But it has NEVER been used to any meaningful degree. Not many people care about that stuff.Ĭlick to expand.Forza has technically had fuel and tyre wear since FM2 at least. Now they're relying on gimmicks like a wheel may have slightly better reflections. They rely on gimmicks like parroting the resolution or framerate. These devs promised the Earth before FM7 and largely failed to deliver any of it. So while Turn 10 focus on these relatively minor and unimportant issues, are they going to address the multitude of failings and shortcomings in the actual GAME itself? Do these people know much about real cars and actual racing? Will the new game still have the stupid flapping mirrors, wipers and spoilers which look like they are about to shake themselves loose, while you drive at a pedestrian pace down a billiard-table smooth road? Will the new game have decent replays, which even in FM7 and FH4 are still very poor compared to even the likes of Gran Turismo 4 on the ancient PS2? Will it show time intervals between players like even the more casual FH4 does, or will it still use distance? Unless you REALLY want to nit-pick, and do most gamers really think FH4's lighting and reflections are actually a problem? You do not notice these things whatsoever while playing, or even particularly when you look closely either. I know it's not truly realistic, it's an illusion or approximation or whatever, but it doesn't matter, it's good enough. It already looks realistic enough in terms of lighting and reflections. Saying “if it’s an SUV, it’s for off road use” is about as uneducated as saying American cars can’t be good around corners.ĭoes anyone else ever think that Turn 10 don't see the wood for the trees with all this stuff? I play a lot of Forza Horizon 4 which of course does not have ray-tracing and I never think to myself 'pfft, if only this game had more realistic reflections and lighting, THEN it would be great'. They’re designed for road use only, specifically to be as competent around corners as possible for something their size and weight. Things like the X5M and the Trackhawk Grand Cherokee would snap in half at the first sight of a dusty trail. Most of the SUVs aren’t even really off roaders.

It’s called ‘race/championship restrictions’, and Polyphony could figure it out way back in 1997 with the very first GT. Having the option to buy a mid 90s Civic or a Ford Raptor isn’t going to make the GT3 racing any less authentic if you choose to specifically race in the GT3 category. There’s nothing stopping them from allowing fuel and tyre strategies on every car we can drive, nothing preventing proper implementation of weather and time. All they’d need to do is focus on what content they add in the FUTURE, rather than deleting the past. They could literally keep every single car from FM5-7 and FH2-4’s rosters, and still go down the dedicated ‘serious motorsport’ path. I always loved how PD never implemented voice actors in games and used gender neutral names (abbreviated first names). US games sadly focus too much on politcization of games whilst many people go to games exactly to avoid that.Īll in all it's truly a blessing that not all racing games are same and that some really remain true to their origins, that is, motorport/racing itself. It has to be noted as well that PD is Japanese company and Turn10 US company. Adding family issues in game as story mode and ruining football for what it is is true disaster. I just hope they won't add stuff like in FIFA story mode.

Some people just wanna race and not live 'virtual life' in racing games. I liked F1 2013 but addition of some RPG career where you manage whole team in F1 2020 just takes away purist nature of racing for sake of racing.

Best thing, hovewer, is that there are still games that accomplish to reach wider audience without being over inclusive. At best I can see it as sim-cade that tries to please everyone for sake of $$$ which is perfectly ok. I did want to give a shot to Forza Motorsport 7, but I can't take seriously racing game where you race in clown mask, Grinch suit or any other childish stuff. Diversity being buzzword of Xbox and MS it doesn't surprise me. I do understand the 'different strokes for different folks' proverb, but I don't support the over inclusiveness in every racing game. Well the biggest difference I see between the GT and FM titles are that GT actually focuses solely on racing/cars whilst FM is falling in over inclusiveness muck which more and more racing games are filled with.

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