Well after the long wait, I finally was able to pick up an XBONE, and forza. Now originally my wife actually bought me the limited edition the day it came out, but I didn’t have a console to play it on. So, after knowing it would be a while till I was getting the new system I got my money back for it and with that money, we adopted another puppy! So I was happy with the trade off.
Now fast forward and here we are. After nearly a day of waiting for the digital copy to download as my stupid internet kept going on and off stopping the download, I’m finally able to play. Now since I turned my LM edition back in I basically fell out of the loop of what was going on with the franchise, I knew it wasn’t going to be the same when I got back. So after playing it for a day my feelings about the game is ehh, it’s okay just a shiny version of the last. But don’t get me wrong I am enjoying the game, and figuring out whats different. I do like the sim steering as it’s much more unforgiving than in FM4, and a tank slapper your fighting to keep it together where as in FM4 with sim steering was just a flick of the stick and all was well. As of now I’m staying in D-class, and I’ve learned that these cars can’t be pushed as hard as in the previous years, they have to driven with finesse and under control. But then again, I only have 3 tuned cars. But I do love my little Mini, in just the short time I’ve been playing I already have a top 25 time which I would say is decent for the learning curve and how sensitive the new controller is, which reminds me I have to set my dead zones, so that time will probably get faster. Tuning seems basically the same aside from the fact that the camber is 3-4 times higher than the previous titles. I had a short little stint in multi-player, is it me or when someone talks or yells in their mic, the game lags horribly almost like a huge multi second frame rate drop? Also a question for you guys, I’m using my I-phone 5s ear buds as my audio and it supposedly has a little microphone built in, but when I talk the little icon never lights up that I’m speaking so I don’t know… I would love to use my old turtle beach headset, if any of you guys know how to make that work it would be awesome. So yeah, first day of actual playing multiple top 75s a top 25, so I’m figuring it out for being 6 months behind. Hopefully I’ll see you guys on the track.
Congratulations and welcome to the new generation of Forza!