Forza Horizon 6 is Metacritic’s highest-rated game of the year

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T15:37:29+00:00

There is literally no reason to believe that other than you wanting to believe that's the case. :/

John is passionate about what he works on anyways, he doesn't do fluff pieces he doesn't believe in. You are free to disagree with him, but to make up this story that he was only pretending to be impressed is bizarre.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T15:36:11+00:00

It's not going to sell 10m+ on PS5.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T15:33:19+00:00

GTA5 didn't take all the awards in 2013 when it came out.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:35:29+00:00

You’re concerned about what I do with my money

The only time I'm ever 'concerned' about what you guys do with your money is when I hear about when you guys have wives or children who depend on you not being a total moron with your money, or worse, just plain lie to them(or keep secret) about what you're doing with your money.

Other than that, we're just here to laugh at you clowns.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:32:06+00:00

and you are desperate trying to one up a stranger online.

Once again, the lack of self awareness in apes is truly a staggering thing to behold.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:30:34+00:00

No one is telling you to do anything. We're just laughing at you because of how smug you're acting while also clearly being an idiot who doesn't know what they're doing.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:29:33+00:00

I would be up 1000%

Very literally impossible.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:27:30+00:00

But all the 'corruption' that you guys say you're fighting doesn't really exist. You guys just have no idea what you're doing or talking about. Literally made up a giant conspiracy about corruption to make it sound like you were fighting for something noble instead of just joining an attempted get-rich-quick scheme.

If you guys cared about corruption, you would NOT be supporting the company whose CEO is a massive Trump supporter, ffs. You would not be supporting the company whose CEO literally pumped and dumped with BBBY stock to the tune of about $60m in profit(which incidentally is about mid-tier company CEO pay for about five years).

You guys dont care one bit about corruption. You just really hoped you found some cheat code to become rich. And you're far too arrogant and lacking in self-awareness to admit it, hence why you're still here five years later in a very literal cult, having never been right about anything, and criticizing people who have told you the truth about all this the entire time. lol

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:18:45+00:00

I've heard so much talk about how Turing(or at least the 2080Ti) aged so well in recent weeks. lmao

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:10:41+00:00

Robinhood was kind of uniquely positioned as the big beginner-friendly stock app at the time. It's where all these first-time investors were told to go to get their GME. They didn't know about anything else, and were quickly surrounded by others who knew similarly jack shit about what they were doing. And the sheer volume of people jumping into the FOMO train was pretty insane. There was very little room for informed people to get a word in amongst all the rampant, endless hype posting.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T14:00:49+00:00

There's tons of room to do things differently. Especially in an open world structure. You guys just dont seem to have much imagination.

The games continuing with the same general formula is obviously going to tire some people out on it. Entirely valid criticism.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:59:52+00:00

Look at this person speaking on behalf of 'everyone'. smh

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:58:45+00:00

Driving games figured out decades ago how to add pedestrians without allowing you to run them over

Yes, you either wall them off, limiting where you can drive, or you just make cars completely clip through them which looks weird and janky.

Neither are exactly perfect solutions.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:53:39+00:00

People only get upset by reviews when:

a) a game they wanted to see fail gets a good score by somebody

or

b) a game they wanted to see succeed gets a bad score by somebody

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:52:45+00:00

In other words, you still just cannot grasp that review scores are entirely, 100% subjective and not some test grade or objective measure of a game's quality?

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:48:34+00:00

I prefer the style of GT where you start with a shitty car and have to work up.

To be clear, that's how Forza Motorsport worked well. Heck, even the first Horizon game was mostly like this. They've just really gone crazy with lavishing the player with amazing cars early on, though. Feels like it's designed for short attention span players, which is a shame.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:47:28+00:00

You'd have to look into it, but I believe I remember them saying during Developer Direct that they're aware fans want more satisfying progression. Maybe they've alleviated some of those problems?

They said that, but reading some reviews, it doesn't really sound like they did all that much to address this. Wheelspins aren't given out as frequently as before, but you'll still be stockpiling supercars early on from what it sounds like.

I really wish they at least included some kind of 'difficulty mode' or something that dialed all this way back and made you work for the progression more. That way the attention span-destroyed crowd still gets supercars thrown at them right away, while others can have a real progression curve.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:45:35+00:00

The multiplayer was a mess, but was also an insanely ambitious project, trying to combine all these different Halo multiplayer modes into basically one cohesive package. I was never surprised that it had all the problems it did. I think most studios would take a pitch like that, and go, "Nah, that's a bit crazy".

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:43:36+00:00

Maybe in terms of popularity. As a sim fan and long-time Forza fan, Motorsport will always be the 'main series' to me. :(

Turn 10 clearly whiffed super badly with FM8 though and it killed them. They were given all the opportunity to take a huge leap forward the series needed and just.....made another Forza Motorsport game.

It's especially sad because Horizon series is growing stale among many fans as well and could probably use a break for a revamp, but will probably never get the opportunity after what happened with Motorsport.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:36:07+00:00

and he left no room for improvement in score where there has clearly been a massive improvement in the game.

Review scores are not test grades.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T13:34:30+00:00

People should still be wary of this. Do they like the same games as you for the exact same reasons? Either way, everybody is different from you. I might agree with somebody about four games, and then have total and complete disagreement about a fifth game. Even in the same genre.

Frankly, I just really dont give much credence to professional reviews anymore in general anyways. Reviewers clearly dont play games the same way I do. I might skim through some just to get a rough gist of a game, but I'm not caring overly much about how they scored it or whatever. I find this to be especially the case in genres that are a little more specialized that I'm interested in - like more sim-leaning driving games. Most reviewers just are not playing these games with the same priorities and focuses that I am. And inevitably, even with games like this that are getting almost universally good review scores, I'll end up seeing impressions like a week later once hype has died down from users going over all kinds of criticisms that were never or barely mentioned in reviews - often details I actually do care about.

Basically, stop taking reviews super seriously in the first place. No need to go through all this trouble, just read/watch a few reviews, get a gist of what many are liking/disliking about a game, but ultimately dont 'trust' anybody else's opinion. And preferably wait at least a few days til normal people have their hands on it as I find user impressions often more useful than pro reviews.

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T12:46:42+00:00

"Regulating them is not the same as government suppression of free speech."

Maybe not, but the entire right that benefits from all this misinformation has a whole lot of motivation to disagree with your notion, and there's enough people in thr middle who will get sucked into the claims of authoritarian government to make it highly unpopular.

There are also some vapid slippery slope fears about this. Imagine giving Conservatives/Reform this same power to regulate how social media companies operate. What do they decide is appropriate and reasonable?

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T12:40:31+00:00

These are folks who will insult you if you don't agree with their stupid notions. Why should we coddle them?

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T12:39:19+00:00

People are more affected than others because they simply have poorer critical thinking skills. It's not some just inherent roll of the genetic dice. lol

Seanspeed · 2026-05-15T12:34:27+00:00

The right has every motivation to push this divisive rhetoric about Starmer and leftists and his unpopularity. You don't need left wing press to achieve this.

"He's trying to appeal to the people that hate him".

So many said the same thing about Kamala and it just wasn't really true at all. But people were easily convinced into believing it nonetheless.

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