It's not impatience. There is no reason to have everything hidden away. I'm sure that most people here feel that driving and racing are thrilling. All credits do is create an artificial barrier between the player and driving. Combine a huge list of locked items, with a slow unlocking process, and limited play time (player has a job, etc) and you've got a disaster.
Actually, you can unlock a huge load of stuff in GT5 in quite a little amount of time. The things that are really costly to get are few and far between. The LMPs are expensive, as are a few classics. Car that require you to be be at lvl 25 or higher are very rare, as well.
The artificial barrier between a player and driving is quite small, actually. It's the barrier between the player and driving
everything that's hard to overcome. But, as I said, I don't get the need to be able to do so.
I mean, spend an hour per car, which isn't much if you race it more than a few times, and tell me why you would need to have access to all
cars. Actually driving all cars would require you to be just as much out of a job as 'earning' them would.
Usual doesn't mean right first of all, but you are correct, it's not unusual for a game. However, GT does call itself a simulator. But the biggest issue is that the game can satisfy everyone at the same time, but PD [and most other developers] choose not to do this. It would be great if the current usual way of doing things was dropped all at once for a better way.
Better to whom? I find this to be quite a debatable thing. Games have become so easy lately, that I think it'd be a shame if the last few games that don't shove everything up the players behind started to do just that
Granted, the grinding should be replaced by a more challenging A-Spec mode...
In GT, that is fairly easy. In fact, prior to GT5's release, I had only driven a few GT5 cars in demos. 200+ cars later, I feel comfortable in just about all of them. I've won races involving cars with as little as 150 hp to as much as 1500 hp online. I'd probably need to have everything unlocked just to find a car that I would be completely uncompetitive with.
Depends on what you consider to be competitive, I guess. I know that it takes me quite a few hours before I can finalize a cars setup and can start to push it to its limits.
In real life, I've not had trouble getting up to pace on an autocross track with a car I've never driven before, but I've not had access to 200 different real-life cars. And of course, by "up to pace" I don't mean that I could run neck and neck with F1 drivers in the same car, but I'm sure I could compete with drivers in a skill range similar to my own without running off the track at every turn.
So, you're saying that you can drive a car that you barely know just as close to the limit as one that you've got a crap load of experience with? You might want to get into real racing then, looks like you've got a lot of potential.
And I forgot to mention, a large number of GT players would already have experience from past games, especially GT5P, and perhaps real life racing. There is not basis to say that unlocking is necessary to build up the skill required to drive certain cars.
Which I never said. All I'm saying is that:
A) If you have the time to actually drive all of the 1000 cars on a regular basis, you've got enough time on your hands to unlock them as well (as that would already require having no real life).
B) If you have 1000 cars and only spend five minutes with each, you wwon't be as fast as someone who spends considerable amounts of time mastering a small amount of cars, as he will have more expertise with those cars.
And even if a lot of practice time was required, all unlocking does it limit what you can practice with. What good is it to drive in a FF sedan over and over if one's goal in GT5 is to race Super GT style?
How long does it take you to get a fistful of Super GT cars? With the seasonal events, maybe one weekend? Honestly, that's five, maybe ten hours of gameplay if you're just blasting through the seasonals and the licenses. And you'll end up with enough credits to buy yourself, like, at the very least three or fours GT500 cars, even if you spend quite some money on other stuff. Unless you feel the need to get every different livery for every car, it's absolutely no big deal to get that stuff.
As i said, there's a fistful of stuff that's harder to come by, like the X2010, the F1 cars or the LMPs. And even those are not
that hard to get.
. The grinding thing just wastes so much of your time that I can see only kids, students or folks without a job[got a few friends in this situation sadly] being able to devote a huge chunk of their lives to reach the levels that PD apparently don't want you to reach unless you waste your life away trying to get this and that. As much as I love the GT series at the end of the day its still just a game to me.
