THIS IS YOUR HORIZON
You’re in charge of the Horizon Festival. Customize everything, hire and fire your friends, and explore Australia in over 350 of the world’s greatest cars. Make your Horizon the ultimate celebration of cars, music, and freedom of the open road. How you get there is up to you.
Bumpy wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 17:03:
Having just played them back to back. FH3 obviously wins in graphics but as far as handling and physics go, I'd call it a dead heat with Test Drive Unlimited 2. TDU1 has them both beat if you play in Hardcore mode.
I simply do not understand why they don't allow the option to have proper sim handling and physics in FH3 straight from the Forza game.
Makes zero sense to me to block out that section of the market that prefers sims.
I thank this demo for save a purchase for something else.
Also, being forced to watch 5 minutes of intro movies each time you start the demo is rather rude IMO. FWIW, I did have some stutters in the demo with my GTX970; which is a pretty common complaint from what I read.
ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
Creston wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 16:39:MajorD wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 11:53:Creston wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 10:58:
It's a lot of fun. It's not as charming as Horizon 2, but there are a lot of fun races to do, a lot of cool cars to get, and it's fun to drive around in it.
The whole "customize everything" was a little lacking, I felt, and the hire and fire your friends is just a lame bullshit gimmick which essentially boils down to you getting a few % bonus on XP and cash earned.
Thank you for feedback Creston; I'm down loading right now. I assume you're playing the PC version? How well does the X-platform work?
Actually, I just played the Xbone version. The PC version was rumored to have a bunch of glitches, and it's more relaxed to sit on the couch and play it on a big screen, and it runs fine on the Xbone. Haven't tried the PC version yet.
MajorD wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 11:53:Creston wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 10:58:
It's a lot of fun. It's not as charming as Horizon 2, but there are a lot of fun races to do, a lot of cool cars to get, and it's fun to drive around in it.
The whole "customize everything" was a little lacking, I felt, and the hire and fire your friends is just a lame bullshit gimmick which essentially boils down to you getting a few % bonus on XP and cash earned.
Thank you for feedback Creston; I'm down loading right now. I assume you're playing the PC version? How well does the X-platform work?
HoSpanky wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 15:27:yuastnav wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 14:27:ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
I haven't played Horizon but I've played Forza Motorsport 6. I guess it depends on what you want.
If the driving in Horizon is anything like The Crew or Test Drive Unlimited 2 then I don't think I could recommend it. But maybe you want a really arcade racer.
Motorsports on the other hand is a lot more sim-like. So if you want to have more real handling you'll go for Motosports.
I just wish there was a game that would marry both. Open world racing and great, realistic handling. All I want is to take a more or less regular car, tune it and drive it around the city and race other drivers through traffic.
Well, then turn off the assists in FH3 and you'll likely find what you're wanting. Even with them on, FH3 isn't remotely as arcadey as The Crew or TDU2 (both of those were made by the same people btw). The engine underneath is still Forza's Sim system, but tweaked to be more forgiving.
I'm gonna warn you guys up front here, force the game to 30 or 36 fps unless you want stuttering when you get into certain areas. The game engine seems designed to load data between frames, and it's not super excited about trying to load detail data in between 70-80 fps as you cannonball into Surfers Paradise in a supercar.
As for the person playing with a keyboard...good luck, there. Not sure what the avoidance of a controller is about, but for racing games, you're literally pulling the exact reverse of the whole KB/M vs controllers argument. You're trying to replace analog control with "all or nothing" digital, which takes every bit of control nuance away from you.
yuastnav wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 14:27:ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
I haven't played Horizon but I've played Forza Motorsport 6. I guess it depends on what you want.
If the driving in Horizon is anything like The Crew or Test Drive Unlimited 2 then I don't think I could recommend it. But maybe you want a really arcade racer.
Motorsports on the other hand is a lot more sim-like. So if you want to have more real handling you'll go for Motosports.
I just wish there was a game that would marry both. Open world racing and great, realistic handling. All I want is to take a more or less regular car, tune it and drive it around the city and race other drivers through traffic.
ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
Dman20 wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 13:42:
PC and Xbox run great. PC version has more visuals but runs nicely, quicker on the load times thanks to higher end system. Though the Xbox version does look great, looks like there might be some frame rate issues here and there but hasn't been distracting.
ViRGE wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:32:
So as someone who has never played a Forza game before, which series is the fun, arcadey one? Forza or Horizon?
CJ_Parker wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 12:39:Muaaaahahahaaaarrrrr!
lol@MicrosoftStore
Creston wrote on Nov 4, 2016, 10:58:
It's a lot of fun. It's not as charming as Horizon 2, but there are a lot of fun races to do, a lot of cool cars to get, and it's fun to drive around in it.
The whole "customize everything" was a little lacking, I felt, and the hire and fire your friends is just a lame bullshit gimmick which essentially boils down to you getting a few % bonus on XP and cash earned.