This used to be one of my favourite series ever and i've been following it ever since i first played the demo of the first GT. For me this game was a type of RPG where i was both getting better as a driver while i was also getting better cars. I loved trying to collect every car and it was so much fun playing with cars that were slightly underpowered to try to win races playing as perfect as possible.
GT Sport however almost killed my love for this series and i'm afraid that it's heading towards an always online,"game as a service" future that doesn't appeal to me at all.
I think that's how we all remember GT. I grew up on GT, that first Gran Turismo game was such a revelation. A racing game with realistic graphics, authentic cars and great tracks and racing for that cup, credits...to buy more cars et.al...It was really unmatched back then, and it had nice touches like the car wash, which really rounded out how well done this car rpg "that popularized the sim genre" really was.
I was speaking on some things I'd like to see in a new GT some time back when GAF was populated......but bear in mind that GTSport is not a full Gran Tursimo release in the traditional sense, so the fact that it's missing weather and had some stuff like the cups absent on release and the car RPG aspect neutered is something to be expected. I think Sport was a new direction with a different vision...
Still for GT7;
I'd like to see more populated buildings with Ai inside, signs of life and activity, especially tracks like Tokyo. Show more life/activity/hustle and bustle around such a track and mimick a more living world out there. I think perhaps the computing power was not enough to do so this gen, but with a Ryzen Multi Core CPU and a beastly GPU, I think we can head towards that for the next GT.
A highly evolved PBR workflow, next gen tree technology with appropriate physics, no more 2D trees and crowds, higher polygonal NPC's and crowds with lifelike animation. 4k textures, 16xAF, 16x SSAA, no shader aliasing. I know they will nail lighting, perhaps with a tope end G.I solution and full weather simulation, but it is an expectation.
I would also like to see aspects of the menu return like the car wash and oil change, but perhaps they can infuse that into the Pittting Zone and make that whole area a huge area, where people can choose what services they require. They should have bits like the car wash fully 3D with top of the line water simulation, bubbles, Squeegees et al.....For tuning, I'd like a more hands on approach. It would be neat for the player to be an avatar in his garage actually holding and propping the parts he bought off the shop into his car, where you could flip the bonnet/hood and put in your part and see the other parts of your car, like engine, battery etc...Change your tires and see the wear on certain parts, get a more hands on approach as to the differences of different tire types as you prepare for your next race.....In essence I'd like a more hands on approach, I think that would get more people into the SP experience as it got people in to cars for the first GT.
Things evolve and you have to evolve too. What GT had in the 90's was great, but we have to overhaul the systems to be more hands on and 3D. So instead of just menus, where I pay $50.00 for a car wash and see the wash animation, I'd like for a real representation of that with my car in a true 3D car wash space. For tuning, I'd like to see inside the car and place the advanced CPU myself, change the engine, change the stabilizer bars and see what's next to it. For liveries the same. I think that will get folk back into the car culture like they were when GT1 came out. Tbh, I learnt most of what I know about cars because of GT, but there's room to overhaul the systems now because of the power we expect in the new consoles.......
