Can we at least get Seattle and El Capitan back?
Even in GT4 quality, I'd love to drive them again.
Honestly, it's
really odd that we don't have every single track in GT history in this thing, even if not updated visually. Several of the game's tracks already show their age anyway, so why not just dump in everything they've ever had, even if it looks sub-par?
There is a track creator, you can make some fantastic stuff there.
The difference is that if PD gives us some new tracks they could, at least in theory, also give us new events, even if just in the form of seasonals, that make use of those tracks. To my knowledge, there's no way that I can run my Course Maker courses in A-Spec, aside from maybe practice which isn't anything. Sure, I can run them all day long in Arcade, but what if I want them to count for something?
I just see no evidence that there're DLC tracks on the horizon. Sure one can argue that Polyphony Digital has had a strategy of withholding content, but I can't understand why quite a few of the tracks already in GT5 look really sub-par (compared to what the ps3 is capable of) and remain so after all the patches to the game.
I never really played the previous GT games (I own GT3, and played it for probably under half an hour, and that's been many years ago), so I can only speculate but it seems to be that they simply copy-and-pasted old track models from one or more previous games into GT5 without bothering to spruce them up at all. If that's the case, it just reaffirms what I said about it being odd that they didn't simply do this with all of the previous tracks.
I would expect them to release something mid-June, so they have something to announce at E3. This would steal away some attention from FM4, which is what they should be aiming for.
No, it wouldn't. I expect them to try diverting attention from FM4, sure, but it won't
really do anything. Even if GT6 would somehow be here by the end of 2012, even that wouldn't do crap to FM4 since nobody would expect it to really arrive in 2012 and the end of 2012 would be a full year after FM4 anyway. Track DLC would be even less of a threat to FM4, because anybody remotely interested in something like FM4 isn't going to skip it in favor of a GT5 track pack.
"Well, Polyphony added two more tracks to a game that came out last year. I guess I'll just invest in those two new tracks rather than investing in a whole new game."
That would be like having next-gen consoles fast approaching and then one of The Big Three combating those by announcing, "Hey, we added a new feature to our current console!" That's fine for people wanting to just wait and hold onto what they presently have, but won't deter anybody from buying a next-gen console.
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