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Rated PG-34 posted:IGN's review is in: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/113/1136103p1.html This article reminded me why I don't ever go to IGN. Not because they talked bad about my sacred cow, but because their reporting is poo poo.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:27 |
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Holidays are times to spend with family; but I hate when everybody wants to go shopping. Went to eat with my folks tonight. Plotted with pop to avoid the shopping trips. "Picking up GT5 tomorrow. We're building a wheelstand, then to my place for extensive testing." "Can I drive my Chevelle?" "They have the 454 from '70; but no cockpit. My Challenger is one of the only premium muscle cars from that era. Cuda's not premium. My old Mustang isn't even in, and there's no GTO at all, unless you count the piece of crap family sedan they tried branding as such in recent years. It's pretty sad. Hope you like Japanese cars." "Japanese game, Japanese cars. So we fabricate a stand, drive a Civic or a Skyline or something, and don't emerge until there is pie and football?" "That's the idea." "Make sure you're here early, so we can say we're in the middle of something when everybody shows up."  (I about fell out of my chair laughing when he pegged the Skyline in spite of knowing nothing more than "that car game, made in Japan".)
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:28 |
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I ended up buying GT from Wal-Mart and decided to play a quick race in arcade mode before doing a full install. I played on a rainy track, and the graphics were pretty bad - the windshield wipers and rain effects were extremely pixelated. I'm assuming that they were still loading, but they never did during the race for some reason. The cursor also would not appear on the menus and I had to restart the game a few times just to be able to select something. Now I'm doing a full install, which the game should require you to do anyway if it's that unplayable without it. I'm still excited to play - just thought I'd warn anybody who is considering ignoring the full install.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:35 |
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Has anyone figured out how to change the controls on the Fanatec wheel? I'm using the Porsche Turbo S one and all I'm seeing are a bunch of Logitech wheels in the options. I just want to reverse my sequential shifter.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:37 |
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There was one drat store in the Portland metro area doing a midnight release, but I found it and got it and now I'm gonna play it
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:40 |
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The Mime posted:I ended up buying GT from Wal-Mart and decided to play a quick race in arcade mode before doing a full install. I played on a rainy track, and the graphics were pretty bad - the windshield wipers and rain effects were extremely pixelated. I'm assuming that they were still loading, but they never did during the race for some reason. I dunno, I did the introductory full install when asked, and I still ran into quite a bit of menu lag (not between menus, but in car/course selection, for example.) It seems there's another install to be done within the main options menu -- I'm doing that now. I noticed that menus behaved a lot more fluidly after I had cycled through them once. edit - that secondary install was really short, and it made the menus more or less lag-free. I don't know why that isn't lumped into the initial install.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:46 |
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Yeah, even after you do the main install, the game will still install a bunch of crap as you play. The first time you do something, it will be longer than normal because it's installing, but the next time it should be quicker. With that said, loading times can still be longer than expected, but they aren't terrible. [edit] Here is an actual review that isn't just a site trying to rush out a review/score to get hits. http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/11...gran-turismo-5/ quote:So, gran Turismo 5: finished, complete, perfect. Right? Boogat fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2010 around 08:51 |
| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:47 |
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One thing that I really do love is that the replays always make my driving look awesome.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 08:55 |
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Just read the Eurogamer review and stumbled upon this:quote:The game's lack of a car classification system (less of an issue in the offline GT Mode than it used to be) means an unruly free-for-all that will soon stamp out the use of anything other than thousand-horse monsters. Is this true? I really enjoyed C/B/A class races in Forza and it would be nice to restrict races to a certain group/class/level of cars.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 09:32 |
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This game is pretty drat fantastic from the few hours that I played. As I was playing my friends and we have determined that we are going to have a drunk driving championship in GT5 in the future. It will be a fantastic night.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 09:40 |
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For those of you teetering on the edge of technology like me, and own a 1080i HDTV as opposed to a 1080p, definitely opt to play this in 1080i as opposed to 720p. Every facet of this game was meant to be rendered at 1920x1080. 720p pixelizes everything. Then, turn force feedback up, car sounds up, and race BGM down or off. Best racing simulation ever, menu/UI boo-hoos be damned.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 10:06 |
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I'm really liking the cockpit views a lot more than I thought I would, especially driving with the DFGT. The physics are just plain amazing!
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 10:15 |
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Hmm. Here's my initial impressions after a couple hours of playing. Surely I'm not alone on some of this: Sound effects still leave a lot to be desired. Same repetitive stuffy generic "tire squeal" sound so far. Drove through a tunnel, no echo (is it like that for anyone else)?! Colliding with stuff, I hear a dull "thud" or "thunk". This was with a premium car too. I do like the engine sound and exhaust note improvements though. Shadows, graphics in general...I have a premium car, and there are some really nasty shadow glitches. It's not just my car, I see awful shadows and general jagginess in lots of places. It's just distracting. Lighting in general just seems a bit weird. And the background of a lot of the tracks I've played so far don't seem much improved from GT4, just higher res and more draw distance. I know they added the "levels" and stuff, but control seems much, much easier than previous versions. It just feels kinda dumbed-down so far. I'm hoping that changes very quickly as you level up because so far it's almost boring. I'm playing with the Dualshock...no wheel. Don't hate me guys, I'm just being honest according to what I've seen so far  I'm gonna go push through a few more levels.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 10:22 |
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I live in Madrid, so when I learned of the launch party here I spent an hour or two looking for where and when it would be held. I couldn't find anything, so I had forgotten about it. Then, on my way home from work it found me. They had just started setting up the place, there were just two "pods". This is the outside: and this is the inside.  I don't have a lot of free time, but if it's going on same time today I'll stick around for half an hour and report back poty fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2010 around 10:36 |
| # ? Nov 24, 2010 10:34 |
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Jose Pointero posted:Hmm. Here's my initial impressions after a couple hours of playing. Surely I'm not alone on some of this: To touch on your points, all of which we see eye-to-eye... Turning up the car sound effects to 120% (for whatever reason that is possible) helped a bit. However, having picked the EK9 Civic Type-R as my first car, of course the first thing I would pay attention for was the audible VTEC crossover, which is much more absent than it should be. Perhaps once I work my way up to the 2007 Civic Type-R, in which Honda's engineers specifically tuned the resonance of the intake to make the VTEC crossover more "in your face" (  ) I'll get a better idea of just how faithfully the engines have been reproduced.Of course, I'm currently playing this game in the middle of the night with lovely wooden walls separating me from my neighbors, so the volume on my home theater system isn't doing the game justice right now. Certain shadows jumped out at me too, like holy poo poo jumped out at me. Someone likened this to the PS3's GPU, I have no idea, but it looks god awful in an otherwise gorgeous game (except for when you're closing in a car slowly but surely, and catch a glimpse of that strange hexagonal exhaust tip... yup, standard car.) Lighting, though, no complaints at all thus far, if you consider shadows a different category. In motion, it's fine, because I'm staring intently at apexes for the majority. During the countdown before the race, though, it's impossible to miss. The shadows look flat out terrible. The controls on a DFGT feel great to me, maybe a touch more forgiving than they'd be in real life. I've made some magical recoveries so far that I'm sure would've put me facing the wrong direction if I were driving a real car, but nothing arcade-like. I had to turn the force feedback up to 8 from the default 5 to get an authentic steering feel. The default 5 made the cars I've driven thus far feel as if they weighed a fraction of their actual curb weight. enojy fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2010 around 10:48 |
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enojy posted:For those of you teetering on the edge of technology like me, and own a 1080i HDTV as opposed to a 1080p, definitely opt to play this in 1080i as opposed to 720p. Every facet of this game was meant to be rendered at 1920x1080. 720p pixelizes everything. Then, turn force feedback up, car sounds up, and race BGM down or off. Best racing simulation ever, menu/UI boo-hoos be damned. Ta muchy.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 10:55 |
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Has anyone found a place to set the default driving settings? It seems that im constantly having to turn it all off, I wondered why in the licences my car was understeering like a bastard and realised that traction control was still on.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 11:03 |
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gently caress aafes. The game isnt in stock. Looks like i have to buy the italian signature edition. Goodbye, 200+ dollars.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 11:11 |
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djfooboo posted:djfooboo's 30 dollar wheel stand. This I like, I might go out and do the same I am 5'8" so it should be better, I don't have a spare car seat around though
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 11:12 |
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Whoa, B-Spec is way different now. And I guess you can't accelerate it 3x like back in GT4, or am I just not pushing the right buttons? Anyway, I think I'm gonna call it quits tonight and try coming back to it when I'm "fresh" tomorrow. I've been up for 12 hours now so maybe I'm just a bit too cranky for such an undertaking.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 11:32 |
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Jose Pointero posted:Sound effects still leave a lot to be desired. Same repetitive stuffy generic "tire squeal" sound so far. Drove through a tunnel, no echo (is it like that for anyone else)?! Colliding with stuff, I hear a dull "thud" or "thunk". This was with a premium car too. I do like the engine sound and exhaust note improvements though. Yeah sound isn't perfect but the new tire sound is a lot less annoying than the old one. Sounds are better all over really, my starter car sounds pretty crap but I figure a real AZ-1 is hardly "grunty". quote:Shadows, graphics in general...I have a premium car, and there are some really nasty shadow glitches. It's not just my car, I see awful shadows and general jagginess in lots of places. It's just distracting. Lighting in general just seems a bit weird. And the background of a lot of the tracks I've played so far don't seem much improved from GT4, just higher res and more draw distance. I'd agree, there are a lot of nasty shadow glitches, the game is beautiful but things like that stick out a lot. Overall I'm content. quote:I know they added the "levels" and stuff, but control seems much, much easier than previous versions. It just feels kinda dumbed-down so far. I'm hoping that changes very quickly as you level up because so far it's almost boring. I'm playing with the Dualshock...no wheel. I think that's more to do with how bad the game handled before, I wouldn't call it easy with a G25 or with a powerful car. Even my starter car breaks loose without care.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 11:46 |
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Is there any features with the PSP? Like with GTPSP, or using the PSP as a rear view?
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 12:41 |
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Reading through the reviews and they are about what I was expecting. Fantastic racing experience, but everything else is a bit rough around the edges. Hopefully Polyphony will patch it. There has already been one patch and a second is coming in December to add in the Gran Turismo Anywhere feature and i'm assuming fix more issues.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 12:43 |
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Coffee Jones posted:6 hours til midnight And now it appears that the PS3 Gamestop sold me has a bum drive and has eaten my copy of GT5.  
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 12:45 |
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So can you complete the game without ever driving a standard car? I haven't used anything but cockpit view in Forza 3 and F1 2010 and I have no desire to start now.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 12:46 |
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Heh, passed the second top gear challenge with the Elise  Silver 
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 12:55 |
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FAILURE posted:So can you complete the game without ever driving a standard car? I haven't used anything but cockpit view in Forza 3 and F1 2010 and I have no desire to start now. Yes you can. The 220 cars covers everything and those who want to play with just those cars should have no issues.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:00 |
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Love the porn groove soundtrack in the tuning shop menu
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:12 |
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Can you play the entire A-spec mode in automatic with driving assists, or at higher levels are you forced into manual? Does it work like Forza 3 where you get more credits for racing with harder settings?
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:23 |
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There really aren't any driving assists. You can play in automatic, but the game tries to stay realistic the entire way through. There are only a few minor assists and if you want to learn how to be really good you'll have to take the driving tests. They aren't required though. [edit] Also, someone explain the time trial leaderboards. One review made it seem like that didn't make it into the game? How do those work? I said come in! fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2010 around 13:31 |
| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:28 |
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I'm a little bummed about there being no car classification system, but in some ways it may even be better. Question for someone with the game: In an online lobby, how much can you tell about someone elses car? Can you see the HP/weight?
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:28 |
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Heres a good question, the collectors edition has the following things # Collector's Edition packaging with commemorative slip case # Collector's Edition inlay sleeve art # 200+ page drivers/strategy guide # 5 x Collector's Edition artcards/postcards # 5 x Collector's Edition 'ChromeLine' car pack # Exclusive Polyphony designed dynamic theme What the hell is the 'chromeline' car pack?
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:30 |
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A few DLC cars that you'll be able to download for free, they should be up on PSN now.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:32 |
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I said come in! posted:Reading through the reviews and they are about what I was expecting. Fantastic racing experience, but everything else is a bit rough around the edges. Hopefully Polyphony will patch it. There has already been one patch and a second is coming in December to add in the Gran Turismo Anywhere feature and i'm assuming fix more issues. My thought's exactly, they did a pretty good job of it with Prologue so I would hope we get the same thing here.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:32 |
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Its midnight in australia and i went to the only place open 24hrs locally (since theres no planned midnight releases within <30min drive) to buy it and the enjoyable human being behind the counter said he wasnt allowed to sell it until 9:30am. FUUUUUUU
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:37 |
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I said come in! posted:A few DLC cars that you'll be able to download for free, they should be up on PSN now. oh wait there was something stuck in the box behind the manual that i totally ignored 
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:42 |
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How come I bought the Signature edition, and I never got a certificate personally signed by Kaz himself, like someone posted a few pages back? Or is that just the US edition?
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:43 |
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Someone on the Penny-Arcade forums mentioned that GT5 will give you a free car from the year you were born when it hits your birthday.
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| # ? Nov 24, 2010 13:51 |
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I said come in! posted:Someone on the Penny-Arcade forums mentioned that GT5 will give you a free car from the year you were born when it hits your birthday. A Skyline of course
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coinstarpatrick posted:I'm a little bummed about there being no car classification system, but in some ways it may even be better. Well this sucks. Anyone got a screenshot of the multiplayer options? How can we have fair races if there's no way to classify the cars. Picking up my copy after work later today (so still about 17 hours until I get my copy  )
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