its nice to have all these car and track reveals, however I’m beginning to notice that little or nothing is being said about some of the less glamorous things that can make or break the game. Things like file curation for tuners and artists. Things like loading times. How easy will it be to flick through menus? Will it be possible to have your own tunes and paints come up when you buy a set car, for that car. Or is it going to be a case of endless side scrolling.
I’m concerned we’re all being dazzled by the headline reveals and not querying some important things. Having seen the latest track and car reveals i am teetering on the brink of leaving Forza altogether. Its not evolving into something i want to play.
Since 2009 i have purchased three xbox 360s and an xbox one. I bought these plus extra controllers battery packs xbox live gold each year and countless other games all based around my love of Forza Motorsport. Its looking like me and Mr Wallet will be going elsewhere. Balls in your court T10, how many big spenders do you want to lose?
I wouldn’t hold my breath for that. There were many, many cars in FM5 with paint glitches and we told the devs about them over and over and over here on the forums and the same exact cars showed up with the same exact glitches in FH2.
Other than a few early Apple IIe games and a couple of SIms (Sim City and train sims) the only games I have spent any time with are the Forza series. I started with Forza 4 during Christmas time 2011 and then progresses through Horizon, Forza 5 and Horizon 2 while also working backwards through Forza 3 and Forza 2. I have accomplished every achievement from all the Forza games except for 1 or 2 in Forza 2 and 3. I attained a perfect score of 1150 in Horizon 1: 1000 club. I have spent many many hours in these games the past 3.5 years and have loved every minute.
But as I said, I am easy to please. Give me my VW R32s and Golf Rs, a few Audi vehicles, some Dodge SRTs, a Jeep Wrangler and an AMC or 2 and I am good to go. Allow me to apply some factory paint jobs to the cars with maybe a stripe or 2 and I am happy. Allow me to make some mechanical upgrades and I am overjoyed. A new track now and then is great, but I can spend all day at Road America, Road Atlanta, Nurburgring, Maple Leaf and Mugello. (OK, the Top Gear track is one of my favorites as well). I also loved the layout of Horizon 1.
I find the handling of the vehicles I have driven in real live to be quite realistic.
Special effects such a night and rain are nice, but not necessary for me to enjoy the game.
I have no real complaints in any of the games. I do prefer the original AI competition to the new Drivatars, bur I made appropriate changes in how I play the games to make up for the change in competition.
The bottom line for me is that for less money than a three tanks of gas for my VW Touareg I get at least a year of enjoyment out of the games. I often go back and play the older ones as well.
So yes, I am very much looking forward to Forza 6 with its new list of achievements and challenges, new vehicles to try out and some new tracks to learn.
I am sure many of the paint glitches are a direct result of some flaw in the orignal scanning of the real car. I’m sure its not my imagination thAt glitches carry over several versions of Forza.
Yeah, I also have asked this. All the news is numbers and flash. Would like to see where the driving experience is improved. 3D puddles (especially lakes on a road which no one would run a race on) doesn’t cut it for me.
