In a refreshing display of bitterness and obstinacy, Tony Coles refuses to enjoy various aspects of Forza Horizon 6, and spends the first hour making himself increasingly angry and unreasonable. Things calm down as he moves on to discuss the history of open-road, open-world racing games and gets hazily nostalgic for Test Drive Unlimited. His deranged and utterly unworkable ideas for how to fix the Forza Horizon malaise are right at the very end, pretending to be bonus content. He forgot to edit out quite few coughs and one burp, for which he's very sorry.
Despite multiple attempts and an addendum dedicated to it, Tony also fails to grasp how the Auction House actually works, underlining his point about Forza Horizon's broken economy using the well-worn epistemic device, proof by incompetence.
Tony has written about Forza Horizon here and here.
Read his Test Drive Unlimited retrospective here!
Please consider this episode as deliberate ragebait for Forza heads. Tell him why he's wrong by emailing affectionatediscourse@gmail.com, via BlueSky as @tontcoles.bsky.social and don't forget to follow @affectionatedisco.bsky.social. THANKS.
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