10 Awesome Features Gran Turismo Dropped For No Reason

[@AKK5I]

Well, I'm sure you've covered it multiple times but they dropped having a good career mode in GT7 for no good reason

[@RandomCarGuy17]

His GT7 critique series covers that.

[@CyanRooper]

My theory is that, starting from GT5 onwards, they slowly stopped prioritising the career mode because of how much time and effort it takes to create an entire car from scratch. I said it before that the PS1 GT car models took a week each to make while the PS2 models each took a month to make. The models in GT Sport and GT7 each take 9 months to make and because the cars have always been the stars of the games they focused more on the cars than on the career and because they take so long to make now they want everyone to experience the cars at least once so they threw the progression of the old games out the window in favour of making most of the cars easily accessible for everyone (apart from the really expensive ones that you have to grind for). The multiplayer also played a part in the decline of the single player mode. Gran Turismo always had weak AI drivers so rather than design better AI drivers they instead let the players race each other since it wasn't possible for them to create good AI drivers until recently with GT Sophy.

[@demomanchaos]

​@@CyanRooperBut they lock them behind ridiculous pricing and give you no race to use them, so clearly you arent meant to experience them beyond just staring at the models

[@saekabura]

Lmaoooo. That's funny

[@Fay7666]

Also, they're famous for killing the online services extremely quickly. If anything that's the main reason for me to not buy GT7, I can't trust the game to still exist more than a year after the next game releases.

[@C0bblers]

Most gaming companies view customer feedback as a personal attack.

[@shortcat]

and rightfuly so (I'm not saying recent GTs are good)

[@rightinthedome9973]

Especially Japanese ones

[@k4g6mw50]

@@rightinthedome9973 Especially Project ACES and Gaijin Entertainment

[@RPG6143_New]

Very sad, I don't think it should be viewed as an attack. It should be viewed as something that should make the game better.

[@evandaymon8303]

On one hand it sucks to see them act like that. But on other hand there is some people who treat them terribly and it is understandable why they deem everything like it is a attack because we cant be civil with our criticism and not harass people.

[@abella458]

Im still stuck on that we cant mix carbon and paints. Literally makes no sense. But polyphony wouldnt be polyphony if things didnt make sense.

[@MuscleCarLover]

It was better in GT6

[@CB-L]

I kinda understand stuff like Racing Modification being absent but some of these features dropped for no apparent reason is just inconceivable.

[@keeprollguy86]

Polyphony Digital or KAZ is like with this video : "WHO CARES!! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!"

[@luckystudent00]

Another Feature GT Dropped for no reason is Garage Cars being used in Arcade/Offline Modes. Poly needs to do is pretty much make an offline mode where whenever your online progress is at, it gets transferred over & you can go where you left off until you're back online (Including License Tests, Car Dealership, Earning Credits & even using the cars you own in offline Single & Split-Screen Multiplayer, Photo Mode & Tuning/GT Auto Shop)

[@federalgamingagency5019]

You need to favorite cars in the garage to use them in Arcade Mode in GT7. Idk why

[@e-money9251]

@@federalgamingagency5019 the reason why is because kaz is old and therefore a bit slow now

[@nebuc72]

36:07 - we actually ended up having people making Discord bots that pull the data and do it for us! it's not perfect still though, and still takes absolutely forever to set everything up. you can see Gallo is in a couple of the clips you've used to, its such a hugely requested feature in basically every end of the community, it's insanity to me they haven't brought it back.

[@Alkie]

I used to participate in these handcrafted-shuffle races, we might ended up sharing track together, who knows?

[@thebroskis6364]

What automatically pisses me off is there's no actual career mode. To me, GT7 is automatically a failure because of that.

[@Swat_Dennis]

I had the same feeling in 6? Kind of? 5 felt like the last true GT game for me

[@Toxic_RuviOnTop]

Imo gt6 still had a way better career than 7, now its just do a race win a free car for like 30 books

[@thebroskis6364]

@@Toxic_RuviOnTop I agree with you. It doesn't feel rewarding like before

[@CyanRooper]

GT6 didn't really have a career mode either but the massive car and track list made it fun to play. I like to compare GT6 to NFS Most Wanted 2012 in that neither games had the single player progression of the previous games from their respective franchises yet both games offered a level of freedom that made them enjoyable to me. If I had a bad day at school I would boot up GT6 on my PS3, pick a car and track combo at random and just drive aimlessly, not trying to set a fast lap or anything. Just driving for the sake of driving. It was kinda therapeutic and I imagine that some people do the same with GT7.

[@DerpSherman]

​​@@CyanRooperI can agree with Most Wanted 2012,it got negative feedback based on the 2005 Most Wanted fanbase,but 2012 was like Burnout Paradise: grab your favourite car and enjoy the map at ridiculous speeds,and it really worked in the aspect of freedom and random fun(outside of the damage that was reduced by licencing issues).

[@thomasyip1925]

5:15 Actually the original Project CARS is up to staggering 42 cars

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

A whole pre-2020s NASCAR sized field, minus 1. Damn...

[@bigmanjaffers]

Can’t wait to see Music Rally on the 2030 edition of this format 😂

[@VACATETHE48]

I will claim to the end of time that Shuffle Racing is the greatest feature anyone has ever made for a racing game period. The amount of fun it was to host 480/10 lobbies every Saturday was incalculable. Winning races against Paganis and Lamborghinis with Imprezas and Skylines was always a blast. As long as I wasn't given a muscle car or a car with Comfort tires, I always had a chance to win. Massively beginner friendly mode too because you'd eventually get a car fast enough for your skill level in order to compete with the top cars. Someone could make a video game that is just Shuffle Racing again and I would buy it without hesitation. So so so much fun.

[@cesarfelipe7138]

Now imagine the following: Shuffle mode where a Performance Points target is set (or maybe randomized as well each race), and every car that can reach that PP target gets put in the roster for that race, automatically receiving upgrades (or downgrades as well, like limited power or ballast) to get as close to it as possible. Even more fun if the upgrades are somewhat randomised as well, so you could get a car that had received an extra +50PP from upgrades, but that could be from just power upgrades, just handling upgrades, or something in-between. After receiving the car, and having been shown the upgrades it got to reach the PP target, the players enter a setup phase where they'll have 3 minutes to test and change the settings of their car. And then they'll be thrown into the race proper, with the same rules as GT5 shuffle mode of getting a reverse grid from last race and the cars received also being inversely-proportional to your finishing position. I cannot see this not being a massive success with players, either from Gran Turismo or Forza. I think going with the vibe, this would fit Forza Horizon extremely well, but one can dream that Polyphony will take their heads out of their own asses and do something like this in the future.

[@VACATETHE48]

@@cesarfelipe7138 Nah all Dat defeats the purpose of shuffle. It's about running what you got. No tuning. No upgrade. Just cope. That was a large part of the appeal of it. You got a Shelby Cobra? Better hope you don't need to go over 150mph. Got a V8 Vantage? Better luck next round. Got a CTR Yellow bird? Ez win. It's more fun that way imo

[@clkgtr1998]

When i saw GTPSP i immediately clicked, thank God someone remembers this game. Anyway, great video as ALWAYS :) .

[@sonysny8715]

Same.

[@CB-L]

I had so much fun with GTPSP such as driving the elusive Furai. Now a distant memory but still fun one.

[@splatpro957]

I genuinely loved that game and still do

[@tim3172]

PRAIZE JEBUS, indeed.

[@shoryuag]

But Mr. waffle, if they put lap charts back in, you’d have even more undeniable proof that the rubberbanding is terribly disguised. I like artifice that mentally takes me out of the game. /s

[@gianlucarisa7726]

I'm afraid this video needs to be updated every now and then, because I'm afraid that they also gonna drop Sophy without any notice

[@shoryuag]

@@gianlucarisa7726 Oh yeah, 100%. At some point, it won't make sense to host most of the content anymore, and a whole GT game will just be gone.

[@cap.meruwkateklimana8321]

I had one condition for GT7: I need actual offline mode for entire game like the same way like previous GT games including, GT5 I grew up. Because to me. Offline mode is NON-NEGOTIABLE.

[@LaZdiZorro]

Maybe we'll see an offline patch before they shutdown the servers, like GTSport and the Crew games

[@Fay7666]

​@@LaZdiZorro The Crew one didn't, and now it's directly responsible for that California law making it so that they have to disclose if you're not buying a perpetual copy.

[@NineNovem]

As it should be. We're not renting games for $70. We are *buying* them and should own them permanently.

[@buzzard3983]

unlike Ubisoft, most possibly they will patch the game to offline mode when its time comes, so dont worry

[@NineNovem]

@@buzzard3983 They very well might patch it. But that's not exactly ideal. We're either waiting years for them to fix a problem that should not be there to begin with or we're counting down the days until the game dies and the playerbase basically get robbed en masse. Though, after the amount of backlash Ubisoft got, they'd be fools to try and get away with that.

[@bezoekers]

I thought the Event Synthesizer was a brand new feature in GT4 Spec II 😅 didn't know it was originally from GT2

[@ChrisBl33p]

Polyphony (or rather, Kazunori Yamauchi specifically) don't give a damn what we, the consumer want. They're gonna do whatever the hell they want and then feign like they're listening to their player base.

[@VnVnV-893]

In an alternate universe where Kaz was austed, gt would have been objectively the best console racing sim.

[@tim3172]

@@VnVnV-893 I'm assuming you meant to say... ousted?

[@IlConteSky]

​@@tim3172 or even better, busted

[@VnVnV-893]

@@tim3172 that is exactly what I meant to say in English instead of Ebonics. Thank you for the correction

[@e-money9251]

@@VnVnV-893 instead we have kaz ogling at his car collection and going to vintage car meetings instead of track days and racing events

[@MistahMCA]

Adding to the GT7 Shuffle Racing discussion - you know how popular Shuffle Racing is when the lobby gets filled up near instantly and contain some of the fastest players in GT7.

[@Foldingfandariusgaiden]

I strongly think that online modes like shuffle races won’t be added into GT7 due to PD’s fear of casual online races killing off Sport Mode

[@Fay7666]

Their obsession with Sport Mode has basically killed off everything that made GT the game it used to be.

[@Foldingfandariusgaiden]

@@Fay7666 Yes, I like sport mode but they could’ve split the focus 50/50 with singleplayer (the true identity) but they for some reason don’t want to do that

[@RealStreetPA]

Yep I agree every aspect of GT7 suffers because of sport mode prioritizing. Still to this day I miss those GT5 shuffle lobbies and God forbid we get voice chat in online lobbies.

[@josephcyronder7021]

As someone who didn’t get to play the shuffle races in GT5 - I’ve never wanted something so badly in my life.

[@Daniel-zo5wz]

These features really were cool. It's disappointing to see them get lost

[@MonitorVonSynthesizer]

AFAIK you could just skip GT1 Qualify lap by exiting it, i.e. pressing triangle or circle on US / EU versions of the game. It would prompt you with "Skip qualify?" and you would just approve that. Then it would take you to the race menu.

[@gtpliquid1290]

Yes, this is true. You could skip it from the menu without actually going into the session.

[@Driff97]

You know what? I'm now convinced GT1's Arcade mode is underrated. You wanna know why someone might prefer that game's Arcade over GT mode? Exciting content that's exclusive to that mode, a progression system that encourages all kinds of classes, a much simpler mode to understand, and the sheer thrill of driving the fast cars with the faster speed and traction. Please, when you get the chance drive the Subaru Impreza around Autumn Ring.

[@ShadowOfCicero]

The only real problem was that Class B and Class C each had one right answer in terms of car choice (Mitsubishi Eclipse and Honda Prelude, as I recall). Even so, it was more balanced than GT2 with its fatally flawed S-Class. I liked GT3's idea that higher difficulties had more laps, but ironically found too much parity in the car choices. GT1 in Class A may have been GOAT, then. I will vouch for the Impreza on Autumn Ring at least.

[@Oualouidji]

I agree so much with Shuffle races. This was the main reason I was playing online in GT5. This was also the main reason I dropped online in GT6 I think.

[@JK-js2td]

I havent finished watchin your vid...BUT...the DRAG RACING in GT 4 was EPIC...and gome!!!!!! Why?

[@DerpSherman]

20:50 Well,back during the 360 era,the Forza games (both Motorsport and Horizon) had the engines properly named,but at some point during the Xbox One era this was replaced by a generic name (while the only way to check where the engine comes from is with the Forza Wiki,for both Motorsport and Horizon series). This also shows how both franchises have used and changed features with no real reason: endurance (present in Forza up to Motorsport 7,erased in Forza 23 outside of the poorly managed Online ones and single race),multiclass (present in Forza 3 and 4 in the career mode, mostly absent after that until the online of 2023 outside of single race),a solid career mode (Builder's Cup is something that is simply terrible,Forza 7 had a better career,but ruined by the "homologation" modifications),24 car races are a great feature ruined by the IA (the smaller grids on the 360 era with preset drivers and cars were better than the Drivatars), minimum use of the weather and dynamic time (outside of online until they nerfed it and single races),and.. maybe I'm forgetting some things,but these things seems to be the unexpectedly changes done in both franchises i can think by now.

[@reillywalker195]

One slight correction: unlocking more tracks and cars in GT1 required you to win on each track in each vehicle performance class. I used the Honda Civic SI for Class C, Mitsubishi Eclipse for Class B, and Chevrolet Corvette Stingray for Class A.

[@Sapizanza]

You don't know the feel after you get screwed driving a Challenger RT/10 on a Nordschleife Schuffle race Good times

[@LordofDestruction123]

The ONLY issue shuffle races really had was that you could end up with a classic muscle car with a top speed barely over 100 mph, while racing against a modern Impreza that would top out around 155 mph. On a track with long straights like the Nordschliefe, no matter how good your lead was through the twisty sections, you would always lose on the straights. In GT6, I was part of a club that painstakingly tested all the cars and put them into different categories to ensure balanced racing, not just by PP, but also by testing for tops speed so that that issue would be eliminated. If the players could figure it out, the devs could have fixed it and kept it.

[@Martinec1998]

thats why comes grouping... like jdm 90s or supercars etc. (we already have those 1,2,3 and B or those in GT Sport)

[@Alkie]

35:51 Fun fact: I thought until now that Shuffle Racing was an idea that Nenkai made into a Discord bot lol. I did participated in some of these shuffle races, so I can tell that y'all are not swimming into nostalgia, no matter how good or bad you are in GT7, you would always find another player to go head to head because the variety of the grid lets you do that. I remember having very close race in Alsace with an R5 Turbo while I was driving an 300SL, and while we were battling, Valerio Gallo himself was catching us in a R50 Cooper, or another race in Suzuka Short where I was assigned a Peugeot 308 so I was able to gracefully gain time in the esses but lose all of my advantage on the straight by a, of all things, a Ford Raptor! Just thinking of this makes me excited haha, this need to be a returning feature

[@Haekki]

Besides the lack of a proper career mode in GT7, not being able to restart from scratch without creating a new user/psn profile is utterly ridiculous!

[@RedCruuve]

thank fuck you talked about shuffle races, I have no idea how many hours I played dirthy Sarthe/Le Mans shuffle races (where dirty racing and corner cuts were actively encouraged), and how people would complain if they got the AC Cobra because it had by far the lowest top speed.

[@transam33o]

It's actually really cool how GT1-3's arcade modes were separate gamemodes instead of just free play modes. I didn't even know that until this video. Shuffle races also look super cool, would love to see that in more racing games

[@gkan1042]

Another one is custom rear wings in gt6 where you could customise the height and width of the wings on a slider to get the exact fit you wanted

[@gorosaurs]

Do you and automobilistic have synced up upload dates? I swear you both deliver killer car content in very similar windows of time. Thank you both for keeping us so well fed.

[@Terrtail]

At this point I have 0 hope in GT8 because Polyphony just refuses to do what their fans are asking for.

[@BknMoonStudios]

Online Shuffle Races sounds so much fun. Wish modern racing games had a mode like that.

[@SumoPoweredAlanLi]

If, for some reason, PD managed to put them all together and make a massive GT game, I can't imagine how colossal will this game be in terms of sizes.

[@JellalGotAMustache]

I do remember during the Hacking Era of GT5 that many people could access hacked cars thanks to the borrow glitch. I miss my 90000hp Gold painted BMW M3 and it’s Jay Leno Tank Car suspension that could fly through the SS Route X straights in about 10 seconds.

[@PandaTony19]

To be fair, older GT also had feature of tonns mini compact cars, just now cars are different . Ps. I prefer older ones

[@TeH_RunT]

I miss the phone app for GT: Sport. Being able to see friends liveries, lap times and much more. Bring it back for the next GT game at least. It was a great community feature that only started and ended with one GT

[@Jonathan-nn8fe]

You made a good point about Arcade Mode being absent from newer games..

[@DedAlexFive]

I remember when GT7 at launch dropped the series staple "Respecting the player's wallet" feature

[@JustDevon]

Funny how both Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo had clubs and ditched them. Most FM4 players will tell you how bone-headed of a decision it was to drop them and refuse to reintroduce them

[@AweOob]

This video makes me nostalgic, but also sad when I see all these missing features in GT7.

[@lucasguimaraes5927]

I really miss Spec-B mode, it was very nice to use on long races, and even added a sense of realism, like if you were changing drivers due to the duration of the event.

[@Housesider]

I'm not sure how I never even heard of the Event Synthesizer before in GT2 lol. Beat every event and maxed out my garage multiple times and just never ventured to find it somehow I guess lol

[@Panchinator90]

I miss B-spec (director mode) in Gran Turismo 3. Really helped grind out those long marathon races

[@IlConteSky]

There's nothing material in this world that's gonna fill the void in my soul caused by the abscence of Clubs from modern GT

[@ThrasherDBS]

I'm happy to say I never got skunked on GT5 trades with other players. Though granted, I did use an exploit. Since GT5's data was specifically on the console and not also tied to Polyphony's servers like it is now, you could clone your cars if you had a second PSN account. You could back up your save data on your main file on a USB stick, send your car to your second account, and then copy your save file pre-trade from your USB stick and it's like you never gave it away on your file at all, while the second account would still get the car. The second account could also have a backup made of it once it got enough cars, you could sell the lot, and use the money to get a whole bunch of other cars you wanted to have, and then repeat the same process in reverse to get all of them onto your main account without having to actually spend a credit. Granted, the length of the whole process was tied to how many cars you wanted to clone/send, since you could only trade one car per account once every 24 hours. Or if you were gifting miscellaneous items like paint chips, you could gift a max of 5 per 24 hours. It was a good way to offer people coveted gold or silver chrome paint chips for whatever else you wanted to trade for. You held up your end of the bargain, and you still got to keep the items you sent. Hypothetically if you *did* get skunked by other players, it wasn't an actual loss, since you could just reload the save to get your items back.

[@Sodom_and_Gomorrah]

I know you brought up the arcade mode bit. But I have something related to that I wish EVERY racing game had. A true free play mode. Where you have access to all of the cars and tracks you have unlocked. With unlimited access to modify them. It's so annoying nowadays in racing games since you have to grind to do that. While in NFS Carbon, you have Quick Race and My Cars. Which is what I'm describing. You can customize the cars you have unlocked without spending any money in the My Cars tab, and do any race with the Quick Race tab. This was the same for online mode too! You just used the cars you had from your My Cars (or other tabs like the Career mode and Bonus cars).

[@shoryuag]

I think the one that irks me the most is the lack of qualifying. There’s even a mission where one of the drivers remarks that he did well during qualifying. Like, don’t even mention the concept of qualifying in single-player, dude. There’s no way I’d qualify in such low places all time; I finish regularly well ahead of 2nd unless the AI is being extra-cheatastic. Mentioning it offhand is just rubbing salt in wound, especially since one of the things I liked about GT3 and 4 over FM1 through 7 is the fact that you could qualify.

[@yomekpiecemaker8764]

In GT4 (and maybe 3) Japanese Version the Arcade Mode had another feature which was pretty cool : you could choose 2 options before starting the Race : Drift Mode or Racing Mode and the cars were perfectly tuned for each category.

[@Poorgeniu5]

Never played shuffle races but it does sure sounds like a fun gamemode like Gun Game and imagine if it was expanded further to only pick from player's garage? Of course, within the same performance class but it would be funny to race against your friend driving your itasha Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R with in their Gold chromed Toyota Tundra.

[@MuscleCarLover]

Boy, I really missed out on never having an internet connection until 2013. I would have EATEN UP shuffle mode in the same way I hosted daily cruise lobbies on Sierra

[@blake8675]

The idea behind Shuffle Racing seems really reminiscent of how the Tony Hawk games multiplayer worked. Different gamemode every match, random map change every few matches. I'd stay up well into the night mindlessly playing so many 2-3 min matches of that and had a blast. In the context of GT this format seems awesome and it sucks I never got to experience it and am only hearing about it for the first time

[@pannonianfit1582]

would love to see machine test returned but with the ability to make different time charts for instance unlimited list, f1 list, tuned class, gt list etc that way you can compare different vehicle class without the time being lost in only one chart that includes only the fastest times

[@paranoidpixie95]

At least in the online era, most developers have access to analytics on how many players are accessing each game mode. I'm sure Polyphony would look at what's being used and develop their game accordingly. I expect that we'll be seeing Music Rally not featuring in the next game (although it makes for a good demo mode while the game is being installed).

[@kclink1579]

I love GT and have played it from the first one on Playstation, but I haven't brought one in 2 gen. Last one was no campaign and then this one always online.

[@john-yvindhafeld2702]

This just shows that the creativty and ideas have gone. Kaz and PD only going towards sim racing and the single player is dead in Gran turismo.

[@pau1farcry]

So by prioritizing graphics they sacrifice everything else unlike project cars who prioritize more cars on track and why is there no pit to cars commentary in gt sport, gt7

[@SockyNoob]

GT6 clubs were so awesome back then. And I wish machine tests and proper arcade mode came back. The event generator and shuffle racing would be awesome to see return as well. We can make modded events for the old games now, I've made plenty for GT6 for my mod. But it would be even better if I could just do a single race without using my PC.

[@Erasmo.06]

I would LOVE to have a Gr.3 race with more than 30 to 40 cars on track on GT7 with custom races!

[@pau1farcry]

@@Erasmo.06 with 30 or 40 cars it could easily include multi class racing

[@Erasmo.06]

Yeah for example 10 Gr.4 10 Gr.3 10 Gr.2 10 Gr.1 It would be the greatest feature added in GT7 so i can race against all of my customized Gr.3 cars! :D (hope this gets added someday)

[@pau1farcry]

If only they would do it 4 classes in one race. But kaz is just not listening

[@nekozabuza]

Car trading will NEVER make a comeback. It would hurt selling cars as MTX, as frustrating as it may be. That said, part of my biggest gripe would be the car count in races, as well as STILL not being able to have multi-class AFAIK. Then again, I haven't touched GT7 since before the GT Sport servers got shut down. I just got tired of them adding road cars and not race cars. This is where I would like to see racing modifications make a comeback. But it won't.

[@bezoekers]

I played GT6 for 5 years. Never knew it had the Clubs feature.

[@gamezonevideo282]

Nice video , i liked the Rally Sierra or Special stage de la Sierra un GT6 i think , that arcade like , mode with a timer and a score , combo multiplier , etc. That was a mode i really really enjoyed from GT. i would like You talking about the hi res mode from GT1 arcade mode , the one You just could run on the Tokyo night stages only. Greetings from Uruguay 😊

[@-PVL93-]

It's really fascinating how this franchise consistently manages to be both so entertaining (up to Sport anyway) and so frustrating at the ssmr time So many tracks, so much content, so many different cars, challenges, tests etc And then you boot up the next entry a few years later and see like a quarter of that just gone forever with no explanation

[@1ove1ess]

To me, shuffle racing encapsulated the GT essence pretty perfectly.

[@the_rustydoornob1164]

13:11 I remember maxing out a mk4 Supra in gt3 and trying to get the fastest 1/4 mile, so much fun the mf had like 1k+ hp, it was so much fun especially using my driving force pro with the sequential shifter

[@weevil5]

I'll never understand why F1 removed classic cars and short circuits from the game

[@thisemptyworm4677]

Despite everything was lost, GT5 is still my favorite...

[@pablofernandez2335]

Same here, while most players go for GT4, i still think GT5 is better

[@crishokage2076]

I sure miss the shuffle racing on gt5. It'll be awesome to add that on GT7.

[@durodesduvo8424]

What has pissed me off about GT since 5 is the graphical distortion in everything in the game. Have y'all noticed that its all stretched vertically? When you see cars from the game in real life they are always shorter and wider than you expect, which looks way better. I don't know why this bad aspect ratio is still a thing.

[@THEGREEPMASTER]

Another thing that pisses me off is the LOD quality, where some parts/details of certain cars were popping on and off inconsistently. The slider vent on the side window of McLaren 650s GR.4 is the prime example of this case.

[@jonyivre4541]

100,000,000 units sold worldwide (1997-2024).

[@joeyrumoro1684]

Oomf The fact that you left the last point with a feature that has been my favorite part of any gran Turismo game ever, along with easily one of my favorite songs in GT is hitting

[@horizon_angel]

TBF, I feels like B-Spec could also be in this list. Sure that it more looks like a manager mode, but it's a good feature nevertheless. If you're tired of racing and grinding (as how the game centered to), have an AI to do races for you. In fact, the 1-hour endurance race can benefits from this, something like driver change possibility in pit. Sure, it looks very casual (from where the implementation to), but the possibility was there, and in fact it gives a sense of authenticity in the game too. I find it funny how they almost perfected it in GT5, then, "anyway, let's not use this" in GT6 (the mode returned, just very basic)

[@bucketslash11]

bring back grid starts, i remember grid starts in early GT5 which of course was changed to line start with an update

[@LiamMuzzaMurray]

Still frustrated that the race format is chase races. There is absolutely no fun in racing like that for me.

[@millennialchicken]

Why does Polyphony keep pulling this mistake of taking something cool or useful away and just sitting on it. EA does this less, though Polyphony at least doesn't put it behind a microtransaction.

[@AidanBenny]

I didnt play GT4 until i think 2017 and the Used Wheels option took me back to Forza Motorsport 4 although it didn't have this option through various methods you could swap the rims. It was done by either modding the tunning save file on a PC or playing a modded version of the game with this people would sell the tunes and or auction the cars with these wheels for a decent bit of in game money. The mod is basically adding the wheels id into a list so it can be purchased which make me wonder if they planned to add it as a feature like GT4

[@JaySamurai79]

Ive actually gone back to project cars 2. It has its issues but its so much more fun than GT7. So much more content in terms of tracks, cars, and options. Ive had some great races with the A.i. the spirit of leman was great, and close racing with the clio cup.

[@XSquareStickIt]

One of GT Sport's best features that salvaged its crap GT League campaign was the Car Handicap Bonus: if you enter a race with a car below the power limit of the event, you would get a scaled credit bonus at the end of the race proportionate to how underpowered your car was, regardless of whether or not you won. It was good incentive to revisit the piss easy races with self imposed handicaps with good financial rewards, but I guess PD didn't want us to game the system too much and make more than the prescribed 1.5 mil/h formula... You'd think with the PP system, the Car Handicap structure would be more fleshed out.

[@gianlucarisa7726]

One of the things they removed, and I still don't know why, is the ability to have the delta time of a car PERMANENTLY in the MFD in any mode. Any car+tyres+track combo where you set a time, can be permanently saved in the MFD, in the sectors page. I remember fondly to use this feature at the first Olympic virtual series, where I made laps in time-trial, rather than the official event because I couldn't touch the wall, and still, using the Delta sectors of the official event, because I could see them in the MFD. Oh, and they also removed the possibility to play time trials with BoP on, for whatever reason...

[@komplex8091]

I’m not sure if someone else commented on this but in GT5 if you were sharing with friends, you could NOT still use the car until you stopped sharing it. I remembered this clearly when PSN went down in 2011 and I couldn’t use my Red Bull and other good cars. It was stuck sharing and since there was no connection to PSN I couldn’t stop sharing.

[@caifabe8050]

if Polyphony ever brings back shuffle racing then that gives me more incentive to get my PS+ subscription back and play GT7 online again than the stupid Daily Race system does

[@T4Hui84D_]

PD needs to think about how to make players feel less bored. They should add some new features instead of adding a few vintage cars.

[@e-money9251]

Sadly vintage cars are what kaz wants and we can do nothing about it

[@T4Hui84D_]

@@e-money9251 Strange enough, seven years ago, we received an F1 car in GT Sport. Things are better in the past

[@zacariascisneros6399]

You'll be surprised the little amount of people that actually liked the OG Arcade Mode of Gran Turismo. [To me] Arcade Mode to Gran Turismo was like the Klassic Towers of Mortal Kombat. You pick up you character (or car) and do an amount of fights (or races) and then you get your reward (an unique ending to your character in MK, or a track & car in GT). However, in its latest title, Mortal Kombat with Mortal Kombat 1 still has the Klassic Towers like they were since the first game back in 1992. The only changes are the enhancements of the new game, like new mechanics, combos, fatalities, and obviously the graphics. While Gran Turismo lacked the proper Arcade Mode since Gran Turismo 4, being more of a glorified Free Play rather than a Mode with its progression and own stuff. Don't get me wrong, I play in Arcade Mode in GT4, 5, 6 and Sport from time to time. But the mode is just a Free Play. And being honest, it's worse than the one that Forza Motorsport has. Even if I didn't play it (yet), I think Gran Turismo 7 with a proper Arcade Mode as an Offline Mode, would have sufficed the lack of some good offline content aside from the Music Rally (which isn't that great to begin with). But no. Even if some GT fans claim they're in favor of offline content, they don't care about Arcade Mode anymore.

[@trevorpenucca]

If the gameplay footages are yours I would rcommend to practice the game and play it instead of researching it 24/7 haha. Just joking. I watch all your work and it's truly amazing and I wish more content creators would be as passionate about one thing as you are. All the kudos and respect to you! Keep up the good work and thank you for doing it. And in the meantime practice driving LOL XD

[@ilive2drive651]

I missed out on Gt6 after I discovered iRacing .... came back for sport and 7 but really didn't stick with either... currently playing gt4 spec II though....I think its maybe the best single player in the series...?😊

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

For me the biggest things i hate about modern GT games are the lack of iconic cars & tracks (Autumn Ring, Special Stage Route 5 and Silverstone) and also there's no proper Arcade Mode like in GT4

[@krazycharlie]

The feature tha's missing starting from GT4 and the one that infuriates me the most is the ability to manually save and load your progress. I know Polyphony Digital dropped it from subsequent games in order to prevent cheating, but it was really useful, especially when you made a mistake and wanted to rectify it.

[@Drift4Drifters]

What i miss mostly is the track creator from GT5. Specially with master mod unlocked with more custom options. I cant even relate too much about the GT6 track creator via mobile app, because it came too late, so i hadn´t oportunity to dig much into it. But remove it? There is no reason, its a solution for infinite content.

[@John-zc2my]

Qualifying would make GT7 races more enjoyable. They could make the AI more difficult since you would be given an opportunity to not start in the back. Having to pass rolling road blocks isn't fun.

[@Official_MikeyT]

Idk if they watch GT7 content but back in GT5 I did the permanent borrow glitch on an X2010 from my friend The Nose Knows. They were pretty active on the GTP forums nack then too. I hope they're doing well these days!

[@MikasaNeedMoney]

Haven't watched yet but the PSN crash we had last night sure as hell reminded me of the greatest bygone feature of all: A f*cking 100 dollar game that works offline.

[@awsomef2004]

27:02 Qualifying in GT7 would allow Polyphony to design the races as actual races, not last2first challenges, leading to a more entertaining and engaging single player experience, where the AI are allowed to be as fast as the player. You know, like in every other racing game, which features, racing, not traffic cones disguised as cars

[@granturismoaddict]

Shuffle racing should be top of the list to come back. I still cant believe they have not given us proper drag racing. Thought we would have had head to head drag racing from gt5 😢

[@Unwanted.A7X]

The sad thing about gt5 is that qualifying functionality it's present in the game... Sadly it's like gt4 where the game presents the function as "free run" when racing on lobbies and the game keeps track of lap times and properly sets the starting grid order once the owner of the lobby decides to actually start the race... And it's not present on A spec or B spec... Using the master mod you can actually "enable" qualy mode and set whether the ia is dispersed on track or needs to do a warmup lap from pit box... I tried with a bunch of classic cars and the ai actually smoked me... Partially because I struggled to keep the cobra on the track because that thing tries to kill you on every corner...

[@kostiantynhlyz]

21:29 - Hm, I actually DON'T remember this being a thing in Juiced 2... Anyone else in here knows for sure if that was a thing? 🤔

[@priyeshboodhram8375]

Where is the offline mode for GT7? Edit : My First Gran Turismo will be a free demo coming with fan favorite cars and tracks , coming in December for PS4 and PS5

[@learn_with_gern]

Following Pokemon: HG/SS are 15 years old and that small feature made the ga-... ...Wait wrong game series.