Will GT6 have a boring A spec mode?

[Snaeper]

I suspect we'll see a greater emphasis on Seasonal Events than we have in the past, thus making A-Spec never ending until the next GT game.

 

[AnAL0G]

Kaz's remark about appealing to the overwhelmimg majority of players being casual seems to indicate a continuation of a low difficulty level in career.

Well, didn't the recent gameplay from Tokyo show that the AI is still driving in a slalom style?

I don't see why they can't just have differing degrees of difficulty in career mode. Vary the payouts, restrictions on cars and tires, length of races etc. and you can easily go from super easy to super hard with the check of a box. The game is way way beyond the point where it has to be one size fits all. And the good part is, these options don't have to take up a lot of programming time. No cars to design, no sounds to record, just adding a few more layers and options in menus.

I don't think the difficulty is the problem. It's easy to make it difficult... right now PD's difficulty is scaled by how much of a handicap the driver starts out with. You can never get pole position, always start from 5th and further back, sometimes 12th, etc. More difficult currently = more handicap. What we want is actually a specific kind of difficulty that is instead based on an intelligent and genuinely fast-racing AI.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I don't think the difficulty is the problem. It's easy to make it difficult... right now PD's difficulty is scaled by how much of a handicap the driver starts out with. You can never get pole position, always start from 5th and further back, sometimes 12th, etc. More difficult currently = more handicap. What we want is actually a specific kind of difficulty that is instead based on an intelligent and genuinely fast-racing AI.

Agreed, AI needs dramatic improvement but even then, the game needs various modes of difficulty and payout levels to keep the offline, purist diehards happy, and the guys who want to only race online happy, and everyone in between. A generic, one size fits all Aspec mode, is bound to make one or the other, or maybe both groups, awfully unhappy.

 

[AnAL0G]

Yeah, I agree. It would be nice if we could organize online events that actually cover 4-5 races like A-Spec, with a payout for each individual race, and then an event prize at the end based on the overall points standings. I guess the difficulty would be in finding a way to implement that without people cheating or exploiting it.

 

[TheeFrogmanlego]

All the gt's took long because of those horrid licence test that would cap of a certain part of the game... Each GT had one event we would milk.. in one it was the stock car cup * no mods allowed * All the races were five laps but paid like 90 grand per win once you obtained the viper all you had to do was take it on autumn ring mini reverse and milk it like there was no tomorrow.. What I miss is winning exclusive cars from certain races.. like I mean exclusive unobtainable from the dealer cars..