I'm very hopeful the human element gets enhanced. Perhaps PD and SCEA's been reading my threads and posts on building your own race team or something. I had a thread talking about possibly being able to customizing driver outfits and such. It doesn't mean much understandably, but if you're going to have some in-car views, wouldn't you love to go out and rock your team colors? Of course, mine are two shades of blue with gold accents. So it's still possible. As a funny question... what colors would the team wear if someone was racing a TVR colored in Reflex Spice? Would there be chameleon(?) paint race suits or something? ^_^
It seems like PD wants to go all-out with this deal. 16 cars. This extra detail with cars and the pit teams. Most people probably think this is an amazing step towards GT maturing more. Unless you're a straight-up hater, how can you dislike the graphical effort here? I just can't believe PD actually put work into quality in-car rear views. There's a number of games that have rear views that don't show the back end of the car. The in-car detail from the rear looks amazing, especially my true Italian love- the Ferrari F430. Love Gran Turismo or loathe it. You at least have to admit there's a true graphic overhaul. All we have to do is get to experience it in some way. When GT5 Prologue is released, I want it to be at kiosks at stores. We were fortunate to have GTHD at some PS3 kiosks, so why not GT5 Prologue? It looks freaking amazing. Only trailer I've seen was that live E3 coverage. But damn... this game may end up being lightyears bigger than
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Johnny (Post #728 -
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2726126&postcount=728 )... you know I respect you here on GTPlanet. I think details can still be worked out. Your situation is probably worse than ones wanting more Australian involvement. Think about this for a moment- Australia debuted in GT3 A-Spec with that Tickford Ford Falcon XR8. Australia got some bigger involvement in GT4 with the debuts of Holden and FPV. Still, no Australian courses. The key tracks people want out of Australia are Bathurst and maybe Surfer's Paradise. I still think Australia would be a great market to tackle in any GT game. I'd even want to do some of the most competitive tracks in Australian V8 Supercar action. I'm talking Pukekohe, Eastern Creek, Adelaide, Sandown, Queensland, Symmon Plains(?), and even Winton.
I can greatly make the case that it would be great to showcase South America or perhaps even Central America (Mexico, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, etc.). Maybe my favorite South American track is Interlagos. It's a world-class race track in the Sao Paulo area. Maybe even the Buenos Aires track would be great as well (though I haven't heard too much about the Buenos Aires track lately). Brasilia is a snake of a track. GT could play Forza's game and think of a street course in Rio de Janerio. The Rio de Janerio oval has hosted oval events with (then) CART and even MotoGP around the infield road course. All the sights and sounds are enough to make people like Rio de Janerio. You got Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Redeemer Statue of Jesus Christ, the Copacabana Beach, hot Brazilian ladies in Brazilian bikinis... oh, wait... carried away there! ^_^ Brazil is a goldmine of racing talent. You're talking about people raning from Tony Kannan, Rubens Barrichello, the Fittipaldis, and not to mention one of racing's all-time greats- Aryton Senna. Now,
Johnny, you're involved with Brazilian Stock Cars. So you have some viable proof that Brazil (or at least South America or even Latin America) needs some representation.
If you want to talk Latin America, then let's go further. I mentioned Buenos Aires, which is a greatly competitive race track. Very fun place to race. The site I use for finding race tracks of the world is eTracks Online. And in so, I found that there are a good number of tracks in Brazil and Argentina. It even includes two Uruguay circuits. Mexico would be just as great of a place for PD to find race tracks as South America. The best possibility would be
el Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, better known as Mexico City. I think this would be a great track for muscle car racing. It would also be great for a Gran Turismo World Championship venue or even an endurance. They could have a fantasy street course through Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. I'm not talking about Funidora Park (don't hate the course), but maybe a fantasy course for this track. There is (and should be) a market to race in Latin America for GT. Just as much as the want to race in Australia.
I'm stunned by the latest crop of pictures from Page 36(?). You folks in Leipzig are lucky as hell. I think I'll start college again next month, so I'll have some broadband footage to check out when I have nothing to do for school.
. No way they're going to have Daytona and LeMans, but that could be a hint to the track they are trying to get in the final game
