pimping cars
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- bboygen / GTP_Gen
So what seperates pimping a car up from ****ing it up?
It's all useless in a racing game in the end.
Btw, 15 dollar lambo doors eh?
http://store.gaugemagazine.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=882
It's all useless in a racing game in the end.
Btw, 15 dollar lambo doors eh?
http://store.gaugemagazine.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=882
U. That game vastly contributes to the knowledge to the history of automobiles.
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Cosmic
Not really Most Wanted even, because in that game all customization is optional. I like Most Wanted it beacuse you can modify a car visually. I don't do the ridulous body kits triple decker wings or unnecessary roof scoops, and I like to keep some cars stock. The option is what is good. If I want to modify my car, I can. If I don't want to, I don't HAVE to. That's the one thing I've always felt GT was lacking after the removal of Racing Modification. I want my cars to be unique to the countless others, in some way, and rims and 12 choices of spoilers aren't enough.
Maybe I want my Viper to be silver with black stripes instead of blue, or my Zonda red intead of only silver. Maybe the Color shifting paints look good on non-TVR cars. Maybe an aero package will improve a car's looks (and hopefully its handling, those things are supposed to be functional, anyway). I want some individuality to some of my cars, and I'd like the option to do so.
Don't get me wrong, I love Gran Turismo, and I love all my cars in my garge even unmodified. But I just wish I could give some of them a personal touch.
Custom visual car mods should simply be a gravy to the wonderful racing sim that GT is becoming. The physics, in my mind, are some of the best used in video games for road cars. Remembering how many cars they have collected in formation on it is amazing. I am all for being able to duplicate a real life car in GT. After all, It is just visual crap. I can not imagine PD making a car show round where you must pimp your car in order to get to 100%. It's clear to my though that GT will never be as ridiculus and arcade based as the NFS series has become.
I, absolutely, loved Porsche Unleashed! It took me a while to get used to the physics which were in some ways better than GT3s physics. PU also offered custom paint though. This was a feature I loved because I could race the same car as someone else and feel a since of it being mine. They also included in that game quite a number of tunable detailed performance parts to buy. Not just simple stage packages.
Racing on the Autobahn was one of my favorites.
I, absolutely, loved Porsche Unleashed! It took me a while to get used to the physics which were in some ways better than GT3s physics. PU also offered custom paint though. This was a feature I loved because I could race the same car as someone else and feel a since of it being mine. They also included in that game quite a number of tunable detailed performance parts to buy. Not just simple stage packages.
Racing on the Autobahn was one of my favorites.
Master_Yoda
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It makes it heavier... with all the gearing and ****..throttlehappy
throttlehappy
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MdnIte
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- Agremont
I'm rather surprized of how nice the replies have been to this thread.
As for my opinion on visual mods, functionality is where it's at. 👍
As for my opinion on visual mods, functionality is where it's at. 👍
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- gtp_jimprower
I can't believe I did this. I actually watched "Pimp My Ride" last night.
I felt sad for some of those cars. The only reason they would be faster was because they got a tune-up (and, in the case of one vehicle, a new engine) otherwise, against a bone-stock vehicle in pristine condition, they'd get smoked, especially at a road course.
I'd be fine if GT included such outrageous mods on one condition...they show nieve kids how slow their cars get when they buy this stuff.
I felt sad for some of those cars. The only reason they would be faster was because they got a tune-up (and, in the case of one vehicle, a new engine) otherwise, against a bone-stock vehicle in pristine condition, they'd get smoked, especially at a road course.
I'd be fine if GT included such outrageous mods on one condition...they show nieve kids how slow their cars get when they buy this stuff.
Rogue Ssv
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Im sorry, I meant the underground and Most Wanted only.
They can be really cool, but too many peoiple just go overboard with cars that belong in the questionable mods thread.
High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed are two of the best racing games ever.
I havent really played PU, but in HS, you can turn on turn signals and hazrd lights, they have police radio in many different languages, real police cars such as German M5 patrols, and car interiors.
I give it 5 stars.
They also have really good cars and history, not riiiiicers.
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- BenSpecialized
Tenacious DSomeone needs to post a link to one of those V-Dub videos.
Your wish is my command. I think the link is ok to post, i couldnt see any porn links or anything.
http://paultan.org/archives/2006/02/23/volkswagen-golf-gti-un-pimp-your-ride/
Spec....
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I say they just put in all the mods (functional and not-functional) just to make as many people happy as possible. That way more games will be sold, PD will make more money, they can make even better games and get more cars (maybe ferrari and lambo) etc. Then you can have the slow "pimped out" cars for the people who like them while at the same time have the fast "race-modified" cars for the rest who prefer that type. If theres something you dont want, dont buy it.
Master_Yoda
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I'm to pimp to pimp cars 
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its a racing game, if u want to "pimp" your car...go play need for speed
McLaren
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The problem is that these "modified" cars do NOT have actual scissor doors.Rogue Ssv
Scissor doors go DIRECTLY forward.
Look at the Escalade.
Notice how the back of the doors still pop out like a normal car making a "slant."
Not true scrissor doors in my book, thank goodness.
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The reason most vehicles cant have true Lamborghini scissor doors is because the doors would get caught on the b-pillar and would need a large hinge on the front which would be difficult to do. Opening the door a bit and then tilting it up at an angle helps prevent this problem.
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There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a good looking ride, but spinners and such have very little to do with good looks in my book. But a paintshop and some functional bodyparts/kits would work. And if that is "pimping", so be it. Cool for cools sake is usually not functional, so I would not call it "pimped" or "riced" if you have a few aeroparts or a custom paintjob.
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- Nigel Fox
+1 👍
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- JDA1982
Spot on there, theres nothing wrong with making your car look good in the process of making it a better track car, adding a functional front bumper to the car doesn't mean you've pimped your car, you can get an increase of performance with the right parts.Team666
GT4 has a lot of wheels. They don't add performance. GT4 has a bunch of the same ugly wing. They basically all do the same thing. Why on earth would it be a big deal if one bodykit added took .2 secs to your laptime? But because you've had the abillity to customize your car how YOU like it. The game has grown up in value and replayabillity. Now, you play it more than you would have ever before and by doing this have shaved sooooo many more seconds off of your laptime.
Not to mention, unless you are stripping your car down for the most complete regulations will allow race car possible, that weight could easily be made up for in an easy way. PDs emphasis on restricting races to race cars is opaque at best. They want you to have freedom to run your ultimate car against challenging AI.
As for scissor doors and spinners... We've already seen the arrival of a lowrider in GT. Just because it was created in real life first doesn't mean much to me. I don't think having any of these things in it really detracts from it being a wonderful game for expiriencing yours and my favorite cars on a safe place(a track). With photomode, mods like these are just going to become more requested. There is no other game that offers an actual simulation of expiriencing cars. Not just the big names. GT allows us to thrash about in some of the most amazing cars known and unkown that we could not afford. Part of this simulation is going to expand beyond the pure racing enthusiast modifications.
Scissor doors are not first on my list of things I would like to see in GT5. I don't actually think they're anywhere on that list. Give the customization to those who want it. Should people who want to dress up their cars be forced to deal with crap like forza? If I liked all of that stuff I sure as hell don't want to have to get a PS3 and a XBOX 360.
Not to mention, unless you are stripping your car down for the most complete regulations will allow race car possible, that weight could easily be made up for in an easy way. PDs emphasis on restricting races to race cars is opaque at best. They want you to have freedom to run your ultimate car against challenging AI.
As for scissor doors and spinners... We've already seen the arrival of a lowrider in GT. Just because it was created in real life first doesn't mean much to me. I don't think having any of these things in it really detracts from it being a wonderful game for expiriencing yours and my favorite cars on a safe place(a track). With photomode, mods like these are just going to become more requested. There is no other game that offers an actual simulation of expiriencing cars. Not just the big names. GT allows us to thrash about in some of the most amazing cars known and unkown that we could not afford. Part of this simulation is going to expand beyond the pure racing enthusiast modifications.
Scissor doors are not first on my list of things I would like to see in GT5. I don't actually think they're anywhere on that list. Give the customization to those who want it. Should people who want to dress up their cars be forced to deal with crap like forza? If I liked all of that stuff I sure as hell don't want to have to get a PS3 and a XBOX 360.
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- P_Balance
There is a difference between modifying and tuning. I would rather see tuning in gt5 than modifying.
(note to other people posting) - Please use the correct wording, modifying or tuning.
(note to other people posting) - Please use the correct wording, modifying or tuning.
If you liked all that stuff you wouldn't like gt4 and you wouldn't be looking forward to gt5.3spddrft
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I want to make my model T Ford into a hot rod.
V8 engine, chopped roof line, custom paint, wide wheels and modern interior.
As for 24" chrome rims, plastic body panels and high tech electonic sound systems, I do not care for.
V8 engine, chopped roof line, custom paint, wide wheels and modern interior.
As for 24" chrome rims, plastic body panels and high tech electonic sound systems, I do not care for.
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- Nigel Fox
Race modification will require modification. So as Deion Sanders said, "I'll have both."
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A T-bucket would rule, but they aren't very good for racing. They are more a "cruise around town" car. They don't handle well at high speeds, as the vertical steering column makes turning very sensitive, and anything over about 60 mph can be downright scary.
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If I didn't know any better, I'd say the concept of pimping cars in GT5 was a poor April Fools' Day joke.
Unfornturately, the thread creator is serious.
If there was some way of restoring classic cars in the game, then maybe it would be OK, but when it comes to bolting on plastic bodykits that simply weight the car down, adding spinners and then posing some bikini-clad model for photos (girl gets more prominence than car), to me modifying cars goes down worse than a snifter of ouzo ...
Unfornturately, the thread creator is serious.
If there was some way of restoring classic cars in the game, then maybe it would be OK, but when it comes to bolting on plastic bodykits that simply weight the car down, adding spinners and then posing some bikini-clad model for photos (girl gets more prominence than car), to me modifying cars goes down worse than a snifter of ouzo ...
