There's simplifying it for a more casual audience, and then there's actual bad design. Forza Horizon's been the latter for years.

First off, the AI. What can I say that hasn't been said? It's terrible, and the difficulty meter is a lie. It simply increases rubberbanding. The Drivatar system is especially hilarious. "Drives like the player its programmed after!" Means absolutely nothing if they're all equally unreachable slot cars on high enough difficulty.

Second, track design. Sure, just put up some barriers on the outside corners and call it a day. Make cornering all about how much you can drive into the grass while still brushing past those ridiculous checkpoint flags. God forbid Road Races feel like actual street circuits with barriers on BOTH sides of the road. Why actually have chicanes when you can just hop a curb, smooch a single thread on the outer checkpoint flag, and keep going?

Third, homogenization. There is NO variety to these races at all. It just changes the surface you race on. It's racing 12 horribly programmed, dumb as rocks AI to the finish line.

Cross Country events being actual Dakar style treks where you need to actually forge a path? Nope, it's just Road Racing but the route was scribbled by a blind monkey. Dirt racing being actual tense time stages or wheel-to-wheel rallycross duels? Nope, it's just road races again that go on dirt paths sometimes. Street racing being actual traffic-dodging, shortcut hunting showdowns? As if, it's just Road Racing with no barriers at night!

Even if Motorsport and its "professional racing" focus was still around, the quality racing in Horizon is so genuinely bad that it's a miracle the other content is able to distract from it.

Here is my custom design of my Corvette C5 Z06 in a custom Reservoir Blue color. If you are wondering about what the custom paint color settings are, the hue is 0.63, the saturation is 1.00, and the brightness is 0.27. I also have the windows tinted as well. The only thing I would like to do now is black out the badges. My apologies for the glare on the screen.

Hey there,
Since yesterday I try to find a FM to play. And holy moly.... What happened?
Last Forza I played was FM3 on the 360 over 10 years ago ^^

From my Research:
FM4 with the Xenia Emulator
Or FM6 when I still can get a Key for the Appstore version.
Or FM7?
Or FM8?

Casual gamer with Xbox one Gamepad.
Im on Windows PC!
Story would be nice, but better physics and a good weather system would be enough.
I really want to get the old school Forza feeling.
Not that cheap Horizon feeling.

I hope you can get what I mean and Lead me the way back into Forza 🙂

The wheel is turning on itself, invert force feedback is set to on, but when it is on, the wheel still comes back to the centre and the game is toally unplayable, and the operating range is 540degs in the GHub software (FH5), had the same issue on FH6

*wheels not included. If you’d like wheels to be included, it’ll be MSRP, with dealer add-on fees, and tax/title/license.

Michael Schumacher Ferrari F2004 (SC: 269 688 423)

Anyone else see these yet?

are people into cinematic edits like 2016-2022
i try to find my groove again but my resources start to limit me :D

Michael Schumacher F2004 Scheme on the 2025 Ferrari F80 (SC: 143 962 073)

Anyone doing touge events on Motorsport? Horizon gave me an itch to build a touge car for fujimi kaido

If I'm late I only just noticed it on my homepage...

(Bad tag, but what is there)

Sourced from the official Forza Horizon Twitter account: https://x.com/ForzaHorizon/status/2079604681693671476?s=20

I have recently found that people with Xbox gamepass and played FH4 on it were to receive a token to get a digital copy of the game when it was delisted. The expiration date was a month ago, but I don't think I ever received a token. Should I do anything?