so far impressions:
+ music is amazing, absolutely love it
+ love the return to classic GT Feel
+ the cars feel amazing
+ the load times! they are perfect, this is what modern GT needed to feel like a 100% high quality product. love love love it.
- I already bitched about them forcing the preorder bonus cars and credits on you, kills the feeling of progression and starting from nothing: All developers STOP DOING THIS. Make start of game bonuses optional to claim or put them behind completing a certain progress marker in the game.
- The Sunday Cup events need to be gated to only certain cars or strong PP limits. even right away I can blow away the field with compact cars when doing the Europe classic races. Why do these allow you to use any car? it’s immersion breaking.
- Why is there no VO for the game host? is it that expensive to hire a few VO artist to do things like the cafe stuff? I love all the information they give… but imagine the original Need For Speed voice over guy or the Mass Effect 1 codec guy doing some amazing reads, would make it a very relaxing experience.
so basically this game is amazing, it just has some presentation issues that aren’t fully baked, and a lack of proper gating for some races that makes one scatch their head and wonder who was in charge of play testing and feedback. all stuff that can be easily fixed (if they so wish too)