Gran Turismo 4

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 19 Mar 2005, 06:36

This is cool!

I have just discovered that you can plug your USB Port/ stick, into the playstation, and download your GT images onto it. (it's alright to call me slow)

Hear is 2 of my picts

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 19 Mar 2005, 06:37

Oh... and my Monaro

Nasadus · Post by **Nasadus** » 19 Mar 2005, 12:28

I love the Monaro,awesome car.Best thing to come out of Australia perhaps?

I'm doing the endurance races right now,well actually my AI co-driver is doing the endurance races.Bloody 24-Hour race.

Simon600 · Post by **Simon600** » 19 Mar 2005, 16:11

I have started a "GRAN TURISMO 4 SHOW ROOM, post your pics here" i started after i asked around if any body was interested, please check it out and if you have a USB storage device upload some photos, show off some magazine art

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 20 Mar 2005, 12:32

I got the game yesterday and it's f***ing awesome!!!

I played it all day and all night, and I've got a couple of pics that I will post up in the showroom.

Edit: Has anyone tried driving that Nike thing? It looks really wierd but it goes like a dream.

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 20 Mar 2005, 15:21

ive gone about 200mph in that thign or the other toyota one, those things accelerate slowly. i drive some basic cars, oh and has anyoen driven the RX-8s? those thigns are sweet, they handle well for stock, and the taurus 98 is funny as hell, that thign is oversteer god

Corolla GTS · Post by **Corolla GTS** » 20 Mar 2005, 16:14

It's official:

I'm addicted.

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 20 Mar 2005, 16:15

i dont know, im not as interested as i thought i would be interested in it, anyways im knid of mad at somethign right now, and i hope this thing gets cleared up and then ill resume my usual pathetic life, adn play video games all day.. hehe

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 23 Mar 2005, 10:38

Simon600 wrote:I have started a "GRAN TURISMO 4 SHOW ROOM, post your pics here" i started after i asked around if any body was interested, please check it out and if you have a USB storage device upload some photos, show off some magazine art

Cool, Nice idea. Do you have a link or something to the site?

Edit: No one panic, I found it. lol. I really am slow!

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 25 Mar 2005, 16:21

is it me or they took out qualifying from this game?

Nasadus · Post by **Nasadus** » 25 Mar 2005, 17:35

No they didn't take qualifying out,it's still there.It's called "Practice" this time.Note however that you don't always have this option.

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 25 Mar 2005, 17:52

oh. i never kne wthat. so now im always gonna do that when i have a lower chance of winning. thanks

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 28 Mar 2005, 08:14

Yeah - especially for some of those rolling starts. It's almost impossile to catch up to the leader, when all cars have equal power.

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 30 Mar 2005, 13:29

Do lookout for the Ai in the Supercars challenge and in rally events.
I have retired from rally driving, or snow and dirt rally after seeing that the Ai got tarmac style grip while I got nearly none at all.
On Snow you can turn at 30 KPH and tailslide by the slightest movement and you don't stop sliding before a mile after.
VERY UNREALISTIC actually, I have been doing turns like that, no tailslide at all, maybe because I had spiked tires?

And the Ai, impossible to keep up, on the supercar challenge, I finally caught a Mercedes, Audi and a VW (W12 thingy) I had no chance if I were to take the corner normally.
I actually to crash myself a path up to the lead, crash the opponents into objects I find along my route, smashing them out on the grass is no go either, since they cheat on their grip, while you on the grass cannot turn unless you smash into the wall.

Sad but true, racing games and most games today have forgotten the fact how we normal players get fast.
We do not cheat like adding more power and super grip (EDDIE!!! NFSU 1)
We do not cheat on grip and handling (GT3 and some in GT4)
We do not cheat by making the opponents get weaker brakes and more weight resulting in understeer. (GT4!!!)

We drive by chosing a lot better line than the opponent, special brake points, now I would expect that an Ai could do the same without cheats.

But if you can handle some tailtapping and crashing to get the lead in the worst races and use wallriding you may stand a chance against those cheaters, they get more and more insane.

But overall, GT4 is not a bad game, if it was using the GT3 engine it would been godlike for drifters, may be because I haven't gotten the braking drift to work yet, for now Ebrake and feint and lift off are all I can do.
Gt3 may not been realistic, but it was fun tailsliding around corners that easily.
And GT2, hahaha, a game where grip driving was an art.

In my oppinion sepearting up the Muscle car cup alone unlike GT2 was a VERY BAD choice.
I really miss the opertunity in GT2 to take a japanese car and go and have fun with the old school muscle cars.
It was great fun back then, now you are forced into understeering heavy ugly looking boxes and have to race them just to get past it.

Nah, GT2 overall against GT4 was better apart from graphics, But then again, GT2 was a hard heavy weight that GT3 lost terrain due to low amount of cars, GT4 had the cars but lacked a lot more.

But the most annoying part with this game is and will allways be the cheating, me and a buddy looked over a few replays and it is so easy to spot, no wonder EA doesn't want you to look at the Ai cars driving in NFSU 2

Still GT4 is a great game, while GT3 had a few light moments, GT3 scores 6 out of 10 while GT4 is slightly better (Saved by the massive amount of cars, orginally earning 8 out of 10 but the cheating kills it) 7 out of 10.
GT2 still reigns in my book as the game in the GT series with highest fun rating in my book.
With modern graphics and up to date car lists it could have been even better.

I could probably written a LOOOONG post on AI cheating, but I decided not to, not now it is sad that it is happening that way these days...

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 30 Mar 2005, 13:34

I have no problem with the AI. If you pick the right car and tune it properly and drive well, then you can always win.

I give GT4 10 out of 10.

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 30 Mar 2005, 13:49

Well I guess, my luck probably.
In NFSU I had the catchup logic seize up so that even when he was in front he was still cheating matching my speed...

As for funny moments, well easy money can also be found in "The Capri bank" Basically Special Conditions Easy Capri rally.
You win a Toyota RSC Rally Raid car worth 260k, sweet enough since you can crush them with some of the Japanese cheap cars

I guess I got to roll up my shots of my first car... In the photo thread.
I tried to find a blue Mazda RX7 Type RS 98 model.
But they were nowhere to be found sadly at that time, though I was orginally looking for a Volvo 240 (Got one now with 2xx horses turbo tuned, nice ride!)

Now I only got to knock out a bunch of non cheaters (Hopefully) and all I got left is the world cup, now I am thrilled to see what awaits me in there, but I am also shocked of the potential cheaters that may be there.

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 31 Mar 2005, 11:18

I also think the A.I in this game is fine. The only thing is doing a rally against another car, if you are behind them, then you cannot see a bloody thing, because there is so much dirt & crap covering your vision, that you steer into walls. lol. But for some reason, those A.I cars have an X-Ray vision

Also those 5 second penelty's can be abit unfair, especially when THEY smash into the front of your car, while taking a hairpin corner, causing you to get a penelty for doing nothing. And it really

's me, how they are uncapable of getting penelty's for making their own stupid mistakes.

Comparing the grip differences, between us, and the A.I, they are both pretty much the same. Just driving the right way, on the right racing line will give you the gold.

EmptyWords · Post by **EmptyWords** » 31 Mar 2005, 23:15

yeah i hate that penatly thing. its quite impossible to do those rally races. im not even gonna try, thats probbably gonna be the lat thingi do. btw. jac i love your avatar :-d

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 01 Apr 2005, 09:54

jacoja06 wrote:I also think the A.I in this game is fine. The only thing is doing a rally against another car, if you are behind them, then you cannot see a bloody thing, because there is so much dirt & crap covering your vision, that you steer into walls. lol. But for some reason, those A.I cars have an X-Ray vision

Also those 5 second penelty's can be abit unfair, especially when THEY smash into the front of your car, while taking a hairpin corner, causing you to get a penelty for doing nothing. And it really 's me, how they are uncapable of getting penelty's for making their own stupid mistakes.

Comparing the grip differences, between us, and the A.I, they are both pretty much the same. Just driving the right way, on the right racing line will give you the gold.

I did try to copy the Ai's rally driving, that was a no go, I slided too much to maintain his line even with the same speed.
Sadly.
Yeah the penalty is sad it is not for the Ai, but on the bright side, if they had it too, he would been years behind with all his crashing

I like damage more though, would love to find AI cars in parts shattered all over the track.

Has anyone gotten the Slipstream battle with the Skyline GT-R yet?
The boys behind me are too slow to help me actually, and I cannot catch the guy in front

I am too fast in the corners to let those behind me come drafting past me to use them.

jacoja06 · Post by **jacoja06** » 03 Apr 2005, 08:40

EmptyWords wrote:yeah i hate that penatly thing. its quite impossible to do those rally races. im not even gonna try, thats probbably gonna be the lat thingi do. btw. jac i love your avatar :-d

Naa, i still reckon you can have a go at some rally events. Try the 'Cathedral Rocks' rally course.... that one is awsome! Yeah, sure... you may make many mistakes at first, but after a while, you start to get the hang of things. So far, i've completed most of the rally events, and i'm getting stacks of cool cars, in return.

I'm sure most of the rally cars are all of the same, but since my 3rd rally race, I have been using a 1995 celica rally car (the older one, with bits and peices hanging off it), and so far, it has whooped some major ass! Even though it has very much the same speed as all of the computer cars.

btw... If you're sliding all over the track, and smashing into barriers, just to keep up with the opposition, then check out the replay of the computer car. It will show you all of the stats, etc, so you know how to take the corners with eese

EmptyWords wrote:btw. jac i love your avatar :-d

Thanks! Thats my $610 000 Merc, which I worked my ass off to get.lol

chimpzrl · Post by **chimpzrl** » 04 Apr 2005, 15:01

I think I have to get it. My dad agrees. I saw a picture from the game that you could zoom to almost 300% and it wouldn't pixelize. Now I must have it.

marshallpre1 · Post by **marshallpre1** » 04 Apr 2005, 16:18

my gf got me a ps2 and GT4 for my birthday, which was yesterday, and damn this game is the best racing game ive played.... now i got a 520 hp supra but its annoying me that its got no traction.... racing tires cost too much!!! but awesome game nonetheless... btw how do u take pics and upload it to the comp? or do all of u guys have a tv tuner? im a ps2 newb

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 04 Apr 2005, 17:16

USB stick. Plug it into a USB port. Some might not work.

marshallpre1 · Post by **marshallpre1** » 04 Apr 2005, 18:19

thanks... btw can we make this also an "ask a tuning question topic" because there are a few things i dont know how much to adjust ie. limited slip differential, etc... but i just bought a wing for my supra and damn the handling improved a lot im not peeling out in 4th gear lol... i love this game i agree with bogan GT4 10/10... havent played nfsu2 in 4 days now

ghost_4ce · Post by **ghost_4ce** » 04 Apr 2005, 21:56

I wish I could. I have booked my copy for a week now but still it hasnt come.....