Concerning the game (and trying to get some discussion here). In the 2023 Forza Year in Review, they wrote the following...
Since the release of Forza Motorsport, we've been listening to your feedback about the game and where you would like to see improvements or changes made. Stay tuned, as we’ll have more to share about these topics early in 2024.
I'm interested to see what Turn 10 has to say about the player feedback about the game. I am not expecting them to address everything the community has been pointing out, they typically have never done so, but with the general negative perception the game has, maybe this will force them to do it this time? Hopefully they make changes and worthwhile ones at that. While the game should have never been in a situation where it would need a "turn around" or "come-back", that is what the title desperately needs.
In my opinion, the underlying game isn't so broken that changes cannot be made to it. The problem is the general perception that this game is FUBAR. It's not, but people are going to be ultra dramatic about it, so it's whatever the masses say.
I've been avoiding discussing the quality of the game here because, there are plenty of places where the exact same things that can and will be expressed have already happened. And the other reason is, interest in FM has fallen off a cliff on RD. No one is saying anything, and if something is said it's going to be critical. Reading the negativity on FM.net and Reddit is already enough to have me closing those sites and ignoring every alert coming from either. I don't want to do the same on RD, but if that is what everybody wants to do, then what does my opinion matter?
My take on FM23...
The game shouldn't have been released as is and should have been pushed back until feature complete. Microsoft already laid 2 eggs in 2023, why make Forza into the third?
Forza Motorsport is a franchise that Microsoft needed to do nothing but go from strength to strength; but since FM5, they have only been putting out 8/10 titles at best. The reboot needed to be a 10/10 upon release, but it wasn't. What was delivered was a place holder, sort of an IOU, and that is most likely what has the community riled up against the franchise.
There are some good things in the title, the physics are a major improvement over all Forza Motorsport titles, the racing benefits because of that. This is the first title with dynamic weather despite the lazy application of it in the featured multiplayer races. But everything else is unfinished and poorly thought out. (Sorry to be crib-ing PJT's sentiment on this. He was dead-on with his assessment of the game). It can be fixed, but again; the community would rather the entire franchise die. At least that is the feeling I have in reading through the various complaints on FM.net and Reddit. It would be a shame if the community gets what they are asking for.
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