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SvennoJ on 23 October 2017
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DonFerrari said:
SvennoJ said:

Some reviewers are holding off until the actual online competition starts in November. Plus I think the bad word of mouth won't last long. The initial shock of criticizing GTS for what it isn't will wear off and people will enjoy it for what it is.

Despite some online hickups I'm enjoying it immensely, can't stop playing. I've already put 20 hours in the game playing until 3am every night. Campaign 87% done, still some endurance races to go and more tracks to master. Then check out VR and get online after.

It still outsolf Forza 7 3:1 in its first week in the UK, higher than gt6, yet only a third of GT5's first week.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-23-gran-turismo-sport-finishes-first-in-uk-chart

It seems opinions from people actual playing the game are that the online racing is excellent, best yet, and that there actually is quite a it of single player content. Word of mouth of actual players seems good.

DriveClub still went on to sell quite a bit, despite being actually broken in the beginning. Online didn't work at all for weeks, it took months before all the initial functionality was fully up and running. GT still has the name, and actually doesn't disappoint when you start to play it. I doubt it will have the same fate as DriveClub and will sell quite well over the holiday period.

Holiday will be interesting...

Are you sure you only have 20h? You seem to have played a lot more than it.

And I had 10h only to do the demo.

It starts back at zero, I had another 10 on the demo as well, plus another 2 that weren't recorded when I kept playing during server maintenance and lost progress.

22h is a lot since last Tuesday! It looks like I'll be spending more time on the campaign than I did with for example the original Forza Horizon. I finished that in 16h, apart from getting the rest of the barn finds and cars. That game was quite small, especially compared to TDU that came out before, yet it was never criticized for having a small campaign afaik...
As for actual driving time it looks like I'll probably match that. I'm sitting on 12h driving time at the moment according to the stats. The experience with the demo (and during sever maintenance) made repeating those parts a lot easier (won that pesky 1h endurance race with 15sec lead this time on the first attempt) plus I already know Suzuka and Nurburgring like the back of my hand and have been getting gold on those at practically the first attempt.
There's 2 more endurance races to do plus a final battle on Nururgring which is probably on the longer side, and 7 more (new) tracks to master in track experience. To grind the rest of the cars would take more time in GTS as well. Plus I'm not really pushing my times on the leaderboards, just completing all the challenges with gold.

The campaign is definitely a lot smaller than previous GT games, and is very much geared to teaching you to drive well and not touch other cars. All to prepare youfor the real campaign in GT Sport and the competitions starting in November. It however doesn't feel too small, nor repetitive and is a good way to fill up your garage. I've got 49 cars now, only bought 2 myself so far.