Choose Your Era

How would you like it if you could choose your own era?

Here's how it goes. You have every major car company that made cars in the current decade, with all the latest models of all of the cars made this decade. All vehicles are base, but are upgradable to performance, tuner and racing editions. Concept cars have a separate area.

Every song that ever made the Top 100 since 2000 is playing. The best of the current decade's music is the default soundtrack, though you can switch it to various styles of music including rock, metal and hip hop.

Say you'd like to have sixties cars. Simply go Home, chose from the menu "decades", and select "60s". Instantly, everything will change from modern to groovy, and the music will be all the Top 100 hits of the sixties. The same applies to every other decade. Also, you would be able to choose from various styles of the time. For the sixties, your alternatives would be British Invasion, Motown, Folk, Surf Rock, etc.

Say you go to GM afterwards. Notice that Saturn has disappeared. Saturn is only available in the 90s and the present. If you check Chevy, you'll notice the Camaro, El Camino, Impala, etc are in their sixties forms. They are upgradable to SS (RS & Z28 for the Camaro), some to Yenko and Copo, and also can come in racing editions like NASCAR and Trans Am.

The lineups for each company, regardless of decade, will be at least ten different cars per brand. Concept Cars will be limited to no more than five per marque per decade. Tuner editions will be limited to three per car. Racing editions one. Performance editions will be all that were produced in the factory only.

In conclusion, I believe that you should be able to choose your own decade and have the game coordinate to that decade with lots of cars from each company from that decade. Even the music would coordinate. At least ten cars per major brand, no more than five concept cars per brand. No more than three tuner editions and no more than one racing edition per car. This will make Gran Turismo more interesting and fun.
 
Once again, an over-complicated idea on your part. What's wrong with it being set in the present, so you can have access to all cars of all eras without having to jump around/commit to one? If I want to race my Ford GT one day, and my GT40 the next, I don't want to have to deal with "eras". I like the garages as they are, a place to have a collecion of cars that span all of automotive history, all in one spot, so I my drive any at any time I wish. As long as there are race series for all eras (like classics leagues), lets just keep to the present. Besides, finding cars to buy will be pain in the ass if you have to toggle through eras.
 
Interesting, but I'd hate to get bored and be unable to switch to a new era...

And what about people who like cars from various eras? It shuts them right out of the fun because they can't have them all
 
3-Wheel Drive
You mean none of his ideas will ever come true?
The ones that seem this impossible.. I mean he has made what.. 40% of the idea threads on GT5... Come on dude. GIVE THE IDEAS A BRAKE WE AHEV DISCUSSED WHAT WE WANNT A BAJILLION TIMES!
 
Actually, Kazunori-sama said that he wanted GT4 to be an overview of racing history, and the gaming hub for the various sections of racing would be a museum. So I'm expecting something similar in concept for GT5.
 
Maybe era themed showrooms within certain manufacturers, but nothing like this, it's complicated for the sake of being comlicated.
 
Master_Yoda
The ones that seem this impossible.. I mean he has made what.. 40% of the idea threads on GT5... Come on dude. GIVE THE IDEAS A BRAKE WE AHEV DISCUSSED WHAT WE WANNT A BAJILLION TIMES!
Calm down, dude. I wasn't bashing him at all, I just thought you were using double-negative (your sentence was hard to understand). That's all.

Besides, I wasn't trying to be a hardass, I was just giving an alternate point of view on why I personally wouldn't want that type of feature in GT5.
 
3-Wheel Drive
Calm down, dude. I wasn't bashing him at all, I just thought you were using double-negative (your sentence was hard to understand). That's all.

Nevermind, get rid of that kiddie.

However, I actually like this Idea but it way to complicated and It would take too much time for PD to finish it.:scared:
 
If GT5 could have thousands of cars and hundreds of tracks (or variations of tracks), of course I would like to choose a particular era to race (the music thing isn't important for me, I always turn it off in racing games.

To be able to do things such as:

a) Drive a 917 in a seventies Le Mans race;

b) race a full F1 championship in Jackie Stewart's Tyrrel;

c) race a full WRC in a Group B car from the eigties, or with a Group 4 car from the seventies;

that would be cool. But I don't think it'll happen, at least not in a "Gran Turismo" game.
 
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