A post explaining what's wrong with today's racing games' career mode

Word is now coming out that Gran Turismo Sport's so called "Career Campaign" is going to be nothing more that stripped down version of their past campaigns, containing only a handful of challenges and time trial-esque missions. Suffice it to say, many are disappointed in the direction PD is taking this franchise. A poster by the name of moparmanmike has summed up perfectly why the single player component in today's racing sims/games get quite boring after just a few days.

This summarizes exactly why I've become disenchanted with today's racing games containing a so called "career campaign" mode. They need to bring back the RPG progression element. I'm hoping some day Kunos adds a real career campaign as described above to AC. It would be a good incentive, for me at least, to play the game more. Buying a new game having the fastest cars in the world available to you from day 1 gets boring REAL fast and is the wrong way to approach the single player component. Let's see what Turn 10 brings to the table with F7.

 

But gt sport was always advertised as more of an online esport game in partnership with the FIA, it was never supposed to be GT7.

 

I do miss those kinds of campaigns, but I think that anyone disappointed to find that Assetto (or GT Sport, or the other titles mentioned) doesn't work like that should have read up a bit on what they were getting into beforehand. What I mean is that it's fine to yearn for those old GT career mode days, but it's not fair to criticise AC (for example, since we're here) when they aren't like that. They are different things.

Like I said - I miss that stuff too, but the fact is that if you're not getting what you want when you play a game, you might have chosen poorly, not the game devs.

 

Shhhh, don't confuse people with well-known facts!! We're in the age now where we make up our own facts.

Gran Turismo has one of the worst offline campaigns of any racing game IMO, driving around mobile chicanes and chasing rabbits, zero satisfaction.

Releasing a PC sim where most of the cars are locked from the beginning and you have to grind to unlock them is probably a sure-fire recipe for failure.

 

Car collecting while unlocking monies was feckin boring LMAO. Don't care for it one bit. AI events are always dull as anything. Rose tinted glasses much. Good thing everything is unlocked from the get go so that I don't have to waste a bunch of time doing menial bollocks.

 

I bought AC because it's a simulator, I have no interest in a game that makes me feel like I'm a superstar. I have nothing against a single player career as long as it doesn't interfere with my ability to drive every car on every track. I have no interest in grinding, fake leader boards, silly challenges, ego boosting, all I want is a simulator.

I get that other people want a game and I've nothing against adding more game to the simulator as long as I'm not forced to take part in it. Again, all that matters to me is that it's a simulator. I don't have time to grind.

 

A poster by the name of Bill Wiskins has summed up perfectly why OP is barking up the wrong tree.
The RPG element of GT was always the best part of GT, but GT is and always was a racing game, not a racing sim - and yes, categorically there is a difference. I can guarantee with 100% certainty that AC will never have that type of career mode, as awesome as it could potentially be.

 

I like career, campaigns, they add some sense of progression and you getting better w/o boring you much with races/championships setups. What I hate is locked behind career content.
Leave it open in single events, custom championships, special events.

This is what AC is doing, and if career is not your thing, you can just skip it w/o losing access to any cars or tracks.

 

There was a game on pc that use to be like that, don't remember which one, it did not take long before we had a modder allowing to unlock everything in one shot.
Having to grind to unlock the content you just bought is a thing of the past, one hopes.

 

Then don't waste everybody's time with a halfassed career more at all, IMO... either make a video game or stick with being a sim.

 

I personally like a good career mode. I spent a lot of time earning the Platinum Trophy in GT5 & GT6, along the way it taught me some important skills about sim racing.

I don't personally need to go through the drill of grinding for cars, or some of the really hoaky challenges but I would appreciate a somewhat better career mode then what AC has. It gets to be a real grind of very similar races. I must say that the improved AI has made these races more fun but they still could benefit from a more interesting progression as well as sense of accomplishment.

 

I know this is maybe irrelevant to the actual careermode progression and in terms of achievement, I've never tried AC's career and I only use the AI when I demo the rig to a friend.
But, a week ago I installed Crew Chief v4 and that is an incredible boost of immersion in terms of making the track and pits come more to life. It not only tells you if car is on your right, if your front left tyre is cold, if you're running on fumes and need to pit. It also tells you you lap and sectortimes, and cheer for you if you go faster or overtake, while swearing if things go wrong. It is practically what you expect from a Codemaster title that put heavy focus on what OP is asking for.

Multiplayer or singleplayer, crewchief is much more than the average nonsense speak in your ear just for the fun of it. It's very precise and informative and can be adjusted to your likings, even controller with voicerecognition.

 

Most of my time is spent learning car / track combinations (mainly GT2/3) to the point where I'm fast enough to get online. Been at it for almost 270hrs and I'm confident on only 3 track (Spa, Mugello and Monza).

I even find car setup tuning to be too much, and prefer to focus on the driving (hence grateful for the setup market).

With the number of laser scanned tracks available, there is still a lot of life in AC for me.
Never liked the career progression in games like Forza as I found myself rushing to unlock the next car more than taking the time to learn the cars/tracks.

AC is the first title in which I've take a more methodical approach, and believe the is reason is because all car / tracks are open from the get go.



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Yup crewcheif is ace, I even stopped using helicorsa ages ago in favour of crewcheif

 

A career would be quite nice if you weren't expected to win every race, but more like trying to stay in the first half of the point charts and make a name for yourself. And of you aren'tgood enough in a season to be casted into a higher class, just stay and do another season. Or if you don't want to go into next class yet.

I use the Custom Championships to do a GT Masters season and it's quite awesome. Give it the best you can and try to score some points if you can. With a difficulty set in the range where there are drivers faster than me (lucky to be one of the few slow guys who can actually race nicely with the AI at 97-99%).