[PS3] Gran Turismo 5 (Prologue) UPDATE HAS FAILED

Actually, considering the price of the thing is less than that of a normal new game, it's certainly not the largest ripoff in history. Hell, I can think of full priced racing games from a generation ago that had less content than this and still charged full price.

A demo would have been, y'know, GT Concept HD. If they went through with the plan to charge money for that, there might be reason to get up in arms, but this is not so bad. Prologue has a lot more content than the free Concept HD has too, so it's at least more than a super basic sampler.

I'd be willing to drop 40 dollars for the chance to play the next GT game before 2153 anyway. At this point, I just want to play it. I'm sick of the waiting.

Apparently the NA version has a couple of extra cars (from Peugeot) and a new Tuner (RE Amemiya), so that means 3 new stock cars and two new tuned ones. Dunno which. *shrug* Also, 10 more crap licensed tracks from the likes of The Mars Volta and Weezer. Those will, undoubtedly, suck.

If the game uses the same source audio as the released soundtrack, I don't understand the problem you're having with it, it sounds fine. Or is this a case of the disc not sounding anything like the audio in the game? (Hellllllllllo Halo 3.)

Real question: Do people here even LIKE racing games? There's rarely (read: never), threads on these things. And if there are, the reply count is so low. It's too bad.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

A cut-down version of a packed title doesn't equate to a demo version of a game.

This is an interesting statement.

What constitutes a "demo version", then?

Unless you equate demo with "short" or "not a lot of content", there's no real way to describe GT5p as anything OTHER than a demo, albeit a large one.

It's still, well, a demonstration of what the full game will offer, lacks all the content of it's eventual big brother, and is merely a sampling of what we'll be seeing in the full game.

Don't fool yourself, we ARE buying an expensive demo. Wether or not that's of personal value to the buyer is the only thing that should be considered when one is looking at buying the thing.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, that's sort of exactly it. If this was released as any other game, it would look like it had a decent amount of content for a full fledged title.

But that whole "Prologue" subtitle, along with the knowledge that the full game is coming, sort of proves my point.

It's not like I find the release objectionable or anything, but consider how this thing is marketed, named, and labelled. It's not like I don't think there's value to the release. I most certainly do, and most certainly will be picking it up, so.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

People would be right in questioning the game if this is how much they got after these many years of waiting and the constant delays. If this was the end result of this many years of waiting, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that people would be disappointed, considering the standards set by the other titles for car and track counts. (I could make a crack here about including only one Skyline would make GT4 have a car count similar to this one, but I won't.)

It IS the knowledge of the final product coming down the pipe that makes a cheap, lighter featured version palatable when it comes to this particular brand name. This isn't rocket science here, OP.

Using the term demo is not derogatory. I do not understand why you're assuming it means as much. Amount of content notwithstanding, that doesn't change what it is when you compare it to the final product, y'know.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Civil discourse on the nature of a release isn't the same as idiotic trolling, russ. You of all people should know this.

And some of you people are the same folks who wonder why all topics in here are dead. Well, here you go.

I was speaking idiomatically.