and i'm not saying i'm not a nerd either. i'm just saying that running around saying "my micro$oft office will pwn j00r computar lolol!!!11" is something a nerd would do :P now, if you'll excuse me i have to get back to finding a decent linux solution to replace exchange 2000 in a small office environment ;)
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Ximian Desktop Professional Edition for Linux, a complete desktop environment and suite of productivity applications including Sun® StarOffice™ 6.0 and Ximian Evolution™

I heard that there is some sort of program in that that is very similar, but thats what I only heard. Could be totally wrong.

EDIT: I think that was totally wrong but anyhow I found a article that might help.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/11/07FEtco_1.html?s=feature
 
Kremithefrog
Aren't their DS2-ish controllers for PC?
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hey kermit i have a controller called a saitek its close to the ds2 it has dual anolog, big r1 an L1 but the r2, L2 has been moved to the top almost like a super nintendo controller shaped like a ds2,..... alll the buttons are programable and its more versitle than a ds2.....they even make a model that rumbles....its good almost the same feel as a ds2 ...but just not the same thing

take a look
saitek 👍
 
sukerkin
Ahh, I remember my AMIGA days with fondness.
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So do I. I so wish that I still had my 500 and Elite II: Frontier, what a game :guilty:

Anyway, if GT became a successful PC game the PlayStation version could suffer, which I wouldn't like.

Can you tell I'm not PC user yet? :sly:
 
eastley
Ximian Desktop Professional Edition for Linux, a complete desktop environment and suite of productivity applications including Sun® StarOffice™ 6.0 and Ximian Evolution™

I heard that there is some sort of program in that that is very similar, but thats what I only heard. Could be totally wrong.

EDIT: I think that was totally wrong but anyhow I found a article that might help.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/11/07FEtco_1.html?s=feature
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have you tryed openoffice.......windows and linux....and its open source.........openoffice :sly:
 

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