1)
Cars
I have to disagree with the economy car comments that people are making. I, for one, really really miss all of the every day cars that were in gt2..
No, not all of the cars were able to hit 100mph (
). Hasn't anyone ever heard of club racing? auto-crosses?
I have to put myself in the tuner crowd (owned a Talon TSi AWD, and a Mazda RX-7 R1) and I still like driving stock cars (addendum: stock cars with racing slicks) more than I like driving 1000hp cars with full suspension etc.
I say leave the cheapy cars in. And put back all of the daily drivers into the game. If you want to drive a F1 car, or super sports cars, go buy another game. 90% or more of all racing games focus on the porche/ferarri/exotic sports cars, or full blown race cars. I like to see some emphasis on the lower end cars because they have their own important part of the car world.
2)
Races
I'd like to see more of a systematic method of going through the races.. more like a career. No one races a couple of clubman cups and then heads to F1.. I would prefer it if they made you "unlock" (as the gaming community calls it) the next races. Or the next series of races. I'm in favour of long, drawn out games. They're more fun, you play them for longer, and make it more worth your money
Theres nothing I hate more than getting to a point where I can beat everything. Then I feel like I'm cheating and don't appreciate the game like I used to.
3)
Tuning
More restrictions. I'd prefer to race a bunch of other cars on an even basis...
4)
Skill levels
If you want to race against beginner level drivers and you're an expert driver, so be it. However, not everyone has as much experience racing as some of us and the game can be ungodly hard if you don't know about type 1 and type 2 curves, etc, and the proper line through them. On the other hand, I don't want to be bored racing against ****ty drivers. I don't like lapping people on the 5th lap (re: tuning).
5)
More opponents
More than 6 people per race please.. I'm sure the rendering engine is good enough at this point that we can add more cars in a scene..
6)
User defined races
Let me pick some cars to race against, choose the track, set some restrictions on modifications.. You could even make money this way, the harder you make it, the more money you win..
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Ok, thats enough, that turned out to be much longer than I originally anticipated, and not a "What don't I want to see" into a "What I want to see".
Oh well, c'est la vie.
Questions, comments and flames always welcome!