Why does everyone hate rally in GT5?

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I think GT5 took a step in the right direction with the other cars on the stage and having it not loop into a lap, they got the things right but it's almost as if they spent like a week on it. I understand rally is not a big thing in GT5 but since there are no modern day rally sims out there GT5 rallying is all we have to fill the gap.

For the record, Richard Burns was an awesome rally driver who won the WRC exactly 10 years ago in a few days time, a rally sim was made with him a while back and I still consider it to be the most realistic off road racing sim ever to this date, shame I haven't played it in so long.
 
I will say that the custom rally layouts on the course creator are pretty decent actually. The good thing about Liege is you can get the longest possible tracks on it (I've gotten up to 6.6 mile tracks on Liege) and with Alaska you can get just billions of corners (well OK, 117 is the max I've gotten at the moment but still that's huge). Toscana and Mt Aso do sort of count though being technically open road creators, and while Toscana is the best all rounder of the lot Mt Aso is the most epic fail of any of the 7 themes. Even Tokyo Bay can get some complex tracks eventually, with Mt Aso you just get a D shape EVERY TIME. :grumpy:

Yes they do, but maybe some sort of mud track in Norway and a mountain pass with small villages?
 
The rally tracks feel far too wide. When I think rally, I think of a cold and wet Welsh forest going 100 mph down a track barley wide enough for the car to fit taking a blind corner and ending up upside down in a ditch. Now THAT is rallying.
 
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The rally tracks feel far too wide. When I think rally, I think of a cold and wet Welsh forest going 100 mph down a track barley wide enough for the car to fit taking a blind corner and ending up upside down in a ditch. Now THAT is rallying.

Sounds like my commute :)

The tracks do lack the real rally feel though.
 
The rally tracks feel far too wide. When I think rally, I think of a cold and wet Welsh forest going 100 mph down a track barley wide enough for the car to fit taking a blind corner and ending up upside down in a ditch. Now THAT is rallying.

Adjust it to -5.
 
I suspect part of it has to do with how PD gave rallying the most hype that it has ever had in the series (GT2 perhaps excepting) and then proceeded to implement the worst rallying mode in the series.
 
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For me its because imo rallying should not be in the game at all. It robs valuable disc space :grumpy:

Yep, that pretty much sums it up for me. To each their own but GT's niche is not dirt and ice racing. If I'm driving on dirt and gravel I'm either going camping or took a wrong turn. If I'm driving on snow- well for me that began this morning and it sucks.
 
Except on a seasonal event, there isn't anyway to make money in a rally race is there? that's what I dislike about it.
 
There are some... but it's really all up to organizing and such. Which I do believe there's a series for that currently running.
 
In my opinion, there are lots of games, like the Colin McRae: Dirt series, in which you can do rally in. In GT5 it is about racing, not rallying.
 
I have no RL rally experience nor have I played many rally games; my rally experiences are mainly from GT games so I am a rally noob (roob? :lol: ) but I have found the newer GT5 rallying to be less enjoyable than its predecessors.

Rallying GT5 for me feels so damn weird and bulky & so different to the other games. I loved throwing my rally car around all the tracks in GT4 & it felt so right & was heaps of fun but GT5 just doesn't do it for me & I really struggle with the physics. Is it just me or is it easier to throw on CH tyres & drift around a tarmac track than it is to do it in rally? The rally cars I just can't get to slide like I want, it's like they have RS tyres on.

Maybe the other GT's got rally wrong, in terms of realism, and now that it's "fixed" I struggle with the move to a more realistic rally experience? Hard to say as I am no expert but the new rally just feels so different for me, and not in a good way.
 
I think ill fire up my GT 4 disc and remind myself on how the rally sessions are on there
 
I think ill fire up my GT 4 disc and remind myself on how the rally sessions are on there

Go ahead and do that and compare it to GT5. I can't because my GT4 disc died on me a couple of weeks ago. Now you will know why people don't like rallies in GT5.
 
I had a go of GT4 and I agree the rally is more fun than GT5 that being said the rally in GT5 isnt a total loss. I am still going to mess with the settings in GT5 to see if it helps
 
Joking...? Google Richard Burns and try RBR on youtube, RBR=Richard Burns Rally. Its the most realistic rally sim ever made.

I thought it meant 'Red Bull Racing'. :dopey:

I used to hate rally but I just completed the rally events a few days ago and somehow I grew on me. :)
 
I'm a big fan of rallying. When the random point to point rallies were announced I almost wet myself in excitement (okay, an exaggeration). But I expected tough, bumpy narrow forest rallying, tight turns and trying not to end up crashing into hill on one side or flying off the hillside and being caught by trees on the other. Largely disappointed, but I still quite liked Eiger K Trail. Richard Burns Rally on PC seems good though, might get it if I can.
 
Has anybody thought of a conclusion why everyone hates rally in GT5?
 
No, because not everyone does. It's a stupid assumption.

Probably about 90%+ people do though, myself not included. "Why does nearly everyone hate rally in GT5" if that makes you happy :) .
 
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