Two weeks into release this had over 24 hours of outage that made plenty of fans outraged as they fixed known issues such as the wrong tyres being on cars for license tests/missions. It only got worse when fans were apoplectic when they realised the developers had reduced the prize money for plenty of events.
What still frustrates me though are many of the issues that GT6 has. I could copy and paste some of my sentences from my GT6 review. For a game with such a focus on realism, there is still no damage, and navigating the menus is still extremely annoying. And complaining about the menus may seem like nitpicking but I don't think it is because you are in them a lot and they kind of fade in and out to black. It's not an instant transition. Completing a licence test can take less time than going in and out of menus to get to the next licence test. WHY AREN'T YOU ABLE TO JUST SELECT NEXT LICENSE TEST once one is completed? I do not understand it. Why do I have to exit the race selection menus to change cars? I think even GT1 had more shortcuts to get through the menus with more ease than this does. It's painstakingly tedious.
Then there is the need to be online to race against AI that is just bewildering. The only thing you could pretty much do during the outage was the Music Rally mode, but guess what, it didn't save my records. It can't even save your game?! It's a joke. Imagine being hours into an endurance race and your internet drops out or the game decides it needs server maintenance. No offline game modes should require an internet connection. Here is series creator Kazunori Yamauchi on the topic: "The requirement for the online connection is just to prevent cheating overall from people trying to modify the save data." - Give me a break.
The handling and control of the cars is what you'd expect a GT game to have. The addition of the enhanced realistic weather features is fantastic and the fun and challenging classic modes are still great but the issues are annoying. From memory.
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