Assuming that Turn10 makes the majority of users happy, it should be enough if they pay for it.
Everyone else who was blinded by the great promises of NextGen graphics and the trailers released for it could have their money refunded. This way they wouldn’t have to express themselves in hateful comments and spoil the joy of their investment for others.
But apparently Turn10 has too few satisfied customers to make a living from it. For example, the refund is refused because more than 14 days have passed since the date of the PreOrder. What a surprise!
Forza has delivered beautiful graphics in the past on the last generation of consoles. Was it naive to believe that for a $600 upgrade (including a new console) the new graphics would actually look like the trailers show over and over again?
If you drive your car from the cockpit perspective, you are looking very flat at the road. In order to recognize the next braking or apex point, image sharpness is just as important as small three-dimensional structures. This also seemed to be important to Turn10. Every curb and tuft of grass was shown again and again.
What we have now received as a release version has been greatly simplified. All of this comes at the expense of the detailing of the route and the surrounding area. It brings back memories of the beginnings of racing games. Detailed and sharp cars are placed on a smeared background (called motion blur).
Neighbor’s children, who drive the cars from the spectator’s perspective, are happy about the nice reflections on the paint. From the cockpit perspective I might see the windows of the car driving next door. All remaining magic is lost.
For those who’ve been through numerous franchise evolutions have discovered. A, everyone groans collectively upon release. And finds every nitpicky flaw to Chicken Little on about. And B, waxes nostalgic about the glory days of the previous version. But in the middle somewhere, we all find a way to fall in love with the game again.
Relax. Bugs will get fixed. Features will evolve, content will increase and the racing will improve. Or it won’t. Either way, you’re going to race and enjoy it and you know it.
Overall, not reading the general terms and conditions saved me more valuable time than the $100 I now lost on this game. I trusted that Turn10 would actually set new standards. Now I’m smarter. Maybe someone else doesn’t have to go through this experience themselves.
This is the kind of take you give right before you do something really ill-advised and life-altering, like start a fight with a rabid alligator.
Here are the Steam Chart pages for both Halo Infinite and Redfall. And I’m also going to link the one for Forza Motorsport 2023 here and gently point out that this game has some 2,000 players less than Redfall did at it’s highest peak.
Halo Infinite lost the overwhelming majority of it’s players in a month. Redfall, just weeks.
Forza Motorsport 7 is also a six-year old game that was never made available on Steam. Forza Horizon 4 and 5 were, though, and current individual player counts for both games still outnumber Motorsport 2023.
oh no man maybe you are right and my statement is took from outdated census but you have to add consoles player to this and acc is the desert and it’s not even crossplay…
I played online FM7 till the launch of new FM, now we have it also on steam and it’s on gamepass… What else?
Ah well FM7 wasn’t for sure in the top 12 played…
Still better than Horizon5 they had over 80k (steam) on launch and it dropped massive in first week. It was so overhyped and everyone was waiting for new game releases and they showed up with crap
