A game I'm addicted to
When I was in first grade at junior high school, I made friends with a boy who loved sports cars very much. He played Gran Turismo 2 (version 2 of the game). He told me a lot of things about sports cars and the game. Then I became interested in them. He lent me the game, and I played it hard. I learned many things about cars from it.
The game was so real. The cars we could drive in the game were actual cars: Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, Chevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Jaguar, Peugeot and others. I learned the names of many cars.
I could set details of cars: engine, drive train, brake, suspension, tires and so on. I learned a few things about tuning cars. I could drive some real car through racing circuits and cities. I also learned some driving skills.
Now, I play Gran Turismo 4, which is the latest version. This is much better than Gran Turismo 2, especially about the graphics, the number of cars and courses, various functions, etc.. I can use more than 650 actual cars and drive on more than fifty courses in this game.
The reason that I like cars may be that I’m attracted to big, fast or strong things. I don’t know the reason why I’m attracted to them, but I think that big buildings, fast cars, strong combat planes and so on are cool. So I want to drive as fast as possible. This game makes it possible to do what is difficult to do in real life. This is why I’m addicted to it.
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Comments (2)
pketh
wrote on October 26, 2005:
hey Yoshinori,
That sounds just like my experience with the GT series in Canada. I absolutely love it, and while my Playstation mostly collects dust – GT4 is always the game I come back to.
I think playing it actually makes one a better driving because you get a mental feel for the balancing act and the physics of driving a car.
one of big reasons I like gt4 more than all the other race series is that it’s realistic and fantastic looking but also that the other games only have the exotic super cars and ultra fast cars, but GT4 also has regular cars that we see on the streets everyday or cars that one may be interested in purchasing.
It’s cool to see a car zoom buy, then play it in a game :D
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Rudolf
wrote on November 11, 2005:
I’m old enough to remember the original video games from Pong to Pacman—Space Invaders too. I played them a bit but never really got into video gaming. I like the very basic pixel art of the old video games, which I find more appealing than today’s hyper-realistic game settings.
Is anyone familiar with Katamari Damacy?
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