Still Play GT2?
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Sure, I play it every now and again but I find it's a bit too easy to get the better cars sometimes. Right now Final Fantasy is spinning in my PS-X, I'm taking a bit of a break from GT2 for now.
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- Parnelli_Bones
I have yet to be corrupted by GT3: A-Spec, so I don't know what I'm missing yet. Someday I'll have some extra cash and get a PS2... $$$ till then, it's GT2 all the way, baby!
I still play GT2 also, on the ePSXe emulator. Everything looks sweeter and GT2 has way more selection than GT3 so sometimes I just like fooling around with older cars. The only problem with my playing on my computer is that I don't have an analog controller so driving is a little less accurate. If you guys are still playing GT2, I strongly suggest trying it out on the ePSXe emulator if you have a decent computer. Much Much better than playing it on PSX or PS2 or any other emulator.
I like to think about what car i might buy next (in real life) and work on, so sometimes I'll just fire up the old GT2 to see what (approx.) a car would be like. For example, I'm thinking of buying an older CRX and putting a Civ Type R engine in there so I tried to make a similar car in GT2. I've also thought about maybe buying an old 323 GTX and maybe sooping it up or getting a first gen Miata and putting a newer 1.8l engine in. So, I still play GT2 just to get a feel for the cars. BTW, I like driving on Grindelwald backwards cause its the most similar to where I drive in real life.
I like to think about what car i might buy next (in real life) and work on, so sometimes I'll just fire up the old GT2 to see what (approx.) a car would be like. For example, I'm thinking of buying an older CRX and putting a Civ Type R engine in there so I tried to make a similar car in GT2. I've also thought about maybe buying an old 323 GTX and maybe sooping it up or getting a first gen Miata and putting a newer 1.8l engine in. So, I still play GT2 just to get a feel for the cars. BTW, I like driving on Grindelwald backwards cause its the most similar to where I drive in real life.
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I like gt3 but i dont have my own ps2 so i just play it at my friends house. I have to admit that the graphics in it are brilliant but im sticking with my little £25 psone and my GT2. I've been playing it for ages now and i dont really think about the graphics. I think so far gt2 is the best for variety and its real cheap. But it will be easily knocked off the top spot by gt4. It just seems to me that they didnt spend quite so much time making gt3 as they did with 2.
Also the cars can be pretty easy to win in GT2 but its still a challenge to get to the end of the game, i've completed 45.20% of the game and theres only a few races left but theres still so much to do.
Also the cars can be pretty easy to win in GT2 but its still a challenge to get to the end of the game, i've completed 45.20% of the game and theres only a few races left but theres still so much to do.
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I play GT2 more than GT3 right now. I keep the game around because it makes a better two player game than A-Spec. I keep two memory cars for cars, and both are well over half full with cars used exclusively for 2 Player mode. Example: I would NEVER race a civic (or other Honda or Acura for that matter) anything for competition use, but other people use 'em in my arcade mode, So I keep them around. Same goes for the muscle cars.
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I just started playing GT2 for the first time a few weeks ago. It is an extremely good game! Buy it you will be very happy. 👍
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Suigi
Well there is GT1 u know. I like the handling in GT1 better than 2 honestly, and GT3 has some good hdanling.
To answer the question, no I don't, I don't like going back to old games when I've got a newer version.
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04Nissan350Z
GT1 has better graphix and has a bunch of features that are missing in GT2, but the heavily Japanese-oriented game cars got boring to me after awhile. Also, the races aren't varied enuff: you know when you enter the Clubman series, for instance, that theres gonna be a Toyota MR2 to compete against....you know there's gonna be a Subaru Impreza station wagon..etc. It got boring to me cuz it's so predictable. At least in GT2 there's a bit more variety-so what if the graphix suffered a bit.
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I play GT2 at least once a week.
I play it on my Dreamcast connected to my computer monitor and using the Bleemcast program. The picture looks great .
Sometime I play it on my computer with the EPSXE emulator ( both Windows and Linux version ), but I prefer the dreamcast.
What I really like with GT2 is that almost every car in the game has a racing mod and both cars from the BTCC and JGTC300 series are available.
And where else would you find that Skyline Silhouette
I play it on my Dreamcast connected to my computer monitor and using the Bleemcast program. The picture looks great .
Sometime I play it on my computer with the EPSXE emulator ( both Windows and Linux version ), but I prefer the dreamcast.
What I really like with GT2 is that almost every car in the game has a racing mod and both cars from the BTCC and JGTC300 series are available.
And where else would you find that Skyline Silhouette
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- Tetradic
My GT experience started with GT3. I never owned a PSone but bought a PS2 in 2001 (I think, back when they were still hard to find in stores). I bought Gt3 shortly afterward. So I've played GT3, pretty exclusively (I rarely play any other video games than the GT series) for 3 or so years.
Recently I bought Gt2, wanting to see what all the fuss was about and to drive the RUFs in the game, mainly the "Yellowbird", and some of the circuits not in GT3 (autumn ring, rome - night, GV east). I've been playing it for about two weeks straight, completing everything beyond the make(s) series, which I have little interest in completing given all I wanted to drive were the RUFs and maybe a BMW or two.
I gotta admit I don't care for GT2 much. I expected the graphics to suck, though honestly given it was meant for a PSone it seems impressive and after a few days you don't even notice how them, though I felt like my eyes were blurry all the time that I wasn't quite seeing everything..hahaha.
The gameplay is, ummm...too complicated, the tuning makes little difference, the race mods (big deal) and in general I prefer the simplicity and straight forward-ness of GT3.
Maybe if my GT expereince had actually started with Gt2 I'd feel differently. I am glad I bought it and have experienced it but I don't see myself playing it much more. I'll finish up GT3 for the last time and work on my ultimate SIM garage (which I plan to offer for download on this site in the near future, more about that later...)
Recently I bought Gt2, wanting to see what all the fuss was about and to drive the RUFs in the game, mainly the "Yellowbird", and some of the circuits not in GT3 (autumn ring, rome - night, GV east). I've been playing it for about two weeks straight, completing everything beyond the make(s) series, which I have little interest in completing given all I wanted to drive were the RUFs and maybe a BMW or two.
I gotta admit I don't care for GT2 much. I expected the graphics to suck, though honestly given it was meant for a PSone it seems impressive and after a few days you don't even notice how them, though I felt like my eyes were blurry all the time that I wasn't quite seeing everything..hahaha.
The gameplay is, ummm...too complicated, the tuning makes little difference, the race mods (big deal) and in general I prefer the simplicity and straight forward-ness of GT3.
Maybe if my GT expereince had actually started with Gt2 I'd feel differently. I am glad I bought it and have experienced it but I don't see myself playing it much more. I'll finish up GT3 for the last time and work on my ultimate SIM garage (which I plan to offer for download on this site in the near future, more about that later...)
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GT2 has more cars so that makes it better? There ar eonly maybe 20 cars in GT2 I want to drive and about the same in GT3. I do like the "info" they have for the makes and models in Gt2 though, you learn alot.
I will agree that the sense of speed it much more in GT2. Otherwise IMO the game is too complex. Everything is spread out, you have 30 or so boring "make" races wher eyou have to run cars you don't care about. The game is far too easy. Driving isn't that challenging, it is too easy to get money and buy race cars very quickly, tuning does little if anything to change the feel of the car, handling of the car isn't very realistic either - especially how the car looses grip when turning in while braking, the menus are very poorly organized.
That being said, the AI seems a bit smarter than GT3, I like the idea of the "Event Generator", I think the assortment of circuits is better, though I like the way the circuits that are in both GT2 and GT3 drive in Gt3 better (apricot hill, grand valley).
I think it all depends on where you started playing the GT series. I started with GT3, so I like it that way. Like i said I am glad I bought Gt2 but it just isn't all that to me.
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- Parnelli_Bones
For a car enthusiast like me who had a subscription to Road & Track when I was 12, the 500+ cars in GT2 is stellar. I wouldn't say GT2 is any better than the 3rd game, but it does have more variety. The fact that you can get a piece of crap Supra for less than 10 grand, and make it a superstar complete with decals can't be beat! By the same token, you can race a super-slow mini van (I like the slow models, too. call me crazy) or a highly conceptual prototype racing car. You're right about the money, Kensei-it is way too easy to earn cash in GT2, they didn't make it difficult enough. And it is poorly organized. It takes FOREVER just to buy a set of parts. And did you say the Ai in GT2 is smarter? Uh oh. 
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Parnelli BoneAnd it is poorly organized. It takes FOREVER just to buy a set of parts. And did you say the Ai in GT2 is smarter? Uh oh.
Well, Maybe "smarter" is the best word, hahaha. In GT3 the AI will ram you off the road, especially in the first turn, they don't even make an effort to get around you on the straights and are easily blocked. In GT2 I found it was rare to be blasted from behind into a turn, though it does still happen and I could never block a car behind me on the straight, it would fake left and go right and pass me easily.
Maybe since I have played GT3 for 3 years I have a "feel" for what the AI will do in almost any instance. Since I only played Gt2 for 2 weeks I don't have that "feel".
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kensei
I thought GT3 had a feature you could select that makes the cars drive more like humans?
In GT2, the cars mostly drive like automatons...following the same pattern thru corners and straights even if it's not the best. The only exceptions occur when there's another car present. Some GT2 drivers are absolute morons. Case in point: the Aston Martins, Mercedes, and Jags you see in the Apricot Hill enduro. These dumbasses spin out almost every time they reach the end of the straight. It's like: Hello? Didn't anyone tell you guys you could use brakes? Don't you know there's an invention called soft tires? Many of the AI cars in GT2 (unlike GT1) are running on normal tires with no suspension upgrades-which again makes it all to easy to out corner them. Part of the problem is that the game was rushed out for the Christmas '99 season and I'm sure the programmers didn't have time to put some variety into all those computer cars.
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Xavier12
I can't believe it. I remember now, there used to be something called used cars. How GT3 would have been better with 2nd hand cars.
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- MikeyDLuffy
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Will Pd include used cars in GT4? It would be a damn shame not to.
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- MikeyDLuffy
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Hoooooorrraaaaaaaayyyy (running around the room with arms waving) I can't wait for those Arsene Wenger type shrewd purchases.
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i still play two for all the cool american cars that are missing from GT3. it is easier but i like that. i like winning.
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I have just purchased myself a new PS2, so forget GT2 
. I am awaiting my copy of GT4 dammit, and playing some great PS2 titles. I'm under the impression that few would want to go from GT3 to GT2. At least for me, the poor graphics are a bit of a turn-off. Not to mension worse physics modeling, for obvious reasons, old tracks, old music etc. By the way I don't own GT3 yet, and probably won't with GT4 coming out pretty soon. *Prepares for burning at the stake.*
By the way- the new PSTwos are 9" by 6" by 1" tall, smaller than my PSOne. Wow.
. I am awaiting my copy of GT4 dammit, and playing some great PS2 titles. I'm under the impression that few would want to go from GT3 to GT2. At least for me, the poor graphics are a bit of a turn-off. Not to mension worse physics modeling, for obvious reasons, old tracks, old music etc. By the way I don't own GT3 yet, and probably won't with GT4 coming out pretty soon. *Prepares for burning at the stake.*By the way- the new PSTwos are 9" by 6" by 1" tall, smaller than my PSOne. Wow.
