I get you, and you haven't been cramping up the thread or anything like that it's just GAF has a tendency to be very negative about everything but especially GT. Just offering perspective from the other side. GTS or GT7, a lot of the gripes some of you have I will just never care about.
GT has stagnated. There is no denying it. Outside of their lighting and car models, they are not leading the pack in racing sims, console or PC. PD used to raise the bar with every new GT. Things have been rather inconsistent since GT5 and that was 7 years ago, even longer if you count the lengthy development time. I personally don't think they are good enough for what most expect from a AAA console exclusive. I don't think GT is good enough by genre standards raised by other franchises. I don't think GT has been good enough by PD standards that they set through the PS2 generation and even Prologue.
GAF is a community of core/hardcore gamers. I don't know what you expected.
Maybe you should also consider our perspective.
Simulations of any kind tend to bring more pointed criticism because you often have a large portion of the player base who have done the real life thing that the game simulates. I can exactly match personal racing experience to some games with the right car and track, and I am not even close to the hardcore end of the racing sim crowd. What may seem hardcore in a GT GAF thread is noob shit in some other racing sim communities. This doesn't mean that casuals have no place, but don't be surprised to see a different kind of criticism in a racing sim thread than you do in a JRPG thread.
GT Sport review thread will be insane, as even looking way ahead just now Sport cutting back features, cars and most likely not improving enough, is going to equal reviewers destroying it. At this stage I say have at it reviewers, as something has to get PD learning. Given their continued strong sales figures I don't think anything will ever penetrate Kaz's armour.
I expect 70s and 80s tops. I really don't know who was asking for GT Sport. After GT6 being a bit disappointing and should have been on PS4, they decide to nuke the idea of GT7 and spend years working on a cut down GT Sport. MP functionality is already decent in other driving games which manage to still care about SP. PD are basically saying here's your GT Prologue with a more robust online system. To which many are still bashing from the beta.
Basically, it keeps moving away from being a "game" and going to some crazy Kaz vision of being something exclusively for real life drivers. Bold move as we'll see how many gamers keep staying with the brand given its them who make up the sales figures, not the Pro racing drivers.
There are two things that are an absolute guarantee with the launch of GT Sport. 1. It will sell like gang busters no matter what the final game is like 2. It will have no shortage of polarizing reviews.
In classic PD fashion, the messaging has been poor surrounding GTS. At reveal, this game seemed like a super focused down, hardcore online only, e-sport centric competitive racing sim. Basically, a new Prologue, but with the emphasis on pushing themselves to expand GT online. Under that scope, all it had to be was GT Academy on steroids to deliver. But, we now are more in the GT7-ish but not really GT7, but also is like iRacing-Light, but all the things in GT7 will be there but kind of, but maybe not? This is a recipe for mixed or poor reviews. It now is going to have to meet the expectations of both sides. The people now thinking there will still be a GT7 in there, and those expecting the iRacing-Light FIA infused e-sport platform. They could work a bazillion hours of overtime, hire new people and knock it out of the fucking park. That would make no one more happy than me. I want GT to succeed. I want PD to get their swagger back. We will have to see, but put me in the skeptical camp for now.
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