EDGE - Sunlight pierces the ragged gap between two avenues of trees lining the steadily climbing road. Trial Mountain’s long back straight is a rare chance to breathe, providing relief after the twists of the track’s canyon section, a rock-walled succession of unforgiving hairpins that will punish careless corner-clipping and scanty braking.
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btw, Trial Mountain, Deep Forest and Grand Valley are my favourite tracks in GT series. also Laguna seca and High speed ring are great
I was expecting a paragraph about it after he talks about the turn after the back straight, but it never came. I respect his passion for GT but the author should hang his head in shame as a Trial Mountain fan. LOL
The support that was given to GT5 was/is amazing.
Maybe a review of the Academy Edition from major websites?
One of the advantages GT5 has over a lot of it is that it can run at it's best and do a smooth, flick-free 60fps at 1080p. Granted, that's probably one of the few advantages but it's a nice one when you want to lose yourself in the game.
Agreed, GT5 is still up there among the best.
Compared to PC racers I don't think it's the 1080p 60fps that is it's advantage, since if you have a decent gfx card all PC games run smoothly v-synced at 1080p 60fps. I think it's the whole package with GT5, the attention to detail, the amount of content, the feel of it, at least to me this is what still makes me come back and play it.
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
"The game still renders at native 720p with 4x multi-sampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) when your XMB is set to 720p mode, while the resolution shifts to 1280x1080 with 2x quincunx (QAA) when the 1080p mode is engaged."
The anti-aliasing is also dropped down to 2x when you run it at 1080p mode from the 720p mode which has 4x anti-aliasing. It also is not locked at 60fps. In fact the game runs below 30fps in certain instances.
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
This isn't an attack on the game. As I said, it's the most technical advanced game available on current consoles. But watch me get disagrees just for pointing that out, further supporting the notion that anytime you say anything against a very supportive community will instantly get you blacklisted. Which ironically enough means they are voting against their own since I have GT5 and enjoy it very much.
The PC has many racing games people are unaware of. Some are technical marvels but they don't get the attention a game like GT5 does.
Where GT5 should get more credit than it does is the support. It is an entirely different experience now than when it was first released. That is why reviewing games early has its disadvantages. There is a lot of content for your money here.
You may get disagrees, but not from me; that was spot-on and I appreciate that.
Bubble up under helpful.
Just kidding, I had to say that after I watched a bunch of Star Trek, so please forgive me it was not against you at all; those Vulcans are so darn arrogant. :D
Love GT. Own every one. Still remember the Dodge viper and Corvette from GT1. Plus the epic sound-track.
I agree with mayberry regarding GT5 "feelings of anticipation and giddyness".
I wish GT5 was on PC though, that would be awesome.
disagree, disagree, disagree, disagree :)
...mostly not race. For all of those features, I can't see myself spending more than thirty minutes per month using those community features, but again, that's your preferences, not mine. Hopefully I'll start to get into that myself because it sounds like you have fun when you use that.
GT has never been about customizing your cars. It's also never been about "community" features.
It's about the driving. And there's no game on console- and few on PC, I'd say- that expresses it better than GT5.
That's what people love about Gran Turismo, always has been. Feel free to dick around on Forza all you want; if that's what you're looking for in a racing game, GT isn't the series for you.
But if you want the most complete driving experience you can get- not only racing, but DRIVING- then it doesn't get any better than GT.
... except when GT gets better.
If you'd cared to read the article, you'd have seen this difference: the author goes on in detail about how it feels to DRIVE. I may be wrong, but I can't recall ever seeing an article about just DRIVING for Forza. It's about how beautiful the game is, or how great it sounds, or how much you can customize.
But not about the DRIVING.
In fact, just reading the article makes me wanna drive. Not race. Not customize. DRIVE.
So yeah, you're gonna get disagrees. Not for what you prefer, but because you dare to believe that GT not having something it's never tried to have somehow makes it boring. Like getting mad at Chuck Norris movies for not having enough romance in them.
Do you RACE against other cars in GT5?
When you win RACES, do you earn credits to purchase and upgrade cars?
Are those credits based on what position you finished in the RACE?
Are new RACES unlocked as you progress deeper into the game?
Maybe you just DRIVE around alone on the tracks when you play, but you can't access much of the game just doing that. You have to RACE to keep advancing.
As for both games they are both great. I just like FM better but not by much. Best of both worlds for me.
Just the way it always has.