Lunar roving vehicle????!!!!!

[Famine]

After drafting a number of replies, I came to realization that this is indeed, serious business. And I was about to get in an argument on the internet over a video game.

Surprisingly, for a internet forum about a specific video game, internet discussions of video games happens a lot more than you might think.

Instead, I will simply say thank you Famine. I do so much look forward to your next post.

If you find it difficult to contain your excitement, there's about 45,500 previous ones you can look over to stave off overwhelming feelings of anticipation.

 

[ZoidFile]

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WTF have I just watched?

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

-Henry Ford


I, for one, am glad PD hasn't taken up the crowd-pleasing business model. Kaz is doing what Kaz wants to do, and I think it's great. Bring on the Lunary buggy!

 

[Johnnypenso]

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

-Henry Ford

I, for one, am glad PD hasn't taken up the crowd-pleasing business model. Kaz is doing what Kaz wants to do, and I think it's great. Bring on the Lunary buggy!

Yeah...except we aren't asking Henry Ford for horses, we're asking Henry Ford for Chev's and Dodge's and Bugatti's and Alfa's. What we got was a horse. Heaven forbid Kaz doesn't get into the crowd pleasing (aka fans who made him wealthy) business. And if you do a little research, you'll find that that was Henry Fords' exact intention, to please the masses:idea:

 

[Griffith500]

WTF have I just watched?

It gets clearer the more you watch:

 

[Wardez]

An accurate representation of what I hope to do with the Lunar Rover in GT6:

 

[PNuTButR]

I just want to plow a Veyron into the Moon Buggy head on!

 

[MeanElf]

...Heaven forbid Kaz doesn't get into the crowd pleasing (aka fans who made him wealthy) business...

Now why would he try to please us - the apparent fans are never satisfied...

 

[sems4arsenal]

they didn't even laser scan the moon. Laaameeeee

 

[ZoidFile]

they didn't even laser scan the moon. Laaameeeee

Why not? With the right equipment...

 

[Zondaman13]

I love how they have the time and effort for this car, but not the LaFerrari or the Mclaren P1, two of the greatest cars ever made.

 

[mister dog]

I love how they have the time and effort for this car, but not the LaFerrari or the Mclaren P1, two of the greatest cars ever made.

Well you gotta know your priorities no?

 

[ZoidFile]

I love how they have the time and effort for this car, but not the LaFerrari or the Mclaren P1, two of the greatest cars ever made.

From the "greatest car evar..." perspective, one could say it is kind ironic to give some lame British sports car more significance than a car that actually stands on the moon.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

The greatest car in the world should be a Veyron. Most cars aren't as stable as a Veyron at their top speed.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Yeah...except we aren't asking Henry Ford for horses, we're asking Henry Ford for Chev's and Dodge's and Bugatti's and Alfa's. What we got was a horse. Heaven forbid Kaz doesn't get into the crowd pleasing (aka fans who made him wealthy) business. And if you do a little research, you'll find that that was Henry Fords' exact intention, to please the masses:idea:

Henry Ford's intentions were not explicitly to please anyone, his quest was to be successful within his own metrics. I think, I hope, that Kaz has similar intentions.

"I don't intend to build in order to have clients; I intend to have clients in order to build." -Howard Roark, The Fountainhead

Really, it's not about us. We benefit through mutual exchange, sure, but I think that Kaz makes GT primarily for his own productive and creative ambitions.

 

[Encyclopedia]

I love how they have the time and effort for this car, but not the LaFerrari or the Mclaren P1, two of the greatest cars ever made.

They might not even have gotten a hold of those cars. Hard to model them then.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I think people underestimate how difficult Ferrari is to work with. They won't even allow their Halo cars to be driven, let alone figured, by any automotive publications. Any road test you see of F50s, Enzos, or LaFerraris (contemporary or otherwise) have cars provided to the publication by private owners, against direct orders, if not actual contractual obligations, not to from Ferrari. How on earth do you think a relatively small Japanese electronic media company is going to convince the boys over at Ferrari to let them include the LaFerrari so soon?

Mclaren is usually more open minded, but PD works slowly and are far removed from western culture. I think the P1 will be included later.

 

[Jahgee]

I can't wait until engine replacement (Either legit or hacked) is a thing, because imagine putting in different engines in this thing.

 

[Zondaman13]

From the "greatest car evar..." perspective, one could say it is kind ironic to give some lame British sports car more significance than a car that actually stands on the moon.

Yes, that car is important, but this is a RACING game, not a history of cars game. This will honestly be completely useless, unlike your "lame British sports car," which would create some pretty good racing action.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Racing? It's all about driving. You don't have to be racing.

 

[jimipitbull]

Yes, that car is important, but this is a RACING game, not a history of cars game. This will honestly be completely useless, unlike your "lame British sports car," which would create some pretty good racing action.

Imagine, a race to the moon...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race#Kennedy_launches_the_Moon_race

 

[mister dog]

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[Wiegert]

Racing? It's all about driving. You don't have to be racing.

Driving Mission 15: You've lost track of the time and your current location during a trip aboard the LEV-001 ’71! Get back to the Apollo Lunar Module before your air supply runs out.

Thought, that might be more of a race against death than a leisurely lunar drive.

 

[Inferno251]

Talk is cheap.

Fair enough

 

[wowbaggerBR]

They need to get either the capture team to the cars or the cars to the capture team. It's generally the former and it takes place at sites around the world - with a whole host of manufacturers bringing press fleet cars along, museums dragging along historic models and even owners' clubs for some oddities. Once the cars are captured, the relevant data goes back to the modelling teams who'll start putting the models together - I don't know if it's done as a production line (a guy is responsible for one aspect and he passes it down the line to the next guy) or a dude per car at a time - but it's some time into the development process before that even starts.

If PD are saying it currently takes 6 man months to model a car from scratch and they have a 35 man capture/modelling team, it takes 5.2 days per car. If they, by some miracle, had licences and on-site capture teams the day GT5 was released and have been working non-stop since then with no lulls, the most they could have managed would be 213 - in fact they've had way less time than that.

Seems reasonable to me.

Thank you for the insights. Puting all in context, 200 cars sounds reasonable, specially with Forza 5 being rushed by Microsoft and getting about the same amount of cars.

I would really like to know the man behind PDs logistics and schedules. Seems to me a very demanding, yet fun, kind of job sending guys through out the world to capture cars and/or tracks.

Maybe a suggestion for a future interview by @Jordan

So tell me what will you do with your Lunar Rover if the moon is actually missing from the game? Drive it on the Mulsanne straight and count the trees?

I'm doing It. In Nordschleife.

 

[Grand Prix]

"Dammit, lost count of the trees. Better do another lap."

 

[Manasseh257NSX]

Online Moon racing anyone?

 

[Chrunch Houston]

Totally off topic post but...
@Chameleon9000 I run a room every night with lots of old guys 30's 40's, 50's and even 60's.
We see your type all the time. Hang out for a week or so, driving well and no one knows your age then all of the sudden you have a bad night and freak out.

Stay cool my friend and don't let anything on here or online get you upset. I remember when I was a teenager everything seemed sooooo important. It really isn't.

 

[dojOdRiFTeR]

i'm still baffled that people are complaining about this.
I understand they could have spent the time modeling another couple cars, but then what? I'd much rather have this and a moon than 2 regular cars. What can pCARS say? What can Forza say? It's what makes a game different than other games. Uniqueness.
In my SERIOUS opinion, I absolutely love this. GT has always had a couple abnormal cars in each game, and I love that.

PROJECT CARS will be a terrible game, it's made by the same guys that made shift .

 

[Johnnypenso]

I love how they have the time and effort for this car, but not the LaFerrari or the Mclaren P1, two of the greatest cars ever made.

From the "greatest car evar..." perspective, one could say it is kind ironic to give some lame British sports car more significance than a car that actually stands on the moon.

Please tell me you didn't refer to the McLaren P1 as a "lame British sports car". If so, please hand in your man card, do not pass GO and do not collect $200. Go directly to Jail for your criminal lack of car knowledge.