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06/19/2015 at 17:39 • Filed to: None
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Since Project Cars just came out and is getting pretty popular, and Forza 6 is announced and is on the way, here’s something I wrote a month ago about Gran Turismo and how recent car and car gaming culture owes nearly everything to it.
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Kanaric
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06/19/2015 at 17:58 |
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I think GT’s influence is overrated. I think Fast and the Furious and Tokyo Drift had FAR more influence personally. Especially Tokyo Drift. If not for that nobody here would know much about Skylines and a 240SX would still be a cheap reliable alternative to a 944 but otherwise be thought of as a slow asian economy car like 90s carguy brodudes did then. I think if not for Fast and the Furious as well a Toyota Supra TT would probably be like $10,000 like the 300ZX is. I remember as kids us all playing early GT nobody really cared about the odd asian cars like Skylines. Everyone just got the typical supercars and Europeon and American cars on there.
I think what GT did though what introduce people to classic asian cars that otherwise were unheard of outside the country. Like the Isuzu Belett GTR and cars like that.
We can certainly blame GT for people asking shops for the “stage 2” package for their STI though.
As far as the gameplay other than modding cars other similations were popular and had existed for a while. GT was a kids game back then really, as video games were not considered fully “adult” quite yet. I think as a result of that era being more of nostalgia than anything, the 30 year olds writing articles and talking about it overrating the era in general as what happens when every generation reaches that age. An example is how so many people rate Final Fantasy 7 as best RPG ever who are that age and haven’t even played FF6 or Chrono trigger. Same with Halo vs Quake 2 and Half-Life.
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> Kanaric
06/19/2015 at 18:04 |
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Solid reasoning and I don’t disagree with you. I think those movies on the whole had more influence to a larger global audience, but when specifically talking about games, GT takes the crown. I just feel we owe GT the credit it deserves. It brought in fans that might not have been car enthusiasts in the gaming world. And for that I revere it more than any racing game ever made.
djmt1
> Kanaric
06/19/2015 at 18:08 |
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You seem to be ignoring something very important. Accessibility. Sure there were RPGs before FF7, sure there was FPS before Halo and of course there were Sims before GT but all the games you mentioned became entry points for their respective genre for a large amount of people, thus why they are so revered.
Brickman
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06/19/2015 at 18:39 |
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I always been a car nut, but Christmas 98 opened a whole new world of automobiles with Gran Turismo. Skylines, legacys, TVR, etc.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Kanaric
06/19/2015 at 20:05 |
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you ignore a very important fact. Gran Turismo 1 was released in 1997. The first Fast and Furious movie was 2001. I can tell you 100% that if I had not been a GT player I would never have gone to see TF&TF based on its other merits. Without GT TF&TF would not have had the audience it did... I know I saw more than one GT shirt at opening night all those years ago. Literally every car that was famous in Tokyo Drift was famous in GT long before then. I’m old enough to remember that 240SXs were already expensive used cars and already beat to hell by their previous owners in 2005... A year before TD came out. F&F as a franchise may have influenced many people who don’t game, but the people who made F&F were influenced by GT. Now, get off my lawn.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
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06/20/2015 at 11:47 |
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I wouldn’t be who I am today without the GT series. Would probably be some stuffy office type making way more money and hating life.