Step backwards?
- Realistic materials for painting.
- Most advanced AI in a racing game.
- Every car is now ForzaVista
- Laser-scanned tracks including Silverstone, Long Beach, Road America, Nurburgring, Spa and more.
- Benchmark readings in tuning menu.
- The paint editor improved, sure, but the restrictive nature of the sharefront has discouraged most of the best painters from painting.
- ForzaVista is nice, no arguments there
- The tracks are nice, sure, but some aspects of them, like rumble strips on SIlverstone, exhibit extremely unrealistic behavior.
- Benchmark has never been an accurate tool for tuning.
Did you honestly just say that AI isn't important in a racing game?
The AI was so good in Forza 5 I didn't even play online in the game for over a month after launch.
The AI is definitely not terrible.
I can't really wrap my head around competing with the AI, sorry.
Do you even realize that Nurburgring has never been laser-scanned before and how awesome that truly is?
Forza, let alone any other racing title in existence when the game launched, has ever had a laser-scanned Nurburgring.
I don't particularly care for the Nurburgring, but almost everyone expected it to be in the game.
The Auction House and Storefront were garbage, filled with crap and scam paintjobs and even more crap and scam tunes.
The Sharefront is much better, you are actively engaged to review paints that you use and every time you use it the creator gets paid.
This is false. The auction house had a thriving community of car collectors and sellers. It was incredibly easy to filter your search results to find what you wanted.
The storefront allowed for players to easily find the specific tune or paint they were looking for, add someone to their favorites, and see everything that someone had to offer at once
You can't do any of this in Forza 5. In order to find someone you have to type in their gamertag, and then you can only get the one item from them. If you wanted to get another tune or paint from them you'd have to search for each item individually.
99% of the Turn 10 picks/featured tunes that clog the list for each car are outdated and terrible.
Painters and tuners make VERY little in comparison to previous games.
I have several tunes uploaded that have top times on the leaderboard, yet no one will ever find them unless they search my name.
This had to do with the economy, every single Forza title the community managed to find a exploit that took advantage of selling your vehicles, this stopped this from happening for good
Why is restricting the economy good for anyone except Turn 10?
Most of the other features you named were clearly missing due to a lack of development time and changes to the economy in the game.
It's perfectly understandable for a launch game to be missing some features from its predecessor. However, there are so many features missing at the core of the game that it effectively crippled the game's online experience.
#rekt
But no, really. Fantastic post.
No, not really.
Forza 5 is the stepping stone needed for what Forza 6 will eventually become.
This I can partly agree with. I am optimistic for Forza 6.