A Great Ride coming to an end

[Sele1981]

I've never really get tired of Gran Turismo. I enjoy just driving my favorite cars around the different tracks in practice mode if I don't feel like racing.

I´ve tried this a few times but it makes absolutely no sense... I hotlapped 80% of my time in GT5P and it´s not even the half of the fun in GT5 without online leaderboards...

 

[analog]

Get a wheel! I couldn't imagine playing this game with a pad!

I do, even won (and lost...) a few races today in the online open lobby today (only started racing online yesterday, a bit late to the party) with all aids off (including slip recovery ofcourse) except ABS at 1.
In fact I find GT5 much easier to play without aids and with my trusted DS3 than Prologue whereby I always had to use a smidge of traction control on the more powerful rear wheel drive cars.

Unrelated, I don't understand all this, "what's there still left to do, I collected everything, etc.", though.
Sure collecting cars (or trophies now) is one of the most fun aspects of a GT-game, it isn't the main goal however, maybe I can suggest using them if that isn't an alien concept, I mean why collect them in the first place?
If you're only after collecting try focussing on the museum cards (pointless but a nice touch I reckon).

If you buy a game like GT5, then it isn't that illogical to assume you're heavily into cars now is it?
Drive them, tune them, keep them stock (if that's your thing), drive cars that aren't the obvious choice and drive them again.
If that isn't what you like doing than maybe it isn't the game for you, at least not for long.
It seems a bit like some people play it like they would play an FPS and only collect dogtags and weapons without an interest in the most fun part, shooting and killing opponents.

I'm a bit stuck on single player too by the way but online just gave this game a whole new lease of life, I imagined that it would and since you can host your own races (both private and in the open lobby) and therefore set the rules (which ofcourse are often ignored, that's also online unfortunately) GT5 became basically a new game to me again.
There's still plenty wrong with this game though (didn't want to end on a positive ).

 

[ikarys]

Well, last night I unplugged my G27 and packed it away.

Some of my best experiences in racing games has been time trials against friends. You still can't do this reasonably in GT5. *sigh*

Also, I tried doing the Indy 500 endurance... after 20 laps, and 80 turns to the left, I powered down the system and ejected the disk.

Mass Effect 2 has just landed, and GT5 has really run out of fun except for online, which is still lacking.

 

[ferdia]

For the most part I only log in every Friday to do the seasonal events. Having said that I took it upon myself to do the ASpec Le Mans this week.

But yeah, this game needed less cars, more events. I can't imagine the small screens laying out the events, to be particularly space consuming. It'd most likely have only needed the space of two or three of our many, many skyline choices to handle it.

 

[Kwicko]

"Pressured" by it? Seriously? Sounds like you do need a rest, to be honest.

Oh, I get the "pressure" thing, totally. Every day I feel like I *need* to spend some time racing, if only to increase my XP or see if something nice pops up in the UCD this time 'round. And there are cars to send out, so you feel like if you miss a day, you really MISS something... plus there's the weekly events that you don't want to miss out on. So I get the whole idea of "pressure", I really do. It's FUN pressure, but it still feels like it's something you need to do.

 

[SuperCobraJet]

I won't be tired of this game for years to come, plenty of things to do and keep busy with. Moderation is key, however....don't burn yourself out. Invent something new to try and set some goals, endless possibilities really

Unless you just want to play online, you couldn't make this game last for years even if you didn't play but one hour a week.

Its not a question of me tiring of the game, but the game tiring of me.
You can't race events that aren't there.
The level up system as lousy as it is, could probably continue to be bared if there were more events.

Oh, I get the "pressure" thing, totally. Every day I feel like I *need* to spend some time racing, if only to increase my XP or see if something nice pops up in the UCD this time 'round. And there are cars to send out, so you feel like if you miss a day, you really MISS something... plus there's the weekly events that you don't want to miss out on. So I get the whole idea of "pressure", I really do. It's FUN pressure, but it still feels like it's something you need to do.

The seasonal events create this atmosphere, which IMO is not the way to go in endearing the player to the game.
Especially when the game should have had this content to start with.
It is additional content and something to look forward too, but you have to do things on there schedule, not yours.

If this game had the quality and quantity of previous GTs, particularly GT4, multi year play would have been assured, and on the players choice and schedule.

Right now, I'd give myself about another month withit, tops. We'll see.

 

[will4noobs]

I am only level 28 a-spec and 15 b-spec

its been good, but i am a little bit bored - i used to buy loads of cars to stop me getting bored, but now waiting for cars in the UCD is getting boring

can you guys tell me how you are keeping the game alive? even with seasonals i find myself getting bored

 

[zedextreme8177]

As long as seasonal events come in regularly, I'll be playing GT5. Other than that, I love collecting new cars.

Until Uncharted 3 comes out that is

 

[ImprezaAddict]

A-Spec is done for me. But I still have 500 (just the nice cars left) to collect and drive. And online, arcade, have fun with the course maker, etc.

 

[nioxic]

I only play a couple of hours per week..

so still loads of things for me to do

 

[Kwicko]

I am only level 28 a-spec and 15 b-spec

its been good, but i am a little bit bored - i used to buy loads of cars to stop me getting bored, but now waiting for cars in the UCD is getting boring

can you guys tell me how you are keeping the game alive? even with seasonals i find myself getting bored

One of the ways I'm trying to keep from getting bored is by giving stuff away. I buy up the SE cars each week and prep them to whatever degree needed, and when I'm done running each event, I pass them along to a ring of friends, who then use them and pass them along as well, keeping nothing but the money and XP they win. At the end of about a week, the cars come back to me. Or not - sometimes someone will ask if they can keep a car, because they just fall in love with it. And it's not like I can't buy another!

A couple days out of the week, I'll try to find someone on the Marketplace who needs a certain car, and I'll just send it to them, no strings attached. Again, it's not a money issue, and I've already got just about every car in the game I really want (but I keep checking the UCD just to make sure!).

I'm hoping that those who I give cars to will do the same somewhere down the line, and keep the game interesting for other new players (and other new GTPlanet members!).

 

[birksy82]

I'm winding down now but this is the only game I have played since thee release day. I have definitely had my moneys worth and I will still be playing it but I'm going to be putting some time into other games like Bad Company 2 so I have some variety. I might manage to get to rank 50 on this now considering iv'e had it for nearly a year .

I don't get a lot of time for gaming.

 

[JackC8]

I'm pretty much done with it, probably check in for the seasonal event each week. The Cappuccino race was quite fun. I'm at 32 A-spec, 36 B-spec, 340 cars, 77% of the trophies and 96% game completion. Think I got my money's worth out of it. Lately I've just been running my B-spec guys through the Dream Car Championship for a million credits each time, then buying some cars. Don't even drive half of them. Probably time to call it a day. Been playing Dead Space 2 for the last couple of days and having a pretty good time with it.