The thing with drifting is it doesn’t have to be a separate mode, or have special parts. Physics apply all the same.
In fact the only only addition to make drifting real in FM would be aftermarket steering knuckles to give steering much more angle. Everything else is already there.
Suspension adjustments, sway bars, motors etc.
So games like grid etc made cars more slippery, but that is not how drifting works. In fact drifting needs as much grip as possible. So very similar to a circuit racer.
The problem with FM is that it is missing public lobbies, where people can decide how and when and where they drift, or play any mode for that matter.
I absolutely HATE matchmaking (or what ever it is called). It just takes away from the depth of the experience and only adds benefit to a very casual gamer that plays a game for 1 month and stops.
Sure is. ANd that is what public lobbies are for.
I don’t have Xbox friends. I play for an hour every other day to relax. I don’t have time to be social on the forums and to organize special private lobbies.
No, no no no. Those aren’t the oval/stock car fans. Yea, we want pit strategy and cautions, but not the wild crashes. Go look at iRacing. We’ve got enough issues with people who can’t control a car to save their life. We don’t need the wild crashes like what happened at Daytona the other week (which if you never heard because you all see NASCAR as the short bus of motorsports, a car got into the catch fence and destroyed it). But T10 will never do that, and even if they did, they’d screw it all up to begin with. Stock cars have 4 corners on the car. Not just front and rear. I hope T10 stays away from stock cars because it’s sad as hell that a company who couldn’t fix the same bugs over 3 games did a better representation of stock cars.
I think it’s just too much to ask to have one title cover all or several aspects of motorsport. At best it would make a half baked effort. Forza is a curcuit racing game that includes one or two other disciplines but not in great depth. Sure, it’ll allow you to fit some parts (not necessarily the right parts) to go drifting but at the end of the day your drifting a car on a track built for racing and using racing components. Perhaps if the market was big enough some developer will come forward with an out and out drift title that lets you weld up the diff and fit well used tires but until then I fear it’ll be a bit of an add on.
Horizon is good enough to cover a lot of these bases, no?
I always thought of Horizon being that game that fills in the voids that Motorsport leaves.
I don’t do much drifting, but you do have off-road, open world, maybe drag (?)… a lot of these modes seem perfect for open world. Throw in a few side circuits like TDU2 (yeah shush up lol), and you can do a lot. Again, since I don’t drift, I don’t know if perhaps something in the car’s performance simulation was hindered or simplified for Horizon. In any case, Horizon was a brilliant idea.
What’s bad about that is Forza 5 was my first introduction to the series after being a dedicated Gran Turismo fan for so many years that I skipped the 360 all together. After quickly growing tired of FM5 a buddy let me borrow is 360+FM4 and within a week I had purchased a sealed FM4 LCE off Ebay and the 360 Spring Bundle w/ Horizon to which I have gotten 10x the enjoyment from those than I did the XB1. I even preferred FH1 much more than FH2. I don’t know what it is about FH2, even though the map is open and larger, it feels empty in comparison.
yup I agree I used to join public lobbys everyday I could find roll racing and s class drags and so on I haven’t met anyone new sense forza 4 no way to find them thanks turn ten u only want what u want not what we want well I guess I’m another who won’t buy this game lol
Exactly. Forza 4 had real fans that played for years after. Forza 5 had people buy, play for 1 month and leave, and that sadly is who they are catering to.
Please understand I have nothing against you liking what you like. But I find it funny that your last sentence includes the phrase good racer but you don’t like to “race”.
Please understand this is just my bizarre sense of humour. I don’t mean any offence by it and I would love for all gamers to get the game of their dreams.
I do like to race but that is not the point. A good racer means that it has good physics, good graphics, good sound and runs well. This all makes a game very real and believable.
Now having good physics means that all other forms of motorsport are achievable and thus drifting is fun and realistic, playing cat and mouse is fun etc.
Cars and motorsport is not only about making laps, it’s enjoying cars, doing fun things with cars, crashing cars, ramming cars, playing soccer with cars.
But if you only play for such a short time each week and don’t have XBL friends how do searchable lobbys help? It’s way too early to know how much the matchmaking is improved and what hoppers are available. You may find that you get to jump into lobbys that suit you perfectly.
The introduction of leagues may have made searchable lobbys redundant in that you may be locked out of a lot of lobbys anyway.
I have nothing against drifting persay in fact I’ve thrown the odd one myself but what I absolutely hate and despise in Horizon 2 which is sold as a racing game the amount of times true racers time and time again race clean hard but fair only to see on top of the XP chart they.ve been beaten by somebody who never even finished the race but hung out at the back throwing drifts. The introduction of a pure drifting game would in no way destroy racing games sales in fact if the games producers would police their games to rid them of the cheats and hackers many racers would come back just for the pure racing minus drifters and cheats the way it should be
I feel same way about user created they must return the games multiplayer just plain suks without it all the people asking for it back and it’s like they don’t care I’m not buying this game unless this returns also
