I was wondering if it would be worth checking out forza horizon 3 (buying it). If I buy it, I would like to have both the hot wheels and blizzard mountain expansions, but I don’t really care about the rest. I have the Ultimate edition of FH4 and have played too may hours to admit and am in love with it. As an auzzie, this still looked really fresh and still fun even after playing the “latest and greatest” Horizon game. What are your opinions. Is the map refreshing enough to buy FH3 even though I played FH4?
It might be interesting if you haven’t already done it. I find the map generally dull now (except for night driving in the woods). But the Hot Wheels expansion is the best in the series so far.
Do it! In my opinion, FH3 edges out FH4 thanks to what I perceive to be a larger batch of content, a neat environment, and a pair of entertaining expansions. If you enjoy FH4 as you suggest, I’m not sure how you can go wrong with jumping back to FH3. Enjoy!
I would say it’s worth going back and playing FH3. There’s a few improvements in FH4 you’ll miss like being able to switch cars anywhere, but there’s also been a lot of regressions from FH3 to FH4 so you can do things like create custom championships, and multiplayer is far better.
Thanks everyone. I will be looking into purchasing the game sometime this year. Just a question though: Do any of the game “editions” come with the expansions e.g. blizzard mountain (like FH4) or are these exclusively sold separate? Thanks for the positive comments everyone.
The car pass has plenty of Australian cars so it’s definitely worth getting. Far more worth it than what we got in FH4. Most of the good cars were removed from FH4 like the HK Monaro and Phase III.
Blizzard Mountain and the Hotwheels expansion are separate from all bundles of the game+DLC content.
I bought and played it a little after owning Horizon 4. I like the base physics of H3 more than H4. Practically everything else, I like better in Horizon 4.
Horizon 3 goes on sale in the Xbox store every few weeks as part of Deals with Gold/Spotlight Sales, so if you want to save a bit of cash, keep an eye on Major Nelson’s blog every Tuesday/Monday.
I did the same as you not too long ago; played through FH4 to about 97%, then picked up FH3 with the Hot Wheels DLC and played all the way through it (though not through every championship).
It was a lot of fun, and there were a few things that I would have liked to see in FH4 (like the championships). But overall, I really prefer FH4. I think the driving is tighter, the optimization for PC is much better, and the tuning/decorating experience for cars is much better; I also think the seasons add a lot, and I really like the Horizon Stories (as opposed to the Bucket Lists). When I finished the last festival expansion in FH3, I uninstalled it, and I don’t plan to go back to it. I immediately reinstalled FH4
The Hot Wheels DLC, however, is just as good as everyone says it is. It’s amazing, and I would gladly pay for them to just port it straight over into FH4 … not that I think they’ll do that.
Just for the record this is not an attack on you in any way. Just pointing out something based off what you said you like in H4.
This post above highlights a few of the positives that you find in basically every review from game reviewers online.
They are all good points really as far as what H4 has to offer with the same CRUCIAL THING not mentioned. The Multiplayer! None of the gaming sites mention how abysmal the multiplayer is and so many people (myself included) were expecting more of the same for multiplayer like in H2 and H3. What we got is the exact opposite and I’ve warned every person I know who asked me about H4 about this very thing. Quite a few people purchased it anyway and quite a few of them regret that purchase as I do.
For all the great stuff they added they completely butchered multiplayer unless you enjoy absolute mayhem and getting blasted into 50 times a race. If this is the path that Playground games is staying on for multiplayer they will become the Call of Duty of racing games.
I would lower a little bit the enthusiasm here. Enjoying FH3 requires putting clean playing as a priority over winning a race. It is totally different from FH4 on that aspect, in FH3, you play bad you loose the CS.
Solo is no doubt under the one on FH4 just considering the seasons thing.
For the online, it’s night and day, FH3, you like S1, you select S1 and play S1, you want to play a S2 CS, no problem. you play a S2 CS, you win a car that is duplicate, no pb, FH tells you and you can get CR instead, you go to rivals, you can pick any car you enjoy and test it on an empty road. You want to compare your aptitude for optimal track, no pb, you pick no collision races, the class you want to play and here you go. And Freeroam, no pb, you are not obliged to go, just a bit of XP done between races will get you as much as if you do it + you have time for a bio break.
FH4 is, on my opinion better, at allowing to use recent cars for racing whereas on FH3 it is quite tough to win some cs with the most recent cars of the game.
I find Horizon 3 to be 100 times better than Horizon 4. When I finished horizon 4 I came back every week except winter to do the Forzathon but then it was every few weeks and now I haven’t played in over a month and don’t plan to play again until a new expansion is released. Where as Horizon 3 I played daily until Horizon 4 came out. I loved Horizon 3 so much that I made a second account a couple of years ago so I could play it again. Last time I loaded up Horizon 4 I didn’t even leave my house before I turned it off and went back to Horizon 3 and made a third account to play it again. Horizon 3 is probably my all time favourite game as like others have said hot wheels was a great expansion.
I read this thread and decided I’d play H3 for a while. Jumped on, bought a C7 and tuned it for some highway pulls. Ended up sinking about 2 hours into it.
The sounds are much, much better, the turbo sounds and backfire from the exhaust especially. Downshifting and getting about 6 flaming bangs in a row is infinitely satisfying!
I’ve also noticed the shift animations are true to life from chase cam (I don’t think they are in H4) as in your character will actually go top left for 1st, bottom left for 2nd, straight up for 3rd etc. A nice touch.
I did buy FH3 a few months ago just to see why that many people praising it. I’ll say it’s an overall great game but I feel some people overrated it.
Sound wise, way better than FH4. The viper is nice to hear, GTRs has different sounds, turbo is present and much more. Cars, Toyota and Lexus is still a thing, and I find my favorite car, the 92 Falcon GT. There are GT cars too which is good. by the way, the police light in the Crown fic actually work. The map has so much diversity(dessert, city, rainforest) and I like the scenery. Expansions wise, Blizzard mountain is decent since winter become a normal thing in FH now so it’s didn’t give me that much impact. Hot Wheels is just WOW, driving with loops and crazing jumps fulfill my childhood dreams. Forzathon is simple and straight forward. Clubs that have game-related information. The UI is better especially not having that extremely annoying transition screen between races.
But there are things that I feel debatable. Online Racing, I get it that it promotes clean racing since it is XP based, but still, rammers existed and those last place drifter will take the top spot at some point(I know I don’t play as much and definitely not the best driver). It just wasn’t as peaceful as people said. Moreover, I hate that I can’t see what online adventure I’m joining. I’m in my FE corvette and immediately get put in S1 cross country. I can’t seem to find any racing only lobby( Maybe I start playing it a bit too late). The PI system is weird to me for how hight some cars can reach (I’m just so used to FH4). The handling is easier(?) IMO, RWD cars don’t get as much wheelspin and I don’t know why I just don’t like it.
FH3 gave me a good time, but I still play FH4 on a daily basis since that’s what many players are playing now with new content coming and so on.
The part about drifting in the back. That was to escape the wreckers and smashers. The win at all cost idiots that can’t drive properly to gain skills to win.
PG took that as a sign everyone wants drifting, so they designed FH4 to be a massive drift club, completely ignoring all skills based racing.
Online in FH4 is no different, drifters rolling in the back,wreckers and smashers rolling in the front.
Add team bullying to the mix and it’s a perfect game.
