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It's SCIENCE(tm)!
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Jesus man, did they not teach you not to make people laugh when they are drinking something? Now who's gonna clean my monitor uh? UH?
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Step1: Complete licenses/Challenges
Step 2:Complete a track enough to get to S-rank
Step 3: Turn the laps up to 99
Step 4: Select a tuned Skyline and away you go.
GTPSP allows you to decide how long of a race and in what car you want rather than forcing you into doing a race you don't have the time or desire to do, like for instance doing 10 laps in a Clio.
Like I said, perfectly adapted to handheld gaming.
11/19/09
Technically, it's good and all but where is it going ? Once I nailed the driving challenges, I don't see any way of progressing. And if I don't progress, I don't get a satisfaction feeling for what I've accomplished. And if I'm not satisfied, I'm not satisfied !
But I'm still glad someone likes it that way. Means there are probably reasons for thoses things I don't like :-) [peace.ak]
11/19/09
Your disappointment at the lack of career mode and sense of progression is understandable but from my point of view it's more of a yearning for the carrot-on-a-stick method where you have a clearly defined goal told to you that you can work towards as opposed to the "do what you like, we'll reward you anyway" method that GTPSP provides.
As for setting a goal for yourself, I would suggest going through all tracks in succcession on each rank before upping the ranks and going through again, perhaps also raising the amount of laps as you go up a rank from say 3-5-10 and beyond. Apart from that, I would suggest finding some cars you really like and going hell for leather in timeattack to beat your own time and see how fast you can get a lap done in a particular car (this also helps with tigthening up your handling). Be creative and create goals for yourself. Just like adult life, no one's going to tell you what to aim for.
@Numanoid:: Sarcasm, the internet, etc, etc. lol.
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what you just described there is how i've always played GTA... i've never "finished" a single one...
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In fact, I did that too, before and after finishing the story. I always loved to go run/drive in restricted areas (I mean the islands still locked at the beginning of the game) and try to make it the longest, or even get there, drive quite far inside and try coming back to a hideout.
I've got a friend who used to play Need for Speed 2 in LAN with his brother using the cheat to drive any of the normal cars in the traffic. One of them would try to disguise himself in the regular traffic and the other would try to find where he was...
There're always ways to find your own games into the games but does that mean the game shouldn't propose something to begin with ? [peace.ak]
11/19/09
I need goals, I need linearity, I need a sequence of events, I need to play according to the developers vision, I want to experience what the director intended. I don't want this... this freedom thing you all talk about!
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11/13/09
I CAN FINALLY *hopefully* FIND ANOTHER SOUL CALIBUR PLAYER.
It's lonely being the only sword fighter in a land of street fighters... #adhocparty
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It's not THAT hard to create a Japanese account and download this, but it is awesome that NA is getting it, hopefully EU will get one soon! #adhocparty
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*single tear* #adhocparty
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I was so disappointed when they showed bikes for GTHD and then there was nothing in GT5P... it's so fun running a ZX-10R around the Nurburgring Nordschleife. #gt5
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As for DLC, I have a suspicion we'll see next to nothing. They'll humor us with some holiday version of existing vehicles and that's about it. Instead they'll hoard everything for GT6 which should be done in time for the PS4 Slim. It's either that or GT5 is only going to make available a percentage of the claimed 1000 cars and we'll have to pay for the keys to unlock everything already on the disc. They have to recoup their $60 million investment somehow. #gt5
11/12/09
Most racing/driving simulators that are exclusive have redeeming features that make it good for its fanbase and GT is usually quite good at that too.
You don't have to post something negative about GT5 each time there's a new post about it you know, Optimus Prime would be ashamed :P #gt5
11/12/09
The claim was made that the GT4 engine was completely scrapped for GT5 which I don't buy at all. It's an inefficient way to work. I'm sure they had to dump a lot for the sake of the PS2 to PS3 transition but otherwise the basic physics engine should be the same. And in fact, it does feel pretty much the same. Otherwise they went and scrapped the previous engine but then were still unable to properly handle collisions or rollovers?
I suspect most of the money spent went into modeling all those cars, not building the physics engine. Prologue has 60 cars and 6 tracks. GT5 has nearly 1000 cars and 20 distinct tracks. Given the mount of work Digital Polyphony has shown going into modeling each car and track that's where you're money is going and Prologue isn't going to be much help. And don't forget the features that have been added since Prologue.
I think the GT series is excellent. And they've certainly pioneered the driving game with huge car libraries. On the other hand, the GT series is a perfect example of diminishing returns. All this time and money spent and GT5 likely won't be much better than the competition. It will certainly be good, it had damn well be given everything that's gone into it, but I'm hard-pressed to see that all the effort expended was justified. Then there's the fact that Sony loves trumpeting this game as the ultimate in realism, and they can't get things like collisions right. But it doesn't end there, I've never found the handling characteristics to be totally convincing. Forza feels more convincing to me. And even better is the simulator Live for Speed; they've even modeled tire flex in that game. Unfortunately the graphics in that game are lacking and the car list is worse. Those are the two areas where GT5 will decisively beat the competition. #gt5
11/12/09
Getting back to what you've just said. I'm not entirely sure how they coded GT4 and if GT5 is coded differently. I mean for instance why Naughty Dog had to rebuild their entire engine from scratch was because they used to use LISP and believe me when I say this sometimes it is actually cost effective to build a new engine from scratch than to tweak it to a newer system. That would be far more time-consuming than to start fresh.
With that said, it is quite likely that they are using assets from the previous games and some codes but really I don't work there so I wouldn't know. I agree that basic physics engine could be the same. Or they might have begun with porting and then realized that it would be effective to just change most of it. It could explain why they took so long. Regardless I do feel that they must be getting some money from car companies for the idents. Car companies are notoriously lavish with their budgets for advertising (I know this from personal experience), if they see advertising through GT as good as regular advertising then they would've given them quite a large sum of money which also would've helped the budget. I doubt that they'd have to use the entire money to make a new ident when they have reusable assets and such in the game.
I wouldn't say about diminishing returns so strongly, I mean it's the fifth game in the series albeit the first for the current generation of consoles. There would be a strong reduction as people now see with the Guitar Hero Franchise (I think when I said it peaked with 4 someone argued but the sales of 5 show it did indeed peak with 4, granted that it's not been out long but the sales are definitely less in a week by week comparison in a few territories at the least) but considering this is the first one for the current generation there would also be a surge. It's very hard to say because of several factors. It will be less perhaps due to the userbase being smaller but also it could be higher if the userbase expands on the basis of the ip, plus I'm sure TV shows will promote this. Shows like Top Gear really do promote this game over any other and that gets a whole different audience into the game.
Handling I guess isn't totally convincing but to be very honest I've never felt a game's handling for cars to be that convincing even with a wheel and other peripherals. Motorbike games on the other hand yes. It's strange but perhaps something to do with perception of space maybe.
I will say however that both games have redeeming features to make them good simulators and enjoyable and believe that when the product is finally out we can truly judge how good it actually is. Till then we've just got GT5p and the words of people. #gt5