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[F1FanUSA]

I'm getting a PS3 and the game next week. So far the reviews have been a bit of a letdown. Lots of 8s, 8.5, 9s. Don’t get me wrong those are very good scores but with the insane hype around this game for the past 2 years anything short of a 9.5 / 10 is a letdown.

Forza 3 had the same hype but did get the 9.5s and 10s.

[myownalias]

The problem with hype is exactly that, "Hype", it's not based upon any facts, plus the GT series has been the premier racing game since the late 90s and the PS1, so there was a lot more expectation from the game, especially with the delays of the release! I liked GT5 Prologue so I'm sure I'll love the full release!

[Stealthgate007]

with the wait being so long for this game, I would have expected Call of Duty sales numbers, but since the delays.. there has been no hype, no media.. I still see Call of Duty commercials in rotation now with the Jeep Black Ops edition.

GT5... Not so much as a wimper... The only people who know are the ones who have been following it.. Web video teaser are the only media that I've seen.. Its definitely not being marketed mainstreem.

[F1FanUSA]

with the wait being so long for this game, I would have expected Call of Duty sales numbers, but since the delays.. there has been no hype, no media.. I still see Call of Duty commercials in rotation now with the Jeep Black Ops edition.

GT5... Not so much as a wimper... The only people who know are the ones who have been following it.. Web video teaser are the only media that I've seen.. Its definitely not being marketed mainstreem.

I don’t think anyone implied it has been hyped to a level that would compete with COD (!)... For one thing COD is on all platforms, GT5 is just Sony... Thats serious apples to oranges right there. Not to mention COD is among to top 5 game franchises of all time?

But as a racing game, for those of us that love them, there has never been a racing game hyped like it for as long and hard as it has. Just look at this thread... It’s been going for over a year! That is my point.

[Stealthgate007]

with the wait being so long for this game, I would have expected Call of Duty sales numbers, but since the delays.. there has been no hype, no media.. I still see Call of Duty commercials in rotation now with the Jeep Black Ops edition.

GT5... Not so much as a wimper... The only people who know are the ones who have been following it.. Web video teaser are the only media that I've seen.. Its definitely not being marketed mainstreem.

I don’t think anyone implied it has been hyped to a level that would compete with COD (!)... For one thing COD is on all platforms, GT5 is just Sony... Thats serious apples to oranges right there. Not to mention COD is among to top 5 game franchises of all time?

But as a racing game, for those of us that love them, there has never been a racing game hyped like it for as long and hard as it has. Just look at this thread... It’s been going for over a year! That is my point.

yes but.... Remember when Forza came out on Xbox? I clearly remember those advertisment. A car on the side of the road with the door open, inviting you in to drive it. It was a dark grey Audi R8..

Forza is only on Xbox... Its answer to Gran Turismo.. Xbox had TV and print ads running months prior to the release. Basically, they had their stuff together. Where as GT5 said, it will be ready, wait, no it wont.. Sorry it will be ready on this date November 2... wait no it wont.. It will definitely be ready before Christmas... How about Nov 24.. Who ever plans their marketing should find work elsewhere, or is pulling their hair out in frustration over technical delays that they have no control of..

I do get it though... GT5 was the initial reason why I bought the PS3.. F1 2010 was secondary... something to do before GT5..

[myownalias]

Sheesh, my copy of GT5 is currently in Kansas City, yet it's still reporting it will not be delivered until Friday, Hell I could drive up and get it, it's a six hour round trip!

Update: I have cancelled my order with Amazon after reading pages and pages of horror stories about packages sent by FedEx Smartpost, I went down to my local Game Stop and bought it off the shelf, loading onto my PS3 now, so don't be alarmed if you don't see me around for a week!

[Stealthgate007]

So I have my S license, but trying to make money to buy a decent race car instead of the expensive road going cars. Im at 1.3 million and can't buy what I want to compete..

Any cheats for cash, big cash.. let me know.

GT4, you could win rally cars and sell them for 200k... At most I am making 36k per race at level 20..

[myownalias]

Cheat, why would you want to do that? I'm enjoying the challenge that GT5 presents! The previous games were too easy, you could have millions in credits within a few hours of game play. I like the AI too, much more intelligent, if you pull in front of car closing in, it'll take avoiding action most of the time!

You could never CHEAT in GT, there were prize cars that were easy to get and sell for 200,000 but that's about it, not seen any such "helpers" for GT5 yet!

[Stealthgate007]

erhem... Yes, I meant helpers to earn my way to some LMP1 type of cars. It does not matter until I get to level 23 anyway. I am at level 21. It opens up some new races, in the extreme.

Things I like so far:

1. The Music in the menu section. Jazz is pretty easy on the ears for my girlfriend when I am tooling around.

2. The showroom for the new cars. with the different views, daytime, sunset and night. Just to look at a 20mill Ferrari, with the Jazz playing in the backround makes me feel "Opulence.. I haz its!"

3. Being able to change cars from the event.

4. Cape Ring.... The visuals are spectacular. Also there is a dirt rally section in one of the license test that is way off camber on a side of a mountain. That was visually spectacular too.

Im sure there are other things, but that what sticks out in my mind.

Things I'm not sure about yet?

1. Tires - It seems I can never get enough heat in the front tires to get them to be stable in high speeds. They undjulate through high speed cornering. Its like I need a ton of downforce to get them to come on, but I can't buy cars with downforce on the front end yet, so the jury is out.

Favorite cars so far:

McLaren MP4-12c
Ferrari 458 Italia
Bugahtti Veyron

I do have an SLS that I am tooling on that isn't to bad either.

[texasmr2]

Man I need a PS3 !!!

[bmwpower]

I am a big GT fan and have played all the series but GT5 is a huge epic failure. Polyphony took 6 years to develope GT5 and it was a
disapointment to see GT5 haven't evolved in 6 years, GT5's strength is that its a racing simulation (even said that on the cover), its strength is also its biggest epic weakness. GT5 is supposed to "simulate"(once again its on the cover) real world racing and as a weekend racer myself, I don't race with some euro trash music in the background, its annoying that you can't turn it off. The first thing they teach you in racing school is that the car with the inside line has the right of way or the car with the nose in front has the right of way, problem is this simulation game doesn't understand that. Its annoying when you are doing the "license test", when YOU bump into a car, you are disqualified, now that's understandable since you don't have the right of way, BUT when you have the right of way and you are on the inside lane about 1/2 car in front of the car behind, the AI is so stupid that it keeps its racing line and turn right into you, thus disqualifying you, this is really annoying and it happens over and over. The licensing tests is supposed to teach you about racing, but what am I supposed to learn by driving a VW Bus, Toyota Yaris, Prius, etc.. its nothing but a waste of time for the player and a waste of research and development for Polyphony. Now GT5 has over 1000 cars, I am not asking for 1000 cars because I don't dream about owning a Honda Beat, Toyota Celica, or countless cars that took up so much disk space, just give up about 200-300 cars that we dream about owning. Because Polyphony spent so much time on research and development on things that we don't want (B Spec) and taken up so much disk space, it totally skip out on the customization. You can't paint a car a certain color you want unless you have a car with that color or buy a car with that color, but then it can only be used once. The best part about playing games like Forza or Need For Speed is buying your dream car and customizing it to your taste, unfortuntely with GT5, you can't customize 80% of its cars and when you can, they all have the same bodykit and 2 dozen rims. I spent my first $30K on a 07 Mustang (why they don't have a 2010/2011 model?) and I was excited to customize the Mustang, nope, only thing you can do is buy some new wheels and a big spoiler, same thing with the Veryon I bought. The best way to sum up GT5 is driving my Lamborgini Gallardo, doing about 180 mph and I am turning on the wiper blades because it started to rain, I also turn on the high beams, I am thinking what a great job Polyphony has done to details then all of a sudden I crash head first into a wall at about 160mph, all that happend was I got a few scratches on the front bumper, they made it so real then so fake. The up sides is that I love the physics, the handling is almost identical to some of the cars I've raced, the graphics is top notch, the fun factor is average. All I can think is it took 6 years and countless delays for this?

[bmwpower]

I've come up for air at the moment.. 5hrs before I went to bed last night and about 5hrs this morning.. Im currently on my iA license. Im sure I will have my super license by Saturday... Im trying to be patient.

Its funny how slow this game is in speed relative to F1 2010... Going from 202 mph, to start over in cars that take time to get to 60mph is weird, but still challenging..

I need to find the cheats quickly, because the cars that I want cost 20 mill. I've made money from the Mercedes Training events.. good cash there...

Ive bought the Ferrari Italia and will enter it in the italian event and the supercar event next... I really want the mP4-12c, but there is no where to race it right now..

The graphics on the 55inch 1080p... Excellent when viewing your cars in the show room. Very good while racing. And just ok in race playback.

I would never pre-order again.. last time I pre-order F1 2010, and it was on the shelfs and I was waiting for a copy to be shipped to me.. Good luck MyownAlias.

Anyways... Happy Thanksgiving to those in the states..

I pre-order mine from GameStop because it comes with an exclusive Gran Turismo Stealth McLaren. It didn't take me long to unlock a lot of things because I have a beast to start the game with.

[myownalias]

bmwpower, you can turn off the music in the options in the main menu before entering GT mode, just turn the music levels down to minimum!

[bmwpower]

So after my 100th wins, I am rewarded with.......a Nissan 350 Roadster, that's really damn weak. Sold the car and its only worth less then $10K, can't even buy slick tires with $10K. I am at 55% completion, Extreme Series and level 20 but can't race two 19 level races because the 70's racecars (example:fordgt mkII) that's required can only bought at level 21 and they are are at around $2-$3 millions. The other level 19 superstar, well you really need an LMP car to race like the Audi, Sauber, or BMW V12LMR because anything else you'll just get blown away. BTW LMP cars are around $3-$4millions a piece and you need level 23 to buy them, there's one option to get these cars but it requires playing Spec B which means starting the game from level 0 with the sh*t cars like the Yaris, Pruis and hire a driver to race for you, its like watching somebody else play the game for hours inorder to level up like Spec A to get cars and money. This is getting really lame. My suggestion is to buy the Corvette ZR1 because its the fastest out of maybe a dozen cars that you can convert to full blown race cars (conversion @$400K), it will convert the car into the C6R that you see at LeMans, full blown race trim (wide body)minus the HP so you will still need money for power upgrades which is close to 1000HP, out of my Veryon, McLaren F1 Stealth, and 1000HP Enzo, the C6R is the only car that will keep up with the LMP cars, but its still close because you can't make mistakes and you will need to do a lot of blocking because of little LMP cars are superquick, especially on the straights.

[myownalias]

I'm really starting to get annoyed with GT5 now, it seems every other time I play the game there's another chunky update to the game, the fifth update is currently downloading and it weighs in at 608MB which will take upwards of an hour to download as Polyphony Digital's servers of inundated with download requests. So it seems that Polyphony Digital decided to release an incomplete game nine months after it's initial release date, well done, five stars! They are still adding features that should have been included in the release version of the game, these next generation internet connected consoles have made developers lazy, allowing them to release patches to fix their sloppy code!

Five updates in it's first month of release is a bit excessive don't you think?