Comments on: Interview: Forza Motorsport’s Dan Greenawalt

By: NoxNoctisUmbra

NoxNoctisUmbra — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:32:47 +0000

PD said FM3 was a good game, now Turn 10 says GT5 will be a good game.. Ahh there is LOVE in this world!

Give lil love and it all comes back to you!LA LA LA LALALALA

By: Bulk Slash

Bulk Slash — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:29:25 +0000

Good tip, thanks I’ll give that a try.

By: SlayerGT

SlayerGT — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:38:13 +0000

I feel yall on the difficulty thing. What I do to remedy this (it’s stupid) is if the race I’m doing maxes out at B class, I intentionally make my car weaker. If B maxes out at 500pi from (what is it?) 350pi, I’ll max my car at say 400-450pi and set to Med diff. It’s lame to have to do this, but sometimes it makes for some “fun” close racing.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:45 +0000

“There needs to be an intermediate setting between medium and hard I think.”

Yeah, it’s always needed this. If you’re not pretty much perfect on hard, you’re not finishing first.

By: Bulk Slash

Bulk Slash — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:13:43 +0000

Greenawalt talks a lot about making the game accessible but Forza 3 didn’t fix the two biggest problems that I had with Forza 2:

1) on the harder AI difficulties you’re either past the AI on the first few bends and they never catch up or the AI gets out in front and you have no chance of ever catching them.

2) this is more of a personal complaint, but the length of the races gets stupid. I’m not complaining about the proper endurance races, but the normal races that are 7 laps or so later on in the game. When you take the AI problem above into account, that either means a 15 minute race where you’re in the lead on your own and never see another car (which is boring). Or 15 minutes trying to catch the lead AI car that you never had a chance to catch in the first place. Either way it’s tedious, there needs to be an option to customise race length in the same way you can choose AI difficulty or braking assists.

Probably a third complaint from me is that when you’re driving regulation cars the AI is just way too easy on easy and medium, but hard is sometimes way too hard. There needs to be an intermediate setting between medium and hard I think.

By: Tallon 4

Tallon 4 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:04:38 +0000

Greenawalt….this guy pissed me off when he started picking on GT. Forza 3 is great, but Greenawalt’s attempt to take down PD was a major mistake. I’m sure it’ll backfire at the man.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:57:09 +0000

Oh, I thought you were talking about the cockpits literally not working. Yeah, I’ve heard about some of the dashboards being non functional.

On a different note, I had forgotten how good the audio was on the cars. That vid is top notch.

By: priestAr

priestAr — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:50:21 +0000

@Psychotext
to name a few:
#23 Xanavi Nismo Nissan GT-R
#92 Rahal Letterman Racing M3-GT2
#4 Corvette Racing C6.R

for a full list take a look at this thread: http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/1/3277626/ShowThread.aspx

Here is a video made by one of the guys over there to show what is wrong with these cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4pXBFYQLo … no HUD turned on = no info :/

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:21:16 +0000

I think there is a very big clear direction Forza can still go and that is variety in modes. There is so much diversity in the game in terms of track, cars etc. Core gameplay just boils down to a race though – which I think is it’s only major failing. I’d like to see Time Trials, Head-to-Heads, Elimination type events in the main game.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:13:26 +0000

Which ones would those be priestAr?

By: tont

tont — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:43 +0000

Good to read he’s taking some tenants to heart rather than tenets. Bless the Americans.

ANYWAY, PLEASE DO TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED WITH FORZA 3′S ENGINE AND HANDLING AND IN A BETTER PLACE THAN HAWAII.

By: priestAr

priestAr — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:55:36 +0000

“How do we go from being a “Racing Game” to being a “Car Game” to being a way of life? These are just some of the tenants we’ve taken to heart for our next project.”

What about taking your actual project to heart? Still most of the R2 cars (and others) without full working cockpits. Really sad for such a good game.

Nice interview btw.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:27:03 +0000

“I think all good game developers look at what their competitors are doing.”

Indeed. Good interview btw Pat.

By: The Hindle

The Hindle — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:21:34 +0000

Wow thats the most humbe ive seen Turn 10 usually they just have a go at PD