This site does seem to be one of the most tolerant sites, considering the subject matter. But if some of you are shocked about the reactions you get, you really sound like total newbs to the internets. Somehow, all the death duels over PC vs Mac, Windoze vs Linux, Intel vs AMD, ATi vs nVidia, Nintendo vs SEGA, Mario vs Sonic, Corvettes vs All Other Cars, etc somehow sailed right past you? I wouldn't doubt the same thing happens with ram and power supplies these days.
Some like Joey go to great lengths to pump up FM3 as a game that will probably be stupendous, while not giving the same benefit to GT5 - on a Gran Turismo board - just rings a little dissonant. And doing it a number of times begins to get old. And of course this is from what? A few videos and screengrabs, which the only thing I can see which sets it apart from FM2 are some better lighting and reflections, and way more textures, which should have been in FM2 to start with. And then there are those who give a pass to the brain dead arrogance of Turn 10. Dan Greenawalt telling everyone that they can basically forget every other racing game is one thing, and rather laughable when they can't even get nine cars in a race. But then there's Che Chou, who in remarks about people DARING to like Gran Turismo had the swear filter kicking in. This kind of stuff would wreck friendships, and they definitely aren't my friends.
And look, most of us will get Froza 3, and many will get Shift and DiRT2. Many of us have PC sims. I do. I was talked into buying Enthusia and got really excited by the opening cinemas, but then I realized the supposedly in-game Miata demo was a down-rezed video of a real Miata. The tire sounds were completely missing from the game. The precise body roll was too. In fact, the game communicated to me very poorly even with a DF Pro wheel. I've got PC sims. I have the Live For Speed demo. Many things about it are simply amazing and smoke every other game out there, especially the collision physics which are unmatched. But take a car two laps past the suggested tire change point, and grip will suddenly drop to near zero. And there are other really baffling flaws too. Add to this the fact that you have only five or six tracks and 25 cars in the FULL game, and one track and two cars are real, and you basically are left with a fantasy game. Many love iRacing, but good Lord, you have to pay $150 A YEAR to play the bare bones game, and all added content jacks up the cost a lot more. Gah...
And frankly, as good as the PC sims are, Prologue is so close to them, they bore me. Physics? Little different. Bot A.I.? Little different. Sound? Some difference. Graphics? Woah... huge difference. And what's coming in GT5 will take it even farther. And man, try and discuss not just GT but FM on a PC sim board. You probably won't get banned, but you'll quickly find yourself about as popular as a rotting cow. My views, I have enough sense to keep to myself.
Some people are shocked and dismayed that anyone would love Gran Turismo most of all. Okay, some of them are fanboys who are married to it. I used to be kind of that way a few years ago. But I sobered up one day and just let the chips fall. Some of you cling to GT4 and assume the flaws and simcadeness of that game typify all GT games. But you should realize that being a blind anti-fan is just as bad. Some of us really can go through a checklist and point out some things in Prologue which point to amazingly lifelike simulation, not just car models. And heck, are better than other games. And if some of us, to borrow a leaf from Dan G, don't need another racing game or want another racing game, so what? Just clasp hands and share the luuv of motorsports.
. It gives me a little something to mess with when I'm not playing Forza 2. However, as a sim fan...don't even compare it to the Forza series. The latest iteration of GT has inferior car models, inferior environments, inferior physics, and inferior modes/innovations.
