Really Gran Turismo 5? I Mean, Really?

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I can't wait for this game. Should be really awesome !

[VDusen04]

I know how lame of a question this is going to be but as a basketball guy and a latent rally guy, I'm not super up-to-date on this stuff. Question: What about Gran Turismo 5 is taking so long? What are the features this game will have that other racing games have not had? Is it a matter of just having an overabundance of cars and spectacular looking graphics? Is the general consensus that this game will be worth the wait?

[randombrother]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

I know how lame of a question this is going to be but as a basketball guy and a latent rally guy, I'm not super up-to-date on this stuff. Question: What about Gran Turismo 5 is taking so long? What are the features this game will have that other racing games have not had? Is it a matter of just having an overabundance of cars and spectacular looking graphics? Is the general consensus that this game will be worth the wait?

Ok let's see. I can only compare this game to GT5Prologue and Forza 1,2,3.
There was ALOT missing from Prologue. Online capabilities and functionality stunk. You just get on, race some random people and that's it. No friends or setting up your own races or anything of that nature so obviously they are working on that aspect.

There is no damage in Prologue. You hit another car and you guys just bounce around like pinballs. They are including that. They are improving that and might be taking it up a notch past what Forza has. (Body panels ,doors etc may fly off, etc.)

There's a ton of other things the game was missing that they are putting into it so that takes time. They also are putting in NASCAR and talk is the actual NASCAR rules will be in the game. So it shouldn't be just run some tracks with a bunch of NASCAR cars and that's it. Same for WRC rally, (I don't know about the rules with the rally but they are including WRC rally and rally specific track(s) ). Close to one thousand cars and who knows how many tracks and you can see how the game can grow.

It seems they want to pack every drivers dream in the game and they want it to be on point. They even have Go Karts.

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by randombrother

Ok let's see. I can only compare this game to GT5Prologue and Forza 1,2,3. There was ALOT missing from Prologue. Online capabilities and functionality stunk. You just get on, race some random people and that's it. No friends or setting up your own races or anything of that nature so obviously they are working on that aspect. There is no damage in Prologue. You hit another car and you guys just bounce around like pinballs. They are including that. They are improving that and might be taking it up a notch past what Forza has. (Body panels ,doors etc may fly off, etc.) There's a ton of other things the game was missing that they are putting into it so that takes time. They also are putting in NASCAR and talk is the actual NASCAR rules will be in the game. So it shouldn't be just run some tracks with a bunch of NASCAR cars and that's it. Same for WRC rally, (I don't know about the rules with the rally but they are including WRC rally and rally specific track(s) ). Close to one thousand cars and who knows how many tracks and you can see how the game can grow. It seems they want to pack every drivers dream in the game and they want it to be on point. They even have Go Karts.

Ha, go karts, nice. Thank you. Sounds like GT4 on HGH with damage and in-car camera angles. I wonder how many rally tracks will be present. Rally on GT4 was fun.

[TheLifeOfSteve]

This game is going to be sweet if it comes out