Driving and racing games are fun!

thebryanjzx90

I thought this being available on PS4 was going to be a back door to me getting the game for cheap but it turns out new PS4s no longer exist and used ones at GameStop are still like $300. I guess I will stop at Book Off and see how much used PS4s are going for there these days.

whatsarobot

thebryanjzx90 you’re not in Japan, are you? (you mentioned Book Off, so.)

i’ve got a PS4 i no longer use, so i might be able to hook you up.

thebryanjzx90

whatsarobot nah they have a few here in LA thanks though

Syzygy

81! Damn the DS was prolific.

hellojed

Syzygy damn, some of these are dire, but some of these actually look good. Sideswiped in particular looks so weird I may have to check it out

thebryanjzx90

Apparently the grind in GT7 is “miserable?”

Man that sounds perfect I’m sorry I’m missing it. I’m just imagining having a Demio and agonizing over what lv 1 upgrade will help me out the most and picking one and having been forced to drive it so many times previously that I can immediately appreciate a noticeable benefit.

sabertoothalex

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/03/25/gran-turismo-7-an-update-from-polyphony-digital/amp/

Big write up from Yamauchi detailing coming patches in response to their horribly received economy rebalance. A lot of these changes sound good but of course we won’t know until the actual numbers are in game and able to be experienced.

hellojed

I have been enjoying GT7 a lot. The physics, handling, and feel of the game are second to none. It’s incredible how well they did the handling model. In every racing game I’m always going full stick for steering and throttle, but here I’m actually doing very precise inputs instead, and it’s very rewarding to play. I can tell right when the car is at the edge of grip and about to spin out, which is remarkable considering I’m only using a PS4 controller.

hellomrkearns

hellojed this game is super dumb fun. I played it a bunch.

hellojed

This is a Madagascar kart game for the Nintendo DS, a Shrek Kart game for the Nintendo DS, and a unified “Dreamworks” Kart game for the Nintendo DS with Madagascar and Shrek characters. How much money did Dreamworks have to throw around for game adaptations?

Also: because I am insane, I noticed that for multiple games they use the same tracks, the Corvette one and a Bike game both have the same track! Cheeky! There is absolutely no way anyone would have noticed

◉◉maru

That Speed Racer game on DS was quite good. Pretty much as underrated as the movie.

I understand these contents are most likely generated automatically from stupid ROM folders to churn out Youtube algorithm-friendly B-Roll, and that I should not expect too much effort from them, but I wish such videos were ordered chronologically rather than alphabetically.

beets

I finished off Gran Turismo 7’s menu books/main campaign last night and it really ended with a sputter. The final challenge is to race in a GT3 championship which consists of 5 races. I didn’t drive that great but I managed to win it first try with an unmodified Honda NSX gt3 car.

This game really feels like there’s a lot of content missing. There’s very few championships, you don’t need to do all license tests, and there’s so many categories of cars going unused that are all in the game (e.g, electric cars, formula cars, GT2, GT1, dumb VGT cars…).

Additionally every race in the campaign is the style of start in last place, and pass every car over max 5 laps to win. It’d be nice if they did some grid starts with more competive AI. (I know there’s some stand alone races like this). There aren’t any races with tyre wear and/or fuel consumption either. Qualifying would be cool too.

It’s just weird, because surely making a championship or even a couple races is the least demanding aspect of these games. It’s probably just filling out a template. The cars and tracks are all there, why aren’t they being used?
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The driving is real good and more technical than GT Sport so here’s my rankings of cars I used:
Faves:

Audi TT ’03 - Owns for rally and track
Honda S660, - Hilarious to try and keep up to actual cars.
Mustang ’15, - My USA car, all black, it can go pretty fast.
Nissan GTR R32, - The good gtr, it goes fast and it turns. (I used to be a GTR hater)

Mid tier:

Audi TTS ’14 - Won me all the turbo races, didn’t require a wing.
Ford GT ’08 - Too fast for me.
BMW M3 ’89 - Literally the perfect car, too good to use.
Porsche 911 ’09 - Too much kaboose, awful times were had in the rain.

Evil cars:

GTR R35 - The most powerful sled, required for tokyo gtr race
Ferrari Testarossa ’91 - Without a wing it oversteers, with a wing it oversteers and takes off going down hills.
Mustang ’15 - My USA car, will oversteer at any opportunity.

The cool FF starter cars:

Suzuki Swift ’17, Abarth 500 ’09, Peugeot RCZ ’15,

◉◉maru

beets Nissan GTR R32, - The good gtr

Since Gran Turismo Uno baby!

billy

I’m in the mood for starting a Gran Turismo. My first instinct was 4, since it just feels like The Best One historically speaking, but a sudden nostalgia wave for 3 has me doubting myself.

Which should I play?

rejj

billy If the choice is between 3 and 4, I’d certainly pick 4.

billy

rejj I thought of those first, but actually I have them all apart from 7 so let’s expand it to include any of them.

Also, I talked about Formula Retro Racing earlier in the thread. It’s now available on Switch for not much money and barring any performance issues there (I haven’t checked) it’s still excellent.

rejj

billy I’d say 4 is the one I have had the most fun with over the years, probably followed by 1.
I hear that the driving model in 7 is superb, however I also hear the game is really gunked up with microtransactions?

I intended to grab 7 to try it, but shortly after release it seems a patch came out that rebalanced everything to try and push players to spend real money. Perhaps one of the only things I dislike more than microtransaction stuff like this in big, commercial games is when they try and hide doing it by not including them during the review cycle and then patching them in a week later.

◉◉maru

1 is my favorite. Then 4. Then 6. Eager to try 7. I never get tired of restarting 1 from scratch. Still feels like the perfect size and progression flow of the series. Just lacking on the diversity of non-Japanese cars.

If you have all of them, though, I’d be even more interested to hear your thoughts on the PSP game. Never gave it a chance and I was planning to play it this summer.

billy

◉◉maru The PSP game always felt like a huge amount of content thrown together with no plan. The look and feel is very ‘Gran Turismo’, and it’s amazing that they got it running on there, but without the RPG element (or even a structured arcade mode) it comes across like an exercise in ‘look what we did’.

This is a shame, because when you mentioned it I got briefly excited and decided ‘THAT’S the one I’ll play’ before quickly remembering its shortcomings.

beets

I’ve still been playing GT7 here and there. I thought I’d show off my god tier Audi TT with this simple livery I gave it.

In these games I create a fictional racing team (STRIPE Racing). In GT7 the colour scheme has been off-white, baby pink, and plum. I have a racing suit and helmet to match.

I also have been trying to create a car for 800PP races without buying a super car as a base. I was trying out an RX-8 tonight and that car is truly cursed. It will oversteer in high speed corners but be fine in low speed sections. Everything I tried seemed to make it worse. I set my fastest lap on it’s default suspension, until I found this set up online. With it, I was only 3 tenths faster around Maggiore. My set up problems surely have nothing to do with removing 300kg and adding a turbo charger.

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