Kenot. tried edy. Steering plugged in, DS3 won't work

Beats me. I was denied for photography in the beginning of the game. How the heck you guys can take photography that fast?

I started off at Level 0 and with Cr. 20,000 I couldn't afford an NSX. How did you get your NSX? Is it in GT Mode? I picked a SILVIA from the USED CARS shop. Sigh...and the rims are outright ugly. Anyway, it's my first car in Gran Turismo 5.

garangnye...   

abang ninja, when will you open the  pictar thread? dun want to spam my pics here lol

evoHahn, pls host Nürburgring Nordschleife track yah?

1. There's a manual icon to be pressed for information. I think it's much better that Electronics Arts (EA) tutorial. You just need to click and read its content.

2. Gran Turismo TV...that's where my system hanged/freezes. I press the HOME button on my controller and switched off the console. Sigh...Anyway, it's 2am++ and I hit the sack straight after.

3. Course Maker...It's half baked. Presets from existing courses and all you can do is...you just play around with the parameters. The sharpness of corners, the difficulty of the route, so on and so forth. I did fiddle with it and I was not that impressed. Polyphony Digital should hire me as a consultant for this Course Maker set. Speaking of half baked potatoes, it's the same as the dynamic weather. If you notice, there's a weather icon and there's a clock icon in certain race courses. Just a handful has the dynamic weather applied. I didn't test it but these are just my assumptions in which turns out to be correct once I've tested it. 

It's not a perfect 10 game but it's a solid driving simulation.

man....your news is fast....need to go update later....family day so out with kids today 

have you downloaded it? do you know the actual improvement made (don wanna trust those rumors at other forum or articles)? please share if you have got it alright..

I'm still stuck in the office..suck to work on weekend..sigh..

Did he? Hmmm...If that's the case, I'm just nit picking then. To have a Course Maker is brilliant. An absolutely brilliant idea. Maybe Polyphony Digital can nick a few of our courses and implement it on the next Gran Turismo series. How's that? Great, right? Maybe throw in an online Course Maker contest or some sort. It has its potential there.

took me 4 minutes to download the  update.

hm..what i have read is related to the following:

1) Improve Damage Realism
2) MP - Leaderboard & Invitation
3) Some other patches & bugs fixes to smoothen the gameplay (especially on the regular connection to the internet that slows the offline gameplay)

I got these from various sources thru other forums and articles..so not sure it is true or not... but if these are the fixes, it should make GT5 even greater!!! 

Just a question bro, you on Streamyx?
Because I noticed people with unifi  has no issue ( I didnt get a single  cent on this  ) I have several friends,  even with 4mpbs   streamyx, still  problem. and  several guys  on 5mbps unifi,  no issues. Just a  theory tho 

Wondering if we could make a course out of NKVE from entry point Mutiara or Damansara and straight to Klang Bukit Raja and back again....i think that'd be cool.

Comments from Gran Turismo Series Producer, Kazunori Yamauchi

The elements that make up automobiles all originally came from space. And when viewed from space, the footprints that identify the presence of man on Earth are the roads that cut a path through the wilderness. And cars are what speed down those roads. Gran Turismo 5's opening cinematic movie contains these three motifs: elements, cars, roads.

We wanted to visualize the world of cars from a different perspective than the flashy display of cars you would see at a motor show. The War Sonata played by Lang Lang for Gran Turismo 5 gives the footage its rhythm, its tension, and above all else, its power.

Excerpt taken from http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d5484.html

Yamauchi-san, can you please come to my office? I have something important to talk with you pertaining your selection of song in the opening.

My views on this
- Graphics is kinda blegh. I was kinda expecting more, but I forgot PS3 is kinda aincent and can't really do all this shebangs that you can see on the PC. they need this for the PC quickly. Other than that, it's quite cool. Effects are nicely done, and unlike Codies, the colours looks NATURAL. GOD I HATE CODIES AND THEIR BLOOM. THANK YOU POLYPHONY!

- Controls. I am using the G25, and I must say it's quite good to see that it works straight away. No steering lag (deadzone=0 on simulation woohooo!! SCREW YOU CODIES!). But lack of customising is saddening. I can't even set the steering degrees of my G25, as I prefer it to be more sensitive.

- Physics. Kinda ok'ish, but since this is not really a full blown sim I can understand. Cars tend to not behave like you expect it would some times. Suprisingly Lotus Elise is hard to drive. Wonder why

- Sounds. Immersive, awesome. Soundtrack is great, and you can hear the car's engine sound bounces back from the trackside stuffs

- Penalties. Crap. I got bumped off the track by another car and was disqualified? WTF is that? AI is kinda too enthutiastic as well. If you were racing a real person, you'd expect him/her to give the corner. BUt noooo, they still want to grind you, and making BOTH slower.

- Menu. Old. Slow. Not intuitive. They need to revamp this. make shortcuts for important places. I mean why do I need to go back -> back -> back -> back just to get back to garage, when I realised I used a wrong car?

A 7/10 from me

I just got in from the Gran Turismo 5 launch party here in Madrid – packed with media representatives from around the world, it was a fitting way to celebrate the end of GT5’s long and dramatic development. Here’s what I learned:

    * Yamauchi announced that the launch of Gran Turismo 5 marks the beginning of a “new era” for the GT series. GT5 will be regularly updated and expanded in the coming weeks and months, and there are apparently many exciting things in store for us.
    * The first United States GT Academy was just announced last week, and now there will be yet another GT Academy for SCEE regions! Stay tuned for the official announcement.
    * I had the privilege of personally meeting Kazunori Yamauchi. Having followed his work so closely for more than a decade, this was an amazing honor. I found him to be kind, friendly, and humble as he thanked me for my support of the franchise throughout the delays.
    * I was also fortunate to meet and talk with Kazunori’s infamous translator, popularly known as “Translator-san”. He was also kind and pleasant to talk with, and if you’re playing the US version of the game, he’s the one responsible for most of the English translations throughout the menus.
    * Why does Ferrari have the only F1 car in the game? While talking to a marketing representative for one of the manufacturers in GT5, I finally received an answer to this perplexing question. It all comes down to licensing and Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone. He commands control of the licensing for all of the cars in the series, with the exception of Ferrari. For reasons known only to Bernie and Ferrari, they have a special provision in their F1 contract which allows them to license their cars to whomever they please.
    * I chatted with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe executive James Armstrong, who laughed when I reminded him of his accurate prediction that Gran Turismo 5 would launch this fall (I picked up his comments to a newspaper in the Canary Islands thanks to a local tipster). He mused, “Really, I just got lucky that time!”

damn, u guys sure are hard to please