Originally Posted By: Klutch9
I agree with everything you stated here. From everything I hear, this game will be very well supported with lots of updates and DLC, so I do look forward to that. Like you, I'm already almost halfway through the game. To be fair, the races in the second half are longer, but still... I also have not yet seen any enduro races, and I hope that they have some medium length ones. 1.5-2 hours would be ideal, or even a bit shorter.
They made the new tire wear model and the nifty wear indicator, yet there are no races to use tire wear yet or any way to use it in free run? Yeesh. As for B-specing, I could do without it except for the really long endurance racing. Running a twenty-four hour endurance race is a bit taxing, to say the least, without some computer help. In GT3, with their Formula 1 mini-series, at least the races were appropriate lengths for an actual Formula 1 race. Three lap races don't do a lot for strategy. Choose the best tires you can and go. If you screw up once, you're screwed, time to start over. An AI car does something stupid in your path, you're screwed, time to start over.
@Mykl: Absolutely. Hopefully, there will be no shortage of the downloadable type races to satisfy us.
@D189379: In fairness to GT5, Polyphony must have listened to complaints. With the seasonal races and login bonuses, it got very easy to rapidly build up money. I was getting somewhere around eight hundred thousand to a million credits for one lap of the Ring. There's nothing wrong with that. The "regular" races would never make you rich. The seasonal stuff was where the money was.
Another thing that bugs me lately in these games are these stupid rolling starts. I understand they don't want a logjam at the first corner, since AI cars aren't very bright and it's not usually a grid of six like the much older games. Fine, but that means I have to pick through a whack of dumb AI cars, the first of which may have a twenty second head start. Keep the rolling start if necessary to deal with the larger grids, but reintroduce qualification! The Formula 1 games have to deal with unfortunate logjams at the first corner. That's incentive to qualify properly and get a good start. Bring back optional qualification. Those who want to will. Where one doesn't want to, fine.
As for signage, I've now seen some Total signs and can confirm Agip. I have seen Shell and Eneos service stations. GT 4 had Red Line, and I haven't seen that for ages.
The attention to detail with respect to graphics is pretty impressive. Where the sponsorship signs are lacking on overhead signage hardware, it actually looks like the signage paper was torn off and not replaced. There are actual dandelions in the grass if you go close enough. Take a slow run through Tokyo and look at the signs on the businesses - and their doors. There is a load of detail to be seen.
