That's this generation of consoles. But I can buy gt6 for ps3 again if I want to. That's a shipped game. Or I can download it digitally. Just because gts isn't released doesn't make them 'not real'. That justification is wrong. You and others that feel that way are acting like PD have closed up shop. I don't even get the exaggeration. Yeah they lack the communication of others, but that's it.
Look, perhaps "not real" isn't the right term to help you understand. But what do you call a developer who talks about how great their game will be, how soon it will be out, how it will revolutionise the genre, and yet so far hasn't shown anything that's even remotely noteworthy given the hardware and has both dropped an open beta and delayed release with an unknown time frame.
This for a game that, on the surface, is really not that complicated given the tech that they already have available from the PS3 generation. There's not a lot of cars and tracks. Scapes are probably a fair bit of work, but if they're delaying the game for full Scapes integration then that's a mistake. They have what sounds like a fairly functional physics system already, from reports of people who have played it. They have static weather conditions and non-dynamic lighting, which is a step back from what they'd previously done. The online thing is interesting, but it seems to me to be more of a question of how they want it set up than whether it's technically possible. Other games have been doing these things for years.
And yet nearly four years after their last game and they're still not able to give a release date or fully shown all GTS's features. What do you call a developer that does this to distinguish them from developers that set targets and releases games within the few months of delay that seem to be fairly industry standard these days?
Seriously, I can accept that "not a real developer" isn't exactly an accurate way to describe them. But I feel that there's a distinction that needs to be made between developers that release fairly regularly like T10 or Codemasters, and developers like Polyphony where there's a real chance that GTS actually gets pushed to PS5. Undisciplined developers? Aspirational developers? Eternal developers?
I don't know why they're taking this long to release the game, but I know it's coming.
No, you don't. You're hopeful, but nobody knows at this point.
What we do know is that given what they've showed so far they're a long way from a finished game, at least the game that they have described.
It's not vaporware though seems like some here would have you believe it is!
It's pretty solidly encroaching on The Last Guardian territory though. Not vapourware, but possibly entering development hell which isn't generally great news.
One hopes that it ends up as a Last Guardian (late and not great but gets here in the end) rather than a Scalebound. Of course, it would be the best for everyone if it turns out like GTA V. But it could be the next Half Life 2: Episode 3, the game that everyone knows exists (or at least existed at one point) but no one knows when (or if) it will be released.
's finest. Always giving comedians a run for their money.
