Gran Turismo 4, What extras do you want in it??

[DessViperV-10]

Originally posted by viper_maniac


:thumbsup: I mostly want to see the Racing Modification come back. I miss that from GT2.

couldn't say it any better,racing mods BACK NOW!!!!,i hate driving a 1500 horse viper without a nice wing on the back

 

[RumNHammer]

Hi all first time poster here on this site, just found it in Sport Compact Car, and have been dying to find a site like this about my favorite game.
For GT4 my list is this

First nix the formula 1 cars, it kind of goes against the grain for me to have them in Gran Turismo, since I see the game as more of a racing simulator then arcade game, that lets you tune cars that would not normally be competitive into screamers. I don't see it as a formula 1 game, why waste the space with these cars?

Next bring back more variety, the thing I loved about GT2 was the huge variety of cars over 500! My absolute favorite thing to do was to make pocket screamers like my fiat cincoceqento with 187hp that I constantly use to spank tuner cars left and right.
To me the best thing about GT2 was this. Also included with this would be bring back the used car list, for the retro cars, some of the fastest cars can be made from the ones from the 80's.

Next I would make the abilty to paint any car you have, not just the ones you get as new. minor but would be nice. Also for apperances, I love in Tokyo extreme racer zero, When you change an exhaust, not only does the exhaust note change, but so does the style of the exhaust, ie N1 type , duels etc. and when you free up the exhaust in that game, not only does the exhaust get louder but you start getting fireballs when you close the throttle, a nice touch to say the least.

Also for apperances, lightening the car should entail some form of visual, like a carbon fiber hood for example, and body kits should be made available.

Next make the mods more realistic, like for example being able to add a turbo to a car that never had one like a custom setup, being able to add an intercooler on more turbo setups, more sound changes to the car after mods are done, more displacement increases for more cars, and make the exhaust note get deeper after doing this. Also engine swaps should be made available since they are becoming a more and more popular mod in real life. for instance being able to swap in a Integra type R motor into a 91 CRX for example or even into a lotus elise, like a certain company has done.

Thats about all I would ask to change, sort of like an expanded GT2 with mod changes but with the graphics of Gt3.
Chris Rummel

 

[Shannon]

Damage to your car, like dints and holes and chips on your window which you can turn off if you want. It should have measure like 100% means your car is fine and 0% means your car is screwed and needs a panelbeating job or a service.

Pits, why make them accessible in races where you don't have tyre damage? The pits should always be open in Endurances Races, but not in normal races unless you turn tyre damage on for all races, which should be another addition. If you don't have tyre damage on the pits should be closed, or if the pits are still open, you shouldn't have your speed limited.

You should also have the option to change your body from aluminion or whatever to fibreglass or vise-versa.

There should also be fog in some races, mainly night races, which can be turned off. You would need to buy and install fog lights if your car dosen't have them.

Finally, the driver's view from inside the car, you should see what you see in real life. All the guages, steering wheel with your hands on it, the black rubber stuff around the edge of your windscreen, etc.

 

[Shannon]

Another thnig, if you over rev your engine at the start of the race you engine should blow and you'll have tor retire from the race before it even begins . Just like in real-life.

 

[Shannon]

Oh yeah. I forgot.

Superchargers!!!

 

[big_nicko]

Specialty tuning shops
Drag racing tuning (nitrous oxide especially)
Paint shop
Bodykit shop
Cars look lower when you lower them
Varuous sized rims
Larger selection of all types of music with the ability to have playlists
Better data logging statistics to make tuning more efficient
Tread marks
Damage and running costs
Engine repairs, eventually cars become too expensive to run
Ability to put different engines in cars (i.e. a skyline engine in a crx )
Drag racing as events (in hp classes)
a garage where the cars are sort of carouselled

there a heap of stuff (i really want nitrous)

 

[keeno_uk]

rare rare rare sponsorships yeah like in real life

 

[Race Idiot]

How about being able to chose what overalls and helmet you can wear in the game. Then you can unlock famous drivers helmets, I.E Senna, Hill , Chris Jericho (J/K) etc

 

[WING ZERO]

They need to do some street stuff like tokyo extreme thing where you can put body kits and wings and all that in the game... but just looks real life like the gt3..

 

[jaw1]

I think it should have like a governing body of particular championships like If you really slam an AI car then youare docked some points from the chamionship and yellow red flags etc where you have to slow up say if someone has crashed and points docked if you overtake on a yellow etc
U agree that would be pretty good ????

 

[jaw1]

Yeah!

 

[Tach]

OK, has anyone here played Top Gear Rally 2 I believe for the N64? If you have, you most likely recall that you had the option of taking your car into the garage and painting anything you wanted on them. Give me that freedom! And racing and body modifications please. I know GT3 took up almost all of the DVD space so to save room for more options, take off the stupid previews that mostly no one watches. That would save tons of room, as would the Arcade mode, put it on a seperate DVD like on GT2.

As for more stuff on GT4, I want to see my Pontiacs man! I mean honestly, Pontiac makes cars that could be included in this game moreso than some of the companies already on it, like Chrysler... I mean come on, if you're only going to put a PT Cruiser in the Chrysler section, just leave it out all together and put my Trans Ams and Firebirds(Firehawks included) and Grand Prixs and the likes. I'd like to see more realistic pit ins as well, let me change my oil in the pits. I know its a major pain when I'm running an endurance race and 20 laps in the oil light comes on. Also, weather, I hear it's already being implemented... woopi!

Put some hard techno and some good rock and roll in the soundtrack. Rap is not racing music to most. One last thing, possibly choose your own sponsor, for the whole game, like on one of those Ridge Racer games, so that all of your cars now have that sponsor's logo somewhere on it.

 

[The GTmaster]

Well, I see alot of good ideas, such as a paint shop for example, adding your own personal touch to your favorite race car is a must. I also would like to see the racing mods back for all cars and definetly drag racing. Now here are my major concerns, bring back some of the short tracks(ex. Seattle Short) and you have to have a few new ones also. Let's not forget the old muscle cars(ex. 69 Camaro SS my favorite car ever). Last but definitely not least is the AI. This is the part of the game I feel needs the most work. The AI cars run one line around the track and if I drive a car with close to the same amount of hp, the races aren't even close. If nothing else changes besides this, given they change it for the better(make the AI cars faster and smarter) I will be happy.

 

[FlipYaForReal]

Hello, first timer here.

Simple things to make GT better:

-an option to automatically skip the replay after every race. I don't know about anyone else, but I hardly ever watch a replay.

-change default settings of every car you get into - eg I always take TCS and ASM off, but sometimes I forget. Just let me change the default options for a new car!

-more cars on the endurance races, definitely.


More complex things:

-weather effects, lighting change effects on longer races. Staring at the sun can be incorporated as in WRC - a nice touch.

-more than one driving line for a course. Surely the programmers can come up with more than one way to take every corner, then have the computer opponents randomly select as they enter the corner. Incorporated under the banner of "better AI".

-more tracks (of course).

-oh yeah, and more classic cars. What the hell were they thinking, leaving only 2 classics (Cobra and GT40) ?

 

[oosacker]

what I want to see in GT4:

-bodykit upgrades
-flames coming out of mufflers
-editable car skins (textures)
-race car mods
-better rally mode
-more group c cars (Jaguar XJR9, SauberMercedes, Porsche 962 etc)
-a mazda cosmo sports and mazda 252 (that's a true rx7 LM)
-SMARTER COMPUTER DRIVER AI! (all GT computer drivers are dumb)
-Drag racing
-LMP cars like audi R8
-if its gonna be an online game, it would be cool if we could dowbnload custom tracks, skins and models for cars
-I have more ideas, I'll post them later.

 

[White_GSL_SE]

Finally, someone else that wants more rotaries!

 

[Gil]

I agree with the above wish lists. I really want to see two particular courses. Red Rock Valley and Rome-Night.

 

[cheecks52]

BETTER SOUND TRACK....... NON OF THAT 99 RED BOLLOON CRAP

 

[White_GSL_SE]

Your caps lock is stuck.

I'd prefer no sound track. Just better engine, tire and wind sounds. I turned the soundtrack off about an hour into playing the game...

 

[Ryan2]

Originally posted by oosacker
what I want to see in GT4:

-bodykit upgrades
-flames coming out of mufflers
-editable car skins (textures)
-race car mods
-better rally mode
-more group c cars (Jaguar XJR9, SauberMercedes, Porsche 962 etc)
-a mazda cosmo sports and mazda 252 (that's a true rx7 LM)
-SMARTER COMPUTER DRIVER AI! (all GT computer drivers are dumb)
-Drag racing
-LMP cars like audi R8
-if its gonna be an online game, it would be cool if we could dowbnload custom tracks, skins and models for cars
-I have more ideas, I'll post them later.

:fire:flames baby!:fire:

 

[Afrodeeziac]

Things I'd like to see have all pretty much been mentioned already. Since the only tight races I get are from myself verses a gost car. How about letting AI use ghost car data. At random the AI could use the top 5 laps that you've saved for a given car and track (if those times are more than 3 seconds faster than the best AI times). That way the AI can become as competative as you no matter how good you get. As you race more tracks/cars and acumulate more data the AI gets more to use against you.

Oh yea, and some kind of plug in coprosesser so game play wo'nt slow down with all the number crunching.

 

[unknown]

ya they should put something with the linux kit where you can make your own decals for the game and upload them to the game. and GT4 is gonna have downloadable cars so that will be cool. i would like to make my supra look like a fast and the furious car.

 

[ethanol]

Originally posted by Afrodeeziac
Things I'd like to see have all pretty much been mentioned already. Since the only tight races I get are from myself verses a gost car. How about letting AI use ghost car data. At random the AI could use the top 5 laps that you've saved for a given car and track (if those times are more than 3 seconds faster than the best AI times). That way the AI can become as competative as you no matter how good you get. As you race more tracks/cars and acumulate more data the AI gets more to use against you.

Oh yea, and some kind of plug in coprosesser so game play wo'nt slow down with all the number crunching.

Now *that* is a great idea....

 

[trunks]

I dunno how many of you have played Test Drive LeMans, but its my favorite after Gran Turismo. It had weather changes during the race, sometimes serious weather changes to the point where you had to pit to change your type of tire (from slicks to wet).

thats another thing, you should be able to change what kind of tires you use during the race when you pit. and fuel consumption during the endurace races would be cool i think.

and yeah more tracks, but putting on more tracks can take up a lot of memory. maybe just different tracks this time around. I'd love to see Donnington(sp?) or Suzuka in GT4.

 

[trunks]

and oh yeah, backfires, lots of backfires

 

[Afrodeeziac]

Bring back the qualifing lap from the first GT!

 

[keeno_uk]

Originally posted by Afrodeeziac
Bring back the qualifing lap from the first GT!

they did in gran turismo 3 you can still do a qualifying lap

 

[valvefloat]

Definately RACE MOD!

I like the flames out the exhaust idea, just on really modded race cars though, right?

How about a dyno center, you mod your car and then do a run on the dyno to see your power and torque curves?

And of course Porsches, all of them. I think a letter campaign to Porsche is in order. How many Porsche owners play this game? How many play NFS?

 

[Racer001]

I liked the whole story mode GP in RR4 for my PlayStation. I want that in GT4. I also want to race more than 6 cars on the track. There should be at least 9 or 10.

 

[askia47]

Gt4 my have downloaded-able cars which would keep up the gameplay