A-Spec was a disorganized, unrewarding and tedious. (Read about how Forza 4 is handling their career mode, scaling difficulty and rewarding proportionate to skill - shame on PD for completely neglecting this.)
B-spec was boring beyond belief.
STILL no time attack leaderboards.
STILL no saves for endurance races.
The menus & interface, while improved slightly since launch, are STILL awfully slow and painful to navigate. Takes minutes of waiting to simply change oil??? How much of our collective gaming time has been wasted by PD??
The cars themselves are too unapproachable. You can't get up close and look at them, or even rotate the camera in the garage. Can't preview paint colours. The sorts of things that even 10 months after launch still make you scream at the heavens "WHY?????"
Standard models, though also improved since launch, still seem like a cheap and embarassing way to pad out the game content. No cockpit view??!! I know we're all used to it by now... but seriously... NO COCKPIT VIEW????
No hood/windshield view (my personal favourite for driving games)
Online incomplete, problematic:
- can select PP limit OR power/weight limit, not both.
- can't set type of car restrictions (race, street, etc.)
- no "stock" mode (only a few dozen cars available, almost none of which are balanced against each other)
- SRF (why is this even in the "real driving simulator"?)
- no matchmaking/ranked (probably due to above problems)
PP system imbalanced; only a few cars are competitive at any given PP setting, with a couple of "special" cars like NSX and LFA.
Too much track cutting allowed (Monza, Sarthe are ruined and pointless to play online)
Too many unforgivably stupid little decisions (like locking SRF ON in some events - why???)
Sigh. I could go on for pages, but I'll stop here.
) How much longer would it have taken to spell "people"?
