Since the game was called GT7 I expected it to be a sequel to GT6.
I have played all the GT games except for GT Sport (.I played the beta but didn’t purchase the game because I wanted a single player game). I thought all the previous GT games were excellent but I regret my purchase of GT7.
It should have been called GT Sport 2 or GT 2022, anything except GT7 in which case I wouldn’t have pre-ordered the game.
With the exception of Trial Mountain and Deep Forest all the original tracks in GT6 are gone.
The number of events are drastically reduced.
The number of cars is reduced from over 1,200 to under 500 and some are only available on a rotational basis in a blatant attempt to push micro transactions.
In GT6 all the cars were available for purchase all of the time thus removing the need to chase credits.
The time trials in GT6 usually allowed tuning with an occasional trial using a stock car.
I am an average driver, using a controller and auto transmission but I enjoyed tuning and this allowed me to be reasonably competitive. BOP time trials do not interest me and there should be one tuned plus one BOP so players can have a choice.
There were weekly seasonal races with good repeatable payouts for cars below 600PP
This is an example from 2017
Expert Level Ferrari Challenge
- Ascari Full Track
- Normal cars, 550PP Max, Sports/Medium compounds or less
- Gold: 684,000cr; Silver: 411,000cr, Bronze: 342,000cr
- Gift: Gold: Ferrari 365 GTB4 ’71
- Silver: Matte Orange paint chip
- Bronze: GT PASTELTONE 009-W paint chip
My current method of grinding credits is the 30 mins Le Sarthe race which I do once or twice a day then turn the game off.
The UI for selecting events is awful. To do any event on multiple circuits you have to do a world tour and go hunting for it. Why not just have a list of events and tracks as they did in previous GT games. Of course this would also highlight how few events there actually are.
In GT 6 you could unlock the races in in Championships to be done as single races once the Championship had been completed. This feature has vanished. I would like to do the last races at Nordschleife from the WTC 700 and 800 championships but have no wish to do the preceding ones. Adding this feature would instantly increase the number of single races available.
In GT6 you could save and load your best laps for the track time trials, which was useful for tuning. Another feature that has vanished along with the Data Logger.
The AI seems to be no better and cars routinely crash into the back of me. No idea if this removes the clean race bonus since there is no indication plus they should just remove it from events and increase all payouts by 50%. I can see its use in online racing but not against AI cars.
As for custom races, apart from the terrible payouts you can not filter on Country, Manufacturer, Date of Build, PP, Tyres or anything useful except Gr1 etc.
If I want to do an American 70s muscle car race I have to select them from my garage. Far too time consuming to be worth the effort.
I prefer to upgrade and race road cars in the 400 - 600 PP range and this was fine in the previous GT games but GT7 seems to have a bigger emphasis on race cars which is presumably a carry over from GT Sport.
In conclusion this game should not have been called GT7 because it does not feel like a a sequel to GT6 unlike the previous games in the series that felt like a natural progression. It is also the last GT game I will purchase.
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