Hey ime a LONG term fan of forza and motorsport in general. As a kid i used to go to races every weekend with my family and watch the driver compete for glory and gold.
When i got my first consol it was a nintendo 8bit (yes ime old as hell) my favorite games were always driving games… But those were nothing compared to the things to come… Grand turismo and colin Mcrae rally was my first experience of some what realistic games. And from there on i was a dedicated GT fan boy, one day i just for pure luck had some money sitting on my savings acount that i had from selling a racecar. So i thought what the hell lets buy a xbox. and i did . i came across this magnificent game called rallysport challange, wich just blew my mind away! It had everyting i ever dreamed of in a game, there were rallycross, hillclimb, icracing and even rally. Game series was great and i even bought the 2nd one. Then one day i found this game called forza motorsport.
My first thought were ye ye xbox version of GT whats the big deal. But i just found it in a bargin bin. and figgured how much will i lose if i buy this game. To the supprise i got when i put the game in the xbox, i was like yhh lets do same as gt get a car tune it and die in it… BUT in the tune area ther was somthing like change engine, change drivetrain. To me that was the moment i never looked the same at GT. Ime not saying GT is a wothless game at any point. but if you want a game that is true to “realism” and have cars that actually handle the way you feel like a race car should handle, then forza is you best buy.
But seeing how forza and GT has evolved first hand, i have seen gt going at a slow phase and just updating small things and adding more unfinished material. While on the other hand Forza dilivers a rock solid experience from day one at any of there titles.
Now to the topic. i would really like Forza to take on the dirt section of racing. I would love to see rallycross in the game, AND not that pathetic version gt offers with rally. If a rally car would handle that bad rally would never been allowed. And i dont want that pathetic style dirt is going with ither, it looks like rallycross but its just arcade crap. BUT i do not want forza to make it into a separate game ither, i want the dirt section to interact with the type of racing we have now. becouse when you make 2 diffrent games, you get varables. Take horizon for a example. Its a great game, but you dont have the same feel in cars as you do in forza. Its still better then any other open world racing game. But i want the cars to feel like forza cars.
Now i probbobly upset half the GT fanbase and the horizon fans. But this is my oppinion. Back to rallycross., i want the same lvl of building your car from scratch, i want to take a random D class car and make it into a rallycross supercar with 4wd and 500-700bhp and just make it the beast it can be. Thats the point of forza i always love in a new title. Build anything to a complete monster and win races against million dollar ferraris or other dream car with a mazda miata. I also love building cars on restrictions. like in rallycross there is LOADS of classes spanning from small engines to rwd and no turbo all the way up to the new class supercars lite. wich is a identical car championship.
I also for once would like to see a studio like turn 10 make a big deal of this kind of racing . now that we have the world championship, we have the global rallycross championship and we have the european championship. I dont want no half assed rushed game like the dirt series or for that matter the wrc series we get just about every other year. In my oppinion forza is the only console gaming studio that can make this happen and make it good. Sorry for beeing so long but hope you got through to the end.
And a big thanks to the guys behind forza. even if my dream dont come true, i atleast have this game to come back to.
//sturmfyrer