Most of the hostilities from the No-GT crowds is generated mostly due to the Love-GT crowd whom keeps on harping about how non-GT is easy mode and how those No-GT players can't take up the challenge. Also, stop with the "time-consuming = hard" argument, it isn't.
On topic, it is great IC2 decided to add content. But in my own opinion, too bad it is going down the path that adds more tedious stuff to it in the name of "realism". The ore processing machines are a great addition in my eyes, the tools (manual ones) on the other hand is a major put off.
Not trying to drub up old bickering, but I want to point out that I think there's plenty of blame to go around. No one side of the argument is correct, and no one side of the argument has been more vocal. The difference is that the pro-GT crowd had more direct proponents, where the anti-GT crowd resorted to veiled insults. For about a two months during 1.47, you couldnt go into a singlw thread in this forum without some kind of underhanded quib at GT, and it was insanely annoying.
It is fallacious to believe one method of bickering is more valid than the other. There is no high ground in the nonsense that was going on in this forum, only two different kinds of losers.
I agree with you on the tool thing, I find it tedious and unnecessary. The biggest strength and weakness of GT is its unifying method, creating one big mod. Its a strength because the first play through is extremely immersive and involved, its a weakness because it requires lockout of other progression to be effective. Its also worth noting that it suffers heavily like TC3 due to its gated approach on subsequent playthroughs. Power converters and TE make GT much morepalate able because they remove a lot of those gates, Which is why I think ultimate was so successful.
