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 bought Forza Horizon 2 for my Xbox 360 about a month ago, and brought it right back the next day. It’s HORRIBLE. No tuning, wheelspins, literally nothing. DO NOT BUY for 360.

I’ll stick to Dirt 3 on the 360 then

I have Horizon 2 for both consoles. To be honest, FH2 on the 360 is pretty much the same as the fist Horizon. Even though it’s exactly that, it’s just a modified version of the first Horizon, it’s basically the same game but a few different games and in a different place. It’s still a good and fun game, don’t get me wrong, but because of the technology of the 360, it just can’t have the good graphics everyone wants. Also there’s no DLC for it, either. On Thanksgiving of 2014, when I got my Xbox One, I got FH2 with it. And good God it’s a lot better than the last gen version. It has great graphics, all the DLC, expansion packs, some more cars, and I’m pretty sure it’s completely endless. You can keep on doing the championship over and over again. I’ve completed it I think 3 times now and going for my 4th time. There’s pretty huge differences between both the versions.

I’ve played the 360 version, but i’m dead sure the One version is the best, as everyone says

Yoooo, let’s play again soon lol. Should I be proud because I have seen that Omega drift car actually being driven by you?

You should be hella poud haha!

I can’t remember your name on Xbox sorry?

I have it for 360 and can’t stand it. It glitches constantly, and is all around frustrating and unpleasant to play.

Get a One? ;)

I miss infected on Beaumont

Infected is fun, but is Beaumont a place or what?

I love this game, but I play on a PC and I’m not ready to get an Xbox One just for the Forza games.

I’d say stay on PC then

Yeah Forza 4 had a stupid amount of DLC ffs you couldn’t even get a 90’s civic without paying for it, or a foxbody, an iroc, and many other cars that should have been free. I hate to compare them to Freemium ios and android games but atleast in the freemium games the SLOWER cars were free. I can somewhat understand want to charge for the fastest but charging for a 90’s stock civic is stupid to say the least

What? Ridiculous

Hate… The off-road races, why would I want to drive my lowered, race ready lambo through a field?

I do that with a Veneno though, handles like an F1 car haha

Here’s my 2 cents about the DLC thing:

These days, it is simply not profitable anymore for a game company to ask $60 for a game. To actually make some decent money, the average asking price should be around $80. This is because of A) the high amount of competition and games being released simultaneously and B) because of the ever increasing development costs.

With this in mind, I don’t really mind the DLC that much. I bought Forza 6 for about €120, giving me the game, some day one DLC, VIP bonuses and the first 6 car packs will be free. This does mean that I’ll have to pay for the last car packs (not quite sure what I think of that) and the upcoming expansions, but expect to be paying about 150-170 euros for the total game in the end. Yes, that is a lot for a single game, but for me that’s the game I’m gonna play till the next installment (fh3 most likely). Forza is basically my world of warcraft, and in that perspective the total price is understandable.

Still, getting ALL car packs would have been nice…