thebtspecial
The delays won't really bother me as long as they get the game right. Just curious, where did you get the quote from? I'd like to read the whole thing.
Tenacious D
I think he's making it up. It's probably more like a team of 1 or 2 working for a few days to two weeks to make a car. It does depend on how they're building the cars though. If they're modelling the cars down to the component level with crash physics involved, then who knows?
I made it up, but the fear that this kind of excuse will happen comes from what happened in the last few months before the release of GT4. When this game was about to be released, one of the last excuses for it happening so late was about the modelling of the cars, that took them much, much longer than it took in GT3 (I'm too lazy to find it, but I remember this was said)
<_Spike_>
Could easily become a case of truth in that statement, people have been saying "oh we only need 200 cars", but the 200 cars that person likes, could be a completely different 200 cars to those that someone else likes, and so on, that's one thing some people who have said the above seem to neglecting when thinking about iit.
Yes, that's what I meant. To start, everyone would like to have their real car in the game (considering the millions that play GT4, that ionly would at least amount to thousands of cars). And then you have all those categories wher you should, at least, have a good selection, that can make you run a race with a "realistic" grid (and don't forget that we are expecting a 20 car-grid in GT5).
So, let's just talk about Le Mans cars:
if it's modern cars, you'll need at least 15/20 of them. And surely not to have a 60's Ford GT40 racing against a 2005 Audi R8. (and you'll also need to have GT class cars, like Vipers, Corvettes, Porsches, Ferraris, Aston Martins, TVR, etc.)
Same thing with group C cars, with Group 6 and 5 cars and if you go down in history, (70's, 60's, 50's?) you'll need (at least, that's my view about it) to have as many cars as necessary to fill a grid without over-repeating cars (not more than two/three Porsches 917 in the same grid please).
If you apply this to other racing disciplines ... you'll easily need the thousands of cars I mentioned.
what do you see as far as damage being included? I think something like what is/will be offered in Forza would be fine for me, and wouldn't be all that hard to implement. I'm wondering about Kaz though. He sounded like he wanted lifelike car damage, with simulation quality crumple and deformation modelling. What do you expect we'll see?
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