Gran Turismo 7
Discussion
UTH said:
Might be a silly question, but what's the end goal of the game? Is it to have everything unlocked so you can start playing it more like the arcade game I was originally after, or do you complete the game by winning everything then either wait for GT8 or move on to another game?
Buy everything, then I'm going to play Stray and the Crisis Core remake whilst I wait for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Resi 4.And dip in every now and then when they give new content
Depends what you mean by ‘complete’ I guess.
Once you’ve done every license, race, circuit experience and mission then you’ve essentially covered all the single player stuff. But Sport mode is where you can have the most fun and really challenge yourself with the daily races and time trials on offer.
Okay they’ve introduced Sophy which should make things more challenging going forward but in general racing against AI is pretty boring. Get yourself online racing against others in sport mode and enjoy the journey building up your driver and safety rating to A+/S. It will reward and frustrate you in equal measure
Once you’ve done every license, race, circuit experience and mission then you’ve essentially covered all the single player stuff. But Sport mode is where you can have the most fun and really challenge yourself with the daily races and time trials on offer.
Okay they’ve introduced Sophy which should make things more challenging going forward but in general racing against AI is pretty boring. Get yourself online racing against others in sport mode and enjoy the journey building up your driver and safety rating to A+/S. It will reward and frustrate you in equal measure
JRFrench said:
Depends what you mean by ‘complete’ I guess.
Once you’ve done every license, race, circuit experience and mission then you’ve essentially covered all the single player stuff. But Sport mode is where you can have the most fun and really challenge yourself with the daily races and time trials on offer.
Okay they’ve introduced Sophy which should make things more challenging going forward but in general racing against AI is pretty boring. Get yourself online racing against others in sport mode and enjoy the journey building up your driver and safety rating to A+/S. It will reward and frustrate you in equal measure
Oh yeah, kind of forgot about the whole online element, I imagine that's where I'll end up. I assume you enter tournaments or season competitions or whatever? Once you’ve done every license, race, circuit experience and mission then you’ve essentially covered all the single player stuff. But Sport mode is where you can have the most fun and really challenge yourself with the daily races and time trials on offer.
Okay they’ve introduced Sophy which should make things more challenging going forward but in general racing against AI is pretty boring. Get yourself online racing against others in sport mode and enjoy the journey building up your driver and safety rating to A+/S. It will reward and frustrate you in equal measure
Or could I just become a god at Goodwood and spend my days taking people on at that one track? HAHA
UTH said:
Might be a silly question, but what's the end goal of the game? Is it to have everything unlocked so you can start playing it more like the arcade game I was originally after, or do you complete the game by winning everything then either wait for GT8 or move on to another game?
It varies by player I'd imagine. I generally just enjoy the actual driving, but with Sport mode's time trials and such am more involved in online stuff than I expected. The time trials are a good money spinner too if you're quick, it's a new one every 14 days ish (maybe 12 days? I forget) and being within 3% of the top time nets you 2,000,000.Some enjoy the car collecting side of it, others the photography, others winning all the races, others the online competition. You can create some really cool grids of cars in the Custom Race and save those settings (which can be loaded at any track) so can make some enjoyable races for yourself as well. It's a bit of a sandbox in many respects, just with some frustrating design decisions in places...
I think if you can persevere through the café menus, use the circuit experiences and online time trial things to get a good amount of money together, you'll end up pretty much with what you want, and the money to buy cars you fancy (ignoring the ridiculous 'invitation only' cars) as and when without having to grind specific races.
Personally, the problem with an arcade type racer is it doesn't hold my attention long term (as in months or years later) as there's not enough depth / challenge in the handling to engage me. GT7 is comfortably 'sim enough' for me that I've done about 20,000 miles in it and can still enjoy just driving a slidey old car around a good looking track by myself when the mood takes me.
EDIT:
To add, the Le Mans 30 minute and the Spa 1 hour are a lot of fun, I've possibly overdone Le Mans these days so it's not that enjoyable any more, but Spa I've not done that many times and it's still enjoyable, just turn all the HUD off and enjoy
Edited by SturdyHSV on Wednesday 8th March 17:42
UTH said:
Might be a silly question, but what's the end goal of the game? Is it to have everything unlocked so you can start playing it more like the arcade game I was originally after, or do you complete the game by winning everything then either wait for GT8 or move on to another game?
1. Race to win 500m by racing Le Mans 12 times a day eating ramen noodles between watching repeats of red dwarf2. Buy all the cars that exist
3. Realise you have no use for most of the cars
4. Cry
5. Post on PH that the game is rubbish
SpudLink said:
SturdyHSV said:
Le Mans 30 minute and the Spa 1 hour are a lot of fun
You’ll enjoy guessing when the rain will arrive, and watching the AI cars get their pit strategy spectacularly wrong. hungry_hog said:
UTH said:
Might be a silly question, but what's the end goal of the game? Is it to have everything unlocked so you can start playing it more like the arcade game I was originally after, or do you complete the game by winning everything then either wait for GT8 or move on to another game?
1. Race to win 500m by racing Le Mans 12 times a day eating ramen noodles between watching repeats of red dwarf2. Buy all the cars that exist
3. Realise you have no use for most of the cars
4. Cry
5. Post on PH that the game is rubbish
Anyway, I'm done:
Bar that bloody Veneno...
The ticket was actually on the reel today but it skipped over it to give me an ultra high rpm turbo for the Chiron. Which is nice and all, but I'd obviously rather have the invite...
Olivera said:
SpudLink said:
SturdyHSV said:
Le Mans 30 minute and the Spa 1 hour are a lot of fun
You’ll enjoy guessing when the rain will arrive, and watching the AI cars get their pit strategy spectacularly wrong. 
Avenicus said:
MCBrowncoat said:
The ticket was actually on the reel today but it skipped over it to give me an ultra high rpm turbo for the Chiron. Which is nice and all, but I'd obviously rather have the invite...
Must be gutted....I need that and two others to complete
It's very frustratingMCBrowncoat said:
Avenicus said:
MCBrowncoat said:
The ticket was actually on the reel today but it skipped over it to give me an ultra high rpm turbo for the Chiron. Which is nice and all, but I'd obviously rather have the invite...
Must be gutted....I need that and two others to complete
It's very frustrating
Was away last week and have got both my mother and mother in law here this week, so GT7 time has been zero.
Keen to get back into it this weekend
I've been thinking though, I'm not entirely sure where to focus my attention - what does everyone else do?
I've been enjoying going through the cafe challenges - coming top 3 in various races has been really fun, and exactly what I feel GT is about. But are the cafe challenges the only place to do things like 'come top 3 in X race'? I guess the other option is to just set up a custom race at a track I like and try and win it? But to me that doesn't feel like it's actually progressing the career mode of the game?
Also, in terms of cars and tuning what do people do? Are you using loads of different cars? Are you tuning any/none of them? My main aim when I bought the game was to drive as many races as I can in a C7 Corvette as that's what I own IRL. At what point would I think about tuning it? Does it get to a point where I simply won't be winning the races I enter until I do start tuning it? Or is tuning just a nice added bit of fun that doesn't actually matter?
Sorry for some noob questions, guess I'm just keen to at least talk about the game until I can play it again haha
Keen to get back into it this weekend
I've been thinking though, I'm not entirely sure where to focus my attention - what does everyone else do?
I've been enjoying going through the cafe challenges - coming top 3 in various races has been really fun, and exactly what I feel GT is about. But are the cafe challenges the only place to do things like 'come top 3 in X race'? I guess the other option is to just set up a custom race at a track I like and try and win it? But to me that doesn't feel like it's actually progressing the career mode of the game?
Also, in terms of cars and tuning what do people do? Are you using loads of different cars? Are you tuning any/none of them? My main aim when I bought the game was to drive as many races as I can in a C7 Corvette as that's what I own IRL. At what point would I think about tuning it? Does it get to a point where I simply won't be winning the races I enter until I do start tuning it? Or is tuning just a nice added bit of fun that doesn't actually matter?
Sorry for some noob questions, guess I'm just keen to at least talk about the game until I can play it again haha
UTH said:
Was away last week and have got both my mother and mother in law here this week, so GT7 time has been zero.
Keen to get back into it this weekend
I've been thinking though, I'm not entirely sure where to focus my attention - what does everyone else do?
I've been enjoying going through the cafe challenges - coming top 3 in various races has been really fun, and exactly what I feel GT is about. But are the cafe challenges the only place to do things like 'come top 3 in X race'? I guess the other option is to just set up a custom race at a track I like and try and win it? But to me that doesn't feel like it's actually progressing the career mode of the game?
Also, in terms of cars and tuning what do people do? Are you using loads of different cars? Are you tuning any/none of them? My main aim when I bought the game was to drive as many races as I can in a C7 Corvette as that's what I own IRL. At what point would I think about tuning it? Does it get to a point where I simply won't be winning the races I enter until I do start tuning it? Or is tuning just a nice added bit of fun that doesn't actually matter?
Sorry for some noob questions, guess I'm just keen to at least talk about the game until I can play it again haha
People play it differently.Keen to get back into it this weekend
I've been thinking though, I'm not entirely sure where to focus my attention - what does everyone else do?
I've been enjoying going through the cafe challenges - coming top 3 in various races has been really fun, and exactly what I feel GT is about. But are the cafe challenges the only place to do things like 'come top 3 in X race'? I guess the other option is to just set up a custom race at a track I like and try and win it? But to me that doesn't feel like it's actually progressing the career mode of the game?
Also, in terms of cars and tuning what do people do? Are you using loads of different cars? Are you tuning any/none of them? My main aim when I bought the game was to drive as many races as I can in a C7 Corvette as that's what I own IRL. At what point would I think about tuning it? Does it get to a point where I simply won't be winning the races I enter until I do start tuning it? Or is tuning just a nice added bit of fun that doesn't actually matter?
Sorry for some noob questions, guess I'm just keen to at least talk about the game until I can play it again haha
If you like the cafe challenges, you might like the missions. Not the cones and drifting, but races where you have to work hard to get a podium, let alone a win.
I aim to win at least one race with every car in the game. That means a lot of time 'grinding' big money races. But I try to use as many different cars as possible in the same races. For example my last race was in a Suzuki Cappuccino with the engine from the RX7, competing against the GT4 cars at the Le Mans circuit.
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