Then theres the car sounds that sound NOTHING like the real ones; in fact most of them don't even sound like a car, but rather like a vacuum cleaner.
I'm not a fan of those kind of vids but this is the sad truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSJQ2YaA3fA#t=1m20s
The audio is outside the car not inside the car.It starts around 55 seconds, this is the way a C6-R sounds in this game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NryCsjNxkEU
This is how it sounds in real life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53ytpplw-w
http://www.youtube.com/user/olivergavin2#p/a/f/0/cJy3lrXuMeU
The audio is outside the car not inside the car.
If you were inside the C6 it would sound like it does in the first vid but, if you were just listening to the car from a few metres back it would sound really bass-ey like it does in the two videos you showed.
So actually the sound is accurate my friend.
Oh btw if you change the view of the car with select it would sound like u want it to sound.
No photomode for standard cars. Photomode is available in FM3 at all times.
The game should confirm if you want to restart the race. Can only win a prize car only once from a championship. Ridiculously priced cars@ 20 mill credits, this makes GT5 feel like an MMORPG There are so many issues in GT5, and this is just a few to list. I'm just playing the game much less because either I need to grind and grind to level up, or there aren't enough events to play on.
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While GT5 isnt a perfect game (I mean what game is) people are being extremely harsh on it!
Hi all.
I haven't gotten the game either though I've really wanted to. Tried it out yesterday (finally) at a friend's place with a DFGT wheel and it was awesome! I was so convinced I was going to buy the game+wheel even though my budget's pretty tight.
Then I read a couple posts on these forums and I'm having doubts again. Not trying to bash the forum or anything anyone's saying, it's just very difficult to make a decision where I would have to spend $180++ (game & wheel) on something I might not like in the end. I've rented it via a 10-day gamefly free trial, though, to make a more informed decision.
From what I've read - the grind after lvl 23 or something is terrible? Anybody know if they plan on fixing that?
No - people are not. The last "Full Game" GT - GT4 was better in nearly every aspect.
GT5 lacks in soooo many areas that it really is a impudence they are selling such a half finished game.
Even in the game itself you can see that "The left hand does not know what the right hand does" at PD and that the XP - Level System was rushed in. When completing a License it tells you that you now can participate at new race events (as in previous GTs) - but that is not true as they only depend on the level you are...
How small the game is can also be seen at the level system - if it weren't there a lot of people would already have finished the game.
And to all the little fanboys out there: NO "grinding" and doing the "American championship" race at Indy for around 1000 times does not bake you a better and more experienced driver.
This is even more insane. Your actual real life experience was a positive one, and you are still put of by the nit picking whinging on here?
If you bought the wheel you could use it for PC games. SO basically you stand to lose max of about $60? You may even get a refund on a return depending on which store you buy from. "No brainer".
Err Photomode can be done with any car just like forza 3... view the replay and pause it... I'm not aware that Forza has a photo travel mode... but its funny how Forza has two classes of cars and no one moans a dot. One bunch playable and one bunch not playable at all... of course I'm talking about the photo cars with higher polygon rates and those standard looking cars that they call game graphics...
While GT5 isnt a perfect game (I mean what game is) people are being extremely harsh on it!
the disappointment with GT5 maybe doesn't start from the beginning on. No it comes as one progresses through the game. When you realise that you must do "special events" in order to gain XP and that the game lacks of events...
This is even more insane. Your actual real life experience was a positive one, and you are still put of by the nit picking whinging on here?
If you bought the wheel you could use it for PC games. SO basically you stand to lose max of about $60? You may even get a refund on a return depending on which store you buy from. "No brainer".
I find it amazing what denialist will write off yet have no problems suggesting "just go spend $60 to find out for yourself". As if that is some rational thought path... if you apply that logic to games, why do we even have review sites? Just go buy and try everything yourself.
What exactly am I denying? I'm having fun with the game, lots of other are.
You could always rent it. This isn't a house purchase or anything.
The magazine/site reviews? They are mostly positive.
If you choose to fixate on a handful of threads that are negative, whilst the majority of the reviews are positive, most other people are generally positive about it, you are missing out on the fun. Buy, hey, its your funeral.
No - people are not. The last "Full Game" GT - GT4 was better in nearly every aspect.
Okay, there's something that's really starting to bother me with GT5 above all else.
I'm actually spending very, very little amounts of time with cars I like on tracks I like. For the most part, if you want to actually progress through the game, you'll have to spend loads of time with B-Spec to get further, at least if you're aiming on somewhat 'completing' the game somewhere in the future. While that's okay for the most part, since you can do other stuff while B-Specing, it starts to annoy me. In retrospect, most of the time that GT5 has been running over the course of the weekend, it was in B-Spec mode.
Feels like I have to decide whether I want to get anywhere in the game (as in, make some money to get the cars I like and get to the level needed to buy them) and actually playing the game the way I like.
Same with the events in A-Spec mode. There's a fistful of events that have no restrictions or happen to allow cars that I actually want to drive, even less feature interesting tracks. So, for the most part, I'm just trying to get it over with as fast as possible.
If only there was this create-a-race feature that was rumoured before GT5's release. Pick your car, the AI's cars, the track and just race. Hell, I'd be content if with the one-make races in GT Life had a somewhat decent payout that correlated to your level.
Maybe YOU are the "No brainer" - the disappointment with GT5 maybe doesn't start from the beginning on. No it comes as one progresses through the game. When you realise that you must do "special events" in order to gain XP and that the game lacks of events...
In previous GTs it was true that it was fun to do some events over and over again with different cars. In GT5 it is not because there are not much interesting events. And even fewer when you need them for "grinding" - for this purpose you can only use the "extreme events" .....
@Devedander: You hit the nail pretty much on the head there.
Just trying to make a more informed decision, that's all. And I prefer reading the opinions of the users rather than the reviews from big-name sites. I can tell the game has a lot going for it, and from my brief playtime I had a blast, but I can't just ignore all the negative comments as well, especially the late-game grind issues which are somewhat off-putting. Does anyone know if they will be fixed or looked at?
As I mentioned I should be getting my rental copy from Gamefly tomorrow though (can't wait!), too bad I can't rent a steering wheel as well LOL.
But yeah enjoy the game guys just thought I'd share my two cents worth.
You guys are ridiculous..
First of all, you might have waited it for 6 years, but why did you give the waiting such a high priority? There should have been a lot of other things to do besides waiting for GT5. Personally I would have waited even longer in order to get an finished product.
The amount of time spend on making a game shouldn't have an impact on how good a game might be. Let's take Duke Nukem for an instant, over 10 years of waiting and it still might be a great game or a lousy one.
Anyways, now that you guys finally got the game in to your hands by pressuring PD to release it, you whine when everything isn't perfect right away. You can't even wait for the upcoming promised/obvious patches before doing so?
Some things I said might be non-factual (such as PD being the one in charge of releasing the game, I have no idea who's in charge really), but you can probably get the main idea.
And sorry for showing my feelings in this post, won't do it again.