*Dips toe in the water*
From what I've seen of the intent of the coming update, it'll be useless for me. I'll admit if I cared about being a "world famous GT player" I'd spend much more time with this game perfecting setups and making sure I have every "best line" worked out, and therefore I'd be getting possibly double the enjoyment out of this game as is currently the case. But my desire to buy this game rested nearly entirely on driving cool cars at cool locations and having my own private world-class collection of some of the greatest cars in history. This update does nothing I'm aware of to enhance that. PD has no doubt by now seen the uproar, heard the outcry, felt the heat with unit sales (all the while knowing many of those are multiple sales to single individuals for triple screen play and defect returns from those whose PS3s had some sort of problem reading the discs) and while a few fixes here and there for wonky physics has been downloaded to us, IMO far too many still exist to be anywhere near happy about a feature I've never even seen wished for on these forums. What next, PD, birds flying across the landscape to tax the capabilities of my PS3 yet that tiny bit more? This game needs more realistic mechanical breakdown of the tuning options, better organization of the user interface menus (count me as fan of GT5's homepage; though I do like the development of having the menu from the Start button, I'm confused as to the unavailability of that feature while at the car selection page), either better innate AI or a method for us the players to adjust the competition level, and we get a Stig to show us up. I watched the video attached to the announcement and unless there's some button the demo doesn't show going to a much better data analysis tool it's all just more shiny bits and useless twits type of stuff. It's painfully obvious at times no one with veto power at PD actually ran through this game before delivering it. A virtual 7-post machine would be HUGE to get a better overall idea of how the changes we make in tuning might affect the car on-track. See, I'm not adverse to improving my performance, but I'm not a copycat. I don't need to feel I'm walking in the footsteps of the greats of motorsports. Does Jackie Stewart at least commentate on what the compubot is doing so much better than us? I may do something this time I've never done before. If I read on here that the update fixes nothing, just delivers this gaudy bauble, I may seek how to avoid accepting this update without ruining what precious little of the game I do enjoy.
... great start for the weekend!👍
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