For the love of god, who cares? It's still a QUARTER of all cars in the game... if PD gave every single car a fully-detailed interior the game wouldn't be finished until 2015. Be grateful for what you are getting.
If they can't commit to this many cars, then drop the number and just make sure everyone gets equal treatment, that's my position. Don't bite more than you can chew.
Well would you rather have 200 really detailed cars only, or the 200 cars + 800 more?
It's a no brainer, and not many other games have that many cars of the same detail as well. It's a bit like GT3 in that regard, new engine, new console and it had 150 cars. GT1 had like 170 odd, but you notice the 2nd game on each console had a massive leap in content. History repeating itself, but each generation gets harder to create the content due to rising details, resolutions, demands and expectations
Even then I still haven't collected more than 100 of the 700+ cars in GT4. Hell I haven't even driven half of them!
So it's cool to be able to get a chance to do so in a better game engine again on the positive side. GT4 's flickering and jaggies give me headaches! Most of the cars I wouldn't be bothered driving anyway, unless I actually owned them in real life. Various FWD hatches and sedans, and shopping trollies
At least the aftermarket wheels you add to the other 800 cars will be highly detailed GT5 editions, not like flat discs in GT4
Though I find it odd, they couldn't retrofit high beams on the standard cars, it suggest they actually modelled proper high beams off each light in the Premium cars, rather than slapping on a generic high beam
All the fanboy rambling aside, even Prologue had over 70 cars with cockpits, so I would hardly call 200 being impressive on any possible scale, even if they are higher quality than those cars in Prologue. Not to forget, GT5P was released way back in 2008, so they sure as hell had plenty of time in between.
I'd personally, rather have ALL cars, modelled and detailed to the SAME level (whatever that maybe), it just seems odd that you are going to have 4/5ths of the available cars produced to a "sub standard" level.
PD have said themselves, that the premium modelling has been pushed too far for the current hardware, they should have toned down the level, and spread a lower level of detail, maybe somewhere between the premium and standard level to the whole stable of cars.
I think its just going to be dissapointing, and maybe a little disjointed going from a premium model ingame, to a standard one, am I really going to want to be using a standard model ingame, when there are premium ones?.
Well for me if there is Pulsar GTI-R standard from GT2, I'm still driving it for sure
I'd pick it over a premium EVO or Impreza in a heartbeat. Emotional attachment is stronger than anything.
They're aiming the models for the future it seems, so they won't have to remodel them over and over again.
I would happily take 500 moderately high detailed cars. No back seats, no blinkers and different headlight for every car, just something better than Forza 3.
For 5 years they should manage that.
GT5's selling point is killer graphic and immersion, and without a cockpit it just doesn't come through.
Well in theory cockpit is nice, but reality for me, I never used it in Prologue when I did serious driving online. In iRacing I always prefered driving the open wheelers for the same reason, better visibility and feeling, since your forced into cockpit
Maybe a bigger screen might change things, but it's just not the same as real life, and I already have a steering wheel infront of me, I don't need another one. I consider the monitor as the windshield
Some cars like the California had tinting which made it even worse, but I do use it occasionally for fun, but not when racing to win.
Ability to host "Track Days"/My Lounge lobby. No lap limit, enter and leave as you wish, switch between racing and spectating freely, and it has it's own chat room.
I don't care that much about cockpit details, it's the perspective from which i can drive most confortably, it's the most realistic view and i just can't drive from any other view.. so basically those 800 cars are useless for me... and also, who guarantees that the physics are not also 'standard' for those cars..
