Hello all!
I’m making this post now because I really want to see what everyone really enjoyed about Forza 5, obviously in every game it has it’s certain aspects which were better than any other, so what would yours be?
Mine would probably be the fun races that you could do around Top Gear with the ‘British’ props! I really enjoyed that, such a shame you couldn’t do much of it. I also did get a lot of enjoyment out of the online racing, no idea why, I just really got a lot of enjoyment out of it!
Hi there,
I have played every Forza game ever made and played most ALOT. Love the franchise you can see by my Forza rewards at 12,000. All that playing and almost all of it offline!!! Forza 5 was the first game I really played online other than 2 or 3 times in a few others. A great racer and an even better person got me started ( now I believe EMW Radicus ) online and I really enjoy it. For a few months we played several hours a day ,Yea you run across some crashers but the game online really is thrilling. I am not the fastest racer by no means but that usually means I get to race more as some of the fast players only pass a few cars on their way to the front and then run time trial laps till / if they get lap traffic. I very rarely don’t have another car in front of me so I’m always racing as hard as I can. I like that though as that is more rewarding to me. To do well to me means place as high as I can but doing it cleanly. I would rather place poorly than to win by being a bully on the track. Anyway in Forza 5 my favorite part was going online and racing. And by the way I am 49 so I have been playing games for awhile. I also have a pretty high end racing cockpit so you can tell I really do like my racing.
My favorite thing is having a 1st gen CRX and not a damn 2nd gen! They’ve only been available to buy in every other Forza game ever. (Except the Horizon games)
Like in previous games, the tunes, and some incredible artwork from some very skilled painters. If the grip levels were the same as 3 and 4, I would have enjoyed this game completely.
you like having extremely low grip? Seriously? I mean, Forza 4 was almost perfect, 5 is just sliding around on ice on some tracks. try it without tuning and you’ll see what I mean.
Never had problems with the sliding around unless my tune was crap or I wasn’t paying attention. The grip levels were just fine. You just couldn’t drive cars at unreal corner speeds/lap times like you used to for most cars.
I went back to 4 and thought it was super easy. Cars I remembered as being challenging to drive were so easy this go around. I did notice a rigid feeling in the cars but it didn’t seem to hurt corner speeds - even in stock tire tunes. I think FM5 made me a vastly better driver without me noticing it.
The understeer at times (especially in stock cars) in FM5 was a tad bit annoying but usually that could get tuned out. That would be my only suggestion for improvement and I think this caused some of icy complaints.
Grip in 5 was unrealistically low. Plus, you’re relying on tunes. Try it without a tune of any sort. No ABS, TCS or any other driver aids. Jjust quick upgrade a car to the top of it’s class. You’ll be sliding around from the first corner, rears won’t hook up on exit, front wheels lock prematurely cars bounce sometimes violently on rumble strips as well. I’m able to set some fairly fast times, even with this low grip, so it isn’t because I can’t drive the cars. It just reminds me to much of winter driving from when I lived in Minnesota.
Done that with a Ferrari 250 gto in C. It’s actually really good when you get used to the body roll. It’s my car of choice for indy oval but works well at all speed tracks.
That’s probably a best case scenario example though. I don’t use driver aids but have noticed the bouncing feeling. I figured that was because bumps and imperfections in the track finally impacted how you should take a corner. Never noticed sliding/rears not hooking up stuff. I’ve only noticed understeer that as result causes you to turn harder which then upsets the rear.
Depending on the curb, the cars are supposed to bounce violently. The chicane at Watkins Glen will be a nightmare in that regard. I did notice though that driving on curbs was similar to driving on ice many times.
I am guessing that you’re using a wheel in Forza 5, or just automatically did the 0/100 thing (which someone finally told be about) without trying the default controller settings first. With the default settings, the game is a mess. Brakes are full on, or off and the cars do tend to go to full throttle really early. Which seemed to have been most of what I was complaining about. The rumble strip second turn from the last at Long Beach, when you’re not really going very fast, delivers much to large of a jolt considering that it isn’t particularly built up.
The game is much more playable with the 0/100 controller settings. Previous games were this playable right out of the box, which is what was throwing me.
The Cycled Production lobby. With everyone in identical, factory-spec cars, the deciding factor is skill. If you beat someone there, it’s ALL you: it’s not your tune, your build, or car selection, it’s your badassery behind the wheel.
The best thing about forza 5 is Forza6! when 6 comes out… I am done with this game.
I will play it off line only, just can never get a clean race in a lobby, otherwise it would be a great game. I guess the game is great but the online races are too brutal.
