Forza 4 Thread

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

Unicorn cars are kind of pointless IMO. I still haven't gotten a chance to pick up this game yet. How does everyone like it so far?

I love it. I've already beaten World Tour, all of the Autovista challenges, and set a few Rival times that no one has challenged.

I'm going through the Event list now, slowly but surely.

[Zaggeron]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

Unicorn cars are kind of pointless IMO. I still haven't gotten a chance to pick up this game yet. How does everyone like it so far?

Pretty cool.

Tons of stuff to do

-- world tour mode where the game selects events for you based on the car you are driving and the cars in your garage

-- event list where you can choose the event to run and tweak a bunch of settings

--- new event types like auto-x. Even a new "track day" mode where you try to get the fastest lap while passing slower cars

-- Rivals mode where it will select someone from your friend's list that has a time in the event (or a random leaderboard time if no friends have run the event) and you race their ghost to beat their time. If someone beats your time, you get a message in game telling you so.

Graphics are great.

Physics are pretty good -- especially with a good wheel and the driver's aids off.

Only real cons are there are not that many new cars or tracks over Forza 3.

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by Zaggeron

Pretty cool.

Tons of stuff to do

-- world tour mode where the game selects events for you based on the car you are driving and the cars in your garage

-- event list where you can choose the event to run and tweak a bunch of settings

--- new event types like auto-x. Even a new "track day" mode where you try to get the fastest lap while passing slower cars

-- Rivals mode where it will select someone from your friend's list that has a time in the event (or a random leaderboard time if no friends have run the event) and you race their ghost to beat their time. If someone beats your time, you get a message in game telling you so.

Graphics are great.

Physics are pretty good -- especially with a good wheel and the driver's aids off.

Only real cons are there are not that many new cars or tracks over Forza 3.

Plus, there's no rally racing or endurance races, if those matter to you.

[Spikuh]

Feels different from FM3 so there is a small curve, but nothing dramatic. Looks absolutely gorgeous. I know some do not like the new AI, but I think it is a dramatic improvement. Especially with its ability to "learn". These days, I typically do not get into first place until I am about halfway through the race and only if I am driving well.

On another note, how is everyone making their credits?

The single-player is not very good for them and I have been doing mainly Rivals for my credits. I have been grinding out on the really short Top Gear track using the F level cars. I am about capped out though being only 3 seconds off the number 1 time and at the limit of either my driving skill with the controller or being unable to better tune my car.

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by Spikuh

Feels different from FM3 so there is a small curve, but nothing dramatic. Looks absolutely gorgeous. I know some do not like the new AI, but I think it is a dramatic improvement. Especially with its ability to "learn". These days, I typically do not get into first place until I am about halfway through the race and only if I am driving well.

On another note, how is everyone making their credits?

The single-player is not very good for them and I have been doing mainly Rivals for my credits. I have been grinding out on the really short Top Gear track using the F level cars. I am about capped out though being only 3 seconds off the number 1 time and at the limit of either my driving skill with the controller or being unable to better tune my car.

I made most of my credits in World Tour mode, although looking at it now, I'd have done things much differently. I would have made my car choices based on the expense of the car and focused a lot less on brand loyalty, since affinity takes forever to level.

[Spikuh]

Originally Posted by shadoquad

Plus, there's no rally racing or endurance races, if those matter to you.

Really wish it had these. Not so much the endurance ones, but I want Rally races!!!

I wish there was F1 too.

[Spikuh]

Originally Posted by shadoquad

I made most of my credits in World Tour mode, although looking at it now, I'd have done things much differently. I would have made my car choices based on the expense of the car and focused a lot less on brand loyalty, since affinity takes forever to level.

Are you talking about the cars you get from leveling up your driver level?

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by Spikuh

Are you talking about the cars you get from leveling up your driver level?

Yeah. You get them up to lvl 50 and then it's just money after that.

But I picked with my heart rather than my head. I picked a GT40 over the Shelby race car and the Ferrari 330 P4.

I'm a moe ron.

[Cmike2780]

How does it compare to GT5? In terms of Graphics and physics to those that have played both? Do they have open wheeled cars in Forza yet? It would be cool to finally have one of these franchises have the Ariel Atom available.

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

How does it compare to GT5? In terms of Graphics and physics to those that have played both? Do they have open wheeled cars in Forza yet? It would be cool to finally have one of these franchises have the Ariel Atom available.

It's not graphically as pretty as GT5, but imo it's much more fun. I don't think they have any open wheel cars, and again no rally or endurance. But it's much more conducive to casual gaming. GT5 was more of a headache imo. Yes, it's cool, but B spec using X car class and 20 laps... not my idea of fun.

[Zaggeron]

The lack of Rally events doesn't really bug me -- sometimes if a game tries to do too much it suffers. I'll just pop in Dirt3 if I want some rally or dirt track racing.


I've been doing mostly world tour and a bunch of event list stuff -- with some Rivals mode. I'm around level 55 or so and have around 4 million in the bank. But then again, I haven't been picking up expensive cars.

[shadoquad]

I haven't spent much dough. I haven't bought any cars except my Z34.

BUT I put one bid on a damn unicorn car and will possibly lose 4.6 million creds.

[Zaggeron]

I have both GT5 and Forza 4. I played GT5 for around a year pretty regularly, but there is no going back now. What absolutely kills it for me now that Forza 4 is out are the absolutely uninspiring engine sounds from GT5. Forza 4 sounds awesome.

[Cmike2780]

Not a fan of B-Spec either, I played it once and concluded it was a useless feature. It was great back when it was the easiest way to gain credits, but now the online stuff gets you there much faster.

[Zaggeron]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

Not a fan of B-Spec either, I played it once and concluded it was a useless feature. It was great back when it was the easiest way to gain credits, but now the online stuff gets you there much faster.

Except that they "nerfed" the seasonals back to normal payouts instead of the 4-5x payouts we've been getting. A Seasonal that before would have netted you close to 500K now will only pay like 125-150K.