When I first got prologue (seems ages ago) I never played the online much due to never getting a fair race. Sadly it made me avoid all the online features until about November 2009.
This was very unfortunate as I am now totally addicted. Even with its minor blemishes I think it is fantastic, especially considering I picked it up for £20. Just this afternoon I crowned yet another ‘best GT race’ (almost as valuable as GT5 itself).
The race was in the current N3s GTR, F430 and Z06 at Fuji event (which I love). Every race in this event is invaluable in practicing car control and keeping calm under pressure as it is 10 laps long, you can get a good race going and feel like you’ve driven a mini grand prix at the finish line.
My friends and I had been playing this event for a good two hours, we had fantastic racing! However this race was never really more than about 0.5 seconds for the lead over the 10 laps, the smallest gap being 0.015 seconds, side-by-side tearing down into turn one in two black GTRs. The sense of excitement was very enjoyable, making me realise why I love GT and the GT community and fans so much. It also made me realise how wrong the people that state that Gran Turismo has no ‘fun’ or ‘stale gameplay’. I was quite literally becoming quite vocal and commentating in my head, also thinking that this may be the most fun I’ve had with a videogame. The only place you will get such close clean racing is GT. I mean my friends and I will regularly be 0.004 seconds apart (we’ve been racing together since GT1) at some photo finishes in split screen, but it was special because it was online, a place where I thought only punters and unfair penalties existed.
Props to racecleanmorons who joined in with our little session for one race, he was very quick and super clean and was very nice in his response to my message apologising for my erratic driving due to getting used to my new wheel.
Yet again I apologise for a long post (how long should posts be?), but I am still quite emotionally stirred by the GT experience, it has had such an effect on my life and with the prospect of GT5, things are going to get even greater. (I hope this post made sense, it was a bit of a ramble).
-Spiran
