I’ll get back to talking about game difficulty soon enough (I’m sure you’re all so disappointed). In fact, I’ll need to internalize Forza 3 and it’s infinite retry button before I start talking about it again.
I’m fully immersed in car-topia as I get that once in a while chance to fuse my inner gamer-nerd with my inner petrol-head. In fact I managed to resist the urge to rewind when I missed a corner bad while trying to overtake in my pimped out digital Cobalt (I know the irony of driving a simulation of my own car). Why did I not rewind this bad move and brake earlier? Because I wanted a reason to take a picture that makes the game seem more action packed than it is.
I’m loving how the achievements are doled out in the new Forza Motorsport. They flow freely as “rewards” for doing “things”. Nothing like Forza 2 in which the game gave achievements only when you did things that involved the words “all” or “every”, for example “Get all the cars in the game” or “Get a gold in every race”.
I’ve been thoroughly rewarded for doing fun things and it shows with how much time I’m putting into the game. The game insidiously tracks how much time you’ve spent racing and how much time you’ve spent in the menus. Which seems like the ratio should be astronomically tilted towards the racing time, but that’s ignoring how much time I will spend laboriously pimping out my cars with various stickers and tuning setups. I’m going to hazard the ratio of time spent in the drivers seat versus fiddling with the various extraneous bits will ultimately be 1:1.
Good bye, life.
You know, for all of the jokes we made about snoozin’ when you went into Forza mode, I’ve actually been inspired (by you) to car up my gaming a bit more. However, I’ve been tempted to go the GT PSP route, as the stuff people are bitching about (less tweaking and career stuff) is exactly what I wanted removed from the console games. Plus, being on a handheld and featuring 800 collectible cars doesn’t hurt. This season is pretty crowded, so this won’t be happening anytime soon, but next year? You bet!