Why was Gran Turismo popular?

[Zod95]

Zekkyou said:

Zod95 said:

Where does it say, in that wikipedia sentence or even the whole page, that GT is THE racing simulator? It doesn't even say that GT is a racing simulator at all. So far you have zero arguments to back up your claim.

As for Midnight Club:

"Midnight Club is a series of racing video games...focusing on competitive street racing in open world urban environments. Throughout the series, players race through New York City, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Club

I don't know which one needs the biggest stretch of immagination to be considered a racing simulator: the one focusing on street racing or the one "intended" (by the way, I'm intended to rule the world, so far I haven't been successful) to emulate vehicles.

Anyway, one thing I can assure you: both are not focused on real motorsport cars racing on real race tracks and real championships with real rules.

Other games are. Games like GTR, TOCA, rFactor, Life For Speed, Assetto Corsa, Project CARS, etc. But if a racing simulator is not your thing that is fine, just do not confuse a car-RPG with made-up content and rules with real racing simulators.

I'm not interested in taking part in the core of this debate (because quite frankly i couldn't care less about driving games, so don't care what sub genre people put each in), but i feel the need to point out that the GT wiki page does in-fact refer to it as a racing simulator. True or not, it's there:

Also, 'The Real Racing Simulator' thing is the tag line the series puts under its logo. That's also in the pic above.

But you don't feel the need to point out that the very same page does not say that GT is "THE racing simulator". Interesting...

Regarding tag lines, I feel we can't trust on them, can we? For example, I drink industrial juice whose tag line is "100%" but then I go to the ingredients and it's not 100% fruit. Moreover, "driving simulator" is different from "racing simulator". Moreover, we weren't talking about tag lines at all.