Everyone else online I talk to about this game is really invested in it one way or another so I'm curious, how much of it have you two played? How many races/licenses/missions have you done? How many Sport Mode races have you done? These are my stats, and aside from a big burst in March I've largely settled into my Wednesday/Saturday routine from GT Sport:
On Ron's points:
- I don't really mind which cars get added. We'd usually get a lot more in Sport's updates (7/8 rather than 3), I don't know if this being a PS5 game affects that rate any. Plus as you can see, I only have 40% of them and I've not driven loads of those.
- We usually get one track every other month. Last month we got Catalunya's rallycross layout which was a waste of time (and not technically new).
- Lack of events is the biggest one and it will continue to baffle me what's stopping them from putting stuff in now. They can't be spending time trying to make the AI run at a certain pace or anything because they're just consistently terrible, so I don't know what it is. The fact that Monza and Bathurst have one World Circuits race between them is just... I don't know. I also think the World Circuit event layout is stupid and terrible anyway, but it's really not helped when you see how much some tracks are favoured over others.
I remember at some point in GT5's life realising that it wasn't a racing game. That is, it wasn't a game with cars in it where the primary focus was to race them against each other. It was a game for looking at cars. Outside of some of the Driving Missions, all of the races amounted to basically the same thing - you driving past a bunch of very impressively rendered cars. Cars that wouldn't behave in any way as if they're on a race track. Once you've done that you can watch a replay of all those cars running round. Once that's done you can go and take a picture of them.
This changed with GT Sport and Sport Mode, but that platform currently have its own problems which I won't go into at length here because I don't think anyone really cares. With GT7 so much of what's in the game and what they're putting into the game feels like a company which is very passionate about what they do but with no idea that anyone outside the company sees that same passion even the slightest bit differently from them.
I'm still playing it regularly, I'm still enjoying it and part of me is even getting competitive in Sport Mode again, but I have too many other sims and games to play to be as hysterical as some GT fans (nobody on here) have been since it was released.