1. The force feedback
lets be honest here its rubbish, its just heavy. Theres no sense of feel, don't get me wrong I like the weight. Its just sometimes like when your over steering or under steering you want the wheel to go light to mimic loosing grip. I would also like more options, most driving sims come with a wealth of options like dead zone, force feedback strength and sensitivity. GT5 calls itself the real driving simulator and yet I don't think it takes itself seriously enough.
2. The graphics
From inside the car no other game can touch GT5, but switch to the exterior view and your greeted with backgrounds that wouldn't look out of place on the wii. The shadows are still broken except on Tsabuka where they are perfect. There's still an effect when spray or dust is being kicked up by the car. Surely Polyphony Digital can patch these things because one of my favorite things to do in GT since number 3 is to watch the replays, they used to look stunning. Now they are full of jaggies, the shadows are either jagged or flickering and it ruins the experience for me.
3. The online experience
There's not enough options for me, take Forza 3. It has a load of playlists to try, my favorite being the production hoppers. The new PP system is a good idea but what i'm finding is people are setting up rooms with PP settings that are perfect for them and the car they have chosen but for you not so much, there are alot of cars in gt5 so the chances of you having the same or something similar is nil. I'd like to see some playlists designed to get people racing in in similar cars instead of 900bhp monsters, because that's what GT5 is all about, the racing and there isn't enough of it.
4. The price of cars
I wasn't lucky enough to know people who could send me the jaguar, ferrari, ford or alfa romeo 20,000,000 cr cars and I have finished A-spec mode. I have about 3,000,000 cr. Thats along way from the 80,000,000 I need to purchase these cars. Why put them at such a steep price, i'm sure some people have the time to make that amount of cr but i'm not one of them. I earned myself an X1 by completing the vettel challenge but that car is useless. Why not put some new championships in where you have the chance too win them cars, I see know other way I'm going to be able to own them.
5. Standard cars
I understand that the amount of detail in the premium cars meant that not all 1000 cars could achieve that amount of detail. But the cars don't even look as good as gt4s cars. I hope that this can be updated because again alot of the cars I like, including the m3csl and the e55 amg are standard cars and they look horrid. The patches keep coming but these issues are being ignored.
I take part in a weekly series called SSCS (Saturday stock car series) and the organizer is looking for more racers, head over to gt planet to see if your interested. search virtualbornracer or SSCS. The image was taken from one of my first races and as you can see its a close race. What would you like to see improved or added to gt5.
The upcoming Xbox Games Showcase should be full of exciting announcements. Here is what John Hansen from GameSandwich thinks we will see.
Percentages time
Gears 6: 95% very high chance it'll get announced. It'll be in engine trailer but no deep gameplay.
State Of Decay 3: 60% fair chance development was said to be rough development but now is going very smooth recently according to Jez Cordin. It's a fairly good chance they could show it off but don't be surprised if it no shows... Again...
Blade: 20% very small chance. It's still a few years away and they probably don't want to show it off this early.
Fable: 80% High chance. I believe we'll see another trailer from Fable with a 2025 release.
Perfect Dark: 80% High Chance: apparently they wanted to be shown off last year but Matt Booty blocked them. Development was going badly for a while but according to New report it's smoother now. Yeah high chance and it's time to show something.
Avowed 100% chance guaranteed. Gameplay released date and all.
Indiana Jones 100% chance guaranteed. New trailer gameplay and release date.
Stalker 2 100% chance guaranteed. New trailer Day one on gamepass.
Contraband: 70% good chance. The game is said to be up and running with lots of play tests. Confident they'll show gameplay. If not it's vaporware 1000%
South Of Midnight: 80% High chance. There was a rumor it was releasing this year I'm actually expecting gameplay actually.
Clockwork Revolution: 50%. Maybe if it's a 2025 release then yeah they'll show off a new trailer. If not then it's a no show this time.
ABK gamepass stuff:100% New cod of course. Retro games crossing my fingers for remastered Tenchu games but I highly doubt it. One can hope I guess. These aren't all the games I missed some but wanted to hit the main stuff everyone's been waiting on.
Hope we hear about more about Playstation there lol, but I doubt they even dare utter that name at this showcase lest the steadfast faithful form a mob and burn the whole place down and "hold the line".
"Here's all the studios we're buying look at these trailers"
Years later, shuts them all down.
The one and only Jez Corden of Windows Central has intimated today that Ninja Theory is working on their next title already, and it's not one previously announced
Good. I hope they ramp up their ambitions and make a bigger game with better gameplay and combat.
"To celebrate its 20th anniversary, QubicGames is bringing a curated collection of its top titles on Steam. As a launch gift to players, there is even a "20 for 20 - Anniversary Bundle" that will be heavily discounted to allow gamers to purchase their favorite titles at irresistible prices. Players who purchase the entire bundle at once will pay less than $20!" - QubicGames.
Standard car models will be sharpened and detailed i think in a patch being made. And the weather graphics for rain are horrible jagged rain drops and stuff. Im sure all this is being updated sometime.
I bet itll release by the time forza4 releases so that that big patch steal the thunder from forza4 once it releases that same week.