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Thiletonomics said:
So with Gran Turismo 7 out for a little over a week now, (and I still haven't got to the selling grandma's organs phase to get a PS5 yet) how has the game been? The reception I have been hearing that it feels grindier than past GT games, and the in-your-face microtransaction enticement (the "Top-up" banner that comes up whenever you make a purchase in-game) feels way too blatant.
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It's alright, but I'm of the sentiment it doesn't feel like a numbered GT title, it's more a single player focused version of GTS when GTS first released.
The biggest gripe is there really isn't much of a single player campaign or championship series to race. The only ones are tied to GT Cafe which is supposed to be the single player career replacement. Problem is tracks/features/modes are locked behind the Cafe and you don't fully unlock until you complete the Cafe... which basically begs you to speed run everything. Not that it's difficult in any manner, I blasted through all of these, golding them on my first go and I have the game set to highest AI difficulty.
There are also some physics issues PD is dealing with, but they won't address it publicly which sort of pisses me off. Just every update a bunch of different types of cars, usually low pp rwd cars, suddenly drive better and lose .5 seconds off their lap times. But no mention of changes is patch notes.
 
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Cod of War said:
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Thanks. Have you won any of those?

I've completed the stunt driver challenges and now doing community card challenges. Do you know about the Super7? Some of these community challenges are ridiculous. Especially with the high stakes Super7.
 
The Last Stand said:
Thanks. Have you won any of those?

I've completed the stunt driver challenges and now doing community card challenges. Do you know about the Super7? Some of these community challenges are ridiculous. Especially with the high stakes Super7.
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Naw, got to the last round a few times before stopping. Super 7 is eh, would be better without all the top speed challenges. Tip, you can go back from the starting line to give yourself more room to reach top speed.
 
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Cod of War said:
Naw, got to the last round a few times before stopping. Super 7 is eh, would be better without all the top speed challenges. Tip, you can go back from the starting line to give yourself more room to reach top speed.
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Oh, I've figured that out for the drag challenges. Sometimes, it's first person because of that exploit. Sometimes, their timing is precise enough to be practically impossible. High Stakes is frustrating because of how unfair these community challenges can be.
 
Anybody here played Midnight Club? I remember it was trying to compete with NFS after Underground's success.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Anybody here played Midnight Club? I remember it was trying to compete with NFS after Underground's success.
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I’ve never played it, but isn’t Midnight Club 2 that game where you literally can’t 100% complete it because you need like a million of the in-game currency to unlock the final boss but your wallet maxes out at 999,999? I swear I heard that somewhere.

EDIT: I’m actually getting Midnight Club 2 mixed up with Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 on the PS2 lol
 
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Only Midnight Club game I had experience with was LA Remix. I even unlocked Tokyo through natural play. Fun fact: LA Remix is based on MC2's LA and MC3's Tokyo. But way more accessible compared to MC2 from what I hear about that installment.

Never played the console version of MC: Los Angeles.
 
I've been on a weird racing game kick recently and got a few racing games - Burnout Dominator on the PS2, DiRT 2 and Driver: San Francisco on Xbox 360 and BallisticNG on Steam. I haven't played the 360 games yet because my 360's power supply died of old age and I'm waiting for a new one off ebay to arrive but I'm enjoying the other two. I'm absolutely fucking awful at racing games but I enjoy making car/hovercraft engine go brrrrrr.

I've been meaning to try and get into Forza at some point, as well as Gran Turismo (I'll probably end up getting 3 and/or 4 since currently my only Playstation console is the PS2). I'll probably end up either getting some Forza stuff on 360 if they're cheap secondhand or Forza Horizon 4/5 if either of them go on a deep sale on Steam since I have a functional gaming PC now. Might see if I can get my hands on a Need for Speed game as well - I heard they remastered Hot Pursuit recently and that's one of the most well known ones.

Also I wish I had a small CRT telly so my PS2 games could look less crusty but I don't have the space for one here at my parents house. :stress:

I don't own Midnight Club 2 or Test Drive Unlimited, I'll snap them up sometime if I see them and they're not too expensive.
 
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Elysian said:
I've been on a weird racing game kick recently and got a few racing games - Burnout Dominator on the PS2, DiRT 2 and Driver: San Francisco on Xbox 360 and BallisticNG on Steam. I haven't played the 360 games yet because my 360's power supply died of old age and I'm waiting for a new one off ebay to arrive but I'm enjoying the other two. I'm absolutely fucking awful at racing games but I enjoy making car/hovercraft engine go brrrrrr.

I've been meaning to try and get into Forza at some point, as well as Gran Turismo (I'll probably end up getting 3 and/or 4 since currently my only Playstation console is the PS2). I'll probably end up either getting some Forza stuff on 360 if they're cheap secondhand or Forza Horizon 4/5 if either of them go on a deep sale on Steam since I have a functional gaming PC now. Might see if I can get my hands on a Need for Speed game as well - I heard they remastered Hot Pursuit recently and that's one of the most well known ones.

Also I wish I had a small CRT telly so my PS2 games could look less crusty but I don't have the space for one here at my parents house. :stress:

I don't own Midnight Club 2 or Test Drive Unlimited, I'll snap them up sometime if I see them and they're not too expensive.
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Any of the PS2 games work pretty well on PCSX2 emulator. GT4 kinda lags if you try to play at 1080i though depending on your hardware.
 
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Midnight Club 2 is hands down the best racing game ever made, because not only are the tracks excellent, the game itself melds the characters seamlessly into the action. It's a blessing that Rockstar didn't give it the GTA:SA treatment and gutted its soundtrack, because it melds its music cues and races together perfectly. There is no story, which is the only level of story appropriate for my drive fast crashy nitro vroom vroom go car fast game.

Naturally, it's been pulled from Steam, but if you own it already you can still play it, albeit with very minor audio glitches. The PS2 version is still the best for this reason but if you're resourceful (arrr) there's no reason to spin up an emulator for it.
 
Coffee Shits said:
Midnight Club 2 is hands down the best racing game ever made, because not only are the tracks excellent, the game itself melds the characters seamlessly into the action. It's a blessing that Rockstar didn't give it the GTA:SA treatment and gutted its soundtrack, because it melds its music cues and races together perfectly. There is no story, which is the only level of story appropriate for my drive fast crashy nitro vroom vroom go car fast game.

Naturally, it's been pulled from Steam, but if you own it already you can still play it, albeit with very minor audio glitches. The PS2 version is still the best for this reason but if you're resourceful (arrr) there's no reason to spin up an emulator for it.
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To add to story driven racing games, add Need For Speed Most Wanted and Carbon that from the PS2 era to that list. The NFSMW BMW E46 M3 GTR is still an icon with that silver and blue livery. The live action acting for the blacklist rivals and characters in general was a really cool way to experiment with story telling devices too. Gone are those creative times.
 
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TVBForever said:
I love playing Midnight Club. Plus, their soundtrack is kino, with the third one being my favorite all due to large to these songs:
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House real big
Car real big
DICK real big
Everything real big
Rims real big
Pocket real big
Everything real big!


Don't forget Twista. MC3: Dub Edition blew Underground out the map. I'd argue that 3 stagnated the Need for Speed franchise after Most Wanted.
 
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