You know you're playing GT4 too much when...

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When you meet a gentleman who actually owns an R34 GT-R (And yes, I touched it. :D) and while describing the traits of the car, he stops you mid sentence and asks if you ever drove one. ;)

Cheers,
Jetboy
 
You know you used to play too much GT4 when you play it again after a substantial break, and you're so much worse with a DFP than a DS2--too many strange habits learned. And also when you look at the used car lots and you realize you now have no basis for deciding which cars are or are not interesting.
 
You absolutley know you´ve played too much when you suddenly notice that you make a living from it! (At least we can dream, can´t we??)
 
* When you can get out of your chair, do a bathroom stop, get a drink, and be back in your chair ready to go - all in the time it takes for a pitstop.

* When you remodel your playing area with a bar fridge and toilet so that you can get out of your chair, do a bathroom stop, get a drink, and be back in your chair ready to go - all in the time it takes for a pitstop.

* When you put the bar fridge beside you, and build a toilet into your seat so you don't have to get up during a pitstop...
 
When you meet a gentleman who actually owns an R34 GT-R (And yes, I touched it. :D) and while describing the traits of the car, he stops you mid sentence and asks if you ever drove one. ;)

Cheers,
Jetboy
Guilty, but it was a Supra.
When you have your PS2 playing through a 300watt, 20year old TEAC amp, with two 12" subs and at 300km/h the windows in my house rattle.

I like it, who cares what the neighbors think.
Guilty, had the neighbours come round & told me to shut it up.
you know you play gt4 too much when you fall asleep....i did somehow??!!!!
Guilty, I often get carried away & fall asleep in my chair :lol:
 
...When you start commentating your own races in your head.

(I found myself doing this today. I even had my own 'before race storyline', which was quite good in my opinion :sly:...I think I might be going crazy though :scared:)
 
you know you play gt4 too much when you fall asleep....i did somehow??!!!!
I passed out briefly for 30 seconds on my 24hr A-spec running of the Nür, and still kept on track. Obsession is when you have the track engrained in your brain while sleeping.... :crazy:


Cheers,
Jetboy
 
I passed out briefly for 30 seconds on my 24hr A-spec running of the Nür, and still kept on track. Obsession is when you have the track engrained in your brain while sleeping.... :crazy:


Cheers,
Jetboy

Was it just 30 seconds? You know it's bad when you fall asleep like that, wake up again and you're ten laps further through the race... still on the track... in A Spec.
 
Was it just 30 seconds? You know it's bad when you fall asleep like that, wake up again and you're ten laps further through the race... still on the track... in A Spec.

I should try that. Maybe I wouldn't need to pause all the time for those enduros.

GT4 may be an addiction when you sit down on the computer to find a place where you can discuss it. And then you stay there for months, years ect.
 
When you, your brother and father try racing around tesco at 2am with trollys getting your other brother to take pictures at the cheese section of you sliding like on GT4 and pick what car you are

I was the 350z GT4 in yellow


:( My family is now BANNED from tesco :(
 
Lol it took me ages to teach him to drift on GT4 it was first time he had played it in his life 2 hours later he was thrashing my brothers.

And dont really know why the cheese section but we kept shouting at it to stop being smelly :) Ill see if i can find the vid he made.
 
And dont really know why the cheese section but we kept shouting at it to stop being smelly :)
Oh dear. It sounds like it was somewhat contaminated by cheese, then. Not the cleanest in the district.
 
I should try that. Maybe I wouldn't need to pause all the time for those enduros.

GT4 may be an addiction when you sit down on the computer to find a place where you can discuss it. And then you stay there for months, years ect.

Hmm.. Seems that I've been spending more time here then playing the game lately... :/
 
... when your family doesnt see you for hours or days at a time.

... when you cant concenrate in school because your playing out drifts in your head

... when the only conversation with your family is about the sweet drift you just did.

... when the only time you come out of your room is to go to the bathroom or grab some foob.

ive also been spending more time here than i really should. this whole week ive been putting off my homework until the last minute because i cant stop looking in the forums. ill look at the clock at 6:00 and say "ok, i will get on it at 6:30" and when i look back down at the clock its almost 8:30.
 
writing in this board and agreeing with most of your comments..:) 👍
 
Sorry if this has been said already but u know ur playing too much wen u replace your real car's steering wheel and pedals with a dfp2 cuz u think it will improve your car's handling
 
...When you look in front of you and see another car and go "overtake!!" "Overtaaake!!!"
 
You know you've GT4'ed too much when...

...you attempt to powerdrift an '85 F150 with 191K on a tired L6(guilty)

...you succeed at powerdrifting the afore-mentioned pickup(Amazingly....I'm guilty of this too)

...you rant because you biked yer truck trying to drive like it was the one in GT4(Havent biked it yet. I do rant about it alot tho)

...you manage to get a 300 dollar ridin' mower to whitesmoke the tires(Fun that was)

...you take a 1/24th RC to school and perfectly trace out the 'Ring in the parking lot with it while talking to yer buds.(I slid off into the sandtrap in corner 93 and bumped into a tire...)(Note, track and truck are not in scale, infact they're not even close to being in scale. I wish they were, but the truck doesnt have enough battery nor range to go over a 1/24 rendition of the 'ring and is much too small to carry onboard the aircraft electronics it would require to posess such range.)


...your cats can drive your CLK-GTR better than you can just from sitting in your lap and watching your hand, and yet neither of you can keep from hitting the wall at 225MPH and going into orbit

...you installed an airbag in your DFP, and rigged/hacked GT4 and your PS2 to deploy it if you take a frontal impact of more than 10Gs.(wish I could. might be fun) Extra points for having spare airbags on hand and a quick-change socket. Even more extra points if the airbag's installed on the DS2 pad your PS2 came with.

...you can take a Dodge Ram around the 'Ring while drinking a can of coke, and do it better than after you put the coke down(guilty)

...you know you've been playing GT4 too much when you rig your non-running 1972 Chevy C10 as a 5,000 pound game controller while also h4xx0ring your GT4 to work a clutch


And finally, you know you've played GT4 too much when you forget to unrig the afore-mentioned truck when you do get it running again, get pulled over for going 75 in a 25, reckless endangerment, vandalism, hit'n'run and street racing and your excuse is "Sorry officer, I'm racing in the 24hr enduro at circuit de la sarthe!"
 
Y...you get a better time with the RC than you do in GT4(And I didnt even need a stopwatch to deduce this)
Sorry...

That's because there's no way you traced a 1/24 representation of the Nurburgring. I know this from slot-car experience. A much smaller version of the track "feels" the same as a proper scale representation. Let's see. 12 miles around. So about 3 miles on each side of the square. 1/24 is 1/8 mile on each side of the square. Did you really make the Nurburgring in a 600x600 foot square? (Each side 2x the length of a football field?)
 
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