**A disclaimer** I'm a hardcore PC simracing player. And it reflects on my thoughts here **
It's been almost 10 years since we've got full Gran Turismo experience. And I hate to say it - I'm slightly disappointed.
Not by content - there is a LOT of cars and activities.
When it comes to tracks it's not as good - stable selection of known tracks and way too many of imaginary ones that games tends to focus during single player campaign.
Missions, quests, licenses guide you towards progression that means new cars and track. And it is slow - after 20hrs in i'm still somewhere near the start. Of course game pushes microtransactions everywhere to remind you that it does not need to be that slow, and you can buy progress.
What is not really bad is that very often you are forced into worst possible car/track combo that is just not fun to drive. On top of that those involving "AI" are basically putting you in the end of an computer generated cars (it's not AI) that are glued to their line and don't react at all to your presence, so they end up being more of an annoyance than competition.
Multiplayer is still fun, just got turned into "find best combo of tuning parts for win" instead of be faster for win. Differences in cars are way bigger than what you will get using default setups vs custom ones in real simulators.
And what is worst - it's a failure in technical department - not graphics as those are excellent for console standards but all other aspects - want to change FOV? Forget about it - forced to sit really close to 75" TV and feel like a kid in a truck with everything out of scale and problems with judging distance and speed? Bad luck pal.
Want to adjust pedals deadzone? No way to do it.
Want to adjust details in forcefeedback? Nope Want to adjust wheel angle? Not even nope - even if you want to do it from the wheel itself on start of every race game will autoadjust to what you've set on a wheel making it virtually impossible to change.
Want to adjust UI so it does not burn out your OLED? Nah Want to move around UI elements so driver list does not impose on rear view mirror? Not here
So still a Gran Turismo game. Nothing more.
It's been almost 10 years since we've got full Gran Turismo experience. And I hate to say it - I'm slightly disappointed.
Not by content - there is a LOT of cars and activities.
When it comes to tracks it's not as good - stable selection of known tracks and way too many of imaginary ones that games tends to focus during single player campaign.
Missions, quests, licenses guide you towards progression that means new cars and track. And it is slow - after 20hrs in i'm still somewhere near the start. Of course game pushes microtransactions everywhere to remind you that it does not need to be that slow, and you can buy progress.
What is not really bad is that very often you are forced into worst possible car/track combo that is just not fun to drive. On top of that those involving "AI" are basically putting you in the end of an computer generated cars (it's not AI) that are glued to their line and don't react at all to your presence, so they end up being more of an annoyance than competition.
Multiplayer is still fun, just got turned into "find best combo of tuning parts for win" instead of be faster for win. Differences in cars are way bigger than what you will get using default setups vs custom ones in real simulators.
And what is worst - it's a failure in technical department - not graphics as those are excellent for console standards but all other aspects - want to change FOV? Forget about it - forced to sit really close to 75" TV and feel like a kid in a truck with everything out of scale and problems with judging distance and speed? Bad luck pal.
Want to adjust pedals deadzone? No way to do it.
Want to adjust details in forcefeedback? Nope Want to adjust wheel angle? Not even nope - even if you want to do it from the wheel itself on start of every race game will autoadjust to what you've set on a wheel making it virtually impossible to change.
Want to adjust UI so it does not burn out your OLED? Nah Want to move around UI elements so driver list does not impose on rear view mirror? Not here
So still a Gran Turismo game. Nothing more.