Quick Look: Gran Turismo 6

Looks kinda dull and boring :/

+ for the space stuff though

MOON STUFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's no wind on the moon so HOW is the GT flag on the loading screen waving? HUH

I use the bumper cam as well, especially in games like GT. It just doesn't feel right to use anything else (besides the cockpit view) in a sim racer. I have better sense of speed and of my surroundings. I just crash less often using it.

For an end of generation product I was expecting it to look a lot better than this, those weather effects on the Nurburgring are terrible in comparison to PGR 4, a game that came out 6 years ago.

@lausebub: You're a monster. Just like Jeff.

Forza 2 through 5 run at 60 fps. Horizon was 30 fps.

And yet Forza, Dirt, Grid can give a comparable sense of speed and control even at 30 FPS. This doesn't give GT any reasonable excuse.

I may be crazy, but I happen to enjoy the soft, comatose-jazz stylings of the Gran Turismo series.

"Backwards compatibility confirmed."

Damn it, Drew. You are the master of understated punchlines.

In the PS1/PS2 era, I was certain that no series would ever dethrone GT. It was leagues ahead of everything else in terms of deep mechanics and fun. Today, GT seems like a sad museum of a franchise compared to the Forza series.

@dark_lord_spam said:

Drew's nearly passive-aggressive delivery has become one of my favorite things on Quick Looks and the podcast.

My copy showed up today, currently installing the 1.01 patch...

A few notes on the quick look, the reason you couldn't take the car you bought to the Dirt stage was probably because you hadn't equipped it with dirt tires and in Drift challenges it helps to turn traction control off.

Final bit of advice, turn of Skid Force Recovery as soon as you can, it really ruins the physics model of the game and stops you from really feeling the car as you should. It's kinda like having training wheels on a bike, it means you won't fall over but you wont be able to ride it as you want either.

Ideally you want ABS on 1 and Traction Control on 0 for normal cars and 1-2 for the high powered racing cars when using the pad. Driving line as you wish but generally everything else switched off for the best experience. :)

I would not call that intro song anything other than pop rock... Current rock music isn't all that obscure, it's just there's lot of horribleness in the surface of it all. (And the emo name has been terribly bastardized, the grandparents of emo, fugazzi and stuff like la Gloria Record, are great and far more distinctive than .. whatever emo describes now).

...Still as Jeff said, it works for getting you more pumped than the slomo-crash-drama of Forza5.

....Donuts on the moon, my kind of racing game.

I think that might be the funniest conventional joke I can remember on Giant Bomb.

This. Check your facts.

The moon thing is so stupid.

Funny how everything they were impressed with was also in the previous game, but this time with slightly better menus and more rock.

GT5 had a My Chemical Romance song for its intro. So the "hard rocking alternative emo core pop rock core something" has been kind of done already.

i miss 90s R.E.M. :(

I don't play too many racing games, but I feel that the bumper cam doesn't provide enough peripheral vision and sense of the car, so I prefer behind the back. Just seems to correlate better with my experience of driving an actual car on an actual road, where you see and feel more than just straight ahead.

I guess the in cockpit can give great immersion when playing a sim, probably. Especially if you have a crazy setup with chairs and wheels.

Not going to lie. This game looks pretty great. Makes me really want to see what they do with the PS4.

GT4 had The Cardigans. So it had already been done when GT5 came along.

I've never played a GT game before, and I've always been more of an arcade racing person, but arcade racers these days just aren't doing it for me. Maybe it's because I've started driving in real life a little more seriously with a better car than the grocery getter I used to drive, but I just don't like them anymore.

I'm holding off on upgrading to a PS4 for a while, so maybe I'll play this in the meantime.

Please bring back the smooth jazz... please.

Drew's been dropping a lot of those, which never seem to be noticed by the rest of the staff for some reason. The "I'm dressed as a speed bump" line from the Halloween Bombcast was amazing in it's sneakiness.

Remember the term "Car-PG"?

Awesome, backwards compatible!

Seriously though, the PS4 controller might work ok with this.

Yo this game looks real bad. Like nothing stands out and some textures look awful. What was with the cruddy rain?

I always go with cockpit view when available, otherwise bumper cam, even if the angle is usually a bit awkward, but not as awkward as having the center of the screen blocked by the car model.

Also, I don't think car model quality has changed a lot since 2003, the things that really have seen visual improvements are the car interiors and the environments.

There's something incredibly sterile and boring about this game.

i'm still waiting for the return of the Golf-PG :(

"Nice going, Fat One" - haha oh man

That menu music sounds so much like the Vita menu music and I really like it.

Joey Fatone, you know, the "Fat One"

@amyggen said:

@bhlaab said:

There's no wind on the moon so HOW is the GT flag on the loading screen waving? HUH

Or to let you know the game hasn't frozen or locked up.

GT3: A-Spec had Lenny Kravitz. So it had already been done when GT4 came along.

No matter how good this game is, I can't convince myself to get any other PS3 racing games. The PS3 controller triggers will make it as bad as trying to play a fighting game with the XBOX 360 directional pad. I will be looking forward to the next PS4 version, though.

@lechucksbeard: The best way to play Gran Turismo on a controller is with the analogue sticks anyway, right stick for for gas and breaking. Not sure why they were saying that was a silly way to play, doubt they've ever tried it.

To be honest all the people that are saying it looks like crap/boring, we already made up our minds before we even saw the game. I have never been a fan but i have huge respect for the series and obviously it has no problem moving units. I just think its a good way of showing the quality of games that sony is still going to be releasing for the ps3 and that maybe its not quite time to put that ps3 away.

This is really strange, cause I got this game in the mail today (from my rental service) and I saw a longer intro cutscene with an actual live-action video of people intensely designing cars, and footage of school kids for some reason! It was much more reminiscent of the GT5 intro craziness; I don't know why it didn't show for you guys in the QL.

@ricochetguro: Yes, that's how I set up GT5. But it still doesn't work as good as with proper triggers.

Does anyone find it weird how this game kinda just happened, whereas GT5 came out like 5 years after it was announced with tons of hype?

tbh i do actually want to get this, probably against my better judgement. i've tried and failed to entirely get into either forza or gt on multiple occasions. but i think if i get into one of these games it will finally click and i'll get a lot of value out of it. plus i guess it's wrong that i'm a dude that knows next to nothing about cars so maybe it'd be a good way to know more about 'em:

No sweet-ass space donuts. 1/5

AMON TOBIN ON THE TRACK!

TWO FINGERS!

I'm no longer a console gamer, but this is something the PC crowd (and me personally) is sorely missing: a Gran Turismo/Forza style game.

@ruthloose said:

@amyggen said:

@bhlaab said:

There's no wind on the moon so HOW is the GT flag on the loading screen waving? HUH

Or to let you know the game hasn't frozen or locked up.

*whoooosh*