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- New York City
- challah_rajni
Well hello again everyone, this is resident lurker and card-carrying member of the GT4 Corrupt Data Club 
Rheinaoi, speaking to you once again. I remember some time long ago (in a galaxy far, far...no) that there was an effort to bring racing fans from the New York area together. Seeing as how being without an Xlink or a broadband connection has left me with no real live competition to speak of, I think it’s safe to say that endeavor didn’t turn out so well.
I just wanted to reach out to any fellow GT players in the state. I've always wondered if there weren't more players out there lacking that live human element. I know I'm not the only one... right?
So, for any players in the New York area, this thread is for you. Feel free talk about yourself, tell your story, how you got into GT, why you play it, how you play it...
I'll start things off with my own (short) story. At the moment, I'm just a lowly student and aspiring writer. As a car freak it's hard to ignore a game like GT when it crosses your path. Not planning on being an exception to the rule any time soon, I played GT1 all the way through Prologue and 4.
Originally, I was quite smitten with Sega racing games, because as you see, all through the 90's Sega really knew how to make a racing game. In that era, if they decided that a car achieved it's fastest acceleration and greatest grip drifting sideways, it felt so right you'd actually believe them: logic and physics be damned! Though Sega taught me the concept of a racing line it took a long time to unlearn a lot of bad habits. Sadly I was never really any good at GT1 or 2 as a result. I regret that. But when GT3 came and I figured out how to turn off ASM
, I was a changed man. I've been playing GT4, tuning, testing and golding licenses to my little heart's content since.
A lot of my fellow car freaks have either moved on or moved away. I've been looking for some kindred GT spirits for some time now.
There is something in the way GT is structured that makes it feel often like such a solitary, personal experience. Skill comes from beating your personal bests time and time again, but the lack of a live community (and I say this in the presence of a worldwide GT community some 80,000 strong... goodness
) has been a little distressing. I guess being an arcade gamer at heart, and experiencing the atmosphere of gatherings, the tension of the competitions, but also the time when a person makes a quip about some obscure technical reference (the antics of B-spec Bob comes to mind) and has the whole crowd keeled over laughing, I guess experiencing that with other games has me a little spoiled. It's the greatest expression of nerdiness, but hey, I'd like to have the same experience with GT.
So, wherever you might be, fellow New York Racers, let's hear from you:tup:
Rheinaoi, speaking to you once again. I remember some time long ago (in a galaxy far, far...no) that there was an effort to bring racing fans from the New York area together. Seeing as how being without an Xlink or a broadband connection has left me with no real live competition to speak of, I think it’s safe to say that endeavor didn’t turn out so well. I just wanted to reach out to any fellow GT players in the state. I've always wondered if there weren't more players out there lacking that live human element. I know I'm not the only one... right?
So, for any players in the New York area, this thread is for you. Feel free talk about yourself, tell your story, how you got into GT, why you play it, how you play it...
I'll start things off with my own (short) story. At the moment, I'm just a lowly student and aspiring writer. As a car freak it's hard to ignore a game like GT when it crosses your path. Not planning on being an exception to the rule any time soon, I played GT1 all the way through Prologue and 4.
Originally, I was quite smitten with Sega racing games, because as you see, all through the 90's Sega really knew how to make a racing game. In that era, if they decided that a car achieved it's fastest acceleration and greatest grip drifting sideways, it felt so right you'd actually believe them: logic and physics be damned! Though Sega taught me the concept of a racing line it took a long time to unlearn a lot of bad habits. Sadly I was never really any good at GT1 or 2 as a result. I regret that. But when GT3 came and I figured out how to turn off ASM
, I was a changed man. I've been playing GT4, tuning, testing and golding licenses to my little heart's content since.A lot of my fellow car freaks have either moved on or moved away. I've been looking for some kindred GT spirits for some time now.
There is something in the way GT is structured that makes it feel often like such a solitary, personal experience. Skill comes from beating your personal bests time and time again, but the lack of a live community (and I say this in the presence of a worldwide GT community some 80,000 strong... goodness
) has been a little distressing. I guess being an arcade gamer at heart, and experiencing the atmosphere of gatherings, the tension of the competitions, but also the time when a person makes a quip about some obscure technical reference (the antics of B-spec Bob comes to mind) and has the whole crowd keeled over laughing, I guess experiencing that with other games has me a little spoiled. It's the greatest expression of nerdiness, but hey, I'd like to have the same experience with GT.So, wherever you might be, fellow New York Racers, let's hear from you:tup:
, (hope u know what i'm talking about).
, but it wasn't 
. Anyway, so far, it's the best game in my collection and I NEVER get tired of playing it, to me is not a game anymore...it's a part time job or my official hobbie. I gotta accept that ever since I got it, my friends were like, dude, it's just a game or stuff like that, but they're cool about it though.