late post-shutdown update for people who happen to care about 10 year old mobile game: it does work, but certain things became broken or outright inaccessable, like time passing when trying to upgrade car, some events i believe, etc, oh and game data obviously wont download, though people already archived it for multiple versions. linking them just in case
seeing stuff like this really makes me want to say "i was born in wrong generation"
On ONE hand........fucking Forza said - its about your skills, not the car. On the other hand - same Forza (horizon) abolished racing aspect in a racing game (and yes, ranked board is damn near the quintessential part of a racing game with multiplayer). M$ tried to chase Polyphony and ultimately only really succeeded briefly in copying Test Drive Unlimited and NFS, 4 times. Engine swap anything? Realistically it's nowhere near as physically possible, yet everything gets AWD Racing V12 swap......
Carbon was SUCH shit with late-game fucking constant, random encounter shit I wanted to uninstall that piece of garbage so many times.........but then it was the only NFS with a MR2....
By that, they mean "change the difficulty to easy" and have a precise meta car build or just drive sport cars whenever possible. Forza Horizon now is an enigma of a racing game. You could have one of the best cars available in your infinite garage within hours thanks to random RNG slot machines. Then what? Just drive that. It's not like losing has any penalty, but winning feels superfluous since progression could be cheesed.
I'm ALL for cheesing single-player, but like you would in GT using skills to skid that FWD shitbox through corners and such. But Horizon.........again, on ONE hand - put a fave body on that steel frame you'd like, on the other hand ignore the abysmal fuck out of unique handling thanks to the frame and body design working together with the engine placement and weight.....
Think about the essence of what makes racing games enjoyable. Stakes, personality, ownership, hell, the sense of SPEED. Horizon's current formula lacks stakes, lacks ownership, replaces personality with positivity. Once you've experienced it, what's left? Doing the same races over and over on a big, cluttered open map.
How 5 massacred the sweats of doing Forzathongs to actually get neat cars if you ground that shit all week.....just uggggh.....
I first managed to try 3, then bought into 4 at launch (smooooooooth ass launched in all), and then 5 ruined the entire damn experience. Not even gonna bother with 6 until it gets stupidly easy to pirate and would thus run on my 1070m.
