Yeah, I mean you’re right but I swear by the time that happens this game will be forgotten. Even if the game somehow surpasses Fm4 (it never will), it should’ve been a full package on day 1 given the nonsense advertising they boasted in the giant 6+ year gap after their last Forza. Atleast live up to the garbage they wanted to do. The graphics are extremely disappointing considering how powerful the machine it’s built on is. This latest Forza should’ve fully utilised the power of this console, but it did not. It was a poor copy and paste since glitches/bugs in old games were spotted in this game in plain sight. Honestly I wonder how the actual heck they made Fm4 with Xbox 360s, a console that came out almost 20 years ago. The Series X (Series S since ideally that would be the bottleneck) came out 3 years ago LOL.
I honestly want to learn from their tricks/development tactics/creative discussions they had in the 2000s. It eclipses the garbage now. They were amazing man, when you really zone into the games they were insanely well built. Even over a decade later in 2023 these games shine. So much time has gone by but we have gone backwards in every aspect just like all the other major franchises that started back then. So sad to see.
There is so much more aswell. The attention to detail is so poor. E.g, the Forza Vista equivalent in this game is terrible. When you select stuff, you just sort of spawn in the car and the information is nonsense which clearly shows that the developers don’t know about cars. In the 2000s Forza you’d slowly have the guy walk in paired with a cool commentary lecturing you on stuff I genuinely had no idea about in regards to what I selected. Actually super interesting stuff that was thought out (I actually told my mates about this as if they were my fun facts LOL). Minor, but ridiculous laziness when you realise there’s over 10 versions of this attention to detail that this game doesn’t have, except a game from 11+ years ago built it 10x better.
Stuff like this is what I call “base game function”. They can add features/alter certain things with updates/patches, but they honestly just need to make a whole new game since everything wrong with this game can’t be reworked as this is what we got, full stop. You just can’t begin redeveloping stuff mid game, they have like 3 years worth of development needed. Even then they’d mess it up since it’s not the videogames creative era anymore, we are long past the era where we got a steady stream of epic videogames. The only reason why the good lineup ended so late after the golden era (90s-2012ish) is because the guys back then who were in charge were tapering off/leaving during the development of their last games in maybe 2016ish. Plus the machines they worked with (Xbox One era) were more powerful so they had more to work with. This era of developers haven’t got a clue and their live updates will be half effort nonsense that they don’t understand. Just chucking nonsense in to fulfill the fact that something is “new”. They never grew up with cars or any real culture. Pathetic. Why are they here I swear.
It is a shame, but what can you do.
EDIT: I know I digress, but I wanted this written in text along with this thread just to say I’ve said it.