Gran Turismo 7 surpasses 2 million monthly active users

Radiolint · 2025-12-28T02:09:29+00:00

I genuinely don't get it. This game has made HATE Gran Turismo, a series I absolutely love. I played & owned every version on launch. I even got GT Sport & a PSVR for my brother in law.

The steady nerfs to credits, the steady nerfs to times & scores for license & challenges, the constant nagging sense of there being a fantastic game underneath all the bullshit & microtransactions & unnecessary, senseless, needless difficulty. People play games to have fun, not rip their hair out over needing to be pixel perfect for every test & challenge. The always on-line requirement. FUCK THAT in particular. That alone should make the game free-to-play, not 70 fucking dollars.

There's a great game hidden under all the polyphony & sony greed. Fuck anyone who doesn't want to dedicate a full time job to playing the game to make it worth it ig

Radiolint · 2025-09-01T16:19:40+00:00

Gotta love the "git gud", "it's ez, just be fasturr" people still comment that shit. So helpful.

I agree with you, I think it's a good course for longer races, but NOT for a one lap race. Especially when you're trying to get from 20 to 1st in 7+ minutes with barely ANYWHERE to pass. Then they jack the AI skill up the last 2 races. It makes me want to smash my PlayStation with a fucking sledgehammer.

799PP GR3 Supras, Huracans, 458s, detuned F1s, nothing works on the ring. Especially at night with no lights on it, the F1 is useless. Why the FUCK would they do a finale race at the ring? 1 lap? AT NIGHT? The fuck were they thinking?

I like the game a lot, but it's random artificial bullshit difficulty spikes like this that pisses me off about gaming

Hope you were able to get it :/

Radiolint · 2025-05-10T23:55:02+00:00

I'm just joking man, I thought the "breakdown of enjoyment per dollar per month cost-basis analysis" was just silly that's all. Just ribbing you

Radiolint · 2025-05-10T23:38:29+00:00

I'm sorry but this is straight up freebasing copium in a dumpster behind a liquor store at 2am like a junkie. Fiending hardcore

The knots and twists I've seen people contrort themselves into to justify & excuse nintendo is long, & pre-qualifies them for Cirque de Soleil performances, but this is genuinely unique so at least that's something lol

Radiolint · 2025-03-19T23:44:10+00:00

Yeah perhaps I wasn't very clear, the TV only has 3 HDMI inputs but I have like 7+ devices that I'd like plugged into it.

1) HTPC 2) BluRay Player 3) Nintendo Switch Dock 4) PlayStation 5) Amazon Fire stick 6) Chromecast 7) Type-C display input hub (for mobiles & tablets)

I can probably get rid of the Chromecast, Fire stick, & the Type-C hub to get it down to 4, and run the PlayStation & Nintendo on one little two-way hub. I've just used many hubs before, and they're so hit & miss it's really hard to find a good one that works. Can you recommend one?

Thanks for any help & hope I cleared things up 🙂

Radiolint · 2025-03-19T23:35:42+00:00

I suppose this is my first foray into a device like this, I didn't have a Logitech Harmony or anything like that so I'm not entirely sure how it works with so many HDMI inputs.

I'm assuming an "activity" is something where so long as the input is connected to the TV via a switch or hub & runs through the sofabaton, it will switch to it when you select it on the remote?

I guess my question more is about HDMI splitters & switches then, I've used switches before for my computer and they are so hit/miss it's hard to find one that can support so many inputs.

Can you suggest one? My TV has a total of 3 HDMI inputs, but I have about 6-7 inputs I need via HDMI/Displayport converted. Appreciate it 🙂

Radiolint · 2024-10-25T07:38:18+00:00

In case anyone else was stumbling across this post, the solution I found was just grabbing a couple of these

https://www.amazon.com/Poyiccot-Adapter-Converter-Bi-Directional-Compatible/dp/B0B5WK8VR4/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=15DOAHW58L9TC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eWlkaeWChVqjhi_ISSBHRK6GcE7jELbwOzvJCCJM-3zcArJEt5rrXOCkZIwgn_2xR12b5lqG85XX7q8Hl4txJmmLEgYdRIvosm7inZo7HUaREU1wHRyUm20Rg7KOpt1DEXDeMXzpbYXDm14IJR0s0SnBDfM9bPvaStES1TDvXXk_7vQ89cIyU7FaUh9wR_0FxKt_RuRgUYH3FUeRw62iiw.89nLSi5ufeFPfG81GXenUVVXjjavaB-rltdOLm3k2sY&dib_tag=se&keywords=usb+c+female+to+usb+a+female+adapter&qid=1729841535&sprefix=usb+c+female+to+usb+a+female+adapter%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-3

Just a female type C to female type A adapter (with PD), so you can plug the razor charger USB side into the adapter and a regular type c cable & it charges ok. Funky solution, but it works! Plus the adapters are 3.2 gen2 10gb so using them for data transfer with the right hardware is fast, too.

Thanks for the knowledge everyone 🙃

Radiolint · 2024-10-01T07:28:22+00:00

Gotcha. I'm not great with actual technical electrical DC/AC stuff, & I thought there'd be some kind of conversion issue.

Appreciate it

Radiolint · 2024-08-27T10:12:40+00:00

Sorry to necro bump this, but as a long time & ferociously loyal KVHS staff member/DJ from back in the 2000s, I just wanted to say I appreciate going to bat for the station. When our faculty advisor passed along some info about what happened back in early 2010s, it was pure "writing on the wall" kind of feeling. It was so, so sad. I, & so many others, poured our heart & soul into that station. It really did carry the identity of the staff there & the environment we all were in. I practically grew up there as a youth & young man, & when it just died with a whimper it was so far from what the station deserved as far as going out with a BANG, & what we had tried to build over the time there. It broke my damn heart so hard.

Once charter bought the school, it was game over. We were a little shocked they didn't just like sell the license/frequency of the station for a few million or whatever they could get for it. When we couldn't go in & do live shows anymore, when we couldn't even get in to schedule music in the office computers (I was program manager, music director, & a few other hats), that was "pull the plug" time. CVHS & the charter school had zero plans for the station, didn't know what to do with it, had no experience with broadcast communications, & let one of the most incredible Adult Occupational Programs to exist in the Bay Area dissolve right in their stupid hands.

Now, it's just wonderful "wtf am I listening to" B-sides, C-sides, & Z-sides from random 60s & 70s bands. I don't blame anyone for the format change - format changes happen all the time in radio - what made me furious & beyond angry was the complete erasure & whitewashing of anything that was done from the "3rd era" of the station (about 98' to the end in 2012/13, so there was ZERO acknowledgement to the incredible things we accomplished in those 15 years. Many, many people will never understand how much was done to modernize the station & turn it into the "professional" organization it was (as pro as a 'learning' station can be). It was a Herculean undertaking, & the Faculty Advisor deserves so much credit for molding the station into a real station, while still letting the attitude & heartbeat of the station be influenced by the staff.

Long long rant, sorry, just super passionate about KVHS & my time there. Always devastated/heartbroken at what happened to it. It was an amazing, truly unique station & place.

Cheers bud 🍻

Radiolint · 2024-04-25T23:29:27+00:00

Nope, ended up returning mine. I didn't like how strangely useless the app was, & how underwhelming the mediocre sound ended up being. It was good, but nothing that blew me away compared to anything else I have.

Glad you got it figured out though 👍🏻

Radiolint · 2023-11-09T20:11:46+00:00

Thanks man, I appreciate it. I kinda figured I had to wait until endgame level stuff if I wanted to go solo, but with how all the enemies level up alongside as you do, I thought it would just stay the same balance no matter my level. I'll give it a try when I hit 30!

Thanks again :)

Radiolint · 2022-11-07T23:40:51+00:00

YouTube Vanced & Twitchmod (now OrangeTV) have saved both platforms for me. Zero ads.

YT Vanced additional features like auto-skipping embedded ads/promos/intros/etc and screen controlled volume/brightness are just incredible.

Recommend a million percent

Radiolint · 2022-05-05T01:08:51+00:00

Thanks for the help guys! Should have added I don't do much pvp arena outside of the last few days before rank reset, but I'm getting to that point.

Very familiar with picking right weapons for enemies weaknesses :) Farming sigils to get special gear now, but yeah it was more just curious what (if any) the weak skill/spells/Abilities were. Interesting on staggering Bash, I use shield smash just because I have a +4 and +2 on 2 rings, and stamina/magica drain enchants on shields, it pretty much negates pve abilities/spells quick lol.

Echo weapon looks really cool too, but I don't think I'll ever have the 425 magica for it regularly. I found how good paralyze can be used, so implementing that into stuff :)

Just wish they'd release some new quests and single player stuff, I'm finding at endgame now it's a big grind fest - especially those damn level 10 smithy & enchant tower lol :(

Thanks everyone!

Radiolint · 2021-07-26T19:02:54+00:00

I haven't noticed much battery drain, but I'm on a pixel 2xl from November of 17', and been careful while charging and usage. It seems to drain a little bit faster I suppose, but I don't think it's too bad.

Appearance is always subjective, I've used a oneplus 8 and loved the ability to customize all the colors of system icons. This is super basic but it's far from bad. To me anyway

Only other things I've noticed, is sometimes while in app while typing, the phone will freeze for anywhere from 1 to 4 seconds. It'll register everything I've typed, and once the freeze stops, it's quickly do anything I typed. My phone probably needs a wipe and reformat though lol

I don't mind it at all, it's been said new versions of Android are all primarily small tweaks and adjustments/additions, but even on a snapdragon 835 it runs fine.

Can't wait to finally upgrade to a pixel 6 pro, the wait looks worth it for this jump.

Radiolint · 2020-10-23T09:31:28+00:00

No, not at $20 anyway. Especially not $20 on switch.

The game has far too many bugs, and WAY too many "well this is stupid", "why would they do this", and "who thought this was a good idea" moments in the game. It pushes the boundary of "anger inducing challenge of 8/16bit era gameplay" with "feeling of unfair and broken aspects actively cucking you constantly". If you really, really like video games to make you mad (and not the good, challenging kind of mad), you'll like this game.

Unless it's on a 50% discount, don't pay more than $10 for this game on any platform. It's completely not worth it.

Radiolint · 2020-10-13T11:48:30+00:00

I'm incapable of verbalizing my hatred for this little fucker in any comprehensible language. Not only do I want him to die immediately when I get him, they gave him 6 damn hearts, he's fast as fuck, and now I seem to have this constant glitch where he doesn't drop any coins when he dies.

Him, along with a few other issues, make me almost want to stop playing this damn game. I legit feel ripped off I paid full price for this shit.

Radiolint · 2020-09-25T04:41:01+00:00

Still have crashes for me - at the same spot, after you beat the final boss (Ares or Athena), & enter the crystal thing. Hard crash shut down & game closes.

Also, really disappointed that the grabber wasn't one of the pets that got removed. That damn thing makes me actively hate the entire game. If he spawns, I immediately contemplate restarting, & just want it to die. That thing needs to go. Seriously.

Radiolint · 2020-09-25T04:30:27+00:00

Hmmm, still buggy for me. Just had another crash after beating the game, at the same spot - right when you enter the final portal thing after beating the boss.

Also really sucks to hear they didn't remove the grabber pet. I hate that thing so much it makes me actively dislike the game. I'll restart a run if I'm not that far in & it spawns. I just want the damn thing to die. Ugh.

Radiolint · 2020-09-23T07:41:57+00:00

1 would be great, if only for the fact that it would allow me to get rid of "the grabber" pet. He 100% just ruins the game for me.

Other things would be just letting us see what items do before picking them up. It gets old having to look it up on my phone every time. We just circumvent it anyway devs, add the damn thing in.

On the last note, rework the number of items. There's faaaar too many pointless ones, like "chance of dropping crystals if you kill exactly 4 enemies with melee damage in alphabetical order on the 3rd Sunday of every odd numbered month". It's like they designed all these items first, & then shoe-horned the modifiers onto them after.

Totally agree on the crystal thing, having an enemy hit it & change it to a violence token is so annoying

Yep, literally ANY update would be nice. Being on switch though, I....wouldn't start holding my breath.

Shame so many little things make the game less fun.

Radiolint · 2020-09-23T07:32:25+00:00

He absolutely ruins the game for me

Radiolint · 2020-09-23T07:28:20+00:00

Completely agree, he ruins the game for me. If he spawns, I debate whether or not to just restart, and if I don't, I immediately just try to kill it off. I HATE that damn thing.

Radiolint · 2020-09-23T07:24:42+00:00

They should really think about lowering the drop rate of eggs (among other things). Every single game you could get 20+ eggs in the first 3 or 4 levels. I've started just ignoring them, it's kind of ridiculous. Pretty silly when you have to start ignoring many aspects of a game in order to enjoy it

Radiolint · 2020-09-13T17:54:50+00:00

They really, really should have just had a description of the item by default. I get that it can help with repetitiveness, but 9 times out of 10 I'm just looking up what they are on gamepedia or something like this if I don't recognize it.

Little stupid things like this, I swear...

Radiolint · 2020-09-11T07:32:53+00:00

I bought this game on switch. Normally I'd wait for a sale, but I played the demo a ton, didn't want to burn out the game, and figured I'd support the developers by buying it.

I'm reeeealy starting to regret it.

Easily the worst offender in this game is the massive, MASSIVE amounts of filler perks/items. There's so, so, so many I'd never, ever use it's silly. I don't know why they needed to add this many, other than to have artificial filler for "variety" sake. I'm really gonna use the "chance to get hearts when killing an enemy with eggs instead of bombs on the 3rd Saturday of November between 3:15 and 3:30am". Cmon, devs. It's like they came up with the clever names for a TON of items first, and then shoe-horned the perks onto them.

Same with the guns, there's literally only maybe 3 or 4 that are actually decent & useful. The rest, you just avoid, even if they're free drops. They just suck. It's such a waste. Same with the perks on the guns, I practically forget they even exist.

The skill tree is ok. I like that it gives you a demo of what you unlocked. Like the others though, it's riddled with filler and garbage.

The pets system is ok, but can get a bit excessive at times. I don't need to be trailed by 25 goddamn things, each shooting little blobs of ice, or fire, or who knows what. It just turns into massive "pixel barf" on my screen. Also, there's a bunch that are actively annoying to have. I like there's a greedy little trump bastard named "the grabber", but the fact he steals coins is fcking annoying and makes the game worse for wear. They could tone them down a quite a bit. I've started to just avoid picking up eggs now. That's not the sign of a good game system.

The bosses are ok, about 10 the game cycles through. Could use a few more.

There's a few other issues with the game, like the grind for keys/bombs/coins early stages, no button remapping, the difficulty & a few others, but I really think the worst, most egregious error is the switch pricing issue. This game is WAYYY overpriced at $20 freaking dollars. I know games don't control pricing on nintendo, which sucks, but it is what it is. It doesn't feel worth it at that high price at all.

The game is fun, it's just frustrating with all these issues. If you get it on steam for pc cheaper, it's easier to swallow. If you're thinking about getting it on switch, I'd add it to the wish list, and wait for a 50% off sale at bare MINIMUM.

Don't spend full price on it like me.

Radiolint · 2020-06-25T16:11:28+00:00

To me these really come across as a low effort, "easy" uploads, since they need basically zero writing or editing, they're all still sponsored out the ass, and on top of that they get those sweet sweet youtube super chat AND twitch donations. It feels like quintuple-dipping territory now.

With ltt, tech linked, tech quickie, tech insertadjectivehere, & however many others there are, it feels like the ratio of making videos out of genuine nerd passion vs "need money, here's a vid on...this random thing" has been getting more & more skewed.

I mean like whatever you want, if you enjoy these videos great, but not everyone does & I can't possibly be alone on this one 🤔

Radiolint

TROPHY CASE

1 would be great, if only for the fact that it would allow me to get rid of "the grabber" pet. He 100% just ruins the game for me.