Gran Turismo 5... like a marriage?

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While playing GT5 I felt a tight knot of repressed frustration tighten in my stomach as a the seasonal event asked for sports hard tyres on hyperpowerful cars.

"No matter" I thought to myself exhaling slowly "its all part of the charm of Gran Turismo..."

Seasonals completed (after a few moments where the words "oh thats bull****" and "Kiss my ***" where muttered. I return to the campaign... I look through the races... none that I have remaining or have already completed inspire me...

I sigh and think a free run pleasure drive... Looking over the hundreds of cars in the garage I quickly realise I've not driven a good few since I bought them, But then again who would want to drive a 2000 year Vauxhall Corsa more than once...

It quickly dawned on me that GT5 was much like a marriage, and its seasons and Academy where the final fling weekend breaks to keep the magic alive...

The excitement of the wedding day and the few months of honeymoon period are well and truly over... all those little quirks, dodgy shadows, some shocking standard cars, the lack of much sort after models and manufactures, more upto date and modern models and lack of truly challenging single player racing, all those quirks that were once quite charming and you would defend as 'unimportant' to the most part now annoy you...

She (GT5) niggles your nerve, the moments when you, miss out on a target time by .001 of a second, or your car strangely under steers like a pig, no longer inspire you to go back and try to get it right... they instantly annoy you and you find yourself being dealt a lesson by the harsh unforgiving bitch that is GT5, thats when your eyes drift to much less classy racers... your need for speed hot pursuits, Motorstorms etc... less pretty, but more ego stroking, more easy, thrill a minute, Hollywood style excitement...

Its wrong I know to look towards that sort of thing over the longer standing love that is GT5...

But I find myself more so these days than any other uttering those words that many a man has muttered about his wife...

"I love her... I feel I'm no longer in love with her"

Maybe another child (DLC) could rekindle some romance and stop me going for the cheap, fast, floozies that are the other racing games.
 
I think that what you're feeling is what 99.9% of us is currently feeling or HAS already felt. GT5 is stale and has been so for a long time. DLC came and went like a lightning bolt. Updates appear at random, and as we witnessed with the latest version, it seemed to do more harm than good. Terrible sounds. But hey, at least you'll get some GTR's with stickers.

But I'm not sure where to go from here (in terms of the direction of your thread).

Nonetheless, I could suggest you try other racing games. If you find yourself pledging allegiance to ONE series, you're also pledging allegiance to heartache and ignorance.

Try Forza. Try a PC sim. Or wait until Project CARS is available. See my sig.
 
CorvetteConquer
I think that what you're feeling is what 99.9% of us is currently feeling or HAS already felt. GT5 is stale and has been so for a long time. DLC came and went like a lightning bolt. Updates appear at random, and as we witnessed with the latest version, it seemed to do more harm than good. Terrible sounds. But hey, at least you'll get some GTR's with stickers.

But I'm not sure where to go from here (in terms of the direction of your thread).

Nonetheless, I could suggest you try other racing games. If you find yourself pledging allegiance to ONE series, you're also pledging allegiance to heartache and ignorance.

Try Forza. Try a PC sim. Or wait until Project CARS is available. See my sig.
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That number is false in my opinion, I have no type of feelings... I have friends which I play with everyday. Seasonals are for money and training, and now with the new feedback GT5 has gotten even better.
 
If you don't enjoy playing GT5 why not move onto something else? No one here is going to change the way you feel about it, and strangely enough there are thousands out there that still love and play GT5 every day and don't dwell on the shortcomings.

Is GT5 everything I had hoped it would be? Absolutely not, but it is still my favorite racer this gen and when I've grown a little tired of it I'll pop in Forza, or Ferrari Challenge or anything else. Going on a Gran Turismo forum and complaining isn't going to make you like the game more so just do what everyone else who doesn't enjoy the game should do and play another game. If GT6 fixes everything you hate about GT5 then you can come back the the series then.
 
I absolutely can't wait for project cars... Simply can't wait.
 
MOTORTRENDmitch
I absolutely can't wait for project cars... Simply can't wait.
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Not to get this thread off topic, but neither can I. From what I've played so far it is going to be an extremely fun game, but as of right now my feelings are for the PC version only. I have high hopes that SMS will make the console version great as well, but their track record isn't exactly what I'd call fantastic for consoles.

To the OP, do you play online against other players, or are you solely speaking of the singleplayer?
 
Guess I'm just seeing how many 'husbands' are out there...

I do have Need for speed hot pursuit, and I have owned Forza 3 before I sold my 360... but I dont know I guess there is no way you can complain about a game thats supplied this much playtime since release... I guess the frustrations of the things Ive listed have gotten the better of me haha

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Projects Cars sounds very promising indeed...
 
Have a dirty weekend away with your "wife" by going somewhere else, acting like you're not married (not playing a simulator) and get up to some naughtiness that will spark a bit of fun in your otherwise monotonous "relationship". It's not what you're supposed to be doing in a simulator, a bit like what you're not expected to do in a regular marriage on a filthy weekend. By this, I mean spending some time in extra dirty shuffle rooms.

No rules barred, take every shortcut possible, set boost level to high and use the other players as wall bumpers to get around the circuit. It's a seriously fun, arcade, childish time that will have you laughing for hours.
 
Lewis_Hamilton_
Have a dirty weekend away with your "wife" by going somewhere else, acting like you're not married (not playing a simulator) and get up to some naughtiness that will spark a bit of fun in your otherwise monotonous "relationship". It's not what you're supposed to be doing in a simulator, a bit like what you're not expected to do in a regular marriage on a filthy weekend. By this, I mean spending some time in extra dirty shuffle rooms.

No rules barred, take every shortcut possible, set boost level to high and use the other players as wall bumpers to get around the circuit. It's a seriously fun, arcade, childish time that will have you laughing for hours.
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i need this!💡
 
Lewis_Hamilton_
Have a dirty weekend away with your "wife" by going somewhere else, acting like you're not married (not playing a simulator) and get up to some naughtiness that will spark a bit of fun in your otherwise monotonous "relationship". It's not what you're supposed to be doing in a simulator, a bit like what you're not expected to do in a regular marriage on a filthy weekend. By this, I mean spending some time in extra dirty shuffle rooms.

No rules barred, take every shortcut possible, set boost level to high and use the other players as wall bumpers to get around the circuit. It's a seriously fun, arcade, childish time that will have you laughing for hours.
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Dirty shuffle is a blast!
 
I divorced GT5 .. and this is my new lady.

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MadmuppGT
While playing GT5 I felt a tight knot of repressed frustration tighten in my stomach as a the seasonal event asked for sports hard tyres on hyperpowerful cars.

"No matter" I thought to myself exhaling slowly "its all part of the charm of Gran Turismo..."

Seasonals completed (after a few moments where the words "oh thats bull****" and "Kiss my ***" where muttered. I return to the campaign... I look through the races... none that I have remaining or have already completed inspire me...

I sigh and think a free run pleasure drive... Looking over the hundreds of cars in the garage I quickly realise I've not driven a good few since I bought them, But then again who would want to drive a 2000 year Vauxhall Corsa more than once...
It quickly dawned on me that GT5 was much like a marriage, and its seasons and Academy where the final fling weekend breaks to keep the magic alive...

The excitement of the wedding day and the few months of honeymoon period are well and truly over... all those little quirks, dodgy shadows, some shocking standard cars, the lack of much sort after models and manufactures, more upto date and modern models and lack of truly challenging single player racing, all those quirks that were once quite charming and you would defend as 'unimportant' to the most part now annoy you...

She (GT5) niggles your nerve, the moments when you, miss out on a target time by .001 of a second, or your car strangely under steers like a pig, no longer inspire you to go back and try to get it right... they instantly annoy you and you find yourself being dealt a lesson by the harsh unforgiving bitch that is GT5, thats when your eyes drift to much less classy racers... your need for speed hot pursuits, Motorstorms etc... less pretty, but more ego stroking, more easy, thrill a minute, Hollywood style excitement...

Its wrong I know to look towards that sort of thing over the longer standing love that is GT5...

But I find myself more so these days than any other uttering those words that many a man has muttered about his wife...

"I love her... I feel I'm no longer in love with her"

Maybe another child (DLC) could rekindle some romance and stop me going for the cheap, fast, floozies that are the other racing games.
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Tune it up and there's a good little car in there.

I haven't fallen out of love with GT yet, but with all the new features and DLC for other games, to quote the Kaiser Cheifs 'Every day I love you less and less'. I am strangely looking forward to the GT Academy cars being added though, even though they're already in GT5 minus the stickers.
 
GT5 only is good in the first 2-3 months in gaming.

Shows how love should also be on the inside.

Time to cheat on Project Cars and Ferrari Legends.

Edit: Its more like a weird drug. I should hate it but I don't
 
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The debut GT games on ps consoles have always been lackluster compared ro the sequels, i mean compare gt2 to gt and gt3 to gt4.

GT6 WILL be a much more complete game.
 
To me GT5 has just gotten steadily better and better and better. It was breathtaking at first but nothing compared to what it is now. Not many people can say that about their marriage sadly.
 
GT5 doesn't mind being slapped around for burning dinner. That makes her okay in my book.
 
For me it was more like getting a date with the prom queen - I was promised she was beautiful, I was promised she was all I'd ever want, I was promised the greatest experience of my life and then, well...beauty's only skin deep. :irked:

So after a couple months I dumped her and went out with some other girls. They each had their own individual quirks, but overall those relationships were a whole lot more fulfilling.

A year went by and I saw my old "prom queen", now with a shiny new package and updates and DLC and also one-third off, so I hooked up with her for a bit again.

There was definitely some passion there for a week or so. Couldn't get enough of her! But it's definitely faded after two weeks lol. Kind of just going through the motions now.
 
Well said topicstarter :)

In my opinion GT5 needs some sort of an exitement factor...
Not in the form of DLC, but in general.
 
*snipety sniples*
 
GASP!! A game has gotten boring over time !
lol.Play something else.I would probably hate it too if I played it everyday.
You could do the same with marriage :)
 
McClarenDesign
GT5 doesn't mind being slapped around for burning dinner. That makes her okay in my book.
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HAHA,

I dont play it everyday I play many different games from shooters, to other driving games (Hell I even play some move games)

But I'm find myself finding less and less reasons to 'go home and see the wife'

Instead hanging out with glowing wands and shooting Nazis in the face a lot more... Am I still talking about gaming??? haha
 
It got the point across, my god.



Because of the improved FFB and apparent improvement to the tire model and/or physics, I've been playing more than I have in the past couple of months.


Boob job ^^^. :)
 
I think if we consider the whole GT series, yes... its just like marriage. When you first met her it was astonishing... hot and full of fire... you had to "make it" everyday and everywhere... pull of passion. The you got really married to her (GT2?)... and it was awesome... from there onwards it was a life full of good, memorable, unforgettable moments and then some fights here and there started to happen... we have childs, and sometimes they had some problems too...

But, the current moment of this marriage is not THAT good. You "visit her" on almost a daily basis... (some of us don't do that anymore) but latelly she still need new sexy lingerie to catch your attention in the same hot way as before (DLC and updates).

But all that last for 2 or 3 nights. And then, we're waiting again. Maybe go out looking for the attention of some other girl... but we're always back.

And in the end. You love this &(!¨#$!@#!!!
 
To the OP

Oh my GOD! What a sad story. If you really feel like this in you marriage, you are a very sad man.

One advise: don't try to fill the void with a videogame. Do something about or accept you married the wrong women.

Sad people here
 
PletdeKoe
To the OP

Oh my GOD! What a sad story. If you really feel like this in you marriage, you are a very sad man.

One advise: don't try to fill the void with a videogame. Do something about or accept you married the wrong women.

Sad people here
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I think you took this thread too seriously.

I would never actually beat GT5, no matter how burnt dinner was.

My wife, on the otherhand...

... lighten up.
 
Get to playing ONLINE!

Find other clean racers, friend request them, STALK them... Join well run leagues or series...

Ive done story mode for the trophys in gt5. Any other game NO story mode ONLINE only! Human hunting human.

I have clicked arcade mode ONCE in gt5.

New GIRL every night!
 
another_jakhole
Boob job ^^^. :)
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Excellent :P 👍


diegorborges
I think if we consider the whole GT series, yes... its just like marriage. When you first met her it was astonishing... hot and full of fire... you had to "make it" everyday and everywhere... pull of passion. The you got really married to her (GT2?)... and it was awesome... from there onwards it was a life full of good, memorable, unforgettable moments and then some fights here and there started to happen... we have childs, and sometimes they had some problems too...

But, the current moment of this marriage is not THAT good. You "visit her" on almost a daily basis... (some of us don't do that anymore) but latelly she still need new sexy lingerie to catch your attention in the same hot way as before (DLC and updates).

But all that last for 2 or 3 nights. And then, we're waiting again. Maybe go out looking for the attention of some other girl... but we're always back.

And in the end. You love this &(!¨#$!@#!!!
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Sir, *opens arms* embrace me... you get exactly what I mean!


NjLowrider
Get to playing ONLINE!

Find other clean racers, friend request them, STALK them... Join well run leagues or series...

Ive done story mode for the trophys in gt5. Any other game NO story mode ONLINE only! Human hunting human.

I have clicked arcade mode ONCE in gt5.

New GIRL every night!
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Sounds like youve joined the exciting world of swingers HAHA
 
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