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Hey guys, tell us how your first day of GT4 went.. progress... how long you played.. etc..
11:31am I woke up and ran to the phone to call gamestop. They said they'll have it around 5:00pm. I make a few rounds in gt3 and get my only gt3 drift video up. 3:25pm Arrival at Gamestop. Sadly they didn't get it in earlier (didn't think they would). I sit and play and walk around the mall a bit. When I get back I hear "Jesse.. they're in" Those words, they were music to my ears. 4:26pm I walk out of Gamestop with a grin from ear to ear. My ability to speak is limited to "oh ****," "gt4," "goddamn." I proceeded to call my best friend and all I could say is "gt4... goddamn.." He replies with an "oh ****" and we end up at my house at 4:53pm.
The marathon begins, after a lot of
and 
from the intro movie, we finally dive in. I proceed to import my gt3 data and was surprised that the money came along with it. The whole "what car should I start with" has become a much broader question. I ended up with a Mitsubishi Evolution VIII MR because I realized there was no eclipse gsx in the game =[. First my friend and I went through the iB licence and won some useless nike car that you can't even race with. I went the HKS and purchased their suspension setup, stage 3 weight reduction, medium racing tires, racing chip and racing flywheel. Took it to the sunday cup and blew it away. Proceeded to the 4wd cup, owned that too. Tried the turbo car cup, got the pants beat off me by an Rx-7 so I made it a point not to come back without more power. I went to my local Mitsubishi dealer and entered the Evolution cup, Ownage there. Had some fun at the drag strip and ran a 12.3xx 1/4 mile. I remembered how in gt3 I used an evo to win most my first few rally cars and won the rally cars to destroy in tarmac races. So I headed to the special conditions races.
I realized that some races didn't need special dirt tires so I ran the few I could in street tires. Easy mode was a pushover. My evo had around 400~ hp with a HKS racing exhaust, racing intercooler, and a racing chip as power upgrades. After clearing all the ones I could with regular tires I headed back to my garage to check out the new deliveries. Sold all the ones worth money except one funky looking toyota rally car valued at 256,000. I had about 250,000 blow so I went to my local bmw dealership and purchased a black M3 CSL. Performed some mild modifications, including stage 2 weight reduction, medium racing tires, and a full race exhuast. I took the car to the M series and blew through it with relative ease. Looked in my garage and a brand new silver M3 GTR was waiting for me.
I went back to the special conditions races with my evo and to my surprise there was a clear option! You could clear your win status and win the car again! I ran the Capri rally on easy two more times and sold all of the cars. I sat back and admired my first day progress. Mitsubishi Evolution VIII GSR MR-125.3mi, BMW M3 CSL 49.2mi, BMW M3 GTR 0.0mi, 741,076cr in the bank, and uncontrollable eye spasms from staring at the TV for too long.
Marathon ends:4:03am
11:31am I woke up and ran to the phone to call gamestop. They said they'll have it around 5:00pm. I make a few rounds in gt3 and get my only gt3 drift video up. 3:25pm Arrival at Gamestop. Sadly they didn't get it in earlier (didn't think they would). I sit and play and walk around the mall a bit. When I get back I hear "Jesse.. they're in" Those words, they were music to my ears. 4:26pm I walk out of Gamestop with a grin from ear to ear. My ability to speak is limited to "oh ****," "gt4," "goddamn." I proceeded to call my best friend and all I could say is "gt4... goddamn.." He replies with an "oh ****" and we end up at my house at 4:53pm.
The marathon begins, after a lot of
and from the intro movie, we finally dive in. I proceed to import my gt3 data and was surprised that the money came along with it. The whole "what car should I start with" has become a much broader question. I ended up with a Mitsubishi Evolution VIII MR because I realized there was no eclipse gsx in the game =[. First my friend and I went through the iB licence and won some useless nike car that you can't even race with. I went the HKS and purchased their suspension setup, stage 3 weight reduction, medium racing tires, racing chip and racing flywheel. Took it to the sunday cup and blew it away. Proceeded to the 4wd cup, owned that too. Tried the turbo car cup, got the pants beat off me by an Rx-7 so I made it a point not to come back without more power. I went to my local Mitsubishi dealer and entered the Evolution cup, Ownage there. Had some fun at the drag strip and ran a 12.3xx 1/4 mile. I remembered how in gt3 I used an evo to win most my first few rally cars and won the rally cars to destroy in tarmac races. So I headed to the special conditions races.I realized that some races didn't need special dirt tires so I ran the few I could in street tires. Easy mode was a pushover. My evo had around 400~ hp with a HKS racing exhaust, racing intercooler, and a racing chip as power upgrades. After clearing all the ones I could with regular tires I headed back to my garage to check out the new deliveries. Sold all the ones worth money except one funky looking toyota rally car valued at 256,000. I had about 250,000 blow so I went to my local bmw dealership and purchased a black M3 CSL. Performed some mild modifications, including stage 2 weight reduction, medium racing tires, and a full race exhuast. I took the car to the M series and blew through it with relative ease. Looked in my garage and a brand new silver M3 GTR was waiting for me.
I went back to the special conditions races with my evo and to my surprise there was a clear option! You could clear your win status and win the car again! I ran the Capri rally on easy two more times and sold all of the cars. I sat back and admired my first day progress. Mitsubishi Evolution VIII GSR MR-125.3mi, BMW M3 CSL 49.2mi, BMW M3 GTR 0.0mi, 741,076cr in the bank, and uncontrollable eye spasms from staring at the TV for too long.
Marathon ends:4:03am
. Anyways then me and my bro went to arcade mode and started doing a few races. The physics engine is deff diffrent from GT3 and I actually like it better this way. The first race we were all over the tracks lol, but after the 2nd and 3rd race we were deff getting better. We had a luxury race, BMW vs Mercedes (sp) then we had a muscle car race, then a rally race, just so we could get used to the variety of cars. We went through the manufacturers (sp) to see what cars they had etc.. So all in all we didnt do much except b*ll**** around and got used to how the cars handled. I also got another memory card yesturday too, so today im gonna try out the GT Mode. I proably wont use the GT3 save game, maybe only for the licenses but not for the money because I want the challenge heck I proably wont even use it for the lisences either because of the challenge. 
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Anyway we got back home and put it in the PS2...uh oh it wouldn't read the disk and my mom had left for school that night. So I sat in my room staring at the case for it. Okay next day I come home from school to find my dad playing GT4 and 110,000 credits and two license tests done 
I told him I wanted to start from scratch and he said to consider it sponser money 
). bought the HPA R32 for 31K 550+hp (weak again) and fired thru the special condition and some of the Beginner League. Sold the RSC Rally Car multiple times to earn up to million bucks. Then went on a shopping spree and bought: 99 Skyline GT-R (not a vspec), M3, Mustang, Evo 6 RS, and added minor modifacations. Then shut down my PS2 since it was pretty warm after 6 straight hours on. Clean some dust out off it tried to turn it on to find out it died. Power Supply bite the dust after 4 and 3 months of constant service with the GT4 disc inside of course. That sums up my day allright.
