Got some good idea arrowp, but also some bad ones. Now you might have game developing experience, I don't know, but adding all those elements probably isn't as easy as you think. You also say PD had 5 years to develop the game and Sony rushed it, but how do you know this? .....
I have full damage on my cars and I'm level 20. Why would you want to remove the other 800 cars?
it's not easy. but this is an industry bigger than movies industry. Sony/PD is HUGE, i believe the game budget is also huge. they pretty much spent their budget transporting cars from all over
the planet (the famous 200) to their tokyo studio and rendering the, recording audio, etc. i would remove the 800 cars or most of them MAINLY because they're probably the reason AI is flawed.
Old code is a disgrace, and you end up leveling by the lower standard. new cars have better physics, up to date code, up to date rendering. developing around it is a breeze, i'm sure.
Anyone can think of these idea's, but who can take them and create a video game restricted by the Playstation 3's resources?
ps3 is not limited in any shape or form for a gaming console. when you work with a closed platform, like ps3, all your development tools are adapted to work with your limited specs. people say PS3 have little RAM.
yes, its true. but everything is very tighly integrated, so you work with very optimized hard disk to ram buffering, etc (add many technical descriptions here).
Overall, all the things i added in my post arent by any means impossible to achieve. But forget the concept of 'hard' or 'easy'. Its too plain.
You work around a budget and timeline and hire resources accordingly.
PD made a poor choice (in my opinion, of course) of mixing perfectly emulated cars with legacy code and this pretty much limited their options. And I could question Kazunori's management decisions too,
but that's a little bit too much.
! Shows how much I pay attention to my level. I just know I'm level 20 and too busy racing or buying cars.
