Forza Horizon. It is worth it

How long could you stick into car systems? Even in arcade? Well, conditional NFS: Underground 2 on platinum passes in 26-30 hours, like Most Wanted 2005. Many, as a rule, passed the plot, maybe the campaign of the passage performed related tests for pumping and so on. Usually, "races" exhaust themselves after 10-15 hours. You have already accumulated a quick wheelbarrow, pumped output and only can question a couple of bosses for a complete upgrade of iron and final, that is, there is almost nothing to do in it. The game is finished and there is no point in returning to it, only to go through the new one, which I did not want to do the next couple of years later, but I managed to discover the Forza Horizon series.

Unfortunately, I missed the first three parts of Forza Horizon, found 4 part and for a year as I ride in the expanses of Mexico in FH5. In total (according to the statistics of the Xbox application), I spent on 4 part – 70 hours, and in 5 parts are already more than 265 hours.

Having looked at the statistics, I realized that almost none of the games clung to me, except for DOTS in school-studio years, where more than 1160 hours were spent (#lord-toe).

And then I wondered: “Why I love this series so much and how she manages to attract my attention so far? Where does this desire to return there again and again?"

This is not a review, for this there are professionals, the author’s opinion is subjectively and does not claim the truth in the first instance.

Ease of development

FH has become for me exactly the genre that is necessary for a wonderful pastime in the evening after a working day. Arcade race car symbulator, which does not require you from knowledge of the specifics of the engine, pendants and compression forces of levers, shock absorbers and gearbox adjustment. There are ready -made configurations of cars that were made by comrades, which I am insanely grateful, because you can just get into the car, download the setting and enjoy, and if the configuration has not come, download another. The threshold of entering the automotive industry is minimal, just choose coloring and high.

But the possibility of customization is not to be divided anywhere, yes, this is not NFS of the zero years (and thank God), but the game does not prohibit the car to the car. Here you can endlessly delve into the selection of engines, tires and other things … where, at first, I poked, but quickly lost enthusiasm, because the downloaded schemes were much more effective.

I will be honest, the construction of a machine on which it costs all the most expensive, is no longer relevant for me, I just want to sit down to be beautiful and efficiently, I get that I need to press two buttons and plunge into the driving process itself

Emotions

I see no reason to paint here about mechanics, driving to the left, right, on a smooth gas and brake, more focus on the sensations and emotions that the driving is delivered.

Forza conquered me from entering Bettingsitesnogamstop.co.uk the fourth part. Intro, which rolls you up for all 4 seasons, makes you feel different cars, feel the difference in control and the beauty that surrounds you during driving is indescribable. You just plunge into the atmosphere and understand that this is exactly the format that you needed to spend this evening. The atmosphere of the holiday, the variety of cars, the seasons, landscapes and the road. The process simply envelops you and encourages you for every sneezer, it does not leave you challenges, you are free to drive how you want where you want and on the machines on which you want. Until now, with goosebumps on the skin I revise on YouTube the first 15 minutes of gameplay

The game gives you the opportunity to implement an internal teenager who finally got to the father’s collection of cars. Many have already noted that the cars in the garage look like collection inserts, fueling the desire “collect them all”, that I, with pleasure, began to do. Duck and you can play with them as you want, no one will scold. Roll it in the sandbox, on the highway track on the laminate in the living room, and then in the mud in the country. She copes with this function perfectly.

The main idea is that Forza gave the feeling of a holiday and those opportunities that I was missing exactly. Freedom without visible restrictions with which real life is overloaded. You can consider this escapism, but if every time you turn on the game you feel a little happier, then you have found the right game. And there is nothing wrong with that. Psychology has already gone here, they will correct me in the comments if that. Let’s not go there.

Where is 265 hours in FH5?

Having spent 70 hours in 4 parts, the time has come for the exit forza horizon 5. On the appointed day, the game was preloaded, and the working day was held in anticipation of the treasured screensaver. There were no particular expectations, I just waited for the next part of the good game that I liked.

After the first 20-25 minutes, I realized that I would play it much more than in FH4. Mexico … she conquered me. Yes, the weather does not change as clearly as in 4 parts, but the card still changes, rivers dry up, snowballs, sandstorms, rains and so on appear in the mountains. Immediately the eternal summer, which is so missing in the Urals. Going here you are warm from the screensaver itself and to the end of the game session. I want to return here to just plunge into this atmosphere.

The screensaver that meets you every time when starting the game … Those who selected a video sequence and music conquered my heart and took them to themselves. You can stick on it for about 5 minutes calmly, just relaxing. Each time I buzz.

I have long passed all the races, opened all the roads and shot down all the stands, my wife took an active part, even picked up a fleet of favorite cars. Often it was so that I denoted her marker on the map, she reached the race that I played, and so on. My daughter also found her favorite machine that jumps cool down the hills. We all found something in it for ourselves, which is rare.

FH5 showed me clearly that in 4 parts it was "not so"

Vilspins never change

Change of seasons once a week led to unwillingness to play in certain seasons.

Interface….If you say that the FH4 menu is overloaded, then this is not to say anything. Until now, this is a dense forest for me, which is extremely difficult to master. At the first launch, I could not calmly find where the car store is located. FH5 showed what can be done normally and conveniently.

But, oddly enough, Killer Picks for me was the absence of fences. Yes, it was the fences that enraged me most of all of 4 parts. These stone barriers were everywhere. Even in the field. Everywhere. Everywhere.

These hedges are everywhere. And given the density of the development and the landscape of the map, you can meet them everywhere.

How long it can last?

Well, I played it for 30 hours, well, 40, well 100. Everything went to what the hands reached out … In addition to the victory in the bouncer (if she was cursed), well, and then the fact that? Then the seasons, online races and other activity began. Going into the game today, after more than 260 hours, I know that I can easily find myself an occupation, I don’t even need a pointer. And I will get exactly the same emotions of freedom and fun, which is so lacking in ordinary life. For which he is ready to sing her deflames for a long time.

Undoubtedly, I went through it in parallel with other games, sometimes I threw it for a week or two, this is normal. She is not alone in this game world. It is full of shortcomings that begin to get out after time, but with its function it copes with "excellent".

As a result, after almost 350 hours, I do not regret a drop about the time spent in this series. About the time spent in Dota – I regret, I am very sorry. Dota did not give me anything but the disorder of the psyche and the lack of desire to ever return to it. FH is a corner of calm and something bright that is always waiting for you at the end of a difficult week to take your favorite Aventador and ride under unobtrusive music on a mountain serpentine, and then go to the beach at the wheel of Trailcat, and then jump in Wrx STI and go to conquer online races on gravel. If you have never played this series of games, give her a chance. It is worth it.

If you experience such emotions today from some game, please share it in the comments, I will be happy to expand my list to familiarization.

Thank you all for the time given, share your opinion on this game, constructive criticism of the text is welcome!

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