GT5 good, bad and ugly

I didn't see this shot in the brochure. It's supposed to be road glare. HAHAHAHAHA.

How lazy are GT5 programmers

I think nothing worked, so they reverted to GT4 and added premium cars,
No one will notice.

Licences,
Same

Cars
Mostly Same

Prizes
Same

Tracks
Same

All too familiar.

Day Glare.
IMPOSSIBLE!

Night time without full EV+
IMPOSSIBLE!

Chunky Shadows
IMPOSSIBLE!

Sacrifice road for internal car prettiness.
STUPID.

Road Bumpiness
MY EYES GO EPILEPTIC INSIDE A PREMIUM CAR

Lamboghini Miura faster than Super GT car around a corner.
IMPOSSIBLE!

Nascar with Controller
IMPOSSIBLE!

Driving in a straight line at 300+kp/h doesn't warm your tyres????
STUPID!
After 1 lap at LE-Mans
my tyres were still cold.

Gold medal licences without driving like a Maniac
IMPOSSIBLE.

Rally Start Line.
Sometimes the computer starts you on an angle. WIERD.

these are just some things wrong with GT5.

GT-5 sucks it's own hype.

I, like most car enthusiasts of my era, spent a lot of time behind the Fake wheel of GT4. We have been looking forward to GT5 for sooo long.

I bought my initial release 20gb PS3 sooooooooooo long ago and have hardly touched it.

Since then, we have seen a new player released before new software!!!!!!!!

When does hardware out release software???? Is this a first? We have become so used to the delays that the game has become irrellevant in society.

Here you can see one of the few cars I enjoyed. I don't know how many times I loaded up my 720hp Time Attack Nitrous fed used Fd3s RX7 and set 45~47 second lap times at Tsukuba TC2000.

Since then my TV has grown from a 30" CRT to a Used 42" LCD Widescreen that is actually cheaper than the PS3 and a game.

Here is the rant part. I went to a department store in Japan and played GT5 in a seat with a wheel on the weekend.

I played the game and crashed multiple times in a slow car. (remember I played about 5000 hours or more in GT4 finishing every race)

I tried it and the countersteer with the steering wheel was VERY difficult. It kind of fed information too late.
I almost had to drive by expectation and estimation rather than feeling anything.
Also the engine sound dropped out when running over ripple strips

If these are the things we will be dealing with when the final version is actually released.

It maybe one of those games you play once and throw in the cupboard.

I think we can actually assume that the extra time required was for bug correction and not packaging production and cd printing.

BTW, my pet hate in GT5 prologue..... Limited throttle on the fake super skid grass is still in the game.

Where is the fun and realism? Looks like the weather simulation will be another feature you will turn off also.
From the videos I've seen, You can't see where you are going anyway.

Again no fun.

I have ultimate expectations for this game that I know will not be met.

That Mazda Furai 3 rotor Prototype better be good, because If I can't tune an RX7 to 700hp, I don't know what car I will drive.

GT5

GT5 they say is Due November 2010 .... Can we really believe this?? 2008~2009~May 2010~ when?

Cars:

Over 1000 cars. I can believe this. They have been modelling them for years.

Headlight Illumination

200 Premium cars with FULL interior detail.

800 Standard Cars with game level detail.

Premium Car High lights / Low Beam switchable
Standard Car Only Light On

One car I want to driver is the HKS Lancer EVO CTR


Nascar... for me I'll never play this.
 
 

Tracks
This area is a bit fuzzy.
20 locations <- only 20? Countries or tracks.
70 variations.? what does this mean
 

 
Top Gear track.
 
 

Effects.
Morning Dusk Night Day.
 

Tyre Smoke on the circuit. Drift!!!

 

Damage.

Who cares... Just another thing to delay the release. Be a good driver. You will never see this.

 

Premium Car & Standard Car get Physical damage to the calculation and Dents scratches and dirt but only Premium cars get panel deformation
 

 
Photo Mode... WHO CARES!!!!! You cant modify or customise your car anyway...
Who wants a pic of a stock car.
Release this as another game. Load your cars and take pictures.
 
Online. Maybe OK / maybe bad.
Yet to see what morons are out there, And how well they can drive.
Typically they'll take you out in the first corner.
 
 

 
BUT HERE IS A KICKER>
 
New Sony 3D TV with face tracking that allows you to look out the side windows and follow apexes.
Maybe cooooooool.
So I will get to experience this in Japan sooner rather than November.
Time shall tell.
 
Russ.