As far as I can tell all of the arcade-style fluff can be turned off. It seems that they are making efforts to open up the sim market to the more casual racing game player whilst not compromising on any of the sim-iness.
Certainly, it wasn't the epic trailers we are used to but it seems they are trying to appeal to the Forza player initially, hopefully, in the future, we'll see some of the classic style trailers of PC1 and 2
It seems first impressions have put some people off, SMS are going to have a bit of an uphill struggle to convince many formerly loyal fans that this is still the game they know and love.
For me, I'm going to reserve judgement until I get my hands on it. Unless something comes up that really puts me off, I know I'm going to play it anyway. If by any chance I'm disappointed I'll probably turn to AMS2 or Raceroom as I've enjoyed those quite a bit when I've played them.
Hey Tank! Been a long time!
I get what you are saying, there are plenty of games where the initial impression is massively underwhelming and I end up buying them anyway, only to be disappointed again (GRID is a fine example). So I might end up getting the game as well but for now, I’m not interested, not even to follow up the news on it. I also saw the GT7 reveal a few days ago, that looked a lot more interesting than the PC3 trailer IMO.
I haven’t bought many new games recently. I think the only game I bought this year is SnowRunner, having a lot of fun with that. For what’s coming later this year AC Valhalla is the one I’m looking forward to the most, also Horizon 2 (not the racing game, the Zero Dawn thing) and then maybe Cyberpunk. Yep, not a single racing game in my top 3.
Also with this lockdown madness I actually picked up on childhood memories from decades ago, bought a couple of small LEGO sets (Speed Champion cars) to start with, but this quickly grew into a full blown hobby, even bought the 7000+ bricks Millenium Falcon. And a bunch of LEGO pirate ships, I never knew next to cars I also like pirate ships, yaaaarrrr!! I guess your alter ego hobby are the Tanks.
Now that quarantine rules are dropping left and right, starting to focus on social life more again. Going to buy an inflatable kayak this weekend and combined with the camping gear and tent I already have from festivals, this will make for some fine holiday equipment.
Back on racing games the only thing I still seem to do is the habbit of getting the daily/weekly rewards in GT Sport, FH4 and The Crew 2. Screw those live service content drip feeding systems, I hate those with a passion. If only we could go back to having a FULL game at launch and maybe an expansion pack after a year or so.