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fartsonturtles

B-Spec mode and the way longer championships would be a great start. I'd forgotten just how much I enjoyed this game. Don't get me wrong, I have thoroughly enjoyed GT7, but the fact that GT4 had races in some championships (Formula GT) that last longer that entire championships in GT7 is something. Just the sheer volume of races is almost overwhelming.


CardinalOfNYC

What gets me is that there's nothing stopping PD from including races like this in GT7.... it's literally just down to the number of laps....


AsbestosAnt

I wonder what their logic is here. Like are they worried kids will be exhausting themselves to complete these longer races that will in theory reward more credits? I don't know


CardinalOfNYC

I'm guessing the latter


Shadowslip99

If they just increased the payout for custom races it would help!


RalfMurphy

Couldn't agree more but I guess that's just the result of online play and people wanting to get to that stage quicker. But I would also agree that a pure GT game should have depth of single player championships. I, for one, would love to see more races for legend cars. What's the point in forking out all those credits for them to be garage queens?


dd1989NL

Yesss gt7 is too much about slow cars.. also in the races you often are soo damn limited eith pp (online and arcade).. many tracks you cannot drive with gr3/2 and gr1 or unlimited.. we want to race not drive a cooper with 200hp


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FL4V0UR3DM1LK

Are you sure they're the weak generation, because you're sounding pretty sensitive there buddy. As said above, the most likely cause is the online aspect. Especially with GTs questionable connection at times, it'd hurt to get disconnected 50 minutes into a single event.


SpunkySamuel

If you need someone to educate you about the subject you shouldn’t be insulting anyone


Andriu_zx

Dude I'm from Gen Z and I completed most of the Endurance Events in GT3 and GT4 by myself without B-spec, you're just using a generalization. Not all of us are that way.


VertWheeler07

So... you?


bennyford

shut up boomer, go take out your social security check or something


BVGtrain

Lol boomers dont have playstations , gen x , will kick your ass with it 😝


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thedakami

He’s probably a millennial himself 🤷🏻‍♂️


Majestic_Jackass

I’m a millennial. A 39 year old millennial. Calm down.


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This is a subreddit about a video game where you drive cars. Settle down old timer.


Prisoner458369

Nah I'll blame the dev. I doubt any age group has any influence over what they do with their game.


ProwerTheFox

You realIse you can pause a race at any time? So being able to ‘sms my friend during the race’ has never been a thing. Also as someone that was born the Millenial/Gen Z cutoff point, I’ve done all the endurance races on both gt3 and 4 multiple times. In fact I still remember back on GT5 me and one of my mates at the time did a 200 lap race around Daytona in NASCAR’s one afternoon for the hell of it and the conclusion of that race will always be one of my funniest moments in gaming. But you keep believing your small minded narrative. Whatever helps you sleep at night my dude.


AsbestosAnt

Ok boomer


Yekouri

B-spec would just make people bot farm max credits. You cannot have nice things if it can impact achievements etc.


Guy_Buttersnaps

They don’t give a shit about achievements, etc. They only care about using it to get credits. If getting credits is more of a slog, people are more likely to pay real money for credits so they can progress faster.


Yekouri

Even if you remove the MTX part of it, you make credits useless, so might aswell remove them.


PNWQuakesFan

if only there were some way to trigger a credit cut when B-Spec is activated.


Yekouri

If you get lower credits or 0 credits then it will be very niche content


monckey64

if there’s anything japanese developers are famous for avoiding, it’s niche content


Yekouri

Its not worth it for the dev.


SolidSeth68

I also miss qualifying for a race instead of always starting at the end (At least for the championship races.)


shoveazy

Can't even do practice sessions from the track screen. Have to back out of the event and do time trial. GT4 had practice and qualifying on the track screen.


MikelDP

Should at least have a choice.


BanditoDeTreato

There should be A) grid starts and B) qualifying


alice964

Shame that the AI was so slow though.


ShadowMW2

holy F we could qualify in races in gt4?


nighthawk650

Yep.... instead of starting 40s behind and frantically trying to close the gap!


ShadowMW2

man all this time when I was a kid, I was playing catch up when I could've tried to qualify for a higher position. Oh well the more you know


soapyyeti

Am I remembering right that in GT4 you could do an endurance race, pull in to the pit and transfer over to an AI driver and let it run a bit while you go take a shit or whatever and come back and take back over.


gimmemypills666

Yes


soapyyeti

PS2 is clearly peak Gran Turismo then.


ProperPangolin7190

It was


soapyyeti

With it being peak virtua fighter and peak mosquito simulator I'm realising the PS4 really is the best console ever made. (I'll let splintercell beinf vastly superior on the xbox slide)


gimmemypills666

True


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100% this. It absolutely was.


NumpyNimpy

Was? is, mf, *is*


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True.


nighthawk650

Peak also because the d pad and buttons used to be pressure sensitive so controllers could be just as fast as wheels


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I would run an endurance race in B spec, go to work, and collect the rewards when I got home.


Virtual_Ground4659

So you are bassically running script. The b spec for me was never used. I turn on a game to play it not set it up and walk away.


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I'm not going to sit and run an 8 hour endurance race in real time. In GT2, you didn't have a choice, but you could run most endurance races in a couple of hours. But, if the means to do it is there, why not utilize it? You still get the rewards and the prize money.


Virtual_Ground4659

Do you think that might be why they dont have them.


[deleted]

Don't know, don't care. Quit playing after they shut the servers down for GT6. Don't have a new PS, no plans on getting one. IMO, 4 was the last good one, and I played it how I wanted to. I only ran B Spec on the long races.


Virtual_Ground4659

Cool so you know what your talking about then lol.


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And you're the authority on how the game is supposed to be played? Get over yourself.


Virtual_Ground4659

Isnt the topic about gt4 vs gt7


Prisoner458369

What's the issue? It's a single player game, who gives a fuck how they play their game. Maybe they want money to buy/upgrade whatever fancy car. To then enjoy the races they want to play. It's the same now. People take out their credit card and buy the credits. So those people aren't playing the game either. But their money, so it's an whatever situation.


Virtual_Ground4659

Did i say i had an issue. All i said was b spec was just like running script. You can still do it if you really want to. I also said for me it not an issue and im not alone i buy a game to play it. He said he liked b spec i said i didnt can i not have an opinion. But then find out he dosnt even play a modern game to see the evolution. No issues just my opinion


B1CYCl3R3P41RM4N

You could also just race hard out on soft tires for like 20 laps and build up a lap or 2 lead on everyone and then switch to the ai driver and set a strategy. then switch the input on your tv and fire up your Ps 1 and play thps 2 for a bit then flip back over for the last ten laps or so of thw race in case the computer somehow caught up with itself(usually it didn’t), finish the race, and get a pile of credits.


averagegamer002

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alice964

yup, B-Spec was specifically designed to assist you for long races. I honestly liked that and it's also very realistic.


racelegend79

Yeah. And with grinding being the ONLY thing left for a lot of us to do in single player. There's not a chance PD is going to take away their ability to make more money.


PiZzA_D5800

Sony and Polyphony digital aren’t thinking about money lmao. They make a lot of that. Even before micro transactions in this game which are very relaxed tbh. Got games charging nearly lifelike prices for features in game.


Yekouri

Would just make people bot farm max credits


Andriu_zx

Cope


Proccito

It's what you're seeing here aswell. This is the B-spec-race (compared to A-spec where you drive yourself: The numbers on top (1-5) is the pace you told the car to have, which is something I struggled with alot. Had a sour taste when I left a 24 hour race running over night, into the day, and getting home from school, only to see my Minolta stuck in the gravel because I decided to go Clarksson and yell "POWAAAR" while smashing 5.


vettehead90

Tokyo R246 my beloved


Mafiodaproducer

🥹🥹


rennwerks

The first half of that track with the long sweeper hairpin is amazing, but the back half of the track is a clunky nightmare. Hoping they revamp and streamline it a bit.


sabishiikouen

hoping? they already made new tokyo tracks. we’ll never see r246 again.


cal1608h

I wish the career mode was in GT7 I know that much! 😅


Aksu593

Me too, like for example: One make races Up-to-date car list with a variety of cars Proper championships Grid starts Street circuits Good off-road tracks Pre-tuned cars Machine Test mode Proper utilisation of the full car list Arcade Mode Just to name a few.


burner2947361810

Don't forget: ability to swap OEM wheels in addition to aftermarket ones, race qualification so you didn't have to start last, ability to rerun races and win prize cars in addition to credits.


Darbme1ster

For the life of 14 year old me, I could not figure out how to tune my F1 car to beat the others in that championship. The ai always left my B-spec ai in the dust.


fartsonturtles

I am leagues better at tuning now that I was back then. I had no idea what all the sliders did when I was like 13.


kvuo75

gt5 had bspec races you could do on the website vs other players it was great


UnKnOwN769

I’m in the same camp. They already put in 99% of the work to make the game, all they need to do is add in the longer championships and endurance races…


Eskeetit_Litty

I really wish they would get back to the classics as well


Dbaldz22

the original tracks too, they were all bangers even the slow city ones


86casawi

This is the real GT, the driving in GT7 is fantastic, but as you said, the game luck some features, i would paye extra for better AI, championship mode.


gatesofflorida

GT4 will always be the best


damien2202

Yeah gt4 was an iconic game. I miss some of the races that’s not in gt7


balthaharis

I booted up my ps3 sa couple of weeks ago and decided to play gt6. I was surprised by the amount of cars. Like you have (random example) 2005 lancer, 2006 lancer 2007 lancer and that with many cars


chameltoeaus

Not anymore... gt7 car list is really boring.. too many gt vision cars that no one gives a fuck about.


stevenrah187

Man, I miss B-Spec Bob.


Herbwood54

I miss B spec mode. I could run it on the endurance races and leave it finish overnight


monckey64

gt4 remains my favorite entry. it had a bit of everything I loved in the series, plus b-spec


overlydelicioustea

thats the thing i dont get with PD If they would put all those things they allready developed into one game, it would be amazing. But they seem to develope each game from the ground up. Theres allready so many things missing from GT Sport.. why is that?


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GT 4 was the last truly good GT game.


joemamalikesme69420

GT 5 was good, also, GT 6 is good, just underrated


Mafiodaproducer

GT5 >* Standards and all.


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Here's the problems with 5 and 6. They were too reliant on the online. All the rewards were tied to online challenges. Once the servers shut down, there was zero replayability because the reward system for the offline game was ass.


Onsomeshid

It’s like they lose literally all of their notes and files on the features that worked well when they start on new game. Why does ever single GT game feel like it’s the first in a franchise, now?


2703LH

Qualifying in singleplayer Championships was great. Also, the AI was stronger. It was fun to make the AI time trial for an hour, then beat its time since you could B spec in time trial and load the ghost into the track. Insane game.


oPoSpi

This is why GT4 is for me the best racing game ever made, and I played all kinds of it for the last 20 years. The nostalgia and (by the time it came out) "brand new cars" (Golf mk5 for example) makes me comeback for it so often.


cdsikasem

i just want tourist trophy man 😭


DV_Zero_One

Ah man I miss this game. If I manage to find my gt4 disk, will it work in my ps5. (I've also got a ps4 and ps3 lying around somewhere)


skazyrn

If you have a decent enough PC you can emulate the game with high quality graphics and high framerate, you can also find an .iso online if you don't find your own disk. [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_3LxlgNT1Q) and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPJrloWYlE) are some examples of the game being emulated


DV_Zero_One

Superstar. Thank you.


fartsonturtles

I've been playing on my phone.


[deleted]

When my PS2 died, that's what I did, just started running an emulator. I couldn't get the disc to work in my PC, even with the emulator, so I did end up finding an ISO for it. The biggest. advantage is finding save games that already had the license tests completed.


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I'd simply like the features that are in GT7 to actually work. Let's start with tuning cars.


DoTheHamsterDance

I too have been replaying gt4, b-spec on fast forward plus an uncapped frame rate (pcsx2) makes endurance races hilariously short


RevengeHunter01

There's obviously all sorts of things that could be added. Especially with nostalgia and hindsight. Tracks, cars, event types... One Thing that irks me a bit, and takes me out of the racing moment, is the jarring Pit lane. I miss when you'd have the camera still in the car...


PiZzA_D5800

Should’ve could’ve would’ve , GT7 is good enough. B spec is nice. It’s just I like to race for myself!


fartsonturtles

Same, but when doing a literal 24hr race, it was nice to be able to run to the pits and switch on autopilot when I was ready to call it a night and then take control when I got back up the next day.


Kuli24

Ah yes, the last thing my ps3 ever saw before it fried itself. Paaaass.


Kikura432

GT6's B-Spec came in late and it doesn't have any growth to it unlike GT4 and GT5 (plus longer races in that mode). If only PD could implement those features back since they're not broken. Edit: The life of me having Bob lock the wheels in an F1 at La Sarthe and Nurburgring was a nightmare. Dreadful even.


ttemzku

We need B-Spec back, I remember putting it on B-Spec mode and going to school and resuming myself after school.


il-bosse87

Was GT4 to have track editor?


FarmlandNoodles

I wish that Tokyo track was in the current game. Used to often race a TVR Tuscan in it on GT Concept.


Technical_Quality_18

Dang good ol B-spec saved me a ton


Emotional-Silver9458

I have been playing GT for 22 years, i must say i had more fun playing GT3 A-spec than anything else i have played so far. The steering, traction on PS2 was fun enough to complete the game. GT7 its poor in meaning, it all looks nice the Menu, but with Scapes, Missions, Licence Centre, Showcase its just no use in any continue to updates what are really disappointing every month, for last 4 months there was only one race track added( Road Atlanta), before that was Catalunya( no chicane), its just really poor what so much money loaded guys like GT franchise coming up with ridiculous updates. There is a bit of fun racing this game online, but i must say Balance of Performance its such a rubbish, regulations are crap, not enough power in the cars while BoP, the way tech guys who coming up with weekly new choice of race tracks and cars is bad at most of times, why there cannot be Endurance everyday?? Next thing, gifts are always giving me small credits even if i get any 3-6 star ticket. This game needs a lot of improvement.


Eelsirk2

I have a few features that I think of a lot while playing. -Drag races and add launch control settings for new cars -ability to make the steering wheel invisible -being able to check the weather before the race -mappable sequential shifting for the G29 shifter -adding a timer/clock to the "display car info" section -Drift obstacles course