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I would like to take this opportunity to polish my nails on my chest. *polishes nails*
There weren't many of us, maybe five or ten out of the entire community, but we were fairly vocal about it. We said last year when someone posted a poll asking whether we would be happy with a GT4 Special Edition for PS3 that yes, we would love that. I can't remember what the percentage was, if it was a majority or what, but it was a pretty good ratio.
I tried to be a sort of evangelist for it. I explained in numerous posts that GT4 was possibly the basis of GT5 to start with, that Kazunori-sama had hinted that GT4 was whittled down from what they were planning. I said that a GT4 with high definition cars and tracks, more cars on track, possible weather and time changes, perhaps better A.I. and undoubtedly online play, race modification and a paint shop would be worth the price of admission and then some. And then add in the possibility that PD might invite The Big Three to the party and I was excited just over the dream.
And of course I was poo-pooed and dissed by many. Not for bad reasons, certainly, but I was thinking of how things could go. I knew that there was the chance that if Polyphony had been working on GT5 for a year or more before GT4 was even out that the game could possibly be well on its way to completion. But that depended a lot on what Kaz and the lads wanted to do with GT5. If it was just an evolutionary step forward, GT5 could even be a near-launch title. But with something as powerful as a PS3 to host it, why settle for a timid step forward? I made a rather bold wishlist, including a Career Mode that was as big as real life, a game that essentially never ended and grew with you with downloadable content, so that each year, each season, you had a new set of challenges to face, and new cars to try out. This may take more than a few years to accomplish, I knew, so I was even more adamant that if this was the case, that I wanted to see a GT4 Premium Edition at or near launch. I knew it might easily be a pipe dream. If GT5 was being polished up even as I typed, of course I'd be happy, but I just had a feeling...
And shazam, if Kaz didn't echo my thoughts in his Famitsu interview. Double shazam, GTHD is going to be a game. And it looks like a darn good one. We still don't know what the deal is, and may not for a while yet, but I feel quietly vindicated.
There weren't many of us, maybe five or ten out of the entire community, but we were fairly vocal about it. We said last year when someone posted a poll asking whether we would be happy with a GT4 Special Edition for PS3 that yes, we would love that. I can't remember what the percentage was, if it was a majority or what, but it was a pretty good ratio.
I tried to be a sort of evangelist for it. I explained in numerous posts that GT4 was possibly the basis of GT5 to start with, that Kazunori-sama had hinted that GT4 was whittled down from what they were planning. I said that a GT4 with high definition cars and tracks, more cars on track, possible weather and time changes, perhaps better A.I. and undoubtedly online play, race modification and a paint shop would be worth the price of admission and then some. And then add in the possibility that PD might invite The Big Three to the party and I was excited just over the dream.
And of course I was poo-pooed and dissed by many. Not for bad reasons, certainly, but I was thinking of how things could go. I knew that there was the chance that if Polyphony had been working on GT5 for a year or more before GT4 was even out that the game could possibly be well on its way to completion. But that depended a lot on what Kaz and the lads wanted to do with GT5. If it was just an evolutionary step forward, GT5 could even be a near-launch title. But with something as powerful as a PS3 to host it, why settle for a timid step forward? I made a rather bold wishlist, including a Career Mode that was as big as real life, a game that essentially never ended and grew with you with downloadable content, so that each year, each season, you had a new set of challenges to face, and new cars to try out. This may take more than a few years to accomplish, I knew, so I was even more adamant that if this was the case, that I wanted to see a GT4 Premium Edition at or near launch. I knew it might easily be a pipe dream. If GT5 was being polished up even as I typed, of course I'd be happy, but I just had a feeling...
And shazam, if Kaz didn't echo my thoughts in his Famitsu interview. Double shazam, GTHD is going to be a game. And it looks like a darn good one. We still don't know what the deal is, and may not for a while yet, but I feel quietly vindicated.
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And the same should go for GTHD Classic, what with 20 car online races and all... 
......if there is going to be damage, there going to have to fix that....i hope that's the plan.
