Hey all, I have been following this forum for a few months now, and I must say, I already adopted it as a family member. This will be my first reply on this forum so please let me know if I am making any mistakes.
I just saw all the videos that e5ridez put on youtube.
His video's answered almost all the questions I still had left for this game.
And not to start a war here, but I am seriously regretting that I already payed 80,- Euro for the Collectors Edition.
I never played another Gran Turismo game before so I am not very familiar with the series. This is due to the fact that I never owned an Sony console before. (I find the PS3 to be awesome in almost every aspect b.t.w.)
I recently bought Prologue to have a quick peek and that game kind of statisfied me, so I was hoping for a lot from the full version.
When I saw the standard cars in e5ridez videos, they looked almost identical to the cars from Forza Motorsport 1 on XboX, which I still play sometimes.
Please don't hate me for it.
Now this is not a very big problem to me, especially since they handle via the same physics engine. The thing that does make me wonder if PD is digging his own grave here is that I get the feeling that you only get 1/5th of the functionality.
In my case for example, the only cars I find interesting from the whole car list are all standards, this is no problemo, but..... I cannot takes this in photo mode.... and I am seriously wondering why.... because this shows to clearly how bad the standards look? Or what? Then there is that I can't change the rims, most standard rims look dreadfully awful, but this is personal taste. Still I can't think of any reasonable explanation why we can't change them. So I am asking you guys, was this possible in GT4? Or couldn't you change them in that game too? Just wondering....
Then there is the problem that you cannot use a lot of tuning and upgrading options on the standards, this is what hurts me the most since I will probably only drive with standards, so this means that I cannot use 4/5th of the game to me....
No, what actually hurts me more is the cockpit viewless standards. I don't care how ugly or unreal they look, just like e5ridez said in his videos, why cant they just blacken it out so we can still play from the right perspective.
I was so used to the cockpit view from Prologue and loved it ever since. But now I now this I am already trying to get used to bumper cam, even if this seems like BS to me.
Even GT PSP had interiors, blackened out, but still, you could drive from the right perspective, and I still hope they will patch/DLC this for us.
Then there is another thing I find very awkward.... why is the dynamic weather and day night cycle available only on certain tracks.... I would presume this is just a type of script.... Is there some sort of weird bug on some tracks? Is That why
Another thing for the day/night cycle is.... can you still use a standard car in this type of situation? Since you cannot do anything with the headlights on the standard cars, will you still be able to use them in the night races, since I suspect that they will be a license test of some sort.
The overall graphics of GT5 tend to look very outdated in my opinion, I think this is mostly because of all the delays. Especially when you look at the environments, that looks even worse than most mediocre race games of today. I don't find this to be a problem for a simulator, but since they/everybody is bragging about the graphics, I think I can bash this.
I'm also wondering if everybody is very excited for the 3d and head tracking function.
I really think they could have invested this time in other parts of the whole development.
That the 1000 cars are actually 200 usable and that even these 200 have a lot of replica's and that the track list is nothing special (I think I am actually one of the few that hates Nurnburgring and does not want to drive that track in any race game, I really don't like anything about it.) are things I don't even want to think about.
I really get the feeling that with the standards not in photo mode stuff they where not trying to fix problems, but just making more limitation so people cannot notice a lot of flaws, why there isn't an option for the day/night and weather so it can be used on all tracks still beats me but I have a distinct feeling that this will be fixed with a patch/DLC later on.
Sorry for me I already paid the 80,- bucks and the product is already dispatched to me and will be on my doorstep tomorrow morning
The only thing I am still having good hopes for is the 300 page thick Apex book I will be getting with my CE edition, I hope I can cherish it like a bible. For the rest, I will give it a clean and objective go when I have time later on this week, but some things just can't give my mind a rest. I really had high expectations of all this
Please don't hate on me, this is my objective look at the game.
I haven't played a GT before except prologue for a couple of weeks now.
Which I still be playing so I can see replays of my 1v1 races with friends.
(sucks that the demo/prologue could do this and the full version can't)
. It can't be true.
