Which is the best GT so far? Time to make a poll. --- GT4 still in the lead.

[sparkytooth]

It blows my mind that not only is GT6 actually in contention for the top spot, but that GT5 has amassed more votes than GT1.

Shame on you, GTPlanet. Shame on you.

I've played each and every GT game at some point in my life, and I like GT6 best. Shame on me I guess

 

[Samus]

I've played each and every GT game at some point in my life, and I like GT6 best. Shame on me I guess

Playing them in order and in their own time is the only way to make a true comparison.

 

[sparkytooth]

Playing them in order and in their own time is the only way to make a true comparison.

I liked all of them. I played GT3 first back when I was about 6, I didn't like it initially, gave it away recently, when GT4 came by I had to have it but never really got it until before my PS2 died, lots of fun while it lasted. I played and beat GT2 and GT1 and had a blast. I played GT5 right until March when I finally got GT6, and now I play GT6. I like GT6 the best despite having played and enjoyed all of them.

 

[Samus]

All i'm saying is you can't truly appreciate say GT2 as the game of its time if you only played it in recent years, after newer games.

 

[sparkytooth]

All i'm saying is you can't truly appreciate say GT2 as the game of its time if you only played it in recent years, after newer games.

If that's the case then we can't really look at this from beyond the nostalgia value they provide, which is possibly driving the votes around here. They're still excellent games for their time. But I prefer to view them from a direct comparison.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

I am currently playing GT4, 5, and 6. Using a CSW for 5 and 6 and a G27 for 4. GT3 was terrible with the G27 and I suspect its due to the 200 degree rotation limit versus 900 for the other 3. I gave up on GT3 because I just can get into using a hand controller to drive a car anymore although it was great back in the day right after GT1 was released up until I got a G25 for GT4.

Thanks for the information, did paddle shifters work on GT3 with G27. Was game still drivable with limited steering and how was force feedback?

All i'm saying is you can't truly appreciate say GT2 as the game of its time if you only played it in recent years, after newer games.

You can still appreciate the game though ahead of newer games, I can't remember much of GT2 as far as how it was as game back in its time but playing it recently I really liked it compared to the last two GT games. Need to go back to it as I think I was half way into licence tests.

 

[Roflwaffle]

I guess GTP got back their sense and now GT4's back in the lead.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Thanks for the information, did paddle shifters work on GT3 with G27. Was game still drivable with limited steering and how was force feedback?

It felt like steering a school bus with the end of a broom handle It was really really bad. Not sure how to describe it exactly. I just came the conclusion that GT3 should not be used while a wheel. But maybe I'm overly critical ...

 

[Tired Tyres]

I don't understand your post at all.

My DFGT gets locked at 300 degrees (I think) and it is so much better with this direct steering in GT3 over the 900 degree parallel parking steering of subsequent games.

 

[Force-Feedback]

I did vote 4 and said the first 4 games before but 6 would only be best for me now if it had better ai and better engine sounds (and the race format of qualifying, then grid starts/rolling starts in formation with comparable/relevant cars)

Thanks for the information, did paddle shifters work on GT3 with G27. Was game still drivable with limited steering and how was force feedback?

I was fine

... oh wait ...

 

[Tenacious D]

All i'm saying is you can't truly appreciate say GT2 as the game of its time if you only played it in recent years, after newer games.

You can, if you look at past games through an artist's eye, like I do. I can certainly appreciate GT1 and 2 for what they were - in the day. But you have to admit that they're downright primitive compared to GT3 and 4.

Then again, they can't hold a candle to any remotely current game from the past seven years either. Front wheel drive without issues, mid-engined cars like the Lotus Esprit handling like a front-engined rear wheel drive car in GT3, and the still simplified physics in GT4, not to mention that stingy six car field sure dates them.

I know many fans of other games will say that GT5 and 6 don't hold up in comparison to any PC sim, but some of us just don't see it that way. One sees the gamut of PC sims, Formula 1, Dirt 3, Richard Burns Rally or whatever game they favor as flawless victories. I can certainly understand that, but sometimes it takes a die hard critic and purist to come out and say that Gran Turismo has an uncanny sense of realness - okay, my term - like Lawndart has mentioned once or twice, a guy who's not only a game developer but real life racer. He's quick to say when GT misses the mark, but will admit that there are some things right about it at the same time. And this is what has us fans clinging to Gran Turismo when there are games out there with better aspects to them.

A number of people have been lauding Project CARS, and it has my attention too. But what my experience will be with it... I don't know. Gran Turismo has spoiled me on the wealth of cars, and the PC sim-like feel of the physics in GT6, along with a whole host of things both tangible and subliminal and hard to nail down that keep me buying it. Because that special "something" just isn't in other games, and may never be.

So to me, GT6 is best, and no shame here.

 

[sparkytooth]

GT6 is downright amazing when you set aside it's flaws and look at it for a bit from the point of view of someone who loves cars of all sorts.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

GT4 was perfect except for the physics and weather system (should have weather system since it has 24hrs races)

GT6 is better in terms of physics but that's about it.

I would hope so to be honest considering the era it came out in compared to 4

GT6 is downright amazing when you set aside it's flaws and look at it for a bit from the point of view of someone who loves cars of all sorts.

I did and that's why I voted GT4

 

[MANDSILVER9]

3 is still my favourite, the update in the graphics and quality from GT2 to 3 was immense, and it was challenging, fun and kept me hooked for quite a long time.

Aside from that, it was the first video game I ever played, suppose that may have influenced my vote...

~MS9.

 

[NOSWaster]

Yes I would imagine a lot of those voting for GT5/6 are those that either haven't played the first four at all or who have only played them after GT5/6. IMO you can't gain a true feeling of what those earlier games were like at their time after playing the newer ones and having preconceptions of how things in the modern games weren't there back then. That doesn't mean they weren't as good though, but you really do have to judge the games based on their time.

The Aston Martin DB5 was great when it came out but if you drove it after a DB9 I'd imagine you wouldn't find it too good.

I'm one of the swine who has played all six main console titles and still voted for GT6.

 

[Samus]

I'm one of the swine who has played all six main console titles and still voted for GT6.

In order? You were 6 when GT1 came out.

 

[NOSWaster]

In order? You were 6 when GT1 came out.

To be frank my first Gran Turismo title was GT3, but I sorta set that down at about 5% completion and went to GT1 when I visited England in '03. So at the time I was 11 when I played GT1 from 0-100%. Then I met GT2 and had a bit of a ball with it. Then I continued on in the series, of course.

I'll definitely admit that GT6 has some major pitfalls, but for me it's all about how the cars feel while I'm driving around, which naturally means I'll be biased toward the game that I feel has the best physics. GT6 also has night time and weather (like GT5), so that seals the deal.

If I was interested solely in playing a GT game offline for the career mode without any regard to physics? GT3. I loved that game a lot. It was so frustrating at points, and on a few occasions my controllers got a few hits, but hitting the 100% felt awesome.

Thar be my reason for voting GT6.

 

[Texaco]

Best Gran Turismo ?

In terms of Graphics, Phyics, cars, tracks, game modes and everything else, its obviously GT6.

This isn't a story-based game though. Its more like a sports game (meaning it gets better in everyway, not only the graphics. Whereas story-based games might have shorter or bad story.)

But in terms of its "WOW" factor, GT4 is definitely the best. I remember the first time I got the game, I was scrolling through all the cars in the Arcade mode with a huge smile on my face. (I didn't know how many cars were in the game before I bought it, which I guess made it more special to me)

GT2 was also an amazing game for its time !

 

[mustafur]

GT2 and GT4 had the biggest interest from me at the time period they where the current game.

 

[Roflwaffle]

I'm surprised GT3 has so few votes. It was the best game on fun factor, but I voted for GT4 because I appreciate all the content that was in it.

 

[Tired Tyres]

I'd say your own post might just explain that!

 

[Saidur_Ali]

It felt like steering a school bus with the end of a broom handle It was really really bad. Not sure how to describe it exactly. I just came the conclusion that GT3 should not be used while a wheel. But maybe I'm overly critical ...

Hopefully overcritical, as long as it is driveable i don't think I would mind too much.

I was fine

... oh wait ...

"Was", does that mean you are not fine any more .

 

[Tenacious D]

in terms of its "WOW" factor, GT4 is definitely the best. I remember the first time I got the game, I was scrolling through all the cars in the Arcade mode with a huge smile on my face. (I didn't know how many cars were in the game before I bought it, which I guess made it more special to me)

While the opening of GT6 had me on the edge of my seat, and the introduction to the game was pretty cool if Toca-like, GT4 was definitely a "WOW" moment for me too. I had engrossed over the game, quite a bit thanks to the delays that pushed it into early 2005, and when I finally got it - oh yeah, the box was empty! I drove like ticket bait back to the GameStop to secure a proper box. When I FINALLY got home and fired it up, in GT Mode of course, I was in awe. I just stared at the world map, unsure of what I wanted to do first, even though my only options were to buy a car and enter the beginner Sunday Cup race. Memories of that night still bring back special feelings.

 

[alhajoth]

GT4 by a country mile for me.

It feels like the series was steadily progressing up to that game, but 5 and 6 has brought little new to the franchise.
The later games feels short on content and diversity.

GT4 had about the same amount of cars we have now, many more races and the wonderfully quirky aspec-points.
Not to mention the licenses!
90 in total if I remember correctly, and many of them very challenging.

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

I'm one of the swine who has played all six main console titles and still voted for GT6.

In order? You were 6 when GT1 came out.

Why would that stop him? I started when I was 3! Admittedly though, that was GT2, I didn't get GT1 until quite a long time later.

 

[Samus]

Why would that stop him? I started when I was 3! Admittedly though, that was GT2, I didn't get GT1 until quite a long time later.

Nothing to stop him but I would argue at 6 (and certainly at 3) you can't fully appreciate a game like Gran Turismo.

 

[nebulizer982]

I had to vote for GT5. The online racing and seasonal time trials were able to keep the game interesting far longer than any other GT game. I could play offline until I got bored with it, then switch to online racing for a while, and then back to offline when I got tired of that. Never got boring, always something else to do. In fact I wouldn't even have GT6 right now if they weren't killing the servers for GT5. I have owned every GT game and have never played one that I didn't like!!!!

 

[Buck-O]

Wow, i am so late to this thread, but another vote for GT4.

Even though GT3 strayed a little, and is in many ways like 5 and 6, GT4 brought back much of the feel, and formula of GT1 and GT2. And was, IMHO, the last GT game that really captured the "Driving Life" motif.

GT5 and GT6 in many ways seems like the average typical sim racer. Sadly, i have to blame Forza's influence for many of these changes to the GT series, i feel like PD has lost the plot on GT a little. But, i also feel it is following Kaz's progression through becoming an actual racing driver. No longer is the fantasy and mystique of owning an exotic car, and racing on world circuits just a dream for him anymore. It is a reality. And i think that is why we have seen the biggest shift away from that formula of GT game.

That said, i would love to see the world map, and the special events, and dealerships, and all that return again. It made the game more interesting to me. Not just a grind credits, buy car affair, like GT6, and to a lesser extent GT5.

 

[John_Marsten]

GT4 all the way. I never completed it, or got bored of it.

The single player components of GT5 and 6 are a joke. Not much more can be said for the online parts too.

 

[l_alcala_d]

Like a lot of people here... I like a lot GT2 (Still play it via emu :-P)... Missing Grindelwall, Red Rock Valley, Tommy Kaira's Skyline, the Venturi cars and olds Aston DB6...