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Ande3200
True there is still tomorrow, but with no server mainterance up it feels more likely that the update could drop around the live event, it happen last year once to.



You bring up many great points, but forza motorsport is not better as a career mode is concerned, its worse, ac barely has any career at all, project cars just like ac those not have any progression involve with the cars or any option to upgrade,

I dont think people playing gt4 on emulators for arcade mode, its for career mode clearly witch was fantastic in gt4, and looking on the mods like specll and re-tuned for gt4 makes things really intresting.

A new gt game could solve a lot if its done right, specially if it means if gt8 would have full sophy ai integration. While new cars and tracks dosent solve a lot for gt7 it makes it more enjoyable to have cars we want,
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But I wasn't referring to campaign mode, I was referring to 'Free Mode' 'Quick race' 'Arcade Mode' etc...

Gran Turismo 7 has a great and very varied campaign mode, but my complaint and that of many is about the Arcade mode, where said mode is very poorly treated since GT5

Instead of moving forward they have gone backwards in this mode, they could have made a perfect Arcade mode for Gran Turismo 7, in the style of Gran Turismo 4 but updated

After all, the GT7 world map (the island) is a tribute to Gran Turismo 4 (Although I prefer the first version that PD showed)

So, if you have fulfilled many things in the campaign and events, why don't you do the same with Arcade Mode?

Let's remember that before Spec 2.0 you couldn't even change cars before going to a custom race, time trial, drifting or quick race...

Now we can change cars before a race in Quick race mode, custom race, drifting, etc... But that should have been at the beginning! (And they only let you choose the cars in your garage)

What I mean by Assetto Corsa and Forza Motorsport is that in both games you have all the cars unlocked without having to do anything

Many people don't want to or can't and they simply want to take a car and race to their liking and test the sensations behind the wheel of each of the more than 500 cars that the game has.

And it's sad that this Gran Turismo doesn't have it, and in fact it's the only car game that doesn't allow you to drive the car you want from the beginning.

And Gran Turismo 4 is played by many people on YouTube thanks to its wonderful Arcade mode, many people love it, and its music is fantastic (and even a meme) and with the mods it improves a lot

I would love for Yamauchi to copy exactly the same Arcade mode from Gran Turismo 4 with Gran Turismo 8, but I have been waiting for many years and I have lost hope

But I will keep waiting because despite the problems I love Gran Turismo and I hope it recovers the Arcade mode as it deserves.
 
nathanh1108
Just because there isn't a new track in the events schedule, doesn't mean a new track isn't coming, though?
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I mean sure?

You said: Alternatively (and this is a more sensible option from a marketing perspective) PD might be holding back the update so they can preview the new track at the event.

To which I replied that the schedule of the event is out and your theory is out of the window.

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GranTorino91
And Gran Turismo 4 is played by many people on YouTube thanks to its wonderful Arcade mode, many people love it, and its music is fantastic (and even a meme) and with the mods it improves a lot

I would love for Yamauchi to copy exactly the same Arcade mode from Gran Turismo 4 with Gran Turismo 8, but I have been waiting for many years and I have lost hope

But I will keep waiting because despite the problems I love Gran Turismo and I hope it recovers the Arcade mode as it deserves.
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The draw of GT4 really isn't it's arcade mode, I'm afraid. It's the massive career with dozens of branching paths that keeps people coming back, and that's absolutely the biggest lesson PD needs to take from it's continued fame.
 
hyperspeed980
The draw of GT4 really isn't it's arcade mode, I'm afraid. It's the massive career with dozens of branching paths that keeps people coming back, and that's absolutely the biggest lesson PD needs to take from it's continued fame.
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I understand perfectly, and I know that Gran Turismo 4's GT Mode is perfect

Even so, there are many people enjoying its Arcade mode

But I think that Gran Turismo 7 has a really good campaign and events

The only thing missing is a Arcade Mode Gran Turismo 4 style
 
A summary of what's going on with the seemingly non-existent June update and the old Circuit gilles Villeneuve chestnut - plus the potential that for this month, "Famine's law of inconvenience" may have been transferred to me...

 
GlamFM
It seems you have missed the part where they just released the schedule for the event and there won’t be a new track.
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At GTWS events PD usually include promo features from partners, be it VGT’s or what have you. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is previewed in this manner. Either way, something out of the norm appears to be going on with this months update.

There’s also the big unknown regarding what part GT7 will play in Sony’s PS5 Pro reveal. We know Sony doesn’t have any major AAA titles lined up this year so the expectation is upgraded titles will form a major part of their presentation. We’ve already seen what PD did with PSVR2 and Spec II so I would expect at least one more major update beyond the regular monthly fare.
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Is there a way to track the number of current GT4 players?

But if a decent amount of people really are still playing, that's cool.
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Retro gaming is a niche activity. No one can really track numbers but I’d be surprised if it was more than a few dozen active players.

Meanwhile GT7 is currently the 21st most played PS5/PS4 title and the leading Sony 1st Party game after Helldivers 2.

Gaming today is a completely different beast to the PS2 days. You can always learn from whats gone before, but many things are viewed through rose tinted glasses.

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That’s why I’ll take cars over tracks. I’ll work with whatever layout. I just need to replicate my grids.

Anyway, latest icons up the top.
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GranTorino91
But I wasn't referring to campaign mode, I was referring to 'Free Mode' 'Quick race' 'Arcade Mode' etc...

Gran Turismo 7 has a great and very varied campaign mode, but my complaint and that of many is about the Arcade mode, where said mode is very poorly treated since GT5

Instead of moving forward they have gone backwards in this mode, they could have made a perfect Arcade mode for Gran Turismo 7, in the style of Gran Turismo 4 but updated

After all, the GT7 world map (the island) is a tribute to Gran Turismo 4 (Although I prefer the first version that PD showed)

So, if you have fulfilled many things in the campaign and events, why don't you do the same with Arcade Mode?

Let's remember that before Spec 2.0 you couldn't even change cars before going to a custom race, time trial, drifting or quick race...

Now we can change cars before a race in Quick race mode, custom race, drifting, etc... But that should have been at the beginning! (And they only let you choose the cars in your garage)

What I mean by Assetto Corsa and Forza Motorsport is that in both games you have all the cars unlocked without having to do anything

Many people don't want to or can't and they simply want to take a car and race to their liking and test the sensations behind the wheel of each of the more than 500 cars that the game has.

And it's sad that this Gran Turismo doesn't have it, and in fact it's the only car game that doesn't allow you to drive the car you want from the beginning.

And Gran Turismo 4 is played by many people on YouTube thanks to its wonderful Arcade mode, many people love it, and its music is fantastic (and even a meme) and with the mods it improves a lot

I would love for Yamauchi to copy exactly the same Arcade mode from Gran Turismo 4 with Gran Turismo 8, but I have been waiting for many years and I have lost hope

But I will keep waiting because despite the problems I love Gran Turismo and I hope it recovers the Arcade mode as it deserves.
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So you was talking about arcade mode my bad, i never use it so its not a big trouble for me, their is other car games besides gran turismo, where you have to buy or win the cars to have them witch is both forza horizon and the crew series,

The most important improvment for gt8 would in my eyes be a more proper career mode with sophy ai intergration.
And it feels like pd is waiting to put any effort into single player until they can put sophy ai integreted into it.
 
LammersXJR
At GTWS events PD usually include promo features from partners, be it VGT’s or what have you. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is previewed in this manner. Either way, something out of the norm appears to be going on with this month’s update
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If a new track was there and ready to show they would race on it. It would show up as “TBA” in the schedule as it always has.

I don’t think anything out of the norm is going on with this month’s update - I think there is just no update this month.
 
It looks like there won’t be a June update, so maybe it’s an early July update instead. In that case we probably won’t see the next update after that until late August, allowing PD staff to cool down over the summer.
 
RandomCarGuy17
Are you kidding? I got back and play the first 4 GTs just because the career modes were just so much fun. I've probably have played GT2 alone 10-100x over GT7 this year alone.
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Really though this is so wild to hear. Every time I boot up GT4 I find another thing to hyperfocus on for the next three weeks.
 
GlamFM
This.

There are ways to credits people are not taking advantage of I think.
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Well yes, but no.
While significantly better players may only need a single lap to achieve the times required, I am not one of those, no guessing where the cut off is:
The time it would take me to get a gold TT to earn 2 millions each week is significantly higher than just doing 3 Tokyo runs.
CE might be a different story as a singular track inclucing sectors with a few trial and error laps propably is faster than 23 minutes (solely aiming for the money).

Anyway, taking away the grind and simply doing it because you want to would be the far end of the solution.
 
SSAuto
A summary of what's going on with the seemingly non-existent June update and the old Circuit gilles Villeneuve chestnut - plus the potential that for this month, "Famine's law of inconvenience" may have been transferred to me...

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from what we know it could arrive next week although not as likely, as next month
Probably, as they often do, PDi chose to focus on the GTWS and moved the update
In a few days we will know how much actually but for now with a "presumed" month's break, we can expect great things to come
 
Wasn't there an occasion where Polyphony originally intended to use a new circuit at an event, but they had to change their plans as the circuit still needed a bit more development time?
 
05XR8
Really interested to see what cars are going to make people happy for two updates back to back.
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3 even. We got the GTOne before the NSX.
 
05XR8
True, but wasn’t back to back. That GT-One was a couple updates ago.
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Oh is that so? My bad.
 
Will anyone from GTPlanet be at the Montreal event?

Will there be a Q&A session with Kaz?

We rarely get answers to everything we want to know. But after a good 12 months of little to no official communication from PD & Kaz. I’d like to think we’d at least get the curtesy of an update on the status of GT7 and some broad ambitions for the future.

We don’t need specifics. But it’s getting a little disrespectful to the Gran Turismo community just to pop-up once a month with silhouettes and a few bland official account tweets. No other developer in PlayStation 1st Party is this secretive.
 
LammersXJR
Will anyone from GTPlanet be at the Montreal event?

Will there be a Q&A session with Kaz?

We rarely get answers to everything we want to know. But after a good 12 months of little to no official communication from PD & Kaz. I’d like to think we’d at least get the curtesy of an update on the status of GT7 and some broad ambitions for the future.

We don’t need specifics. But it’s getting a little disrespectful to the Gran Turismo community just to pop-up once a month with silhouettes and a few bland official account tweets. No other developer in PlayStation 1st Party is this secretive.
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If we had optimism like yours, the world would be such a better place to be...
 
LammersXJR
Will anyone from GTPlanet be at the Montreal event?

Will there be a Q&A session with Kaz?

We rarely get answers to everything we want to know. But after a good 12 months of little to no official communication from PD & Kaz. I’d like to think we’d at least get the curtesy of an update on the status of GT7 and some broad ambitions for the future.

We don’t need specifics. But it’s getting a little disrespectful to the Gran Turismo community just to pop-up once a month with silhouettes and a few bland official account tweets. No other developer in PlayStation 1st Party is this secretive.
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This is one of the most entitled perspectives I’ve seen for a while. Years ago it was totally normal for game developers to operate in silence unless asked by journalists. The choice not to embrace various communication channels is not a matter of disrespect. It’s just keeping it old school and business as usual. Kaz doesn’t even have to post the silhouette teasers, but he does.

The GT franchise has always sold like warm bread, so I don’t even know why PD would want to change their ways.
 
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