Gran Turismo 3

[bishop]

Agreed. GT3 is still good, and GTA3 still sucks, even with name recognition.

Well atleast somebody agrees with me.

[Yoshi]

Well atleast somebody agrees with me.

If you think GTA3 sucks, then diffx's portrayal was completely accurate.

[Jeremy]

Thanks for the offer, Yoshi, but I much prefer just pressing a button to wash a car. Also, ANOTHER GTA III debate...yippie!

[Mzo]

You can wash my car whenever you want, and I won't charge you anything. Quite a deal actually.

HA!

And I was just messing around before... but now for something serious:

For me, there's a slide bar in my head. On one side is "fun," on the other is "realism." The further you slide it to "realism," the less "fun" the game is for me. Although I greatly enjoy PGR2 when I thought I would hate it. Go figure.

[stormy]

I love the game. If you get bored of certain races don't do them, no one is forcing you to. I've never bothered with the endurance races because they'd get tedious to me, but that is no reason to not play the game at all. Most of the races are only 3 or 4 laps and a lot fun. GT is hailed because it does so many things right, while many other games only get a small portion of thier game to be as good. Formost this includes handling, each car handles differently based on many different aspects of the car like drive wheels, weight, power. You can master fwd and then slide off the track at every turn when you grab your first rwd. The different handling characteristics had never been so acuratly modeled before GT came out. Secondly is the car linup, it covers the whole spectrum and had far more cars than most any racer before it. When you consider these two points the variety is truly amazing, everyone will have thier favorites and thier own driving style. Finally there are the tracks, which are a matter of personal taste, but i find them very well designed and full of variety. They really let you push yourself to shave seconds by trying to take turns just a bit faster or on a slightly different line. It has the best representation of Laguna Seca i've ever seen. I love that course.

What's funny is that even car magazines are covering the development of GT4. It means a lot to people that it was made with the comprehensiveness and attention to detail that people put into thier own real cars. Other games may match it in specific categories, but i have yet to see one match it at all levels.

[bishop]

I was just joking with Yoshi's quote. Relax. I love GTA3. And Mech, if you friends can't tell you why they like a game it's pretty safe to assume they bought it because it was cool to buy. Personally those aren't the opinions I would seek to decided if a game is good or not.

[MechDeus]

Hype and name recognition does not make a good game bad.

I know. And? That wasn't the point of what I said.

And Mech, if you friends can't tell you why they like a game it's pretty safe to assume they bought it because it was cool to buy.

No, one of them bought it because they're both car nuts. One of them (the non-gamer) spends all of his free time doing one of two things: biking the city or looking up info on all the latest cars. He doesn't own any videogame systems, doesn't own the game, and really isn't very good at any games at all (although he loves to think he's great as racing games even though he's never beaten me). The other one just loves to read car magazines and check them out whenever he gets the chance; when it comes to games he's extremely jaded and loves to complain about everything (except GT3 and DDR ).

Personally those aren't the opinions I would seek to decided if a game is good or not.

I don't listen to their opinions for games I buy, I was just bringing up the only two people I know in RL who enjoy GT3. It's the UFC of racing games.

[kevincal]

Gran Turismo 3 is an awesome game once you get through the learnign curve and acquire some kick ass cars. Especially once you get the F1 cars, the racing is awesome. At first I admit, the game is pretty boring and slow. You just gotta stick with it. I have it 80-85% completed.

[Roufuss]

Gran Turismo 3 is an awesome game once you get through the learnign curve and acquire some kick ass cars. Especially once you get the F1 cars, the racing is awesome. At first I admit, the game is pretty boring and slow. You just gotta stick with it. I have it 80-85% completed.

Best review ever?

[The_Meach]

for some reason, GT 3 just feels like work.

That's the idea. After all that work you get a real sense of accomplishment as you see your skills improve.