Gran Turismo 3

If you hate the license test then this game is not for you, because your not going to learn how to drive. And I get the feeling most of you can't control the cars and thats why you dislike the game. It's not easy to pick up I know this. Most people I see play are fine until they have to turn then it's off-roading time! There is a lot of satisfaction for me when I modded a Supra up to 900hp and tuned it so that I could keep it on the road at all times. Unlocking the formula car was also pretty sweet.

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

Bishop, I also grew up reading Motor Trends, Road & Tracks, going to car shows, etc., and with that being said, I still find the GT games to be extremely boring as racing games. As car showcases, they're great, but as a racing title I can enjoy for hours on end for months at a time, the series just doesn't cut it.

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As just a pure racing game I couldn't agree more. But I love the Acura NSX and GT is the closest thing I'll ever get to driving one. It's about the cars people. It's about how close they resemble their real life counterparts. I don't know it's kinda like Shenmue I guess.

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

What am I missing?

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Nothing. Gran Turismo is the single most overrated Japanese series there is. It even bests Final Fantasy, simply because Final Fantasy used to be good. Gran Turismo never was and never will be. They should pay you to play it, not the other way around.

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Originally Posted by bishop

I don't know it's kinda like Shenmue I guess.

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You're going straight to hell for that comment. :evil:

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

You have to be a car nut/casual gamer who doesn't know any better/graphics whore to stick with it the whole way. Personally, I think the game's excellent and there's nothing out there on the same level as far as consumer auto sims go, but the idiotic amount of repetition required to advance totally kills it after a while. I put a solid 30-40 hours into it before giving up, realising it would eventually take close to 200. I did manage to get my Evo VII up to 520 hp, though; that was kind of cool.

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So I'm a car nut, casual gamer and graphics whore who doesn't know any better to stick with GT3? Come on. I guess I should quit playing KOF2K2 on my DC then.

Nah, if it was like Shenmue, I'd actually ENJOY it. Still though, good to see what you get out of the games.

itd be nice if somebody would change the subject to the correct spelling......

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Originally Posted by bishop

So I'm a car nut, casual gamer and graphics whore who doesn't know any better to stick with GT3? Come on. I guess I should quit playing KOF2K2 on my DC then.

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You really should. Find a good fighting game to play.

Na...it doesnt deserve correct spelling.

The GT3 series does allow a ton of customizations, but a lot of them are totaly unrealstic. Lets see a 800hp Civic? On a stock frame? the Torque twist alone would tear the card to shreads, let alone the engine being even able to get close to that.

GT3 looked good for the time, but GT1&2 looked like total ass, even for the time. The shimmering effect on EVERYTHING was sickening.

The car handling is pretty realistic, but PGR2 does that as well, without becoming a chore to play after 2 levels.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

You really should. Find a good fighting game to play.

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You really should. Not think. I'd give a fuck.

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Originally Posted by bishop

So I'm a car nut, casual gamer and graphics whore who doesn't know any better to stick with GT3? Come on.

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Heh, those /s should be read as "or". Going by your posts in this thread, you definitely sound like a car guy. For my part, the thing that made me quit on this game was realizing that I needed a 200 000c car which I would then have to supe up, and that the fastest way to do that would be to race that boring-as-hell Super Speedway for the 50 000th through 60 000th times. And that I'd have to do it again the next time I needed a new car. Then I started looking at those endurance races, and the fact that they take 3 hours, and that there are tons of them, and I just said forget it.

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I guess I should quit playing KOF2K2 on my DC then.

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For your own mental health, yes. Play 98 some more.The DC version is legendary.

He's right. Dream Match '99 is better. That's what I still play if I ever feel like playong KoF. I just sit there and watch the intro sometimes. Plus it can connect to the NGPC!