Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

[Ben Buitendijk]

Is the Prologue out already?

My PSN name: Ben797

[Sven De Nys]

Prologue is about to be released this thursday (ont he PlayStation Store) and Friday in teh actual shops. But if you look good, You'll find it this wednesday in the shops.

[Ben Buitendijk]

Do you think Freerecordshop will have it on wednesday?

Otherwise I'll see you online friday

[Sven De Nys]

Hmm there is a slight chance yes... Best thing is to check the local FRS at the day itself... Because they receive the games on wednesday, but "officially" it can only be in the shelves on friday.

[Sven De Nys]

Ohh and I just found out something: The Ferrari F1 2007 will be in GT5: Prologue !!!

[Ben Buitendijk]

Yes, the F2007 and the F40 are my main reasons to buy it.

[Ben Buitendijk]

Woohooo!! I have it

You must install it on your HD...And I'm waiting for that, but I can't wait to try it out!

I must work this evening, but maybe I'm home early so I can race you online.

[Peter Eriksson]

Ahh this sucks, preorderd it and now its posponed until 04/07 , i tried to cancel the order but dont know if it will work, and now i have seen it in local stores.

Well if i havent got any answer before friday i will buy it anyway and have 2 copies, maybe its good to have a backup ;)

The worst part is that thay haven send away my playseat becouse they are waiting to sent everything at once

[Sven De Nys]

That really sucks Peter, Hope you can find it anyway soon

And I have it also Just installing it now!! Can't wait !!!

[Peter Eriksson]

Arghhh must say that im very very jealous of you boys

But plz review it, good stuff, feeling and so on so i can dream about it ;)

[Sven De Nys]

I will, don't worry Expect a nice little review tomorrow/friday...

[Ben Buitendijk]

I really like the new physics engine!

I've only tried Proffesional mode ofcourse , and I think the main good points are that the tires and suspension feel very 'alive'. I've been able to pull of some nice drifts and it felt really natural for me.

The graphics, well, it's like on the screens: beautyfull. And then I haven't even played it in HD yet. But I'll try to go to my mum this weekend so I can play on a Bravia.

The Ai is still quite easy, so I hope they will include something like a easy, medium and hard mode for that in the full version or in a update.

My fastest car is the Nissan GT-R '07. But the Suzuki Cappuchino is also a lot of fun. The Suzuki is a lot of fun drifting at low speeds, and the GT-R is great fun drifting at Daytona Oval with 300 kmph

There is some kinda update that I need to install, but there is something wrong with my connection, so I haven't tried online mode yet. But I'll try to fix it now.

Sven, what is your PSN name?

[Sven De Nys]

Ben: I've added you already, since you are Ben797... But mine is MrMystic

About the update: There is nothing wrong with your connection, but it just keeps cancelling all time... Probably overload

About the online mode, I can be short: you ened to fulfill all Class A Events first So I'm not there yet...

[Ben Buitendijk]

Yes I've accepted you

The update finally worked for me this afthernoon, and eventhough I haven't finished all Class A events, I was able to do an online race.

It was ok.

The RWD supercars are really hard to drive OMG.

In that race on Daytona Roadcourse with the 430, that you need to overtake everyone in 1 lap is just so crazyly hard. I cut everywhere I can, use cars as brake whenever possible and still I only managed to win it once with a gap of 0.4 s over the 2nd car.

The Ford GT is also really crazy. It goes 310 kmph in 5th gear

[Peter Eriksson]

Wohoo now the gear is in place and have been tryed out, its damn hard to drive manual H-shift and with clutch, but still havent have time to clear all the events in A-class so the fun can begin becouse driving around in standard cars wasent so fun or maybe its me who dont like the feeling of it, but i hope it will get better when you can finetune the car and then maybe get some more grip or feeling in it.

I managed to race online without completing the A-class as well??

[Sven De Nys]

Yeah me too now Sorry for the confusion ...

Well the feeling of the cars has been improved over the last version. And the cockpit view is simply amazing !!

[Ben Buitendijk]

I'm now in S class. I need to do 3 events, but they are damn hard if you are playing with the controller. I really need to find some space in the livingroom and install my G25 for an afthernoon....

4WD cars are quite drivable without TC and on professional mode, but beasts like Ferrari 430, Ford GT or Elise 111R /tuned are incredibly hard, and I must drive them with TC and ABS with physics on standard mode....

[Peter Eriksson]

Well, even the corvette is hard to master, even with a wheel, and one dissapointment in this game is onlineracing, the slipstreaming is to good and everybody is driving like its demolitionderby out there, i just hope damage and longer races will come on later, but still i havent finished the A-class so maybe when allowed to race in the tuning level maybe the races will be longer, anybody know?

[SniperZA]

Yeah, expert races are 5 laps - still too short imo - also the expert races still use standard physics - hopefully there are some professional physics servers, I've just missed them.

I really like the P.P system - being about to beef up a car like a Focus or detune an F430 is very cool - I've already had lots of close races on Expert servers against wildly different cars

Chris

[Peter Eriksson]

Bahh, just cant help it, i really dont like the feeling in the game, cant feel were the grip are or is it something funny with my ff, sometimes beeing on the curbs there is no whatsoever ff in the wheel. And its anoying that the steering degree cant be adjusted, its hard to turn the wheel 2 laps, but maybe the game isent made for G25.

[Ben Buitendijk]

If you've beaten the A-class, you can adjust the steering lock.

[Peter Eriksson]

I know but not so much, standard is 40 and max is 50 so the diffrens wasent big enough, but enough complaining from me, its a beautiful game espcially when drifting around in the replays

[Darron Miller]

this is very good with a wheel but i suck at using the pad........no where to set wheel up doh

be good when they patch it for us to host private servers

[Sven De Nys]

Indeed, that is something I'm missing also, the pricate servers...

[Sven De Nys]

Update: We all knew (or didn't we) that Polyphony has an agreement with BBC's TopGear TV show. This brings ideas up for the GT TV option in the new Gran Turismo-games. Well, the first episode of the new 6th season is nog available on the (Japanese) GT TV Channel.

It won't be long before the European/American versions will follow.