Every post from here on out is a victory for Biggles, negative or not.
I don't feel like it's a victory for me, but it certainly has been an
education for me: every point I make, no matter how clearly or how many different ways I make it, is misunderstood, misinterpreted, or just plain ignored while the poster pursues his own agenda. I'm even told that I didn't really mean what I say I meant!
It is reassuring that a number of GTPers
have clearly understood what I have been trying to say (& I agree with every detail of Klondike's simple summary).
Yes, I have really enjoyed GT5P - more than a year ago I started this thread:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=107796
after an amazing night of online racing. It remains the most exciting online racing I have experienced in any game. However, as the months went by, the very limited online events available in Prologue started to get a little stale.
I picked up FC. I found it very disappointing at first & was ready to get rid of the game, but I stuck with it, & over time (& after a fairly important update) I grew to appreciate the game more & more. It's far from a perfect game & is not nearly as polished as GT5P, but it
is a good game & does certain (important) things better than GT5P.
Do I hold GT to a higher standard than FC?
Definitely! I think it's reasonable to expect a lot of a game that has a budget of millions, a large professional staff, & years of development experience. Why people should feel the need to rush to defend one of the corporate giants in the gaming industry from a tiny, insignificant developer is something I have a hard time understanding. And let's be clear: there's no question that every FC buyer also owns GT5P.
The GT series
was groundbreaking in the early days, but I don't think GT4 was groundbreaking in any way, except the way it pulled pretty amazing graphics out of an aging console system. GT5P has significantly improved on GT's physics & once again, as expected, improved on the graphics, but in order to really move on to a new level, I think it's actually
good that PD should feel as much pressure as possible from rivals like Forza, NFS (Shift), FC & any other racing sim developer out there.
We are the ones who stand to gain from that pressure...