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http://e3.gamespot.com/games.html?tag=event_nav;games
GT5s on the list of games for E3. Now the question is what will they bring to the table.
As much as I’d like to believe GameSpot’s enthusiasm—I think there’s a higher chance of seeing GT Mobile being announced in conjunction with the PSP redesign (similar to the GT4 + PS2 Slimline bundle).
This is true, the PS2 is worthless for online play. However, I think if GT4 had successfully launched online play, more people would have bought the adaptors and the demand would have been large enough to ensure a strong, stable set of dedicated servers.
Automakers aren't as afraid of damage as you might think. Most of them don't have any problems with their cars getting damaged. It's the extent of the damage that's a problem. Some won't allow rollovers, some won't allow the passenger cabin to be intruded upon in any way, some won't allow the doors to pop open, etc. etc.
Find a place where I've said "Enthusia is perfect" and I'll give you a million dollars.In terms of mechanical damage, yes, it could be better, but it's unlikely that you'll see a licensed car totally smashed up into a mangled mess -- see above.
"TOCA has flaws, but people still say it's good. And it is."
We're also noticing that, as of yet, Gran Turismo hasn't grown much at all with the jump to the PS3. New content or not, GTHD has tweaked-version-of-GT4 written all over it.
Only when you refuse to believe that someone who disagrees with you has those things.
Indeed, it’s a flat out filler article—the amount of fluff content is astonishing.
Car & DriverAwesome, guys.
If Andrew Wyeth is America’s foremost realism painter, imagine a machine that can paint, entirely from scratch, 60 Anew Wyeths per second, which incidentally, is twice the frame refresh rate of a standard, non–high definition television.
Also note C&D’s lack of PR respect—PS3’s written as PLAYSTATION3 and not the classic PlayStation. Considering the branding and materials that would’ve been supplied, writing PlayStation3 is pure ignorance. Personally I’d take this and the C&V article with a grain of salt.
CVGWhat the hell? GT5 hasn’t even been officially announced. How can an unconfirmed release date get pushed back—we’re still being drip fed GTHD info…
The release of the highly-anticipated Gran Turismo 5 on PS3 could be pushed back as far as late 2008.
The guy who wrote the JOYPAD article mentioned that it was a surprise how liberal their tour was compared to experiences shared by other journalists where they were specifically told what to write.
9 months? PD made the GTHD e3 2006 Prototype (GTHD Classic) in 3 weeks.
This is one of my main frustrations with GT, though there’ve been the additions of B–spec and photomode to GT4, the series’ core formula is getting tired.
With each new iteration it’s the same deal, achieve licenses > buy a cheap car > head to the Sunday Cup—rinse, wash, and repeat. Nothing has changed over the years and at times this is incredibly frustrating. The amount of cups reflects the epic amount of content in GT4, but at the same time half of the races are just as much of a novelty (nuisance) as the cars, Midget Cup anyone?
Thanks for the scans Gabkicks👍
While I agree that the issue is the extent to which damage occurs that is the problem, you can pretty much change all of the 'some' in your post to 'all'. No manufacturer is going to let a passenger car be subject to a roll-over or any form of damage that intrudes into the passenger space (and as doors form part of the structural rigidity of that space I include them in that).
Again I agree with you, but for me that's not the problem with FM2's damage, its perfectly possible to keep to the two main manufacturer demands from above and have DNFs due to mechanical damage.
While I agree that GT:HD is little more that a graphically tweaked version of GT4, with some important by minor changes to the physics, that's rather a shallow point. Nothing more than that has ever been claimed for GT:HD, PD have remained very tight-lipped about GT5 (which I fully acknowledge is an issue in its own right).
Yeah, pretty much. I didn't want my statement to sound quite so definitive and authoritative.
That's why I mentioned the mechanical damage could be better.
That's why I italicized "as of yet." There's just as much evidence that they'll keep tweaking the GT4 engine as there is evidence that they'll put together something entirely new.
I'll save it for the wishlist-threads instead)
While the rest of your post is our usual jovial banter, and yes I should have said "roofcam" - spent too much time in Forzaland, I have to differ with this. Bumpercam is moving the driver view four or five feet forward and two or three feet down, and is a view which is rather like that of a gocart. If you think gocarts have a driver view similar to that of a 240SX, that's okay and all, but I don't think your opinion will be widely shared.
But that's just it -- the "bumpercam" in many games isn't really a bumper cam. Although no cockpit is rendered, the camera's placement replicates the driver's position vertically, at least, if not laterally or longitudinally (in most games your longitudinal position places you somewhere on the hood, because you aren't far back enough to make it seem like you have an invisible hood).
I may have missed something, when did PD say that in order to complete the game you would have to download (free or added cost) content? Also, the advantage of downloaded content is allowing the user to choose what they want and what they don't want, and being able to play now rather than wait twice as long for content you may not even want just for them to release a game that will force you to pay for extra content you may not even want.
If you think they suck that's actually better, as that's even more of a reason to sell them, as people are paying as much as $20 a piece for them if new & sealed. If you couldn't sell them then and didn't personally like them, then yes, that would be bad.
