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- _niko0
How old are you SteveJobs? were you playing video games when they were fucking impossible? Like you had 3 lives and once you died it was game over, start from the fucking beginning, no continues and no save spots? Remember pole position, the slightest bump of another car caused a fucking explosion with bits of your car flying in all directions.
You had to be a complete masochist to play games back in the day.- but there was no greater sense of accomplishment than finishing them, or completing a level like you described_niko
- SteveJobs0
I'm back in this for a bit too. One of the new seasonal races earns you 490k for 5 laps of racing, so i was able to easily save up (read: grind to death) and grab this mofo:
and with that, I finally beat the historic race a few levels back. though it was still hard. the chapparel 2d owns in that race and just trying to get in front of it is near impossible, but doable if you can control that beast of a car. lots of shady powerslides to claim first, but i did it!now I'm saving up for this insanity:
20mil
- CygnusZero40
Huh? When you finish events you win cars. Basically what you do is just keep checking to see which events you can enter with your current cars, and just keep going through career mode like that. Or race online to earn credits.
Or you can go on gtplanet.net and beg someone to gift you a good car to use in events.
- SteveJobs0
a big thanks to kumori04 and electro. i'm not sure how i missed them for so long, but i did the bonus seasonal races and raised the ~5.23m i needed to get the aforementioned Mazda 787B, which is probably my favorite car now for some weird nostalgic reason.
this thing kills it in the indianapolis motor speedway 'like the wind' race! hopefully they'll add more bonus races soon because you can't rack up extra credit or cash for repeat wins :/
- SteveJobs0
CygnusZero, i think we just have a more casual interest in the game and want all the goodies up front rather than having to work for them... well, i do anyway.
- SteveJobs0
what's up with the new seasonal races (ff,fr,awd) only paying out like 20k per race? i'm trying to get the forumla car, but at this rate, that'll never happen...
i think once i finish expert, i'm done with the game. there's no way i'm racing for hours or doing anything beyond the 10-lap races like the dream car championship of the expert class - that'll be hard-core enough for me.
on a different note, this game would have totally done it for me if they'd added sport bikes. really could've put some of those tracks to extra use!
- SteveJobs0
so i've been working toward a good used car, and after finishing license they hand me this Acura DN-X Concept '02.. now it's not a matter of whether i win a race with this thing, but how close i get to lapping the guy in last position.. it's that fast. (granted, these are level 0-7 races). kinda defeated the purpose of me working so hard for a specific used car..
- SteveJobs0
Andrew_D, can you elaborate on the transmission timing? I'm still not crazy about the car because it handles like a boat, but if there are transmission tweaks that are available, I might use them for other cars.
- Ranger0
I can't believe how long the menus take to load up, each level takes about 10 seconds, and you have to go in and out one level at a time, it drives me mad. The tracks too take so long to load up, it's like going back to the days of my spectrum. I did the update that took all day to download, warned me would use 8 gb of HD space but would reduce loading times - it did FA. Did it work for anybody else?
P.S. I agree about the annoying aspect of having to figure out which cars can be used in which races while you're in the dealers, it doesn't add to the experience, just a list within the car description of eligible races would do it. Then the menus in and out going between the 2 to check - ARRGHHHHHH.
Hell of a game though, I'm completely hooked despite the gripes.
- Make sure you're not connected to PSN while playing offline, it really helps.CygnusZero4
- The wait times are ridiculous, I was thinking about the 8GB install, but I guess that's a waste.Andrew_D
- I thought you had to be connected?Andrew_D
- No you don't but it still tries to connect like every other fucking screen...FUUUUUUUUUU...Naygon
- It only does that when you first try to go into GT Life. After that it will stay offline.CygnusZero4
- Andrew_D0
This video makes me realize how shit I am at GT5:
- insane._niko
- that was always a nasty course way back in pole positionjaylarson
- Bloody hell, you would need a G Suit to drive that thing. Love it.pillhead
- Yeah it was actually proven on GT planet a human couldnt stay conscious in that car.CygnusZero4
- You would in fact need a G suit.CygnusZero4
- Andrew_D0
Just bought it, what's up with the 608mb update? I'm house sitting and the wireless connection is balls with no ethernet cables in sight. Ho-hum, let down before I can even get started! ;-)
(looking forward to playing, though.)
- I didn't notice any difference after doing this. Said it needed 8gb on the disk too!Ranger
- randommail0
basically a hidef simulation game.
BORING.
- SteveJobs0
yeah, i know what you mean, _niko. ninja gaiden, swimming level in tmnt, ghouls and ghosts, landing the plane in top gun. it's just been a while since i've been up against something that difficult. games these days are more about the journey than getting the most out of 5 short levels through sheer difficulty, so it was pretty intense
- CygnusZero40
23rd actually