What's the deal with importing money from GT3? I've got one memory card with something like 2.5 million "credits" on it.

_Dave_

 

GT4 here i come

 

What kind of music is on it? How does the crowd react? Is the car handling more realistic?

 

Goto status screen and hit the start button. U can only import 100,000. I got the MCS and well, honestly this game makes me angry for 1 reason. I feel like they only concentrated on the Japanese cars. Alot of the other cars are missing details. Japanese cars are exact down to almost all the models. The Euro cars are missing alot of things.

Whats with the S? no JCW Edition? the engine sounds on anything other then japanese are way off.

I love the game but those things made me mad.

 

got all the licenses last night..2 hours sleeping.

transfered 100000 from GT3 and got myself a MCS!!yeah!

tonight will be racing and photo shoot night.

 

it is a japanese game... it's been widely known fact about gt series.. japanese cars are always focus of the series

im at least glad they got audi r8s, clk gtrs, sauber c9s etc in the game.. they got some pretty rare models from europe and US too

 

The sound of MCS in the game is not that impressive compare to a real life. I did upgrade the intake and exhaust, but no much different.

 

Yeah, I wish there was more (or some) supercharger whine. The Miatas, OTOH, sound cool and strike me as pretty accurate.

My latest car is a used Nissan Be-1. Pretty cool little thing! And, if you want a challenge, try the 1964 Pontiac GTO on the Nurburgring.

Mark

 

OK THIS IS SHOCKING! Toyota has a JET car in the arcade mode you can go 200 MPH in just ONE gear. YOU MUST TRY THIS OUT!

 

what..what! What's the name of it?

 

Is it a celica with a jet hanging out the back?

 

Go to arcade mode and go to Toyota, it is not a Celica with a jet hanging out the back. It is an open wheeled formular car with a jet that looks pretty darn well hidden.

 

Here are a couple of my first attempts at photo mode. Don't have any MINI shots; I still need to buy one. I picked up the Miata and the Skyline GT-R used for cheap.

 

What kind of USB driver you're using to save?

 

A SanDisk 128 MB Cruzer mini.

Mark

 

I read that even iPod Shuffles work, so probably most - if not all - keychain USB things should work.

I played it a little yesterday but I was pretty busy. I agree so far with the reviews that it's basically a better looking/more refined GT3 with a couple extra modes (b-spec/photo).

 

Yeah, I think pretty much any USB storage device should work with it.

My early impressions are the GT4 is a lot better than GT3. More cars, more tracks, noticeably better physics (braking in particular feels a lot more realistic), B-Spec mode, photo mode, better (though definitely not perfect) AI, better graphics, better sound... . It took them long enough but it's a worthy successor.

Life and work intrude here, too, but it's hard to stay away from the thing. Especially when there's lots of snow outside and my real "toy" cars are in the garage.

Mark

 

One thing I didnt like about GT3 was sliding distance. I thought the "spin distance" or the length of the slide was greatly under in GT3. Has this been corrected?

 

I haven't tried a one-to-one comparison but my impression is, yes, the cars spin farther. I had some unintentional off-track excursions last night and the car spun a long way.

I forgot to mention that there are some nice convenience features, too, like now car setups can be saved as setup A, B, and C for each car, whereas before you had to name each individual saved setting yourself. I like keeping a stock settings group for each car, though, like before, there are some mods you can't undo, like weight reduction.

Mark

 

One thing i noticed about 1080i setup is the game will switch to 480i for the menu screen and then switch back to 1080i when the racing start. It's kind of anoying a bit, but over all is fantastic.

 

There's also a strange glitch where, once in a while, the screen will get shaky and fuzzy for a few seconds. At first I thought it was just me but others have seen it.

Mark

 

I also noticed that on the cool down after a race finish...

 

I think the best sound in a car game so far has to be NFSU2 - very realistic, especially on and off throttle sounds. Every other game sounds like a bad computer game to me.


I wish there was a great PC game with the cars and physics and TRACKS of some of the console games, with the graphics and sounds the PC is capable of :(

 

Yeah, that seems to be when it does it most. Maybe it has something to do with putting text on the screen, in this case the race results.

I won that weird Toyota thing for winning all of the beginner's 4WD races. It's the Toyota Triathlon and I found an article about it. Apparently it's a fuel-cell powered electric car. It's definitely strange to drive. For one thing, there's no engine braking. Pretty quick and good-handling.

Here are a couple of photo mode pics I took.

 

I've noticed the shaky/fuzzy screen during the startup of a race too.

One big difference that I noticed immediately, is that weight-transfer seems to be much more critical in my driving technique. This is accentuated by the view bobbing up and down in a pronounced fashion when getting on the brakes or gas. Maybe it's because I'm concentrating on getting used to the MINI (short wheelbase, etc.) but I think it's there on other cars as well.

GT4 may not be the quantum leap improvement we were expecting over GT3, especially after so many years waiting, but it seems to have a lot of depth and variety.

_Dave_