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"With the right handling model, the only entertainment you need is a circuit, a vehicle and the stopwatch."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-04-gran-turismo-6-preview
Its this type of attitude which will ruin Gran Turismo, and I feel GT Academy contributed to it greatly.
Now that I think about it, the Madden NFL franchise started to go downhill once online was introduced in 2004, when people started buying the game to solely play online. At that point improvements to AI and other offline components started to become smaller and smaller, even tot he point where they did not patch offline bugs in franchise mode.
So I guess now Gran Turismo is a hot lap simulator. Such a shame. If hot lapping was so great, then after F1 qualifies they should give the trophy to pole position and send everyone home. Its all about the racing...
👍 You both took the words out of my mouth.I love how the author of the article called called GT's A.I. an "irrelevance" because the physics are so good...
Sure, if the the A.I. is an irrelevance, then so must GT5's A-Spec mode. And therein lies the problem. GT has become just a simulator of driving physics and that's about it.
GT Academy is the clearest example of Kaz's dream; MY video game is so "realistic" that everyday gamers can become a professional driver! Woo hoo! And then the actual remaining gameplay, because after all, it's a damn game we're playing, lags so far behind; customization is lost in an eccentric developer's mind. The carlist has been stuffed with JDM cars and few supercars. Koenigsegg not in GT? The most recent RUF is a 2000 standard model? There wasn't any rally events in A-spec... Weather/time change was rarely utilized, as well.
It's all a bit sad to see, especially coming from a gamer who first experienced GT1 as a young boy. And GT6 has a long hill to climb (for me, at least). From the interviews, it seems PD want to make up for it with tons of DLC and updates. Tons of DLC is a double-edged sword and I think we'll be seeing the sharpest side of the blade.
Altough the hotlapping is fun (which the demo proves), it's only one small part of the deal and certainly not an excuse to totally ignore every other aspect of the game.