What bugs you in GT5?

Ok, so we all know that GT5 is the greatest car game so far, ;) , but what little minor things irritate you to no end?

Here is my list:
Low detail standard cars
Blurry track/environment textures
Oddly pixalated tire smoke
Rough shadows
Very unrealistic rollover physics
The whole "paint chip" system
No AA

The car sounds are absolutely disgusting. Everything else is fine by me.

The car sounds are absolutely disgusting. Everything else is fine by me.

osiris667

True, they are a little off, but not too bad if you leave the stock exhaust on. Not to mention, GT5 sounds are leaps and bounds above GT4. Maybe GT6 will perfect them ;)

Loading Times but the game is epic.

Also I think the standard cars are underrated, they still look great, it's jus that the premium cars look amazing.

The goddamn ugly trees.

The goddamn ugly trees.

tjricardo089

Yeah cos I spend my racing looking at trees :roll:

The menus are terrible. It took me so long to work out how to listen to my own music.

Once you get to the driving the game is fantastic.

For me:

- Car sounds sucks

- It needs better clutch support

- I want to buy some brakes damit!!

- I want that you can modifie withthe racing mod for more than 5 cars

What bugs me? People nit-picking.

Let's see...

1. If you played GT4 and 5 Prologue, there are virtually no new tracks in GT5. In fact some of my favorites from GT4 were gone, with boring junk like the Autumn Ring in their place. Other games like the Shift series doubled the number of tracks from one game to the next, and that game had an 18 month development cycle, compared to GT5's 6 years.
2. AI - to call it abysmal would be an insult to large empty places. It's not programmed to deal with a human player on the track, and rams you off at every opportunity. This makes it impossible to race against it, so you just put soft racing tires on your car and win every race by a mile.
3. No challenge whatsoever. I won at least three-quarters of the races on my first try. No adjustable difficulty for the AI, no scalable dificulty (modify your car and the AI doesn't get faster, so now you can really annihilate them)
4. Way way too simple. The tracks are all as smooth as glass and the suspension doesn't react to anything. I could run 6:30 laps of the Nurburgring in just about any car in GT5, paying almost no attention to what I was doing, yawning the whole way around. In other racing games I have to bust my butt to run a time like that, absolutely 100% concentration every single second. It's an exhilarating experience. Just the opposite of GT5.
5. The career mode was a long boring grind for money. There wasn't sufficient variety in the races, nor was their enough money awarded for lower level races, so you just ended up doing the same races over and over and over to earn money to buy the car you need for the next level.
6. Car selection was ridiculously Japan-centric. More underpowered Japanese grocery-getters than all non-Japanese sports cars combined.

I'm a big fan of racing sim's and I spent six months with GT4, a month with 5 Prologue, and had GT5 pre-ordered over a year before it came out. That was the disappointment of the generation. If you like to look at pretty graphics and win most races on your first try, awesome. But if you actually like some challenge, and you like to race against the AI cars in something resembling a realistic fashion, it doesn't even compare to other current-gen racing sim's.

Let's see...

1. If you played GT4 and 5 Prologue, there are virtually no new tracks in GT5. In fact some of my favorites from GT4 were gone, with boring junk like the Autumn Ring in their place. Other games like the Shift series doubled the number of tracks from one game to the next, and that game had an 18 month development cycle, compared to GT5's 6 years.
2. AI - to call it abysmal would be an insult to large empty places. It's not programmed to deal with a human player on the track, and rams you off at every opportunity. This makes it impossible to race against it, so you just put soft racing tires on your car and win every race by a mile.
3. No challenge whatsoever. I won at least three-quarters of the races on my first try. No adjustable difficulty for the AI, no scalable dificulty (modify your car and the AI doesn't get faster, so now you can really annihilate them)
4. Way way too simple. The tracks are all as smooth as glass and the suspension doesn't react to anything. I could run 6:30 laps of the Nurburgring in just about any car in GT5, paying almost no attention to what I was doing, yawning the whole way around. In other racing games I have to bust my butt to run a time like that, absolutely 100% concentration every single second. It's an exhilarating experience. Just the opposite of GT5.
5. The career mode was a long boring grind for money. There wasn't sufficient variety in the races, nor was their enough money awarded for lower level races, so you just ended up doing the same races over and over and over to earn money to buy the car you need for the next level.
6. Car selection was ridiculously Japan-centric. More underpowered Japanese grocery-getters than all non-Japanese sports cars combined.

I'm a big fan of racing sim's and I spent six months with GT4, a month with 5 Prologue, and had GT5 pre-ordered over a year before it came out. That was the disappointment of the generation. If you like to look at pretty graphics and win most races on your first try, awesome. But if you actually like some challenge, and you like to race against the AI cars in something resembling a realistic fashion, it doesn't even compare to other current-gen racing sim's.

Jackc8

I accept everything but the above hilighted statement. That's pure BS, and you know it.

Let's see...

1. If you played GT4 and 5 Prologue, there are virtually no new tracks in GT5. In fact some of my favorites from GT4 were gone, with boring junk like the Autumn Ring in their place. Other games like the Shift series doubled the number of tracks from one game to the next, and that game had an 18 month development cycle, compared to GT5's 6 years.
2. AI - to call it abysmal would be an insult to large empty places. It's not programmed to deal with a human player on the track, and rams you off at every opportunity. This makes it impossible to race against it, so you just put soft racing tires on your car and win every race by a mile.
3. No challenge whatsoever. I won at least three-quarters of the races on my first try. No adjustable difficulty for the AI, no scalable dificulty (modify your car and the AI doesn't get faster, so now you can really annihilate them)
4. Way way too simple. The tracks are all as smooth as glass and the suspension doesn't react to anything. I could run 6:30 laps of the Nurburgring in just about any car in GT5, paying almost no attention to what I was doing, yawning the whole way around. In other racing games I have to bust my butt to run a time like that, absolutely 100% concentration every single second. It's an exhilarating experience. Just the opposite of GT5.
5. The career mode was a long boring grind for money. There wasn't sufficient variety in the races, nor was their enough money awarded for lower level races, so you just ended up doing the same races over and over and over to earn money to buy the car you need for the next level.
6. Car selection was ridiculously Japan-centric. More underpowered Japanese grocery-getters than all non-Japanese sports cars combined.

I'm a big fan of racing sim's and I spent six months with GT4, a month with 5 Prologue, and had GT5 pre-ordered over a year before it came out. That was the disappointment of the generation. If you like to look at pretty graphics and win most races on your first try, awesome. But if you actually like some challenge, and you like to race against the AI cars in something resembling a realistic fashion, it doesn't even compare to other current-gen racing sim's.

Jackc8

Agreed. The overall racing experience is far from "Sim" and the AI is appalling. Yes, the car handling it self is dead on, but good handling alone doesn't make a simulator. Everything else outside the car seems to be unimportant to PolyDigital. You are right about the handling feel as well. You really can't "feel" the road like you can in other sim games.

I think PolyDigital need to take a lesson from someone like Papyrus. To date, Papyrus's NASCAR Racing 2003 is the most realistic feeling simulator I have ever played. Not for car detail or effects of course, but is one of the few games that you can really feel every bump and crack in a track and react accordingly.

I have better hopes for GT6, mabye they will get it all right on next gen, but in the mean time, hopefully the soon to be released rFactor 2 will be closer to real life racing ;)

Nitpicky, but menus could use some refinement.getyeryayasout

[QUOTE="getyeryayasout"]Nitpicky, but menus could use some refinement.NaviJ

Agreed. The menu system is pointlessly arty.

Should have been some Deer in the forest tracks.

Nothing bugs me, as I tend not to nitpick on games for having little minor problems. I am so happy it's back to San Andrea's and it seems Tommy from Vice City is going to be the main character, and we will see CJ of course. I love San Andrea's the best!Gaming4You1990

Ok, so we all know that GT5 is the greatest car game so far, ;) , but what little minor things irritate you to no end?

Here is my list:
Low detail standard cars
Blurry track/environment textures
Oddly pixalated tire smoke
Rough shadows
Very unrealistic rollover physics
The whole "paint chip" system
No AA

MountyManGamer

Also, where's porsche?colibriosis

premium/standard.

[QUOTE="colibriosis"]Also, where's porsche?DJ_Lae

lack of honda's like my ef 9 hatchback

the fact that standard cars can't swap rimsand lack of good rims

cycling used cars section

actually having a used car section is stupid...can't it be like gt3

having to earn all the paint...what if the only colors i want my cars to come in is in black or white? why cant i just do that

not having midfield race track...that was my favorite track

not having a downhill mountain pass

lack of creative ness in the game. check forza or nfs...these games dont drive as well as gt, but they are in touch with features

lack of honda's like my ef 9 hatchback

the fact that standard cars can't swap rimsand lack of good rims

cycling used cars section

actually having a used car section is stupid...can't it be like gt3

having to earn all the paint...what if the only colors i want my cars to come in is in black or white? why cant i just do that

not having midfield race track...that was my favorite track

not having a downhill mountain pass

lack of creative ness in the game. check forza or nfs...these games dont drive as well as gt, but they are in touch with features

jsmoke03

Yea, just not being able to just go buy whatever used car you want at any time drives me absolutely nuts! It is just mindless to have them randomly generate a tiny little list every few days. Ridiculous :evil:

Too many Nissans and Japanese cars, i know it's a japanese game but dear lord give it a rest. (forgot about that one till one)JohnF111

Definitely, I think they do waste a lot of time on making hundreds of versions of Japanese cars, a lot of which are compact junkers that no one would want to drive anyways. I mean cars like Supras and GTRs are cool, but we really don't need dozens of slightly different variations :?

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"][QUOTE="colibriosis"]Also, where's porsche?colibriosis

EA/NFS easily beat GT to the punch, with Porsche Unleashed, and Im certain NFS SE or 2 had Porsches, way before GT.

[QUOTE="colibriosis"][QUOTE="DJ_Lae"] EA. Porsche will likely never happen with Gran Turismo now that EA's even taken it away from Turn 10's Forza on the 360. I presume they've done it because neither Shift game has been as good as GT or Forza and they need it as a selling point. Which is sad, because both racing series represent a rich automotive history and holding Porsche hostage from that is criminal.GTR12

EA/NFS easily beat GT to the punch, with Porsche Unleashed, and Im certain NFS SE or 2 had Porsches, way before GT.

[QUOTE="GTR12"]

EA/NFS easily beat GT to the punch, with Porsche Unleashed, and Im certain NFS SE or 2 had Porsches, way before GT.

kraken2109

Thats RUF, its a Porsche tuning company, like how NISMO are for Nissan or TRD for Toyota.