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So a lot of us have been bitching about the length of time it's taken PD and Sony to get this one out the door with accusations flying against KY and his OCD-perfectionism or Sony's accountants looking for the perfect launch window but I've just realised it's neither of them that's really to blame and I have to get this off my chest.
It's the so called "fans" who have caused this. Not all of them but a significant number. People who moan about trees and insist they look realistic - have you any idea how many polygons it takes to make a non cardboard cutout tree? With realistic variegated leaves? You really want PD to plough another six months of engine optimisation and modeling into something that's going to fly past you at 120mph? Well good for you I hope it's worth the wait.
Then there's the reverse lights issue. Not incredibly time consuming in comparison but it's another couple of months at least to remodel all the lights for all the cars, just so that when you pop out of the cockpit view and go backwards ... ooooooh look - SHINY!
The real timesink, tho, I'm pretty sure - damage. "I wanna play burnout!" congratulations nimrod, you guys set the game back at least 9 months and probably closer to a year for a feature that even the developer himself thought was retarded.
Anything else we could all moan about while we're at it? How about the fact that the hood or petrol caps don't pop when you press a release button? I mean, come on, surely that's embarrassing too? Or the fact that you can't adjust the mirrors? Anyone would be forgiven for thinking it wasn't actually real.
Newsflash - it's not actually real. It's a driving simulator. The important bits are how much fun it is to race, how realistic the simulation and they've had that nailed since GT1 but, instead we have the age old argument of eye candy over gameplay. The gameplay was ready 3 years ago people! If we hadn't been so obsessed with all the things that don't affect that all important element maybe we'd have all been playing it since then.
But hey - moan away. I'm sure there's plenty more nits to be picked. If enough people complain loudly enough for PD to notice, about a stupid new niggle every month we might just be able to delay the release indefinitely. Wouldn't that be just swell
It's the so called "fans" who have caused this. Not all of them but a significant number. People who moan about trees and insist they look realistic - have you any idea how many polygons it takes to make a non cardboard cutout tree? With realistic variegated leaves? You really want PD to plough another six months of engine optimisation and modeling into something that's going to fly past you at 120mph? Well good for you I hope it's worth the wait.
Then there's the reverse lights issue. Not incredibly time consuming in comparison but it's another couple of months at least to remodel all the lights for all the cars, just so that when you pop out of the cockpit view and go backwards ... ooooooh look - SHINY!
The real timesink, tho, I'm pretty sure - damage. "I wanna play burnout!" congratulations nimrod, you guys set the game back at least 9 months and probably closer to a year for a feature that even the developer himself thought was retarded.
Anything else we could all moan about while we're at it? How about the fact that the hood or petrol caps don't pop when you press a release button? I mean, come on, surely that's embarrassing too? Or the fact that you can't adjust the mirrors? Anyone would be forgiven for thinking it wasn't actually real.
Newsflash - it's not actually real. It's a driving simulator. The important bits are how much fun it is to race, how realistic the simulation and they've had that nailed since GT1 but, instead we have the age old argument of eye candy over gameplay. The gameplay was ready 3 years ago people! If we hadn't been so obsessed with all the things that don't affect that all important element maybe we'd have all been playing it since then.
But hey - moan away. I'm sure there's plenty more nits to be picked. If enough people complain loudly enough for PD to notice, about a stupid new niggle every month we might just be able to delay the release indefinitely. Wouldn't that be just swell