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So, I had let this series pass me for almost a decade after motorsport 2/3, is Horizon basically where all the cooler stuff from those went while the main motorsport became even more like Gran Turismo? Bought an xbone on black friday last year to play Horizon 3 and ended up loving it, and just recently grabbed the gold marketplace bundle with FM6 and Horizon 2 at a huge discount and bought a used copy of Horizon 1. Was hoping to get more Forza Hub score out of H1 but I guess when the online components are permanently disabled, you can't really get full value off of them anymore. At least knowing this I won't be tempted to track down the older motorsport games and waste weeks trying to complete them.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Most of the Motorsport games don't have a lot of online components you need to achieve for Hub score.
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May 1, 2017 23:35
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harperdc posted:the main Forza Motorsport games were always direct comparisons/improvements on/evolutions from the Gran Turismo formula, all the Horizon games have been more like the open-world Need for Speed games that came out last gen after Burnout Paradise. And directly comparing Horizon 3 to Motorsport 6, the car customization is almost completely the same, it's just dressed up very differently in Horizon.
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May 1, 2017 23:49
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Yeah maxed out hypercars in Horizon isn't really fun but yet everyone insists on doing it. Think I remember those type of cars being much more enjoyable to use in motorsport 2. I also have to wonder how the Horizon festival keeps going. Buncha hipsters in expensive cars roll up to your state/province, cause endless road accidents and property damage, with hints of trespassing and possible theft. (Someone used to own those barn find cars, you know.)
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May 3, 2017 04:54
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Shumagorath posted:Make the entire game running over social media influencers and I will pre-order.
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May 3, 2017 05:09
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Tempted to grab the $10 FM5 on Gold deals this week, even though I already have a huge backlog of Forza to play through already, with each game (besides Horizon 1 I'm guessing) probably requiring least like ~2 weeks a piece, with another 2-3 days worth of content (If Blizzard Mountain was any indicator) coming to H3 next week. Also oddly enough, Horizon 1's online backend still seems to be functional so Forza hub still gets actual updates from it, even though a good chunk of H1's point value is tied up in content that is no longer obtainable or general "tokens/car packs purchased" wankery.
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May 4, 2017 06:16
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:There's not really any reason to get FM5. FM6 has everything FM5 has plus a poo poo ton more tracks and cars. And I think all I would even get out of it is maybe an extra free car in the next game that you could just buy normally. Think the weekly credits payout is already as high as it will go anyways. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 10:07 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 09:59
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Think I'm starting to come to the realization that Horizon 2 is the worst entry in the spinoff series. So much padding for time between championships with the forced road trips between each one, and an extra road trip back to HQ after every 3 championships. Seems like H2 just went off the deep end and ended up with a really bad excess of odd decisions (you showed up to an event with the wrong car, lemme give you a minute long unskippable rant about it before you can pick the right one), championships, and grindy online based achievements, and makes me appreciate H3 more for cutting out most if not all of H2's insanity e: I would also argue that Storm Island is more streamlined and interesting than the main game is. e2: is/was there an actual goon club in H2? could easily find the real one in H1 despite it being defunct but seems like nothing but imitations when it comes to 2. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 17:23 on May 15, 2017 |
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May 15, 2017 17:11
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Funny how that club never popped up on any search with the "goon" keyword, maybe because it isn't openly joinable. Well, shot you a friend request so I can get in, even though to be real I'm likely never going to do any serious online play with FH2 if at all. Mostly because I can't seem to focus on any one game all that much, I basically have a daily ritual that consists of doing 1 FH1 street race for "days played" credit, then at least a single race in both FM6 and FH2, maybe more if the mood strikes me since I still have tons of stuff to do in both of those. And in recent days a lot of cramming down the last championships in FH3:HW, almost got that 2000/2000. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 02:16 on May 16, 2017 |
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May 16, 2017 01:49
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geeves posted:And tuning! Probably not all that much difference between them these days besides all vehicles/tires having way better grip than they would with equivalent upgrades in motorsport, and the magic "anti-pitting" physics that prevent other vehicles from causing spins. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 22:16 on May 18, 2017 |
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May 18, 2017 22:04
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In preparation for 7 I've grabbed every single Forza that I've missed since Motorsport 2 over the past few months in an effort to milk them for Forza Hub points. It even got me to finally swallow switching to Windows 10 to play Apex. Think I've played a bit too much already. I'm cramming like 9 years of backlog in the span of only a few months.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:34
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Norns posted:Why would you do that Because I don't have much else better to do with my time. Technically I'm already halfway done with all of them, only things I have to invest any heavy amount of time into is the main careers of 4 (already finished world tour), 5, and 6. But it is getting pretty drat tiring having to do a single race or event in 6 different games on a daily basis cause of the days played score.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:43
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sleepwalkers posted:That's a really good way to not want to play any of 7 when it comes out. And yeah, 5 sucks hard, especially the achievement list, so definitely not going to be batting for 1000 GS on that one.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:54
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Chances of Road Atlanta going away are slim to none, it's one of the handful of tracks that has been in every single Forza Motorsport game since its inception. It also shares this place with Laguna Seca and Silverstone. (With Road America and Nurburgring maintaining this via post-launch DLC) "The Snakes" stayed exclusive to FM2. May they rest in piss with New York. Circuit of the Americas can eat it.
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Jun 20, 2017 22:20
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financially racist posted:the snake tracks were also in forza 3 ... Unless they were added as a DLC that is no longer obtainable. Which sounds like is the case. The wiki (which is already pretty light on FM3 info as it is) does say it existed in 3, doesn't say that it was a DLC though. Sidewinder proving grounds does not appear in my copy of the game even with the second disc installed so it must have been an add-on. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 22:36
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Black Griffon posted:So every time I reinstall FH3 I get depressed because the rear end-expensive version didn't include the expansions, and then I buy a new muscle car and drive it stock until I'm happy, but are any of the expansions actually good? Are they worth the money and are they ever on sale? Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Jun 21, 2017 00:44
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As someone trying to actively plow through FM 4/5/6 still, I basically just settle on whatever in the garage works, or try to get what I need on the cheap. Kinda get the feeling that I'm missing the point of the whole game. I'm not really even that good but I bet all this jumping around isn't helping my consistency one bit. Special exception for 4, though, where I basically need to do as much of the game as possible in Chevy cars cause level 50 affinity. That and they have full class range and an LMP2 racer. Gonna have to play the auction house a bit to swap out 1mil+ race cars I don't need anymore for ones I do.
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Jun 22, 2017 09:49
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Tried GT3 at first since I never owned a PS1, just didn't work out. Tried GT4 after getting into Forza 2 with similar gameplay and I still just couldn't get into it. But GT didn't (and AFAIK still doesn't to this day) have the revolutionary decal system Forza does so that pretty much solidified my flagship console car game of choice. You know what pissed me off in FM6? Mods. Specifically how I've probably pissed away 15-20 million attempting to obtain one single dare mod for an achievement. I'd actually like to use all my credits on cars in the next game if they don't mind. I'm bracing myself hard for 7, since it seems it will have a very heavy emphasis on collecting cars than it ever did before.
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Jun 22, 2017 21:00
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Eh, I dunno, still kinda tough getting the millions I need for the FM4 achievement cars. I don't have the DLC benchmark moneymaker track either, so getting all those together plus all that various specific cars I need to finish the event list is gonna be quite the grind. Hell I wouldn't mind some donations and a club to join in FM4 if anyone still has access to it. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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Jun 23, 2017 03:21
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I really hate the idea of the unicorns. If they're going to bring that back they should at least make it more like Horizon 3 where they're not too hard to obtain, and can be traded/sold freely. (The Forzathon exclusive cars are technically the unicorns of Horizon 3, right?) Also congrats on your Forza Motorsport 3 purchase. Enjoy none of your stats updating on it in Forza HUB in the forseeable future.
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Jun 23, 2017 22:10
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Whereas I have the misfortune of being very heavily influenced by it and compelled to spend money on dead and dying games for score and weekly riches. Literally bought $10 worth of FM5 tokens just for points a few days ago, I have an addiction. 
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Jun 23, 2017 22:21
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Should I try to post about Forza related items on sale in the store each week if there are any? For the week of June 27th to July 3rd:
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Jun 28, 2017 21:54
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Word is that Ebisu Style was supposed to be great drift > great air > drift, so the lack of the prior drift is why you never got it. I got all 3 in like two minutes on the sand dunes and a high powered AWD offroader.
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Jun 29, 2017 03:54
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Course in my case the offroader was like a Trailcat and not a rally car, not sure what difference it would've made. But yeah, I didn't understand what the heck it even was til I looked up vague tips on how to do it. It's like one of the most obscure skills in the game.
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Jun 29, 2017 04:21
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Here's more Forza sale items that have popped up today going until July 10th.
Forza Horizon 3 Porsche Car Pack - 60% off Forza Horizon 2: Storm Island - 67% off, 75% with Gold Forza Horizon 2 and Forza Motorsport 5 Bundle - 50% off, 60% with Gold
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Jul 1, 2017 03:00
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Sounds like they're going to turn career mode into a copy of the championship format of Horizon 2 (minus forced road trip padding) with a touch of Horizon 3 blueprinting. That's neat I guess. Return of the auction house is also neat, even though that probably means they're going back to cars costing up to 10 million credits or more instead of FM5/6 where no car exceeded 2 mil. You know what that means, people hoarding and scalping the cars that people actually want, and yet another achievement for spending several millions on the same old 50s/60s Ferraris.
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It seems my quest to catch up on Forza has come to an end, I am now at the highest rewards tier possible at the moment and 100%ed every game in the series aside from FM6 and FH2. I have made many questionable purchases on this journey. In other news, new discounts! (with Gold membership, of course) For the week of July 25th to August 1st:
Forza Motorsport 6 Car Pass - 75% off Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious - 75% off
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GentlemanofLeisure posted:Holy poo poo dude you've only been at it for just under 3 months and you 100%'d all those games? Do you mean you 100%'d the ForzaHub requirements for max score per game? Or did you actually get all the achievements for each game? Actually, been at it a bit longer than that, I just didn't ramp it up to insanity levels until more recent months. For all games up to FM5, I did indeed go for 100%ing all of career and all achievements that were still possible or viable to obtain. Unnecessary  breakdown of my status for each game:
FM3 - Left at 920/1000 with event list half-completed for several years, now fully complete and should have all 1000 hub points... if it ever updates again. FM4 - 100% complete with purchased Porsche expansion, all but 4 now-impossible achievements. (actually 3 but heh, Kinect) Should have 1700 hub points but it refuses to read how many cars I have. 300 remaining points lost to the abyss of time. Horizon 1 - 100% complete singleplayer with purchased Rally expansion. Got every achievement that didn't involve multiplayer or the unobtainable 1000 club. (multi is still up but I really did not care to grind that.) Final Hub score of 1500, the other 500 also lost to the abyss. FM5 - 100% as far as the achievement list is concerned (forget the bonus events), working on last affinity achievement. 11 more days of daily play til max hub score. (Yes, my dumb rear end bought the tokens.) Fast & Furious - 100% that poo poo in like 3-4 hours. Horizon 2 - Maxed hub score and left on back burner at about 1/3 entire base game, half of Storm Island complete. May come back to finish after FM5, will not go for full achievements. FM6 - Maxed hub score and left on back burner with 1/6 total volume completion, all showcases but the endurances, and entire Nascar expansion complete. Will also not go for full achievements but will make One For The History Books the end goal. FM6 Apex - Almost maxed Hub score minus 15 points cause I suck too much to get Perfectionist. Close enough, screw this game. Horizon 3 - Total 2000/2000 completion, maxed Hub score before I really started this whole catch-up crusade. So yeah, there's still some things I'm not really keen on doing, but my main driving force was Hub score. Did everything I could in the 360 games cause I needed every last drop out of them to reach Tier 11, but played it a bit more loose in the later games and only completed things up to the point they still mattered. e: Actually now that I think about it, aside from FM2, half of FM3, and Horizon 3, it has been about exactly 3 months since I started. I don't consider badges/titles part of the progression, though, I'm not that crazy. Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:I'm sad that because of my choice of platforms I cannot drive around in the fantasy luxury vehicle In their actual announcement release, they say all Horizon 3 players will get it, including those on PC. Very misleading trailer.
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More discounts for the week of August 1st to the 8th, live gold required, blah. Anyone getting tired of these posts yet?
Forza Motorsport 6 and Forza Horizon 2 bundle - 67% off Forza Horizon 2 Standard/Deluxe/Ultimate - 40/50/60% off Forza Horizon 2 Car Pass - 80% off Xbox 360 Forza Horizon 2 - 50% off
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Oh yeah, forgot to do the thing yesterday. Only one Forza related sale this week from the 9th to the 14th. Not sure if anyone even still pays attention to these.
Guessing that means they're also updating the Ford GT to be the final production model and not the concept version they've been using.
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It's a shame we can't paint over lights like that in the newest ones. Oh, and here's the discounts for the week of August 15th to the 21st, some good stuff for Horizon 3 especially.
Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass - 50% off Forza Motorsport 6 Porsche Expansion - 60% off Forza Horizon 2 Complete Add-Ons Collection - 75% off Mediocrity Goggles fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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GutBomb posted:I have all the DLC for 3 and 4 on my Xbox 360 hard drive and as soon as it dies they are gone forever with no way to retrieve them. It really sucks. Not entirely. Lots of de-listed DLC can be redownloaded via your download history. However I do believe some more minor pieces of 4 and Horizon 1's DLC are straight up gone from the servers despite the download history.
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Deals with gold discounts for the week of August 29th thru September 4th:
Gotta admit I'm not feeling all that optimistic about the content in 7, feels like they just mashed the car rosters of FM6 and FH3 together and just called it a day without adding all that much actual new content to it.
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