GRAN TURISMO

bsjezz

GRAN TURISMO FIVE comes out in one week. This thread is designed to facilitate the grown men and women of Social Entropy in playing with pretend cars. 1031 of them.

UnbreakableVow

Gran Turismo is not for me

But holy fuck it looks so good

I kinda wish one of my roommates was into driving sims because I'd love to just watch somebody play this

bsjezz

it's really the only driving game, let alone driving simulation, that i get into.

to understand the gravity of how unusual this is, know that i don't even have a real license. i've spent more time driving in gran turismo games than i've ever spent behind the wheels of a real okay now this is just sad and i'm embarassing myself

UnbreakableVow

When I got my very first PS2, it came with Gran Turismo 3

I sucked so spectacularly at it, doing terrible on license tests

But it looked so good and I liked the soundtrack a lot

Beasteh

played the ps2 one

escudo pikes peak edition

all goin vrmmmmmmmmm around an oval track for 4 hours

Artreus

I'd like it if I could enjoy driving sims.

I just can't play them at all. Arcadey games ala RRRriiiiiiiidge rrraaacceerrr are all I'm really good at.

UnbreakableVow

Ridge Racer V got an unhealthy amount of play on my PS2

I never did play 6 or 7

Rent

Burnout is basically the only racing series i can stand

let's talk about burnout

burnout is awesome

bsjezz

what i like most about it is that it's as much like an rpg as a traditional driving game

winning races for cars and money, upgrading your cars very precisely, selecting the right cars for the right missions

only instead of terrible anime storylines there's fucking sweetas replays of your gorgeous car tearing it down the straights and then really messily taking a hairpin turn and being bumped into sideways by an AI Mitsubishi Lancer

UnbreakableVow

But like

I remember when I played GT3, I hit a dead end really early on

'Cause license tests were impossible for me, and I couldn't do races for cash to buy other cars because I wouldn't do well in races.

So it was just me racing against other dudes in a PT Cruiser, doing terribly.

I know absolutely nothing about cars though so that probably didn't help matters.

bsjezz

the online will surely suck like the last one, but it'd be cool to get a best lap thing going if anyone else is going to play this. is anyone else going to? christ, i can't be the only one.

Dys

Going down the list of the fastest lap times from Top Gear right now so I know what awesome cars to use in this game.

Artreus

Oh man I completely forgot about burnout. I loved burnout 3. Only ridge racer I played was 64. I played that a bunch. But I still have burnout 3.


I bought burnout paradise on my ps3 (download) and I hated it. I just didn't like the open city and the multiplayer (or COMPLETE LACK THEREOF) pissed me off. That, and the fact that I actually bought a multiplayer pack for it, and the multi was only of the pass-the-controller variety, which was bullshit.

UnbreakableVow

There's not a lack of multiplayer

In fact I play multiplayer all the time

It is literally the only multiplayer game I play

And it is awesome, it's straight-up my favorite car-based game ever made

Beasteh

Rent wrote: »

Burnout is basically the only racing series i can stand

let's talk about burnout

burnout is awesome

two words

CRASH

GOLF

Rent

you and me beasteh

BROS

FOR

LIFE

UnbreakableVow

Which game had Crash Golf?

Artreus

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

There's not a lack of multiplayer

In fact I play multiplayer all the time

It is literally the only multiplayer game I play

And it is awesome, it's straight-up my favorite car-based game ever made

Oh. Split screen.

The real kind of multiplayer

UnbreakableVow

Who the fuck plays splitscreen anymore

Sounds like somebody's living in the past, man. Contemporize!

Also it'd be pretty much impossible to do with a game like this on a technical level so you can't really fault them for it

Artreus

Yeah I hate playing video games with friends and people at parties it is just awful and way too retro

Beasteh

Rent wrote: »

you and me beasteh

BROS

FOR

LIFE

ive been gettin this a lot lately

Anjin-San

i prefer forza, but really i need to expend time with one of these games to properly feel out them cars

The Black Hunter

I want the 455 El Camino

is there a regalia editor in this?

#pipe

I'm almost certain that my brother will buy a PS3 specifically for this game.

He bought a PS2 specifically for GT4 then spent about 400 hours in it.

honestly I went to his house earlier this year and he was playing GT4

He's done those 24 hour races multiple times

bsjezz

The Black Hunter wrote: »

I want the 455 El Camino

is there a regalia editor in this?

you mean like this?

no. no, i genuinely hope not

Anjin-San

need for speed hot pursuit is in my crosshairs

i love crashing into shit

Anjin-San

the editor owned

who cares if someone made a hitler car. people got creative as hell with that shit

the spider jerusalem car rocked, for example

UnbreakableVow

#pipe wrote: »

I'm almost certain that my brother will buy a PS3 specifically for this game.

He bought a PS2 specifically for GT4 then spent about 400 hours in it.

honestly I went to his house earlier this year and he was playing GT4

He's done those 24 hour races multiple times

Wait

There are actual, 24-hour real-time races in GT4?

Anjin-San

le mans

chrishallett83

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

I'm almost certain that my brother will buy a PS3 specifically for this game.

He bought a PS2 specifically for GT4 then spent about 400 hours in it.

honestly I went to his house earlier this year and he was playing GT4

He's done those 24 hour races multiple times

Wait

There are actual, 24-hour real-time races in GT4?

A few, I think.

B-spec mode is your friend. Except I think you still have to tell your computer driver to pit to fuel up and change tyres. But if you set it to triple-speed, then the race is only 8 hours of boredom.

cj iwakura

I like racing games and all, but I wish they'd localize the PS3 versions of Initial D and Maximum Tune.

And if there isn't a PS3 version of MT, there dang well needs to be.

The Black Hunter

chrishallett83 wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

I'm almost certain that my brother will buy a PS3 specifically for this game.

He bought a PS2 specifically for GT4 then spent about 400 hours in it.

honestly I went to his house earlier this year and he was playing GT4

He's done those 24 hour races multiple times

Wait

There are actual, 24-hour real-time races in GT4?

A few, I think.

B-spec mode is your friend. Except I think you still have to tell your computer driver to pit to fuel up and change tyres. But if you set it to triple-speed, then the race is only 8 hours of boredom.

Being able to save in pit stops would be tops

This GT has a 2000 XR8 aswell

I would like a GTHO though

Raijin Quickfoot

I will own this...eventually.

Viscount Islands

It feels like this game has been "coming out" foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeer and I don't even like Gran Turismo

UnbreakableVow

Viscount Islands wrote: »

It feels like this game has been "coming out" foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeer and I don't even like Gran Turismo

It has been

The first trailer was in early 2006, I believe

cj iwakura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_oo_gz42FI&feature=related


I guess the PS3 is region free, but I always liked Initial D's dialogues.

pyromaniac221

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v3aCp899F8

Mysst

I played gran turismo once

they should rename it Asleep at the Wheel

UnbreakableVow

<3 Kevin Butler

(Mr. Butler is a professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt.)

Rinder

I played the hell out of GT3. That was probably due to how fantastic the game looked.
Couldn't get how realistic the cars looked at the time. Also going 700MPH with the Pike's Peak.

bsjezz

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

<3 Kevin Butler

(Mr. Butler is a professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt.)

i liked the way jack tretton is chasing after him