I First Got Into The GT Series With GT2; Did You?

[Parnelli Bone]

Sorry for being ignorant, but what is a scratch 'n' sniff disc? Is it a broken disc or something?

I actually started a thread a long time ago because I read about this..hold on, let me see if I can find it....ah here it is...the 'Smell of Gran Turismo"

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=62198&highlight=The+Smell+of+GT

 

[Falcon787B]

Right, my 2 cents.

Well it musta been 2001 or 2002, I cant remember which birthday it was, either my 10th or 11th birthday, but my dad's old friend got me Driver 2 as a present, not knowing that I alreayd had it. So he took it back, and wound up finding GT2 about 2 months later. Since then Ive neverl ooked back...I still remember my first ever car, a delapidated, dark blue 1992 Honda Prelude VTEC 👍 In those early days I was an overkiller though. Ive always been slightly behind with the new consoles - when the PS1 was all the rage back in like 1998-99, I had a Sega Mega Drive and then got a PS1, then didnt get a PS2 until like 2003-4 ish? And im still waiting on the PS3, although to be honest Imma blag steal and borrow to get it once GT5 comes out

But i tihnk Parnelli has a good point. They all have a different feel. I played GT1 a little and its a bit more hardcore. GT2 is just a fantastic game, still my favourite, and thanks to this forum I still play it daily, not to complete the game itself, but I just do it for fun, simply because the cars you get just arent available anywhere else, sometimes not even in other GTs. GT3 is a great game for a quick bite, plus its the easiest in the seires to drift on - i remember me and my fellow GT-er friend Sam doing D1 style drifting round Midfield in a pair of Astons - good times also GT3 appeals to me when I just want mad horsepower, because a lot of cars on there can be tuned to over 1000hp, and my Viper currently has like 1100hp or something?
GT4 is great for realism, and the whole A-spec points thing is a big plus.

 

[MadMikeXP]

Well I got GT 1 and a new PSX back in 1999 when I was 19.
I heard the game was quite good coming from, Tech TV. I skipped the arcade disc and started with the simulation disc, man alive it was rockin my house all night long....
2000 I got GT 2 and I was very stunned and it actually had my favorite car the Beetle!
Unfortuanentley my dead pyschotic rottweiler ate my GT collection as well my PSX.

I got my hands on a PS2 last month along with GT 2 and GT3 and I am having a blast with GT3 as some of you may know from my posts in the GT 3 forum.

 

[Fujiwara-kun]

I was young and started with GT2 too.
I found it the best racing at the time and loved it with all the cars.

At the momment I have GT2 on PSP to pla anytime

 

[The-BNA]

GT1 back when I was 8

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Unfortuanentley my dead pyschotic rottweiler ate my GT collection as well my PSX.

wHaT????

 

[homeforsummer]

I started with GT2 At that point I'd had a PSX for maybe a few months, and the first few games I had were the original Colin McRae Rally and TOCA2, both of which I loved. Bought GT2 the day it came out because I'd played GT1 on my brother's friend's PSX and also played the Rome demo that came with a PSX magazine.

My first car in the game was a dark green Honda CRX SiR which I immediately started winning races in... until it all went wrong. In my naivety, I fitted "standard" tyres, or whatever the "realistic" ones were, because they were cheap and I thought they'd do pretty much the same as racing ones. How wrong I was... I was losing races like crazy in my understeering CRX. I didn't realise it was the tyres that were doing it until after I'd sold it to fund a bright red Celica GT4 to which I fitted white speedline wheels! My winning ways returned...

Really enjoyed the game though, and I've been a GT fan ever since. The only games I've never actually owned in the series are GT1 and GT4 Concept, though I've played both (and rented the latter, which I completed with all golds within the 2 day rental period!).

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I started with GT2 At that point I'd had a PSX for maybe a few months, and the first few games I had were the original Colin McRae Rally and TOCA2, both of which I loved. Bought GT2 the day it came out because I'd played GT1 on my brother's friend's PSX and also played the Rome demo that came with a PSX magazine.

My first car in the game was a dark green Honda CRX SiR which I immediately started winning races in... until it all went wrong. In my naivety, I fitted "standard" tyres, or whatever the "realistic" ones were, because they were cheap and I thought they'd do pretty much the same as racing ones. How wrong I was... I was losing races like crazy in my understeering CRX. I didn't realise it was the tyres that were doing it until after I'd sold it to fund a bright red Celica GT4 to which I fitted white speedline wheels! My winning ways returned...

I tried to use simulation tires exactly once...in the Trail Mountain enduro on a 240Z. Never again. I occasionally do use N2 or N3 tires in GT4, tho...to kill off some advantage (or just for fun, or to "simulate" a car in its natural state from the dealership).

Really enjoyed the game though, and I've been a GT fan ever since. The only games I've never actually owned in the series are GT1 and GT4 Concept, though I've played both (and rented the latter, which I completed with all golds within the 2 day rental period!).

Nice. You must be good, dood.

 

[CamryFan]

My brother had a PS1 and GT1 and that was my first time I had ever played GT. But later on the PS1 went away and I got my own and that's when I got GT2, and also the first time I actually got into the series.

 

[stinsting]

I Started with GT2 but then went to GT3 and bought GT1 last.

 

[Kingofweasles]

I got GT1 as a belated christmas present when i was seven, and i've been playing ever since! I love, own and play all the Gran Turismo games to this day, and i couldn't be happier!

 

[tvr4life]

i started out with gt2 last summer
its still all i got

 

[kyiran92]

Started with GT1 as a Christmas present when I was ten (16 now), bought GT2 the next week, and from then on was hooked.

 

[TakeshiSkunk]

Started with GT2, my first car was a red FC3S...god I played that game a ton :X

 

[I-ROC]

I wanted a game that you could see that car brake lights.....lmao. Seriously, I did, So I started with GT2 and a Prelude, and then beat it, got a whole crap load of Camaros, went to GT4, and now I cant find a memory card.

 

[Vander]

I started with Gt2 when we rented it from our local video store back when it came out, I ended up keeping it for two months, never did pay the late fees At first we didn't realize we could buy used cars so the only car we could find for our 10,000 was the Fiat 500r, needless to say it took a while to start winning races. Personally I felt GT3 was a bit of a let down after playing GT2 but GT4 restored most of my faith in the series.

 

[JohnBM01]

I didn't. I think that I got Gran Turismo 1 before GT2 even came out. I had one of those PS1 Memory Cards that had multiple states. I couldn't save GT1 and GT2 data on the same memory card then. My GT adventures began with GT1.

 

[marknemesis]

i started with gt1 demo xD i played a lot.. but then i got gt2 instead when it came out