Gran Turismo 5

[SuperBeatBoy]

well later on you drive Robin Reliants.

See, thats more fun!

Maybe i'm just bitter after getting disqualified so many times because the stupid vans get in the way.

[rmoxon]

The test track races are a pain, you arent aloud to bump into other cars but they can ram you, and its really hard to pass cars on it. I dont think Im ever going to gold them.

[hudson]

See, thats more fun!

Maybe i'm just bitter after getting disqualified so many times because the stupid vans get in the way.

Sadly I made it up, sorry. Would be ace though. Premium RR.

[JSR]

The test track races are a pain, you arent aloud to bump into other cars but they can ram you, and its really hard to pass cars on it. I dont think Im ever going to gold them.

Just tried the first Top Gear event. Ended up shouting aloud. You can't hit anything. Not grass, not cones, and especially not any of the other cars. And some of the corners are very small and confined. The Top Gear track has no purpose in this game. What a waste of a big IP.

[Team Andromeda]

ts a shame you let so many barriers, spoil your fun of a great racing game....and your last point is BS - no racing game does it better.....(i'm assuming you mean forza 3, which really isnt better)

I feel he's spot on . Forza 3 is better and more enjoyable than this, most of the time looks better too (never ever thought I would be saying that) . The rain effect on the car windscreen is so poor it's laughable, and the front end and On-Line parts a broken mess.

I used to look up and look forward to the PD game for their technical brilliance, Chirst knows what happened here , even GRID is better than this ****

[saturn-gamer]

Just tried the first Top Gear event. Ended up shouting aloud. You can't hit anything. Not grass, not cones, and especially not any of the other cars. And some of the corners are very small and confined. The Top Gear track has no purpose in this game. What a waste of a big IP.

So i'm not alone on this. I HATE the Samba bus challenge. When I was 1st during the final lap, I apparently took a wrong turn and was disqualified. Heck, i've been disqualified for over 10 times now. If these kinds of events are the only thing the test track offers, I won't bother with it.

I expected no more than drift challenges, spins and drag races here. Not this kind of **** with vans. Besides that the test track also looks like ****.

[Number45]

Yeah I knew what he meant but still, he's returned the game after no more than a day really.

Indeed, although I wouldn't call it a damning of the game itself necessarily. I've been pretty active in the GT5 related thread, but I'm terrible at the games and usually grow tired of them VERY quickly (and keep them for the car porn aspect).

Heavy sim games just aren't for everyone, but this series tends to pull people in regardless.

[Neon Ignition]

Spent ages on this last night and towards the end it seemed to be slowly speeding up on the load times, I'm close to 7 gig now installed so it looks like most of the later background installations are in place. It can still drag though when backing out of a menu.

I'm in a really undecided position at the moment. I'm starting to really enjoy the game though I don't know how much of that is down to me staying clear of the series since GT3. I think I get what they've tried to do with this now. Each generation there's typically 2 GT's released and Polyphony has been in a bit of a cycle. The odd numbered GT's introduce the new physics and graphics engines with limited content whilst the even numbered entries flesh out the modes and track/car numbers. GT5 is like they've decided to do the standard gen update but include lots of GT4 content so that it seems like a much bigger title than we'd typically get. The trouble is it makes the game seem inconsistant and unpolished due to the rough edges and inconsistancies, I imagine its more of an issue if the player spent a lot of time with GT4 as there's a lot less new stuff to see.

The driving model does, admittedly, seem a lot better than HD and Prologues and changing the soundtrack to custom helps inject some life into the events. The licences are still stupidly hard in places. So yeah, I'm enjoying it and still gauging it. Something I've noticed more and more and a game this size highlights is how quick peeps on here are getting to be when clicking the review score poll at the top which for me is making the polls irrelevant again. Given the early deliveries for some I'm sure some peeps meet this but Rule 1 - Score when you've completed the game or spent significant time with it

[gamelife]

how do you trigger this big install at the start of the game (to make loading faster)? i ddin't get any prompts to do so?

[nonny]

My first and last impressions.

We waited 6 years for this? Love karting, amazing stuff and the handling model is still the best there is out there so major kudos. Everything else is bitterly disappointing. This is coming from someone who passed up prologue to wait for the final version and who plays with the dual-shock controller.

I couldnt be more annoyed. The menus and general "game-play" campaign outside of racing is archaic. It's an RPG grind in essence. It really is a simulator more than it is a game... I cant elaborate more than say its actually going back to the shop.

I am sure it would be better with a steering wheel and most racing games are, but this is too old-school for me. Dare I say it may be the best as what it touts (the driving simulator) but in terms of fun-factor and gameplay they've left us waiting years for nothing. Other games do the rest much, much better.

I think this is the most disappointed I've been in a video-"game" for years...

[Neon Ignition]

I'm not sure, it should have come up as an option the first time you put the game on. It might be in the options menu, there's all sorts of data/set up options in there. Though, even without selecting the option to do it in one go it will already be installing the files slowly as you play.

[hudson]

I'm finding the gripes regarding the game requiring grinding and being a simulation a bit surprising. That's GT to me.

[Number45]

The GT 'grind' is as much a part of the series as anything else, agreed. I'd argue that it's as accurate in terms of simulating racing (seriously now, how do you get better at skill based actions?) as anything else that it does.

So many people deriding this game for being GT.

[MartyG]

I am sure it would be better with a steering wheel and most racing games are, but this is too old-school for me.

It definitely is a far better experience driving wise with a force-feedback steering wheel - the karting in particular benefits greatly because there's so much more accuracy with the inputs - you even get that judder feeling through the wheel on the limit in the corners, I couldn't get anywhere near the same times using the pad. Speaking of times, no online leaderboards? Seriously?

It doesn't help at all with the UI issues or the grinding. I'm at that point now where I'm having to grind the same races to get competitive cars to to progress and it's not fun, it's tedious - this is an area Forza 3 made massive strides.

Forza 3 lets you play how you want, with GT5 Polyphony Digitial are telling you what you're allowed to do.

[Darwock]

Yeah I knew what he meant but still, he's returned the game after no more than a day really.

Yes indeed he did, which in real terms means he could only have played it once.

Never in my entire life playing videogames have I played a game so poor that I felt it was going back to the shop after one time playing it. I really struggle to believe even the poorest entry in the Gran Turismo series could genuinely be that bad.

I don't mean to target teddymeow specifically, but I really don't understand the attitudes of some people in this hobby. Is it not worth spending a little time with the games you buy to see if they get any better? I have been able to find at least a little enjoyment in every game I fork out my cash for, even the duffers.

In this case it's even more baffling as it's a driving game - does what it says on the tin. The only reason I can think to return it so soon is if you were expecting football or something.