{"id":105,"date":"2005-02-04T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-04T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:19:34","slug":"gran-turismo-4-almost-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/02\/04\/gran-turismo-4-almost-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran Turismo 4 &#8211; Almost Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe, but Gran Turismo 4 is almost here. The question is \u201cWill any one care?\u201d  I am sure that GT4 will be picked up by a ton of gamers, but the release is almost anti-climatic.  Gamers have been waiting for this title for a long (very long) time.  A lack of online racing is going to piss off many a gamers, and no improvements to the racing AI and the lack of more CPU AI cars per race is going to dampen my parade.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, ebgames.com says the game is coming<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are writing to let you know that we have changed the projected ship date for Gran Turismo 4 to 2\/22\/2005.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully GT4 is not just GT3 with more cars and better graphics.  We already got that with GT2 and GT3.  I know I will invest some time and energy in the game, but not nearly as much as GT1 or GT3 \u2013 graphical updates are not really my favorite flavor of the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe, but Gran Turismo 4 is almost here. The question is \u201cWill any one care?\u201d I am sure that GT4 will be picked up by a ton of gamers, but the release is almost anti-climatic. Gamers have been waiting for this title for a long (very long) time. A lack of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/02\/04\/gran-turismo-4-almost-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gran Turismo 4 &#8211; Almost Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}