Finally got this one finished. I think I spend far too much time in Forza Horizon games just goofing off and seeing how much damage I can cause.
So mixed feelings on this one. It's set in my home country and so it's lovely to see our country realised in a FH game and be able to hoon around. But the layout, urgh.
Like I get cramming bits of the country together to make it more scenic, but at least put them roughly in the right spot. To get from Byron Bay in the game to Surfers Paradise, you need to travel past the Twelve Apostles. the Apostles are 20 hours south of Byron and Surfers is as an hour north. Does not make sense.
I can forgive that, but the range of cars just dropped from the previous outing for me. I feel like the hatches and the retro rallies weren't strong enough in this one (and that's what I'm here for). And it really didn't feel aussie enough. Like sure there's a bunch of Fords, but Holden is pretty underrepresented. Where's the VN Commodore and the Monaro? Maybe they're shed finds that I haven't found yet.
And why don't the license plates look like Australian license plates?
I'm not entirely convinced about the change to the structure of the game. On the one hand it gives you a lot more freedom to control the game, but I felt I just didn't know what I should do next to get more fans to progress the story. Changing it so that you don't get fans from goofing around is probably a smart move (much of FH2 I spent doing that).
But also I'm the person that's organising the Horizon festival but I'm not the one deciding what these showcases will be? Seems a bit strange. And it felt like I just managed to win almost every showcase by a cat's whisker. Hmmm... feel like the opponents always let go of the accelerator just at the end.
The spinning wheel is just taunting. Oh you could win this amazing car this spin, but... oh you just won 2,000 CR instead. Hmmm.....
Now I started playing FH4 sometime during my FH3 playthrough and I suprisingly like it more than this one. And I don't know why. I can't put my finger on it. Anyway, my advise is to skip it.
So mixed feelings on this one. It's set in my home country and so it's lovely to see our country realised in a FH game and be able to hoon around. But the layout, urgh.
Like I get cramming bits of the country together to make it more scenic, but at least put them roughly in the right spot. To get from Byron Bay in the game to Surfers Paradise, you need to travel past the Twelve Apostles. the Apostles are 20 hours south of Byron and Surfers is as an hour north. Does not make sense.
I can forgive that, but the range of cars just dropped from the previous outing for me. I feel like the hatches and the retro rallies weren't strong enough in this one (and that's what I'm here for). And it really didn't feel aussie enough. Like sure there's a bunch of Fords, but Holden is pretty underrepresented. Where's the VN Commodore and the Monaro? Maybe they're shed finds that I haven't found yet.
And why don't the license plates look like Australian license plates?
I'm not entirely convinced about the change to the structure of the game. On the one hand it gives you a lot more freedom to control the game, but I felt I just didn't know what I should do next to get more fans to progress the story. Changing it so that you don't get fans from goofing around is probably a smart move (much of FH2 I spent doing that).
But also I'm the person that's organising the Horizon festival but I'm not the one deciding what these showcases will be? Seems a bit strange. And it felt like I just managed to win almost every showcase by a cat's whisker. Hmmm... feel like the opponents always let go of the accelerator just at the end.
The spinning wheel is just taunting. Oh you could win this amazing car this spin, but... oh you just won 2,000 CR instead. Hmmm.....
Now I started playing FH4 sometime during my FH3 playthrough and I suprisingly like it more than this one. And I don't know why. I can't put my finger on it. Anyway, my advise is to skip it.