nxp3 aka suicidalearthworm Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Yo guys...GT5 fan here. Level a-spec 29, b-spec 25. I've been playing with DS3 all this time and I just keep thinking that I would get a better control over the cars if I had a wheel. Can't bring myself to buy one though cause I don't have room for it. I got a kid and he probably won't allow me to play in peace for 10 minutes with it. Anyway...seasonal events don't give out much cash anymore so gotta grind if you want the cash for expensive car. I'm not going to use any kind of cheats or workarounds cause that's just not fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nxp3 aka suicidalearthworm Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 So, don't bother getting one of the Ferrari F1 cars for anything other than that 1 make race that popped up last week. They can't be used in regular Aspec or Bspec. Like not even the Endurance races. Just for practice, online F1 only races and Special Events with them as the make. Would have been super for them to list that in the Description Holy crap did you spend 10 mil or 15 mil for that....I haven't yet, but for only 1 race, I'll probably skip. Got the polyphony f1 which is cheap and fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) So, don't bother getting one of the Ferrari F1 cars for anything other than that 1 make race that popped up last week. They can't be used in regular Aspec or Bspec. Like not even the Endurance races. Just for practice, online F1 only races and Special Events with them as the make. Would have been super for them to list that in the Description Holy crap did you spend 10 mil or 15 mil for that....I haven't yet, but for only 1 race, I'll probably skip. Got the polyphony f1 which is cheap and fast. It was the 10 mil car :'( I wanted to get it because in the description it mentioned that it has a larger than normal fuel capacity due to new F1 regulations reducing the amount of pitstops a team is allowed. I had already picked up the Polyphony 1 which turns out to be a better car anyways at only 4.5 mil and about 200 more HP I think it was. Oh and as far as a better controller to use, I don't have a full on wheel, but for Christmas my woman got me that HKS controller with a slide wheel and pedals for the gas and brakes. Here that is It works a lot better than the DS3 at holding your lines and a bit better for the applying pressure to the brakes/gas. It however is not better for the endurance races for me as I tend to get the bumps on the gas pedal ingrained into my thumb pretty quickly. Edited February 17, 2011 by Lemmiwinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 My PSN is GeorgeBluthSr if anybody wants to add me. I only got one person who plays GT5 and my friend's list is kinda lonely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigawings Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I play, I love it, no wheel at all, too damn poor to buy a proper set of wheel, but the analog stick is fine too, and the ability to accelerate/brake with the right analog pad really help the gameplay. So... any good tip fir drifting settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFrost Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) My PSN is GeorgeBluthSr if anybody wants to add me. I only got one person who plays GT5 and my friend's list is kinda lonely I'll add you once I get back to my PS3 GT5 is kind of upset at me at the moment, I haven't been playing it a whole lot. I've been busy with Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2, once I finish one of those games, I'll be playing GT5 a lot more. PSN: Renegade0_ Edited February 24, 2011 by DFrost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Heavy: HELP! It's been almost a year and I'm still struggling to enjoy this game. I keep trying and trying because I see a great game that I can fall in love with peeking underneath this mountain of ass-y choices, but the more and more I play it I just can't enjoyment out of it. I just want to know how people play this game? Because I seem to be missing something fundamental. All the events from my perspective seem to be entirely about what car you pick, completely regardless of your skill level. The only way for me to ever win reliably is with either cars that are far better, or cars that I've upgraded so much I that I stick a fucking mass relay in the engine. If I try to use vanilla cars I get smoked by everyone, completely regardless of how I'm doing at the track. Even if by some miracle of god I manage to get a car that roughly matches the specs of all the other cars in that event, I'm still just a hair slower than one or two opponents, so I'm driving along trying my best and we're on this long stretch of road and they're just inching past me? How can I compete with that there? What am I supposed to do? I can't even understand how to get into the events themselves without embarking on this epic quest to find the chosen car for a race. I first look around the event menu to see what I want to do, then go into the event and look at my garage to see if I qualify, and of course I never have any cars that qualify or aren't complete ass every single time I do this, so of course I have to go on this odyssey to find this elusive car that doesn't suck. So I need a pick-up truck for pick-up truck events? Where are they? Who the fuck knows? Not in the used car place, not in the online used car place, and not in the premium car place. So yeah, impossible to get to this event until the planets align and god decides to grace me with the presence of a pick up truck some day, only to see that this truck sucks ass compared to all the other ones in that event. What. The. Hell. I hate to rant like this, because in all honesty I don't want to rant, I just want to know how people can enjoy this game. I know I'm missing something, because there's millions of people who love the game and if this was all there really is to it I know it'd be lambasted as the worst driver sim series ever. But it isn't, and people love it, and I want to know what people are doing to love it. Is there some trick that I'm missing? Some way to make races and events challenging and fun without me FFUUUUing all over the place that there's always one guy much faster than me in every race and I can't ever hope to beat him unless I hop on a fucking Ferrari and beat his (and everyone else's) ass in what I can only describe as game-encouraged cheating? Is there any other way to get the cars I need for events without waiting literally for months to get access to the car I want? I know there's some way to enjoy the game, I just need to find it. Because if everyone's experience is the same as me there's no factual way that it can sell millions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 From my experience with GT5/past GTs... basically you just buy the necessary car that meets the requirements for each series and play through them so you experience a wide range of cars and races. You win tournaments to earn the money to do this. Though yeah, GT5 is very Japanese in the sense that it's insanely menu heavy. Also, if your car sucks compared to the rest of the event, then you weren't looking at the specs when you bought it! My knowledge of cars is only through racing games but I can still pick cars just fine. Also, try used cars, try saving up your money, try selling similar cars, etc. It's not that hard to earn money to buy what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 I did do the Red Bull challenge and got like 6.5 million Cr, so I've been able to just do whatever I want in terms of money. What happens in cases like the pick-up truck challenge, where there are absolutely no pick-up trucks to be found for months on end? Do you just sit and wait until it feels like showing up on the used car dealer, or is there some way to get specific cars faster (trading?)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hmmm... I don't know. I haven't gotten to that point. I don't remember it being a problem with past games. You can't buy new pickups? Or you just can't get anything good enough even after upgrades? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 I've been looking around the premium car shop and I can't seem to find any pickups, and I haven't seen them on the used car dealerships for a long time. Although this happens with other cars as well. Anything that requires oddly specific car types, like "British Lightweight Cars only" or "90's Japanese cars" or stuff like that. Can't find them on the new or used car dealership. Just wait until they show up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 I've been looking around the premium car shop and I can't seem to find any pickups, and I haven't seen them on the used car dealerships for a long time. Although this happens with other cars as well. Anything that requires oddly specific car types, like "British Lightweight Cars only" or "90's Japanese cars" or stuff like that. Can't find them on the new or used car dealership. Just wait until they show up? That's your only choice unfortunately. The pickups are all standard models as far as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayc4life Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 There's a Ford F150 in the Online Collector's Garage this week iirc (or at least there was yesterday anyway). But yeah, for the pickup trucks, they're all standard and you just gotta wait till they show up. They tend to throw them into the Online Collector's Garage on a pretty regular basis to make sure that there's one available on a regular basis, same as how they've done the Formula GT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRan Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Went to the online dealership and bought it, so I'm set for that one. What do you guys do in terms of speccing out your cars for events? For instance, that F150 is significantly slower than other cars typically in that one event I'm talking about. Do you spec the car to match the HP of the other cars, or do you overspec everything to smoke the competition? I've been doing the latter and it's gotten pretty boring, but I don't know if speccing out to match the other cars is something people even do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayc4life Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 If I can afford to over-spec it at the time, i usually do. If I can't afford everything I usually tend to buy the fully-customisable suspension and gearbox first, then if it's particularly heavy (as pickups tend to be), weight reduction. It doesn't really matter whether you win the race or not, I've never been one to worry about win% so might as well finish losing battles. Money's money, not worth restarting/quitting just because you're not in 1st when you cross the line. In B-Spec I always go for the overpowered option (X2010 excluded, except endurance races), just to be on the safe side. but if I'm driving myself, I like to rotate my cars and give everything a drive, as long as it's reasonably competitive PP-wise. By right, there should be experience bonuses for competing in cars closer to the average PP of the rest of the pack, or have a par PP so there's a definite over/under point at which you'll get more/less XP per race. Forza has this to an extent, with less driving assists resulting in more money, and it's something I really like about that series and would love to see carried over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.polyphony.GTCourseMaker Holy Crap, this is a bit of a late release. I wonder if it's probably testing waters for GT7 stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Apart from like a very brief cameo they didn't mention this one at all, which makes me think that recent GT games must have really panned cos this used to be one of their main pantheon games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 12, 2020 Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 My dad is way behind on his consoles but he's always had a soft spot for Gran Tursimo. Used to have the wheels n everything back in the day (so fun to play other games with :P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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