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I'm hopelessly addicted. I'm waiting for the day I come home and find that my fiance has destroyed/hidden my PS3. Lol. She knows that would be a relationship ender, but it dosen't stop her from threatening it.
Is GT5 ruining you life?
- Thread starter Soul_Driver
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- 5,632
- Malaysia
- MuzaffarMusa
No, and actually its quite the opposite! I think GT5 saved my life!!! I was on the verge of losing hope in life, until I realized that GT5 was gonna be released... and somehow I finally found the light at the end of the tunnel!
Seriously, if it weren't for GT5 I would probably be going out every day getting wasted with my friends, doing illegal activities (not gonna mention what exactly) or basically feeling depressed all the time. Yeap, call me crazy but there is nothing wrong with GT5. 
Also, who needs to worry about life when you have GT5?
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- anewdimnsion
- Requiem4aGreen
Was traveling to my parents house for thanksgiving / took my ps3 in my carry on. (dear lord was that heavy) check
keep an up to date spreadsheet of all my cars. check
keep a trading schedule on my phone to remind me what im trading and when. check
spend all my "free" time at work on gtplanet.net. check
purchased G27 in anticipation of GT5. check
purchased additional plasma to play GT5 without interuptions. check
purchased astro a40's for that crytal clear 5.1 sound. check
building a custom cockpit on my off time at work with the help of a co-worker. check
GF wakes up in the middle of the night to bitch at me for playing so late on a weekday. check
have passed out at the wheel only to wake up on the side of the road on lemans or ss7. check
loving every minute of it? check
keep an up to date spreadsheet of all my cars. check
keep a trading schedule on my phone to remind me what im trading and when. check
spend all my "free" time at work on gtplanet.net. check
purchased G27 in anticipation of GT5. check
purchased additional plasma to play GT5 without interuptions. check
purchased astro a40's for that crytal clear 5.1 sound. check
building a custom cockpit on my off time at work with the help of a co-worker. check
GF wakes up in the middle of the night to bitch at me for playing so late on a weekday. check
have passed out at the wheel only to wake up on the side of the road on lemans or ss7. check
loving every minute of it? check
- 1,116
- Gotham
- M-POWER_FTW
Gran Turismo isn't a game, it's a lifestyle.
- 5,632
- Malaysia
- MuzaffarMusa
on contrary, GT5 is life!
- 7,135
- Jakarta
this game doesn't ruin my life, however, it doesn't really save me too, i was hoping that maybe i won't be depressed anymore after playing this game, turns out i still kinda hopeless in life, it's not that this game has many flaws or anything because i loved this game to death but still a game won't cure your depression
GinoLicious
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- 344
Eh man I feel the same way you do, but dont feel like the game is ruining my life. I bought it the day it came out and have been playing it ever since. All i need to complete are my endurance races on both a and b spec. I have started both, but thats all i have left. I enjoy playing it everyday, let alone getting my b spec driver in there for experience.
- 1,942
- United States
- RaceManiacGT1
Work week is painful as I am on 4-5 hour sleep now since I pretty much get off work, go home, fire up GT5, play some, eat, play til-1-2am, shower, sleep, go to work then repeat....
- 104
its ok, i havent turned off my ps3 in 2 weeks. (nearing 3 now. lol)
cant say its really doing anything to my life. still go about my day in much the same way, i just tend to start a bspec endurance before i step out... although now that ive hit level 40 there just now, i dont see much of a point anymore.
the game is addicting though. like you, i havent tried online yet, however ive started to try drifting, and thats a ton of fun and distracting me further from going for online races. :\
- 1,246
- belgium
- bertvw
I must say i like his OP. It is for once a positive negativism. Not a rant thread or anything else.
Just a thread made for the people who actually can't stop the game.
Wich is a far more nicer view thread with same headed people then some others here.
Please, don't start about dupes inhere...
Or trades, we're not in the trade part of the forum...
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- Toronto, ON
- lator-illa
not ruined but it's definitely made it more stressful.
Before GT5, I would get AT LEAST 6 hours of sleep. Nowadays, my average is in the 3-4 range. With an 8-4 job, and workouts, and of course with the wife, time is hard to come by with GT5. I mean I still play AT LEAST an hour or two a day but I find it's not enough. Sometimes I just wanna do hot laps in the Nurburgring...or go online...or do the seasonal events...or do the time trials, etc etc. Especially when you do the time trials...that thing takes up all of my GT5 time for the day. I wish I didn't have to work and just have a steady flow of income. lol
Before GT5, I would get AT LEAST 6 hours of sleep. Nowadays, my average is in the 3-4 range. With an 8-4 job, and workouts, and of course with the wife, time is hard to come by with GT5. I mean I still play AT LEAST an hour or two a day but I find it's not enough. Sometimes I just wanna do hot laps in the Nurburgring...or go online...or do the seasonal events...or do the time trials, etc etc. Especially when you do the time trials...that thing takes up all of my GT5 time for the day. I wish I didn't have to work and just have a steady flow of income. lol
- 28,331
- Brooklyn, NY
- KR_Viper
- I Renown I
I must say i like his OP. It is for once a positive negativism. Not a rant thread or anything else.
Just a thread made for the people who actually can't stop the game.
Wich is a far more nicer view thread with same headed people then some others here.
Please, don't start about dupes inhere...
I have a Formula GT and X1 Carbon Prototype if you're interested.
Oh, wait....
- 2,325
- Fareham, UK
- paoloevans
It should come with an addictiveness warning for sure!! Im lucky I have a understanding girlfriend!!
I wish I could play it long enough each day to become addicted but my missus complains all the time when I have an hour on the game and I have a screaming baby who is cutting her first teeth. I remember being a student when the first GT came out and literally spending 18 hour sessions on the game with my friends, I loved those days. I even converted my garage into a games rooms to have a bit of spare time on the ps3 and PC but it's being used more as a games room for the baby !!!! I think I've done well to get to lvl 17 on A Spec so far with half an hour play time each day.
My ps3 had only open for GT5 since 24 November 2010. I think almost everyday. Even sometime I not drive. I still open it for my bob to do the job. And leave it there,lol. Now I'm level 31 both A and B spec. I buy another LED TV just for my GT5 and move the pS3 to guest room. So will not interupt my gf watch her tv or anything. The guest room is now my new world for I don't know until when. I just win the nascar open season online, just know if you hit 20 million, it is the limit. guess what now...shopping spree.
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- mponsig
Is GT5 ruining your life?
Thats the question and for many here, I see the answer is very similiar in a lot of ways but I have a little diddy for you all if you'll oblidge.
On November 24th, I was at gamestop at 9:59 and the first one in for my game, I had already purchased a G27 and Evo Playseat for 2010 FI but also in anticipation of GT5. Ever since, life in GT5 is wonderful but the rest of my roles and responsabilites have been in the crapper. "your 40 yrs old and playing video games?" my wife, one night she awoke as I came into bed at 2:00 am and said "what are you doing down there, watching porn?", I said, "no way, its better than porn hunny now go back to bed."
Visions of sugarplums dance through their heads? How about visions of McLaren F1's dancing through my head. Every spare moment I have has been a struggle to get down the basement for some racing, tuning and purchasing.
Lately I have felt guilty and just reading this thread made me realize that just this week, I had committed a horrible crime, I built a custom playseat for my son so he could race with me as he is too small to race in my seat, with a spare wheel I had and some imagination and skill, I built what I think is a better seat than mine, heck he has a cup holder! Then I started using him, my own beloved son to go to mommy after homework is done and beg and plead to play some GT5 with daddy so he can have "daddy time". one way that is looked upon by the average person as a guy being such a great dad and building a custom playseat for his son, but sumbiliminally, I am a pusher, an addict crazed to such a level of using others for my own satisfaction!
We need a GT5 10 step program here!
ahhhh, really, the game is great, I do try to get every spare minute to play but its late at night for an hour or two at best. It was worse weeks ago but I did truthfully realize, I was getting a little too obsessed. Just reached lvl 22 a-spec and at 24 b-spec. Lots left to do..........................I still have 6 races left in F1 season to complete but GT5 has not left my console since Nov 24th.
Thats the question and for many here, I see the answer is very similiar in a lot of ways but I have a little diddy for you all if you'll oblidge.
On November 24th, I was at gamestop at 9:59 and the first one in for my game, I had already purchased a G27 and Evo Playseat for 2010 FI but also in anticipation of GT5. Ever since, life in GT5 is wonderful but the rest of my roles and responsabilites have been in the crapper. "your 40 yrs old and playing video games?" my wife, one night she awoke as I came into bed at 2:00 am and said "what are you doing down there, watching porn?", I said, "no way, its better than porn hunny now go back to bed."
Visions of sugarplums dance through their heads? How about visions of McLaren F1's dancing through my head. Every spare moment I have has been a struggle to get down the basement for some racing, tuning and purchasing.
Lately I have felt guilty and just reading this thread made me realize that just this week, I had committed a horrible crime, I built a custom playseat for my son so he could race with me as he is too small to race in my seat, with a spare wheel I had and some imagination and skill, I built what I think is a better seat than mine, heck he has a cup holder! Then I started using him, my own beloved son to go to mommy after homework is done and beg and plead to play some GT5 with daddy so he can have "daddy time". one way that is looked upon by the average person as a guy being such a great dad and building a custom playseat for his son, but sumbiliminally, I am a pusher, an addict crazed to such a level of using others for my own satisfaction!
We need a GT5 10 step program here!
ahhhh, really, the game is great, I do try to get every spare minute to play but its late at night for an hour or two at best. It was worse weeks ago but I did truthfully realize, I was getting a little too obsessed. Just reached lvl 22 a-spec and at 24 b-spec. Lots left to do..........................I still have 6 races left in F1 season to complete but GT5 has not left my console since Nov 24th.
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- Leeds, W. Yorks
- TopGearFTW
Well, I failed the first year of college thanks to Rock Band, so since then I've made sure to never make a game take priority. I do play GT5 a fair bit, but I always put my schoolwork first (sounds cheesy I know), and after resitting the year I'm now one of the top 2 or 3 students in all my lessons
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- opladener
- srsly ?
GT5 isn't ruining my life, more the other way round 
Between full-time work, school, sports and other things I have less time for videogames than ever before. Especially evening school is taking a lot of my time with all the presentations, papers and stuff I have to do.
But its gonna be worth it when I'm finished. Screw videogames until then - they're pretty low on the priorities list right now.
I 've got to get my Suzuki ready for the motorcycle season, too. Bought new mirrors, rear light turn signals, and rear shock. So I have to install all that, and bring my forks to a tuning company to have them overhauled.
But of course I played quite a lot over the holidays, not much else to do with all the snow around anyway.
Between full-time work, school, sports and other things I have less time for videogames than ever before. Especially evening school is taking a lot of my time with all the presentations, papers and stuff I have to do.
But its gonna be worth it when I'm finished. Screw videogames until then - they're pretty low on the priorities list right now.
I 've got to get my Suzuki ready for the motorcycle season, too. Bought new mirrors, rear light turn signals, and rear shock. So I have to install all that, and bring my forks to a tuning company to have them overhauled.
But of course I played quite a lot over the holidays, not much else to do with all the snow around anyway.
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- Oerlikon
Been reading these forums a while now...very usefull and this thread caught my eye and made me smile.
Im 41..I was never off the PS1...early hrs most nights before I retired to bed.
Then I bought a PC and was on it less but still on occasion.
Then February 2004 I discovered on a demo disc for PC...something called EvE Online and my life changed.
I see people on here saying that for the last few weeks etc etc...
Try for the last 6 years...the first two of which I can honestly say were work...and EvE...nothing else. The next two nearly as bad and the rest not quite so bad .
I was completly hooked and still play it now but no where near as much as back then.
I dont think GT5 (Or any game for that matter) will ever drag me into them as much again but I certainly am enjoying it I must admit and lose an few hours a week on it.
Im 41..I was never off the PS1...early hrs most nights before I retired to bed.
Then I bought a PC and was on it less but still on occasion.
Then February 2004 I discovered on a demo disc for PC...something called EvE Online and my life changed.
I see people on here saying that for the last few weeks etc etc...
Try for the last 6 years...the first two of which I can honestly say were work...and EvE...nothing else. The next two nearly as bad and the rest not quite so bad .
I was completly hooked and still play it now but no where near as much as back then.
I dont think GT5 (Or any game for that matter) will ever drag me into them as much again but I certainly am enjoying it I must admit and lose an few hours a week on it.
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- Toronto, ON
- lator-illa
Been reading these forums a while now...very usefull and this thread caught my eye and made me smile.
Im 41..I was never off the PS1...early hrs most nights before I retired to bed.
Then I bought a PC and was on it less but still on occasion.
Then February 2004 I discovered on a demo disc for PC...something called EvE Online and my life changed.
I see people on here saying that for the last few weeks etc etc...
Try for the last 6 years...the first two of which I can honestly say were work...and EvE...nothing else. The next two nearly as bad and the rest not quite so bad .
I was completly hooked and still play it now but no where near as much as back then.
I dont think GT5 (Or any game for that matter) will ever drag me into them as much again but I certainly am enjoying it I must admit and lose an few hours a week on it.
hehe in my case similar to yours, it was CS beta to CS 1.5 for me. Talk about addiction. All I did was sleep and play CS all day and would take an occasional break to eat.
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- amenasce
Not really. I do play a lot but it's usually Bspec so i can go spend time with my wife. I was playing a lot the first week but then the loading time, the ugly standard cars, the stupid challenges turned me off. Im lvl 28 in A spec and almost 30 in Bspec. I dont think i will bother with most of the A Spec endurance as i dont want to race for hours without pausing and i dont want to leave the frail PS3 on for days.
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- Flying_Pumkins
Hell ya ....taking all my time
And congratulation to everyone who still (like me) whit his girlfriend... we have to be master in time organisation to keep working / take care of her / and finish those damn A-spec/B-spec the quickly possible. Or we are simply some amazing ****er!!!
And congratulation to everyone who still (like me) whit his girlfriend... we have to be master in time organisation to keep working / take care of her / and finish those damn A-spec/B-spec the quickly possible. Or we are simply some amazing ****er!!!
- 10,555
- Columbia, MD.
- Parnelli_Bones
GT5 isn't ruining my life, more the other way round
Yeah, this! I'm at work almost everyday, so it's more like work ruins my gaming life more than the other way around. I'm really hoping I get the flu this season
so I have a valid excuse to just sit around gaming all day for several days! 
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this thread is amazing, i do this too, i wish my gf could drive though because she loves Driving on GT5 but she just bounces off the walls, i've even started playing the theme tune from american pie ( bouncing off the walls again) when she starts playing then she throws the controller at me ( yes SIAXISS controllers are tough and still work after being soaked in whiskey )
anyway GT5 ruin life HAHAH just makes non GT5 time Painfull mostly due to lack of sleep though i must admit i'm on weekend now and i've just powerd off GT5 to sit back and relax will be booting it up again in 30 mins or so though haha
anyway GT5 ruin life HAHAH just makes non GT5 time Painfull mostly due to lack of sleep though i must admit i'm on weekend now and i've just powerd off GT5 to sit back and relax will be booting it up again in 30 mins or so though haha
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- variable_chaos
The only reason I'm so far in the game (A 25 B 36) is because of Thanksgiving and taking the week between Christmas and New Years off. All I do is start B-Spec endurance races anymore. Only done 4-5 (short) A-Spec races in the last week.
I would say that life is ruining my GT5.
I would say that life is ruining my GT5.
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- chilininja
Yes, GT5 ruines my life totally right now because I'm on holiday and I play maybe even 6h/day. But I guess that when my holiday ends my playing time gets a lot smaller.
B Quiet N Drive
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- GunsRazorsKnifes
Ummmm..... Ask my wife haha.
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