Gran Turismo 5 demo races to PSN on December 17

"Gameplay and general ease of use"
In other words, a noobified half-arcade half-sim, its like calling CoD or Halo an infantry sim.
I personally dont like racing sims - which is why I stick to Burnout. But if I did want to buy a racing sim, I would want something on which the team has spent time and effort to replicate actual car physics and which looks and plays realistically.
There are 3 categories of racing games imho:
arcade: Burnout, Motorstorm
sim wannabe: NFS, Grid, Forza
The 3rd category has just 2 entries: real life, and GT. And GT looks better than real life :)

isnt GT5 going to have 340 cars at launch and up to 1000 cars total ?
now this 1000 car total number is misleading because it does not explain that many of the cars are very similar or exactly the same with minor changes.

johnny said: "It's a gear heads dream come true. "

i dont really agree with that. I would say 'its a gamers who love racing games dream come true' but thats my opinion.

i really dont think the people that spend friday nights, saturdays, and sundays at the race track really care about spending hours and hours playing this game, unless they are also gamers too. would a gear head want to mod his game car or his real car first ?

johnny said: "Basically there isn't a game in the world that will give you more content for $60 than GT will"

i also dont agree with this at all. sounds like the typical fanboy comment.
there are a stated 20 track locations and 70 total tracks. meaning there are 70 total places you can drive your car around a track.

just to name 1 game with much more content to 'play' is fallout 3, which contains over 100 locations to discover and you could spend at least an hour in each discovering items and looking around, and you are not locked to a track. you can explore the entire wasteland.

johnny said: ''It's for people who want to tune every aspect of their car to get the most performance and suit their preferences''

sounds like what i like to do in real life with my truck. i would have said this game is for gran turismo fans, race game fans, and people that want to play 1 of the greatest if not greatest racing game franchises of all time.

I stopped caring about Gran Turismo after 4. Only people who seem to be really excited over this are the typical PS3 fanboys.

Yep Dreaded Fear. GT5 Prologue so far has sold over 4,000,000 copies worldwide and clearly all 4,000,000 of those purchases were made by PS3 fanboys. Because, you know, it's impossible for a non-fanboy to appreciate a good game.

@Sk8

"isnt GT5 going to have 340 cars at launch and up to 1000 cars total ?"

No.

"now this 1000 car total number is misleading because it does not explain that many of the cars are very similar or exactly the same with minor changes."

I don't see how facts are misleading but whatever you think obviously isn't going to be influenced by facts when it comes to anything to do with Sony.

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d5075.html
(over 950 cars confirmed -- read for other pertinent information on game modes)
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http://www.techarena.in/news/16342-gran-turismo-5-track-editor-confirmed-polyphony-digital.htm
Track editor also confirmed to build new or modify existing tracks.
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"i really dont think the people that spend friday nights, saturdays, and sundays at the race track really care about spending hours and hours playing this game, unless they are also gamers too. would a gear head want to mod his game car or his real car first ?"

It goes without saying someone who doesn't play video games wouldn't be interested in playing ... video games. Not sure where that bit of commentary even originated from but you should have thought that one through a bit more as it was moronic in nature. No offense of course but that was sort of a captain obvious statement.
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"i also dont agree with this at all. sounds like the typical fanboy comment.
there are a stated 20 track locations and 70 total tracks. meaning there are 70 total places you can drive your car around a track."

You can choose to define content however you like but with everything this game will have I feel confident and have been saying for sometime that for the money you will pay it will dwarf everything else by comparison. I won't get into the "typical fanboy comment" from a typical fanboy like yourself ... I'll just leave that one where it is and say what I usually say to statements like that: it's a blog where people express their opinions. No one said you have to agree with or subscribe to that opinion.
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johnny said: ''It's for people who want to tune every aspect of their car to get the most performance and suit their preferences''

"sounds like what i like to do in real life with my truck. i would have said this game is for gran turismo fans, race game fans, and people that want to play 1 of the greatest if not greatest racing game franchises of all time."
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Aren't those people one in the same? The point was noting the differences in people like Gel who made his comment about preferring Forza to GT ... context, context, context! Whats the saying? You say POH-TAY-TOH I say POH-TAH-TOH ...

K.Thanx.Bai

This isn't burnout =P



My favorite one was, " pagania".

success ass = sucks ass

No they're not.

my guess its going to be bigger, for sure no less than 1 gb