GT Academy 2015 has officially kicked off with the first round this past Tuesday and features the 600-horse Nissan GT-R NISMO going to task around Silverstone, home to GT Academy for the past several years. If you haven’t had a chance to partake in the opening round you’d be best served to stop by our dedicated GT Academy forum and strap yourself in for the drive of your life.
Before we get into the contents of this week’s Spotlight, an idea came to mind and I think it’s a pretty good one; one that involves how Gran Turismo 7 could be the best GT yet, and would have a special kind of appeal to veterans of the series: Heritage License Tests. The name requires a bit of work as I just thought of it, but imagine the setup if you could unlock a series of license tests that paid homage to the exams found in Gran Turismo 1-3.
You could have the RUF RGT at a returning Complex String, Viper GTS-R at Laguna Seca, Opel Speedster at Apricot Hill Raceway, the Griffith 500 at a returning Special Stage Route 11. The possibility is even there to have them all featured, and I believe it would be a fantastic way to add a little character to the next chapter in the series.
Let me know what you guys think. Now, who’s ready for the Spotlight?
GTPlanet Picture of the Week
This week’s featured image, coming to us courtesy of X3remes, features the 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari in Driveclub.
If you like what you’re seeing and have a suggestion for next week’s featured image, start a conversation with me, entitle it “GTPlanet Picture of the Week” and fill it to your heart’s content with suggestions and they’ll be featured in upcoming Community Spotlight articles. NOTE: You cannot elect your own work.
GTPlanet Gallery of the Week
This week’s featured gallery, recommended to us by Safoo, is Half Baked photos brought to us by Baker1707. Opened on the 27th of January of this year, the gallery approaches GTPhotography with a core focus on action shots, close-ups, and some really creative angles.
You can find Baker’s gallery here in all of its splendor if you want to look through an entire catalog of photos that haven’t been touched up, with the latest update being the 5th of April.
– Mazda Furai, February 15th, 2015.
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GTPlanet Thread of the Week – Have You Learned Anything Playing GT?
This week’s thread, started by our own tomcat66, asks a question I’m sure many of us have asked ourselves and/or a peer, and that question is whether or not you’ve learned something while playing Gran Turismo. The immediate response is undoubtedly car control and the differences between drivetrain types, two things I learned from the game myself at an early age.
What have you learned from your time playing Gran Turismo? You’ll want to stop by the thread here and let us all know!
Sounds of Driveclub, Part 4 – Pagani Huayra
GTPlanet Member of the Week
It is once again time to acknowledge a member of the GTPlanet community is upon us. A member who has stood out among the hundreds of thousands of members already here, both old and new alike for all that they’re worth and all they have contributed to the community.
This week’s inductee is no stranger to the Spotlight and knows full and well what it takes to make a great tune for a classic car, but now it’s time for this individual to be recognize in an entirely different light, let’s give a warm welcome to the newest member to find vacancy in the ever-growing Member of the Week madhouse, Thorin Cain!
You’ll be able to read the full interview the minute it’s available in the official thread right here.
Greatest Songs in the GT Series
This thread, created by our own BayneHamlin1121 cuts right to the point: what are the greatest songs in the GT series? The thread is as straightforward as they come, and some of my personal favorites are as follows:
- Super Bon Bon – Soul Coughing
- Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz (Both the original and the GT Remix)
- My Favourite Game – The Cardigans
- Yellow Brick – Noisia
I could go on but we’d be hear all day so instead I’m interested in what all of you think, so be sure to stop by the thread here and share away!
GTPlanet Vehicles of the Week – McLaren P1 vs McLaren F1
GTPlanet Tune of the Week
This week’s featured tune, recommended to us by the ever-popular Thorin Cain and courtesy of Dolhaus, is all about Project Mid-Life Crisis, otherwise known as the 2000 Lamborghini Diablo GT roaring with 622 horses, and ready to trample any challenge set before it.
*The front end is very responsive when off the throttle, blip the throttle when coming off the brakes to stabilise the car. Can get a bit fidgety if you take too much curb but otherwise is fairly well mannered (for a big purple shouty car).
*Enjoy your drive.
Stop by the Haus of Flying Daggers and try your damnedest to tame this raging bull, else you’ll get the proverbial horns.
The Last Lap
There isn’t much more to say other than at this time next week I’ll be out seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron and enjoying myself tremendously. Until next week, keep racing!
Photomode images by Rayquaza, ac1, Fuzzi0n, and Yui-san.
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Actually come to think of it I would love to see them figure out someway to make little parts of the old games come back in GT7 like bring back the copperhead concept car and the original special stage Route 11 track and a wet special stage Route 5 etc.
I like this idea of bringing back vintage license tests, I would like to expand on some of these ideas as far as rewards for something so massive, especially if we’re also going to have all the normal parts of the game represented too… 1. Make each set of vintage license test unlock tracks and races that will be added into career mode, as well as 3 to 5 cars selected from each individual game to be given as prize cars, and unlock 3-5 songs from that game to be added to the GT7 soundtrack. 2. Adding on to that I believe each license adding on to that I believe each wife should unlock a specific endurance race, representative of each game, for example, 300km Grand Valley race for GT1, the Seattle endurance for GT2, the GT3 Special Stage R11, etc.
Jesus Christ the typo’s sorry folks I hope you all understand what I meant though
I have learned from playing GT6… that:
a. I am faster than Ayrton Senna,
b. Despite being faster than Senna there are some 10,000 people who are faster than me.
c. The people at PD have absolutely no imagination when it comes to making weekly challenges;
d. Endurance racing means about 10 laps or 20 mins;
e. Despite a realease of the next generation consoles… GT6 is still the best Playstation driving Sim.
Heritage Licence Tests sounds like a great idea. Maybe have 3 licence centres? GT3, GT4 and GT7 Licence Centres! (Or just include the really great licences in a Bonus section with a really awesome car as a reward!)
I’ve learned and am still learning throttle control, and that there is a big difference between FR and MR drivetrains. MR being the one I have trouble keeping off the wall or at least looking at the wall while going around a turn.
“Drive of my life” ? – No, that was the 6:45~ McLaren P1 lap around The Nordschleife, in Assetto Corsa’s “Forbidden Record” Special-Event Challenge ;)
Heritage tests would only interest me if they were -genuinely- hard, with no aids or physics-tweaks active, and they actually had prizes (i.e. the old F1 cars) worth striving for, rather than just nostalgic PD-propaganda.
Propaganda.
~Sigh~
You’ve got my vote for Heritage License Tests. I’ve still got every copy of every GT, I’d love to redo the original tests before doing a brand new version!
And more custom settings for online lobbies would be nice gt7 that is
‘… appeal to the veterans of the series, Heritage License Test…’ Hmmm, it’s a way to go. But, what l least enjoy about GT’s skill testing is the single car choice. Whithout fail, every attempt at a breaking, cornering or manuvering attempt during License Testing, l cain’t help but wonder if there were any other vehicles, of the same or simular class, that would be better at the same task(s). It always felt like being jipped of what they could have done with the ever increasing vast number of cars on hand. Still today, no real skid pad ‘Solo’ course. Though, Autumn Ring Short is a decent replacement for solo runs, imo.
Maybe, this comes from my pre-GT days when l was eyeballs deep into automobile magazine comparison test sheets… decades of Mustang vs Camaro comparisons. Solid rear axel fun for the masses!
Anywho… what l learned from GT, after a quarter century of beating the breaks off of the hoopties l owned, is how not to smash what l’ve owned since GT was released. PATIENTS!!!
The heritage idea is good, but anything that is aimed at the fastest drivers is something i’d like to see. A series within the series for veterans and fast drivers or something like that.
That is an awesome homage to the McLaren F1-my favorite car of all time. Nothing else has the beauty, simplicity or perfection. I don’t care what electronics (or lousy, stupid turbines!) can do, they CAN’T do THAT!
I have ALWAYS wanted ALL challenges from ALL GT games to be available, even as paid DLC, in the latest game! Bring on the license tests, simple, medium, and hard races! I would LOVE that on SO, SO many levels!!!!! :)
does anyone know when GT7 is suppose to come out? or there is no info yet
Nope. Only vague hints here and there, nothing to pin your hopes on.
It’s amazing how minor touch ups make GT6 look like a brand new ps4 game, specifically the image with the HSV is absolutely spectacular.
With all the different racing series out their in this vast world it would be cool to have seperate career modes maybe? Mode “Rally” “GT3” “GT2” “LMP” “Economy” “Electric” “Touring” “4WD, MR, FR, RR, FF” “Europe” “America” “Asia-Pacific” OR………..
Going along with your license tests, consider EVERY VEHICLE A LICENSE! < and when we complete that license we receive that car automatically so we could obtain every vehicle the first time through. Make every license worth 1,000cr. so we use these credits only to tune our vehicles for online races or practice mode. If we want to obtain a second specific vehicle we will have to do the license over again. This way you could eliminate all CAREER, give us a chance to obtain every vehicle with a time challenge and put more focus into the ONLINE racing community to make the online racing more stable and enjoyable. This would get rid of a lot of clutter and add authenticity to "The Real Driving Simulator"
If you wanted more cr. to tune your car without obtaining an obscene amount of vehicles inside your garage then include practice race mode where you choose a course and the amount of laps, Depending on the course, make every lap worth 1,000cr. this way you know how many laps to accomplish in order to tune your vehicle accordingly.
Just a thought, sorry its so long.
ok.
Interesting idea, but I think it fails on a LOT of levels….. Sorry…..
So saying , the first sentence of racing series/careers would be awesome!
That’s actually not a bad idea at all, as an alternate way to build your garage, as opposed to utilizing the bizarre game economy as it sits now. But only as an alternate way to obtain a car, every racing game needs a good career mode.