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- Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: RGUN
It was neither knee jerk nor without reference to his post. He said it was sad that Forza "brings more to the table than a part 4." That is a stupid thing to say since they were essentially targetting the same market and Forza was able to take time and come up with something entirely new that could satisfy all the areas that the GT series fell short. Why would you expect them to release a product that was inferior to GT4?
You apparantly don't know much about software development - which is OK, you don't need to.
You can't just take a game and wave a magic wand and develop something exactly like it. GT4 had the advantage of years of play testing and refinements to the game engine.
I won't take sides on whether GT4 or Forza is better, because I'm not sure if I've played either. But it sounds to me like the games are comparable enough that to choose one console over the other based on which has which game is just blind loyalty to a particular franchise (a.k.a. fanboyism). At best I'd count that a minor factor in a console purchase decision, whereas the earlier games didn't really have any suitable counterpart.
If it was a different genre I wouldn't be saying that. Microsoft can't just put together an equivalent to the Final Fantasy series or the MGS series. Those games are story-driven. Racing games are not. Racing games compete on features (which is how GT blew everyone else out of the water) and realism/fun/whatever driving experience you want.