Greatest pleasure in GT5

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I've made my share of cynical posts in these forums, but for me, GT5 is definitely a game that can offer sheer driving joy. My question is, despite all the things that make you groan and sigh, what really makes you think "I love this game"?

For me it's driving a completely stock, red Ferrari F40 around the Nurburgring, without ABS, on sports tyres. It's hard to tame this prancing horse, but without a doubt the best driving experience I've ever had indoors. I find the real fun to be had with GT5 is always with simple pleasures. Stock cars, shuffle races, Prius time-trials etc..
 
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I've made my share of cynical posts in these forums, but for me, GT5 is definitely a game that can offer sheer driving joy. My question is, despite all the things that make you groan and sigh, what really makes you think "I love this game"?

For me it's driving a completely stock, red Ferrari F40 around the Nurburgring, without ABS, on sports tyres. It's hard to tame this prancing horse, but without a doubt the best driving experience I've ever had indoors. I find the real fun to be had with GT5 is always with simple pleasures. Stock cars, shuffle races, Prius time-trials etc..
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Back when I was massively bored and had no DLC, I would always join Spa lobbies online. As soon as I had finished trolling in one of my cars, I'd go grab a stock Shelby Cobra from the Reccommended list, and put it in manual no assists, SS tyres, and try my best to do a clean lap. Difficult as hell but sooooo much fun, especially when you drift it :D I have a stock F40 and a stock Amemiya RX7 too, which get used regularly, since just driving them is a pleasure.
 
Lapping the Nurb 24hr late at night (2 AM in real life and in-game) with no HUD and Time Change to 30.

One of the best experiences in gaming imo
 
Lapping La Sarthe with No chicanes (generally the 2005) in my Ford MKIV. The feeling of flying down the Mulsanne straight at 213mph is unbeatable.
 
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Gejabo
why is that?

ontopic: stock Clio on the ring interior view, HUD turned off:tup:
Or Stock F40 on any track....
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People only want to do 550pp races without assists on the Nurburgring, and if you do create a room you are wasting your time.
 
noisiaturismo
People only want to do 550pp races without assists on the Nurburgring, and if you do create a room you are wasting your time.
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That's a shame.

Haven't done to many online races (appart from friendly races in friend lobbies)
But I do recal some nice lower powered cars
 
noisiaturismo
People only want to do 550pp races without assists on the Nurburgring, and if you do create a room you are wasting your time.
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Actually its very possible. My friends and I run low PP races on the ring (and elswhere) with good success. This definately makes for some of the cleanest and closest racing online.

If people join and want to up the PP or tires we'll remind them to join one of the many rooms with those regulations.
 
For me its got to be the 24hr Sarthe Enduro in the Bentley Speed 8 on RH's - the cherry on that cake was watching dawn break over one end of the circuit after what felt like an eternity (it rained throughout the whole night) on a drying track.

What was absorbing was pushing the sector times and increasing apex speeds on each (dry) lap - the hours zipped by, and the Bentley is a beautifully balanced beast.
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My favorite experience on gt5 is what I do for practice. Take my corvette zo6rm tuned to about GT2 specs, go to the ring 24hr turn all assists off (abs tcs ect) then make the weather and ground wetness 100% with time change, i do this in a lounge. If they give us the M3 gt2, I will be the happiest man alive and never complain about gt5 again haha. Even more fun to drive on the ring!
 
F1 and classic le mans cars at monaco are and always will be the best moments for me. I could do that day in and day out. Battling an XJ13 and a MKIV are insane amounts of fun there. An extremely close second is racing at night with friends that actually know what they're doing. Competing at night is just beyond explanation.
 
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Arcarde mode
Course mode IA level 10 (I guarantee that the IA is really great)
Level A with 15 cars
Nurburgring with weather effect 2 laps
take a super car like a 458, GTR, LP560, LP640, Zonda 7.3 ....
All with Comfort soft tires
take off all aids except ABS set on 1
Damage on (hard)
Turn on my great sound system (Z5500)
Have a seat behind my T500RS
and

ENJOY !!!! Just feel the Nurb and the car. I try to do not touch any cars. Just drive like in real life!!! 15 minutes of pure JOY ^^
 
Each lap of the Nordschleife is a joy in this game. The physics are the best I´ve ever dealt with (for me). Still have huge problems with accepting the FM4 physics.

There is way too much stuff to list here.
 
The "love" factor for me is you don't have to do anything at all. There are many nights I'll turn it on and listen to the menu music which is quite good. Or, I'll go into Open Lobby and check it out, laugh at room names. Above all, GT5 just makes you feel good. Exactly what a game should do.
 
The other night, when I entered a 650pp racing cars room at Le Mans with my newly purchased Panoz GTR1. What a fantastic, easy to drive, docile yet powerful and fast machine that was! Anyway, I made it through the first chicane carnage and came out under the dunlop bridge in third, then had a fantastic slipstreaming/braking battle down the Mulsanne. Right up until the lobby owner killed the game (just as I was turning into Arnage bend), that was some of the best fun I've had in GT5 for a while.
 
Setting the ai to 10 agressiveness turning tire wear fuel consumption on, damage heavy, no aids no abs stock lfa with sport hard tires five laps around the nurburgring with time change no weather arcade race on professional setting, then racing as clean as possible knowing even if you get stuck behind a slower car you still have five laps to catch up to 1st.
Then on the third laps you start to feel your tires go but you got to keep pushing as the sky starts to get dark and visibility starts to fade, and you realize you are sweating from the intensity of this incredible game
 
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At least three times a week, I do a five or six lap race on the 24hr Ring with time progression and weather change set to max. HUD turned completely off, cockpit view only, usually a different car each week, no tuning on stock tires and just enjoy the view while driving. I wish SPA had time change, I would race it a lot more if it did.
 
Testing random completely stock card on Nürburgring in practice mode. Quite enjoyable to see which cars get better times, my Roadster TC got a better time than a Ferrari 512BB, BMW M3, Ferrari California, and one other car I can't remember. That Roadster TC is also extremely fun to drive.
 
Driving my red (all stock; stock tires; TCS 1) GT-R SpecV on the Nürburgring at 05:30 with all displays off in cockpit view, trying to set a new best time while keeping it perfectly clean. It’s what GT5’s purpose has become for me, to just do that. Tsukuba is also fun, same car and settings.
 
I think when I won the Sports Truck race on the Daytona by 2 milliseconds. To say I flipped out- That's an understatement. ;)
 

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