[POLL] SMS Ian Bell gauges appetite for GT Legends 2 crowdfund w/original team on Twitter

Shovas · Jul 4, 2019

Poll Correction: "GT2 HD Remaster" is "GTR2 HD Remaster", of course.
Saw this today,

I, of course, tweeted back showing my support, depending on goals and perks of the crowdfund, to the tune of CAD $20-40 or so.

I also suggested HD Remasters to start and that I would personally MUCH prefer a GTR2 HD Remaster (but that's just me).

If you like his idea or want to shout out your own idea, send him a tweet!

Paul Bennett · Jul 4, 2019

GTR233 · Jul 4, 2019

yep totally agree with @Ian Bell : crowdfunding is the best way to not depend from an external publisher (see the catastrophic release of ACC the day one : if 1.05 has been released instead of v1.0 then it would have been a lot better for kunos image as many people read reviews from day of release...Same as Dakar 18).
And I agree too to (try to) rebuild original team : I fear some have moved to other projects than video games though...while others have join different studios (Sector3, Kunos,...)

Shovas: Ian Bell speaks about GTL2 and not GTR, AFAIK GTR serie belongs to SimbinUK so no chance to see a GTR revival by Ian Bell's team...unless he buys SimbinUK

Dan Costa · Jul 4, 2019

Crowdfunding like the original Pcars? that game made me 3x the investment I made.
If its crowdfunding where you buy the game and get some perks, I'm not so interested as an investor.

Unfortunately I don't see how a game dedicated to a single era will make money. Things changed in the last 10 years and now these "era" things come as DLC on a much bigger game. Is it going to be priced as a DLC product? 19$ tops? If so, thats good to me.

Shovas · Jul 4, 2019

GTR233 said:
Shovas: Ian Bell speaks about GTL2 and not GTR, AFAIK GTR serie belongs to SimbinUK so no chance to see a GTR revival by Ian Bell's team...unless he buys SimbinUK

David Wright · Jul 4, 2019

Dan Costa said:
Unfortunately I don't see how a game dedicated to a single era will make money. Things changed in the last 10 years and now these "era" things come as DLC on a much bigger game. Is it going to be priced as a DLC product? 19$ tops? If so, thats good to me.

I guess you never played GT Legends. No "era" DLC comes anywhere close.

The original GTL came with 30 cars. Not even Kunos or SMS will sell you a DLC pack of 30 cars for $20. There is so much scope for more cars - I could easily see a sequel with 40 or 50.

You are however right to raise the issue of profitability. No historic racing sim is going to sell as well as something featuring modern racing. But the original GT Legends was so special I would happily pay £100 for a good sequel.

Andy_J · Jul 4, 2019

I voted "other" as in I hope he doesn't bother.

Dan Costa · Jul 5, 2019

David Wright said:
I guess you never played GT Legends. No "era" DLC comes anywhere close.

The original GTL came with 30 cars. Not even Kunos or SMS will sell you a DLC pack of 30 cars for $20. There is so much scope for more cars - I could easily see a sequel with 40 or 50.

You are however right to raise the issue of profitability. No historic racing sim is going to sell as well as something featuring modern racing. But the original GT Legends was so special I would happily pay £100 for a good sequel.

I totally confused this game with GP legends, the one which only had 50's 60's racing. GT Legends is another beast and I stand corrected!

Paul Bennett · Jul 5, 2019

Unlikely to ever happen,was probably a slow day at the office for Ian Bell

Bjarne Hansen · Jul 5, 2019

I agree with David Wright that a GT Legends 2 would be great .
Not sure why SMS needs at least $4 millions.? I would be surprised if Reiza are going to spend even close to that on a much larger project.
But would love to see if a crowdfunding would float. I for one will be in on it!

Nig · Jul 5, 2019

GT Legends 2, I'd be up for a bit of crowd funding on this one, been waiting for this forever! But, alas I feel it ain't gonna happen!!

(Please prove me wrong!!)

The_Tipster98 · Jul 7, 2019

Can’t see it happening to be honest....
1. He doesn’t own the IP, someone else does. Can’t remember but wasn’t there an article on here?
2. 4 Million seriously - this comes from a guy that has tech available at his hands - how hard can it be to plug some cars and tracks in?

However, I hope his madbox plan works out. Actually, I hope all his plans work out, still waiting for Red Bull Air Race, World of Speed and the rumoured Fast and Furious..........

GTR233 · Jul 9, 2019

For CLASSICS lovers like me, here is nice website available in both english/french :
https://peterauto.peter.fr/en/
and official YOUTUBE channel feat. Mylène Dorange

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCKxGRN8KOBtM3DtDt0NxGDg

@Ian Bell : Are you the BOSS of SMS ? I mean, as CEO, do not ask for permission, please do a GT Legends sequel

No biggie if you cannot use "GT Legends" brands because of copyrights, as long as it is its spiritual successor

Deleted member 13397 · Jul 9, 2019

at first i thought, wow, super (Tiny Feet wanted it to make some time ago),
but then i thought, SMS and Crowdfunding, they will make a PC2 DLC/SpinOff of this, no thanks,
so i voted for a GTR2 remaster (x64, etc.)

Bjarne Hansen · Jul 9, 2019

Didn't vote as it is somewhat misleading consider the subject. But would vote if I could select all of them

Spinelli · Sep 15, 2019

I just saw this now...It makes me wonder, what happened to the GT Legends 2/restoration/remaster that was announced around a year or 2 ago?

Mark Ratzenbacher · Sep 15, 2019

A modern rendition of GTL would be priceless, take all you want from me

Spinelli · Sep 22, 2019

I found what I was talking about in my previous post. What happened to this?:
https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/breaking-gt-legends-rebirth-confirmed.117260/
https://www.virtualr.net/gt-legends-sequel-works
https://www.gtplanet.net/gt-legends-sequel-in-consideration/

David Wright · Sep 22, 2019

This is what happened

https://www.racedepartment.com/thre...ed-alternative-solutions-being-sought.131354/

Spinelli · Sep 22, 2019

David Wright said:
This is what happened

https://www.racedepartment.com/thre...ed-alternative-solutions-being-sought.131354/

Ahhh that's too bad. Never saw that article. Thanks, David.
I'm confident we'll have another fully-fledged historic racing sim relatively soon - until then, GT Legends, rFactor 1, GTR2, and Assetto Corsa and all the car, circuit, graphics, sound, and even physics mods (if you prefer) will have to do. There's a lot of absolutely incredible work out there for those games.