I hope this isn’t moved to the wishlist because I’d love to hear thoughts and opinions on this…
I’ve always thought the garage layout in the Forza games were lacking. I pictured the garage something like an actual large room, a garage, where you have all your cars lined up on both sides of the room and the garage stretches as far as it needs to accomodate your car count. You, the player, would be positioned in the middle of the garage and you could toggle down the isle and view each car the way you would in real life. Then Lo and behold! In Horizon 2 Fast and Furious, my garage idea comes to life! That is how the garage in Forza Motorsport should look. They’ve shown it can be done. Gone should be the days of tiny pics of each car. I’m sure the XB1 is powerful enough to do this.
I’d say 500 or even 200 cars set up like that would be ponderously painful.
I would like to actually see the car, and pan around it instead of the avatar picture we have now. Same when looking at a design when “shopping” pan, not static fixed angle/position.
How about, when in your garage, you get to pick through manufacturers first, and then drill down, and after you buy a car, you pop back out where you were and not at the beginning again?
totally agree about the design thing. It’s a real pain when you can’t see all of the design on the car. So many times have I downloaded a certain design that looked good from the side but when I looked at it from the back, it’s totally messed up and I have to download a different version. It’s frustrating sometimes.
PGR was one of my favourite games in terms of the garages. Being able to walk around the cars in PGR in the garages was awsome. Forza can take a lot of tips from PGR. If Forza made it so you could walk around the garage and have autovista with every car in the garage, then it would add another dimension to the game.
PGR also had multiple garages with different settings. Each garage could only hold a finite amount of cars, so that would help solve the performance issues. They could make some sort of hybrid compromise, where you feature your favourite and most used cars in different garages, sorted the way you choose, but than a quick link to a full list of every car you have available. Just my thoughts…
I think the ability to highlight cars as “favorites” would be helpful. These cars would always be at the front of your list unless you re-sorted it.
The car selection menu as-is was cumbersome in FM5, and could be disastrous in FH2 where we had but seconds to select a car in multiplayer. We really do need a way to narrow it down.
Short of doing what I was talking about, PTG Claret’s idea is ideal. I do think it could be done tho, maybe with what some of the others have suggested, with sectioned garages based on your criteria or your search/sorting. That way the load on memory isn’t too great, altho I would suspect that processing and memory load would still be much more intense during a race than when simply viewing the garage. Either way, I think we all agree that the FM6 garage needs to be better than FM5, heck, it would kinda make sense that it would be better than FM4 too. I know I’m get’n crazy here, lol, but it would be nice.
The idea itself is a decent one but after while I think it’d just become a complete pain to work with considering the sheer amount of cars, would rather stick to as it is, just my view though.