With Gran Turismo 5 releasing in less than 24 hours, I start thinking about my experiences with the very first GT. It was at first a mediocre experience, actually more like boring. That changed after a bit of time to the extent of absolute love for the game, until a tragic end.
I borrowed the game from a friend, heard it was great, wanted to check it out. I remember when I played it, I thought, wow this car is slow? Where’s the speed? Why are all the cars so expensive? What am I supposed to do? What’s the deal with the licenses and why are they so hard?
After a lot of work, I finally got an opportunity to race the crappy car they start you off with. I lost bad, but got some points. Kept on racing, kept losing, but getting some points. I kept racing, trying to win, but failing miserably.
When I had enough points, I bought a new car, raced it and still lost. This kept happening until I found the right combination of tires, suspension and tuning up my car until that faithful day I won a race. I didn’t just win, it was a photo finish. I watched that replay tons of times, each time feeling better and better. That’s when I was hooked. I still remember that sense of achievement, and even till this day, I’ve never forgotten. From there on, I was winning races consistently. I bought more cars, painted them, upgraded them, and was feeling great. I even went as far as getting both the B and the nearly impossible A license. I was in love with Gran Turismo.
But one day it all ended. I turned on my Playstation, went to load the file, and it said no save file. I was looking at the memory card in the machine. It turned out the card corrupted. I was sunk, and could never play the game again. I lost all my cars, my licences, my work, all gone. Every time I saw a GT game, I remembered that day, and couldn’t bring myself to reliving that disappointing feeling.
It’s been years, and I finally got up the courage to play a GT game. It was GT 5 Prologue. It did hurt at first, just remembering the pain from before, but I got over it when I won that race, after numerous tries. I was hooked again. This time, I beat all the challenges in a few weeks. All the challenge was still there, and the since of accomplishment is as great as ever.
GT5 is already getting some mixed views at the time of this writing, but that isn’t effecting me. What GT is for me is a extremely satisfying challenge, one I can’t wait to experience again.
This time, I’m going to back up my save file.
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Nice read
GT5!
Kinda hurt to go through that, but you seem to really love the game's you play with dedication to the theory an pratice. I hope you have a blast with the new one good luck and make good time.
Thanks for the post. I've been a GT fan since the original playstation game, I've now got saves of GT 1 through 3 with likely over 1000 hours of play time combined. GT4 for me was the first GT game I bought myself, and it remains the only game thus far that I've purchased within days of release (games are hard to come by here, I was luckily in SA at the time and payed about $100 for it). It was the first time I treated it really seriously, with a race win percentage of about 75% (mostly due to quitting races), hundreds of cars finely tuned, all licences and all events finished, and about 80% completion. Then my friend, borrowing my ps2 at the time, accidentally deleted my save... So I see where you're coming from, as much as that achievement would have meant to me, I couldn't bring myself to do it again.
I've remained a GT nut with Prologue though, and I'm looking forward towards GT5. Forget the reviews, PD and Kaz have clearly catered to GT fans and car lovers with this game, and if you simply enjoy driving, there's no way this release can disapoint. The amount of features and innovation in this game will keep it in my PS3 for years to come.
My first car I got 1st in every race that let me use it, then I found out I could use the add on cars I got from getting the C.E. game.
I rarely lose a race, but I fine tune each of my cars to meet the needs of the track. >_< got a trophy for spending alot of money on tuning my cars.