worst game of this generation? Easily GT5 (IMO)

[abasuto]

I love the fact that it took PD years to make a half dolled-up racing game with circa 1998 gameplay, and there are still people trying to defend it. The Forza series is superior in virtually every way, and doesn’t require the player to tend to the game like it’s a newly born child. GT5 isn’t just shit; it’s a painful, lava-like liquid shit at your friend’s house, with his hot sister accidentally walking in on you.

Just goes to show that more money into and better marketing tends to win out.

Sega's 2k football series was always leaps and bounds better than Madden, but EA had deeper pockets and went on to become the defining football series.

 

[Ajax]

Those updates were a kick in the pants. I was really frustrated when I got the game too, and I think it took me something like three days to actually get to play the game. That really is inexcusable.

But, I love GT5. It was my first GT, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I have thoroughly enjoyed it. All those "GT(insert number below 5 here) was the peak of the series" comments mean absolutely nothing to me.

 

[SNKorSWM]

Just goes to show that more money into and better marketing tends to win out.

Sega's 2k football series was always leaps and bounds better than Madden, but EA had deeper pockets and went on to become the defining football series.

I wonder if it was worth it for EA to pay for a decade of exclusive NFL license.

 

[complexz]

i guess I'm glad I played gt5 on day one... I remember a kinda annoying install but it wasn't much worse than alot of the games I have that need installs, I remember being much more annoyed by resistance 3, that took like an hour (but the game kicked ass)

 

[T.A.P.]

I wonder if it was worth it for EA to pay for a decade of exclusive NFL license.

When does that expire?

 

[Maury V.]

ridge racer ain't been the same since 4

Nothing can compare to the greatness that is RRT4. The music keeps me hooked. 13 years later, I STILL play this game.

 

[Lastblade]

Nothing can compare to the greatness that is RRT4. The music keeps me hooked. 13 years later, I STILL play this game.

Yes, RRT4 is an amazing game. I could never get used to that little rotary controller, but everything about RRT4 screams style (with plenty of substance to boot).

 

[Poonman]

I liked the part where he broke the game, made a completely misleading thread and said the game was the worst game of this generation.

That was the best.

You sound pretty riled up.

You know what might help? Try ripping the worst game of this generation* into pieces in front of 2 flunkies at a huge department store.

It worked for me.




*IMO

 

[Andy Is A Bastard]

+1 on RRT4, the OST has a permanent place on whatever device I am using to play music at the moment.

As for GT5, I was already satisfied with GT4 and RRV enough that by the time I got a PS3, I didn't even want it (which sounds like it's for the best). I am pretty biased, though, because I only want Polyphony Digital to make a new Omega Boost. I loved that game.

 

[Poonman]

Yeah, gt4 already had the cars I wanted and then some, PLUS I could change the wheels on them.

GT5 would have been ok if wasn't such a bogged down memory hog....the game looked alright, the music was still horrible, but in the end I decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze this time around. For the hundreds of hours spent unlocking crap and looking at loading screens, I could have actually worked towards buying an actual performance car in the real world.

And why do gran turismo games always have 100+ variations of the nissan GTR? What kind of Thomas A. Smallwood bullshit is that?
Sure, its a great car...but make one for each body type and be done with it.

 

[Lastblade]

And why do gran turismo games always have 100+ variations of the nissan GTR? What kind of Thomas A. Smallwood bullshit is that?
Sure, its a great car...but make one for each body type and be done with it.

Agreed, that's the problem with the GT series, they market it as having 1000 (or whatever ridiculous #) of cars but in reality, there are really only several hundred unique cars. This should be enough for any sane/non-OC player. Do we really need 7 different versions of Civics? It is a boring Civic for crying out loud.

 

[elixir]

You sound pretty riled up.

You know what might help? Try ripping the worst game of this generation* into pieces in front of 2 flunkies at a huge department store.

It worked for me.




*IMO

I wouldn't destroy a game because I'm not an immature wasteful person.

You could have given it to someone as a gift, let it collect dust on a shelf, or auctioned it off. I believe the phrase "waste not, want not" applies here.

 

[Lagduf]

It was his property.

That entitles him to do anything with it as he pleases so long as he doesn't commit some illegal act.

 

[elixir]

It was his property.

That entitles him to do anything with it as he pleases so long as he doesn't commit some illegal act.

Sure, I'm not disputing that at all, but that doesn't negate the fact that it's still turning a regretted purchase into a complete waste of money.

 

[OrochiEddie]

Yeah, gt4 already had the cars I wanted and then some, PLUS I could change the wheels on them.

GT5 would have been ok if wasn't such a bogged down memory hog....the game looked alright, the music was still horrible, but in the end I decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze this time around. For the hundreds of hours spent unlocking crap and looking at loading screens, I could have actually worked towards buying an actual performance car in the real world.

And why do gran turismo games always have 100+ variations of the nissan GTR? What kind of Thomas A. Smallwood bullshit is that?
Sure, its a great car...but make one for each body type and be done with it.

GT4 was one giant load screen with some car racing interspersed. I loved the game, but fuck me if I watched that little wheel spin in endless circles.


Also bolded what was easily the best line of the thread

 

[SNKorSWM]

When does that expire?

If they don't extend it, then it should end next year.

 

[Poonman]

I wouldn't destroy a game because I'm not an immature wasteful person.

You could have given it to someone as a gift, let it collect dust on a shelf, or auctioned it off. I believe the phrase "waste not, want not" applies here.

Immature and wasteful?

I'm a 17 hour drive away from home working on a trans-provincial bridge all summer.

I don't take weekends off, don't take evenings off, I never sleep in, I never relax, I'm gettting sprinkled with paints and solvents that can strip the tint off sunglasses and cause cancer on contact, I grind rust off steel with unguarded angle grinders so heavy you could turn it sideways and ride it home like a motorcycle.

Every fucking day for months now...I know nothing but this fucking bridge in my waking hours and I dream about it in my sleep.

In the end, my anger was mostly directed at myself for not knowing better....but the 20 dollar waste is negligible.

Shit, we are paying a lazy native guy 37 bucks every hour to fuck the dog on the job; every two hours he could buy 4 used copies of gt5 if he wanted to.

So who cares about the "waste" behind my impulsive actions?

 

[RabbitTroop]

Recently took it back to walmart with the receipt hoping I could trade it for another used game of equal value...the guy said no because I already "opened" it.

So I said "here, you can have it... and keep my 20bucks" and the guy said "haha ok!"

So then I say "hold on, let me check the disc"

I took that POS out of its case and started bending the fuck out of it (fucking trash couldn't even snap in half correctly), and after that, I took out the manual and tore it up...they stood there looking at me like I was nuts and he told me I could have put it up on ebay....at that point I fucking HULKED OUT and ripped the plastic case down the middle and told them to have fun with it.

I don't have time to fuck around on ebay and rook some poor asshole out of 20 bucks...



Am I just crazy or was GT5 the worst fucking thing ever?

-I tried to boot up the game, it tells me it won't boot until I do a 1 gig installation

-then the game boots up and says it needs to install another 10 gigs, so I try that and it takes at least 3 minutes just to load the fucking progress bar before installing this shit for anywhere between 4 hours and several weeks

-so I tried playing without it and it was obviously unbearable so after installing the 10 gigs the race tracks still took pretty fucking long to load and once in a while it still said "installing" in the corner.

When does it fucking end?

-I play the game offline, it asks if I want to sign into PSN, I say NO, then I go into GT mode and again it asks me if I want to sign into PSN and again I tell it a resounding FUCK NO.

-if I try to go online and it tells me it can't unless I download EIGHT 1.2gig updates and then install them, which in itself is another ordeal entirely.

-and then finally, the straw that broke the camels back...without warning, in the middle of a race it asks me if I want to download that 8 gig "patch" and while that happened I went from 3rd place to 12th.

Piece of shit....


Am I just crazy? maybe I don't know wtf I'm doing or did anyone else feel the same way?

Forza looks like it rolls its dick in tar and broken beer bottles and just fucks gt5 up the ass with it.

This, although GT5 seems like an absolute extreme case, is the main reason I don't care for the PS3. Sony just doesn't have a clue when it comes to streamlining updates or doing installs and patches. Christ, even if you get a game out of the PSN store, their brilliant idea is you download it once, say 300Meg, then start it up only to have an update that's another 300Meg. Look, the only reason Microsoft has the old files on Xbox Live is because everyone starts at the same base and then gets the small incremental updates to current. If Sony can't do incremental updates, then why keep the old files on the server? Little Big Planet was one of those go-do-something-else-for-a-few-hours-first game when I got it as well. I was so disappointed by that. They have to realize the last thing I want to do when I get home with a new game is to wait several hours as installs and updates complete. I really hope they get this stuff straighted out for the next console.

 

[LoneSage]

I like posts that give insight to Spoon's life. It's a treat everytime.

 

[Magician]

I loved GT1 and GT2

But yeah, when I've been in the mood for a sim racer Forza has been the better series for years.

 

[elixir]

So who cares about the "waste" behind my impulsive actions?

People who aren't wasteful and don't destroy inanimate objects because things aren't going thei way, claim it insignificant but still significant enough to make a completely misleading thread over.

 

[subcons]

This, although GT5 seems like an absolute extreme case, is the main reason I don't care for the PS3.

Pretty much my experience with the system since I got it last year as well. My PS3 only spins exclusives up in it, but even then, I rarely touch it. Everything to do with the online and update architecture seems like some tacked on afterthought.

 

[Comrade Porn King Mikhail]

We're going to have nothing to tear up and throw at the salesperson when all games are digital-only releases. This forum is not going to have half the fun stories it does now when this happens.

 

[Poonman]

People who aren't wasteful and don't destroy inanimate objects because things aren't going thei way, claim it insignificant but still significant enough to make a completely misleading thread over.

I never heard this kind of righteous indignation (from you) in threads about ecocide, genocide, homicide, government corruption, animal cruelty, etc.

But look at you now: your keyboard is awash with tears of injustice because I trashed your precious japanese masterpiece and tossed that shit in the can like a fucking BAUCE.

You want to talk about immature and wasteful?
How "immature and wasteful" is it living in a beautiful country like NZ with an attractive female population that outnumbers the males by a considerable margin and yet you occupy yourself collecting gay shit from japan and crying to me about how awesome I am?

Have some pocky and stfu.

 

[Xian Xi]

Good thing I stopped playing GT after 2.

Exactly, any GT after 2 was shit.

If you want to play a competitive racing game then try Tokyo Highway Battle or Racing Lagoon.