Things i love and hate about Forza Horizon 2 #BlogPost

Forza Horizon 2 is a great game, Forza is a great series but i haven’t played anything else in that series than Horizon 2 and Motorsport 5 (which many said was a big dissapointment)

Anyway, let’s move on

LassÃ« Lund

01 Jan 2016

Forza Horizon 2 is a great game, Forza is a great series but i haven’t played anything else in that series than Horizon 2 and Motorsport 5 (which many said was a big dissapointment)

Anyway, let’s move on

Love: Rewards Every Time You Level-Up

Things i love and hate about Forza Horizon 2 #BlogPost

You can win cars and money; e.g. you don’t have that much cash but you really want that Lexus LFA, so you do enough races until you level up and you finally got that wheelspin and you won some cash! You can finally get that V10 roar from some-thing else than a Huracan

Hate: The Amount of Paid DLC

You have to pay to get the cool wagons (RS6 C7, RS4 B5 and B8, have to pay for the cool SUVs/Offroad cars (Lamborghini Urus, Jeep Grand Wagoneer, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT, Jeep Wrangler F and F Edition, Lamborghini LM002, MINI Monster Energy ALL4 Racing X Raid) and so on with many more cars

I want to be able to say: ‘’I got a BMW 850csi in the garage’’ But you know what? You have to pay for it!
Same goes with the Tesla Model S, and the Subaru Brat, i want them, but i don’t want to pay for them!
But it’s okay that carpacks like the Fast and Furious is paid DLC

Same goes with Motorsport 5, a lot of DLC, but you can still get some of it, as some of it is free
They kind of fixed that in Motorsport 6 with +400 cars and a lot of it being available without having use your credit card

Great job Turn 10

Love: The Drifting

It’s so easy to just get a simple slide going; Steer in 1 direction (not that 1 direction), flick the handbrake, countersteer and a bit of throttle and you’re good to go

But snap oversteer can occur quite often, because you cannot upgrade the steering angle of the wheel, Forza isn’t really what you’d call a drifting game so no complaints there, although, speeking of complaints leads me to my next point:

Hate: The Necessities needed for Drifting

Yes, drifting can be so strikingly awesome, especially when you’re holding it just right on the limit all the way through the corner.
But but but, in order to get going, you do need quite a bit of power.

Not even 100-or-so horsepower will do the job, so rain aka drift lubricant is needed when you have low-power, and that was tried in an Alfa Romeo Spider with 115 hp
Alright, i did come through the bend but the slide stopped halfway, so power just is essential to have a proper drift session

Love: The Community

I play a lot of online roadtrip, and must i say, it’s great! Except for the times when 12-year old d-bags come slammin’ into you for no reason and you lose the race, that’s no fun.

But most people seem to act nice and not try to crash into you, but scratches in online racing is inevitable
I don’t drift as much as i’d want to, because every time i go on online freeroam and pull out the mic and yell ‘’ANYONE UP FOR SOME DRIFTING?’’ nobody answers

Nobody shows a sign of drifting, so i just left it and went over to roadtrips instead, not only because you get a huge amount of cash/XP, but also because it’s much more rewarding, i mean, when you have been fighting for that 1st place for the last 2 laps and you finally get it, not many feelings can over come that.

Love: The clubs

Yes i'm in [ItMe], and yes i feel damn proud

It’s a bit tied together with the ‘’Love: The Community’’ thing. It’s wonderful.
I don’t really race that much with my club, but when i see someone from there in the online roadtrips, i get this glorious feeling, for the reason that i just know that we’re a team

Hate: The missing level of customization

The ToyoBaru FRS is a great tuning platform

Hear me out before an internet war is starting:

The overall grade of customization is magnificent. But if they included tuning companies like GReddy and put their goods in the game, they might aswell put the actual wide-body stuff in it, like the fenders

But if you want wide-body, NFS is probably better

Love: The Physics

The cars aren’t difficult to control by any means, unless you got a 1200 hp RWD something and you put you’re fut down, then yes, it will come with trouble

And after you’ve played a fair bit amount of time, all the cars just handle like you’d expect them to

Conclusion:

It’s the best open-world-arcade game i’ve played so far, so if you’ve got an Xbox 360/One, go out and get that game!

If you have any questions and/or input to what i can do better feel free to leave it down below

A gallery of my favorite photos taken by me:

Comments

I hate not being able to take a stock wing off lol

The Forza wing is much better

Not

I have the OG CarThrottle club, free to join my peeps

I was in that club

But then another CTzen made a club and i joined that, then the owner of ItMe invited me so yeah

My main problem with it is there aren’t many twisty roads like there were in TDU 1 & 2 or even the Canyon road up the mountain in Horizon 1

There is! But not twisty as in the ‘Transfagarasan Highway’ twisty

If you are in Castaletto and you take the coastway on the left (looking on the map) you will find a beautiful road

And some dirt roads too

How very distasteful

What’s distasteful?

The career on the 360 version is pretty broken. You basically have to win each even 10 times (once in each class) to “complete” the game.

It is one the One too, have to win the same class multiple times to ‘’pass’’ it

Everyone forgets about The Crew.
I played it on PC with a wheel, and I loved it. I got to the max level after launch, and haven’t played it much since then. I think it’s biggest problem is the cost of the cars.

I haven’t forgot about The Crew, if more people asked me to play it with them, i’d definitely do it!

And yes, prices for the cars are a bit high, and strangely as it may seem, you get the same amount of money whether you come 1st 2nd or 3rd in a PvP race
(At least that’s the case for me)

One thing that annoys me about FH2 is the understeer whenever you convert a car to AWD. Even if you set the diff to the same as other AWD cars, massive understeer at high speed and virtually no steering on grass. Meanwhile, stock AWD cars can zoom around perfectly well and ruin you.

I actually found that feature rather great, i don’t see anything wrong there

I swapped a Caterham and an Abarth 500 to AWD and mazed them out

n/m my post is irrelevant, hate that there’s no delete feature on CT.

Well one thing i hate… Well may be not hate, but miss is the story that forza horizon 1 had, is not great but you were into it because you just wanted to win against all those douchebags!

I’m sorry but i don’t understand?

That’s the only game I envy Xbox Owners - I’m a Playstation kid.
Hopefully the new Gran Turismo is a forza “killer “. ✌

I love your Omega 😍

My Omega?

And isn’t the new Gran Turismo called ‘’Sport’’ or somthing like that?

Best things about horizon are that it has a great world, great community and drifting is on point. But some of the physics could be improved and some good cars and car mods are missing