My first gt game

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A couple of months back I realized I´ve never really played gt2.

The first time I played was in a friend´s house, then I got the game from him and hadded a couple of cars to the garage.
After some months I got myself a copy and the first thing I did was to get all golds. I got three legitimate gold licenses, afterwards I would, in some tests, use epsxe save system in the middle of the race. A lot of races where done with the concept car since its low hp would allow entry in almost everything. When I had the chance I always used a race car and the competition would be dead before even getting to the first corner.
After a problem with my save I had to restart: same method.

I got to be good with heavily modded or race cars but I´d never really mastered or used stock.
One day I got myself in a race with a stock car and after some bumps and crashes I realized I was enjoying myself immensly. So today I´m of to a new game. Gonna do the open car cup with convertibles, the muscle car cup with a muscle car and so on and so forth.


How do you people play it? Do you really go and compete with your key car or your big ass kid´s van?

 

[audiracing]

The first time a beat the game I did it the way you did, untill I got to a race in the mid engin championships. I used a gt40 in it, now at the time I was still a little new, but when I was taken on a gt40 in a gt40 I realised how fun the game is when their is a lot of competetion. So since then if I win a race easily I'll do it again in a different car.

 

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I´ve started my new game

Had an amazing race in super speedway in the arcade´s hard level.

After the start I immediatly overtook the 5th, then while entering the first corner I overtook a tigra but then it came the hard part: the mg and the 206 way ahead of me.
When I arrived on the last corner I was already in the mg´s tail, but he was covering the inside line and had I broken trajectory I would have lost speed. But I exited just a tad faster and in the moment I was almost touching its rear end.
Then it was hp. The peugeot was losing just a tad of ground but the mg was hanging. I went for the inside and my cougar was just a wheel and front optics in the lead. Exited in front beautifully (all the race was done without bumps) and then I actually had to defend my leadership with tight trajectories till the end...

... I was having a blast with a stock 100-something hp car.

 

[audiracing]

Personally I love racing my own ghost in the arcade mode. Try it, as soon as you get one really good ghost it turns into the best competetion in gt2.

 

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... you know, before I got my new processor my pc was a bit on the slow side, thus my emulator ran gt2 less then hapilly when in races against the AI.
So I spend I´d say a year or so running time trials. No doubt great fun and challenge but now I´m really looking forward to some competition.
Besides all the cars in my garage where fully modded. This time I´m gonna keep a stock version as well and I´m not gonna stop in the 200 cars mark... so lots of AI racing ahead.

 

[Joey]

If there's enough of a gap between releases of new games, and I relapse back into GT2, I'll start a game and play until I get enough money to know that I can beat the game; then restart. I think starting out is the most fun part, and I've beaten it enough to know that I can, so I don't see much of a point in going through it all again.

60 (GT) days, tops.

 

[bla]

I went trough it all but in a cheesy way, now I want to do it "right". I guess I´m just a fan. Besides if I´m going to do all the races again with stock cars I might as well as start from scratch.

 

[Pupik]

The first time, I just ran whatever fit the power requirements. I mean, I ran the Unisia Jecs Skyline in every open race, even the darn Muscle Car Cup!

The second time, I tried to use cars I hadn't before, and stuck with keeping the power levels to a sane level (usually about 75% of the limit, or no better than the best AI car).

The third and fourth times, I stuck to the type of car being raced, and stuck to cars that I had never raced before. I also sold every prize car, no matter what. No freebies, and no purchasing specials (except the Suzuki Cultus PP edition...not the Escudo). All race cars had to be home grown, and again, nothing I'd driven before.

The fifth time, I raced more cars I hadn't before, but tried to use a few cars as possible for all the non-restricted events. It was kind of interesting, but dull in a way: only 2 of each drivetrain configuration, but you see what cars are really flexible for different types of racing.

The 6th time, a nearly finished game, I'm just tying for all sorts of cars that I never gave a second look at, but the catch is different: Instead of doing all the licenses at once, I did all the "free" events, then got the "B" license, and did all the "B" events...then the "A" license, and did all the "A" events...it really is the long way around the game, especially if you're sticking to cars that fit the categories and "national" limits. You really have to run some races over and over again; I did the initial FF "B" race at Tahiti about 12 times to save up for different cars and parts...just to move up to the "A" level races.

I'm about half-way through the "I-B" races, but then I got GT3, so I have barely been back (except to experiment with the game recently).

 

[bla]

My plan also consists in getting a gold then race in all the events I can. I´ve only gotten the first one. I overlooked the free events, but no matter. Respecting the national limits is a must. Great for comparing.