New video! Why They Broke Gran Turismo 7 (ad-free!) (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

Just letting you know that the new video is available, completely ad-free! This one serves as a kind of follow up on my initial review of Gran Turismo 7—what I initially thought of as one of the best racing games of all time, only for the game to actually release and suddenly its hellish microtransaction/always online nature was revealed to everyone, pre-release critics included, in a way that catapulted any goodwill they'd built up into the sun. That said, given the statements made by the game's director, combined with the game's obsessive dedication to every aspect of the car ownership experience, there is a throughline to be drawn to where the game currently is now. To be clear, this is not a defence of this exceedingly stupid, broken economy, but to say the situation emerged from sheer money-grabbing malice might not be telling the whole story.

Of course, this is one of two videos I posted the scripts for last week. I'm sorry the videos have taken longer to get to you than originally anticipated, but working on them both simultaneously has proven to be a pretty arduous task, especially given that the Dark Souls/Elden Ring vid is over 40 minutes long. I've been at my editing software prrrretty constantly for the past week. As I said in the last post, don't worry—the scripts were the charged posts, and as a result you won't be charged for either this video or the Dark Souls/Elden Ring one.

I want to apologise for the delay and sincerely thank you for all your understanding/patience while I get these videos together. It really does mean the world, and there's no way I would be able to put the time I have into these vids were it not for your generous support. I hope you enjoy this video, the Elden Ring/Dark Souls one, and the couple of others I have in the works as well that will be released before the end of the month!

I'll also be putting up the Q&A soon as well as *finally* getting round to that long overdue Revisiting video. Again, I cannot thank you enough for your patience. You're all the best!

Thanks again,

Hamish

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