Gran Turismo 5

[Bad Company]

Well, it's finally here. After such a massive wait, I am currently patching it. And it's taking fucken forever. Then I guess it has to get installed on the hard drive. Might be here all night.

Anyone else getting it?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

40 minute install after patching yeah.

I'll wait until it goes down in price. Need to drive that Red Bull car.

But I posted this in the news thread, it's the line I've agreed with the most of any review of GT ever:

Here's the deal: If you're one of those car nuts I mentioned earlier, here's your game. Have fun, we'll see you in a year when you finally leave the house. If you're not in that group -- you like, even love racing games, but care less about tuning and more about the thrill of the race -- GT5 is like walking in on a group of physicists discussing string theory and asking who wants to go toss around a ball for a bit. You're looking to have fun; they're only interested in studying the math behind how it bounces.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Maybe longer than 40 mins. Ouch.

http://themadoverdose.blogspot.com/2010/11/truth-about-gran-turismo-5s-install.html

[Bad Company]

Yeah, it says it's got 20mins longer to go here. Fucking 2am.

[Bad Company]

What, just read that article. :mad:

[Bad Company]

And it's finally finished.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

My Collector's Edition in on the way :drool:

[Bad Company]

I got the middle edition, the one with the book, which is a fucking sweet book by the way.

Just bought a 97 Civic Type R as my first car, about to win the final race of the sunday cup, then gonna give it some mods. Then should probably sleep.

Enjoying it so far. Probably need to get a Wheel though.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Sucks I can't touch it for another 2 weeks, but I will be playing the shit out of it for at least 12 hours straight.

[Arashi Kage]

GT4 was one of my favorite ps2 games and I was expecting to finally pick up a ps3 for GT5, however, I'm not so sure anymore.

Having seen screenshots of the 'standard' cars, I am in disbelief. For those of you with GT5, do they really look that bad compared to the "premium" cars (ie: visible low-polygon edges, low-res textured door/panel lines?)

Have yet to read a review that has sold me on purchasing a ps3 just for GT5.

[Fignuts]

Have tried time and again to get into this series, but I just don't have the patience for it. Prefer the instant gratification and over-the-top action of arcade racers.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Well, BC and myself are car nerds; I think that has a lot to do with it.

I was never into the GT series until GT4, around the time when I started messing around with cars in real life.

I like the grind of finding the perfect racing line in a track and the trial-and-error that's involved.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Forza has a much better balance of instant gratification to car porn, but GT is GT, it's total car porn.

[Tazz Dan]

I picked it up yesterday too. I suck majorly at the game, and can't stay on the track. But fuck me the game is beautiful to look at.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Played this with a Logitech GT wheel. Need one of those in my life.