Real Drivers

[BubbleBelly542]

So I want to know, is GT5 like driving a real car. And when reading the APEX ultimate car guide, it tells a lot about how a car handles, like FF cars are heavier in the front, and act differently from say, an MR car. Is that feeling in the game?

 

[HBR-Roadhog]

Pretty much. That is if you are not using assists that the real car would not have. The big difference is when you hit something it feels a lot different in a real car

 

[Driver46]

So I want to know, is GT5 like driving a real car. And when reading the APEX ultimate car guide, it tells a lot about how a car handles, like FF cars are heavier in the front, and act differently from say, an MR car. Is that feeling in the game?

Yes, you can feel the differences from MR to FF and FR cars in the game. Very good actually. There are differences comparing a certain car in-game with the real car though. It depends which car it is. Some people that own a car in real life which is in the game will tell you that its just like the real thing, while others say that their car in-game is not very close to the real thing.

 

[Dotini]

Driving GT4 has improved my results in the real world kart racing that I do. The biggest difference is the lack of G-forces in the sim driving. You have to use visual and other subtle cues to know how the car is moving about, instead of the seat of your pants and inner ear canals.

Respectfully,
Dotini

 

[BradKinder]

It's very much like real life driving, if you use comfort tires. Maybe Sports hard. The higher-gripping tires provide unrealistic performance... but the game is still pretty fun

 

[Oldhairpin]

This is no exaggeration when I say Driving a Dodge Viper on std road tyres in GT1 taught me a lot about how to drive a 404hp Sierra Cosworth.

The main thing it taught me was weight transfer; front to back and side to side. Then the progressive lifting of brakes rather than snapping them up etc.

I've only driven the S2000 around Bedford Autodrome but I've owned a couple of ex-touring type cars (Vectra and Sierra Sapphire Cosworth) and driven on the track in quite a few fast road cars and I can promise you there is an awful lot of realism in this game :-)

I have only ridden a GSX-R around the Nurburgring but am really looking forward to taking my '09 S2000 around there, convinced that I wil have done enough laps to have a "feel" for it.

 

[HBR-Roadhog]

It's very much like real life driving, if you use comfort tires. Maybe Sports hard. The higher-gripping tires provide unrealistic performance... but the game is still pretty fun

Unrealistic? Have you ever driven a car with true race slicks? They do make a world of difference for real.

 

[GinoLicious]

I find it quite real. Im use to drifting car through snow and off highway on ramps in real life and find throttle and turning response in the game to be accruate to control yourself, or total your car.

 

[BradKinder]

Unrealistic? Have you ever driven a car with true race slicks? They do make a world of difference for real.

Real life slicks ARE sports tires in Gran Turismo. At least that's what the performance of Gran Turismo sports tires represent.

Racing tires in Gran Turismo have always made up for the discrepancies between most cars' stats and performance, and the stats and performance of real one-of-a-kind racing machines that use tires not available to anyone else.

I'm saying that you could take any car tuned however you like with Comfort soft, or if you think you could afford the most expensive tires you could find in the real world... sports hard... then you could train yourself to race with it in Gran Turismo entirely. Except for cars with a clutch pedal. You will need plenty of real-world practice outside of Gran Turismo to get that done even slightly as well as it is done in GT. But you'd be well prepared for driving with paddles, or auto-manual up-down... sticks or whatever they're called.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Unrealistic? Have you ever driven a car with true race slicks? They do make a world of difference for real.

In one of Clarkson's books he whinges about how race drivers hate road cars because they're slow and they understeer.

He goes on to talk about the BMW Diesel challenge they did (where the four TG presenters raced at Silverstone National).

Despite being a 100,000 mile ex-rep-mobile their BMW (fitted with race slicks, race suspension and a few power mods) astonished Clarkson... he wrote that he kept coming to a complete stop every time he touched the brakes

Suddenly he realised why race drivers only actually like race cars.

I may be rambling - but hopefully you can see the point!

 

[willstuart]

In one of Clarkson's books he whinges about how race drivers hate road cars because they're slow and they understeer.

He goes on to talk about the BMW Diesel challenge they did (where the four TG presenters raced at Silverstone National).

Despite being a 100,000 mile ex-rep-mobile their BMW (fitted with race slicks, race suspension and a few power mods) astonished Clarkson... he wrote that he kept coming to a complete stop every time he touched the brakes

Suddenly he realised why race drivers only actually like race cars.

I may be rambling - but hopefully you can see the point!

Good post!

 

[HBR-Roadhog]

Real life slicks ARE sports tires in Gran Turismo. At least that's what the performance of Gran Turismo sports tires represent.

Racing tires in Gran Turismo have always made up for the discrepancies between most cars' stats and performance, and the stats and performance of real one-of-a-kind racing machines that use tires not available to anyone else.

I'm saying that you could take any car tuned however you like with Comfort soft, or if you think you could afford the most expensive tires you could find in the real world... sports hard... then you could train yourself to race with it in Gran Turismo entirely. Except for cars with a clutch pedal. You will need plenty of real-world practice outside of Gran Turismo to get that done even slightly as well as it is done in GT. But you'd be well prepared for driving with paddles, or auto-manual up-down... sticks or whatever they're called.

Well I do not know where you are getting your info but the picture of the tires clearly shows that the sports tires are not slicks. They look like some kind of high end tire but they show tread and slicks have no tread. They also work in the rain which slicks do not.

Also what do you mean about the clutch. Maybe you are referring to your setup but lots of us have a clutch pedal and a gated H pattern shifter as well. My PWTS is really pretty realistic with clutch pressure and even the shifter has some resistance. I prefer to use the paddles and not use the clutch as my left knee bothers me when I am clutching a car in game or IRL but my setup will handle it when I choose to drive that way.