The winding roads of Touge

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Hello, I think the Gran Turismo 7 lacks winding roads. I drive road cars on the road Eiger Nordwand And I began to notice that my driving style had improved for the better, and I would like to see a technical mountain road made in a ring shape.
After I started driving Eiger Nordwand With other players online, I've become a better driver and now I need less space to get around a hairpin.
 
GT2 had a track similar to Eiger & in the same region called Grindelwald. That's one that could be used for an additional layout for Eiger they wanted to.

Overall I do agree, I would LOVE to have a track that has similar vibes as what Fujimi Kaido did for Motorsport. Tracks like that are excellent for putting your skills to the test.

....and your patience if it's ever featured on a license test, lol! :D
 
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I remember one track that I loved to drive in the Gran Turismo 4. I think it was called "Costa di Amalfi"
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You mentioning this track reminds of GT4, this was one of the best tracks imo in that game and Seattle for realish circuits. I loved its setting and feel and how it was downward point to point track with some fun missions added into the mix, wish they could recreate it for GT7 but, it all wishful thinking at this point.


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Tight technical roads are underrated for building pace. Most sim content leans toward high speed circuits where aero and power can mask sloppy lines. Something like Eiger where corners come every few seconds forces better braking habits and weight transfer awareness. GT4s Costa di Amalfi had that kind of flow. Would be nice to see more layouts designed around lower speed precision rather than outright speed and downforce.
 
I think the constraint that PD has placed upon themselves is that every track must support 20 car grids in sport mode. I think that's a bad design constraint because it forces classic tracks (Deep Forest & Trial Mountain) to be lengthened arbitrarily and prevents the inclusion of many "club" circuits or tight street circuits. I doubt we'll see any updates to this fundamental in the lifespan of GT7, but I'm hoping that GT7 has proved to PD that sport mode is not the core gameplay loop that keeps people playing and perhaps GT8 will feel a little more relaxed.
 
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It amazes me an Anglo-US studio has placed a whole game in Japan, including Touge style roads, and yet the premier racing franchise, and a Japanese one at that, has never had a single course that fits that description.
 
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It amazes me an Anglo-US studio has placed a whole game in Japan, including Touge style roads, and yet the premier racing franchise, and a Japanese one at that, has never had a single course that fits that description.
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Well, I'd gather most Japanese don't fetishize Japanese Touge as much as foreigners do. Lowriders, American vans, pickup trucks, and other distinctly Americana car culture traditions thrive in Japan - those genres are as exotic to Japanese people as Touge is to Americans. If Kaz has demonstrated anything, it's that he has no automotive culture allegiance...he seems to try to cover as much ground as possible.
 
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Well, I'd gather most Japanese don't fetishize Japanese Touge as much as foreigners do. Lowriders, American vans, pickup trucks, and other distinctly Americana car culture traditions thrive in Japan - those genres are as exotic to Japanese people as Touge is to Americans. If Kaz has demonstrated anything, it's that he has no automotive culture allegiance...he seems to try to cover as much ground as possible.
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What I find interesting about this, is that Best Motoring is probably responsible for a chunk of that fetishisation. I don't disagree at all, it's interesting how other cultures admire what locals consider to be mundane.

I would say that my feeling is that Kaz is now probably more neutral than he was, it seemed in the earlier titles he had a big thing for euro stuff, the American brands were well represented with the usual suspects but the sheer volume of obscure euro metal filling the car lists of the early titles were completely unique at a time where Porsche, Lamborghini or Ferrari seemed to be the only real nod to Europe by international efforts. Toca Touring Cars and Colin McRae Rally were locally made games representing local motorsports.

I imagine licencing played its part but it felt like our, I guess 'cooking' car culture was very well represented right up to Sport. (I always thought it odd that the earlier games rendition of the Renaultsport Clio was actually a midrange 1.6 16v with 110bhp, although the data section showed the stats for the 2.0 169bhp car)
 
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What I find interesting about this, is that Best Motoring is probably responsible for a chunk of that fetishisation. I don't disagree at all, it's interesting how other cultures admire what locals consider to be mundane.
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