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I completely understand your trying to be open minded and would love to embrace the idea of bikes being in GT but if I'm 100% honest, if PD included bikes and they were racing against the cars that would probably single handedly put me off buying GT for the first time in the series history.
You say that the two games are less cool seperately, I on the other hand think it's the other way round. There is nothing cool about smashing a bike and it's rider into a barrier as it tries to over take you out of a corner. GT is cool becuase of the way it focuses on cars, the way it's presented, the love for cars that comes through the development team and into the game. Including bikes would distract that cool from the cars, sure bikes are cool but bikes arn't cool compared to cars or if your a bike person it's the other way round. Gran Turismo is a car game and I know and I understand that games have allowed cars and bikes to compete in the past, but that doesn't make them cool or fun.
The whole idea of cars racing bikes together is just out of the question when it comes to any kind of serious car racing regardless of it being some fantasy modified road car against a GT car or a real life race with real life rules. The two don't compliment each other in any way, and in any race, unless the bike starts ahead and stays a decent distance from the nearest car, the car wins. It's simple science, the car will win in any colision and motorsport allows and features contact. Including bikes throws the balance in this respect way out of the window it changes the way you have to approach the game and how you drive in the game. It will seriousely change the nature of GT and not in a way that I personally view as progress for the series.
Regardless of your constant comments that GT doesn't simulate real life motorsports, you never see car a racing car b in real life etc, you are still missing the point that they are all still cars. No matter what combiantion of vehicles you line up on the grid in GT you are always racing a car against another car and that is how it should be.
Even from a marketing point of view the idea doesn't make sense, why would PD kill off one brand to merge it with an already successful one that doesn't need anything merging with it to succeed. They wouldn't.
Gran Turismo is a word heavilly linked with the spirit of driving and even though Gran Turismo is only a name, it embodies what the series is about. Driving, not riding.
EDIT: I find it odd that your saying "lets not bicker" in one post than your being confrontational and argumenative in your next.
You say that the two games are less cool seperately, I on the other hand think it's the other way round. There is nothing cool about smashing a bike and it's rider into a barrier as it tries to over take you out of a corner. GT is cool becuase of the way it focuses on cars, the way it's presented, the love for cars that comes through the development team and into the game. Including bikes would distract that cool from the cars, sure bikes are cool but bikes arn't cool compared to cars or if your a bike person it's the other way round. Gran Turismo is a car game and I know and I understand that games have allowed cars and bikes to compete in the past, but that doesn't make them cool or fun.
The whole idea of cars racing bikes together is just out of the question when it comes to any kind of serious car racing regardless of it being some fantasy modified road car against a GT car or a real life race with real life rules. The two don't compliment each other in any way, and in any race, unless the bike starts ahead and stays a decent distance from the nearest car, the car wins. It's simple science, the car will win in any colision and motorsport allows and features contact. Including bikes throws the balance in this respect way out of the window it changes the way you have to approach the game and how you drive in the game. It will seriousely change the nature of GT and not in a way that I personally view as progress for the series.
Regardless of your constant comments that GT doesn't simulate real life motorsports, you never see car a racing car b in real life etc, you are still missing the point that they are all still cars. No matter what combiantion of vehicles you line up on the grid in GT you are always racing a car against another car and that is how it should be.
Even from a marketing point of view the idea doesn't make sense, why would PD kill off one brand to merge it with an already successful one that doesn't need anything merging with it to succeed. They wouldn't.
Gran Turismo is a word heavilly linked with the spirit of driving and even though Gran Turismo is only a name, it embodies what the series is about. Driving, not riding.
EDIT: I find it odd that your saying "lets not bicker" in one post than your being confrontational and argumenative in your next.
