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There have been numerous issues presented on this forum and elsewhere as to the problems this game currently has. I agree with most of them, however for me they are fairly easy to get around/look past. There is however, one problem with the game that for lack of a quadruple entendre, grinds my gears; The Formula 1 2012 Problem.
I am currently roughly 2/3 done with S Class races in career, and thus far each one I have done has in some way featured rain. Whether it be the rare start which is currently in wet conditions (but never enough to justify the usage of either intermediates or full wets), the race that suddenly starts raining less than a lap in and then quickly goes back to dry, or the race which (24min Nurburgring) starts dry, rains for more than 2/3 of the race, then dries.
I'm not sure if PD was attempting to create some false sense of unease/challenge for their "endurance" races, but it completely takes you out of the experience of what little they have actually given you in terms of atmosphere of an event. What is left is not the random challenge of finding yourself in a wet race and driving accordingly, but rather the dread of knowing that at some point in the structure of the drive there will be some forced water droplets hitting your windshield and turning into nothing more than an annoyance. It is contrived nonsense.
Just because you can change weather during a race doesn't mean you should every chance you get. As I've alluded previously, it was like Codemasters making every single weekend in F1 2012 feature rain; When you are putting full wets on in Bahrain in April, there is something seriously wrong with your "simulation".
An over saturation of a feature of your game is worse than having no representation of the feature at all, because a 100% representation of the "norm" will always be better than a 100% occurrence of the "exception". What makes the exception so exciting is simply its derivation from its definition, as Kant would say, its analytic quality. Once you cease to make the exception anything but, you turn it into something expected, and extremely boring. I find the inclusion of rain in every single event I have experienced thus far in S Class races to be a perfect example of this problem.
Before we try and address the fact that Gran Turismo's "endurance races" are no longer as such, we should address what it is that PD has turned them into; a contrived formula that offers little to no unique, changing, or innovative experience to the end user.
I am currently roughly 2/3 done with S Class races in career, and thus far each one I have done has in some way featured rain. Whether it be the rare start which is currently in wet conditions (but never enough to justify the usage of either intermediates or full wets), the race that suddenly starts raining less than a lap in and then quickly goes back to dry, or the race which (24min Nurburgring) starts dry, rains for more than 2/3 of the race, then dries.
I'm not sure if PD was attempting to create some false sense of unease/challenge for their "endurance" races, but it completely takes you out of the experience of what little they have actually given you in terms of atmosphere of an event. What is left is not the random challenge of finding yourself in a wet race and driving accordingly, but rather the dread of knowing that at some point in the structure of the drive there will be some forced water droplets hitting your windshield and turning into nothing more than an annoyance. It is contrived nonsense.
Just because you can change weather during a race doesn't mean you should every chance you get. As I've alluded previously, it was like Codemasters making every single weekend in F1 2012 feature rain; When you are putting full wets on in Bahrain in April, there is something seriously wrong with your "simulation".
An over saturation of a feature of your game is worse than having no representation of the feature at all, because a 100% representation of the "norm" will always be better than a 100% occurrence of the "exception". What makes the exception so exciting is simply its derivation from its definition, as Kant would say, its analytic quality. Once you cease to make the exception anything but, you turn it into something expected, and extremely boring. I find the inclusion of rain in every single event I have experienced thus far in S Class races to be a perfect example of this problem.
Before we try and address the fact that Gran Turismo's "endurance races" are no longer as such, we should address what it is that PD has turned them into; a contrived formula that offers little to no unique, changing, or innovative experience to the end user.
, switched to Inters, and it was skate rink time.
