Import GT5 Garage to GT6...
- Thread starter MRMR37
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- Paul2007
If this was an option in Arcade mode then it would be fine. I certainly would not want it for A-Spec as part of the fun is having to build up from a basic car to the super sexy racing cars.
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- TEHGAMER13
- Man of Mister
I'd go for a fresh start, though when I'm online, i can pull out some cars that were in GT5 that might not be in GT6.
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- kudos00
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- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
That's sort of where my suggestion was heading, and I think it works very well. Especially if we consider that we might not see a lot of Standards return; having people import their massive 1000+ car lists from GT5 would be a bit extreme, but "loyalty bonuses" for having a well-progressed GT5 save don't bother me at all.
Let people play how they want to play; "cheating" is a bit of a misnomer in a game series that has an entire mode dedicated to not letting the gamer race. I don't see much of a difference between somebody letting a widget accumulate a few million credits from a bumbling Bob and getting some bonus cars, other than less likelihood of a YLOD.
As for the suggestion of allowing it only for Arcade Mode; oh dear, I hope not. I'd rather we get access to the majority of the cars in the game in Arcade Mode right off the bat; make us work for them in GT/Sim Mode if we want to modify them in any way, sure, but don't lock 90% of the car lineup away from people.
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- Ziz528
Personally I'd like to see something like a 200,000 credit limit on what you can import over.
So you could have lots of cheap cheerful cars, or one SLS AMG for example.
So you could have lots of cheap cheerful cars, or one SLS AMG for example.
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Shoe67
Because you somehow already know how often the SLS AMG can be used in GT6's carrer mode, right? Unless you have some inside knowledge of GT6, you are making a huge assumption.
I honestly don't see the big deal about being able to import cars or money. In Forza Horizon, you are given the option to have some free cars as loyalty rewards for playing FM3/FM4, the most powerful of these being the Gumpert Apllo. But even then, the game is not made ridiculously easy just because you have these cars. Events are restricted by class, so just because you own a Gumpert Apllo, doesn't mean you will be able to eat the competition for breakfast with it right from the start of the game. It will be a similar case with GT6 if the career mode is like the previous GT games. Sure, there's the Sunday Cup where you can use any car, but are you really given a huge advantage for winning that event?
I also don't see how people are against this when CE and SE owners of GT5 were given the option to receive the chromeline and stealth cars for FREE at the very start of the game and how GT5 automatically puts DLC cars into your delivery truck once you download them.
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- tmitch45
There are pros and cons each way but if you race in a league it will take ages for everyone to get the cars back to be able to race. How long would it take for example starting with nothing to be able to afford the SuperGT cars.
I would be in favour of Say carrying over 5 cars or the credits to buy these cars credited to your account.
I would be in favour of Say carrying over 5 cars or the credits to buy these cars credited to your account.
TextRich
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- BFBullpup
I agree with you on this.
As for the thread itself, I see GT in the same way I see Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon games. Eventually a new one will be out and you will have to start winning and collecting again. I think a fresh start will be the easiest route (no licensing issues transferring GT5 cars), and it would reinvigorate GT5 players as well.
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- OE Exorcet
1. Impossible if it can't enter any of them.
2. Who cares, people should do what they want.
3. If you find it no fun, don't import, but let me import because I certainly would find it fun.
Restrictions should be optional. For one, racing the AI may be boring again, so being able to overpower them in races would be a very good thing. Secondly, being able to enter silly cars into a race (X1 in Sunday cup, etc) will add variety to the game.
Transferring cars has nothing to do with licensing, having the cars available in game does. And wasting time grinding for things I should have from the start sounds the opposite of invigorating, especially to players who just want to race. The number at the end of the name is just becoming an unfriendly reminder of how many times you've had to do this already.
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- noteam69
Not to have a money limit like on Gt4 would be nice.
TextRich
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Incorrect. Let's say Chevrolet ends their licensing agreement with PD right now, so none of their cars can legally appear in GT6. Why would PD want to risk a lawsuit allowing Camaros and Corvettes to appear in GT6 (via GT5-GT6 transfer) when they would have no legal right to do that?
Best case scenario would be that only SOME of the cars will be able to legally be transferred to the new game. That would be better than nothing, but it won't as rewarding as GT5: Prologue was (as no car was subtracted from GT5
for GT5's release).Due the nature of this game (car collecting and leveling up) there will always be people, including you, who do not want to go back to zero for the brand new GT6 game, even if it's for the PS4 rather than the PS3. This is one of those agree-to-disagree situations.
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If Chevy did that it would be a non issue, there would not Chevys in GT6, so you wouldn't be able to transfer anything.
You can't actually transfer anything. The cars need to be modeled in both games. When you import a garage, you're actually just making a duplicate garage that is rebuild with GT6 cars instead of GT5 cars. Your save does not contain any information on car models or performance, it's just a list.
If importing is option, who has to disagree? Everyone gets what they want.
TextRich
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In that case, if GT6 doesn't have those cars, they would not show up in the game and be selectable. However, even if a list of cars is transferred/imported rather than their stats and models, I'm not too sure P.D. would be keen to risk having expert PS3 hackers report to those unlicensed car companies that P.D. had been keeping information on those cars in code. Best case scenario would be for P.D. to program the GT6 import to eliminate ALL unlicensed (at the time of release/version) cars from the player's GT5 list.
So, it looks like an import would be possible. It will be up to P.D. There are pros and cons to allowing imports, to be honest. The biggest con would be that GT5 players would have a massive leg up on new GT adopters playing GT6 upon the game's release. It shouldn't be an issue for offline racing but it may create a schism in the online racing portion of the game. If I were P.D. I would want online racing to be "equal" for everyone from day one to encourage more sales at the time of release.
If an import will happen, great, personally I can see myself transferring my own cars to the new game. If it's not going to happen, I'm still going to buy and play the game the day it is released just because it is GT6!!!
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That much is true.
This isn't. No one will care that the GT5 save lists cars not licensed for GT6 because the GT5 save is for GT5, and the only licensing applied to it is GT5's. Even if Chevy pulls out from GT6, having a Corvette on your save will be completely fine.
That should honestly be less of an issue online than offline. Online, lobbies have race rules, so no matter how large someone's garage is, they don't have any advantages over anyone else, not even someone who just started. And in GT5's case, you get recommended cars. The racing will be equal by default. PD would have to go out of there way to mess up the game for it to be otherwise.
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I'm not seeing how that is an issue. GT5 has information about cars that apparently PD did not have the licence to include in the game from the GTPSP transfer thing, and Ford and Hyundai haven't thrown a huge lawsuit at Sony. GT2 talked about Porsche and Lamborghini at length in the text descriptions for cars, and nothing came of it then either.
For that matter, GT3 had a fully functional Porsche 911 model hidden in the game's code that there was no way in hell was licenced, and Porsche didn't sue Sony over that (to say nothing of all of the other hidden stuff). So long as PD did their due diligence to keep unlicenced content from reaching the player (even if they put it in the game for compatibility purposes or because licencing falls through at the last minute, which is exactly what happened with the Nomad Lamborghini in GT3), they would be likely absolved of any situation where they would be open to civil liabilities.
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Yes. Just because you don't want it (I don't want it), other people might. It's not like the game will start up saying "YOU MUST IMPORT YOUR GT5 GARAGE NAOOOOOO!!"
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