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Actual content starts at 3rd paragraph below, but this doubles as an introduction post.
Hi, first post here, but I started playing Gran Turismo on a PlayStation that's within a month of the age I am, 2 and 4 were my clear favorites, but I fell out of racing games for a little while during high school and so completely missed (and I mean completely) GT5 and 6. I'm a much better racer than I was back then, and I've been playing GT2 on an emulator, biding my time for a GT for my PS4 since I got rid of my PS3 too early before I thought about getting 5 or 6. (I think I was a little put off by the GT4 cars imported in place back when I first heard about it, and I was so late to the game after all that I just decided to hold out for a new one.)
So I've been really hyped for GTS ever since even the teaser trailer. I'm excited for VR support, and I freaking love the car roster so far, I'm really happy that everything is completely redone, this feels like exactly what I've been waiting for. The only complaint is that the PS4 controllers don't have pressure sensitive face buttons anymore, but honestly, it's about time I got a force feedback wheel anyway.
Now for the complaints: the unveiling event was pretty bad. I'm not usually down on eSports, but this was a shame. The announcers did a pretty great job, but for the most part, it seems the only time people talked to them at all is when they were being told to cut to a video. There were tons of audio issues, and quite clearly they had no control whatsoever over the cameramen, or the guy working on replays, or the guy working on which cars to watch during the races, there was no communication whatsoever, none of it had any flow, and by far the worst part, they had no clue whatsoever who was even racing which car in the last race! I'm 99% sure the real winners of the last race were Carlos Martinez and Yusuke Tomabayashi, not T. Takashi, like the overlay and the commentators said, excepting the pro commentator dude in charge of the trophy ceremony. I suspect Takashi was in the Subaru for the second half of the race, but his name was plastered all over the stream during the end, even though the winner didn't look anything like Takashi to me.
The game glitches I expected, we're still months from release, hopefully they can find a way to keep the cars labeled even if the drivers switch next time, but I'd expect someone would have seen that coming and made sure the announcers had a list of who the hell they were talking about. Replay cams on the oval need to not clip through the wall, I have no clue at all what the problem was that made the last race restart, but you know, glitches.
The pro commentator dude was obviously there for star power, and seemed contractually obligated to be positive about the event, but he seemed pretty fed up at the closing ceremony, and just wanted to close up and go home. The winners weren't very cooperative, but neither of them were native English speakers either, which is something I'd expect he'd be used to... He was just hurrying everything along, and didn't give any actual opinions on the race like I would have liked. He didn't respect the game creator that was there on stage very much... I just don't want him to come back. He seems toxic in that environment. Maybe he was just stressed because there were minor fiascos in the background the whole time, or something, who knows.
The cameramen didn't look at any of the Vision GT cars that were there, even though they clearly were one of the stars of the show, or looked at any of the cars outside that the commentators were so excited about. I would have loved seeing at least a static shot of the Lotus that one guy got to ride in. It felt like I missed most of the cool parts of the event.
And of course, the FIA involvement: for all the talk, they might as well have not been there. I don't know if they made any judgements, they never told the commentators if so. There were no shots and interviews with them, no clear explanation of their roles. Really the whole dang event seemed like all the associated brand representation people except for the sole Bugatti guy had no clue the event was even happening. No one represented their companies well, no one respected anybody at all. It was a shoddy event.
There was tons of potential there, but they really need to clean up their act. But at least the game seems good.
Hi, first post here, but I started playing Gran Turismo on a PlayStation that's within a month of the age I am, 2 and 4 were my clear favorites, but I fell out of racing games for a little while during high school and so completely missed (and I mean completely) GT5 and 6. I'm a much better racer than I was back then, and I've been playing GT2 on an emulator, biding my time for a GT for my PS4 since I got rid of my PS3 too early before I thought about getting 5 or 6. (I think I was a little put off by the GT4 cars imported in place back when I first heard about it, and I was so late to the game after all that I just decided to hold out for a new one.)
So I've been really hyped for GTS ever since even the teaser trailer. I'm excited for VR support, and I freaking love the car roster so far, I'm really happy that everything is completely redone, this feels like exactly what I've been waiting for. The only complaint is that the PS4 controllers don't have pressure sensitive face buttons anymore, but honestly, it's about time I got a force feedback wheel anyway.
Now for the complaints: the unveiling event was pretty bad. I'm not usually down on eSports, but this was a shame. The announcers did a pretty great job, but for the most part, it seems the only time people talked to them at all is when they were being told to cut to a video. There were tons of audio issues, and quite clearly they had no control whatsoever over the cameramen, or the guy working on replays, or the guy working on which cars to watch during the races, there was no communication whatsoever, none of it had any flow, and by far the worst part, they had no clue whatsoever who was even racing which car in the last race! I'm 99% sure the real winners of the last race were Carlos Martinez and Yusuke Tomabayashi, not T. Takashi, like the overlay and the commentators said, excepting the pro commentator dude in charge of the trophy ceremony. I suspect Takashi was in the Subaru for the second half of the race, but his name was plastered all over the stream during the end, even though the winner didn't look anything like Takashi to me.
The game glitches I expected, we're still months from release, hopefully they can find a way to keep the cars labeled even if the drivers switch next time, but I'd expect someone would have seen that coming and made sure the announcers had a list of who the hell they were talking about. Replay cams on the oval need to not clip through the wall, I have no clue at all what the problem was that made the last race restart, but you know, glitches.
The pro commentator dude was obviously there for star power, and seemed contractually obligated to be positive about the event, but he seemed pretty fed up at the closing ceremony, and just wanted to close up and go home. The winners weren't very cooperative, but neither of them were native English speakers either, which is something I'd expect he'd be used to... He was just hurrying everything along, and didn't give any actual opinions on the race like I would have liked. He didn't respect the game creator that was there on stage very much... I just don't want him to come back. He seems toxic in that environment. Maybe he was just stressed because there were minor fiascos in the background the whole time, or something, who knows.
The cameramen didn't look at any of the Vision GT cars that were there, even though they clearly were one of the stars of the show, or looked at any of the cars outside that the commentators were so excited about. I would have loved seeing at least a static shot of the Lotus that one guy got to ride in. It felt like I missed most of the cool parts of the event.
And of course, the FIA involvement: for all the talk, they might as well have not been there. I don't know if they made any judgements, they never told the commentators if so. There were no shots and interviews with them, no clear explanation of their roles. Really the whole dang event seemed like all the associated brand representation people except for the sole Bugatti guy had no clue the event was even happening. No one represented their companies well, no one respected anybody at all. It was a shoddy event.
There was tons of potential there, but they really need to clean up their act. But at least the game seems good.
