I think I might be done with GT7, at least for a while. Last weekend I dismantled my racing rig and dusted off my VR1 set up for a bit of BoxVR (new year new me, and all that). Around this time last year - when I was still new-ish to GT7 - I had this plan to pay off my credit cards throughout 2024 and then invest in a PS5, PSVR2 and a proper Fanatec set up, but when the time came to pull the plug it hit me that the game simply wasn't good enough to justify the expense. I priced it up at something like £3500 for the whole shebang, but for that kind of money I can get something like a Honda Civic in decent condition, or even something like an RX-8 if I'm prepared for the hassle, and take it out for a blast on track days at weekends or something. I think I'm just gonna do that.
I still play the first 4 GT games quite regularly on my old PS2, and even with a controller they're just so much more fun. Once you get over the downgrade in graphics, the actual gameplay - the most important aspect - all of them leave GT7 in the dust. Even though you're only against 5 opponents, at least they're decently challenging, but it's also the way the game's events are set up, they have a lot more replayability (and you're replaying for fun, not just to mindlessly grind for credits), the tracks seem more varied and interesting, and even the cars seem more interesting in the older games. Sure there's no Ferraris or Lambos, but I mean, there's not a whole lot you can even do with your Ferraris and Lambos in GT7 without totally nerfing them anyway, so what's the point?
So yeah, wake me up when GT8 gets announced, I suppose!
