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    Gran Turismo 5

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 24, 2010

    Gran Turismo 5 is the fifth edition in the long running racing game series by Polyphony Digital. The game sports over 1000 vehicles, damage modeling on race cars, a dedicated television channel, lots of races, 16 player online multiplayer, and active weather.

    Sony Needs to Wake Up

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    What follows is a brief post I put up on the Playstation forums.
     
    I know the declaration in the thraed title is about three years late, but it's a point worth making again.
     
    Very, very sloppy so far. I've had to quit four or five times already, one measly arcade race under my belt.

    The main menu doesn't load properly when returning from another screen. The select cursor does not appear. Every time. Various delays, glitches and hangs too numerous to mention, and these are not all network issues. The game interface is simply not working.

    This is rudimentary stuff. To offer a marquee title in this state is simply unacceptable.

    This is disappointing, but that isn't my main problem with the game.

    Goodness knows, Polyphony have had long enough to get this right. How did this get past Sony QA? It's absurd.

    This sums up my PS3 experience so far. Technically fantastic, but with little or no consideration for the human beings at the other end who actually use the bloody thing.

    Sony is sleeping on the job. They need to wake up.
     
    Rant over.
     
    Harumph.

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    #2  Edited By Three0neFive

    cool story bro

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    #3  Edited By TheGeniousPlayer

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    Cool story bro?

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    I'm going to squeal and scream and stamp my feet until you all listen to me.

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    #5  Edited By Claude

      

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    #6  Edited By Jeust

    You need to throw a bucket full of cold water at your PS3. You'll see how fast it will wake up. ^^

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    #7  Edited By SethPhotopoulos

    Fuck.  Now to throw away my PS3.

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    #8  Edited By damnboyadvance

    I knew this game would fail.

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    #9  Edited By Rayfield

     
     
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    You kids. No standards.
     
    What happend to the men who made nations? Men who laid railroads, built bridges, opened hot dog stands and whatnot?
     
    John Henry would take his hammer to GT5, make no mistake.

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    #11  Edited By Rayfield

    BREAKING NEWS: GRAN TURISMO 5 MIDNIGHT LAUNCH AT GAMESTOP DELVES INTO CHAOS BY SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF APPARENTLY NOT-DEAD JOHN HENRY   
     
    One eyewitness on the scene told this reporter: "Yeah, man this old dude pushed to the front of the line. He had a hammer or something in his hand. Alls I know is he looked pissed." 
     
    POLYPHONY DIGITAL WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT

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    #12  Edited By canucks23

    You're basing your opinion of a whole console on some slow menu's on one game? That's cool i guess.

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    #13  Edited By obcdexter
    @damnboyadvance said:
    " I knew this game would fail. "
    but it won't. not at all.
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    #14  Edited By NTM

    ...*wakes up* Oh wait, what? What's going on now?
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    #15  Edited By damnboyadvance
    @obcdexter said:
    " @damnboyadvance said:
    " I knew this game would fail. "
    but it won't. not at all. "
    Let me restate that; I knew it wouldn't be as perfect as certain people thought it would be.
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    #16  Edited By obcdexter
    @damnboyadvance said:
    " @obcdexter said:
    " @damnboyadvance said:
    " I knew this game would fail. "
    but it won't. not at all. "
    Let me restate that; I knew it wouldn't be as perfect as certain people thought it would be. "
    Fair enough. Though I do think it has the potential to be another perfect GT experience. Have to play more of it first before making any such statement, though.
    Some patching needs to be done in the near future, so much is certain. :/
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    #17  Edited By gamb1t
    @DanceDanceKennypants:  a red circle appears out of nowhere
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    #18  Edited By iam3green

    i assume this is for grand turismo 5. the only problem i had with it were the loading times.

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    #19  Edited By DonPixel
    @Three0neFive said:
    " cool story bro "
    naa boring pointless story bro
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    #20  Edited By zeforgotten

    DAMN YOU SONY FOR MAKING THE ONLINE SERVERS STUPID FOR GT5! 
    Seriously Sony, couldn't you have developed the game a little better? I mean it's not that fucking hard, look at all the other games you've created! 
     
     
     
    Oh wait a fucking minute, Sony didn't make the game or the servers GT5?! 
    The fuck am I complaining to them for, then?  

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    #22  Edited By ch13696

    Damn it, Black Ops has huge stuttering on my PC, it's all Steam's fault. Final Fantasy XIII looks like crap on my Xbox 360, it's all Microsoft's fault. 
     
    Don't blame Sony for where Polyphony Digital went wrong. Last I checked developers that aren't owned by Sony have their own QA. 

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    I'm sorry folks, but I'm not convinced.
     
    Let's assume that what you say is true, and Sony had no oversight on GT5. My copy, on bootup, says "Sony Computer Entertainment Presents. "
     
    So, Sony had no input on their big title for Christmas, despite being the publisher. No say whatsoever? That's even worse.
     
    Besides, this doesn't address the fact that the game shipped broken. This, their big game for Christmas. Five or six years in development, and Sony had nothing to do with it. It doesn't add up. 
     
    Don't get me wrong. I'm a Betamax kind of guy, I appreciate a technically impressive product. I really, really like my PS3. I want to be wowed by astonishing graphics, but I own four times as many games for my Xbox as I do for my Playstation. All my multiplatform games are Xbox copies. The social gaming side to both consoles don't compare with each other. Remember Sony are the company who introduced 16 player text chat as a feature last year. That's text chat. 
     
    Sony have a magnificent machine, but are clueless when it comes to serving their customers. This is neatly summed up in the approach taken to GT5. Every bolt, rivet and panel in place, but they completely forgot about the game.
     
    I'm going to keep my console and my copy of Gran Turismo. I want Sony to do well, I've been a Playstation owner since the beginning, but I need more from Sony than an Uncharted game every two years.

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    #24  Edited By LiquidPrince

    It's really not that bad. After installation everything runs a lot smoother. You just have to get used to the way it's displaying information, which should only take a few moments.

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    #26  Edited By lutonhatter
    @DanceDanceKennypants:

    It what way is it shipped broken? server issues yes, shipped broken no. This is the third day I've been playing GT5 and it has been fine, I had to sign-out of PSN while the servers were struggling but that is it.

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    #27  Edited By ProfessorEss
    @ch13696 said:
    Don't blame Sony for where Polyphony Digital went wrong. Last I checked developers that aren't owned by Sony have their own QA.  "
    But what about one's that are? Like Polyphony Digital.
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    @LiquidPrince: 
     
    Unfortunately Liqqy, "not that bad" is about the best complement you could give this game, which is simply not good enough given the amount of time they had to get it right.
     
    I was pretty stoked for this, I was hoping they wouldn't screw it up.
     
    By the way, I installed it fully before I went near the main menu. 
     
    People are reaching around for excuses to give this game a pass. This in itself is a sorry reflection of Sony's piss-poor attitude to what their loyal customers want.
     
    I regard myself as a Sony customer, not a "fan." If being a fan means accepting second-rate products, they can shove it.
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    #30  Edited By SethPhotopoulos
    @DanceDanceKennypants said:
    "  I regard myself as a Sony customer, not a "fan." If being a fan means accepting second-rate products, they can shove it. "
      
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    #31  Edited By LiquidPrince
    @DanceDanceKennypants: Okay, let me rephrase DDK. The game is actually pretty great. As someone who is not really a fan of racers or of simulation games, I found myself thoroughly engrossed in this game. The only real complaint I had was the load times, and that wasn't even that bad after the load. It could be better, but you could say that about almost any game.
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    #32  Edited By benjaebe

    Odd, I've been enjoying the copy my friend picked up yesterday. I haven't really had any technical problems to speak of.

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    #33  Edited By Raineko

    There are no menu problems and the loading times are okay therefore GT5 wins.

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    @LiquidPrince: 
     
    Of course, the GT games were always great, and if this was 2003 this version would be right up there.
     
    I'm going to play this game quite a bit, but it's still nowhere near what it should have been, in my opinion. Not even close.
     
    If you are new to GT Liqqy, then you will be seriously impressed with this title. But having played earlier versions to the point of wearing out my X button, I dont see anything new here. 
     
    I'm not asking people to set their Playstations on fire in the town square, but I felt compelled to get feedback on my opinion this time around, because I had been let down by Sony's offerings once too often.
     
    People are going to like this game, of course. It seems that some people would cheer and wave their arms about if they opened their copy to find warm dogshit inside. But outside the PS3 circles on sites like Giantbomb, the reception is lukewarm. It's not some Microsoft conspiracy, most people like awesome games. It's just that this one is not the amazing driving experience it should have been, never mind the broken menus.
     
    That's all I have to say really. Knock yourselves out.
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    #35  Edited By ch13696
    @ProfessorEss said:
    " @ch13696 said:
    Don't blame Sony for where Polyphony Digital went wrong. Last I checked developers that aren't owned by Sony have their own QA.  "
    But what about one's that are? Like Polyphony Digital. "
    Yeah, but their like Naughty Dog or Insomniac Studios. They can easily up and make games for other consoles. 
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    #36  Edited By KaosAngel
    @ch13696 said:
    " Yeah, but their like Naughty Dog or Insomniac Studios. They can easily up and make games for other consoles.  "
    Kazu always wanted to make GT for PC, but for some reason never followed through with it.  
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    #37  Edited By LiquidPrince
    @DanceDanceKennypants:  I have played other GT games before, I just said that I was never a huge fan. The problem here stems more from you expecting way too much of the game. Hype to the point where you feel like you were going to explode is never a good thing. You seemed to have been felled by this along with Kaos. Over expectation.
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    #38  Edited By ProfessorEss
    @ch13696 said:

    Yeah, but their like Naughty Dog or Insomniac Studios. They can easily up and make games for other consoles.  "

    No, I think that's all kinds of wrong there man.

    Neither Naughty Dog or Polyphony are "free to make games for other consoles", they're both owned by Sony and Sony controls what they are allowed and not allowed to do. Insomniac on the other hand are not like either as they are not owned by Sony and free to do as they please.
     
    ...but I digress, I don't know if Polyphony has independant Q&A and/or servers, etc.

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