Hey Gran Turismo....

[sharkythesharkdogg]

....the gauntlet has been thrown down.

[Loony BoB]

The cynic in me will point out that they said "at launch" but tbh I'm not bothered either way because I don't really play racing games that don't involve attempting to destroy the opposition.

EDIT: Wait, do people still talk about Gran Turismo? I thought it was all uhm... what was the new one... Drive Club? I don't know.

[Ayen]

You made me think this was about Gran Turismo only to see something about a racing game I don't even play.

CURSE YOU!

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Some of us are hoping the GT series will make a glorious return. It really got that kind of genre going.

I'd rather they focus on a "small" number of cars (450 is a ton) that have a lot of refined detail than trying to just have gobs of cars, or cars they keep adding later. It might be them mincing words, but hopefully that's not the case.

[Mirage]

A good selection of cars is more important than an extreme total number of cars. We don't need 10 miatas and 30 skylines.

Also, the microtransactions in GT6 were hidden in some menu no one would use. You could play through the entire game not even knowing it was possible to buy cash. I don't really have a problem with that.

[Pumpkin]

A good selection of cars is more important than an extreme total number of cars. We don't need 10 miatas and 30 skylines.

Also, the microtransactions in GT6 were hidden in some menu no one would use. You could play through the entire game not even knowing it was possible to buy cash. I don't really have a problem with that.

We don't need 10 miatas

10 miatas

sharky

[Mirage]

3 premium ones ought to be enough.

One from the 90s, one from the 00s, one from the 10s.

[Bolivar]

Forza isn't even in the same galaxy as Gran Turismo. Even its developers stopped pretending it was, once GT5 came out.

[Slothy]

You're right Bolivar. From what I played of the latest Forza at Christmas when my sister and her husband were here with there Xbone, it's better than GT in many ways. Certainly better than GT5 was by a long shot. And even though GT6 improved on 5 in many respects, it's career mode is so half assed compared to GT4 on the PS2 that Polyphony should be ashamed. They were phoning it in big time on the PS3.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Also, the microtransactions in GT6 were hidden in some menu no one would use. You could play through the entire game not even knowing it was possible to buy cash. I don't really have a problem with that.

Half the trout I wanted in the game they wanted me to pay for. /shrug

I was not pleased. I didn't put a 1/6th of the time into GT5 as I had the previous entries and I didn't even bother with 6.

Forza isn't perfect, but it's really been knocking Gran Turismo around IMO.

EDIT: And I agree that we don't need 45 versions of the same car. An example of each generation car, and perhaps a few special models different enough to be different (no special models that only had paint and body kits), need apply.

An example:
My mother has an 8th Gen Mugen Honda Civic Si. It has much lighter (and obnoxiously expensive) Ray's Engineering Volk wheels made special for Mugen, a Mugen body kit, a more track oriented suspension package with all types of Mugen badging, a higher flowing Mugen exhaust system, and a unique paint color. Some other little odds and ends. It's a neat package, they only made around 1,000 total, and it's a blast to drive.

It's straight line performance isn't all that much greater around the track than the standard Honda Civic Si of that generation though. It's quicker, but probably not by a big enough margin to make a difference. Since everyone in the game is going to buy obscenely expensive wheels, an exhaust system, and all that other stuff they'll basically wind up making the Mugen Si anyway.

It's not different enough performance wise to warrant appearing in the game outside of the fact that it was rare.

Now maybe if they'd made a Civic with a the J series V6 or something. Or something obvious like the Civic BTCC race car. Certainly those would be worth considering.

[Mirage]

Also, the microtransactions in GT6 were hidden in some menu no one would use. You could play through the entire game not even knowing it was possible to buy cash. I don't really have a problem with that.

Half the trout I wanted in the game they wanted me to pay for. /shrug

No idea what you're talking about. The career race payouts are decent, at least with a login bonus. Many seasonal events drown you in cash. Talking about GT6 here. GT5's problem wasn't with the money, but the completely idiotic level trout.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I'm talking GT5. Never played 6. I suppose we have a difference of opinion. Chances are I didn't play the game long enough, but between the constant time consuming updates every time I wanted to play the game, and the licensing process, progress was abysmally slow and I just stopped playing.

[Mirage]

You could probably reach and clear the last IA championship over a single weekend if you choose the cars you buy carefully. The races are all pretty easy, with the only real challenge being found in the karting events, but you don't need to finish all events in each license category to advance to the next license anyway.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

No thanks.

[Mirage]

I'm not saying you should, just that it's not very time consuming.