Agreed with @km here on GT7. The game is ridiculously good looking. The campaign is very obnoxious.
I appreciate that they’re trying to distill driving technique down enough to be accessible in their descriptions. It should be. I appreciate that they’re using very clear, simple, and friendly messages from smiling faces to explain racing lines, weight transfer, and drive train characteristics.
I don’t like the focus on collecting cars above actually driving. “France has been racing since the 19th century. Good job driving six laps and winning three French cars.” Okay let’s buy a Mustang now. What? I haven’t gotten much time to live with any single car.
The game has a huge selection of cars but somehow manages to not make them the centerpiece. I don’t know how they managed to pull that feeling off. It feels like they tried so hard to inject soul into the game that they left it with none.
And yeah there’s no real sense of self-discovery here. The cafe menus feel like a tutorial that never ends. Maybe it does eventually?
I’m glad the driving and visuals are good. I can probably ignore most of what I loathe about the campaign and just try to concentrate on enjoying the drive. But so far it doesn’t feel much different than GT Sport in how I will consume and enjoy it.
That’s a shame.
Hopefully GT8 is really good and the advice I give people of “skip the odd-numbered Gran Turismo releases” holds true.
I mean, that was always the risk from them being like “we are not going to acknowledge forza in any way, we are just going to make our car game the way we want to.”
I paid $50 for triangle strategy and I’d rather be playing my FFT hack
Currently working on menu #35 of 39 (12 hours in). There are rally license tests in National A and International B. Still no rally races unlocked. This game is fucking baffling. I don’t even like rally races.
I do think that between this and horizon 2, the evidence that sony is disappearing up their own ass again like 20 years ago is getting harder and harder to ignore
Another really weird thing is the constantly rotating text at the bottom left of the home screen saying stuff like “Balance changes” “Known issues” “Upcoming whatever” like it’s a news feed, but theres no way to like, click on it get more info? I found some kind of news section but all it had was an announcement for the game’s own release?
Were the robots they trained to drive the only ones allowed to play the game before launch?
Okay yeah I see what you’re saying. The roulette tickets or whatever they call them are really stupid, I am yet to win anything more than a paltry handful of credits and it’s just super underwhelming. The button to buy more credits in the ps store on every single you gain money in the game is weird and kind of insulting
Honestly… I’d refund this game if it was on steam. A major letdown. But hey, least I’m out of Sony exclusives that I care about now and my outrageously expensive console can start gathering dust as I go through a bunch of actually fun games on my xbox
I guess I should clarify that I have been studying the progression systems of Gran Turismo games for the last three years to understand what makes 2 and 4 the standout entries and have meticulous notes on all the non-PS3 ones (which is also why I am pretty harsh on 3) so I am a bit obsessive about this stuff
I’m recording a podcast with my best friend on Thursday that’ll come out next weekend that will go in depth into what’s wrong with this one
I think I’m notorious for having a bit of a hate on for the PS2 in terms of how many things I felt it did worse than than the PS1 but I never did play 4 because 3 disappointed me so much
Oh that sounds awesome, can’t wait to hear what you have to say! I certainly won’t say that my opinions are carefully considered beyond “how on earth did they manage to make this feel so un-fun”
i’m taking it slow and making the most of what’s there to enjoy, but I’m actually missing GT sport a little. If I want certain OEM colors of my favorite 80s JDM sports cars I have no choice but to hope the used car dealership gets what i want at some point.
i think some of this involves how with sport, GT (for me) became more car therapy than a ‘dragon quest with cars’. i just wanna pop in for 20-30 minutes and do a few rounds of the tokyo expressway in a car i like and get out, you know? i feel like this game is keeping the things i want from me while giving me absolutely everything else i don’t.
yeah this part is a real bummer. idk if the “menu books” just need to be much larger or what, but it’s so narrow in scope what you’re doing at any given time and it’s just constantly “get three more cars” without any clue as to what’s coming after. would much prefer to have a lot more unlocked and be expected to find my own, say, B-level car and stick with it in a bunch of races
Mainstream reviews did not, GT streamers who got early access only seemed to be happy that any single player content was back and did not seem to notice anything was different. Was a wild couple of days
