Hi All
I've been scouring the forums for the last couple of months and really enjoy reading the debate and banter about this excellent series of racing games. I'm in my thirties and played GT1 and GT2 when they came out, then put video games to one side whilst I got my act together! I brought my brothers old PS3 off him which had GT5, but rarely played the console as it was mainly for my son for him to play Minecraft on.
Then came the obsession........
We brought a new car in the summer of 2017 and my son (then 7) became obsessed with the whole car industry. It didn't matter which car it was, he wanted to know about it, a fun day out went from being the day in London to a day visiting car showrooms! His bedroom floor gradually became scattered with car brochures and his love for cars grew and grew.
This obsession coincided with the release of GT Sport which I heavily researched before buying the limited edition metal case box version for him as an early birthday present. He was desperate for this game, more so than anything else game-wise before.
The game arrived 2 days after release and hasn't left the PS4 since! His obsession with it and the car industry has infected myself as well, I play it whenever I can (I have a wife, which I would like to keep) and am looking into purchasing something fast later this year, possibly for a trip to the Nurburgring! The game has really brought us closer together as father and son, which sounds ridiculous, but cars are now our one common interest. We talk about cars, look at autotrader together, play GT Sport together and watch F1 races together.
My thoughts on this game are that it is a work of art, not just visually, but in it's entirety. I appreciate the fact I didn't play GT3,4,5 or 6 so have only the first 2 to compare it to. The whole online thing is just fantastic, I love the fact that PD are trying to turn racing sims into real racing, with sportsmanship taken into account. Of course the frustration is there when you lose DR or get penalised for someone elses error, but overall this game is about learning how to drive cars quickly, properly and safely and how to make racing fun!
The scapes mode is stunning, my son loves this mode. He will spend hours placing cars in various locations and then sending me dozens of images to my work email for me to print off, laminate and pin up in his bedroom! He has now developed a love of photography off the back off this mode and we've spent hours taking photos of various scenes ourselves which he want to superimpose our car onto to!
I've never felt this way about a game before, I would never have bothered to even read a forum about a game, let alone spend 30 minutes typing a post whilst I should be teaching my maths class!
Hats off to PD, this community and all those who play this game.
I've been scouring the forums for the last couple of months and really enjoy reading the debate and banter about this excellent series of racing games. I'm in my thirties and played GT1 and GT2 when they came out, then put video games to one side whilst I got my act together! I brought my brothers old PS3 off him which had GT5, but rarely played the console as it was mainly for my son for him to play Minecraft on.
Then came the obsession........
We brought a new car in the summer of 2017 and my son (then 7) became obsessed with the whole car industry. It didn't matter which car it was, he wanted to know about it, a fun day out went from being the day in London to a day visiting car showrooms! His bedroom floor gradually became scattered with car brochures and his love for cars grew and grew.
This obsession coincided with the release of GT Sport which I heavily researched before buying the limited edition metal case box version for him as an early birthday present. He was desperate for this game, more so than anything else game-wise before.
The game arrived 2 days after release and hasn't left the PS4 since! His obsession with it and the car industry has infected myself as well, I play it whenever I can (I have a wife, which I would like to keep) and am looking into purchasing something fast later this year, possibly for a trip to the Nurburgring! The game has really brought us closer together as father and son, which sounds ridiculous, but cars are now our one common interest. We talk about cars, look at autotrader together, play GT Sport together and watch F1 races together.
My thoughts on this game are that it is a work of art, not just visually, but in it's entirety. I appreciate the fact I didn't play GT3,4,5 or 6 so have only the first 2 to compare it to. The whole online thing is just fantastic, I love the fact that PD are trying to turn racing sims into real racing, with sportsmanship taken into account. Of course the frustration is there when you lose DR or get penalised for someone elses error, but overall this game is about learning how to drive cars quickly, properly and safely and how to make racing fun!
The scapes mode is stunning, my son loves this mode. He will spend hours placing cars in various locations and then sending me dozens of images to my work email for me to print off, laminate and pin up in his bedroom! He has now developed a love of photography off the back off this mode and we've spent hours taking photos of various scenes ourselves which he want to superimpose our car onto to!
I've never felt this way about a game before, I would never have bothered to even read a forum about a game, let alone spend 30 minutes typing a post whilst I should be teaching my maths class!
Hats off to PD, this community and all those who play this game.
is a wonderful community of Aficionados!! Cheers!!
