Last day of GT5
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I'll probably have a rather emotional farewell endurance race at one of the original tracks like Trial Mountain, High Speed Ring or Grand Valley Speedway (my three personal favorite original tracks). Then I'll put my copy of GT5 back in its Collectors Edition box and stick it somewhere that's easily visible. I know I'm not alone in saying that GT5 has marked a long and illustrious era of my gaming career and it'll be sad to see it go.
Then I'll wake up with a copy of GT6 on my doorstep and all will be forgotten as I prepare to go on another epic journey!
Then I'll wake up with a copy of GT6 on my doorstep and all will be forgotten as I prepare to go on another epic journey!
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- MickXD872
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- photonrider
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- liampage123
Well I am definitely going to reflect back on what I highlighted in this video I made.
With GT6 just a couple of days away, this thread (& others on that page (Pg 408)) made me smile...
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- pakiman740
I am going to play the song "Get Lucky" and take 1 final lap on the old nurburgring ring, at night no rain and as the song is ending and right before the end of the straight away i will turn off my ps3 #GoodbyeGT5
Stumps_GTI
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- Stumps_GTI
I shall be doing exactly this. 👍I have just installed the complete GT5 (all updates too) info onto a new console, so I'll be able to compare.
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- Slicer_Bry
Take some car I have not driven yet for a run. And some old favourites.
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- Adrian, Mich.
- cargorat323
- CargoRatt
Just took the disc out of my PS3 for the first, and last, time in years. Goodbye GT5, its been a great, great ride. 
On to the 6. Peace.
On to the 6. Peace.
ZedMan1996
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- ZedMan1996
Mine is as follows: (Originally posted on Facebook by me)
"I had the last 5 laps on Gran Turismo 5 on Trial Mountain in my Peugeot 905 LM Race Car, It was simply nostalgic.
Also Trial Mountain being in all Gran turismo games was always my most favourite track and always has been.
Looking back in the past with these amazing racers from all over the globe.
From rally racing to endurance races, from drifting to sprint races & time trial monsters.
I had so many memorable days and races on this game, it all came flooding back, even racing against some GT Academy finalists for fun and laughs.
GT Academy 2012 was very successful and I nearly got in to GT Academy Finals, just 80 places away from the big time. I honed most of my skills at GT Academy 2012.
GT Academy 2013 was a rough tough learning curve pushing your driving right to the limits on a track nobody really drove on.
I made so many great great friends on Gran Turismo 5 and we still race even today.
Getting the wheel setup for Gran Turismo was like making it into a new game, you should have seen my face that day hahahah!
And I end the last lap doing 6 revs in the Peugeot 905, to represent the 6 in 1996 (the year I was born)
Backed out the menu to hear my favourite song just happen to play
The Cult -Sanctuary
A perfect song to end the game and let the memories of Gran Turismo flood in in with such nostalgia. I turned off the system right when the song stopped.
I now add to the collection of Gran Turismo series to my shelf where they shall stay preserved.
Thank you Kazunori Yamauchi and team Polyphony Digital for such great games.
Thanks for playing."
"I had the last 5 laps on Gran Turismo 5 on Trial Mountain in my Peugeot 905 LM Race Car, It was simply nostalgic.
Also Trial Mountain being in all Gran turismo games was always my most favourite track and always has been.
Looking back in the past with these amazing racers from all over the globe.
From rally racing to endurance races, from drifting to sprint races & time trial monsters.
I had so many memorable days and races on this game, it all came flooding back, even racing against some GT Academy finalists for fun and laughs.
GT Academy 2012 was very successful and I nearly got in to GT Academy Finals, just 80 places away from the big time. I honed most of my skills at GT Academy 2012.
GT Academy 2013 was a rough tough learning curve pushing your driving right to the limits on a track nobody really drove on.
I made so many great great friends on Gran Turismo 5 and we still race even today.
Getting the wheel setup for Gran Turismo was like making it into a new game, you should have seen my face that day hahahah!
And I end the last lap doing 6 revs in the Peugeot 905, to represent the 6 in 1996 (the year I was born)
Backed out the menu to hear my favourite song just happen to play
The Cult -Sanctuary
A perfect song to end the game and let the memories of Gran Turismo flood in in with such nostalgia. I turned off the system right when the song stopped.
I now add to the collection of Gran Turismo series to my shelf where they shall stay preserved.
Thank you Kazunori Yamauchi and team Polyphony Digital for such great games.
Thanks for playing."
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- GyroxOpex
Well, I've done it. The last race (or at least one of the last) I'll ever have in GT5.
And it was a race to remember.
You'll notice in my above post that I said I'd have a "a rather emotional farewell endurance race at one of the original tracks like Trial Mountain, High Speed Ring or Grand Valley Speedway (my three personal favorite original tracks)." I finally chose Grand Valley Speedway because I've always had a special connection with it, and I knew it would make my last race immediately memorable.
It was a 60-lap race in Red Bulls. I jumped out to an early lead, lapping the competition within the first ten laps. I knew I'd win by several laps, so I just decided to go crazy, thrashing the world's fastest car for the final time in GT5. What happened during the race? What didn't happen would be the shorter answer. During the hour-and-nine-minutes-long race, I was involved in an accident, made a couple of huge saves, and even offed it bigtime heading into the second hairpin at the start of my second tire stint. It was as if the game was determined to make my final moments in it just as fiery and nail-biting as anything I'd ever seen. It wanted to go out on a loud, screaming, 300-mph high note. The whole race was full of daring, heart-in-your-mouth moments, and even the AI seemed to get in on it, staging numerous hellacious battles amongst themselves.
Towards the end of the race, my brake pedal decided to throw its hat into the ring, locking up going into Turn 2 and causing me to park it in the gravel trap. I sat there for half a minute watching my 4-lap lead dwindle away before I decided to switch to a controller. So I picked up my DualShock and proceeded to off it again on the next hairpin. Quickly I removed and reinstalled my G25's USB plug into the port on the front of my PS3. The race went off without further incident, and I finished my GT5 career by setting the fastest lap of the race.
Then I got up and went for a snack. The entire time I knew what must come next: five Polish (reverse) victory laps, one for every Gran Turismo game up to GT5. The end of my GT5 career was at hand, just a few minutes away.
On the way back to my room, I got the feeling that this is it. The entire game had been leading up to this moment. You know the feeling: it's the same one you get at the end of every great, epic game. The way back was slow and tense, and as I sat down for my final GT5 session, a wave of emotion washed over me. Three years of playing, and it was all down to this. I had to give the game a fitting farewell.
So, once again, I chose the X2010 at Grand Valley, but this time in a time trial. As soon as I got to the line, I whipped the car around and did 5 laps at 55 miles an hour, savoring every last moment. The crowd seemed more silent than usual, once again as if the game too knew that this was the end. Finally, on the next-to-last tight corner (what would ordinarily be the second hairpin), I opened the taps, threw my car up the loose S-bends, and then slung it hard as I dared around Turn 2 and flew across the finish line as fast as I could muster. Since it was the last finish line I was ever going to cross in GT5, I wanted to do it with the engine screaming and the throttle wide open.
But I wasn't done yet. Lining my car up with the pit wall, I proceeded to scrawl "BYE GT5" in tire marks all down the front straight, and then drove around to GVS' iconic blue bridge, where I wrote "HI GT6."
My work done and my career in GT5 over, I drove my X2010 back to the pits, quit the race, and then proceeded to favorite all of my last 5 replays and export them to the XMB. Then I took my copy of GT5 out of the PlayStation, put it back in the box, and stared at it as the final scene from the M.A.S.H. finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" played out.
After playing the game almost daily for the past three years, all I have to say is, what a game. What a game. Like I said in my post above, GT5 has marked a long and illustrious era in my career as a gamer and a car fan. When I played GT5P, I knew GT5 was going to be something. I got the same feeling watching the GT5P intro for the first time as I always do when watching the GT1 intro. There was that magic in the air, that feeling that what ensued was going to be something special. And GT5, for me at least, kept that magic throughout the whole run.
And I know GT6 is going to be even better.
So I guess I'll end this long-winded post with the same thing I scrawled on the track at GVS, using my own car as a pen:
BYE GT5
HI GT6
And it was a race to remember.
You'll notice in my above post that I said I'd have a "a rather emotional farewell endurance race at one of the original tracks like Trial Mountain, High Speed Ring or Grand Valley Speedway (my three personal favorite original tracks)." I finally chose Grand Valley Speedway because I've always had a special connection with it, and I knew it would make my last race immediately memorable.
It was a 60-lap race in Red Bulls. I jumped out to an early lead, lapping the competition within the first ten laps. I knew I'd win by several laps, so I just decided to go crazy, thrashing the world's fastest car for the final time in GT5. What happened during the race? What didn't happen would be the shorter answer. During the hour-and-nine-minutes-long race, I was involved in an accident, made a couple of huge saves, and even offed it bigtime heading into the second hairpin at the start of my second tire stint. It was as if the game was determined to make my final moments in it just as fiery and nail-biting as anything I'd ever seen. It wanted to go out on a loud, screaming, 300-mph high note. The whole race was full of daring, heart-in-your-mouth moments, and even the AI seemed to get in on it, staging numerous hellacious battles amongst themselves.
Towards the end of the race, my brake pedal decided to throw its hat into the ring, locking up going into Turn 2 and causing me to park it in the gravel trap. I sat there for half a minute watching my 4-lap lead dwindle away before I decided to switch to a controller. So I picked up my DualShock and proceeded to off it again on the next hairpin. Quickly I removed and reinstalled my G25's USB plug into the port on the front of my PS3. The race went off without further incident, and I finished my GT5 career by setting the fastest lap of the race.
Then I got up and went for a snack. The entire time I knew what must come next: five Polish (reverse) victory laps, one for every Gran Turismo game up to GT5. The end of my GT5 career was at hand, just a few minutes away.
On the way back to my room, I got the feeling that this is it. The entire game had been leading up to this moment. You know the feeling: it's the same one you get at the end of every great, epic game. The way back was slow and tense, and as I sat down for my final GT5 session, a wave of emotion washed over me. Three years of playing, and it was all down to this. I had to give the game a fitting farewell.
So, once again, I chose the X2010 at Grand Valley, but this time in a time trial. As soon as I got to the line, I whipped the car around and did 5 laps at 55 miles an hour, savoring every last moment. The crowd seemed more silent than usual, once again as if the game too knew that this was the end. Finally, on the next-to-last tight corner (what would ordinarily be the second hairpin), I opened the taps, threw my car up the loose S-bends, and then slung it hard as I dared around Turn 2 and flew across the finish line as fast as I could muster. Since it was the last finish line I was ever going to cross in GT5, I wanted to do it with the engine screaming and the throttle wide open.
But I wasn't done yet. Lining my car up with the pit wall, I proceeded to scrawl "BYE GT5" in tire marks all down the front straight, and then drove around to GVS' iconic blue bridge, where I wrote "HI GT6."
My work done and my career in GT5 over, I drove my X2010 back to the pits, quit the race, and then proceeded to favorite all of my last 5 replays and export them to the XMB. Then I took my copy of GT5 out of the PlayStation, put it back in the box, and stared at it as the final scene from the M.A.S.H. finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" played out.
After playing the game almost daily for the past three years, all I have to say is, what a game. What a game. Like I said in my post above, GT5 has marked a long and illustrious era in my career as a gamer and a car fan. When I played GT5P, I knew GT5 was going to be something. I got the same feeling watching the GT5P intro for the first time as I always do when watching the GT1 intro. There was that magic in the air, that feeling that what ensued was going to be something special. And GT5, for me at least, kept that magic throughout the whole run.
And I know GT6 is going to be even better.
So I guess I'll end this long-winded post with the same thing I scrawled on the track at GVS, using my own car as a pen:
BYE GT5
HI GT6
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- Kino321-X
Thank you GT5. Thank you for all those countless hours of neck-to-neck online racing with some great people. Thank you for showing me that each and every car is special, unique to its own right. Thank you for all those surreal moments on the Nurburgring, hotlap after hotlap, from sunrise to sunset.
Most importantly, thank you for igniting my passion for cars. You were present when I was at a low point in my life, where I didn't know where to start or where to go. You showed me that the automobile is not just a mode of transportation, but also a form of expression, emotion, and love.
Thank you.
Most importantly, thank you for igniting my passion for cars. You were present when I was at a low point in my life, where I didn't know where to start or where to go. You showed me that the automobile is not just a mode of transportation, but also a form of expression, emotion, and love.
Thank you.
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- Richmond, Va
- Scarecrow937
I finally got a new ps3 with enough room to start downloading some CDs onto it. I think I'll upload a song and finally get that trophy for driving while listening to the personal bgm.
