GTP's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car (Episode 21 is up!)

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Nice to see this coming along, though I'm secretly dreading each one just in case someone comes along and thrashes my time!
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I was thinking the same and then you came and beat me in week two!

I'm still holding out with the top controller time, though! :lol:
 
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Episode 6 - Sureboss​

Our Sixth Guest for Star In A Reasonably Priced car is a well known F1 fan, Lets give it up for Sureboss!

What brought you here to GTP? How long have you been a member?

I joined after reading some news about GT4 and then finding after some set-ups I registered, was about a couple more years till I became more regular.

Been a member for nearly 6 years (next month).

How has GT5 been for you?

Thoroughly enjoyable, particularly with the recent introduction of using custom tracks on-line, which is the only thing I've wanted since release. Just jump in a car and drive, you can't beat it.

What has been your favourite vehicle to drive at the moment?

Lots to choose from, I'd say a toss up between the SLS, RS6 Avant and the XFR, but it'd have to be the SLS, very fun car to drive.

The SuperGT's and Historic Race cars are a brilliant part of GT5. I do tend to prefer the more powerful cars (without getting over 500bhp), but the likes of the Alfa Zagato and various Elise's are good fun too.

How about tracks? anyone particular favorites you have?

Grand Valley will always be my home track, I'm enjoying all the variations of the new Cape Ring and I think Madrid is a fantastic street circuit too. Missing Midfield though.

The game has lots of tracks that you just want to drive, be it in a TT, race, on-line or just mucking about. Suzuka and Nordschleife are fantastic for that.

Apart from Eiger (which I've never understood) and SSR7, I enjoy all of the tracks. Top Gear Test Track has been home to some highly amusing on-line racing.


Have you played around with photomode at all? If so, how do you like it?

Used only a few times, looks good and you can take some incredible shots, but I'd rather be driving.

What is your favourite GT game and why?

GT3, it was my first full introduction to the series and it will always stick with me, Special Stage Route 11, with a RUF was all I needed! I played GT and GT2 on my brothers PSX, they were good, but not quite as much time spent on them as GT3, 4 and 5.

I think GT5 will soon overtake it, with A-Spec almost completed (24-hrs will be fun!), the WRS has started and is too addictive and using custom tracks on-line will be superb. The graphics look great, the tracks are good, even if it's disappointing to not have Midfield and SSR11 and the sound is probably the best of the series.

Any other video games do you enjoy playing?

I play Football Manager quite a bit, taking small teams and making them slightly less bad than they were when I joined!

Enjoyed playing many a racing game, more recently they've been rFactor, DIRT 2 and F1 2010, all good in different ways and am currently waiting for Race On to arrive.

In the PS3 world, Modern Warfare 2 is good for on-line shootybangykilly, though not played it as much since GT5 came out. The hacking is also a bit dissuasive to playing the game.

Whats your favorite car and what is it about it that you like so much?

Aston Martin DB5. It's very British, very Bond and very beautiful. Simply the sexiest car ever made.

Whats your other hobbies?

Anything and everything Cricket, I'm currently watching the first match of the World Cup and I help run a large cricket website which specialises in modding games. Enjoy a lot of sports, from football, to any motorsport that doesn't involve an oval.

When I'm not working (though in reality, that's just more gaming), I like to play Snooker and listen to music, pretty much all forms of rock, from heavy to blues to prog to alt, do you see where I'm going with this?

Got a love of all things technology and the history of gaming is researched quite a bit too.

Did you know that Atari once released a version of Rubik's Cube on the Atari 2600? Unsurprisingly it flopped, reading about the early days of gaming, the transition from arcades to home gaming, it's all utterly brilliant and fascinating. Most of the books I read are factual, though I enjoy Sci-Fi and Science literature books.

Anything else you'd like to say?

GTP is a fantastic website with something for everyone, thanks to Jordan and all the staff for maintaining a brilliant site. I've been lucky enough to meet some GTPers and made friends with many of them, apart from VEXD...

Now today's lap will be alittle different as our guest managed to become first the guy to take our car to the wrecker. We've love to show you the footage, but the Camera also went along for the trip. Without further ado (or incident), lets have a look at your more successful lap,

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...And across the line in one minute... Twenty... Eight point eight oh nine. The lap puts you top of the leaderboard. Well done.
 
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For what it's worth, I'd like to nominate Sharky for the next race. He lives in Christchurch, NZ where the earthquake hit today, and he's at least a person that I've noticed being around and helpful, in my short time here at GTP :) Of course, this is only if Sharky is interested :)
 
Another great interview and good work making Sureboss sound interesting ;)👍 I presume his lap has been invalidated because he failed to paint the car in Rouge Lucifer as stated in the OP :ouch:

If he is on top of the leader board I nominate Small Fryz next :D
 
Nicely done, Nigel! :cheers:
Neal
Ermmm....I might be sick so one of my Bobs will have to stand in :scared:
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I've seen you drive. I think a stand-in Bob is a wise choice. :P
 
Great lap Nigel 👍

Nice interview too :cheers:

Neal
If he is on top of the leader board I nominate Small Fryz next :D
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:scared:... Neal, I'm not sure what you have heard about me, but its all false!! Especially the story about the ping pong ball and the... nevermind...
 
Neal
and the ping pong incident definitely did happen, it will be permanently lodged in my mind...much like the ball that hit me in the eye!
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What happens on tour stays on tour!
 
Episode 7 - Justin​

Our 7th guest for Star in A Reasonably priced car is one of GTP's NASCAR Enthusiasts, Please welcome Justin!


What brought you here to GTP? How long have you been ]a member?

I used to be a regular on the PSU forums, but as time went on and more GT5 info came out it was hard to sort through all the clutter so I finally decided to sign up here a couple years ago after hearing about it a good amount. I quickly found that the community is much more mature and I could actually read what most people wrote.

How has GT5 been for you?

Good for the most part, while I find the game part of it rather lacking it probably has the best physics I've played with on a console.

What has been your favorite vehicle to drive at the moment?

I've been spending a lot of time in the 787B, the thing is insanely fun to drive.

How about tracks? anyone particular favorites you have?

I've always been a fan of Monza so I've spent a good chunk of time running laps there.

Have you played around with photomode at all? If so, how do you like it?

Yes, I have a gallery somewhere, haven't really had time to tinker with it lately though.

What is your favourite GT game and why?

Probably GT4 just because of the amount of stuff there was to do.

Any other video games do you enjoy playing?

I usually stick to racing games, but occasionally pop Fallout New Vegas in if I want to kill some mutated things.

Switching to real life, what do you drive? Is it in the game and if so, how does in compare?

I don't really need one so I usually just ride my bike(at least when there isn't white stuff on the ground and a "-" infront of the temperature) or walk as most things are within a mile or two from me.

But in the event I do need to drive somewhere I borrow a 2001 Dodge Stratus, thankfully it's not in GT5.:yuck: I do plan on buying my own car later this year though.

Whats your favorite car and what is it about it that you like so much?

Probably the Ultima GTR, something about being able to build your own car from the ground up just seems awesome to me.

Whats your other hobbies?

Aside from running my fantasy leagues[/shameless plug], I like listening to music, watching movies, reading and watching racing.

Anything else you'd like to say?

Thanks to Jordan for running what is, in my opinion, the best forum on the web.👍

Well, lets now see your lap:




You did it in...one...thirty four point four thirty one.
 
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Apologies for the delay, I was fairly busy all weekend so I didn't have much time to get a lap in. Probably didn't help that I don't drive the test track much.

That lap is with a wheel by the way, think I forgot to mention that.
 
Wow, that was a very very short interview. :eek:

We need to get more questions in, like: What is your credit card number, or if you(hypothetically) had a safe in your house where would be it be located? :P
 
Episode 8 - Famine​


Our guest for our eighth episode of Star In a Reasonably priced car is one of the founding members of the UKGTP , Please welcome Famine!

What brought you here to GTP? How long have you been a member?

Oddly, it was a combination of terrible cars and daan. I was a member of GT3Times - as it was then - at the time and running a race challenge called "Worst Car Wins". The idea of it was to win a set race in GT3's simulation mode in either the cheapest or lowest-powered car, or in the slowest time you could manage (taking advantage of the "rubber band effect" AI - which would speed up as you got ahead of them and slow down if you lagged behind them).
daan was a member of GT3Times and GTPlanet and suggested that the GTP racers would enjoy a challenge that was slightly "out there" compared to existing challenges and so I signed up.
That was, alarmingly, eight years (and a couple of weeks) ago!

How has GT5 been for you?

The game itself has been largely what I expected of it, so I'm having a whale of a time. That's not to say it's perfect - there's the usual selection of bewildering decisions and I'm a little surprised by some of the visual flaws - but it does pretty much everything they said it'd do.
PD seem to have absolutely nailed the physics model with regards to handling - there's still a question mark over very low speed stuff, such as a car parked on banking - and this means that every one of the thousand-odd (arguments aside) cars feels genuine, even without a reference point in the real world.
There are things they could and probably should have done better, but a slightly-better-looking GT4 with some more cars, a lovely physics model and an infinite number of tracks works for me. And the value of being able to make it all purple cannot be underplayed.

What has been your favourite vehicle to drive at the moment?

I enjoy pretty much everything except the X2010 - which is more like playing WipeOut than Gran Turismo.
I have done surprisingly little in A-Spec so far, as it happens, as I've been preparing for the next LAN party we hold here in the UK. I think I've most enjoyed driving the Jay Leno Tank Car, the Mitsubishi HSR-II Concept, the Lexus LF-A and the MX-5s.

How about tracks? anyone particular favorites you have?

Trial Mountain is a permanent favourite of mine - Reverse particularly - and there's no change in GT5. Grand Valley and Deep Forest too. This aside, I'd struggle. "Real" tracks are commonly too sterile and lack "flow" and fictional tracks often suffer from a case of trying too hard. Cape Ring is very much a case of trying too hard.
I'm having most fun on Course Maker circuits at present, though I'd like a bit more control over what I create therein. Having to throw out an otherwise fine track because of one terrible corner is a pest and a 24 carat example of "spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar". But there are some genuinely good tracks possible if you try - one casual GT5-playing friend driving a track we'd created in an online race remarked that it was the best track he'd driven on in the game so far.

Have you played around with photomode at all? If so, how do you like it?

I have, and I'd like Photomode a lot more if I were a better photographer! If I were better able to fine tune the settings I'd get more out of it, but that's a flaw with me rather than Photomode.
Quite a large downside to Photomode as far as I'm concerned is that it is difficult to make a Standard car look good in a full size shot - I currently have the Tank Car as my in-game avatar and it looks fine in an image that size, but far less so 1920x1080... PD have made a rod for their own back here - the Premium cars have skipped clean over the Uncanny Valley and look fabulous, and it shows the Standards up somewhat.

What is your favourite GT game and why?

Excluding GT5 - it's too young to comment and they keep tweaking it - my favourite is GTPSP. The limitations of the console mean that the GT game is stripped down to just you and the cars. The physics model they have is sublime, particularly given the fact that controls are fully digital again and the relative lack of structure means you can just pick a car and a track and dive in.
After GTPSP, it's GT3 and probably for similar reasons. They weren't able to just stuff the game full of cars and tracks so the focus was on quality, rather than quantity. Aside from there being far too much grip the physics model didn't have a lot wrong with it, the cars were truly beautiful - even GT5 isn't as significant a step up from GT4 as GT3 was from GT2, and not just because the step only applies to 20% of the cars - and there was enough there to allow everyone to drive everything, everywhere at least once.
Bizarrely, I used to think GT2 and GT1 were my favourites, but I had occasion to play them all again recently and it was remarkable just how good GT3 was compared to how I remembered it - and how poor GT2 was compared to how I remembered it. I'll trade you these rose-tinted spectacles for a gold chrome?

Any other video games do you enjoy playing?

I quite enjoy the Modern Warfare games - when not being sworn at by a hovering, invisible twelve year old castrato from Portsmouth via Compton - and LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers provide a good antidote to excessive realism. I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the Assassin's Creed games so far and I loved the uniqueness of the PSN game Flower.
My favourite games, though, are still classics from my youth. My Amiga A1200 is ready for action any time I fancy some Settlers or Sensible World of Soccer (Best. Game. EvAr) and I have a perverse fondness for Transport Tycoon.

Switching to real life, what do you drive? Is it in the game and if so, how does in compare?

None of our current real-life cars have ever been in a GT game - we have a current-generation Fiesta 1.6 ECOnetic, a BMW E39 523i Touring and a pair of Mazda MX-3 1.8 V6s, one of which is being converted to a 2.3 Miller. I've offered my MX-3 to Kazunori for modelling - in person
We have had previous cars in GT games. Our Honda Accord Type-R - now sold - appeared in GT2 and I've had a Mazda NB MX-5 1.8 and a Mazda NA MX-5 Berkeley, both of which appear in GT5 (at least in rough equivalences) as the NB MX-5 1.8 RS '98 and the NA MX-5 1.8 SR-Limited '97. While GT5 doesn't exactly capture the sense of driving them - a lot of which is done with your bottom - what it does simulate is so close to the real thing as makes no difference. At least with a wheel.

Whats your favorite car and what is it about it that you like so much?

My favourite car ever made is the homolgation version of the Ford RS200.
Aside from Group B being a different era - when men were real men (or dead) - the RS200 was built, from scratch mark you, for a single purpose. Win Group B.
Of course, reality said different and the cancellation of Group B and an oil crisis meant that Ford were left with "200" road cars to sell at £50k apiece in the middle of lean spell with absolutely no heritage whatsoever. But still, they made a purposeful machine that somehow contrived to be pretty - much prettier than its peers - and which still managed to set a world record for acceleration that even the McLaren F1 couldn't touch and which stood for more than a decade until Volkswagen's pumped-up, £5m ubercar turned up.

My favourite GT5 car - as with GT4 - is the TVR Cerbera Speed Twelve. With all the driving aids off, as in the real car, the PD team have perfectly captured the sheer terror of driving a rogue missile to an inevitable, catastrophic collision. If you don't believe a game can be scary, try it at the Nürburgring...

Whats your other hobbies?

There's other hobbies?
I enjoy (field) hockey, but I've all but given up due to a completely banjoed knee. Didn't stop me scoring the last time I played a game, mind. Similar things can be said of badminton.
The MX-3 project mentioned above - converting a 1.8 V6 into a 2.3 Miller V6 - is occupying a lot of my time currently and unifies a love for cars with a love for driving them. And bloody-mindedness - the above conversion apparently cannot be done, according to prevailing wisdom - but I doubt that can be classed as a hobby.

Anything else you'd like to say?

It is a bit strange that a website can be considered home (well... I think it's strange, but then I don't have a MyBookFaceBo page), but GTP is as much my home as my actual house is - not including the part where I think I'm in charge but I'm actually not.
Through UKGTP LANs, organised here since WasteGate's mysterious disappearance, I've met nearly thirty-or-so different GTP members, my wedding had six other GTPers (okay, so one was my wife) present and I've even turned up at the house of one having never met them before and stayed there for four days and a very large meal, 6,000 miles from home.
Not bad for an MSN group!

Indeed. Now yet again, we have a different looking lap but for those who've known our guest, we've given him permission to go plum crazy. Now lets have a look at this colorful lap:




And he does in One minute...Twenty Eight...Point...Four Seventy Nine, which makes him the new leader :cheers:
 
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