Least Favorite Tracks?

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Cape Ring Full kinda depends on my mood. In the middle of the all-star championship being the 2nd to last race, it was a pain. Its a long track clocking in at 2-3 mins and a lot of corners and easy to make mistake. But doing like the GT Academy time trial its fun to push a car on it. Like said, good variety of corners and I like the imaginative approach they took for it. I could do without the jump but thats about it....or maybe that triple apex right hander before the chicane in the mid-lap....

I like the Cape Ring south a lot too, it has my favorite part of the whole track and its short and sweet. Just hate the way they did the last hairpin...

PD didn't create Monza, thats how it looks like in real-life aside from the extra barriers they put up at the chicanes....
 
Madrid.

PD made some not so bad city-based tracks in the past, but this one is so uninspired... Hate it.


EDIT: Oh, and I don't need to mention the NASCAR tracks, do I? That's a given.
 
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Chronoslol
Because it is fantastic fun? It has an enormous variety of corners, at an enormous variety of speeds, with some ridiculous elevation changes. What's not to like?
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Flow. That is what a circuit needs to be good, and Cape Ring full has none. It feels like you're driving around four different circuits, with random corners. It reminds me of the Snake/Sidewinder Proving Grounds in Forza. Lots of corners put together in no particular order or flow.

Long tracks can be fun, Nurburgring for example or even Le Mans, but Cape Ring is just pointlessly long for the sake of adding corners.
 
Grand Valley. I don't know why, but I've never liked this track since day one. I run some good times on it, and I even did the 60 lap endurance just a couple days ago, but ever since GT1 there's been something about this track that I just don't like.
 
My least favorite at the moment would be the Cote dAzur followed by London, also not to crazy about cape ring. And SS7 is not much of a track.

My favorites are Nurburgring and Lemans. Monza is also growing on me quite quickly.
 
RacingManiac
Cape Ring Full kinda depends on my mood. In the middle of the all-star championship being the 2nd to last race, it was a pain. Its a long track clocking in at 2-3 mins and a lot of corners and easy to make mistake. But doing like the GT Academy time trial its fun to push a car on it. Like said, good variety of corners and I like the imaginative approach they took for it. I could do without the jump but thats about it....or maybe that triple apex right hander before the chicane in the mid-lap....

I like the Cape Ring south a lot too, it has my favorite part of the whole track and its short and sweet. Just hate the way they did the last hairpin...

PD didn't create Monza, thats how it looks like in real-life aside from the extra barriers they put up at the chicanes....
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Yes I know. I just wanted to say that tracks don't need to be complicated to be awesome.
 
Daytona road course feels boring and flat. Not too many corners but i still haven't been able to get the inspiration to learn the layout of the track...

Indianapolis road course would be the same if it wasn't for the intense memories of the academy demo. :)
 
I absolutely loathe Indy Road Course. Too twisty and winding for my liking, and I find it almost impossible to find any rhythm. From the first second of the FGT championship on it I just couldn't wait to finish.

Also Fuji, for pretty much the same reason - the final sector is especially infuriating.
 
My least favorite tracks are: Indy,Daytona(both road+oval),London,Fuji,Eiger(road) and Tsukuba
My favorite tracks: Nurburgring Nordshleife, Suzuka, Nurburgring GP,Monza, Circuit de La Sarthe
 
The ovals are just stupid and boring... fitting for NASCAR, but I didn't buy GT5 for NASCAR.

I dislike Cote d'Azur mostly because it seems we are mainly running high-speed race cars on it, which are the wrong kind of cars for the slow corners, dangerous chicanes, and narrow straights. It's definitely more fun with slower, more maneuverable cars.
 
iamjamen
Full Cape Ring, in my opinion, is dreadfully awful. The course is too busy and feels like what it really is; a course designed to have multiple layouts and variations to accommodate numerous needs. I also hate the 360 degree turn and the adjacent jump. Don't get me wrong, venues designed to have multiple layouts are a great idea if executed properly but in the case of Cape Ring, PD tried too hard. If I do enjoy Cape Ring Periphery, however.
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agreed 100%. Cape Ring has way too much going on, but periphery is pretty good.
 
Nurburgring - to long
Cape Ring full - to long and the stupid jump
Grand valley - use to like it but really hate it now
Trial Mountain - use to like it also
 
Sohvakettu
Indianapolis road course would be the same if it wasn't for the intense memories of the academy demo. :)
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Indy road was the reason I gave up on the academy demo as quickly as I did. Funnily enough Eiger pretty much put me off the 1st academy comp. If they choose daytona this year I'll compose copious hate mail! :grumpy:
 
There's only one track that I truely hate, which is Daytona Oval. I always hate racing on it 👎
 
Cape Ring Full is a mess, but I actually love the periphery...Go figure...I also like the 'old' Rome much better.

I'm not too keen on the NASCAR ovals/road courses, Madrid and SSR 7 is just plain ***** creepy -- I like flat-out speed so I should love this course, but it's SO dead, empty and lifeless that it always puts me to sleep right before I slam into the end corner at 250 mph... All I can think of when driving it is: "Where are the buildings? Why aren't there any exits or turnoffs in a 4-mile stretch of road? Where are the signs of life?" Some better scenery instead of the trance-inducing walls and tunnels could have made it more acceptable...

Also, we all know and love most of the 'original' GT courses, but WHY wasn't there a bigger effort to get some more famous or historic real tracks in the game?? For example, instead of London and Madrid for city courses, why not Exhibition Place or Long Beach or Miami or Surfer's Paradise? Where is Bathurst? Watkins Glen? Road America? Mosport? Sebring? Lime Rock? Virginia International Raceway?
 
I loathe Autumn Ring. The design just seems really tired. I like the mini variant but I feel the full is just boring.
 
^SHeesh, I never get bored at Autumn Ring!

I don't have a least favorite yet. It'll probably be Twin Ring Motegi, though. I forget if TRM is in GT5. If it is, that's my least fave. It's so scientific and technical. Dull scenery, too.
 
Nope, not in GT5....I actually like the generic-ness of it...makes it easier to compare cars and I find it to be better "looking" than Tsukuba...
 
Monza, just because you can cut the chicanes with no punishment.
I know I could just drive it properly, but it's so much quicker.
 
Haven't tried SSR7 yet, but so far the only track I can say that I dislike is London. It just feels a bit claustrophobic to me. As for people complaining about tracks that don't a have a flow or are difficult to get into rhythm, that's the reason why I love tracks like Fuji and Cape Ring. It forces me to experiment more and gives me a new challenge.
 
Studentdriver
Haven't tried SSR7 yet, but so far the only track I can say that I dislike is London. It just feels a bit claustrophobic to me. As for people complaining about tracks that don't a have a flow or are difficult to get into rhythm, that's the reason why I love tracks like Fuji and Cape Ring. It forces me to experiment more and gives me a new challenge.
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I think it's just in my nature to take a disliking to tracks like Fuji. It feels at times as if the track just doesn't like me, so I don't like it right back :D

I might find it more enjoyable if I used a wheel. All those long, slow corners towards the end; I never put my foot down at the right time. I feel like B-spec Bob when I'm at Fuji. Brake too early, accelerate, brake, no wait! accelerate, no sorry, supposed to break there, accelerate, too fast, brake, too slow, accelerate.... :ouch:

"Are you sure you want to abandon this race and retire?"

[OK]
 
Fuji was a curiosity in GT4. They debuted the GP layout before F1 even raced there. It was I believe the first game to have the "new" Fuji in game. Learned it in GT4(I think it was one of the license test in GT4 also), played a lot of it on PC, and still play it in GT5...

The track is wide so its hard to first find the right line....
 

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