my first GT game, and definitely not the last, although this is far from perfect.
what the game gets right is attention to detail in all the car / racing parts, but completely fails in the gameplay/loop. 400+ detailed cars? i'm sold, they all look, sound, and handle distinctly. it's so much fun. photo-real tracks, great weather effects, great materials, lighting, god the game looks so good on ps5.
ok so you want to have to earn the greatest cars in the game, fine. how do you do that? you grind the same 24hr LeMans race against the AI over and over. As of update 1.4, you get a decent amount of in-game currency for daily races, and 0 for custom races with your friends. however they also made the most expensive cars in the game even more expensive.... the game just wastes your time when really what you want to be doing is experimenting with cars on tracks and trying to find your groove or living a fantasy (because this is a video game after all). Especially if you aren't interested in daily races with certain tiers of cars (which thankfully the game allows you to use even if you don't own them). Oh so you just want you and your friends to race VW Minibuses on Dragon Trail? here's what you have to do:
1. play through Menu Book 9. That's about 2-3 hours depending on how bad you are / difficulty setting. yes you have to play SP to UNLOCK MP in a game you bought.
2. all of you have to own the car, own all the parts for it. what does that require? more time. grind, look for the car in the store, etc.
3. One friend has tuning parts for the bus, but one doesn't. how do your other friends match the car, well you can set the PP requirement to min to level the playing field, but then you can't equip silly suspension parts of tweak the gearbox with custom ones that increase PP. oh and did i mention you have to grind points to earn these parts since they cost in-game currency for a quick race with your friends online?
and all that time you spent with your friends how does the game reward you? oh ZERO GT Cash........
Just make it so every mile you drive you get some cash. no matter the event type. do the Call of Duty thing where even if you are losing the number goes up and you get something out of it. give bonuses for clean races/finishing on the podium.
give the hardcore fans spoilers or body kits as grindables. when my friend comes over i want to show him the coolest cars, not have to explain, "sorry, i don't have an additional 100 hours to unlock that car."
what the game gets right is attention to detail in all the car / racing parts, but completely fails in the gameplay/loop. 400+ detailed cars? i'm sold, they all look, sound, and handle distinctly. it's so much fun. photo-real tracks, great weather effects, great materials, lighting, god the game looks so good on ps5.
ok so you want to have to earn the greatest cars in the game, fine. how do you do that? you grind the same 24hr LeMans race against the AI over and over. As of update 1.4, you get a decent amount of in-game currency for daily races, and 0 for custom races with your friends. however they also made the most expensive cars in the game even more expensive.... the game just wastes your time when really what you want to be doing is experimenting with cars on tracks and trying to find your groove or living a fantasy (because this is a video game after all). Especially if you aren't interested in daily races with certain tiers of cars (which thankfully the game allows you to use even if you don't own them). Oh so you just want you and your friends to race VW Minibuses on Dragon Trail? here's what you have to do:
1. play through Menu Book 9. That's about 2-3 hours depending on how bad you are / difficulty setting. yes you have to play SP to UNLOCK MP in a game you bought.
2. all of you have to own the car, own all the parts for it. what does that require? more time. grind, look for the car in the store, etc.
3. One friend has tuning parts for the bus, but one doesn't. how do your other friends match the car, well you can set the PP requirement to min to level the playing field, but then you can't equip silly suspension parts of tweak the gearbox with custom ones that increase PP. oh and did i mention you have to grind points to earn these parts since they cost in-game currency for a quick race with your friends online?
and all that time you spent with your friends how does the game reward you? oh ZERO GT Cash........
Just make it so every mile you drive you get some cash. no matter the event type. do the Call of Duty thing where even if you are losing the number goes up and you get something out of it. give bonuses for clean races/finishing on the podium.
give the hardcore fans spoilers or body kits as grindables. when my friend comes over i want to show him the coolest cars, not have to explain, "sorry, i don't have an additional 100 hours to unlock that car."