make sure you go to the options and set the opening movie to not play when you start the game at your earliest convenience, because apparently it is never skippable.
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i am having an ok time so far and ignoring the cafe menus at the moment but idk about iâm able to buy a fairlady z and the only circuits i have available are sunday cups where i decimate a bunch of hybrids instead of yâknow like âcompact sports car cupâ or ânissan cupâ or literally anything thatâs fair to race in. my only gran turismo experience is from playing the first three as a kid and recently playing 2 for the SB thread so this is really disappointing. i like these games for the arcade racing aspect with realistic driving physics in exactly my car of choice in a race where my opponents are in equally powerful cars. so really Sport is a better game for me, but i donât get to choose exactly the kind of car i want in that game because itâs not about the simulationist car owner aspect. this is like the Best of No Worlds. thatâs my Gran Turismo review thanks everybody
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yeah unfortunately all of the unlocks are tied to completing the menus
there was a fairlady z in my used car lot this morning
i wish you could send your friends cars, that would be cool
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as someone who basically got back into real driving games games for the first time in 15+ years in 2017-2018 due to Dirt 4, FM7, GT Sport, and Horizon 4, and was kind of skeptical that those 4 were going to be topped anytime soon, I definitely buy this
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on the second to last menu right now and the difficulty has spiked way the fuck up
itâs a Ferrari manufacturer cup. I have 1 Ferrari from a previous event prize, it is tuned to highest quality parts and Iâm 50PP under the cap. I finish the 5 lap race in 5th place with a 50 second gap with the 1st place car. I didnât really fuck up in any way during my race and I have recovered from much worse mistakes in other events. I just have to git gud or throw away all my credits by buying another Ferrari and seeing if I can tune it to a higher spec. this sucks
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if i walked into a firestone and a guy named rupert said this to me i would probably already be in handcuffs and taken in for questioning
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Do you think they intended the career to be spaced out with months of online play between events, building up credits and a garage?
Itâs really funny to think of Polyphony and Turn 10 competing over who can misunderstand progression design more.
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I just have so, so little interest in racing with other randos online, like the thought to do so doesnât even cross my mind
The fact that you have to unlock tiers of car mods is so stupid, especially because youâre not allowed to de-tune cars by putting in lower spec parts that you ALREADY BOUGHT, so I just want to never upgrade anything. Except when a menu forces you to, I guess.
How did the fuck this up SO BADLY? Who is this game FOR?? Itâs not for the hardcore fan, itâs not for the newbie, itâs not amenable to just casual drop in play⌠How am I supposed to play this? It feels like 40 hours of tutorials that donât lead you in any particular direction. Forza can be heavy handed too but itâll at least let you just fuck around if you want!
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There is no point in building up credits or a garage. You can get through this entire campaign only buying your starter car and a single pick-up truck. In every other case, they give you the car you need to enter an event in the event immediately before it or you can use a prize from a much earlier event.
Occasionally, a menu will force you to upgrade a specific prize car from before. This quickly disincentivizes you from buying your own cars because you will be forced to invest into your prize cars anyway and you never really know how much you will be asked to spend in future menus. If you accidentally buy a car which shows up in a later menu or win one in a roulette or whatever, you just get to skip that race since menu progress isnât gated by event completion (aside from championships), itâs gated by car ownership, regardless of how you got it.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue gives players more freedom in expressing themselves through their choices than this game.
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hilarious
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Yeah itâs pretty bizarre that you can literally buy your way through a lot of the game with real money. Someone should do a zero credits speed run with a credit card.
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I have been joking with a friend that this game is made for people who enjoy routing speedruns more so than normal players
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woke up early and was gonna play a little bit, and already just feel sort of deflated.
the fairlady z in the used car dealership was not the one i wanted, it was a newer model thatâs already available in B R A N D ⢠C E N T R A L
god imagine going to a place called brand central
peak capitalist hellscape
just let me buy the damn car, game!!!
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I would rather play a dead mall walking simulator for sure.
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Today I learned that the Atrocious Gameplay Wiki is a thing
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$40 to $200 for certain cars in a game that drills collection above all else in your head. Why arenât they being raked over the coals for this?
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The PlayStation Store microtransactions were not visible during the review period. So thereâs that.
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Remember the Forza Motorsport 7 loot boxes desaster?
This has the same flavor ~~~
(Also, Kazunori Yamauchi wants everyone to experience the real petrolhead-feeling of having to settle for less than youâd like to, because You Can(not) Afford that exotic car.
In that regard, it is a commitment to the core idea, 
âŚ)
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I think that was Forza 6, wasnât it? I think they learned their lesson after that. But yeah, the roulette prizes in GT7 feel like something straight out of 2015.
Edit: Nope, youâre right. It was FM7.
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