GT Series track list is getting STALE
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- dacc10
It's pretty much the price we pay for better graphics. Better graphics require more resources, which in the past would have been used for more content. That's why many games look great, but they feel short and/or unfinished.
Hopefully gaming graphics reach their peak soon, so then "graphics" stop being a selling point, so devs can focus more on the actual game.
Tokyo R246, Côte d'Azur, Citta Di Aria, Costa di Amalfi, El Capitan and Pikes Peak, would be my choices to add variety to the game.
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Ha ha, Maybe the duel sense would be the go. Give the haptics a good workout.
I think your views on pad users is wrong though. There are a multitude of reasons why people stick with the pad. To suggest that pad players dont have valid feedback to offer regarding physics is laughable.
No force feedback on these bad boys.
I raced these at a high level for about 10 years. Including competing at World Championships. The adjustment on the cars is as advanced as any "real" race car, you need to know what the car is doing to make the appropriate setup changes.
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- Neomone
Did you literally join this forum just to complain that pad players are allowed to have opinions? How sad that you can't address their points directly, and instead have to attack the fact that they're allowed to speak at all.
Lol. One track a week? Like, you think that a modeller should be able to make an entire track from scratch to an acceptable level for a AAA PS5 game in one single week?
Exactly how much cocaine and amphetamines do you propose to feed to this poor unfortunate soul?
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- snakebacon97
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Completely unrealistic expectations. You have to realise, Gran Turismo is a flagship title for the Playstation brand, with a very large budget and a massive sales expectation.
I imagine that the number of Playstation 4/5 users with a wheel must surely be below 5% (and that is likely an extremely generous number). It only makes sense then that they primarily cater towards controller users. To make GT more of a sim would absolutely tank the controller user base. Try using a controller to drive in AC, ACC, iRacing etc, it's horrendous.
And this is coming from a direct drive user...you have to reconcile reality with what you desire. In principle I actually agree, having a huge budget studio like PD to make a dedicated sim for rig users would be incredible, but at this moment in time it's just not realistic, certainly not for the home console market.
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Regarding the tracks, I've always found it surprising that all the current F1 tracks are not included. I would have thought that was a priority, and they don't change much so should give good value for money/time and long term appeal to the fans...
Of course they change occasionally, and sometimes parts of the tracks, but as mentioned previously, incremental updates would take less resources to model than new full tracks
Of course they change occasionally, and sometimes parts of the tracks, but as mentioned previously, incremental updates would take less resources to model than new full tracks
Grand Prix tracks are by their nature designed (usually) for high performance F1 cars. That doesn't usually translate well to lower powered cars. As a random example COTA is a pretty good modern F1 circuit but driving the full lap in a stock 60s Beetle isn't going to give you that same thrill.
Slower cars need tighter, shorter circuits which GT used to be full of, now they seem to be making everything like real grand prix tracks, which is a shame. You lose that variety.
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- dacc10
It's pretty much impossible to get all of them, as there were 22 tracks in the 2021 season. If they were to pick some, pick the most unique.
And as others mentioned, GT needs something different. Citta di Aria would be a breath of fresh air for example, even though is not really suitable for racing (though slower/smaller cars could race there with a smaller grid). Pikes Peak would be great for some unrestricted cars (imagine Gr.B cars completely maxed out). We need a proper city track, like R246 atleast.
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- jdmking13
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Well GT, for me, is a racing game with a relaxed vibe and quite some heritage. It has been around more then 20 years. If I am honest I would like to see a nice mix of old and new. I absolutely would love to see Grand Valley Speedway and Apricot Hill in GT7 at the cost of a Silverstone or LeMans. I guess it depends on what GT means for you as a game. Sim racing I do with ACC. Just having fun with cars and track (and graphics) I do with GT. As for new tracks, let’s just say PD hasn’t been able to create truly iconic new tracks, so I don’t really care.
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- mwoodski
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man if someone thinks the GT track list is stale, imagine adding in the same 22-odd tracks from every other game into it.
F1 tracks are boring for everything that isn't an F1 car.
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- mwoodski
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Playing the same exact licensed tracks in every single game is impossibly boring. Also, here's the thing. If I wanna play the same tracks that are in every other game, I'll play them in something like iRacing or AC so at least the cars are as realistic as possible.
Those ""classic"" F1 venues like Spa, Suzuka, and Interlagos are actually bananas fun in a NASCAR Cup car.
The modern venues are awful.
All of those other tracks are available via third party mods in AC.
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For me, playing the same licences tracks in every game, are different. It’s not the same experience when I use the exact same car or I drive a ‘65 Alfa TZ in GTS, Ginetta Jumior in PC2 and GT4 Camaro in ACC, at Bathurst in each of those games. Especially when I add weather and time of day and multi-class. Leaving static weather, it‘s ultimately about the cars and tools available to players.
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- mwoodski
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Imagine being salty over a console game having 33 tracks...
