GT Sport: Sony Are Idiots

[flashfire926]

SvennoJ said:

flashfire926 said:
Dissapointing to say the least. Took 4 good years to develop a half-baked game.......Kaz is out of touch, he needs to fired and replaced by someone who doesn't travel the globe every 2 days and someone who would cut out the GT academy crap to focus on the actual game. Looking at this, it looks like the series will never get up to GT4 standards anymore.....what a shame.
And yes, points should be cut out even if they achieved their vision, because the vision was crap in the first place. I mean, just ONE car that older than 2009, and only 6 real world tracks, being online only......I mean, what were they thinking?

Between GT sport and it's online-only thing and Forza 7's lootboxes, I feel like both series will never be able to reach their pinnacle again (GT4 and Forza 3-4)

What are the gt4 standards? I loved that game, but I also remember grinding the same races to sell the prize car so I could buy what I actually wanted. It wasn't exactly stimulating gameplay. Same for the simple upgrade your car until there's zero competition, instead of getting better at driving yourself. Despite all the content I grew bored of it after finishing the campaign, nothing to do after.

What do you think the reception would have been if PD simply made GT4 with improved graphics?

Probably something like this (gt6 review)
Gran Turismo is no longer the superstar it once was, as we are no longer impressed by tons of cars and lovely polygons, just like most of us no longer think poodle-hair and Def Leppard are hot stuff. The world is a different place today, as is the racing genre, but Gran Turismo remains stuck in the past.


I expect more content to be added to GTS over time, if not, then the concerns of low content are justified.

By GT4 standards, I don't mean that the game literally has to be like GT4. What I mean by this is that no GT will be able to push the needle like GT3 and GT4. When GT4 came out, it was the gold standard for sim racers. 700 cars was insane at that time. The track collection was also outright insane for that time. The physics were top notch (not to say the physics aren't top notch now), and it was also one of the first games to be in 1080i resolution. They also introduced dirt racing to the mix. the game was miles ahead of competitors like forza 1 (and even forza 2 I would say). By GT4 standard I mean I want the new game to be as good in 2017 as GT4 was in 2005, if you get what I mean. 

Gt5 and Gt6 were still great, but they played too safe and were a bit stuck in the past. Gt5 had the used car market, paint chips, no livery editor, and 800 cars from GT4, which looked great in 2005, but not so much in 2010. Some tracks were astonishingly beautiful, but other like trial mountain (I think that's the name) were straight up imported from GT4 and slightly enhanced. GT5 is better than GT4 if you just straight up compare them, but if you take into influence the times the games came out, GT4 absolutely beats gt5.