I love the name of this so much.
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Played Gran Turismo 7 on PS4: the two dirt races of Menu Book 37, âWorld Rally Challenge,â Menu Book 38, âFerrari Circuit Challenge,â and Menu Book 39, âWorld GT Series Championship,â the final five-race marathon you have to do in a single sittingâlike all the multi-race âChampionshipâ eventsâbecause why change things when theyâve been working since the PS1 era or whenever, no matter how needlessly inconvenient they are.
Racing on easy handling and AI settings because I got sick of them bumping me into spins while they never spin out (theyâre on easy handling settings themselves, in effect) when I was on Expert handling settings, and I really just want to get through this required unlocking nonsense so I can run the races I want to race!!
I HAD TO CUT 3 MINUTES @ 59:26 'cause the game played copyright-claimed song âBaby Itâs Youâ by London Grammar despite the new-post-launch Sound Volume: Broadcast Mode option being set to the supposedly streamer-safe âOnâ setting! ARGHHHHHHHH GUESS IâLL JUST TURN ALL THE MUSIC OFF AGAIN, THANKS KAZUNORI.
0:00 - Ford Focus Gr.B Rally Car
1:40 - World Rally Challenge - Fishermans Ranch
10:57 - World Rally Challenge - Sardegna - Windmills
26:58 - Ferrari 458 Italia '09
34:12 - Ferrari Circuit Challenge - Lago Maggiore - Full Course
1:00:20 - Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 '13
1:03:50 - World GT Series Race 1 - Deep Forest
1:16:46 - World GT Series Race 2 - Spa
1:31:02 - World GT Series Race 3 - Sarthe
1:45:45 - World GT Series Race 4 - Mt. Panorama
1:59:45 - World GT Series Race 5 - NĂźrburgring 24h
2:18:51 - prizes, credits, congrats, etc
2:27:25 - Legend Cars - Nissan GT-R GT500 '99
2:37:01 - R32 GT-R Time Trial @ Dragon Trail - Seaside
2:50:51 - wrap-up & whatâs next!
So now I can finally play the game I wanted, cool cars on cool tracks, chilling running time trials. Finally. And with the dumb AI out of the way I can put handling back on expert settings and remove the HUD and just drive.
There was some weird fog at Spa around 1:25:06!
Other nice stuff:
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The Ferrari 458 Italia '09 is so smooth! Like, godlike smooth! And all I did was put racing soft tires on it; thereâs still all the upgrading to do! Will be interesting to see how the fully upgraded street version compares with the Gr.3 version, the GT3 '13.
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At least they didnât really make it rain in the last races. There was like a minute of rain in one of them.
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With an actual rally car I guess, and, well, on baby handling settings, the dirt track races werenât AWFUL. I mean itâs this weird weightless skating over clouds feeling, but once you get past the AI you can almost kind of bliss out on it a little. Strange.
On the other hand, problems:
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May still be hosed by music copyright claims on YouTube even with the setting they added thatâs supposed to protect you from that. URGH. You guys already went through this in Sport and you have now somehow repeatedly screwed it up in the sequel, how can you possibly be this bad at it??? So no menu music for me. Of course, a lot of it was really bad, anyway.
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Was surprised you canât just set any time of day settings (time, speed) you want in Time Trial. I mean, why not? Sheesh.
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Still no Time Trial leaderboards. Pretty sure they had these in Sport, at least for friends. I think they said they had plans to add them at some point⌠Sheesh.
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Canât sell cars. YOU CANâT SELL CARS. You could fill your inventory up with a billion cheap used cars and be unable to unload them because they apparently didnât think it would be a feature anyone would ever need this time. So Iâm stuck with a stupid duplicate car I accidentally bought until they feel like putting in this basic function⌠They even said they would in the past month or so. Well that would sure be nice.
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In a single-player multi-race âChampionshipâ event, thereâs no saving between racesâyou have to play through them all in a single sitting (or just leave your game suspended, I supposeâŚ). This is just plain stupid, unnecessary, and inconsiderate. Itâs 2022, get a clue hosers.
I mean I donât want to be rude, but really.
Anyway the game actually drives pretty nice, so when youâve got all the needlessly complicated, poorly information presenting UI out of the way, and arenât having to âplayâ through some sort of horrid arbitrary bumper cars with the AI in the rain or something, it can be fun. They just make you suffer through however many hours of horror quests from the cafe before theyâll let you do that. Because they hate us.
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The other day some âdispose carâ menu option popped up in my garage so it seems there is some way to dump duplicates maybe but it appears inconsistently and youâre still not getting paid anything for them
Still awful though!
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I tried to play GT7, I played hours and hours of GT Sport, GT4 and 3, so this should be something Iâm into. The glacial pace of unlocking tracks is such a bummer, I want to race on the nurburgring but have to do all these tests and races first. This was the same in GT Sport, where you had to level up in order to access things. In GT Sport youâd set up a 99 lap race with one other car, which was a GT1 class car, and youâd drive the slowest hatchback, and youâd get second place and a ton of XP, which is how I got around the stupid grind.
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Ah! Thanks for pointing that out! Yeah, so now that I try to figure out the nutty UI, in the Garage, if you go to Change Car or whatever, then on the car list press Triangle on a car that is NOT YOUR CURRENTLY SELECTED CAR (urgh), the little menu that comes up has a âDisposeâ option, and when you select that thereâs a confirmation menu that says something like âAre you sure you want to dispose of this car?â I donât intend to grind (in 7 at least you get a uh lottery ticket or whatever theyâre called from just driving the 27 miles or whatever in a day which means you can actually earn moneyâjust extremely slowlyâby doing nothing but Time Trials, which is what I want to do; couldnât get any money from them in Sport!) so Iâll need all the $ I can get so I guess Iâll try holding out to see if a Sell option comes along for this one accidental duplicate car I have so far. Good to know thatâs there though, at least!
(The other option on that pop-up Triangle menu is âFavoriteâ which is good to know is there was well, I was afraid Iâd have to go back to my dumb Sport methodâthat game probably had Favorite too and I missed it there as well? âpââEDIT: Checked and Sport does NOT have Favorite capability, wow; yeah, that sucked, I guess GT7 rulesâof painting the cars I didnât like a dark grey to blend in with the menu background. ; })
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I finished Chrono Cross last night. Overall I enjoyed it, the battle system took some getting use to but eventually I got the flow of it. Thereâs way too many characters which makes it a pain when you have to manage all of their equipment and elements as money gets too scarce to be able to just buy everything.
The plot definitely collapses in on itself in the end. It leaves you in the dark for the most part, then just infodumps on you repeatedly at the end. Several major plot twists just end up having no resonance because youâre trying to take in too much at once. It doesnât help that the game does the thing where it turns out every minute detail of the plot was pre-planned by this one guy (over a span of time covering like, 10,000 years) and The whole world of the game is some artificial construct created by a super AI.
Itâs also very weird that the one character youâre supposed to have the greatest attachment to is completely absent for about 60% of the game.
I have to respect it though for having the guts to basically completely rip apart Chrono Trigger.
Iâll probably do new game + at some point, since I missed a few of the best characters thanks to the game expecting you to counter-intuitively act like a complete jerk
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I got the platinum in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I dont know when Ill find a game like that again.
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got the switch online deluxe package for my family account coz my brotherâs laid up with covy and wanted to play Zelda, and coz it also had the Splatoon 2 expansion. subsequently discovered that iâve lost my Splatoon 2 game card thingo. however Sun & Punishment looks incredible uprezzed
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I deleted Knotwords off my phone. Itâs cool, but Iâve decided Iâll stick with Wordle for my daily wordgaming.
Kind of at a loss for what else to play, at the moment. Feel overwhelmed by the rest of my life currently, and any game that demands long sessions seems like a non-starter right now. I guess I can dip back into Vampire Survivors but that was starting to feel stale.
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(spits out coffee) the game is called WHAT
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They didnât consider every angle, ok
Yume Nikki makes me feel exceptionally dull. Surely Iâm meant to do more than just wander around. And yet?
Nah you got it. I think us older dudes missed the boat on it connecting with us in any meanifull way.
doesnât it also depend on whether or not you played lsd first?
I mean, I just donât know if there are like, objectives. If this is just a cool walking sim then hell yeah, Iâm into this. But I was sitting there wondering if I was just being unobservant.
I kinda completely forgot about this even existing
yes, there is an objective, it tells you at the beginning of the game; youâre meant to find âeffects,â which are items you put in your inventory menu and can use for sometimes-functional purposes (if you havenât already found the bike you should look it up and grab that first). thereâs an ending when you gather them all and enemies that cause soft fail states (trap you so you have to wake up and make another expedition) and all that stuff. navigate through interlinked and nested maps, discover little secrets and explore a rich, complex and emotionally charged world-space full of fragmentary experiments and silly humor. you might still find it boring though i guess
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Okay, cool, this is good info. I will wander with a bit more purpose.
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imo itâs also a game that benefits from a hybrid approach. meditative wandering and systematic exploration on your own are both important parts of the game, but itâs also full of stuff that youâd be unlikely to discover blind and itâs worth consulting a guide for some of it.
this is also my life flow
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If you havenât found the bicycle yet look up where it is. Double movement speed for more optimized dreaming
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