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GT7 includes an 8 minute(!) unskippable movie[1] on the history of racing that plays when you start the game. You got a new game, you're excited to start playin

by Aaargh20318 3y ago

GT7 includes an 8 minute(!) unskippable movie[1] on the history of racing that plays when you start the game. You got a new game, you're excited to start playing it, but you have to sit through an 8 minute movie before you even get to the game's main menu. You can disable the startup movie from the settings after you sat through it once, but if you don't do that you'll get the same 8 minute movie again the next time you start the game. 1) The movie in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfjoCqEo6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfjoCqEo6I

pmontra 3y ago
The last half of that movie is equivalent to the filler movies they play in previous episodes of GT. The first half is interesting but it should not be inflicted to players without an option to skip it. Sooner or later everybody will watch it at least once. Anyway, my main grudge with GT is that you buy a new episode and start from scratch. Maybe they got smarter but I remember that when I bought GT4 I had to go through all the licenses again. That could be OK because even if the controller is the same there are changes in the physics model etc. What I don't forgive them is that I must unlock again everything. Cars, tracks, money, they take a massive amount of time. I had that time with GT3, I didn't have it anymore with GT4. Give me at least all the tracks and the cars and the money I had on the GT3 memory card. The result is that I unlocked some new tracks, I played only a tiny amount of the game, kept doing laps on the tracks that I unlocked and never bought a newer Playstation. That cost them some missed sales with me. I would pay an extra to buy a totally or partially unlocked game. By the way, I play only racing games and I'm not interested to play against other people with a network connection. There are apparently too many jerks and lapping alone or against the AI is entertaining enough.
- Aaargh20318 3y ago
  > There are apparently too many jerks I don’t play online so I don’t know how well it works, but GT7 has a sportsmanship rating system that is supposed to combat this.
  - pmontra 3y ago
    I'll check that, thanks. But then in a different game I see the current Formula 1 champion doing this https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1680276931109871617 https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1680276931109871617

pmontra 3y ago

The last half of that movie is equivalent to the filler movies they play in previous episodes of GT. The first half is interesting but it should not be inflicted to players without an option to skip it. Sooner or later everybody will watch it at least once. Anyway, my main grudge with GT is that you buy a new episode and start from scratch. Maybe they got smarter but I remember that when I bought GT4 I had to go through all the licenses again. That could be OK because even if the controller is the same there are changes in the physics model etc. What I don't forgive them is that I must unlock again everything. Cars, tracks, money, they take a massive amount of time. I had that time with GT3, I didn't have it anymore with GT4. Give me at least all the tracks and the cars and the money I had on the GT3 memory card. The result is that I unlocked some new tracks, I played only a tiny amount of the game, kept doing laps on the tracks that I unlocked and never bought a newer Playstation. That cost them some missed sales with me. I would pay an extra to buy a totally or partially unlocked game. By the way, I play only racing games and I'm not interested to play against other people with a network connection. There are apparently too many jerks and lapping alone or against the AI is entertaining enough.

Aaargh20318 3y ago
> There are apparently too many jerks I don’t play online so I don’t know how well it works, but GT7 has a sportsmanship rating system that is supposed to combat this.
- pmontra 3y ago
  I'll check that, thanks. But then in a different game I see the current Formula 1 champion doing this https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1680276931109871617 https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1680276931109871617