Forza Horizon

[Wschnitz]

Indeed, the mustang its the only fun car i'm the demo IMO. Evo doesn't have enough hp.

[strang3majik]

I like the breaking on dirt. Also I thought forza 4 was decent on the handling standpoint. In horizon I cant drift without doing donuts.

You've only driven three cars...lol The Mustang did it okay, and the EVO on the dirt. The Viper was a little harder, but then again, the new one isn't supposed to...haha.

And Forza was the best of all of them so far, but still not that great.


I did learn that if you get real world spring rates and use them with the race suspension (coilover) upgrade, the cars handle tons better.


But like I said, the e30 m3 handles like ass in Forza 4 bone stock. They clearly do not.

[Wschnitz]

I like the breaking on dirt. Also I thought forza 4 was decent on the handling standpoint. In horizon I cant drift without doing donuts.

[strang3majik]

I waited until Forza 4 for a Dodge Omni GLHS and a Mitsubishi Starion...be happy theres an e30 in the game at all...hahaha. Though I would much rather a non-m3.

I may be the weird one, but I prefer a regular e30 over an m3 any day provided they had the same power.

And, supposedly Forza 4 runs at 60fps and Horizon at 30fps. I honestly didn't notice it. But either way, thats more than likely limited by the console's ability to run the game. Not the game itself. The 360 is an old system now and is nearing the end of its run, I'm surprised they're able to make these games look good and be as expansive as they are for running all this on a 3 core 3GHz processor, 512mb of DDR3 RAM, and a 500MHz graphics card. My mid-grade laptop has better specs than that and it'll run photoshop pretty decent.


But, its going to be a fun game. Even if it is more NFS like, I like those games too. And with the steering wheel and all the settings set to simulation, it feels very similar, even more real than Forza 4 since the cars actually turn in Horizon.

Forza, and all the racing games really, have always ticked me off in that you turn the wheel and the cars go straight, and without race tires, etc, thats all they'll do. All these cars that are boasted about having excellent handling off the showroom floor, and they can't take a 90* turn at 30 mph.


I can do that in my 87 e30 with 250k miles of wear and semi-stretched tires without even a hint of fear it won't make it.



Horizon feels more real for that reason. Oh, and the dirt with the force feedback is awesome.

[Wschnitz]

Could this be because it is a downloadable demo? I'm sure the graphics and frame rate will be the same as Forza 4.

Hopefully, i'm trading in Skyrim for it.

[fronton]

Demo is lame. One thing I noticed though is that the framerate sucks, played it then played forza 4, I was like, wtf when is forza this smooth.

Could this be because it is a downloadable demo? I'm sure the graphics and frame rate will be the same as Forza 4.

[kwill22]

It's be nice if you can edit the offset and width of the wheels. I guess that'll help in the aspect that their wheel selection sucks. I do wish someone would add a regular E30 to a game though. They have freakin fiestas and smart cars in 4 but no E30. Nobody wants a Mitsubishi colt!??!!!!? :hitler:

[Cook]

weaaaaaak car list is weak.

No older/badass BMWs, no H6 Subaru swaps. Bleh.

Theres still the E30, M1 and 2002. No doubt more will be announced or they will release them as downloadable content I'm hoping the R32 GTR will be released anyway!

I've enjoyed the demo and i'll probably buy it but i do wish that it felt like forza 4 to play.

[Wschnitz]

Demo is lame. One thing I noticed though is that the framerate sucks, played it then played forza 4, I was like, wtf when is forza this smooth.

[strang3majik]

Or even CCWs. How can you have a racing game and not have CCWs?

[illest318i]

Yeah they are gonna be having a dlc its 50 bucks for like 50 cars which is a rip!

[Wschnitz]

Not enough wheels ok general, where are the ronal turbos, or the bbs meshes, or the epsilon southernways, or the different BMW wheels... Etc etc... Forza doesnt do wheels.

[hfabricius]

They could eliminate some of the wheels choices and replace them with better wheels. There are tons of BBS to choose from but they pick three and they are all very similar. It would be interesting to see them add some better choices from HRE as well or some better Compomotive choices. Thats one thing I have hated about the majority of car games because the wheel selection was shit and the fitment for the wheel was worse than shit. Just my two cents worth.

[325ix]

Seems like they are working backwards with the car list. I understand not including race cars but, they should fill those spots with other street cars. I hope they don't ruin the wheel list as well.

[NigelStu]

I'm sure they will release multiple car packs, as a nice friendly way of keeping us all interested and engaged in the game, and not at all as a way to bleed all of the wealth out of anyone who likes to mix up their cars a bit.....


/sarcasm