I bought Forza Horizon 4 and it is amazing!

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Hello and Welcome back to my blog!





My weekend travel plan came to an unprecedented halt as everything was ready for a small trek. So, I was left with some cash that I saved for that trip and an itch to do something fun at the weekend. I found almost a perfect substitute, driving in the world of Horizon!

I was browsing the games on Xbox Pass and was considering it. It had a lot of games but the sad reality of not owning a game would have haunted me. What if I can buy a great game for almost the same as an Xbox Pass? That's when I saw the Forza Horizon 4 in the store at an 80% discount. It drew my attention and I had been thinking of getting a Horizon game but the price of FH 5 is too much for me. All that without testing if it will run on my old GTX 1050 2GB VRAM card? I went on YouTube to see what kind of FPS these games are giving on a similar setup to me.

I saw close to 60FPS on medium settings in Horizon 4 and a few less FPS for the medium on Horizon 5. These results were shocking, to be honest. I always thought I would get below 40 FPS on this old GPU with little VRAM.

Forza Horizon 4 was a perfect choice for me. It was in my budget and is going to run smoother at 60FPS or so in medium settings on my PC. I bought it and started downloading it.

The downloading part took a long time. The game was close to 80 GB in size. But the sad part is I won't be able to record the gameplay. If I try to record it the FPS will take and it won't be a smoother experience. I don't want to play this beautiful game in low graphics.

But I promise to show you some nice shots from time to time and share your progress. Also, I loved how @technicalside would drift his different cars and complete races. He was the one who really decided to buy a Horizon game easily. (Look bro, I am already flying!)



I want to talk about the intro races. The intro of this game is so cool. It lets you control different cars on various tracks each in different weather. There are some cool stunts with the bikers vs car race (I think it was a spring-season race).

I won a couple of races including one with a cool stunt. That was not a race against an opponent but a stunt for a movie. I am in the movies already. Such a Superstar!

The game is generous enough at the start and gives you a few free cars. I chose a Ford Escort RS Cosworth. It turned out to be a really good car with impressive handling. Just don't judge it from the looks alone. It was perfect for the dirt race.

I was playing the game on Average difficulty and was winning easily (NFS practice or just beginner's luck and easy race?). Seeing that the game suggested I go for higher difficulty for a more challenging experience. I did that and won a couple of more races but this time there were close races.

I did a few more stunts for the movie and when the director left, he left us a big freaking house, for free! I never thought these directors were that rich! I wouldn't reject a free house in this economy...would you?

I could customize my looks here. Upgrade my cars by replacing parts. Fine-tune them. It looked scary to me so I didn't touch these configurations. I don't want to break a perfectly running car with my stupid habit of pressing every button and pulling every slider I see to the right...lol.

You can apply someone else's design to your cars too. I found one that I liked and drove around in it.

Later I participated in another dirt race (I love them). Took some more shots and played with the Photo mode too.

You can increase or degree this motion effect with Aperture and I am going to use it a lot in my shots.

I like the next one even more.

The horizon festival was going on and I could see the list of all the available cars. There were many hundreds of them. I quickly realised their Score determined how good they were overall. I saw a cheap Lamborghini costing only 300K rather than a million credits like some others.

My target is to get more credits and grab that Lamborghini. I rarely get this impressed by racing games. The open world is really beautiful in this one. I am looking forward to exploring the entire map and progressing in the story.

Thanks for reading!

Until the next race...



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  • Screenshots are from the game, Forza Horizon 4.
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Now that I checked this post, I can't wait to try this game and use Noob Gamer on the license plate. This game looks dope.

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BRUH! The license plate thing is absolute whack right! Makes you feel like a villain! I was crazy about it when I first saw that!

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Makes you feel like a villain.

Why not the hero? Like Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) races all the villains in F&F.

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hehe... loved it. I didn't know you could do it until I saw it.

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I've watched a lot of posts about this game but I never noticed this feature till I saw this post of yours.

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I didn't know 4 was this beautiful, I tried playing Forza Horizon 5 but my PC can't run it. I'll install the 4th one soon and start playing.

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Me neither! It looks really amazing! I am kind of jealous now xD!

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Just saw on your profile that you play FH5. Man, I wish my PC was able to run it too. I can play it in low graphics but whats the fun in that?

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That's why I went with FH 4. I knew it looks almost like FH5 but wasn't sure if it would run on my PC even at medium graphics. (Like you I don't want to play any game with Low graphics, not fun and not even fair on the game)

I was impressed with how good it looked even with Med graphics and the performance was good.

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I thought 4 would not be beautiful enough. But, seeing your gameplay and screenshots, I'm impressed. I don't buy games and don't have enough money for that either. I'll try to find out which mod is better and if I can find it in torrent.

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Screenshot 2024-10-06 at 10-39-47 I bought Forza Horizon 4 and it is amazing! PeakD.png

That's a frikkin cool picture my guy!

Also I think I might need to purchase this game aswell! I don't currently own Forza 5 and thinking about it now I might be terrified if they remove it from the pass xD! It'll be a blow! Forza 4 looks damn beautifull!

Also I think you should give it a try to record actually, I'm running Forza 5 on a laptop with 4gb vram and a 1650... Might be you can record a little at-least? Just try it.

I hope you enjoy the game a lot bud! I'll let you know if I get meself Forza4 then we can do a convoy sometime! I think Demotry also has 4.

Why were your plans cancelled though? That sounds real bleak!

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Forza 4 looks damn beautifull!

I always knew Forza 5 was damn beautiful but didn't realise Forza 4 has almost the same graphics too. It looks good even on the medium settings.

The GTX 1650 supersedes NVIDIA's two year old 1050, outperforming it by around 52%

Your's is straight 50% faster than mine... I am jealous now. I will upgrade my GPU next year. This one is now really old.

we can do a convoy sometime! I think Demotry also has 4.

Sounds fun, whatever that is...lol

And one of the friends (the main trip organiser) had to cancel it because of his family's health issue. The rest of us had to cancel too since it was mostly his idea and we will go to that place together.

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