I'm using the driving force pro, had it for yrs. Was the official gt4 wheel iirc
That's what I'm using at home on my Wheel Stand Pro (which I store under the stairs so I don't look like a 40 year old virgin), and a G27 on a race seat at work.
I think I prefer my old GT wheel.
Have you noticed how some cars seem to have a pendulum in them, which is constantly swinging left to right even though you're in a perfect straight line! You can see the g meter isn't staying central and you have to keep fighting it. It's a real pain in the arse.
My thoughts now I'm roughly 10 hours in.
Positives: Most of the cars I've driven feel great. The shift of weight, the loading up in the tyres, the feeling of working hard to extract a fast lap all add to the pleasure of driving.
It's got ace force feedback support.
That's about it really. Every other area of the game is massively bellow par for a game which has been in development as long as GT5 has. To say they're going to add additional online features in a patch is a piss take when they've had as long as they have. I've not had a race with damage yet. Bouncing of walls sucks. AI sucks. Front end sucks. Doing the same license tests as all previous GT games shows no imagination again. Collecting a car you have won is a slow painful experience which means I never want to collect the cars I've won due to the load times and the crap sequence.
Due to the network issues they've had I spent most last night looking at a black screen with a GT logo on it and couldn't even get in to an online race.
Visually it's nothing special, even the trade mark solid 60fps is gone, with it often dropping below. For me GT5 had to be the ultimate tech tour de force on PS3, but after all this time it's fallen short, and they really don't have any excuses as to why. Most games don't get a third that amount of dev time! Surely the only people who've been working flat out on the game have been the guys modelling the cars, as the rest is just re hashed GT 1,2,3 and 4.
Who on earth thought campa van racing was ever going to be fun? Even if that was online I'd still find it boring as hell.
If it had only taken 2-3 years to dev I'd forgive most of those things, but 5 years with nothing new to show for it is hard to swallow.
So for me, the driving side of it holds up well and is still as enjoyable as ever from a GT game, and the main reason to keep coming back for more. The rest is just average, when it should be getting me hard. Overall just trying to get to the track is very frustrating.
