Gran Turismo PSP

[The Running Man]

Why buy a Diahatsu materia and race that crappy car when I have a Zonda?

do you race to race, or race to simply finish the game?

why lap everyone ten times with a zonda when you can measure up with equal or less BHP and force yourself into some dramatic wheel to wheel racing?

maybe GT is not the game for you?

 

[Dutch Guy]

do you race to race, or race to simply finish the game?

why lap everyone ten times with a zonda when you can measure up with equal or less BHP and force yourself into some dramatic wheel to wheel racing?

maybe GT is not the game for you?

The competition is also in faster cars so you are not racing golfs and astras in a Zonda.

The thing I liked about older GT's is that you had to start with crap cars and earning money was much more difficult and you had the choice of tuning a car aor saving for a new one.

The problem with GT is that it feels so slow and boring that to make the game a little interesting requires a very fast car.

 

[Smit]

It's not the worst game The best racing game on the PSP I think but that's not too difficult to beat.
GT 1 will always be my favourite I guess. The memories of having to buy a Honda Prelude and tune it up just to win the first few races. The frustration of passing the license tests too!!

 

[The Running Man]

prelude?!?! should have got an integra or something...

The competition is also in faster cars so you are not racing golfs and astras in a Zonda.

so... like...are there any events for slow cars? if not surely when u pull out a slow car, u wud get lapped by said zondas? im sure there must be events for slower cars?

 

[Dutch Guy]

so... like...are there any events for slow cars? if not surely when u pull out a slow car, u wud get lapped by said zondas? im sure there must be events for slower cars?

The AI cars drive similar specced cars so if you use a Prelude you will race other Prelude's of Golfs etc..

There is no career mode with races, you just pick a course, pick a car and race, nothing to be earned other than cash to buy other cars.

You do not need to drive slow cars so why should I if a fast car is more interesting and more rewarding?

 

[oweneades]

do you race to race, or race to simply finish the game?

why lap everyone ten times with a zonda when you can measure up with equal or less BHP and force yourself into some dramatic wheel to wheel racing?

maybe GT is not the game for you?

The problem here is that this only really works if you have a career mode. In GT4 for example there was no point in owning one of the 60's muscle cars unless you wanted to do the championship for them. This is completely missing from the PSP version.

I think the major problem with it is why is the career mode missing? most of the time all I hear is that its a pick up an play game (due to being on the PSP), fair enough, but why are they mutually exclusive?! Why can't we have both (single race for pick up and play and career mode for the longer gaming sessions)?

It is made even more frustrating by the fact you can tell there is a decent game in there at the core its just these glaring omissions that can spoil it.

 

[Wakinglimb]

It's not the worst game The best racing game on the PSP I think but that's not too difficult to beat.

Big fan of GT - PSP, but I think you're writing off too many games to stated there's nothing difficult to beat on PSP! Burnout (s), Ridge Racer (s) and WipeOut (s) are all awesome.

 

[Dutch Guy]

After securing 100 million credits with CWCheat the game is a little more fun, I buy one or two nice cars, race two races with them and the dealers have updated so I can buy two new cars to test.

 

[Smit]

Big fan of GT - PSP, but I think you're writing off too many games to stated there's nothing difficult to beat on PSP! Burnout (s), Ridge Racer (s) and WipeOut (s) are all awesome.

Well to me GT is more of a sim (yes I know GT is not a sim even though it usually claims to be)

Never really enjoyed any of the wipeout games, just not my style really. Burnout and Ridge Racer are pure arcade games IMO which yes are fun but not something that can hold my attention for long periods.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

I bought this game a few days ago for my new PSP and I must say that it's good, but not great, in my opinion. The car dealership system is stupid. You have to wait forever for your favorites to show up and when they do there's no guarantee that your favorite model will appear from that manufacturer that particular day anyway!

On top of this disappointment I wish there was at least something to make me want to play. The driving challenges are fine, and play out exactly the same as the license tests in previous games, except the license tests had a point: you earned a license doing them. These are absolutely pointless, all they offer is credits for each one you complete, which you can get from racing anyway, so all they do is offer a side road to earn some income. The game runs at 60 frames per second, so would it really have been bogged down with the full 6 racers like in all the other Gran Turismo's, instead of the meager 4 cars on the track?

For the PSP the graphics are great, but it's not the best looking game on the system, and they are actually a complete joke compared to the first "screenshots" of this game years ago, which were actually just shots of GT4 with a watermark in the bottom corner saying "Gran Turismo:Mobile". I am thoroughly disappointed with this game, all it needed was a Gran Turismo mode and I would have been hooked for months. All fans of this series who bought a PSP mainly for this game in 2005 must be incredibly disappointed too.

I mean, there are so many features missing that it feels like a half finished game, which is amazing considering the time it took to finally make. Look what's missing:

No license tests or licenses to acquire.
No way of browsing through your garage. (Unless you are choosing a car for a race)
No way of buying upgrades for your car.
Only 4 cars on the track.
Some tracks from GT3 are missing.
No used car section.
Silly car dealership implementation.
No structured career or 'GT' mode.

So to recap, what this game is, is basically Gran Turismo: Prologue for the PSP. It has good visuals, decent sound but is severely lacking in game content. This wouldn't have been to hard to make into another classic Gran Turismo surely. People can already get GT1 and 2 working like a dream of the PSP and they are both fully fledged games, not just appetisers for GT5. To rectify all the mistakes that Polyphony have made in this empty shell of a game I think they need to put the first 2 GT's onto the Playstation store, so at least PSP owners can enjoy something that is actually a Gran Turismo game, not just a half completed racer.

 

[Wakinglimb]

K1LLSWITCH, having played it for about 10 hours now I have to agree with you. If this wasn't a GT game, I would be impressed with it. If I hadn't been waiting for 4 years I would be impressed with it. It is an excellent game, but it could so easily have been an amazing system seller.

 

[Smit]

To rectify all the mistakes that Polyphony have made in this empty shell of a game I think they need to put the first 2 GT's onto the Playstation store, so at least PSP owners can enjoy something that is actually a Gran Turismo game, not just a half completed racer.

That would be a great idea... I would definitely purchase GT1 and 2 if I could

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

K1LLSWITCH, having played it for about 10 hours now I have to agree with you. If this wasn't a GT game, I would be impressed with it. If I hadn't been waiting for 4 years I would be impressed with it. It is an excellent game, but it could so easily have been an amazing system seller.

That sums up what I think of it too. Good game, but it could have been great if they just added those features that everyone expected.

That would be a great idea... I would definitely purchase GT1 and 2 if I could

If they were on the store as PS1 games then I would definitely pay £3 for each of them, no question about it.

 

[Dutch Guy]

If they were on the store as PS1 games then I would definitely pay £3 for each of them, no question about it.

Technically it is possible as it has been possible for years to play GT1 and GT2 on the PSP with a custom firmware.

But maybe Sony does not do that as it would possibly hurt sales of GTSP

What I (we) really want is the looks of GTSP with the features of GT2

 

[FrankJH]

No license tests or licenses to acquire.
No way of browsing through your garage. (Unless you are choosing a car for a race)
No way of buying upgrades for your car.
Only 4 cars on the track.
Some tracks from GT3 are missing.
No used car section.
Silly car dealership implementation.
No structured career or 'GT' mode.
.

I completely agree - and some of those I believe could be given away as a free bug patch without any "harm" or value being given away - but there is so much there that unfortunately would HAVE to be charged for, that it only leads me to believe that there will actually be a GTSP 2 before too long

(GT mode, upgrades and licenses are all must charge for items imo simply because they would take considerable time to develope / impliement even on the same game engine, yet they are all imo imperative to the GT style)

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Technically it is possible as it has been possible for years to play GT1 and GT2 on the PSP with a custom firmware.

But maybe Sony does not do that as it would possibly hurt sales of GTSP

What I (we) really want is the looks of GTSP with the features of GT2

Yeah, I did mention that in my post, and I agree with you as well. A game with GT 2 features, but with the GTSP graphics would be the absolute shizzle.

I completely agree - and some of those I believe could be given away as a free bug patch without any "harm" or value being given away - but there is so much there that unfortunately would HAVE to be charged for, that it only leads me to believe that there will actually be a GTSP 2 before too long

(GT mode, upgrades and licenses are all must charge for items imo simply because they would take considerable time to develope / impliement even on the same game engine, yet they are all imo imperative to the GT style)

I think you made some good points there. These should all have been included, but haven't, and we probably won't see them because as you said they will take too much time to develop and then implement into the game. I don't know about a new GT game for the PSP being announced any time soon though. It took so long for this one and they couldn't even do that properly. I used to hold Polyphony in really high regard but after this they have some serious making up to do. I was going to look into buying a PS3 at the end of the month, primarily for GT5, I hope I won't be making the same mistake twice.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Making GTSP 2 should not take as long as the first as they can start with GTSP and just add stuff rather than redesigning the complete game.

And if size becomes a problem might I suggest cutting the number of cars down.

 

[Dyson]

Oh dear, I gave in

Having played it again on a friends PSP, but with it installed on the memory card this time, I was much more impressed.

I went and bought it on the PSN and I am really enjoying the game. No load time issues compared to playing from a UMD, and now that I've got over the lack of a career mode I can just get on with enjoying the game. Working my way through the tests at the moment, and having the odd race too.

All I need now is a newer PSP as my 1000 is ghosting the other cars

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Well. It was the first game I bought for my PSPGo. I have to say that having the games installed onto the memory card instead of running off a UMD is a massive improvement. The screen also is much improved, absolutely no ghosting whatsoever!

Now though, onto the game. The thing that keeps me coming back to play it is the thought that maybe if I just do one more race then the car I want will appear in the manufacturers list, it never does, so I keep playing again, one more, one more, It's really addictive! So are the driving challenges too. I know I'll never do it, but I still keep trying over and over to get gold rankings on the tests I've already passed with a bronze or silver. I do still hate the way that the game makes you wait for your favorite manufacturers and cars, but I have to admit it does keep you hooked maybe a little bit longer than if you could just choose your favorites right from the get go.

I still wish they'd have put on a Career mode, but it doesn't totally ruin the game, it's still incredibly fun! I'm still waiting for GT or GT2 to be put up on the PSN, but then, I'm not exactly holding my breath. 2010 should be a good year for PSP owners, and actually, before this year is up we are due to have some great games come out. The likes of Assassins Creed: Bloodlines, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Resident Evil... All games that have great potential, let's just hope that we don't have to wait as long for those, as we have done for Gran Turismo.

 

[Dutch Guy]

I do still hate the way that the game makes you wait for your favorite manufacturers and cars, but I have to admit it does keep you hooked maybe a little bit longer than if you could just choose your favorites right from the get go.

If they would have made a career mode they could have made the reward system much more rewarding by giving you a car after a championship.