Mastery #11 - Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
This is my favorite Gran Turismo game, and it feels great to finally 100% complete it for the first time and then some.
As for the game itself, hoo boy, it is time consuming to do everything it has to offer. I'm talking JPRG lengths of time consuming, which isn't something many racing games do. Most of the achievements here are just from doing everything in the game alone. Between the many attempts it took to gold all of the licenses and the sheer length of the campaign, especially in the late game, it's a huge grind that might not be for everyone. But the racing itself is a lot of fun, especially thanks to the physics, which I think GT3 has the best of out of the older GT games.
As for the set, as I said before, most of these are just from 100% completing the game normally, with the added caveat that some events have to be done in one sitting or you can only use a certain type of car to keep the racing fair against the AI. These restrictions are reasonable and nothing crazy. There are also several time trial achievements and some where you have to beat a race with a specific car, which I saved doing for last. For me, some of these were relatively easy, while others were quite tough, about as hard as golding a Super license test in the base game.
But overall, this is one of the games I wanted to master on RA the most, so I'm glad to have accomplished it. And I doubt I'll master a game with this many achievements or more any time soon. And of course, I'll get to GT4 one day, but I need to take a really long break before I tackle that game.