Gran Turismo 5 Discussion

[burnwood]

This is looking very familiar to what happened with the Duke Nukem Forever team. It recently came out in a story that they were so obsessed with features that they just had to incorporate it in their game. This tsunami of indecisiveness led to a development cycle from 1997 to 2009! It never delivered up to its own hype and ultimately got canned. Maybe Take Two will do something with the rights, but nobody cares about that game since it's been stroked long enough.

I see a similar pattern here. Lots of features, LOTS of features. But will it add up to being something profitable? I seriously doubt it. Helping private race teams is one thing, but making a title that'll hopefully make money is another. LOL at this whole damn GT5 thing. It's so frustrating to watch.

[rspencer86]

Quote: Originally Posted by burnwood

This is looking very familiar to what happened with the Duke Nukem Forever team. It recently came out in a story that they were so obsessed with features that they just had to incorporate it in their game. This tsunami of indecisiveness led to a development cycle from 1997 to 2009! It never delivered up to its own hype and ultimately got canned. Maybe Take Two will do something with the rights, but nobody cares about that game since it's been stroked long enough. I see a similar pattern here. Lots of features, LOTS of features. But will it add up to being something profitable? I seriously doubt it. Helping private race teams is one thing, but making a title that'll hopefully make money is another. LOL at this whole damn GT5 thing. It's so frustrating to watch.

Agreed. At some point they will have to accept "good enough," because there will always be more features that can be added and more tuning and tweaking that can be done.

Why don't they release the game and then add the extras that will make it a useful tool to private race teams and sell that to them separately? It doesn't make sense to try to be all things to all of your customers.

[backbreaker]

[Kruza]

Nice video. Graphics look outstanding in the in-car view, and the roaring engine of that GT-R sounded authentic. I don't want to nitpick on the guy who's nice enough to show a video of himself playing GT and uploading it on YouTube, but he should've taken off the training wheels and driven that GT-R without traction control feature and the visual racing line. I wanted to see the professional physics at work without the interference of any car handling handicaps.

Kruza

[Seymour Scagnetti]

BTW what are we expected to have for a career mode or is it the recycled stuff from the previous games? Considering that this game may end up being a launch title for the PS4 (I'm only half kidding and it's becoming less than half every day) they better have some juicy career mode options besides licenses.

Oh yeah and if anybody thinks this game will be ready by Xmas then I have a really juicy sub prime mortgage for you to sign. I'll be happy if it's spring 2011 and that could be a longshot. I'm sure right before release PD will play GTA4 and then want to develop a game mode where you can run down pedestrians as realistically as possible, adding another 6 month delay.

[backbreaker]

Not the greatest driver and he's going slowly enough to enjoy the scenery.

[Kruza]

Looks spectacular. That has to be the Nurburgring Nordschleife track that this guy is racing on.

Kruza

[DocHolliday]

I don't know why people think it is going to be any better than Forza 3. Looks no different to me.