Does Gran Turismo teach you anything?
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I taught my sister how to drive in GT5 last month, well just the basic car controls like gas, brake, clutch, gear shift, & wheel (I have a G25). I made a long & twisty Toscana track (6km+), & let her loose on it. Seeing as she'd never driven before (apart from one time in a car park when she changed gear once & got scared lol), she did really well & learnt a lot.
In 2009, & after playing the GT series myself with FFB wheels since 2002, I got the opportunity to drive 2 racs at a Palmersport track day (see my avatar), a Caterham 7 Superlight, & a Clio Cup race car. Sim racing in GT5 was a really good tutor, as soon as I stepped in those cars I felt right at home, & it was like I'd done it a hundered timed before. Having the rear end slide out a 40mph while exiting a hairpin & automatically correcting it with countersteer & throttle modulation was a skill I aquired in game, which my instructor praised me for. Sure there were a few differences, but overall I'd say the GT series teaches us many things.
In 2009, & after playing the GT series myself with FFB wheels since 2002, I got the opportunity to drive 2 racs at a Palmersport track day (see my avatar), a Caterham 7 Superlight, & a Clio Cup race car. Sim racing in GT5 was a really good tutor, as soon as I stepped in those cars I felt right at home, & it was like I'd done it a hundered timed before. Having the rear end slide out a 40mph while exiting a hairpin & automatically correcting it with countersteer & throttle modulation was a skill I aquired in game, which my instructor praised me for. Sure there were a few differences, but overall I'd say the GT series teaches us many things.
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Thank You very much, and everyone else too :-)
This thread is very interesting as well, and helpful.
If anyone is interested, in my research for texts about learning through video games, I came across this...
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/04/jonathan-m-gitlin-goes-racing/
It is Forza, so if you hate that then it won't interest you.
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Gt5 and forza, if played with the correct minded people, enhances driving etiquette when on the race track. You enhance your skills around others with such close racing and you allow yourself to become more comfortable knowing the boundaries of pressuring someone and keeping someone from passing. There are awesome points to be made, but as far as online play is concerned, I'd say that's the biggest!
I'm not so sure if I have learned anything apart from transferring my skills of drifting/sliding cars is, how do I put this? Ridiculously difficult to pick up in gran turismo. It's the one thing I'm struggling with on my dfgt! I can race, and pretty well at thy but the sideways part, which many people praise the game for, is a bit off for me!
Gt5 and forza, if played with the correct minded people, enhances driving etiquette when on the race track. You enhance your skills around others with such close racing and you allow yourself to become more comfortable knowing the boundaries of pressuring someone and keeping someone from passing. There are awesome points to be made, but as far as online play is concerned, I'd say that's the biggest!
I'm not so sure if I have learned anything apart from transferring my skills of drifting/sliding cars is, how do I put this? Ridiculously difficult to pick up in gran turismo. It's the one thing I'm struggling with on my dfgt! I can race, and pretty well at thy but the sideways part, which many people praise the game for, is a bit off for me!
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Survey done. Good luck with it! 👍
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