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- GT5Racer0
Before haters start to hate, I love GT as a simulator. It's good fun. I have also reinstalled it twice on my one year old 250GB Slim to make sure that the loading issues I've described below are not the fault of my PS3. I also refuse to drop money on an SSD. Don't bother suggesting it.
Most annoying gripe about the GUI:
It's obvious that hitting circle doesn't send you back a menu like you would expect from a typical Playstation game. Once you hit circle, the game has to animate the cursor moving across the screen onto the red box, then you have to hit cross to initiate the "Close" command. I don't understand the purpose for two button presses to accomplish one action. There is already a loading screen and or a spinning circle over the cursor when navigating between menus. This just adds to what feels like couple seconds of waiting.
We're in 2011 here. The only loading screens we should see are the game booting up, loading the car's 3D model (not stupid thumbnails..), launching a race, then returning to the menu after a race. I shouldn't see a loading screen or spinning circle over the arrow for each menu that I want to get to.
Navigating through this game just feels clunky.. I prefer GT5 Prologue's menu. It loads faster and looks better. Plus, I can store multiple car tuning setups in Prologue. I just don't know anymore... Will we ever get patches to fix these issues, maybe improve GT5's GUI? Or does PD already have their own special version of the game (They probably do) that they won't release to us, and that version has the best menu system and more features.
And when I'm in the Arcade mode car and track selection menus, I shouldn't have to wait for silly thumbnails to load. Two player split-screen especially has thumbnail loading lag. It's kind of embarrassing when friends come over to play GT5 and they can't figure out what car the game is trying to load, at least for a few seconds. Scroll really fast through them and you'll notice that the tiny pictures have to load, then the 3D model loads, so you don't necessarily know which car is selected unless you look at the comment box which is really hard to see on a small TV. Can PD at least install those thumbnails to the hard drive, or compress them somehow to make them load faster. How about just using plain old text as opposed to any pictures, then load the 3D model once you've had the text selected for a moment? Maybe a vertically scrolling list? Wouldn't that make sense?
I want these issues fixed. They make navigating through GT a bit irritating. Can Kaz comment if we'll ever have GUI improvements? I hope so.
Kind of off topic, but...
Some new features that could get patched in... Disable limit on number of favorite cars for use in arcade more. Allow the selection of multiple standard cars and change the oil on all of them simultaneously (provided you have the credits). Revert car to stock tuning (GT Life). Another good idea would be to give use the option to refresh all thumbnails so that when you reinstall the game, you don't have create a new thumbnail manually for each of your modified cars. I could add more ideas, but I'm going to end this rant for now.
Edit (I can keep adding ideas I guess):
How about allowing us to rename our cars. Sometimes I'll have doubles of a car, tuned and non-tuned and it can get confusing if they are the same color.
Most annoying gripe about the GUI:
It's obvious that hitting circle doesn't send you back a menu like you would expect from a typical Playstation game. Once you hit circle, the game has to animate the cursor moving across the screen onto the red box, then you have to hit cross to initiate the "Close" command. I don't understand the purpose for two button presses to accomplish one action. There is already a loading screen and or a spinning circle over the cursor when navigating between menus. This just adds to what feels like couple seconds of waiting.
We're in 2011 here. The only loading screens we should see are the game booting up, loading the car's 3D model (not stupid thumbnails..), launching a race, then returning to the menu after a race. I shouldn't see a loading screen or spinning circle over the arrow for each menu that I want to get to.
Navigating through this game just feels clunky.. I prefer GT5 Prologue's menu. It loads faster and looks better. Plus, I can store multiple car tuning setups in Prologue. I just don't know anymore... Will we ever get patches to fix these issues, maybe improve GT5's GUI? Or does PD already have their own special version of the game (They probably do) that they won't release to us, and that version has the best menu system and more features.
And when I'm in the Arcade mode car and track selection menus, I shouldn't have to wait for silly thumbnails to load. Two player split-screen especially has thumbnail loading lag. It's kind of embarrassing when friends come over to play GT5 and they can't figure out what car the game is trying to load, at least for a few seconds. Scroll really fast through them and you'll notice that the tiny pictures have to load, then the 3D model loads, so you don't necessarily know which car is selected unless you look at the comment box which is really hard to see on a small TV. Can PD at least install those thumbnails to the hard drive, or compress them somehow to make them load faster. How about just using plain old text as opposed to any pictures, then load the 3D model once you've had the text selected for a moment? Maybe a vertically scrolling list? Wouldn't that make sense?
I want these issues fixed. They make navigating through GT a bit irritating. Can Kaz comment if we'll ever have GUI improvements? I hope so.
Kind of off topic, but...
Some new features that could get patched in... Disable limit on number of favorite cars for use in arcade more. Allow the selection of multiple standard cars and change the oil on all of them simultaneously (provided you have the credits). Revert car to stock tuning (GT Life). Another good idea would be to give use the option to refresh all thumbnails so that when you reinstall the game, you don't have create a new thumbnail manually for each of your modified cars. I could add more ideas, but I'm going to end this rant for now.
Edit (I can keep adding ideas I guess):
How about allowing us to rename our cars. Sometimes I'll have doubles of a car, tuned and non-tuned and it can get confusing if they are the same color.
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