POLL: What is your main thing in GT5?

  • Thread starter Thread starter VBR
  • 45 comments
  • 3,612 views

What is your main thing in GT5?


  • Total voters
    268

VBR

Meme Dissident in Exile...
Premium
Messages
7,786
England
Yorkshire
Messages
ScapeGoat4U
Messages
WhippingBoy
I just wanna know what we as a community all mainly do in GT5, there is an important point to this poll which I shall reveal at a later date when we have voted in sufficient numbers, watch this space!


đź’ˇ


PS: If you're into Photo Mode or Time Trials/hot lapping then just vote for "Other" as I forgot to add them.


UPDATE: The Reason I Ran This Poll.

I ran this poll to show Polyphony Digital that for most people the main thing they like to do in GT5 is race! So why do they waste time on B-Spec & Gran Turismo Anywhere? Kazunori San talks about "insane levels of realism" but that's just regarding how cars look, style over substance indeed! I should've included a "Looking At How Good Cars Look" option in the poll just to be sure, hehe!

Seeing as most people like to race in GT5, the "insane levels of realism" should be focused on the racing & not some tiny little add on that is of no real interest to most. I would consider a championshiop points system, real time stewards AI, pace car/saftey car, proper flag system, formation laps, no silly auto drive in the pit lane & the ability to choose from a wide variety of motor sport rules to be an insane level of realism.

Imagine a chess sim that had no rules, or a football sim that had no rules but gave you points everytime you kicked someone (NFS Shift ;)), would fans of those sports like it, I think not! Most so called racing games out there don't provide any realistic framework to race in, ie: the general rules of motor racing & as a result many important dynamics of real world motor racing are missing to the detriment of the overall experience. Obviously games like F1 2010 do, but they're simulating just one sport. Kazunori San said he was trying to implement NASCAR rules, but I've not seen it in GT5 yet, I thought at least we'd have a flag system as there were some telling icons on a screen shot ages ago.

None of it materialized & all we have is racing with no realistic motor sport rules & credits instead of chamionship points. Thanks goodness that creative people are working around this & running some actual motor sports events here on GT Planet, the thing is I think we shouldn't have to, GT should grow up as a series & start to focus attention on what the vast majority of users do with the software, namely race with it.


👍
 
Last edited:
1) buy a car from UCD, change oil and take it to an appropriate A-Spec race
2) browse through my 250+ car garage for a gem I haven't driven in a while and take it to an appropriate A-Spec race
3) On weekends: do an endurance race with a premium car I fancy taking out for a proper drive
4) Grind Indy with my X2010 if I'm getting low on cash
5) Practice driving my X2010 on e.g. La Sarthe and enjoy the insane sssssppppeeeeeedddddd!
 
I tend just to buy cars that only I could dream of owning lol and tuning them up to various stages and then tearing them round different tracks lol
 
It depends on my mood and how much time I have to play.

I enjoy doing too many things to narrow it down to a single item from your list... I need either a multiple selection poll or an "all of the above" option.
 
I get off on watching my time trial replays. Not because of how good I drive, but because of the beauty of the cars :D

I love A-spec events though.
 
This is the second poll I've seen with no "photo mode" option. That's what I do.
 
Voted 'other'. I enjoy hotlapping the most, currently.

Don't remember which review stated it, but it was along the lines of "Gt5 is at it's best when it's just you, your car and the track." I find that to be true.
 
I'm still on a collecting stage as I will buy cars in the UCD and tune em while taking em out. My a spec and b spec are almost complete, just lacking 14hr races. When I do have time I will accomplish those races. I do get around to the seasonal events weekly, but those can be finished in an hour or so. Mainly gt5 only gets an hour or two tops of play time a day as compared to before I would be playin it 4-6 hours a day.
 
I spend my time waiting for updates. I put the game away about a week after it came out, and decided to wait 6 months before I play it again. To many problems with A-spec, hopefully it's fixed by May. I'm really excited about my GT5 second release.
 
This is the second poll I've seen with no "photo mode" option. That's what I do.

Voted 'other'. I enjoy hotlapping the most, currently.

Don't remember which review stated it, but it was along the lines of "Gt5 is at it's best when it's just you, your car and the track." I find that to be true.


Sorry guys, can't believe I forgot to add those to the list, DOH! Just vote for "Other" if there's anything else I missed.


:dunce:
 
1) buy a car from UCD, change oil and take it to an appropriate A-Spec race
2) browse through my 250+ car garage for a gem I haven't driven in a while and take it to an appropriate A-Spec race
3) On weekends: do an endurance race with a premium car I fancy taking out for a proper drive
4) Grind Indy with my X2010 if I'm getting low on cash
5) Practice driving my X2010 on e.g. La Sarthe and enjoy the insane sssssppppeeeeeedddddd!

this ^
 
WRS is the only reason I have to play GT5 at the moment. Hopefully, the update will change things for me.
 
Now that the only thing left for me to unlock the next endurance race is grinding, I lost interest in A-Spec.
I really like to take a car to the Top Gear test track and just drive around :)
 
Right now I don't even have a "main thing". I'm just doing whatever. I've gone as far as I plan to go in A-spec (with the exception of two series) and online with my group is reduced to NASCAR Mondays and that's about it. I'll take a car I've seen on TV or whatever and buy it and wheel it around but that's about it. I'll probably spend a few days making a few cars for online play. One for every increment of 50 HP or so starting at 300 and that's about it.
 
To play off of brambos' excellent post:

  • Grind Indy with either my Oreca Viper or "race modified" Ford GT if I'm getting low on cash. And I'm always getting low on cash because I...
  • Buy a car from UCD in threes - lots of cars, change oil, modify two - one extensively, and take one to an appropriate A-Spec race. And on occasion...
  • Browse through my 700+ car garage for a gem I haven't driven in a while and take it to an appropriate A-Spec race. And...
  • On weekends: do an endurance race with a choice car I fancy taking out for a proper drive.
  • Soon to come: Photo Mode and Course Creation. :D
 
Mine personally is driving a range of fun cars, (pretending to be Jeremy Clarksons doing tests on the test track).

I like trying out supercars, and then ussually take them out for a 5 lap race of monza for a test and 99,000cr. And I do it for the seasonal events ;)
 
Picking a track and race car (I've tuned) in arcade mode (offline), full damage on, no aids, AI on hardest level, and doing 8-10 laps depending on the track. Current fav is the 787B on La Sarthe. Having some great wheel to wheel races that way. Hotlapping in TT is a lot of fun as well.

*Much prefer arcade as it has full damage available and I don't have to worry about miles on the car and the 'service' that requires.
 
I'm completing 100% at the moment. My other main thing is to pick some fav cars and constantly tune them and send them around for some timed laps.
 
Poll specifically asks for the 'MAIN' thing... sure, everything has it's pluses, but surely there's a 'main' thing?
 
I voted other because I pretty much just race online now. A spec AI is too slow and fake, not enough races, too much grinding. It's doing it just to do it, you're racing the course.
 
I buy cars and test them at two different tracks. Autumn Ring and Monza (No chicane) than keep all the times in a spreedsheet. I also started to write a review on some of the cars in the Race reports section.

So I voted other, as I mainly test.

I wouldn't say drive for pleasure (although it can be) it is more a controlled test rather than a blatt for fun.
 
Almost everything I do is about the A-Spec racing. There's a bit of car-collecting just for the sake of getting all the cars and seeking out specific ones I want. I used to enjoy Course Maker, but DP Barkered it by making it nearly impossible for anyone to ever download our tracks so it was basically just a waste of time.

If GT5 had a Storefront like FM3, tuning setups, and custom livery editor, I enjoyed browsing these things every day in FM3 and would do the same in GT5. I also hung out in FM3's auction house a lot, looking for good deals on cars, although that's not such a big deal in GT5 since we can just dupe them for free.
 
Back