I am hugely dissapointed by the no cockpits for the standard cars. Theres no excuse for it, time least of all!!
If they didnt spend so long modeling the wires under the dashes of premium cars, parts that no-one will ever see, then they'd have extra time.
I love the detail in the Jag engine or the Muira wheel, bet again sacrificing a small bit of that detail would have given time, out of the nearly SIX years now.
Its really bad time management, they should have worked on the interiors of the other cars before going to town on those insane details.
Kaz says hes dissappointed about them not being included..... The Jag and P4etc. are some of his favourite cars, he only cares about this game for what he'll drive in it. Thats why he spent so much time on the likes of these cars rather than lets say a B6 Audi S4 or 06 Polo GTi, or the Playstation Pescarolo R8 LMP (Which was shown to be a standard car), the later a car that surely desereves to be modeled to perfection....instead.....we get.....A FIAT 500!!!!(Actually we get two premium slots wasted on the 500 and another one on the Prius.)
I'm worried that we've yet to see any footage of the standard cars(in action, not including that hideous trailer a while back)
Is it that the R8 LMP will look so bad and unfinished next to the P4 that they dont want to include it where reviewers will see it?
Interiors are the standard, Forza and NFS (with their flaws) have cockpits and thy're games come out far quicker than any GT game. I dont care about any excuses like outsourcing, or theres a dial that doesnt move, or they dont look all that perfect. They have interiors!!! End of, and GT5's MAJORITY does not.
If PD did'nt have enough staff to deal with this, it should have become apparent very early on. They've got to have known this for ages, but even now they would'nt dare outsource and at least get the numbers of interiors up.
DLC is'nt going to be the Saviour for GT5's standard cars, or any other shortcomings. DLC costs money, why should we, having waited for so long and put up with so much utter crap along the way, shell out even more hard, earned for something that should be in the box when you bring it to the till.
GT5 should not be given exception for bad implimentation, no more that Forza, NFS, GRID, Dirt etc. etc. and God knows they get jumped on for anything minor!!
Whos to say we even get much DLC for GT5, I remember way back when we were supposed to be getting lots of DLC support for GT5

, we got some videos and a coulple of extra cars.....WOW!
At the moment I view DLC as nothing more than Kaz's go-to statement whenever hes asked about something not in the game.....eg. We are thinking abount implementing this, its something we've thought about....or its maybe something DLC will help us with at a later stage, maybe possibly we'll consider thinking about it if it would improve the racing experience.
I reckon cockpits are something that are guaranteed to improve the experience.
All that aside I am honestly looking forward to this game, but I was slightly crushed by the confirmation about standard cockpits.
I mean the premiums do look mind-blowingly fantastic, but everytime I look at the engine of the P4 or Jag or the Miura's wheels, I'll know thats where the interiors of my S4 and R8 LMP went.