In regards to forza rewind has no place in a driving Sim thats more of a Grid/ NFS function.
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Taken from an interview that when asked about the rewind function..I think he answers the question that "rewind has no place in a driving Sim"
Is the rewind race feature your way of doing what GRID did? What made you want to add that when Forza 3 is a simulator? You want it to be approachable, but that feature brings it back to the arcade realm.
Dan Greenawalt: I couldn't disagree with you more. I've been in the racing game industry for over 10 years. I was around back when nobody had [the] restart race [feature]. Why? Because restart race was too arcadey. It was too easy. You gotta earn it. If you came in last place at the end? Suck it. Deal with it. That's the nature of the beast. That was what everybody said back then.
Nowadays? Guess what: you can't make a racing game without restart. It's ridiculous. Well, rewind race is a fantastic feature. Ours is different [from] GRID's. Was it a good idea in GRID? Yes it was. But they only gave you three of 'em and they penalize you for using them. That's stupid. Frankly, that's like penalizing someone for restart race. That's just stupid. So mark my words: five years from now, just like racing games are now doing the green line [that originated with Forza], they're all going to be doing rewind race and they're all going to be doing it just like we do.
At E3 it seemed like you could rewind the race as far back as you wanted. Is that how it's going to be in the final game?
DG: Absolutely. That's what it comes down to. I've got the perspective having worked in racing games. I've heard people, and I know it's going to be the same thing that happened when restart race [was introduced]. I'm going to get people that say, "No, it's not hardcore enough, punish me more." Really what they're trying to say is, punish everyone else – not me, because I'm a really good racer, and I feel like if I don't have everyone else being punished, I'm not proving that I'm great.
Well guess what: great racers are still gonna win. Rewind race doesn't make you any better. It doesn't make you any faster. It doesn't make you any smarter. All it does is give you a proportional response to your mistake. You've been racing for 40 minutes, you have a mistake, all the AI pass you. [Normally], what do you do? You hit restart race, maybe. You turn off the console, probably. You go to bed for the night. You throw a controller, potentially. What is a proportional response to that five-second mistake you just made? I should take five seconds from you; you have to hit the [rewind button], it takes five seconds. That is a proportional response.
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