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- Paris
I've been playing Gran Turismo since GT1 and i've bought every new version on every new Sony console.
Like the rest of us, i've waited and waited for a PS4 iteration. In traditional PD style, the wait has been long, and in the meantime the alternatives have grown strong and extremely tempting. I even bought Drive Club recently and was really pleasantly surprised by the visual quality of the game, easily some of the nicest tracks i've ever driven on, although the car handling / physics is far removed from any kind of sim. I bought PCars 1 but it never really sunk it's claws into me. I'm stuck with a GT Force Feedback steering wheel that the PS4, facepalmingly, doesn't support, so it's Dual Shock control for me, which on PCars 1 is a joke.
So now we have have GT Sport. I've been playing the demo a lot, it's lovely. The 30 lap race i came 2nd in last night was very enjoyable, even with the dual shock.
But as i look at the official track listing, it's such a turn off. There is no daytime transitions too which some of the competitors seem to have managed. The car list too, virtually nothing pre 2010. That's a big one for me, and it focuses the handling way too much on the modern side for my liking, same goes for the visual side of the things too. Kaz has said more stuff will be added in future DLC, but i fear this will also be geared towards modern racing, what with the FIA hookup.
As there is no PD talk of GT7, no mention of classic tracks, classic cars, it makes me feel less and less that i want to stick around for GT Sport and change over to PCars 2, which looks to have an amazing amount of real world tracks, cars spanning decades, full weather, time day AND time of year, very deep running and physics....i'm genuinely on the fence. I see a lot of people scratching heads in these forums too.
Sure i could buy both but i think this is deeper than that, and PD may have steered GT into the rocks. Time will tell i suppose, but for me the light on the GT horizon is fading quite rapidly (unlike in the game itself).
Like the rest of us, i've waited and waited for a PS4 iteration. In traditional PD style, the wait has been long, and in the meantime the alternatives have grown strong and extremely tempting. I even bought Drive Club recently and was really pleasantly surprised by the visual quality of the game, easily some of the nicest tracks i've ever driven on, although the car handling / physics is far removed from any kind of sim. I bought PCars 1 but it never really sunk it's claws into me. I'm stuck with a GT Force Feedback steering wheel that the PS4, facepalmingly, doesn't support, so it's Dual Shock control for me, which on PCars 1 is a joke.
So now we have have GT Sport. I've been playing the demo a lot, it's lovely. The 30 lap race i came 2nd in last night was very enjoyable, even with the dual shock.
But as i look at the official track listing, it's such a turn off. There is no daytime transitions too which some of the competitors seem to have managed. The car list too, virtually nothing pre 2010. That's a big one for me, and it focuses the handling way too much on the modern side for my liking, same goes for the visual side of the things too. Kaz has said more stuff will be added in future DLC, but i fear this will also be geared towards modern racing, what with the FIA hookup.
As there is no PD talk of GT7, no mention of classic tracks, classic cars, it makes me feel less and less that i want to stick around for GT Sport and change over to PCars 2, which looks to have an amazing amount of real world tracks, cars spanning decades, full weather, time day AND time of year, very deep running and physics....i'm genuinely on the fence. I see a lot of people scratching heads in these forums too.
Sure i could buy both but i think this is deeper than that, and PD may have steered GT into the rocks. Time will tell i suppose, but for me the light on the GT horizon is fading quite rapidly (unlike in the game itself).
