Gran Turismo 7

One of my favourite franchises but now has taken a few bad turns.

Online only now, and today all day server maintenance meant no one can play the game! Paid 100 pound for premium edition and I don't actually own anything!

Cars are priced too high and you end up buying credits with actual money!

Sad times, paying 100 quid for one game wasn't enough!

It's another disappointing game in the GT franchise. When you start the game you have to watch 9 minutes of content before you can do anything. Another 30 minutes later you can buy a car and be finally on a road to drive. And then the final nail in the coffin is set. It's a dead world. You drive and you see nothing, the spectators are not animated, no birds are flying around or some animals on a field somewhere in the distance. No leafs that flying in the wind. The gras looks like a floor mat. No Sir, that graphics looks like 2015. When you drive the car, it's like driving a tank, there are many games where you feel that better. GT is just loosing it big, it's not even close to Forza Motorsport or Arsetto Corsa, even the new Grid is killing GT this time. Oh, what I totally forget, the music is unbelievable terrible. It's like an 90s arcade fighting game mixed with Nippon synthie pop and some classic. Just turn it off like I did.

The series peaked with GT4. U fortunately the relay value on GT7 is very low. There's no way to sell cars, which was a huge part of previous games, and it basically just hands you cars for winning races.

You always start at the very back of all races so they're not actual races, rather games of catch-up. Graphically it's gorgeous, but there's more to games than just how they look. I hope they fix a LOT of these issues as the updates come out.

EDIT: They just reduced payouts for races to push microtransactions. Absolutely horrible from the bottom up.

This game is so polished and thoroughly following the old style of Gran Turismo. It gives me so much nostalgia having played this series for nearly 20 years. It's so good. Graphics, game mechanics, "story mode" adds up to a great experience complimented by a better than ever music score that combines old tunes with a twist of new music. 9/10 great game. If it gets b spec I'll rate it 10/10, I miss that mode...

You buy an expensive cinema ticket, you sit down, and some guy sits himself down in the seat in front, wearing a stovepipe hat. You ask him politely if he wouldn't mind taking it off, but he refuses to do so unless you give him £16.99.

"Sir," you say, "unless you desist, I shall be obliged to call the manager."

"Sir," he repies, "I _am_ the manager."

It is difficult to imagine what Sony would have to do to recover the goodwill they've burned on this one. It really is that bad. It's in the category of the way you feel about Microsoft before you switch to Linux or MacOS, the way you feel about Autodesk before you switch to Blender, the way you feel about Unity before you switch to Godot Engine. I don't care if they're the only cinema in town showing They Finally Made a 2020s Movie A Person Might Conceivably Want to See. I'll give it a miss, cos at the time of writing this operation ain't gonna see a further red cent out of me.