Only a few hours until Gran Turismo 4 !!!

whats your screen name on the zine?

 

The Ford GT in this game sucks! What a dissapointment... I like my SL55AMG with the racing intake/exhaust... THAT is what the SL55AMG sounds like in real life.

 

I like my 700 HP M5, and my 500 HP M3, and my Delorean.

 

same.

 

WOO HOO!
and that's an understatement.

I (finally) bought the PS2 and GT4 and DLP. Had to take a break to stretch my legs.

If you don't think this game is fun, you need to check your pulse. Or pull your underwear out of your buttcrack.

 

I got my game yesterday and I love this thing...its amazing. When you do the rally races, the people look so real lol

Antony

 

Anybody who has criticism for GT4 leads me to believe that there is no driving game in existence that would satisfy.

I got my Super License yesterday!

 

lol, sorry steve.

 

The gearstick looks a little high there and it is on the wrong side, but that looks an amazing setup.

 

Just picked it up to play on my friend's PS2 tomorrow. Can't wait...

 

lol, Steve quoted a post I had to delete because the files were too big... here it is as it was meant to be...


Here's a couple of simple "cockpit" setups that I found on race sim central. I like them both, #1 is simple but probably heavy, #2 is lighter (electrical conduit) but much more complicated. I still haven't found a good setup for my DLP so I'm gonna make one this weekend (Will, wanna come play with the arc welder tomorrow? )
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Well, it looks to be on the "right" side to this southern yank.

I use the buttons on the back of the wheel to shift gears anyway. The gear shifter is the weak link in that setup.

 

Our Fabricator here and I are in the process of building a setup for me. I will post pics when done, but expect it to look like #2 in your pics with a karting seat instead.


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Thats a very good review, Chevarri. But now im reluctant in buying it. I've been so busy with school and work that I haven't even had a chance to buy it but I've been getting all these second opinions from everyone but your opinion is the first I've heard that went over all the important and crucial attributes that define a TRUE driving simulator which you said GT4 lacked. I probably will still go out and buy it but Im sure it's probably not going to be the best racing sim like Project Gotham Racing 2 is.

 

PGR2 is more arcade than GT4.

 

True, but what I care about is realism in both physics and handling. I do remember the first Gran Turismo having screwed physics; I'd cheat by taking the inside of a turn and crashing my opponent into the wall with little affect on me, like if I were a gigantic car-sized brick with some super sticky tires. I like to feel body roll and torque and every bit of the road which I think PGR2 did great. Maybe Im just picky though. A played a demo of Forza a while back and I really liked how that game felt, it reminded me alot of PGR2.

 

I don't own an Xbox, and really I've been out of the gaming loop for quite a while, but I thought I had heard that you could finish a PGR race in first place, but still lose because you didn't have enough "style" points. Maybe that was just PGR 1, but I heard that was a miserable game with beautiful graphics.

Edit: And you can still do the slam-into-your-opponent-and-come-out-unscathed move in GT4. But if you have the self discipline to not to try to use this as a passing method, you'll never even notice that you can do it.

 

My car is so fast i just blow by them all on the first straight. I never see them again. Thank God for the M3 CSL

 

Thanks for the compliments on the write up. PGR2 is arcadey (not nearly as arcadey as the first) but it's a blast to drive in that game. The 355 is sweet, esp when it plops you into the game while your blasting down the street and you've got you stereo bumping The car sounds get an A+

hwyegr,

PGR1 is the the one you are talking about, the style point system called "kudos" gave it a large hamper on the driving aspect. A lot of the things were whacky on that game like driving on two wheels, etc. PGR2 is a lot more realistic, even though it's an arcadey racer. Much of what poweredbyme said is what makes it a fun racer.

 

I loved the accuracy of the sound of the Porsche 911 GT1 on PGR2; you can hear the Turbo scream.

 

no crap, my bad.... good to meet ya though... its always cool when you meet people from other forums.

 

Just gald we don't have 16 y.o. girls posting their pics over here!!!

/hijack over

 

if you're after something that is much closer to a driving simulation yet you can still get into without being a total simulator nerd, try Live For Speed. no, it's nothing to do with need for speed. it's still in development but still fully playable, is cheap, and has a huge online community. there's obviously better ones out there, but none that i've found (haven't looked in the last year) where you can just download and start playing within a few minutes, with this level of realism.

 

oh, and for those of you with some bank who want a decent simulator setup, check out Force Dynamics, if nothing else, download this video and dream, you'll like it.

rally school - 8mb