To 100% complete the game? Yes, and even then you're not done until you own every car. Or you can get involved in online which is the centre piece of GT in the modern era.
I’m just going to skip past the part where most online modes were mostly broken for the first 3 months and still have major fundamental issues.
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As Samus already said, you could have 100 events, you could have 10 events, you could have 1 event, completing them all will give you 100% completion, this is an asinine, useless, and moot point.
Once you’ve done them all, you’re left with repeating them (since custom races and online pay so poorly) to get any other content or further any other progress elsewhere. So when the event list is limited, it chokes what you can do with the cars and customization.
Race Event Guide, Prize Cars
www.mygranturismo.net
GT5 had 54 events in the main campaign A tree, most of which had multiple races within the card/championship. There’s also Special Events, licenses, and the B Spec campaign tree.
This is a list of main career events in Gran Turismo 6. The list does not include license tests or Seasonal Events. * = Cars with lower PP can be allowed for this event.
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GT6 had 79 events in the main campaign, again majority having multiple races in each card/championship. It also had the Red Bull series, Special Events, licenses, and mission challenges.
Claim victory through sheer finesse, or by perfectly tuning your car. Take on a variety of races using the cars you've obtained.In-game description (while selecting a league) GT League is a game mode that was added in the Campaign section of Gran Turismo Sport as part of update 1.10, released on...
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GT Sport (eventually) had 46 events in League, containing 300+ individual races. This was on top of a fairly short v1.0 campaign containing a few other races, missions challenges, time trials, licenses, and circuit experience.
Here is the list of all the events and championships in GT7. I had created a wikia page for GT7 listing all of the events. Events Sunday Cup GT Cup Gr.3 (Not part of the menu book) Sunday Cup Classic GT Cup Gr.4 (Not part of the menu book) Japanese FF Challenge 450 European Sunday Cup 400...
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GT7 has 31 event cards and 10 championships,
totaling 41. It also has licenses, mission challenges, and circuit experience just like in Sport.
Even 3.5 months post launch, 7 still has less events and races (by around 150) than Sport, despite just about everything else being a direct port or expansion from Sport. And worse yet, getting into the nitty gritty, 7’s event catalogue has significantly less diversity, to the point where several classes of cars don’t even have an event to represent them.
There’s more pickup truck events than there are Gr. 2 events,
the latter of which has zero. There are only two (very unequal) pickup trucks in the game. There are
two whole generations of Super GT cars and 90’s GT1 cars in Gr. 2.
Other classes/categories/cars not represented in the GT7 event list but were also in some if not all of the past several games:
- Gr. 2 (as mentioned)
- Historic (50s-70s) race cars
- 90’s JGTC
- F1500T
- Superformula/open wheel
- Redbull X cars
- Karts
- Group C
- Road-going Hypercars/track day cars (they literally designed an invitation system around them)
- MR cars
- Tuned cars
- Hybrids/EVs
Refer back to that GT7 event list link. There’s
five different variants of the Sunday Cup in GT7. Sunday, Clubman, FR, and generic WTC*pp* cups make up more than
half the entire catalogue. Any main racing category/group only has one or maybe two entries. Each category could have just as many regional variants. Less than half the major auto-producing nations have an event, Germany only having one. Brand or model-specific series. Decade-specific events.
Here’s a big list of things they could do, both from past games and transposing formats they’re already using in 7 on to other categories:
- British Cup (I.e. British lightweights)
- Italian Cup (I.e. Festa Italiano)
- French Cup (I.e. French Hatchbacks, Tous France)
- Schwartzwald A/B/C (multiple PP levels)
- 80s Championship (regional and international)
- 90s Championship (regional and international)
- Lamborghini Festival
- Huracan/Gallardo Super Trofeo
- V10 Championship
- V12 Championship
- Midship Challenge (lower PP, catering towards MR2/Clio V6/older supercars)
- Premium Midship Challenge (modern supercars)
- Saloon Championship (4-door road cars)
- Mini Challenge
- BMW M Cup
- Classic VW Festival (Beetle/Bus)
- Clio Cup
- Nissan Z Heritage
- Toyota 86 Championship
- Supra Challenge
- Miata Cup
- Rotary Cup
- Viper Revival
- Camaro Heritage Challenge
- Mustang Heritage Challenge
- Hybrid Eco Cup
- Modified Hybrid Eco Cup (for more depth)
- Austrian Trackday Experience (KTM one-make, 2 race championship on long and short RBR. Similar type of format to the very first championship at HSR)
- Willow Springs Clubsport Cup (low-mid PP, at least 2 club sport parts installed, championship across all the WS variants)
- Italian Lake Experience (Championship across multiple Lago Maggiore variants)
- Rain Masters
- Night Race Championship
- Earlybird Series (make use of dawn/sunrise ToD)
- Supercar Nostalgia (60s-70s road cars)
- Speedway Supercup
- Dream Car Championship (hypercars and track specials)
- Modified Compact Series (must have at least 3 “semi-racing” level parts installed)
- Modification Madness (must have widebody and at least 3 “racing” level parts installed)
- Tuned Kei Cup (for more depth)
- Regional Gr. 4 cup
- Regional Gr. 3 cup
- Regional Gr. 1 cup
- Drivetrain-specific (FF/FR/MR) Gr. 4 cups
- International Gr. 4 cup (slightly higher PP)
- International Gr. 3 cup (slightly higher PP)
- International Gr. 1 cup (slightly higher PP)
- Gr. 1 Sprint Series
- Gr. 1/2/3/4 Endurance Series
- Group C Legends
- Nostalgic 1959/69/79 (Specific decade/era race cars)
- Redbull Challenge (Junior and Competition)
- Historic Formula Series
- JGTC (90s)
- Superformula Championship
- Super GT Championship
I just came up with over 50 events, many of which I could reproduce as single custom races if I had the garage to fill the grids appropriately. If PD wanted they could even further extrapolate a lot of these regionally or with different PP levels like they already have been with the Sunday/Clubman/FR/WTC variants and give us even more to do.
There’s no reason it should be any smaller or less diverse than Sport was, certainly not with all the functionality they’ve added in 7, certainly you would agree with that?
