- 3,509
- Cumberland, BC
- GTP_BlacqueJack
Leave the contest for those that do not have a wheel yet (surely you and your brother can buy your Dad a DFGT?)
I'll get started on that, what colour would you like? (please dont say matte)
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You got over 2 months lol. Shouldn't be too hard to get. With 10 people giving avg. 400k cars. She will have 4 million credits worth of cars just on this contest
Car received 👍Care package inbound (PSN)
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That actually stung a little. =]
Now that we're doing a much better job at staying on topic, I have a new request - less double, and on occasion triple, posting, please. If you'd like to comment on multiple posts, don't use the Quote button, go for theinstead.
Gran Turismo 5, in many ways, is a flawed game. For some, it will be a major disappointment considering the 6 year wait (since GT5-P was considered to be a "demo" of sorts). A typical review would then go on to talk about the flawed AI or the weak spots in terms of graphics, but truth be told, none of that really matters to me because despite the conclusion I started this review off with, I LOVE THIS GAME.
I'm no computer programmer or hardcore gamer (I own a grand total of 7 games on PS3) but I love cars. I love cars so much that starting when I was 3 or 4, I started calling out names of cars, even before I could speak English well. When I was a teenager, I would skip school, work, tennis practice etc. and spend hours learning about cars which I will never own or even drive. Drag strips, autocrosses, car meets, dyno days and admittedly a few impromptu street races were all part of my life in those days ...along with GT1 of course.
... and because of that love of cars, I don't want a game which sacrifices realism for "easy" or "fun to play" or "exciting" or any other description which may be seen in a positive light by many hardcore gamers. No, I want realism. I want to be slower if I miss the correct line or brake too late. I want to experience oversteer if I apply too much throttle in a high horsepower, rear wheel drive car and understeer if I try to go through a turn at full throttle in a front wheel drive car. If I lift throttle in a high speed turn, I want to lose control. I want the game to require and deliver precise steering and throttle inputs, which result in noticeable changes on the screen. To sum it up, GT5's physics and driving dynamics are done just the way I would have done it myself (if I had the capability to, of course).
Its also the little things. The painstaking detail of the Premium cars, beauty of some of the tracks, how the engine note changes depending on the view, etc. Again, just how I would have done it too.
Did GT5 get all the details right? No, but then again, was it realistic to expect that a video game would be perfectly real? Not really. So for me at least, it all boils down to this. What makes GT5 (and the Gran Turismo series in general) special is not some delusional claim of perfection but rather the passion and the obsession over all things automotive. GT5 is a celebration of the automobile from a group of people who clearly love them as much as I do.
