It was disappointing for me compared to FH3. It felt like they didn't know how to improve on that game and just made it more tedious and less interesting.
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Forza Horizon 4 is sublime, and it blows my mind it isn't talked about much
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Horizon 2 was so good that it restored my faith in console racers after the pain that was GT5. A lovely racing game with good depth if you'd care to find it. As a Motorstorm and Onrush fan I like the blend Playground went for. But as Evo is shuttered now I realise that's a minority opinion.
That and the Forza Horizon 2 Fast & Furious standalone game. No physical copy, delisted and no way to obtain it unless you previously had it. I luckily have both the Xbox 360/Xbox One version when it was given out for free, but it's a shame that it's lost to time.
It's good, but I was kind of tired of the series after 2 and 3. Lego Speed Champions was fun though.
It's an ok driving game but a bad racing game. The progression sucks and there is no consequence doing bad in a race vs doing well. Also the showcase races or whatever they were called kind of suck.
4 has a far better map than 3.
The variation in the track design is far superior to 3.
The game was one of my biggest disappointments of last year, i was really pissed about this entry.
bland/boring environments, Fortnite loot crap with funny hats, dances and shit, soundtrack lacking, super bad online, the signature races are lame too...it is just not good. biggest offender was the white celebration screen that comes directly when driving over the finish line...awful decision.
Forza Horizon got progressively worse, FH2 is still favourite, FH3 was nice but map too small, from jungle to outback in 4minutes was silly...Blizzard Mountain was better
FH4 is the worst Forza Horizon out there, much bloat and it literally screams "made for gamepass"
bland/boring environments, Fortnite loot crap with funny hats, dances and shit, soundtrack lacking, super bad online, the signature races are lame too...it is just not good. biggest offender was the white celebration screen that comes directly when driving over the finish line...awful decision.
Forza Horizon got progressively worse, FH2 is still favourite, FH3 was nice but map too small, from jungle to outback in 4minutes was silly...Blizzard Mountain was better
FH4 is the worst Forza Horizon out there, much bloat and it literally screams "made for gamepass"
It's a great game but my biggest beef is the engine sounds. They all either don't match or just straight up sound like ass. I really don't understand too because if you go back to FH3 the engine sounds were WAY better, I don't know if it was a license thing or what that caused them to throw away all those sound files but they really need to get that together.
Yep, the sound design has never been particularly good in this franchise but the engine sounds went downhill in 4 somehow. People have been complaining about it since day one but they've haven't done much. They out so much effort and care into the graphics but when it comes to audio the game is basic as hell.
Gutted we didn't get another Hot Wheels expansion. Lego is fun but it's no Hot Wheels with the crazy stunt tracks.
I'd love for Playground to work on a Hot Wheels spin off game. Make it happen Booty.
I'd love for Playground to work on a Hot Wheels spin off game. Make it happen Booty.
Got it through Gamepass, had an absolute blast for a decent amount of time ... but it just gets instantly and immediately stale after a certain point. I recall looking at my map, seeing 80 icons, having a handful of incredible cars, and just feeling like "ok so what's the point?" and then dropped it. Don't get me wrong, it was incredibly fun up until that point, but it lacks long-term sticking power.
It's the fourth in a side series of racing games that have been made since 2003. Shit's beyond stale/boring at this point looking from the outside in.
It cracked me up a lot when I saw the XB1 pallet skirt at Costco with a grouping of well-known MS properties...and a fucking sports car. Like, Microsoft thinks that "car, vroom vroom" is a fully formed mascot for the Xbox brand.
It cracked me up a lot when I saw the XB1 pallet skirt at Costco with a grouping of well-known MS properties...and a fucking sports car. Like, Microsoft thinks that "car, vroom vroom" is a fully formed mascot for the Xbox brand.
It's a fantastic game I had a lot of fun with.
But once I realized it's a GaaS game that dorsn't really have a goal I dropped it.
But the game got me to try Gamepass and I love the service ever since
But once I realized it's a GaaS game that dorsn't really have a goal I dropped it.
But the game got me to try Gamepass and I love the service ever since
This post reminded me of the Fred Armisen character in Parks and Rec
The AI opponents made this game really frustrating. At the highest difficulties, they always have way more grip than you and much sharper turning radii. Physics-defying grip. Obnoxious. But if you turn down the difficulty, it becomes piss easy. No fun.
Anyway, I did what I always do. Saved up to unlock a Ferrari F40. Played a little while with that and uninstalled.
Anyway, I did what I always do. Saved up to unlock a Ferrari F40. Played a little while with that and uninstalled.
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Personally, sense of progression isn't really important for me. I like doing races with different cars, my reasoning for choosing one isn't just how good it is.
have you ever wanted to drive an exotic sports car through a field of wheat? no? what the hell is wrong with you
I enjoyed Horizon 4 but I didn't put anywhere near the same amount of time into it that I did Forza Horizon 3. The setting for Horizon 3 was much more interesting and fun to drive around. The Hot Wheels expansion was a lot more fun and interesting as well. There are areas of Horizon 4 I just don't like racing around. I never got that feeling with Horizon 3.
The games are well made but I think I'm more of a circuit racer guy. The driving feels good in FH4 but the racing wasn't sticky enough for me, so I fell off.
Well, playing in a group with friends (or not) enable collision with them, it's just disabled with players not in your group.
It's better that way, then you can't be harassed by other players unless they are in your group.
You can still push traffic on them though as it's synced.
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Yeah, if somebody from Activision sould just push around for a new Blur... wink wink
It's a fantastic game but at times I kinda miss a more structured experience like GT, that's sorta like an RPG. This is kinda like, after 1 wheel spin you get a gazillion credits and can kinda do whatever, race whatever, blueprint whatever, "just do whatever we don't care" which is cool but you really have to just enjoy cars for the sake of enjoying cars, since there basically is no meaningful progression at all unless you like to 'catch em all'.
You hate ghost cars and yet, it sounds like you´re exactly why they exist.
The Forza Horizon series always seems to have at least one entry that does this to people. For me it was definitely the first one.
Forza Horizon 3 and 4 are two of the best racing games ever made. It's a shame the GOTY talks don't really consider them as they're racers and those are ignored by tons of players. Missing the good old days in which games like Need For Speed Underground or Burnout 3 were on anybody's tongues.
One of the games with the best support post launch also. And that for the first time they ever did it. Alot of devs struggle with that for a first time. But they nailed it.
Its a reason the game is still high up on the most played list also. I believe its always in the top 10 in the UK for example. That for a racing game and more then a year old.
I keep saying it. Put it on Steam also. It would do amazing there.
Its a reason the game is still high up on the most played list also. I believe its always in the top 10 in the UK for example. That for a racing game and more then a year old.
I keep saying it. Put it on Steam also. It would do amazing there.
It's a great game, and much better optimized for PC than FH3. But spinweel prizes where utter crap and the map was beyond boring. Give me a game like Forza Motorsport Legends (with pre 2005 cars) for Scarlett/PC anyday.
This is my main issue with the how the Horizon games are set up, there is no sense of progression in the games except for the first one. FH2 felt next gen compared to the first game but my favorite is still FH3.
Oh and the cosmetics, such a great improvement to the game that i never touched them.
Weather is cool but I vastly preferred 3 with the custom radio station and the Toyota license. I also liked the map way more.
and discovering FH2 was magic. The Horizon games are great but are incremental riffs on that game - The jumps haven't felt as big as the one from FH1 -> FH2, which I guess makes sense given the generation gap.
and discovering FH2 was magic. The Horizon games are great but are incremental riffs on that game - The jumps haven't felt as big as the one from FH1 -> FH2, which I guess makes sense given the generation gap.
For a racing game, Forza Horizon is very popular.
The weather is actually lame compared to what they had in previous expansions. Seasons sucks as a gimmick too - no I don't want to wait 3 week for winter to come back every time.