Is it just me or does GT6 does not seem fun anymore?

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This was fun at first but lately to get the newest cars is a chore, I beat most of career mode, and I try my best but can't simply compete with the best. And it's just not GT6, it's GT in general. After years of playing I think I reached my peak and GT6 will probably be the last GT game I will buy. And not because of the missing features, because I suck at GT.
 
nickg07
Not everyone can ne the nest. The question is do you enjoy driving the cars around in GT? I do so I carry on despite knowing I will never be a pro driver.
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It's hard enough to get the cars like the GT Academy one. As for driving, it is fun at times but Free Runs online give so much fun untill it becomes stale as crackers. I know I wont be a pro driver either, but it's still unfair to give exclusive limited time only cars that won't appear ever and screw people like me.
 
spencer7x7
It's hard enough to get the cars like the GT Academy one. As for driving, it is fun at times but Free Runs online give so much fun untill it becomes stale as crackers. I know I wont be a pro driver either, but it's still unfair to give exclusive limited time only cars that won't appear ever and screw people like me.
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A lot of the fun in GT is to be had on the tuning side of things, I put in hours and hours of track time and never enter a race. Its more engaging if you have the challenge of trying to get every little bit of performance out of a car.
I don't mean it to sound derogatory or anything like that but if you're not playing with the tuning then you're only exploring half of the game
 
DolHaus
A lot of the fun in GT is to be had on the tuning side of things, I put in hours and hours of track time and never enter a race. Its more engaging if you have the challenge of trying to get every little bit of performance out of a car.
I don't mean it to sound derogatory or anything like that but if you're not playing with the tuning then you're only exploring half of the game
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That's debatable, but I'm not much of a tuner and other than gear ratios I leave the car alone, maybe I'm just too cranky. Maybe PD will pull something out that will peak my interest, maybe not. Either way I won't quit GT6 outright.
 
spencer7x7
That's debatable, but I'm not much of a tuner and other than gear ratios I leave the car alone, maybe I'm just too cranky. Maybe PD will pull something out that will peak my interest, maybe not. Either way I won't quit GT6 outright.
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Why not learn? Might get you interested again, its simple enough once you get your head around it but virtually impossible to master. The tuning is a massive part of GT, its not entirely necessary to win but adds a whole new dimension to the game.
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I go online when im bored and generally race against the Japanese as they are the only ones with no SRF rooms open at 9am GMT. Ran 4 races, came second 3 times in a row and set 2 fastest laps. Great random fun. Not got a clue what they were typing though.

Otherwise I just challenge myself by trying to better learn a circuit with testing different cars on it.

of I miss out on an exclusive skyline so be it. There's plenty more of them.
 
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Yes, learn how to tune your car's suspension. It is not as hard as you think.

If you can identify understeer from oversteer then there are things you can adjust to fix the car.

Once you know if your car is oversteering or understeering, and if you carefully read the in game directions in the tuning section they will point you in the right direction.

WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS:

The ride height is wrong in the game - it is backwards. So do the opposite of what it says.

The camber doesn't work either, so just leave it at 0.

Oh, and get online - there are lots of great online rooms out there.
 
The camber works. Just not the way (scale) of the real life. Try small angles first and tune it in small step. You'll find the sweet spot other than default 0 / 0.
 
The problem i have with GT that has turned me away is the inconsistent nature of it's difficulty. These latest Academy challenges have proved impossible for me to get anywhere near gold where as in the past I have breezed through everything. I have 100% completion on the game itself (pre Senna content) with a platinum trophy so it's not like I'm not dedicated to it or unpracticed at it. Yet if i choose to play in career mode or arcade there is simply no challenge. Every race is of a standard that a 5 year old can do it. Where is the consistency? Due to not being able to achieve gold with the GT3 GTR at Spa I guess that now I will miss out on the prize car as I can't see them putting it in the Nissan Dealership to purchase, like they have done with the Senna content from the start - again, inconsistent. This game is a sham as far as I'm concerned. They can release as much new and special content as they want but while the game has no quality of play it's next to useless. And don't even get me started on the childish 'dirty racing' or '70mph cops' online rooms.
 
I'm having more fun recently than I did when the game first came out. Mainly because I'm slowly beginning to adjust to GT6's blurry & flickering graphics now, & I'm finding some decent online rooms that have races set up similar to Shuffle in GT5. I also still really enjoy going for the occasional drive in Free Run.

The actual game itself is absolute pants though. But the physics are the best they've been in any GT series, & online racing can be good if you find the right room.
 
Every time I feel I can never get gold, I watch how the top player drives. (How convenience it is now to download the replays of top 10)

Each & every time I watch such replays, I shout here & there "How can he do that?" "What? no brake over here?"...

And then I mimic their techniques, mainly in braking. All too often, I run wide and go into grass trying to drive in that pace. Interetingly, bit by bit, I get propress and slash several seconds per lap, which I thought impossible previously.

Eventually I still can't do exactly what the top players do, of course. I still need a little brush of braking or at least easing of the gas where they do it full throttle. But I manage to get gold. Those replays taught me a lot, no doubt. I don't keep pursuing, though. Just lazy.

And, TBH I don't like doing that kind of driving style, and I will never use it in any race. Because I can't keep that level of concentration, and the tire wear would be too bad. And, to me it's not fun doing too much of it. It's more like a tough training.

I need relax, so I mostly tune the cars I like, and win the race I can win. :)
 
VBR
I'm having more fun recently than I did when the game first came out. Mainly because I'm slowly beginning to adjust to GT6's blurry & flickering graphics now, & I'm finding some decent online rooms that have races set up similar to Shuffle in GT5. I also still really enjoy going for the occasional drive in Free Run.

The actual game itself is absolute pants though. But the physics are the best they've been in any GT series, & online racing can be good if you find the right room.
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I disagree about the physics, I think they are shockingly poor. Each car that's in the game that I have owned in real life is woefully inaccurate. I always make a point of tuning such cars to the exact original specs' (they are always incorrect on power, weight, torque etc) so I can get a feel of driving my real car in the virtual world on tracks I will never get to drive. The handling balance is shocking, oversteering and losing control at the slightest mistake. For example, my current car, a Mazda RX8 has to be the most balanced and predictably controllable car I have owned, partly due to a low torque figure and partly the finely balanced chassis. Though by no means a powerful car, it has a fair turn of speed but in the game it's a giant killer with immense mid range grunt and a very high top speed. This again is just not true! And then we get to the silly tuning options, the same ones available for each and every car, the ludicrous top speeds they possess and so on and so on. No, this games physics and accuracy are extremely misrepresented.
 
@XPOWER180 - I have a friend who has an RX8, takes it to track days at Brands Hatch. He says that the car in GT6 handles very similar to his real one. Yes, the power & some other stats of cars are off with certain cars, but generally the physics in stock road cars on the right tyres is good imo.

What tyres do you use on your RX8 in-game? Do you tune it or leave it stock or tune it up?
 
VBR
@XPOWER180 - I have a friend who has an RX8, takes it to track days at Brands Hatch. He says that the car in GT6 handles very similar to his real one. Yes, the power & some other stats of cars are off with certain cars, but generally the physics in stock road cars on the right tyres is good imo.

What tyres do you use on your RX8 in-game? Do you tune it or leave it stock or tune it up?
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I tune it to the exact original manufacturer specs of a 231ps model. I use Comfort mediums as i think hards are reserved for more regular saloons and hatches, softs maybe a more premium brand tyre than most RX8 owners run (at least according to the UK owners board, most including myself run Vredestrain Ultrac Guiagiaro designs). I have driven it in both modes that are applicable to the real car too, with and without driver aids. With driver aids it's naturally as predictable as you can imagine but without it's just a mess yet not once in real life has turning my TC and DSC off caused me any trouble, it just lets it drift a bit sooner and at lower speeds than with them on but it is still perfectly controllable and balanced. That balance never once feels portrayed in the game.
 
Well I don't think anyone uses a DS3 in their real life car that I'm aware of but on this occasion I truly would love to be proven wrong!!!
 
XPOWER180
The problem i have with GT that has turned me away is the inconsistent nature of it's difficulty. These latest Academy challenges have proved impossible for me to get anywhere near gold where as in the past I have breezed through everything. I have 100% completion on the game itself (pre Senna content) with a platinum trophy so it's not like I'm not dedicated to it or unpracticed at it. Yet if i choose to play in career mode or arcade there is simply no challenge. Every race is of a standard that a 5 year old can do it. Where is the consistency? Due to not being able to achieve gold with the GT3 GTR at Spa I guess that now I will miss out on the prize car as I can't see them putting it in the Nissan Dealership to purchase, like they have done with the Senna content from the start - again, inconsistent. This game is a sham as far as I'm concerned. They can release as much new and special content as they want but while the game has no quality of play it's next to useless. And don't even get me started on the childish 'dirty racing' or '70mph cops' online rooms.
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The thing about GT Academy is it's a way of life. You will have to work at it. Sorry, that is what its about. I can tell you play GT6(and the series as a whole) for fun. There is nothing wrong with that. However, I barely managed a 2:20.764 at Spa in the GT3. Why? Because I don't know the first thing about driving a GTR around a track. Want to know how I did that? Work. Practice. Watch your replays. Watch your failure and turn it into success by stressing the details. That car isn't given out like candy. There are hundreds of thousands of drivers who dream of racing and put hours(days even) into GT Academy round 4. The car is for those of us who'll never set a lead foot into the GTR yet dedicated enough time and energy to earn the car. It's a consolation prize. It's always been a tough road for me and many others to gold the GT Academy challenges. That doesn't stop me from pushing even when I feel I've hit the limit. Your times will improve if you learn from your mistakes(we all make them).
 
VBR
I'm having more fun recently than I did when the game first came out. Mainly because I'm slowly beginning to adjust to GT6's blurry & flickering graphics now, & I'm finding some decent online rooms that have races set up similar to Shuffle in GT5. I also still really enjoy going for the occasional drive in Free Run.
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You should add me to your friends list so I can follow you to these good rooms.:lol: I got lucky on the weekend and found 2 good rooms. One was GT3 cars on RM tires which was fun. Another was stock cars from 350-450 PP on CH-CS tires which was even more fun.
 
You didn't get screwed. We just got rewarded. This was not promised content.

I find decent rooms and you could always just start one...idk. You start off saying you're done with GT because you feel you're no good at it...but it seems more and more that you're blaming PD for 1) allowing people to tjne cars, because you can't and dont...and 2) for not giving you the same reward as people who have accomplished something.


This is textbook cupcake generation stuff. Trophies and pizza parties for everyone.

Keep in mind that it doesn't merely take skill to run top times in GTA. It takes quality equipment that you're very comfortable with as well.
 
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I enjoyed GT6 at the start but later got bored and fustrated.

The rolling starts make career not feel like real racing and that ruins the single player aspect for me which is what I care most. Online is good but I lost interest later on. GTP Online racing is the only thing that kept me going until the series I was in was finished and I can't find a series that is at my time area that is open for drivers. I decided to finally drop it after I went to re-buy my favourite GT5 machines only for them to drive so awkradly and uncontrollable. I tuned some of the cars but that only worked for half of them.

and after I went to replay GT3, GT4, and the V8 Supercar games as well as play GRID 2, I don't see myself playing GT6 again unless there was an event creator.
 
Johnnypenso
You should add me to your friends list so I can follow you to these good rooms.:lol: I got lucky on the weekend and found 2 good rooms. One was GT3 cars on RM tires which was fun. Another was stock cars from 350-450 PP on CH-CS tires which was even more fun.
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You're already on my friends list & have been for a long time! :lol:

And yes, the good rooms are few & far between.
 

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