GT4 Quick Walkthrough

[rwolke6]

Ok. Got the game, feel free to transfer over your GT3 profile to GT4. I just started fresh on GT4. Buy a PT Crusier or Mazda MX - 7 or 8. I can't remember which. I got the PT. I won most of the easy biginner races. I think I won a Lancer Evo and put dirt tires on it. The special condition races are where the money and cars are. I kept going untill it got really hard to win a race, then I switched over to an Escort rally car that I'd won and tuned it here and there. I also bought snow tires just to finish off the special condition list. Not sure where but along the way I won Suzuki Escudo rally car, and put a supercharger in it. Now it has somewhere around 1000 HP. Then I won all of the Intermeadiate stage races and tournments. Not a lot of A-Spec points involved. Now I have upwards of 3,750,000 cr. I can't beat the World Champianship but I'm told I need to win the El Capitan 200 and I get a car thats good enough to win that.

I'll post more after I win that to tell you what I did. Subcribe to me.

 

[Skython]

Wow, you just made the game sound simpler, and for some reason I can imagine that all said very quickly by a midget with helium

 

[GrumpEone]

What a strange thread, there is no 'Quick' way to beat/100% the game, it's too big and involved. Too many races and endurance races to even think of a 'Quick' walkthrough.

Here's the super fast (text-wise) walkthru:
Get gold on all the Licenses, win all the missions, buy cars of each drivetrain and class, win all the special conditions, and win all the races, and presto a year or so later you are at 100%.

Well, there is a way to beat the game in a day, get a cheat device and enable gold on every race, mission, special condition, and license. That gets you to 100%, but that is a kind of pointless route to take. Takes all the fun out of the game, but eliminates all that pesky racing (that's 'pesky racing' not 'penske racing'), and yes this whole paragraph should be read in sarcastic fashion.

 

[PF]

Hey Grumpy, you forgot the chase for the special number ... 111, 813. Add at least six months to that 'year or so'. My own progress in the Aspec chase is simply too embarrassing to to describe.

 

[fbccars924]

^ dont feel bad My day count is higher than my a-spec points lol.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Ok. Got the game, feel free to transfer over your GT3 profile to GT4. I just started fresh on GT4. Buy a PT Crusier or Mazda MX - 7 or 8. I can't remember which. I got the PT. I won most of the easy biginner races. I think I won a Lancer Evo and put dirt tires on it. The special condition races are where the money and cars are. I kept going untill it got really hard to win a race, then I switched over to an Escort rally car that I'd won and tuned it here and there. I also bought snow tires just to finish off the special condition list. Not sure where but along the way I won Suzuki Escudo rally car, and put a supercharger in it. Now it has somewhere around 1000 HP. Then I won all of the Intermeadiate stage races and tournments. Not a lot of A-Spec points involved.

That's because you've basically cheated the hell out the game.

Now I have upwards of 3,750,000 cr. I can't beat the World Champianship but I'm told I need to win the El Capitan 200 and I get a car thats good enough to win that.

We've seen this scenario here at GTP dozens of times. :facepalm:

You can't beat the World Championship because you basically haven't got any skill. You've used the Excuseo to blow away races some much lesser cars could handle, so you haven't got the necessary skills useful to win the hard stuff. The reason you haven't got skill is because so far you've relied on a thousand horsepower matched with all-wheel drive. You probably don't know a thing about braking zones, proper cornering lines, getting by the Ai by using your wits, etc.

Even when you get the prize from the El Cappy race (which you'll no doubt cheat) chances are you won't be able to drive and tune it, no matter how much horsepower is being used. :

I'll post more after I win that to tell you what I did. Subcribe to me.

Umm...err...ahh..naaa!

 

[GrumpEone]

That's because you've basically cheated the hell out the game. We've seen this scenario here at GTP dozens of times. :facepalm:

You can't beat the World Championship because you basically haven't got any skill. You've used the Excuseo to blow away races some much lesser cars could handle, so you haven't got the necessary skills useful to win the hard stuff. The reason you haven't got skill is because so far you've relied on a thousand horsepower matched with all-wheel drive. You probably don't know a thing about braking zones, proper cornering lines, getting by the Ai by using your wits, etc.

Even when you get the prize from the El Cappy race (which you'll no doubt cheat) chances are you won't be able to drive and tune it, no matter how much horsepower is being used. :
Umm...err...ahh..naaa!

Don't sugar-coat it Parnelli Bone, tell him what you really think.

It always amazes me when people take the easy way out. When I started the game I aced out all the licenses first, and even though I had some powerful prize cars from the licenses, I still went off and bought a used car to tackle the beginner events. How many times did you do the first race in an event winning convincingly, then go back to the garage and grab a car more suited to the competition to complete the rest? I know I did that a lot.

In my opinion, it is far more fun fighting for position the whole race, and winning based on good cornering, rather than just having the fastest car in the race. It's really fun too, taking a car that, on paper, should lose hands down, and pulling out a narrow victory.

If he is having issues with the World Championships, even with the Escudo which is more than capable, what is he gonna do to best the Formulas, or the majority of the Endurance races?

Cheat the game and you only cheat yourself out of fun, and in racing games you also cheat yourself out of proper racing knowledge and skills.

It always amazes me to when someone shows up on a forum, and starts creating threads immediately, heck that was his first post even. Why not do like the rest of us did, and checkout the forum and the multitude of threads and see where you fit in.

 

[BobK]

That's because you've basically cheated the hell out the game.

How do you figure that? At no point did he say a word about cutting corners or anything like that. Were you somehow watching over his shoulder or something? Some PM's we're not privy to?

You can't beat the World Championship because you basically haven't got any skill. You've used the Excuseo to blow away races some much lesser cars could handle, so you haven't got the necessary skills useful to win the hard stuff. The reason you haven't got skill is because so far you've relied on a thousand horsepower matched with all-wheel drive. You probably don't know a thing about braking zones, proper cornering lines, getting by the Ai by using your wits, etc.

Even when you get the prize from the El Cappy race (which you'll no doubt cheat) chances are you won't be able to drive and tune it, no matter how much horsepower is being used. :

So you're not only groundlessly accusing him of having cheated, you're saying rather categorically that he will cheat again in the future. I don't believe I know of any shortcuts on the El Capitan track, although that doesn't mean there aren't any of course. So just how will he cheat, and what makes you so sure?

Oh and it's Escudo, not Excuseo. Please get that right.

 

[PF]

How do you figure that? At no point did he say a word about cutting corners or anything like that. Were you somehow watching over his shoulder or something? Some PM's we're not privy to?



So you're not only groundlessly accusing him of having cheated, you're saying rather categorically that he will cheat again in the future. I don't believe I know of any shortcuts on the El Capitan track, although that doesn't mean there aren't any of course. So just how will he cheat, and what makes you so sure?

Oh and it's Escudo, not Excuseo. Please get that right.

Hi Bob, love your work on these forums but will come out batting for Parnelli on this occasion.

You'll note that he refers to the user's need to use overpowered and modified cars; many in the GTP community consider this poor sportsmanship. The label 'cheating' is not appropriate IMO, but he's a long way off playing a 'clean' game of GT4.

Also, I think there are at least two well-known short cuts on El Cap. Possibly several more but I don't really use them except for the mountain one.

Oh and it's Escudo, not Excuseo

You must be joking.

 

[autofusion]

Agreed...

That's because you've basically cheated the hell out the game.

...agreed...

Here's the super fast (text-wise) walkthru:
Get gold on all the Licenses, win all the missions, buy cars of each drivetrain and class, win all the special conditions, and win all the races, and presto a year or so later you are at 100%.

...and agreed!

there is no 'Quick' way to beat/100% the game, it's too big and involved. Too many races and endurance races to even think of a 'Quick' walkthrough.

rwolke6: These are some of the reasons I play through any Gran Turismo game, and let that be a statement. PD knows that one race out of one car is not enough to master the game. If Gran Turismo is similar to real-life racing, then this is a game that has to be taken seriously. Every time you play the game, you are being tested as to how badly you want the checkered flag. However, you're also being tested between greed and professional skills.

You can 100% all races in the game, but there can still be more work to do after that. Can you build a garage that has all the cars in GT4? There was like 650+ I thought. Getting all the cars in your garage is like Pokemon, "Gotta Catch 'em All!". If you can max out your garage, the Gold trophies in races and licenses, all your statistics, and even your credits, all in a more legitimate way - then you might 100% GT4 altogether.

Until you show proof that you are playing the game the way it's meant to be played (and I am not talking about a superhuman posting lap times of 1.207 seconds in a UFO), it's questionable that anyone will believe you.

 

[BobK]

Hi Bob, love your work on these forums but will come out batting for Parnelli on this occasion.

You'll note that he refers to the user's need to use overpowered and modified cars; many in the GTP community consider this poor sportsmanship. The label 'cheating' is not appropriate IMO, but he's a long way off playing a 'clean' game of GT4.

Oh I'll agree it's not exactly the cleanest of racing, it's the "cheater" accusations I'm talking about. Keep in mind that to some people "them's fightin' words" (especialy when there's no cheating involved, as is the case here).

rwolke6: These are some of the reasons I play through any Gran Turismo game, and let that be a statement.

Umm, okay. Statement of what, I'm not sure. But okay.

PD knows that one race out of one car is not enough to master the game. If Gran Turismo is similar to real-life racing, then this is a game that has to be taken seriously.

Right. This is serious business! No room for fun here! <cue favorite lolcat "serious business" pic>

Every time you play the game, you are being tested as to how badly you want the checkered flag. However, you're also being tested between greed and professional skills.

Odd, because when I sit down to play a bit of GT4, I thought I was just going to have a little fun. But no, no room for fun here. This is serious business!

You can 100% all races in the game, but there can still be more work to do after that. Can you build a garage that has all the cars in GT4? There was like 650+ I thought.

You thought wrong.

Getting all the cars in your garage is like Pokemon, "Gotta Catch 'em All!".

Wait a minute! Pokemon?!? I thought you just said this was Serious Business!

If you can max out your garage, the Gold trophies in races and licenses, all your statistics, and even your credits, all in a more legitimate way - then you might 100% GT4 altogether.

So let me see if I get this straight. Even though PD may say I've got 100% complete, I really don't? They're lying to me? Why would they do that?

Oh and by the way, there is no max on credits (until they run out of bits to store it in or some such). They didn't make that brain dead decision until GT5P and continued the error in GT5.

Until you show proof that you are playing the game the way it's meant to be played (and I am not talking about a superhuman posting lap times of 1.207 seconds in a UFO), it's questionable that anyone will believe you.

"The way it's meant to be played"? By whose definition? Yours? If by PD's, I could make a case that it's just fine to punt the AI off the road and use them as "cornering aids", take shortcuts, etc, etc. Because there are some races that you cannot get (I hesitate to say "earned") max A-Spec points in unless you do just that. Indeed, unless you have 111,813 A-Spec points, you haven't 100%ed this gameSerious Business.

So it's okay to bash the AI around, take outrageous shortcuts, anything at all it takes to win. Unless you use 5 horsepower more than absolutely necessary. Then you're a cheater of the vilest sort.

Oh, and what does this have to do with anybody's credibility, anyway? He admits to overpowering some races, and because of that you choose not to believe anything he says? Does that include his statement that he's overpowered some races?

 

[autofusion]

You got some points there, but what I meant was playing the game appropriately like a professional. Some of the examples you indicated (shortcuts, bumper cars, etc.) - I don't just often see those in real-life races, and that to me can be inappropriate almost.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

How do you figure that? At no point did he say a word about cutting corners or anything like that. Were you somehow watching over his shoulder or something? Some PM's we're not privy to?

Ah, hello Bob, how's things for you this weekend?

The OP mentions using the Excuseo for "all the intermediate races and tournaments". No, I was not watching over his shoulder, but to me, this suggests the majority of Pro league races...possibly Japanese races, too (Escudo is a Japanese vehicle). Then he gets to the World Championship and he hits a wall, can't get any further. Why?

Well, let's back up a sec. How about you tell me any race along this path, Bob, that so far possibly merits the use of a rally car with two engines, AWD, and 1,000 horsepower?

So you're not only groundlessly accusing him of having cheated, you're saying rather categorically that he will cheat again in the future. I don't believe I know of any shortcuts on the El Capitan track, although that doesn't mean there aren't any of course. So just how will he cheat, and what makes you so sure?

I'm not 100% sure, but his habit of overkilling races if obvious. If he's cheated in the past, why not cheat again in the future? Not a whole lot of horsepower is needed to blow 'em all away in the El Cappy 200. Chances are he'll just use the Excuseo again.

Oh and it's Escudo, not Excuseo. Please get that right.

Whatever. If somebody is using this vehicle in any race, he or she is just making "excuses" for not really trying.

We've been over this argument before I think. Granted if somebody wants to cheat, they can have at it. It's their game. I'm only trying to do the OP a favor by letting him know (a) We've all seen these sorts of cheats before...he's not offered any advice we haven't heard before. It's as if he started this thread thinking this advice has never been dispensed before, and we'll all be impressed or something. I personally am not impressed.

And (b) if he wants to win the World Championship, I advise him to start GT4 all over again. Do it right. Learn what this game has to offer (other than pure horsepower in a car with two engines). If he cares anything about the passion of motorsports, he'll take our advice and try a different approach.

By the way, by "cheat" I'm talking of those who enter races KNOWING they're going to blow away their competition, but enter their overpowered monster anyways. Thank you.

 

[GrumpEone]

Hey Grumpy, you forgot the chase for the special number ... 111, 813. Add at least six months to that 'year or so'. My own progress in the Aspec chase is simply too embarrassing to to describe.

111,813 A-spec is supposed to be the highest possible? or just the highest anyone here has earned? (My real game save is only sitting a bit above 40k)

I have a save where I keep my 982 cars, that has 147,002 A-spec points, although none of those stats were actually earned, I wonder where the point differential lies. I'll have to look further into the max a-spec points per race/event.

 

[PF]

111,813 A-spec is supposed to be the highest possible? or just the highest anyone here has earned? (My real game save is only sitting a bit above 40k)

I have a save where I keep my 982 cars, that has 147,002 A-spec points, although none of those stats were actually earned, I wonder where the point differential lies. I'll have to look further into the max a-spec points per race/event.

Highest possible considering car, tyre, weight and power restrictions on races. Check out the 200pt subforum, that's where the hardcore kids hang out.

 

[GrumpEone]

Highest possible considering car, tyre, weight and power restrictions on races. Check out the 200pt subforum, that's where the hardcore kids hang out.

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out, although I probably shouldn't post much there, as I'm not a hardcore racer, and my gaming perspective may not go over too well. I'm more of a hardcore gamer, with extreme coding curiosity, I like seeing how far I can warp a game after completing it.

 

[Poppins]

By far easiest way to beat game.

Transfer GT3 save.

Buy 1990 Supra from UCD. 276 HP.
Do Rally D'Umbria in Special Conditions.
Win Cadillac Cien. 760 HP.
Do Rally D'Capri in Special Conditions with Cien.
Win 10K and car worth 265K.
Sell Rally Car for 265K.
Upgrade Cien to max. 1024 HP.
Race Rally D'Capri 2 more times. ~10 minutes per time.
Buy Audi A4 Touring Car and Fully Upgrade. (<750k)
Race DTM on B SPEC and make 500K every 10 minutes.

 

[BobK]

Nah. Easier to start by golding the National A license. The car is free, and can win more races than the Cien can.

 

[Poppins]

Lol. Not even. The Cien is beast.

 

[BobK]

The Cien may be faster, but the Gran Turismo Skyline (pace car with no light bar) can still win more races. Doesn't matter if you win by two seconds or two minutes, a win is a win (although likely you'll get more A-Spec points for the two second win). But the Skyline will still win most races by enough margin that some would call it "unfair" and drop the epithet "cheating".