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Just to make it clear ahead of time, this post will be quite long. I have a compulsive need to be thorough, it’s just how I am.
I found the site through Google searching “Gran Turismo forum”, knowing that one surely had to exist.
I was born and raised outside of Seattle, I’m still here.
My background with racing is abnormal to say the least. Mario Kart Double Dash was the first game I played in my life, but I just played it because it was the game that my best friend played, but we didn’t play video games all that much. Most of my life until middle school was spent bombing hills on BMX bikes with that same friend, I loved to go fast more than anything. Truth is, I was never into racing or cars at all though, I don’t even have a license and still have never officially learned to drive in my 28 years.
It wasn’t until at least a year after Gran Turismo 7 released that I started playing, and soon after, I realized how much I love cars and racing. Both of my older brothers focused their lives to cars/racing in one way or another, but it wasn’t until I was 26 with GT7 that I learned even the first thing about cars.
I still feel like there’s a world of improvements I need to make, but as of right now, I’ve made a lot of progress coming from absolute rock bottom. I have all trophies except for “finish 50 sport mode races”, I have all gold on the Nurburgring circuit experiences and most of the others in the game, plus gold on all license tests except for Master Super which I’m currently working on. I’ve registered seven top-3% gold time-trial finishes and lots more silver finishes. I have just over a thousand hours on the game.
This will change soon, but so far I’ve raced with a controller, specifically a Dualsense Edge with upshift on the right back-button and downshift on the left back-button, basically the same layout as paddle shifters in a car. I use no assists besides ABS, I don’t use traction control.
I’m looking to get a sim setup in the near future, no motion or anything. I need a sim setup because I’m definitely at the point now where the lack of precise throttle, brake, and steering control on a Dualsense is bottlenecking my performance. The difference between 95% throttle and full throttle is a world of difference on lots of cars, and that difference is fractions of a millimeter on a controller trigger, it’s too precise. The same issue applies to the analog stick versus an actual wheel. I feel I’ve taken the controller as far as it should reasonably go.
Other games I enjoy now? I haven’t played a game besides Gran Turismo 7 in months, but before that I loved Elden Ring, all the Fromsoft games, pretty much any challenging game. Learning how to be fine with losing over and over on those games was an experience that directly translated to Gran Turismo for me.
What I’m looking forward to most here is learning whatever I can, sharing my understanding, and generally just discussing this thing that I love.
