Was afraid there would be something wrong with the game and I wasn’t wrong I guess. Also the track environments have a decidedly older gen feel with copy and pasted foliage and such.
Played GT7 for an hour or so this evening and pretty disappointed in it. The presentation and menus are horrific in my opinion. Too much clicking around, back and forth just to drive. The avatars have dialogue that feels like an after thought and the images look straight out of stock images that you can buy online. Feels very PS1, but with a shiny coat of 4k paint. This is were Forza does a better job and actually has voice actors. The licenses are more of a chore to open things up. I don't even try and can get silver or close to it. I'm sure a completionist will go back and hammer out golds, but having to suffer through pages of dialogue ruins it for me. And the music is just irritating. They took classical music pieces and JRPG'd them is probably the best way to put it. Think of Final Fantasy meats Beethoven.
Back to Elden Ring.
They say it will get updated with time. I guess still a work in progress.
Was afraid there would be something wrong with the game and I wasn’t wrong I guess. Also the track environments have a decidedly older gen feel with copy and pasted foliage and such.
Just finished the HFW main story. That last boss fight was harder than I expected (Hard difficulty) even at level 40. I regrettably lowered the difficulty because it was super late in the night and I just wanted to get it over with, but woke back up and retried the fight on Hard and was able to redeem myself. I realized I had been too narrow in my weapon choices and need to try more builds. Triple notching hunter arrows works for most scenarios but in hindsight the damage output is really poor for how much stamina it consumes. What it took for me to win on Hard was to unload as many Braced Shots as I could after a successful freeze, and it did over a thousand points of damage for arguably the same stamina cost as a triple notched hunter arrow, which only does a few hundred. Next goal: get platinum.
GT7 is for old timers who want to reminisce and for newcomers to the series. GT8 should come in 4 years and it should be a lot more ambitious. I think the GT developers like to put out half finished games so their studio can survive until they are able to put out the sequel they really wanted in the first place. If left to their own devices with unlimited funding, I'm sure they would need 10 years to do the game they really want.
Lol. Sounds like you still have green rarity bows. Just whatever you do, don't make the same mistake as I did, so you should take advantage of some of the unique weapon skills in the skill tree(s), especially the ones that cost more stamina. As I found out a little late, they do a ton of damage and are vital for dealing burst damage to high HP machines because you cannot get into a slogfest with them.Hah, my Hunter Bow does 30 damage. Guess I am nowhere near the end.
Lol. Sounds like you still have green rarity bows. Just whatever you do, don't make the same mistake as I did, so you should take advantage of some of the unique weapon skills in the skill tree(s), especially the ones that cost more stamina. As I found out a little late, they do a ton of damage and are vital for dealing burst damage to high HP machines because you cannot get into a slogfest with them.
JFC, $40 real cash to download one car in Gran Turismo 7? No thanks guys, knock yourselves out with this one, I'm passing on the game.
I think that cost applies only to impatient gamers who would rather not work (complete races/events) to get the cars.Some of the cars in GT7 cost more than the whole game itself. I'm not gonna get the game now, but maybe one day if it ever goes cheap.
Yes, the higher end outfits have some negative elemental resistances as a trade-off for the bonus elemental resistances. One of the many changes in HFW that Guerilla made to promote variety in gear options. No such thing as one weapon or outfit to rule them all (although some of the end game Legendary gear are pretty powerful, or so I've read).No it was a Blue. Did buy a purple bow. I don't really upgrade the weapons too much, maybe on Hard it is more needed.
Did you notice that the outfits later on start to have negative effects?
I think that cost applies only to impatient gamers who would rather not work (complete races/events) to get the cars.
I used to fix that with Gameshark in the PSX days. It was so much fun cheatingFor example, if a fighting game tells me that it has two dozen fighters available on the box, but it fails to mention that you only start with six and have to unlock the rest, then that's a problem. Also, it doesn't matter if "that's always how it has been".
In GT5, I must have gotten 1st place in the high speed ring track over a hundred times just to get enough money to buy the Suzuki Escudo. That car is the Devil!But I also do get having super premium cars behind some sort of progression to unlock it. Most games have this kind of thing.
Eh I don't see the problem. Time === money. Some people would prefer to spend money rather than time on that stuff. It's the same reason people are selling runes on ebay for Elden Ring and there have been huge markets for this kind of thing forever.
Hah, my Hunter Bow does 30 damage. Guess I am nowhere near the end.
Yes, the higher end outfits have some negative elemental resistances as a trade-off for the bonus elemental resistances. One of the many changes in HFW that Guerilla made to promote variety in gear options. No such thing as one weapon or outfit to rule them all (although some of the end game Legendary gear are pretty powerful, or so I've read).