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adam I wanted to say the same thing as you but you put it much better than I would have.

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link

haha lipstick meet pig

goole, Friday, 10 December 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link

it's the opposite really - a thoroughbred of a game with the immediate air of a gimpy nag

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

last night i spent two hours trying to get a VW van around the Top Gear test track - fuck me i never thought a 70mph race would be so hard

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 December 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link

i got bronze in that and am taking a break. shit is nuts.

the intermediate top gear challenge, with the lotus that floats around the track like a hot wheel, is a motherfucker as well. haven't even hit bronze in that one.

adam, Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

The samba bus top gear thing was driving me crazy too - so many tries and so many disqualifieds. I've got 2nd place twice though (still want that gold, but it's maybe too infuriating to bother with).

Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 12 December 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Samba bus race is ruining my life. I was out front once, but messed up the LAST corner and was *DISQUALIFIED*... so annoying, yet so great.

Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link

So, basically what you're all saying is that I should purchase this immediately.

Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

yes.

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link

music is hideous

F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Question for you chaps and chappettes: I'm going to pick up either this or F1 this week because I've been hankering for a racing/driving game. Any thoughts as to which one I should get? (I'll ask the same in the F1 thread and see if that gets a different response).

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link

i've never played F1 but GT5 is an incredible bargain when you consider it's many, many racing games in one - NASCAR, karts, rally, etc - and within those genres are so many different sorts of challenges

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Thanks Tracer!

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link

played it at a friends house over xmas, to be honest it was a lot better than i expected. tho wasn't impressed visually, there's a lot in there to keep the racer occupied. Never quite got around to seeing the rain courses, but on youtube they look pretty spectacular.

I think I'll get this, but might need a wheel to appreciate it.

question about the nascar, rally, and karting etc. i only really saw a rather crappy couple of races in each. Do they expand to proper races/leagues/cups ?

F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link

question about the nascar, rally, and karting etc. i only really saw a rather crappy couple of races in each. Do they expand to proper races/leagues/cups ?

No.

Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link

On the F1 thread Jeff you said:

With Gran Turismo I feel like it's much harder to have a good race - it's more of a driving and car collecting grindathon game (because your car is either too weak or too powerful in 90% of the racing you do - there rarely is that balanced, tight racing - maybe except if you set it up just right in online)

In my limited time playing GT5 this is sadly true. I wish there were like, a walkthrough or something, designed not for maximising points or speeding through the game but for having competitors at the appropriate level for your stage in the game and car quality..

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Like, I've watched the reply maybe twice? What's the point of watching yourself win by a lap?

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

replAy

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

thing with gt5 was that is seems really easy to just tune up your car if its not winning races. i remember older gt's being much harder about this, and in the end you were racing the same tracks over and over again just to get some money to tune up.

i guess what i'm saying is that it's both a good and bad thing.

meh.

F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

'was that it seems' oh deary deary me

F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link

racing games have a hard enough time equalizing things even among the AI pack, let alone between you and them. there was always only 1 car you had to worry about, really.

goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link

I haven't been playing this as much due to other distractions, but I am at a point where I would almost be tempted to enter a full unlock cheat code just to do a cool arcade mode race once in a while.

get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, I really want a wheel peripheral. If I could afford to plunk down $100 for one I think it would breathe new life into this game.

get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link

I haven't been playing this as much due to other distractions, but I am at a point where I would almost be tempted to enter a full unlock cheat code just to do a cool arcade mode race once in a while.

Does such a cheat even exist? This would probably seal the deal for me buying the game.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link

nope. doesn't appear to be one :(

get off my lawn (rockapads), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link

You guys are joking, right?

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Choose "Arcade" option on first screen that comes up

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Race on any track, rain or shine, night or day

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link

like, if you think you're good at the Nurburgring try it at night in the rain

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 January 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm having an absolute blast with the seasonal events, special events and license tests - all of them test your finesse to the utmost. i am sooooo far from getting golds at nurburgring it's not even funny

it's just so strange that the A-spec meat of the game is so utterly unbalanced in comparison

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link

OK i discovered the secret to A-spec being balanced and fun:

- DON'T SPEND ANY MONEY if you can help it

your natural inclination is to tune the shit out of these cars... so you can win... duhhh. but no. if you do that, then 1) the races are no fun, because you blow away the competition and 2) you will be hurting for cash

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 January 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link

anyway i've gotten back into this and i am having a blast.. finally went back to the VW bus challenge at the Top Gear track and i have to say that is maybe the most challenging and exciting races i've ever played on a console..

(despite the fact that in order to win you basically have to drive like a complete asshole)

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 January 2011 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link

can i just say again how much i love this game??

like, <3 <3

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link

when i can afford it, i'm getting it

F-Unit (Ste), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link

well i beat the VW challenge but the Lotus Elise challange on the same track is just GOD DAMN

FUCK

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link

by the way i got gold on all B license tests - which was SOOOPAH fun

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link

nice, i'll bet that took some doing.

on gt1 when i'd done all the gold licences, i remember actually jumping up and down on my bed like a gay child.

F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link

i actually used my handbrake to pass one of them. i felt like a fucking cowboy.

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link

five months pass...

i finally beat the lotus elise challenge on the top gear track last night

to my everlasting shame and horror i actually shouted "yeah, bitches!!"

Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link

excellent nappyhead slogan imo

leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

Do any of you guys play Real Racing 3?

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link

Gonna keep spamming this thread out of futility.

I'm ~33% done with RR3, it's been pretty great so far, though starting to get slightly repetitive and the next class seems to warrant a huge jump in game$ that I'm not sure corresponds with the prize $ but I could be wrong. I'm still playing freemium style with $0.00 of my own $ invested despite being tempted up the wazoo. Good game! Best free game I've played on the iPhone w/o a doubt.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 December 2013 05:52 (ten years ago) link

six years pass...

this is going to be a nuts post. in quar i've been playing a lot of GT sport. a lot.

i've become a very picky connoisseur of fan-made liveries, but NOT i repeat NOT the faithful replicas, tough guy hot rod shit, or anime that gets all the likes. local/niche snack and liquor brands, bizarre pairings, odd tributes and other personal fixations *while still looking sharp and perfectly track-plausible* are my shit. i have a collection of hundreds of these things now. if ILG isn't interested in these i can't imagine anyone else on earth is either!

here's some of my favorites:

>> Drinks:

Tymbark, Polish fruit juice on a Porsche Cayman Clubsport
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/11240273/1/6350172242983257112

Peach Faygo, woop woop Detroit! Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/6643793/1/5836678318216184872

Beerlao, which is, wait for it, a Laotian brewery. BMW M6
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/5765242014419386913

Bell’s Brewery on a VW Sambabus
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/6643793/1/8142540081390944793

Kingfisher Beer, Lancer Evo.Final. I have no idea how these hyper-detailed scenes are done; the upload limit for a single decal is a 15kb .svg. I’m guessing they upload multiple panels? The amount of work...
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1050217/1/8080095459213869577

Rhum Charrette, Mercedes Benz AMG GT3
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/4827859973612504577

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link

>> Foods:

Sgambaro, small Italian pasta maker on a Ferrari Italia
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1050069/1/6638377388332843528

Amora, French ketchup brand, Hyundai Genesis
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/6917534527509234209

Herta Knacki, some kind of canned sausage snack. BMW M6
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/8070529699980280353

Chapagetti, a Korean ramyeon brand, alarmingly detailed and piping hot. ‘96 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.IV.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1027576/1/4765456089521063457

Nongshim Angry Raccoon Ramen on a Toyota 86 GT Limited. More spicy noodle photorealism
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1027576/1/5621082843714158592

Grido Helado, Argentinian ice cream shop chain, ‘98 Honda Civic Type R
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1921376/1/8440317532113470521

In-N-Out Burger on the terrifying ‘87 Audi Sport quattro S1
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/8654469/1/4909499746735882801

President Camembert de Campagne, Renault Megane Trophy, very lush!
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/7214797392084730385

Matines, France’s #1 egg brand, on the Aston Martin DP-100 concept car, for some reason
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1664775/1/6124970264326341168

La Lechera condensed milk, Alfa Romeo MiTo
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2219803/1/8440323027507380760

This is especially clever: half Jif PB, half Welch’s grape jelly, Peugeot 208 GTI. I don’t know if there’s a country where Jif, Welch’s and Peugeot are all commercially available, UK maybe lol?
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/6643793/1/6990180370851333160

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link

>> Small businesses and other niche local stuff:

Knudsen Suppliers Portugal SA, a shipping firm, on a Jaguar F-Type
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/8210569/1/5413920496978756632

Chiemsee -- I think this is just a tribute to a tourist destination on a lake in Bavaria? (also an OutKast logo thrown on too, why not), VW GTI concept car
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/5179309/1/8007480417452065296

Nationalpark Eifel. More boosterism from the Germans, a nice tribute to nature preserve. BMW M4
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/3887717/1/6918194305936916512

Kinepolis Group, a Belgian cinema chain. ‘03 BMW M4
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/6673058/1/5765255148883411505

Alpha Veranda, which is, no shit, a small veranda contractor on the outskirts of Perpignan, France. Corvette C7 Gr.3. If the maker isn’t related to this business, I dunno...
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2864524/1/8512393737989521961

Pustefix, German bubble-blowing soap (?!) on an Audi R8 LMS
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1132527/1/5765259539942212641

Probably the strangest, nicest one? Connecticut-based arts charity the Giuliani Foundation, on a McLaren 650S GT3. Why the eye-searing hot pink and teal, no idea, but I love it.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2455585/1/5557531084505252888

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link

>> Consumer brands etc that I’m pretty sure don’t have their stuff on racecars:

ShamWow on a Jaguar F-Type. Yes Vince is on there.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1970228/1/8431311421162160641

Leatherman multitool on a Porsche 911 GT3. I also endorse this product.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/3887717/1/7863937037093569552

Preparation H, Citroen GT Gr3
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1970228/1/8800112910356447768

Pampers. Toyota TS050 Le Man car
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2439440/1/4972541416639070761

L’Oreal, ‘83 VW Golf. Nice Mondrian style on this one.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1770987/1/4827859984435906081

Denim aftershave on a ‘71 DeTomaso Pantera. Period-appropriate, I think?
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1095453/1/7071246320105685536

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link

>> Music

Discogs.com, Ford GT LM Spec II
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2459108/1/8215200207415050249

public image ltd. “formula” on a SF19 Super Formula, the cleverest music tribute car I’ve ever seen
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/2765688/1/4828434955448124457

A subtle Prince tribute: the clouds from the Around the World in a Day suit on a Veyron:
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/discover/search/carLivery/livery/2765688/1/8295714151822557193

God bless the middle aged English guys who are the anchor of any sim racing community. 30 years of Ninja Tune tribute livery, Aston Martin DBR9
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/10377290/1/6773445801170470408

I linked this before -- this is the most psychotic and my favorite, a Rita Ora fan livery on an Aston Martin V12 Vantage. This maker did a bunch of pop singer liveries and they are all scary well done
https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/my-library/carLivery/livery/1056024/1/7422569986430862345

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link

neat!

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link

haha ty for the appreciation

goole, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link

i like the rita ora one

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link


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