Unhealthy levels of salt in this post, skip if you can't afford any more in your diet.
I've been thinking about GT7 since the reveal. I'm really excited for the game, but I'm not even sure why, because all I can realistically expect from the series is utter crap.
GT AI has been known from day 1 to be rather dim witted, cheating, rubber bandy things. It works for an arcadey title like the earlier PS1 titles, but as the series takes itself more and more seriously, and physics get more and more realistic, the AI is simply an infuriating joke. And as the first GT7 trailer has shown, they still do stupid crap like brake checking on corner exits. I know GT7 is a long ways off and the AI can improve, but at this point in the series, is it even worth hoping for the AI to improve?
If the AI doesn't improve, the whole campaign mode might as well not exist. Campaign mode in GT Sport is a boring chore, where you overtake the entire field lap 5 of 15 and then spend the rest of the session hot lapping and then miss out on your clean race bonus because some clown drove into you. Even if GT7 returns to a more traditional gameplay style and focus, it all means nothing if the AI, the backbone of that experience, is a collection of dangerous, clueless, lifeless fools.
So I guess that leaves me with the online and Sport modes. But seeing the state of Sport mode in GT Sport, I've given up on it entirely. I really think PD bit off more than what they can chew with the penalty system in Sport, and the constant band aids on bullet wounds makes me believe that they've given up making a halfway decent Sport mode.
I honestly don't know what fun I can gleam from GT7, even if I really want to get it and enjoy it. I really hope I can find the kid in me that enjoyed the older titles again. At most, I think I'm just going to enjoy driving cars in time trails, photo mode, and livery editor. So I gotta ask, what do you guys realistically expect from GT7? How will you have fun with it? How will you play GT7?
Thanks for putting up with the salt.