Blog:Gran Turismo 8

Why It Is Worse Than E.T. for Atari 2600

 * 1) After 39 years of the infamous North American video game crash suffered after the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from Atari 2600, thanks to this game, the videogames now became a very negative impact to the point it released an enormous amount of awful games after the release of the game like Fortnite 2, Grand Theft Auto Stories - The Definitive Edition (which is even worse than the infamous Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition), CSR Racing 3, Minecraft 2 etc:. Like E.T. a whooping 575 billon of GT8 discs and boxes of the game are buried worldwide.
 * 2) The game has extremely rampant microtransactions and even far worse than Gran Turismo 7. This game now features an extra premium currency in where some mandatory cars like the Lotus Elise 111R M117 required for a mandatory event named "Elise Trophy" to be purchased only with real life money making the game pay-to-win.
 * 3) *Even worse, they even featured the loot boxes for cars, upgrades and credits. The loot boxes can be purchased with real life money only and most of cases, you will receive only a small amount of credits or most of times a car that has 150 HP or less making it difficult to get a car that has 600 HP or more or a lot of cash. To rub salt in the wound, it costs too much money making it a money waster.
 * 4) This game features a fuel system in a console game which should be fitting if it is a mobile racing game and not in a high-budget AAA console game.
 * 5) *Worse you can only race three times which is even lower than any mobile racing game and you must either wait 3 hours or pay with real money to proceed. Restarting a race it also costs fuel making it pretty unfair at times to the point it makes the game pay-to-play.
 * 6) The amount of cars is impressive with an amount of 4000 cars which is 3,1 times bigger than the amount of cars available in mh:awesomegames:Switchcars and 2.43 times bigger than the amount of cars featured in the Ultimate Car Pack Mod from mh:awesomegames:Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, but unfortunately only 7 of the roster can be purchased with in-game credits making the game heinously pay-to-win. The following vehicles are:
 * 7) * Mazda Demio Touring XD '15
 * 8) * Mini Cooper S '05
 * 9) * Toyota Aqua S '11
 * 10) * Honda Fit RS '10
 * 11) * Subaru Vivio RX-R '97
 * 12) * Suzuki Swift Sport '05
 * 13) * Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX '86
 * 14) You can't customize the cars at all. Every single performance upgrade and visual customization requires premium currency to do so.
 * 15) The soundtrack is WAY too inferior for a Gran Turismo game and lacks rock, heavy metal, jazz or lounge songs with the latter of two being the most important for a game released in Japan. 95% of the songs featured from the game are from reggaeton genre which is one of the worst music genres of all time especially when featured horrible songs of said genre like Shaky Shaky, Dame Tu Cosita, Mi Gente, etc:
 * 16) *They even featured horrible songs from non-Reggaeton artists such as Baby, Boyfriend, What Do You Mean and Yummy by Justin Bieber, Friday by Rebecca Black, Crazy Frog by Alex F, Baby Shark by Pinkfong, Barbie Girl by Aqua and El Sonidito from Los Hechizeros Band from mh:awesomegames:Grand Theft Auto V.
 * 17) *To rub even more salt in the wound, you can't turn off the awful music but the effects can be turned off completely forcing you to listen the awful music.
 * 18) *Even worse, the Becky G, Karol G and Natti Natasha songs can make your life a extremely serious living hell such as getting grounded without kissing beautiful girls by part of either your parents or Becky G, Karol G and Natti Natasha and getting severely sick such as flu, breathing problems, fever, coughing, cold etc: This is even worse in the songs released after the song Tusa from Karol G with Nicki Minaj and far worse in Ram Pam Pam from Becky G and Natti Natasha in where you suffer from the worst tortures ever whenever you listen those songs. And if you listen those songs while either watching a car from a Japanese, German, British or French brands or the Bowser's seven kids even watching that word (in the link) the latter of which only applies to Karol G songs, the punishment sentence without getting kissed by beautiful babes is ¡¡¡PERMANENTLY!!!
 * 19) **Ram Pam Pam (Becky G & Natti Natasha): This song makes you feel sick and whenever you get to the hospital, you get attended by nurse Mrs. Wicket from mh:besttvshows:Mr. Bean: The Animated Series in where she screams at you at the top of her lungs causing your ears to get SEVERELY bleed. Also, Becky G as your sister forces you to stop playing the game and let her watch Star Wars for two hours and while she is watching Star Wars you cannot play racing games until she finishes watching the film. If you refuse to do so or you insist that you want to play racing games, she will call Karol G as your mother and she with extreme rage will destroy your console and you're permanently grounded without playing racing games.
 * 20) **Philliecito (Natti Natasha): This song make you get grounded without getting kissed by girls from videogames especially the ones from Dead or Alive series.
 * 21) **Noches en Miami (Natti Natasha): You will get kissed by male persons constantly especially your father.
 * 22) **Wow Wow (Becky G): You're grounded without getting kissed by beautiful babes from the USA.
 * 23) **Mal de Amores (Becky G): You're grounded without getting kissed by beautiful nurses especially if you're referring this type of nurses
 * 24) **Imposible Amor (Natti Natasha) and SEJODIOTO (Karol G): Both of those songs make you get grounded without getting kissed by tumblr girls. Click here if you want to know.
 * 25) **Arrebatá (Natti Natasha): You're permanently grounded without getting kissed by beautiful babes regardless of the car country brand you're seeing. Also you get kissed by men constantly.
 * 26) **MAMIII (Becky G & Karol G): You're grounded without getting kissed by beautiful nurses and tumblr girls. The grounding sentence is permanently if you listen the song while watching the Bowser's seven kids is permanent. Worse, like Ram Pam Pam, Becky G forces you to let her watch Star Wars but for 6 hours and not only you cannot play racing games but you're also not authorized to play Mario games while she's watching the film or Karol G will destroy your console.
 * 27) **WOW BB (Natti Natasha): You're grounded without getting kissed by beautiful Asian girls especially female K-Pop bands like "TWICE", "BLACKPINK", "Girls Generation", "Aespa" etc:
 * 28) **Zona De Perreo (Natti Natasha): You're grounded without getting kissed by beautiful girls from OnlyFans especially the likes of Juli Annee, Gabrielle Epstein, Emily Salch, Chloe Ayling and Bree Lynn Kleinop.
 * 29) **Provenza (Karol G): Has the same symptoms of Ram Pam Pam and MAMIII except that the sentence is of 3 days. Also, you get constantly kissed by Diego Ramos if not watching the Bowser's kids. Otherwise, depending which Koopa Kid you watch while listening that song, you get kissed by Argentinian male person.
 * 30) ***Iggy Koopa: Darío Barassi from the Argentinian game show 100 Argentinos Dicen.
 * 31) ***Roy Koopa: Guido Kaczka
 * 32) ***Larry Koopa: Antonio Musicardi from the 1985 Argentinian movie Esperando la carroza.
 * 33) ***Wendy O Koopa: Tano Pasman known as the Angry Argentinian Soccer Fan.
 * 34) ***Ludwig Von Koopa: Sergio Musicardi from the 1985 Argentinian movie Esperando la carroza.
 * 35) ***Morton Koopa Jr: L-Gante, Bizarrap, Trueno, Wos
 * 36) ***Lemmy Koopa: Any male character from the Argentinian novela El Marginal.
 * 37) ****This is the most infamous song out of all other songs due to many racing youtubers (even those who has fewer subscriptions) suffer of those punishments like BlackPanthaa, AR12Gaming, Gustingorriz, XplosioN, MrSmashboy28, RandomCarGuy17 to name a few.
 * 38) **BAILÉ CON MI EX (Becky G): Same as Ram Pam Pam but even worse because not only you get attended by nurse Mrs. Wicket, but you also get attended by nurse Old Lady Munson from mh:terribletvshows:Kid vs. Kat, Elvira Romero De Musicardi from the 1985 Argentinian movie Esperando la carroza, Priscila Ferro from mh:besttvshows:Violetta and Marissa Benson from mh:besttvshows:iCarly and they torture you in the worst ways posible by yelling at you at the top of their lungs, nailing to you with their syringes and pulling various of your teeths.
 * 39) **La Loto (Becky G): You're constantly get punched, attacked, abused and nailed by various abusive people like Mrs. Wicket, Old Lady Munson, Elvira Romero De Musicardi, Priscila Ferro, Jade LaFontaine, Diego Ramos, Karol G, Becky G, Natti Natasha, Mirta Wons, Don Ramón, Doña Florinda, Maria Elena Fuseneco, Trevor Phillips.
 * 40) ***To make the things worse, you can even listen those songs even if you mute your TV, cover your eardrums or making a extremely loud sound that prevents the song to be listen like a screamer making you get easily tortured as hell.
 * 41) ***To add insult to injury, if you have played this game at least once, you will end up suffer those horrible punishments while listening those songs regardless if you're playing the game or not and as mentioned above, you cannot prevent listening the songs by covering your eardrums, muting your TV or radio or making a extremely loud sound that prevents the song to be listen.
 * 42) ****In other words, AVGN said that those songs can even kill you!
 * 43) The amount of events is incredibly huge with an amount of 3000 making the game even longer than any other game, but unfortunately you can only choose only 4 of them making the game extremely short if you don't pay for the majority of the events. The following events are Sunday Cup, FF Challenge, World Compact Car Race and FR Challenge. The rest of events can be used with cars that you must pay with premium currency or only obtainable in loot boxes.
 * 44) The Rubberband AI is extremely ridiculous. Even if your opponents drive far inferior cars than yours, they're chance to overtake to you and severely decreasing your chances to win. Say that in Vision Gran Turismo Trophy, you're driving a SRT Tomahawk X Vision Gran Turismo which is the fastest car in the series while facing Vision Gran Turismo cars that are far inferior than your Tomahawk X and then your opponents will reach 600 km/h 373mph in straight tracks like Special Stage Route X meaning that you can't decimate the cars making the game frustratingly difficult and extreme rage-inducing which can be paired with mh:awesomegames:Geometry Dash and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in terms of extreme difficulty spike.
 * 45) There are even pop-up advertisements every time you start, complete, cancel or restart a race making it very annoying. Plus, ads in game are unfitting for a console game and what's even worse that you can't disable ads.
 * 46) *The ads themselves are just footages from videos from Youtube and they even show games from mature content in a E/3+/A-rated game like mh:awesomegames:Grand Theft Auto V, mh:awesomegames:Mortal Kombat 11, mh:awesomegames:Red Dead Redemption 2 etc:.
 * 47) *They even use footages from most of heavily panned TV shows and movies as advertisement like mh:terribletvshows:Teen Titans Go!, mh:terribletvshows:ThunderCats Roar, Ben 10 (2016), mh:terribletvshows:The Powerpuff Girls (2016), mh:terribletvshows:Wacky Races (2017), mh:awfulmovies:Cuties, Cat in the Hat (2003), mh:awfulmovies:Ghostbusters (2016), mh:awfulmovies:Norm of the North and mh:awfulmovies:Woody Woodpecker (2017) as well as overly long footage of deaths in mh:besttvshows:Happy Tree Friends which is inappropriate for a E/3+/A-rated game.
 * 48) *Also they even show footage of Elsagate and shock videos as advertisement like 2 Girls 1 Cup for example which can utterly disgust a lot of younger players since the game is rated E for Everyone, 3+ in PEGI and A in CERO instead of AO for Adults Only, 18+ in PEGI and Z in CERO.
 * 49) *It also even shows a footage of mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 2's Red Screen Of Death which scare a lot of younger players and in worst occasions Regan MacNeil] in her possesed form from the 1973 horror movie mh:greatestmovies:The Exorcist appears with the typical loud scream from the viral internet game Scary Maze Game scaring the younger players even more. Unlike other footage advertisements it stays still without any chance to play the game and the PS button won't work meaning that you must restart the console.
 * 50) Some billboards in most of tracks of the game features things that they try to be hip and cool such as Fortnite, fidget spinners and the use of emojis.
 * 51) *Worse, not only are limited to hip and cool but they even feature billboards that are highly inappropriate for a E/3+/A-rated game such as gore, sex, explicit nudity, references to adult websites like OnlyFans, PornHub, XVideos, Heavy-R, Xnxx etc:, Nazi-related content like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, animal abuse, PeTA billboards and child abuse.
 * 52) The game is ridiculously overpriced with 1000$ at launch.
 * 53) The game's size of game is a whopping 500 GB and once you installed the game, you can't uninstall the game not even by formatting the console fix this which wastes a lot of GB. Worse, if you log into PSN in another PS5, the game will auto-install regardless if you have less than the needed space with the latter of which it causes the system storage amount to literally reach below zero KB making it impossible to download anything or save games.
 * 54) The PC version of the game released three weeks after the release has a trojan malware that once you open the game, the game starts just like the console version except that the game runs very slow at 5 FPS during races tricking players to officially play Gran Turismo games on PC without needing to use emulators. Attempting to close the game will crash the computer forcing you to reset your computer and to make the things worse, once you reset the computer all of your personal files will be permanently deleted for good.
 * 55) *As if wasn't worst enough, all of your accounts any media like social websites (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok or Linkedin) email addresses (Gmail or Hotmail), businesses websites (PayPal, Yandex, Skrill etc:) your gaming IDs like your PSN, Nintendo or Xbox Live account and various websites like Memedroid, Cuantocabrón, 3Djuegos etc are all deleted for good with no way to recover it. (This only applies if there's not any porn-related in your computer)
 * 56) *Otherwise if either your browser history as content related to nudity regardless if comes to porn websites (say that you watch nude pictures in Google Images, in DeviantArt or in Imgur) or you have nude pictures and/or videos in your computer (including fake nudes from Deepnude, Deepsukebe or SukebeZone+), it will be unbootable for good.

Reedeming Qualities

 * 1) The game brings back to the offline save feature which was absent in mh:awesomegames:Gran Turismo Sport and mh:awesomegames:Gran Turismo 7.
 * 2) As mentioned above, this game has a lot of replay value ranging from cars, events to tracks. Sadly, a plethora of them can be purchased with real money.
 * 3) The graphics are well done.

Reception
The game recevied extremely underwhelming negative reviews and critics. The game received a rating of underwhelming 1 metascore and 0.1 userscore rating which is the lowest rating videogame in the history of videogames and the worst game of all time, even worse than any well known crappy game like Ride to Hell: Retribution, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from mh:awesomegames:Atari 2600, Pac-Man (Atari 2600), Bubsy 3D, Action 52, Hong Kong 97, The Town with No Name, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Shaq Fu, Kang Fu, Sonic '06, Superman 64, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!, CrazyBus, Desert Bus, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition or EFootball 2022.

AngryJoe said that this game is a 1000$ game full of microtransactions with crazy rubberband AI and unskippable and inappropiate ads as well as ruining the videogame industry again after 39 years of North American videogame crash in 1983. He also informs the viewers to stay away of this game at all costs claiming that this game is worse than E.T. from Atari 2600.

Nintendo president Shigeru Miyamoto (which saved the North American videogame crash in 1983 thanks to the mh:awesomegames:Nintendo Entertainment System and mh:awesomegames:Super Mario Bros.) angered a lot with the creator Kazunori Yamauchi for ruining the videogame industry after 39 years of North American videogame crash in 1983 with E.T. The Extraterrestrial from Atari 2600.

The Argentinian Angry Soccer Fan Santiago "Tano" Pasman notoriously criticized the Reggaeton songs especially L-Gante, Trueno, Bizzarrap and notoriously Karol G songs like "Tusa" "Ay Dios Mio" "Bichota", "SEJODIOTO", "Mamiii" and "Provenza" for example considered the worst of the worst as well most of Becky G and Natti Natasha songs like "Ram Pam Pam", "Zona de Perreo", or "Bailé con mi ex" (sang by Becky G only) for example which also claimed that are the worst of the worst.

James Rofle from Angry Video Game Nerd took the advantage of playing the game despite he mostly play old videogames and he claims that this game is even worse than Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and LJN games due to the awful Latin America reggaeton soundtrack, Justin Bieber songs, frustrating AI, horrendous paywalls, the very annoying ads that always plays every time the player stars, completes, cancels or restarts the race, and the fact that the player can only race three times and then wait 3 hours just to play the game three times again and also claiming that the fuel system is unacceptable for a console game and belongs it better if it was released in a mobile game. He even wasted six millions of his money in powerful cars only to just be beaten by far inferior opponent cars due to its heinous rubberband AI.

KuruHS notoriously criticized the inappropiate billboards which should be better fitiing if he make a Pepega Edition of GT8 instead by being an official release of the game. The rubberband AI, the horrendous paywalls and the Latin American soundtrack leave to be desired.

Being a game rated E for Everyone, 3+ in PEGI and A in CERO many parents who gifted the game to the children complained the fact that the game has microtransactions, inappropiate content in both ads and billboards like nudity, gore, sex, animal abuse and child abuse and then give angry letters to both Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.