Is GT4 just a pre-GT5?

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Looking at the supposed GT5 demo on E3 it seems GT4 can handle much more than the PS2 console could deliver. GT4 stopped where the hardware limitations started to appear. That's why we still get a few cars on the starting grid and, in my opinion, that's why AI is much more like GT3 was. A stronger AI would require some more CPU power, what the PS2 hasn't.

When I bought my PS2 combo with GT3 I said to myself "they release something that goes close to the limit of the PS2 hardware". For a long time I saw other games that simply couldn't be compared with the quality of GT3. When I saw PD would release GT4 I thought "GREAT!!!!" but then I realised "how could they provide better stuff then GT3 if GT3 goes close to the limit"... that's what we see on GT4... improvements in many ways but not impressive new stuff. Graphics became a little better (development could do some miracles with algorithms), put a little of customer feedback and that's it. They couldn't push more.

I really expect GT5 would represent to GT4, if not more, the same that GT3 represented to GT2.

New platform = crushing new huge amazing enormous impressive new stuff!!!

That's the minimum acceptable :dopey:
 
Don't crucify GT4 too much mate, it is a definite improvement on a proven formula.
If you already have the best racing sim out there, why change anything too much ? As you say, some of the present offerings must be pushing the hardware to its limits, and the new PS3 will be very welcome, if, a little pricey.
The withdrawal of the online gameplay mode, must have been a big problem for the developers, as this would have been the real deal, and completely new, for the PS2.
 
Well.

If they put Good Damage Modeling, 18 Cars on Track at once (3 times the old limit), Good AI, and Online play, with maybe 300 Cars...we will still buy it...

We can hope that they don't have to shave anything off, and that maybe they've been developing pre-coding for GT5 alongside GT4 for oh...since the Delays started maybe...

But Honestly, who here isn't going to want to get a PS3 and GT5?


It's like GT3 was GT2.5, and some say GT4 is just an update of GT3, making it..what..GT2.75? So maybe if they update it properly, GT5 will be GT3?
 
And I will be there at the shop the first day PS3 shows off and even sell my real car if need cash to buy it with a new GT!!! 👍
 
I just hope GT5 builds off GT4, meaning, keepin the same amount of cars, or close enough too, and then work on changing the AI, damage, etc. I loved GT2 just due to the fact that you could pick from a large amount of cars, and race tune them (R) them at the end if you wanted.
For manufactorur races, it would almost double the amount of races needed to be completed for GT4, and I feel, add a lot more to the game in the way that some people don't want to R tune a car, and so they'd be forced to race more and save up for another to keep "un-R Tuned".
 
um...link please?
 
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