Forza 4: Catch-All

Man this game looks so amazing. I'm going to end up spending most of my time checking out the cars in detail rather than racing. How much of our stuff is going to transfer over from Forza 3?

Jeezuz, I'm pretty sure I'm out on the wheels at those prices. I'm sure I can get by with my current one.

VTSupie wrote:

Man this game looks so amazing. I'm going to end up spending most of my time checking out the cars in detail rather than racing. How much of our stuff is going to transfer over from Forza 3?

Probably none if they haven't mentioned it. Nothing transferred from 2 to 3.

MannishBoy wrote:
VTSupie wrote:

Man this game looks so amazing. I'm going to end up spending most of my time checking out the cars in detail rather than racing. How much of our stuff is going to transfer over from Forza 3?

Probably none if they haven't mentioned it. Nothing transferred from 2 to 3.

They have mentioned it, although I cannot recall the exact statement. They said driver level, amount of credits, and cars in the garage would all have some kind of carryover into Forza 4.

Elycion wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:
VTSupie wrote:

Man this game looks so amazing. I'm going to end up spending most of my time checking out the cars in detail rather than racing. How much of our stuff is going to transfer over from Forza 3?

Probably none if they haven't mentioned it. Nothing transferred from 2 to 3.

They have mentioned it, although I cannot recall the exact statement. They said driver level, amount of credits, and cars in the garage would all have some kind of carryover into Forza 4.

That's cool if they do. Mass Effect kinda comes to Forza.

Wonder if that means DLC cars...

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/display.aspx?id=23622320128&blogid=71

24 minute long walk-through of Forza 4 and its features. I want this game and I want it now. It seems like they are making all the right choices with new features and changes to the game.

Serenj wrote:

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/display.aspx?id=23622320128&blogid=71

24 minute long walk-through of Forza 4 and its features. I want this game and I want it now. It seems like they are making all the right choices with new features and changes to the game.

Bugger. Even more money out of my pocket this Autumn.

Elycion wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:
VTSupie wrote:

Man this game looks so amazing. I'm going to end up spending most of my time checking out the cars in detail rather than racing. How much of our stuff is going to transfer over from Forza 3?

Probably none if they haven't mentioned it. Nothing transferred from 2 to 3.

They have mentioned it, although I cannot recall the exact statement. They said driver level, amount of credits, and cars in the garage would all have some kind of carryover into Forza 4.

Serenj wrote:

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/display.aspx?id=23622320128&blogid=71

24 minute long walk-through of Forza 4 and its features. I want this game and I want it now. It seems like they are making all the right choices with new features and changes to the game.

Sounds like what the vid says is that based on your Forza 3 levels, they gift you some cars in Forza 4. You start at level 0, just with possibly some high end cars.

EDIT: The sharing garage thing? Kind of genius. You can have a good tuner in a group that likes to tweak, and everybody can test out his work. Lots of ways I can see that being fun to mess with.

If I want my electronic driving to be more similar to the real thing I suspect it would be cheaper to retrofit thumbstick controls onto my car than purchase one of those Elite wheels.

Found a nice write up from a car blog's perspective over at Jalopnik.

Inside Sim Racing did a show on Forza 4 from the party:

Forza 4 partners with ALMS!!!! My favorite racing series. SO happy about this.

I already preordered the fancy edition of this.

Speaking of preorders, in case folks missed it you can get additional freebies from Turn10 by jumping through a couple extra hoops.

It doesn't mention it on that page, but they also accept a PDF/screengrab of online order confirmations in addition to scans/photos of physical preorder receipts. Just to be sure, I added an annotation with my gamertag to the PDF I sent of my Amazon order confirmation page, but in any case that worked fine for me.

Oh, and one other note: it seems that the only confirmation they send is an in game message in Forza 3 (containing the first of the incentive gift cars in Forza 3 form), so don't expect to get an email back or anything. You all have Forza 3 though, right?

EDIT: I just wish we could get confirmation that the store exclusive cars will eventually be available to everyone as DLC. I want the BMW 1M that is tied to Best Buy, but not enough to forgo ordering through Amazon.

New interview with Dan Greenawalt, Turn 10 Creative Director, from Gamescom. 18 minutes with some new tidbits.

More stoked than ever.

D-Man777 wrote:

New interview with Dan Greenawalt, Turn 10 Creative Director, from Gamescom. 18 minutes with some new tidbits.

More stoked than ever.

The tires on that BMW really look "real", with very nice matte shading/textures. They look gummy like real rubber, which I'm not sure I've seen in a game before.

I NEED this game to come out now!!!!!!!

I hope there's an achievement to "do a Gambon" around Gambon.

Gambon Corner, right?

LiquidMantis wrote:

Gambon Corner, right?

I'm assuming that the man himself won't be Dumbledoring on the track somewhere.

This game is a must have for me. I started getting the itch for a new racing game earlier this summer and kind of regretted selling my copy of Forza 3 (at the time after grinding for all the achievements I never wanted to see that game again). Love this series so much. Don't have to wait a decade like with Gran Turismo and don't get a lame POS every year like Need For Speed. Every two years is just about the perfect release cycle for these games.

FU EA (see last paragraph here)

MisterStatic wrote:

FU EA (see last paragraph here)

Damn. Not one of my favorite brands but still the more cars that ship with the game the better (though oddly I have zero interest in car DLC because the game ships with more than I will ever drive).

Rykin wrote:
MisterStatic wrote:

FU EA (see last paragraph here)

Damn. Not one of my favorite brands but still the more cars that ship with the game the better (though oddly I have zero interest in car DLC because the game ships with more than I will ever drive).

PGR was never allowed to use Porsche either. Their solution was to just get cars from RUF, which are basically tweaked Porsche cars anyway.

Not ideal, but I always thought it was a great way for them to flip the bird at whoever had the license at the time.

No Porsche is a big blow to my heart, it being my favorite brand. It's not Forza's fault so I'm not going to hold them responsible. Damn you, EA!

Thin_J wrote:

PGR was never allowed to use Porsche either. Their solution was to just get cars from RUF, which are basically tweaked Porsche cars anyway.

That's what Forza 4's doing.

Whole thing sucks.

Of course, Shift 2 has no Ferraris according to this page. I thought they did, but apparently not.

Greenwalt says MS's got the license for those but has let other publishers use them anyway.

Down the road there better be a giant Porsche DLC pack... OR let us import our Porsches from Forza 3!

My biggest heartache is that the partnership with ALMS is totally FUBAR with this. You can't run some of the most competitive cars in the GT class (like 45 or 17) and you can't run any of the GTC class. It is unbelievable how much these corporate shenanigans just screw the consumer. EA isn't even doing anything worthwhile with the license. How many of us would love to see Porsche Unleashed 2? Ridiculousness.

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Fully 1/3 of the cars in ALMS are Porsche:

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This looks great

Warthog in Forza 4 as an Easter Egg.

Unfortunately, you can't drive it It would be really cool if you could have Warthog races around the Nurburing.