Why do YOU like the Gran Turismo series?

[Krymzen18]

The Vanishing Boy: Plus I'm finally driving a car that is included in the GT series, my Honda S2000

Nice, I've always wanted an S2000. In a few decades, I may make enough money.

ps: sorry about how the quotes look. Im on the PS3 browser... no PC yet.

 

[Nicksfix]

Because it's all about cars and racing !!!!!

 

[amar212]

It is made by Japanese.
They do not give a damn about other games, about trends or other mainstream bull.
They respect their series tradition.
They respect their series philosophy.
They always push forward in direction nobody expects.
They're always delaying. I just love that, because it makes people angry and makes them post stupid things on internet

And they don't give a freaking damn about the internet, forums, communities and such. They're making it THEIR way. That's the MAIN reason I love GT series.

 

[Krymzen18]

Okay.... amar212, calm down dude . We want to know what things about the game you like. You know, why you love playing it???

I have no problem with you liking the company and how they do things, but this thread is about why you love playing the game itself? 👍

 

[s15specr]

Kaz said that PD gets feedback from forums etc. Anyways something else i love about GT is it teaches me about how diffrent cars have to be drivin(FR, MR, ff, awd, RR)

 

[Jay]

(FR, MR, ff, awd)

Just wait till we get the RUF yellowbird (hopefully) on Nurburgring in GT5.

 

[s15specr]

Just wait till we get the RUF yellowbird (hopefully) on Nurburgring in GT5.

It that car hard to drive or something, will it give me a RUF time! See i've drove it in gt4 but those were the days i had tcs on 5, asm on, DS2 control and gt is more realistic now.

 

[Jay]

It is a interesting drive to say the least, I really look forward to how it will be in GT5, you will able to add RR to your list of drvetrains.


I especially mention it due to the famous video of Walter Rohrl on Nurb with the CTR Yellowbird

 

[Krymzen18]

VIPERGTSR01: It is an interesting drive to say the least.

LOL, The RUF yellowbird one of the best drives, if you can handle it! On GT4 it's so tricky, but if you can work with the car, you can put out some seriously fast lap times. Other cars in it's class are put to shame, if you can control it.

I really hope they have it on GT5. I believe they have it on GT2, 3 and 4. I can't remember if it was on GT1. Correct me if i'm wrong. So there's a pretty good chance it will be there.

Nice video by the way. That guy can drive!

 

[EA11R]

I love the GT series because it's simply the best. It doesn't apologize for being a sim-cade racer, it just gracefully dances along with unmatched graphics and a certain prideful dignity which seems to elude other games. There's always the sense that it's a substantial, well thought-out product, with boundless care and certainly a lot of time invested within it. There's also an absolutely captivating atmosphere to the menus; I don't know what it is, but it's always just perfect.

Though, I think the simplest way to say it is still the best: Everybody loves Kazunori Yamauchi. Particularly because he owns not one, but two Ford GTs. This franchise is the brainchild of a serious petrolhead, but it's actually been hugely successful. Those two traits tend to be at odds with one another, having a good backstory and doing well, and when they combine, something excellent has been done, by someone passionate about it.

Also, it reliably being late has an endearing quality to it: "Okay Kazunori, we need to launch it now!" "Awwwww, just five more months? Pleeeease?"

 

[amar212]

Okay.... amar212, calm down dude . We want to know what things about the game you like. You know, why you love playing it???

You misunderstood me mate - I was not sarcastic, I was serious - but nevermind. Those are the real reasons why I like GT series 👍

 

[Jay]

Nice video by the way. That guy can drive!

It's Walter Rohrl, should look him up, he used to race some of the craziest cars before they were banned.

 

[kikie]

I always loved the GT series. I just can't say what it is that I like about GT. For sure, I love, no adore the graphics. I love to watch the replays as it looks so real.
Game play! Don't forget the game play. Although I get very frustrate with the licence test, even to the point that I wish they weren't in the game, I alsways seem to re-do these test over and over again, even after getting gold.
You can choose whatever car and whatever track and start to "hotlapping", try to improve your driving skills and overall time.

The eye for detail and the almost perfect representation about the real world makes me to adore this game.

GT still has it's flaws: it's an old game that has been imporved over the years, instead of starting from scratch. The physics engine is not up to date and still has some flaws but it doesn't matter because it's GT.

More detailed. I like real life tracks, vintage cars (some of them), variety of cars ==> daily cars, race cars till very rare exotic cars.

Don't forget the most important thing. We never have to wait very long to wait for a sequel, PD is always very fast to release the next GT

The only game I like more than GT is GT legends or the mod Historic GT.


I'm early awaiting Project Ferrari and falcon from Blimey!games.

 

[Krymzen18]

VIPERGTSR01: It's Walter Rohrl, you should look him up, he used to drive some of the craziest cars before they were banned.

Ah yes, Rohrl. You said in your earlier thread. His name didn't regester until i watched your other video. Yeah he used to drive the legendary Audi Quattro. I've seen highlights of the old 70s and 80s rally era. A nutters car, the Quattro.

That's a car that needs to be on GT5, the Audi Quattro Rally Car. Even if there aren't any rally events. Imagine driving that around The Eiger course. Or the Nurburgring. Woop!

 

[Watevaman]

I've been in love with GT ever since I was a young boy, heh heh. Back when I was a kid (well, still am I guess) I was in it because it looked pretty, but around the end of my career in GT2, I started to like it simply because of the collection aspect. There's something about collecting cars I'll never even see that keeps me coming back for more and more.

That said, Gran Turismo kind of lured me into it more and more through the sheer number of things included within. Because of GT, I tend to look for games that have a wide variety of things, rather than a few static. It is because of this that I really am not interested in other racing games. Most other games out there do not reach my expectations, therefore I don't enjoy them at all, even if they're fun to everyone else.

 

[Krymzen18]

kikie: Don't forget the most important thing. We never have to wait very long for a sequel. PD are very fast to release the next GT

Yeah, it only takes them more than half a decade to release the next one.
But they are making the best racing game in the world, so it's understandable.

 

[corporatesteve]

I liked pretty much what everyone mentioned.... the fact that u can start out small and work your way up to the big leagues.... but what got me hooked the most were the tires... at some point in the game the person was introduced to tire wear in a race and you had to watch your tires and manage them, and at some point you had to stratagize when to come int to pit and change tires becuase it could end up being the difference between 1st and 10th place

 

[RacingFreak2k3]

Hey People! Sorry, I've been away for a few days over the new year. From me, a Big Shout! to RacingFreak2k3, s15specr, and The Vanishing Boy. Nice to see you're regularly writing in. And great comments and advice.

@code131158 - Nice to see you found Gran Turismo dude! Found it at the right time. 👍
@GBWH1991 - With regards to your tattoo choices, that's a tough one. I'd say get both! The red and blue, or the glossy black both look awesome.

And finally, to ALL. What has been your favourite moment? Or your most memorable time? Or your greatest personal achievement with Gran Turismo? What GT memory has stuck in your mind? Happy New Year to you all!

Your welcome, sir, thanks for the recognition 👍

In answer to your newest question. I don't have any specific memories (too many to recall, really), but overall, I love completely beating any GT game. In GT3, and GT4, and now GT5p, I love getting gold on everything and collecting every car possible (at least one of each).

Collecting every car in GT4 was a nightmare, buying all the used cars and the many different versions of the Skyline, but the achieving all of that and knowing that there is nothing else to beat in such a gigantic game adds a great feeling of accomplishment. And even after that, there is so much you can do, such as wheel customizations, photo modes, endless tuning options, and hundreds of cars to race in arcade with. And now with GT5p, online play and other features.

In essence, I love how it just never seems to get old and there is always something to do, even if you get a little bored, no more than a week goes by and I have to play again.

 

[Krymzen18]

RacingFreak2k3: In essence, I love how it just seems never to get old and there is always something to do, even if you get a little bored, no more than a weeks goes by and I have to play again.

Yeah man, I just love that element of GT. Other racers especially can get boring very easily and quickly. Need for Speed in the last few years, WRC or Colin McRae, Race Driver Grid. Some of these are good games, the fun just doesn't last as long as you want it too. Even Burnout Paradise. I love Burnout, but it does get same-ey.

I still play the other GTs at the moment. As GT5 is still some way off, I'm playing GT2 at the moment, going to start GT3 again in the next few months. And along side that, I'm racing online with GT5p. Like you said mate, the games never seem to get old. And that's probably is the reason the GT series, as a whole, is the best racing series.

 

[Kryz11]

I love everything about it, from hundreds and hundreds of cars, to many many TRACKS. As well Customization. Wish there was more customization/mod/upgrades.. but so far so good! I love how each car really feels different with WHEEL and that its one of the best SIMS out there for Street cars! No other game beats it!

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I like that there are a lot of cars ranging from the little Daihatsu to an F1 car. The various tracks are great too including their original tracks. The modifications and settings are also good. That said I don't like GT5P.

 

[Zer0]

I especially mention it due to the famous video of Walter Rohrl on Nurb with the CTR Yellowbird

The youtube description is wrong the driver is Stefan Roser or "sideways Stefan".

A bit of history from m5board:

Stefan Roser who is a long time friend of Alois Ruf's and worked for Ruf at that time was giving the Ruf Club members and friends rides around the Hockenheim track in "Yellow Bird," the original CTR (Group C Turbo Ruf). Both the car and Stefan are spectacular. Alois Ruf calls Stefan Roser "sideways Stefan," and if you have ever seen the Ruf video "Faszination" which shows Stefan Roser driving "Yellow Bird" at Nürburgring you have an idea why Ruf calls him that and what the experience of riding with him might be like. I rode around Hockenheim with Stefan for several laps and had a great time and I will have a lot more respect for races that I see at the Hockenheim circuit now.

"Yellow Bird" was built in 1987 and is the car that we have all read about in Road & Track that won the shoot-out and beat all of the worlds fastest super cars, including the Porsche 959S. "Yellow Bird" ran 211.5 mph in this top speed shoot-out at the VW proving ground. This same car went even faster, 212.5 mph, at a subsequent event held on the Nardo Racetrack. In addition to the speed records "Yellow Bird" clocked 0-60 mph in 4 second and turned the quarter mile at 133.5 mph in 11.7 seconds.



"Yellow Bird" is a light weight construction 911 with a 469 horsepower twin turbo 911 based 3.4 liter engine. For the CTR Ruf uses his own intake manifold similar in design to the Carrera manifold, but larger in capacity with the special Digital Motronic Electronic (DME) fuel injection and ignition system that was originally developed for the Porsche 962 race cars used to control the fuel mixture and ignition timing. Instead of measuring the air flow like most electronic engine management systems do this system is a pressure sensing type system which uses throttle position, rpm, engine temperature and manifold pressure as input signals. This was the first of these high powered 911 turbo engines that really ran right and made a lot of horsepower. Since "Yellow Bird" was built many of the aftermarket tuners have been utilizing various different electronic engine management systems to greatly enhance the engine performance of the turbo and now that Porsche is finally abandoning the CIS fuel systems for their next generation 911 Turbo, which will be introduced next March, the engine management situation for these engines has come full circle.

Ruf said that he has built 28 CTR's from new bare chassis with no chassis numbers purchased from Porsche and that he has also built about the same number of CTR's by converting them from existing 3.2 Carreras. The cars built from new chassis have Ruf chassis numbers and the modified cars still have their original Porsche VIN number. It is still possible to have a CTR built by Ruf as a conversion, but there are no new chassis left.

A great number of the Ruf CTR owners use them primarily for track events and there were several at the Ruf Club driving school at Hockenheim. There was also one Ruf's customers yellow CTRs at the Ruf facility for service that I looked over very closely. The Yellow CTR at Ruf's had a built in roll cage that was probably the best roll cage installation that I have ever seen in a Porsche 911. The roll cage was very unobtrusive and did not protrude into the passenger compartment hardly at all. They had upholstered over the roll cage so that it blended into the interior, the carpeting and upholstery went over the bars of the roll cage as did the cars headliner. This car also had a larger 105 liter (27.7 gallon) fuel tank that Ruf Gmbh had made for them by the original equipment manufacture who makes them for Porsche. Because the wheels and tires used on the CTR are of run flat technology no spare tire is required, so the fuel tank is made larger by omitting the indentation that would normally accept the 911 collapsible spare tire. The run flat technology wheels are either the Dunlop Denloc system or the Asymmetrical Hump system, Ruf uses both. The yellow Ruf CTR at Ruf's facility also utilized a number of Kevlar parts to help reduce the weight of the car. The doors, front trunk lid, front fender and front and rear bumper were all made of Kevlar composite. The fit and finish of the body and Kevlar panels was exemplary, it was impossible to tell by looking that the car didn't have the standard Porsche steel panels. Ruf also offers aluminum doors hood and front fenders as an options to the standard steel and the more expensive Kevlar composite parts.

I like GT because things like this:

 

[Krymzen18]

Thanks for the drivers name Zer0. And thanks for the RUF Yellowbird history. It's a good read actually. For me the RUF Yellowbird is the best car that RUF has done. No brainer really. I'm sure most of you will agree. I can't wait to drive it on GT5, around the 'Ring or the Top Gear Test Track Polyphony better put it in the game!

Keep your posts coming in guys.

 

[Duphman]

I like it mainly because it is the only series that actually gives two craps about automotive history. Not the typical add neon to go faster/Paul Walker impersonations that almost all other games want to emulate.

 

[JohnBM01]

A few things for me stick out to this series than any other. It's an environment most comfortable racing with for one. I don't have the skill to compete in much tougher sims like the GTR series. I like being able to race not only the fastest cars, not only the most exclusive cars, but daily drivers. Only Enthusia is much more diverse in types of cars you can race. It has a level of difficulty that I'm well-suited to. I'm talking about reasons outside of graphics or anthing like that. First-ever game I got for the PS1 was GT1. I got GT3 as my first PS2 game. Comfort is basically my reason and my draw to this series. Otherwise, I'd consistently lose to some of the deeper simulation games.

Another reason to me is that there is no central focus on one specific series. It's more freestyle. I know more people would push for more realistic championships and more real racing machines, but I'd love knowing that I could propel a DTM Mercedes-Benz in the tricky corners of Apricot Hill (which I always thought was a German-style track for some reason), then be able pilot a 2004 Mazda Miata around MotorLand without having to be fully committed to one specific series. That's why I think you have games devoted to one specific series with all the many nuances of that specific series as opposed to something like the ToCA Race Driver series. I don't mind real racing series, but I'm not all like "I only care about real series."

So it's all about comfort for me. Plus, I'm more a classical thinker on racing games. The Gran Turismo series, to use a children's story, like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in which GT is the thing that's just right. It's just right for me in what I want in a racing game. It's that level of comfort while also being a game series you can never really get tired of. Just because it's just right for me, am I opposed to change? Absolutely not. Steadily improve a game if a formula works. Don't downsize into something bad.

 

[-ultraflow-]

I like the Gran Turismo series because:

- It was my first car game.

- Lot's of cars (road/tuner/race/rally/concept/etc...).

- Lot's os real tracks.

- Excelent sound and graphics.

- For me is the Real Driving Simulator.

- The best car encyclopedia ever.

👍

 

[M3fury]

It all started in 1997 when GT came out on PSX. I work in a video store and at that time... all i knew was need for speed franchise. I tried out the game that soon became my favorite hobby. I loved it for the car presentation, the race track... the event... out to unlock new vehicle liscences... oh yeah... S license it was such a ain in the neck at that time... lol Now all i play is GT games. I bought a PS3 last summer especialy to .tryu out. GT5 prologue. I loved it, but now.. I still play gt4 with my logiteck steering weel going thru all the events with different cars and set up all the time. this is very addictive game... so addictive now I change from computer science job... to body man for vehicle... O.o

 

[danjama]

Well i have been playing Gran Turismo since i was very young, i had it packaged with my Playstation 1 when it first came out. It was a christmas gift, probably the best ever. I also had Total Drivin and some others, Destruction Derby etc....and of course the famous T-Rex demo Anyway i'm drifting. So i was about 12 at the time i believe and it was very hard to stick with it at first, in fact i played Total Drivin alot! But then one day me and GT just clicked. I believe i was doing some Arcade Races, and then i went for a career, and i just grew to love it. And how happy am i that i did. I wont forget moments like sub-7min laps of the nurburgring, flying through corners at ridiculous speeds and snapping the car back into line, no other game can produce that. it's just perfect and has been all the way through the series. I loved the Racing paint jobs you could apply in GT and remember spending hours hunting for the right honda CRX to get the paint job that was in the intro...i dont think i ever found it!!! I remember never wanting to switch the game off, even when it was 4am and i had school in the morning because i wanted a few more laps in my new car I remember hours of playing with mates who have been and gone, the game has outlasted them But mostly i remember that i have played it since then and until now and will always play it. in fact, just writing this makes me want to stick GT4 in and give it a whirl. Maybe i will. Thinking about it just makes me want GT5 more. Come on guys hurry and give us our fix. I dont think they realise what they begun.

 

[danjama]

Just wait till we get the RUF yellowbird (hopefully) on Nurburgring in GT5.

man that would be awesome with GT5 gfx and driving model

 

[davepierce07]

I love Gran Turismo because I much prefer realistic driving games than arcade racers. You get so much more satisfaction from GT. I remember back in the late 90's when the first one was about to be released on the first playstation and never looked forward to any game and game series so much. Also, I have never seen so much care and attention go into a racing game series as this one and I was very confident that GT would go from strength to strength. Also now, the satisfaction you get from GT5P and a G25 is really really good. Like when you shave a few 10ths off your lap time in time trial in a car with normal or sports tyres say..... Roll on GT5. It'll be worth the wait.......