Forza Future: Horizon 4/5, Motorsport 8 and New Forza Title...

Forza Series:

Forza Horizon 4/5
Forza Motorsport
another Forza Game

Hey,
The Forza series for me is already the best racing game/simulation series of all times, but there are always a few things even in the best games to improve and do it even better…
So what I personally, and I think you all too, want for the next Forza Horizon is the following:

I had made a Video on YouTube already about this topic, but it was about Horizon 3 before it was out and only in german, but if youre interested feel free to watch it:

I have not so much time to make another Video about what i want to talk about here, but i hope the creators of Forza recognize it and put much of it in the games…

Horizon 4 is already half way done i think but maybe for Horizon 5:

For a reason I don’t know, the XBOX Controller has many buttons, but not all are used for the game already,.
These are my opinions for some increments:

a button for light on/off
a button for Traction Control/ABS/Stability control on/off
a button for opening/close the roof on convertibles
a button for switching trough the display or something in the interior
a button for a special GoPro/Drone Mode where you can start recording your driving or fly around with the drone
a button for using nitrous

Adding convertibles, limousines and station wagons:

I think every one wants to choose his own car configuration, so wouldn’t it be great if you can choose your style of the vehicle in the future.
For example:
At the moment you can only choose a Mercedes C63 S AMG,
but what if you can go to the dealer and switch between the cars and if you found your dream car you can choose if it’s a coupe, a limousine or a wagon…
So every car in the game you can have in different styles
That would be new in the racing game world.

The Vehicle History has to appear or can be selected right before a race too.
So you can check how many races you have already been raced/won/lost with this car and decide if you drive with this one or
choose another…

At the car-buying screen or at the painting screen the color choose panel has to be in the right size so it doesn’t cover any part of the car, and the ability to turn the car around has to be in that first color choosing screen too, instead of in the next.
Another cool thing would be the original factory color names of the cars and the possibility to choose a interior color etc
The fine adjustment of the colors would be great too.

A customization of the own garage would be awesome.
so you can change the basement/layout of the garage/building (workshop, factory, warehouse, barn, hangar, underground car park, ships hull…)
another point is to have more garages for different vehicles all around the map which each location is different and customizable. But with an easy switching tool between them for fast travel and shift cars between them, but not with loosing the good overview and easy access of the cars.

a big highlight were always the barn finds.
some more of these would be brilliant. But some different designs of themselves an the locations where they are so they don’t look all the same.
for example: old factory, storage hall, film studio, underground tunnel, graveyard, junkyard

Another big point is that we can find there some really rare or iconic special cars.
so some are oldtimers and rare iconics and others are famous movie vehicles.

for example: Batmobiles, General Lee, Ecto-1, Scooby-Doo Van, Eleanor, Smokey and the Bandit Pontiac, Starsky & Hutch Torino, Back to the Future DeLorean, Knight Rider, Christine, Herby, James Bond Aston Martins, Green Hornet Car, Stallones Expendables Ford Truck, A-Team Bus, Taxi from Taxi Driver, Bumblebee, Mad Max Cars, Police Car from Blues Brothers, Peugeot from Taxi Taxi, Lightning McQueen from Cars, Jaguar from Austin Powers, Death Proof Cars, Bullitt Mustang, Truck from Jeepers Creepers and more

More boards to crash and more streets to explore

More locations/buildings etc to explore and drive through and being destroyable…
for example: old factory, storage hall, film studio, underground tunnel, graveyard, junkyard…

more showcases in the career
for example: tank, moviecars, boats, storms, animals
maybe as free DLCs to improve the capacity of the disk version owners…

more add ons like fast and the furious, blizzard mountain, hot wheels
way more new cars, that come out after the game, as afterwards DLCs (F 812 Superfast, Chiron, GT2 RS, ZR1, BMW M5…)

More visual tuning:

fenders and wheelhouses that can be drawn out stepless
more liberty walk and rocket bunny options
more aftermarket parts (maybe as DLCs)
nitrous for some cars as aftermarket part
tire brands, brake brands etc…

a Forza app like Forza hub, for PC and especially mobile phones where you have a overview over your game and can make some settings and buy cars when you are not at home, control your auctions, garage, achievements, codex etc, (like the battlefield 1 app)

spotify support instead of groove music and also in the menu (cause groove isn`t there anymore…)

race tracks where you can go in the open world

dust, little stones and leaves that swirl around if you drive over it

different rendering modes for the photo mode (like in uncharted lost legacy)

individual vehicle files with history, story, facts, famous owners + movie appearances…

unlockable codex entries (like in BF1) for vehicles/brand that you can unlock by doing different things like jumps, drifts, driven time, etc

more tunnels all over the map, more winding roads, mountain roads…

an open world mode which you can not achieve any sort of game relevant things in it, but can train your skills and can have fun.
so you can free configure weather, traffic and daytime.

a more realistic damage system which can differentiate between metal and plastic materials

facts and statistics on the loading screens

sponsor missions like in horizon 1

sandbox mode for creating your own environment and tracks

adding famous car-spotters and youtubers to the career, in what way ever…
like: Shmee150, SOL, Seen Trough Glass, Effspot, Vehicle Virgins, Autovlog, Salomondrin, Daily Driven Exotics, JP Performance…)

Houses/Garages/Dealerships/Brands like in Test Drive Unlimited

fast car change from any point in the game

big improvements on the auction house, so you can directly resell a car or more at the same time
if it wasn’t sold on the first auction, instead of getting it back first and have to place it new.

no garage limitations like in horizon 3

Forza Motorsport 8:

in the pause menu while racing I want to see the name of the track, how often raced this track before, actual racing time, last round time, best round time, number of laps, planned time till finish,

a HUD that I can configure for my own needings: actual racing time, last round time, best round time, number of laps, planned time till finish,

On the car selection screen I want to see the won and lost races from each car

more fictitious race tracks like in Forza 3 and 4 or like the Dubai race track

on the minimap of each race track I want to see a hook on each corner I have passed perfect (like in NFS Shift), would be a nice little gimmick…

A new Forza Game:

maybe called “Forza-Classic” or “Forza-History”…

contains:

old races
old cars
all historical correct
complete racing history from the beginning of driving till the 90´s
for example: old races on Cuba, the battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, the first races on the Nürburgring
drag races in America, street races

So, thats it
a short overview about what i think about the series so far
sorry about my bad english btw

let me know what you think about the Forza series and what you would change or add to it

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Forza Horizon 4 might not even come out this year because Playground games is currently developing an RPG

We’ll know it when E3 comes, I think.

Microsoft got a lukewarm reception from some media outlets but I thought the Forza 7 section of E3 last year was really amazing. I mean, there was the official announcement of one of the biggest sportscar releases of the year. Everyone knew there would have been a 991 GT2 RS but not that it would have been unveiled at E3.

This has made me wonder whether they’ll do that again this year… Probably not.

im pretty sure they present the upcoming horizon 4 on the E3 this year and then the game comes to stores in sept 2018…

That’ll be done by a different team.

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I doubt that, Microsoft are usually very strict with their deadlines.

There’s been a Forza title every year since 2011.

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Thats what i thought too…
End of sept or beginning of oct there will be a new title.

i dont think so, cause there where too much rumours around the internet and too many people say that it will come out in sept/oct 2018 as every time.
I mean its a big series, and by far the best (and biggest) out there.
They have so many fans like no other racing franchise and making so much money with it, they have to deliever…
If they dont bring it this year as always they would be very stupid.
I think it will come exactly like the three games before.
One year a horizon, next year a motorsport, then a horizon and again and again and again.
That will be this way till they think they have a better/another game, the people are bored of horizon, the company has no more money or the whole franchise changes.
But these days racing games are a very good way to make money, and by the way in my opinion a much easier job then games with big storys and cinematic parts in it like Uncharted or GTA, cause you dont have to reinvent anything or need a big story or characters and so on.
Dont get me wrong, its a big deal, and it costs a lot of time and money to get such a great working game to finish.
But at the end its always the same:

You need a menu (not that big deal)
You need the tracks (already have it)
You need the cars (only a few new, the old ones you have)
You need some Rivals (easy)
You need some Races (easy)
You need a Multiplayer mode (ok, needs a bit more work)
So you have too add a bit better graphics, some new music, a few new cars and maybe one or two new tracks, and to let it shine even brighter add some little new stuff like driversuits and presentboxes.
Ready is the new game.
Simple and brilliant and works all the time.
We all like it, including me.

So i think there will be horizons minimum till part 6 and motorsports minimum till part 10.
The only thing i can imagine, and thats cause todays players are bored way too fast with anything, which i can not understand at all, is that they add a new type of game to the series to refresh it, that can be for example a title like forza history i mentioned in my topic above or they go the way like the creators of TheCrew did and add stuff like boats, planes, motorcycles and so on to it.
And adding motorcycles isnt that absurd, cause DriveClub, TheCrew, ProjectGothamRacing, TestDriveUnlimited and other Games already have it for a long time. Thats the only part the Forza Series is behind its enemys games…

But as i mentioned, the Series is too big for disappearing or not giving us a game this year.
Like Call of Duty, Battlefield and other series there will be a game, cause it means money.

BUT never say never…

For FM8:

-Get rid of tirewalls
-Get rid of Forza Edition cars
-Get rid of silly driver suits
-Get rid of time based locked cars
-Get rid of forzathons
-Focus on more tracks instead of more cars
-Tire wear and fuel consumption should be mandatory
-Proper pit stops with animations, wet tire changes, charge custom amount of fuel
-More sim oriented physics
-More advanced damage model
-Add clubs
-Add penalties
-Add dirt tracks
-Add snow tracks
-Add seasons of the year to tracks
-Add customizable interior colors for cars
-Make a cleaner, quicker menu for tracks and for hoppers
-360 degree wheel rotation animation
-Update replay cameras, add new effects
-Ability to set time of the day, clouds, and night race available on all tracks (add the moon and stars in the night)
-Ability to turn on headlights and hazard lights on track
-Ability to turn camera up and down in cockpit view
-Ghost the rammers in multiplayer
-Smoother menu transitions
-All cars should have the save level of respect about their details (some cars currently have robotic wiper animations or their antennas don’t move)
-More balanced amount of cars per division
-Don’t make the cars get dirty so quickly
-Bring back awesome windscreen effects in the rain like in FM6
-Less glitchy release
-More graphical detail for PC and Xbox One X
-Upgrade the 2d trees
-Get rid of that zoomed out/warped effect at high speed, or at least make an option to turn it off
-Add VR support

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Im totally with you about these following points for FM8:
The points i dont agree with i deleted or changed…

-Get rid of tirewalls, ON SOME TRACKS ONLY, LIKE VIRGINIA
-Get rid of Forza Edition cars, I DONT KNOW…
-Get rid of silly driver suits, NO NO NO, THEYRE GREAT
-Get rid of forzathons, NO, ITS FANTASTIC
-Get rid of time based locked cars, ALL CARS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT DAY ONE, OR EASIER TO GET INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR IT SO LONG
-Focus on more tracks AND NEW cars,
-Tire wear and fuel consumption should be ONLINE more mandatory
-Proper pit stops with animations, wet tire changes, charge custom amount of fuel
-(More sim oriented physics) MAYBE TO CHOOSE, but not for us all… I like it the way it is, project cars and assetto is too hard and boring for most of us
-More advanced damage model, ABSOLUTELY
-Add clubs, NICE
-Add penalties, AS AN OPTION OFFLINE, ONLINE ALL THE TIME PLEASE…
-Add dirt tracks, ABSOLUTELY
-Add snow tracks, ABSOLUTELY
-Add seasons of the year to tracks
-Add customizable interior colors for cars, 100%
-Make a cleaner, quicker menu for tracks and for hoppers
-360 degree wheel rotation animation
-Update replay cameras, add new effects, 100%
-Ability to set time of the day, clouds, and night race available on all tracks (add the moon and stars in the night)
-Ability to turn on headlights and hazard lights on track
-Ability to turn camera up and down in cockpit view, LIKE IT IS ALREADY IN PROJECT CARS OR ASSETTO CORSA…
-Ghost the rammers in multiplayer, YEPP
-Smoother menu transitions
-All cars should have the save level of respect about their details (some cars currently have robotic wiper animations or their antennas don’t move), I THINK THEY WOULD, BUT ITS A BIG AMOUNT OF WORK AND STILL IN PROGRESS, but i think it gets better with each FM title…
-More balanced amount of cars per division
-Don’t make the cars get dirty so quickly
-Bring back awesome windscreen effects in the rain like in FM6,
-Less glitchy release, ABSOLUTELY 100% WITH YOU
-More graphical detail for PC and Xbox One X
-Upgrade the 2d trees, THATS A BIG ISSUE for a 2018 Triple A title
-Get rid of that zoomed out/warped effect at high speed, or at least make an option to turn it off, TURN OFF OPTION IS ENOUGH I THINK…
-Add VR support
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, SOME WOULD LIKE IT…

-The vehicle history should appear in the Auction House (so that more successful car could be preferred) and in PVP lobby (to show it off).
-Separate stars and leaderboards on speed traps, jumps etc. for each class
-More graphical detail for PC (with more powerful hardware coming out, some Ultra settings like lake water detail and real-time reflections in the car windows should become more HQ)
-Auction House mobile app for iOS, Android