GT As Real Driving Simulator @ 2003

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Well dont you think people that is hard to call Gran Turismo as Real Driving Simulation? after playing for few months GT3 and few weeks GTC i went back to Gran Turismo and i thought i was playing on Snes console..i saw big squares/pixels and handling was like in old arcade machine (well game is old)

what you think?
 
i have not played GTC but as far as i am concerned GT3 is as close as you can get with out driving the cars yourself. although i do wish you could have damage and do paint jobs. :)
 
The appropriate amount of predictability, together with effective feedback, made it more of a simulator than other racing games before it, and many since. Not to mention the detailed tuning capabilities.
 
The tuning features were definately superior in respect it having a torque and HP graph in corespondance with the gear ratios, and the fact you could dial in the amount of boost you wanted on each stage turbo. It was also nice that they actually had accurate torque figures instead of the infuriating Kg/m labeled as Lb/ft in GT3. I never know how much torque any of my tuned cars have because I grew up with lb/ft.
 
The one thing that in my view make GT1 so good is FEEDBACK. I know you get it in GT3, but that is more'jiggle-you've just-slammed-into-a-wall' variety than the soft vibrations on GT1 that tell you exactly how close to the limit you are, how much you are exceeding rear grip by, etc.
And if you think real cars don't have feedback, go by a good car mag like EVO (a UK publication) a read all about it.
 
Eye agree I also believe the cars handled much better in GT1 much more err pointy if you know what I mean, I dug it out a few months ago and was suprised how hard the cars were to control but once you get over that much better. GT2 was an understeer-athon, GT3 much better and I believe GTC even better still, but the cars arent as tail happy as in GT1 tho.
 
GT 1 is still my favorite, the physics and the sounds of the different cars of GT2, 3 and GTC couldn't match up against the perfection of GT!. The tuning was indeed well displayed by thes graphs.

You mentioned that the graphics of gt1 looked like big squares and it did..but after a few laps on the track you won't even notice it, you're just getting high from the perfectly balaned physics of your car.:D
 
liquidyellow
Back in the day GT1 ruled and in some ways I think is superior to GT3.;)
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I would agree with you there. The gameplay is better than any of the other GT games so far.

An earlier post mentioned the graphics, have they tried playing GT on the PS2, OK it's not as good looking as GT3 but it's better than playing on the PS1.
 
I went back to GT(1) this weekend, purely for nostalgia, after playing prologue a lot recently.

The cars felt really "light" and arcadey, did not feel anywhere near as realistic as 3\concept\prologue... GT2 however *did* feel that bit heavier.
 
tavia4x4
I went back to GT(1) this weekend, purely for nostalgia, after playing prologue a lot recently.

The cars felt really "light" and arcadey, did not feel anywhere near as realistic as 3\concept\prologue... GT2 however *did* feel that bit heavier.
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Really I find it the other way around. Sometimes I think I load the arcade version of GT2 but actually it's the Sim version.
 
Man GT was like the forth psx1 game i played, i thought it was so cool, but then got Gt2 and started drifting for fun. GT1 aint to great, like you can oversteer your car heaps. like turning at 90 degrees then sliping back to a nice fast speed like nothing happened, WHERE IS THE FEEL IN THAT. Its now like a bad horor movie. I still love it though. And the graphics are fine. Cars are cool. (better then GT3). And that corny music, your gotta love it. :sly:
 
Mr.Snowman
Man GT was like the forth psx1 game i played, i thought it was so cool, but then got Gt2 and started drifting for fun. GT1 aint to great, like you can oversteer your car heaps. like turning at 90 degrees then sliping back to a nice fast speed like nothing happened, WHERE IS THE FEEL IN THAT. Its now like a bad horor movie. I still love it though. And the graphics are fine. Cars are cool. (better then GT3). And that corny music, your gotta love it. :sly:
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Yeah you could do some wild moves in GT and in the right car you could recover massive slides. However most of the cars would still spin if you didn't re-act quick enough, just like in real life. I have had an Escort car fish tailing on me cause of wet roads and high speed but by using the accelerater and steering into the slides I didn't spin, in fact I didn't even touch the curb on either side of the road and I still had my lit cigagrette in my hand when I stopped!!!

Were you playing the NTSC version, cause the PAL version didn't have corny music. OK it's dated now but at the time the music was being played at raves & disco's up and down the country.
 
puricele7e
May I ask, which type of Escort ?? Cosworth by any chance :P ?
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What do you take me for, a boy racer?

No it was an ordinary escort with a 1.3 litre engine, I was in a hurry to get somewhere in my lunch hour and so was driving too fast round a corner on wet roads. The back end stepped out so I corrected and then it stepped out the other way. Corrected again and so it went on until I regained full control. I remember a car went past me going the other way in the middle of the fight and a bus stopped short to see if I would get control back. I won in the end.:sly:
 
Man.....sorry about that but I am so keen on Cosworth (both Sierra and Escort) that when I hear FORD, i always, i mean ALWAYS think of Cosworth 👍 Sorry about that....... This thing happened to my father too, while driving our Galaxy (Cosworth, right :dopey: ), but he lost it once, over-corrected, lost it the second time and regained control afterwards :scared:
 
puricele7e
Man.....sorry about that but I am so keen on Cosworth (both Sierra and Escort) that when I hear FORD, i always, i mean ALWAYS think of Cosworth 👍 Sorry about that....... This thing happened to my father too, while driving our Galaxy (Cosworth, right :dopey: ), but he lost it once, over-corrected, lost it the second time and regained control afterwards :scared:
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That's OK, the reply was a bit tongue-in-cheeck anyway. Yeah it shouldn't have stepped out so many times so looking back I was probably over correcting, I was young and relativly fresh at this driving game!!!
 

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