Not to mention it seems as if the larger the company the lower the quality as history has shown.We have no information on how much money SONY allows PD to keep from Gran Turismo sales. In addition, Kaz wants a team of people who are trustworthy and can keep their mouths shut. So far, PD is one of the tightest teams in the gaming world. What's more, the staff of most companies are the biggest reason for cost, unless you're a bunch like NASA. In late 2009 with a staff size of 125-ish, GT5 had already racked up a price tag of $80 milion, and they worked on it almost a year longer, so who knows what the final price tag was?
Businesses have a way of finding their own level, and if PD, SONY or Kaz see the need for more people, they'll hire them, and they have added some fresh blood. But free net advice is about worth the price it's offered at.
Well...... sometimes. Sometimes not. I know that outsourcing is a hot topic around here too, and we have little clue whether or not Kaz has allowed any of that, though from the adventure of GT PSP, it seems he's adamantly opposed to it.
Then only thing I see that's deja vu is all the people looking at a blurry screen capture, of a blurry Youtube video and judging model quality in the game by that, good or bad. It's so absurd it's comical
Then only thing I see that's deja vu is all the people looking at a blurry screen capture, of a blurry Youtube video and judging model quality in the game by that, good or bad. It's so absurd it's comical
720P Youtube =/= 720P direct capture. A freeze frame or action shot of a 720P Youtube video from a cellphone camera is not as good as a cathode ray tube picture from the 70's.
I couldn't agree more. 👍
Thats true.They need to release a trailer or screenshots displaying them.I don't know why people thought they would be basically remaking the models, it was pretty obvious to me at least when they said touch ups, they meant touch up to textures.I admit the adaptive tessellation had me curious about just how it would affect standards, but it appears to be what I originally thought.Which is it isn't compatible with the older models, because they used different modeling techniques.
Sorry but nobody knows how "Kaz" wants his hiring policy over there at the PD office. All we (the end users) see, are the results of their years spend developing and ever since GT5 the end result has been that when they finally release their games half of it is unfinished business... So either it's a question of not having enough manpower to deliver a finished product; meaning finally having all those PS2 era engine sounds updated or getting rid of 700+ ported PS2 cars almost 10 years after date, or it is a matter of incompetence in those areas...We have no information on how much money SONY allows PD to keep from Gran Turismo sales. In addition, Kaz wants a team of people who are trustworthy and can keep their mouths shut. So far, PD is one of the tightest teams in the gaming world. What's more, the staff of most companies are the biggest reason for cost, unless you're a bunch like NASA. In late 2009 with a staff size of 125-ish, GT5 had already racked up a price tag of $80 milion, and they worked on it almost a year longer, so who knows what the final price tag was?
Businesses have a way of finding their own level, and if PD, SONY or Kaz see the need for more people, they'll hire them, and they have added some fresh blood. But free net advice is about worth the price it's offered at.
Ever since one whole game... that's quite a history, there.
Agreed
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I agree on this too, the odds are that the difference if any will be minimal, the main focus has to have been on the new cars modelled. I'm not expecting any noticeable difference from GT5 and if that ends up the case then I won't be bothered. I know some people will, but if it bothers them that much we're only a few weeks from release so they will find out soon enough.
Well i agree that they do maintain and update their game in the years after they release it (luckily!), and indeed this might improve it quite a bit, but big game breaker flaws like a dull, badly tought out career mode, grandmother AI, hoover like engine sounds on hundreds of cars and tons of PS2 era standard cars are next to impossible to change around because that is just too big of a task for them.Ever since one whole game... that's quite a history, there.
Okay, I do understand that GT6 is being built in a modular form because both Kaz/the team and SONY want a Gran Turismo game out to compete head to head with Forza 5 this holiday season, as well as a small handful of other next gen racers coming later. And they have a tall order: remaining relevant to their next gen counterparts, brought to life on much more advanced hardware than the antiquated PS3. Tell me that isn't an epical challenge. Even more, make GT6 even better than 5, when almost every game engine has been tweaked as far as it can go in four or five years. Most of us up on the tech world such as Scaff and me were sure that the GT5 engine would have to be culled back in a number of areas to improve performance. The team went the opposite direction for the most part, which is crazy. But they did it, even increased the resolution!
We're getting a "core" version of GT6, lacking such additions as Course Maker II and most likely a Livery Editor. But it's looking to be much larger than GT5, possibly in the ballpark of GT4, which I hadn't completed all of in more than a year of pretty serious gaming. And these additions, evidently being built in many cases like applications, should fit in seamlessly when ready. I know some don't like this approach and prefer a GT6 which is complete. But many of us are VERY ready to move on from a GT5 with its XP weirdness and a paint shop with no paint whatsoever, among other things. What GT6's Paint Shop will have is anyone's guess, but it has to be an improvement. And keep in mind that some of these added apps are likely teasers of the version we'll be seeing in GT7 on a much more powerful PS4. To me, this is a very good reason to build GT6 piecemeal, releasing sections when ready, because this kind of ambition would take more than three years to accomplish. We get to play earlier, and add content such as DLC as we see fit. Win/win to me. And for many of us, only a Gran Turismo game can best fill the need for a better racing experience.
As for the hiring thing, the original point, we have four basic possibilities.
The last one clearly is pure sarcasm, but for the above three realistic options, I put my money on Kaz making the hiring choices solely, with a likely possibility that he gets the okay from SCE.
- Kaz hires people when he feels the need to
- SONY directs Kaz to increase staff when they feel the team could stand more people power
- They both come to terms on that
- They all just go about their business, and people decide out of the blue that they're going to work at Polyphony Digital and start filling desks
