What GT5 has become for you?

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Hi guys and gals! What has GT5 become for you after messing with it for long? Is it still just a game, or something more and deeper than that? Do you catch yourself try to run away from real life trouble, get away leaving some of your troubled day behind? Do you still enjoy it being just a game, or has it become a way to express your mental or psychological state?

Doc, am I going mad?
 
I enjoy it, but its still just a game to me. I'm one of the ones disappointed with the overall experience, although still enjoy it. I never got the same feeling I did with the other GT's after months of playing. But I'm sure they will continue to improve it and my enjoyment will hold steady (getting old vs. updates) for some time.

Occasionally I find myself mentally ignoring the painted lines on the real roads, thinking theres enough pavement to the side to pass. I haven't actually done this yet, but it feels like getting stuck behind an esperante on la sarthe.
 
It's a game to me and always will be, but that doesn't mean I don't greatly enjoy it! I love it.
 
It's a simulator for me. To do hotlaps and have fun testing cars. That's why for me the lack of "fun" in the game part of it doesn't bother me.
 
I am not sure if I am mixing fun with psychological trouble any more. I frequently find myself depressed occasionally trying to find a way out within the game.
 
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I am not sure if I am mixing fun with psychological trouble any more. I frequently find myself depressed occasionally trying to find a way out within the game.
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Wow, that is why I play video games.

I wouldn't call it a way out using video games, though.

I see it more as "taking a break" from the robot-world and (god forbid) you enjoy yourself, relax...hell, maybe even think for yourself without someone bothering you.

That to me is the use of GT5. To give me a short vacation from the world of stratifying and a small reminder of "paradise", in short, I have underlying spiritual reasons to play video games which might be similar to you.

Almost as if the form of entertainment is actually a form of meditation at times.

Many times have I got in my favorite car, favorite track and by myself do 60-80 laps...just to relax, to think, to "reconnect" during our busy lives

sounds silly
 
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Wow, that is why I play video games.

I wouldn't call it a way out using video games, though.

I see it more as "taking a break" from the robot-world and (god forbid) you enjoy yourself, relax...hell, maybe even think for yourself without someone bothering you.

That to me is the use of GT5. To give me a short vacation from the world of stratifying and a small reminder of "paradise", in short, I have underlying spiritual reasons to play video games which might be similar to you.

Almost as if the form of entertainment is actually a form of meditation at times.

Many times have I got in my favorite car, favorite track and by myself do 60-80 laps...just to relax, to think, to "reconnect" during our busy lives

sounds silly
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In fact, I believe for certain people there are great benefits. There are some people that submit, submit, submit and live happy lives doing so never thinking or questioning anything.

Then there are others, the ones looking for a "way out" through addictions, drugs, virtual worlds, depression / suicide...these are the ones that "see through the veil" and realize the world is one of infinite ways -- and that we choose "this", that is to say a very monotonous, bland way of living a global society; it is this realization whether conscious or unconscious of it that i believe causes depression or the "wanting" or "need" a "way out" or a "quick fix"

To me, Gran Turismo 5 is not just a video game, I use it to cope. It's the truth. GT5 among an extreme select few provide the experience I need.

I feel there is a lot more to playing video games, than most realize

granted there is a lot of subjectivity within my opinion, overall i believe there is an explicit trend between add/adhd, depression and video game use

although off topic, another point to consider is "MMO" addiction among young teens and adults, the idea that many want to spend more time in a fantasy world rather than the "real world" tells you something, it shows a style of rejection toward mainstream society.
 
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I see GT5 as my training grounds and my fun zone.

Seeing it as only a sim or only fun would be a slap in the face to PD, in my opinion. I used to see games as an escape route from the hard pressures of high school. That ended after I graduated in '09. Since then, I started seeing them as fun. I also take them very seriously.


But GT5 is more than that to me. It's an opportunity to hone my craft for the racing series that I want to enter. It's an opportunity to meet new friends. It's an opportunity, to see rivalries culminate. In general, it's an opportunity to have fun.
 
I still enjoy it even with it's shortfalls from launch and I'm sure they will update it as well
 
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Have you ever avoided anybody by preferring playing gt5 to communicating/socializing with her/him?
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There are 183 058 users on GT Planet. Wich means a poll would look like this.

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quite a big disappointment to be honest. It always seemed to lack real excitement for me, and yet I cant put the damn thing down. I adore the gran turismo series and I wish this game was better, as in it had some more old tracks (El Captain, Seattle etc) and more premiums, as well as less clones. 15 odd MX-5's, Skylines, RX-7's etc etc. wheres my DB4? wheres my Ferrari 250 GTO? and most importantly where is Aryton Senna's Mclaren? why have these legendary cars been ignored from the game? another moan is the 20 million credit limit on owning. and the 1 million credit ban. and the 1 car a day ban. and the lack of events. this game has really been quite a flop
 
Pokemon, that's what this game has become. To train my bobs and collect every car, trying to be the very best, like no one ever was, ect. ect.
 
It's a game, I still enjoy it, even though I haven't played it in a couple of weeks.
 
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Does it ever influence you badly psychologically speaking?
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Reading this thread the recurring theme, despite the much broader question asked in the title, you seem to be constantly referring to is whether anyone else uses GT5 as therapy apparantly instead of it just being a form of escapism or pastime like any other videogame.

No regular videogame is designed to be used as therapy or any as a replacement for real life and it having a bad influence on your state of mind isn't caused by the contents of a game, especially one with the harmless content of cars and tracks.

It's a form of escapism like watching movies or in some cases reading a book, it's helpful to be aware you're indulging in escapism and not confuse escaping reality with replacing reality, phychological troubles stem from reality and can't be solved (only ignored) by virtual reality.

Not saying that playing a nice videogame on a bad day can't help to lift your spirits though, in the same way music can be comforting but nothing more than that.
 
It has become an OCD-like obsession to collect all of the cars and test drive them... well, it is the "real driving simulator" :D
 
GT5 is an evening stress buster for half an hour these days. Choose a car and run a few laps of a the ring. I've done nearly all the main game and only the seasonals tempt me into cash earning.

I got bored of GT5 recently so I bought Shift 2 for £15 and it is somehow a lesser game than the first with track graphics that look like a watercolour. I then bought TDU2 for £7.50 and that was again worse than the first in that I can't get any FF on my G25. Total garbage.

GT5 doesn't touch LFS and even GTR2 for feedback but it's way ahead of anything else on a console.
 
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Reading this thread the recurring theme, despite the much broader question asked in the title, you seem to be constantly referring to is whether anyone else uses GT5 as therapy apparantly instead of it just being a form of escapism or pastime like any other videogame.

No regular videogame is designed to be used as therapy or any as a replacement for real life and it having a bad influence on your state of mind isn't caused by the contents of a game, especially one with the harmless content of cars and tracks.

It's a form of escapism like watching movies or in some cases reading a book, it's helpful to be aware you're indulging in escapism and not confuse escaping reality with replacing reality, phychological troubles stem from reality and can't be solved (only ignored) by virtual reality.

Not saying that playing a nice videogame on a bad day can't help to lift your spirits though, in the same way music can be comforting but nothing more than that.
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Indeed! The problem is that sometimes that temporary get-away makes things even worse, brings additional stress and a broader sense of disappointment for the day.

Feeling wasted after killing the remaining hours of your day to something not creative like this makes things worse.
 
GT5 is a Video Game to me. I have to admit that I'm obsess with it (as I was with GT2-4) since I know that I will never be able to actually drive any of those cars, but at the end I just will not be able to squeeze any more make believe thrills from it and I will need to move on to something else.
 
It's become a time trial toy that I barely touch. For racing I now use Shift 2. For some reason I like racing more than driving.
 

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