There are a lot of tracks in GT7 that I choose not to drive on outside of the career mode events:
-All layouts of St Croix (6)
-Northern Isle Speedway (1)
-All layouts of Tokyo Expressway (6)
-Fisherman's Ranch (2)
-Colorado Springs (2)
-All layouts of Blue Moon Bay (6)
-All layouts of Alsace (4)
-Sardegna Windmills (2)
-Broad Bean Raceway (2)
Notice how all of them are "original" circuits from GT Sport. They are a waste of space; a cheap way of padding out the track list to make the game seem bigger than what it is. I want GOOD tracks that are fun and exciting, not bland and boring ones without any notable landmarks. I want tracks like Imola, Okuyama, Motegi, Midfield, New York, El Capitan, Silverstone, Road Atlanta, Road America, Tokyo R246, Apricot Hill, Grand Valley, Algarve, Kyalami, Donnington, Long Beach, Opera Paris, Sydney Motorsport Park and Dijon. I would drive on these tracks all the time because they're INTERESTING and have something called CHARACTER. The track list quality on the whole is average and that disappoints me.
This makes no sense. You say "cheap" and "padding" as if there was any less effort put into these than any other tracks you
didn't condemn, like Trial Mountain or Deep Forest. Those have no more of what you want than the other tracks you listed.
St. Croix is not only a fun and challenging track, but it also has many notable features and layouts. Crossing the bridge, crazy elevation changes, the high speed sweeper with a mid corner bump where the asphalt meets... What could possibly be "boring" about it? It literally encompasses all of the things you claim to want.
Alsace is much of the same, lots of elevation changes, several interesting layouts, high speed corners, low speed ones, lush scenery, it's challenging and rewarding etc..
You mentioned ALL of the rally tracks, so just say you don't like rally 🙄. With that said, they are all tracks that have undeniable challenge and "character".
Northern Isle and Broad bean are oval/semi oval speedways... what more character would you like from them? I'm not a huge fan of speedways, but the argument that they are anything different or less than any others still doesn't fit.
About the only thing I agree with is Tokyo. I just don't like the walled off, characterless nature of it. I wish the earlier gens of Japanese street circuits would come back, like R5 and R11 and R246.
All in all, I'd love to hear your reasoning as to why you don't like tracks like Alsace and St. Croix when you
do like El Capitan, Road Atlanta, and Grand Valley. I don't think your logic is in any way cohesive, and it sounds more like complaining about repeating tracks from Sport rather than an indictment of the tracks themselves.
I chalk it up to another example of people grasping at straws to condemn GT7 because it's the cool kid thing to do. I too want more tracks, GT originals and real life, but I'm not going to resort to making counterfactual claims to reinforce that view.
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