Tentative signboard

[true_kiat]

Last year, months before GT5 was launched, an official video surfaced and some of us got interested on the fact that SSR5's green signboards read "Tentative asking for ideas":

Don't know if there was an official survey into that, but... who the hell asked for "Aniot", "Rimnoat" or "Atankt Airport" as suitable directions?

I don't think there was anything wrong with the olde "Newriver City", "South Port" or even "Loop Line" to begin with

 

[Rico_S]

Maybe PD wants to represent other country by using its street names.

Newriver City, South Port, Loop Line sound better in our ears but they're don't sound realistic

 

[TenEightyOne]

... some of us got interested on the fact that SSR5's green signboards read "Tentative asking for ideas":

But those just say "Tentative"...

 

[NFSCARBON1]

Makes it sound european. Aniot sounds French. I always thought the SS tracks were based in Tokyo though.

 

[Skiddy]

You sir have way to much time..

 

[Stigsblkcousin]

I got an e-cookie on those being people's last names.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I got an e-cookie on those being people's last names.

I think you could be right. I can't find any reference to those as place names on search engines or mapping software.

 

[NFSCARBON1]

Someone check the credits

 

[MM1000]

Would have been kinda cool if the signs named some of the fictional tracks in GT5, perhaps in foreign languages so as to not be too distracting. Mandarin for High Speed Ring. Cyrillic for Midfield. etc.

 

[gogatrs]

this!

This

But to make this post relatively useful, I'd imagine that I would have heard about this before had they opened a poll for choosing those names.

 

[Machate-man]

ten·ta·tive   
[ten-tuh-tiv]
–adjective
1.
of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
2.
unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant: a tentative smile on his face.
Use tentative in a Sentence
Origin:
1580&#8211;90; < Medieval Latin tent&#257;t&#299;vus, equivalent to Latin tent&#257;t ( us ) (past participle of tent&#257;re, variant of tempt&#257;re to test; see tempt) + -&#299;vus -ive

&#8212;Related forms
ten·ta·tive·ly, adverb
ten·ta·tive·ness, noun
non·ten·ta·tive, adjective
non·ten·ta·tive·ly, adverb
non·ten·ta·tive·ness, noun

Experimental? Read Definition #1.
Perhaps PD needed something on the signs, and didn't have names like Anoit or Newriver thought up yet...

 

[TenEightyOne]

I think we're okay with the meaning of the word tentative...

 

[Mr. CoolFiat]

Experimental? Read Definition #1.
Perhaps PD needed something on the signs, and didn't have names like Anoit or Newriver thought up yet...

SHoudln't this thread be on Q&A?