Why do we love the Gran Turismo series???

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The things i love the most about Gran Turismo is...

The cars, the tracks, the career mode, online (in GT5 and GT6), also the thing that make GT such a special game series is all the things you can do (photo mode, coffee brake, moon race, course maker........) and every time they make a new game they take there time to make it as good as possible.....

But there is one thing i love the most, and that's the soul that Kazunori and PD putted in to these masterpiece games.

Tell me what i missed and what you think is the best things about Gran Turismo, because that is why i made this thread. (And tell me what your favorite Gran Turismo game is)


(please go to another thread if you want to complain about Gran Turismo:dopey:)

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Well, there's lots of reasons I stick with GT.
  • It's my first and favorite racing game series.
  • It introduced me to lots of great cars and tracks.
  • Great graphics and/or gameplay.
  • It gave me lots of great memories and sometimes it still does.
  • Daiki Kasho's music.
 
Ground breaking game. First game that taught you how to be good at it, through licence tests.
Brilliant graphics years ahead of any other games back in the day.
Race modify cars, change wheels. years before need 4 speed.
Massive selection of cars.
Well thought out championship.
Open ended game e.g. there was a beginning but after that you could play however you like.
 
GT3 was the first game I ever played, and the toughest game I could never get used to back then. It was the amazing graphics it had back then, though. Like how stunning Halo 2 looked on the Xbox back when it was brand new, the graphics on GT3 were too crazy for me lol.

What keeps me now is the utterly breathtaking graphics, the photography mode, and the awesome jazz music I can hear in the menus.
 
I just love driving the cars round the tracks and racing my friends PD may keep most things fro us but they know how to make a good game
 
The physics.

And the options.

I can go from 200mph+ at Le Sarthe, to 20 mph drifting in miata, to attacking the nurburgring in a GT car, then into a D1 machine for some 100mph+ entries.

What's not to love?
 
bluecharger
Excuse me very much, but isn't there a Tears of Joy thread over in Reviews?
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That would be for GT6 specifically. This thread is why you love the series in general.

David Bailey
Ground breaking game. First game that taught you how to be good at it, through licence tests.
Brilliant graphics years ahead of any other games back in the day.
Race modify cars, change wheels. years before need 4 speed.
Massive selection of cars.
Well thought out championship.
Open ended game e.g. there was a beginning but after that you could play however you like.
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The first 3 or 4 (not including prologues and others), definitely. Sadly though very little of that can be said about recent iterations.

I love the series because it was one of the first driving games I played that had such realistic physics and stunning graphics (for it's age). The realism has always been the main draw for me. Plus where or when else am I so easily going to be able to drive a Ferrari around Monza or an LMP car at Le Mans or a JDM tuner through Tokyo?
 
For me, GT has become more of a casual game than one I truly love. GT's 1-4 were phenomenal games that I did love and was utterly addicted to. GT's 5 & 6 have been missing something. Exactly what, I can't really put a finger on. Probably a lot of things... I think it's in the ways they have failed to evolve the series. The bumper car racing is completely unforgivable at this point, as is the lack of meaningful damage. Lazy rolling starts all the time rather than mixing in standing starts, the removal of qualifying, individual dealerships (like those in GT4) with their own events, missing tracks, cars not all of the same graphic quality, etc, etc. The races are almost all short and feel like mad dashes to the finish, where they used to feel like races that required strategy. I won't even go into GT6's all new dumber AI. GT5 & 6 just don't feel like complete or even well crafted games. Hell, GT6 isn't finished. Where's the B-Spec or the course creator? It seems as though most of what they've done is remove a lot of what set this game apart and failed to evolve what's left.

...Oh, but they have added driving on the moon. :banghead:
 
Variety in cars and tracks mostly. I found the e
Anomaly
..wall of complaints...
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Guess you missed this...

spaekhugi
(please go to another thread if you want to complain about Gran Turismo:dopey:)
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Early on in the series it was something new and fresh, real cars and real racing on real tracks as opposed to the arcade like games that were available. Lately (GT5/6) it's mostly the variety that keeps me coming back, lots of cars and lots of tracks to drive them on.
 
86Debris86
That would be for GT6 specifically. This thread is why you love the series in general.


The first 3 or 4 (not including prologues and others), definitely. Sadly though very little of that can be said about recent iterations.

I love the series because it was one of the first driving games I played that had such realistic physics and stunning graphics (for it's age). The realism has always been the main draw for me. Plus where or when else am I so easily going to be able to drive a Ferrari around Monza or an LMP car at Le Mans or a JDM tuner through Tokyo?
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Sorry I did'nt make myself clear I was referring to the origional versions of the game Ps1-2.
Saying that I still love playing GT5 prologue. I love the cars (some never made It to GT5-6) the PP system,
The races are tough, good penalty system, & good setup screen.
 
David Bailey
Sorry I did'nt make myself clear I was referring to the origional versions of the game Ps1-2.
Saying that I still love playing GT5 prologue. I love the cars (some never made It to GT5-6) the PP system,
The races are tough, good penalty system, & good setup screen.
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GT5P had alot going for it. Having said that, it was the start of the downfall of the series for me. I still have some hope, and a little bit of faith left, that GT7 (or the next prologue) will mark a turn around though.
 
I'm just thrilled that I can find a form of entertainment that I can enjoy for hundreds of hours and yet over the course of the lifespan of said game will cost me less than 5 cents per hour! GT5 set me back all of 3 cents(ballpark est.) per hour to play. Talk about bang for your buck!..👍
 
My first game (of all time) was gt3. I learned so much, Back then i had a odd taste in cars, I used to love the mustang cobra. Now I am all over imports but gran turismo has turned me into a car enthusiast, I love the large amount of cars in the game.
 
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fairly realistic feel
good selection of cars and tracks

That's enough for me to like a game. Do I love it? Maybe, but it has more to do with me loving to drive.
 
I like GT because it looks very realistic. Realism is very important in a racing game, in my opinion. 👍
 

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