GT8 Single Player Campaign Concept

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The player progresses through time. Starting in the 40’s, then 50’s, then 60’s etc up into current time.

You start with street cars in each decade, when you’ve completed all of those races, then you do a championship using a race car from what’s available in game from that decade.

Once complete, all the cars from that decade you now automatically own one of each. If you want extras to tune, you have to buy them.

For replay-ability once you’ve finished a decade… let’s say you’re in the 60’s decade and used the Camaro for a race, it’ll show you already used the Camaro for that race out of a checklist of cars you can use. So pick a different muscle car for that particular race to earn an extra race bonus. Gives incentive to run different cars and the races again.

So that portion would require you to use stock vehicles, no tuning. Ideally, they could make it so you qualify for each race and Sophy’s difficulty is based off your lap time. If you want to botch your qualifying to make it “easier” well that’s on you and it’s no different than knocking the games difficulty down from realistic or hard to beginner or easy. I think most would want to make it a fun close race for themselves.

Once a decade is unlocked, another batch of races are unlocked for that decade but now those races require tuned versions of those cars with a recommended PP rating and tire compound, possibly bumping up by 150-200pp. Whatever amount that really wakes up the car. You can always complete with just one fav car of yours but there remains the checklist of what cars you can use and have used.

So this gives the player the choice, once I’ve won this decades championship, do I fully complete this decades race events “car checklists” before moving on or come back to it later to tie up loose ends.

I feel like this would give the game some feeling of purpose or progression rather than just doing random races, earning credits, and collecting cars.
 
Problem is unless Polyphony can be bothered to add another 30+ cars for the '40s and '50s, there just is not too much variety right now. I think the Willys Jeep is only car from 1940s currently, and only 4(?) road cars from 1950s right now.

Though this would give them reason to go back to people like Jay Leno and scan some cars. I never understood why polyphony or Kaz go to these people and places just for one car only when people like Jay Leno has entire garage full of classic and antique cars that are screaming to be digitally preserved... Early 20th century steam car? Nope. But a hot-rodded Toronado that appears only in one game? Sure... let's waste our resources on that...
 
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