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Forza horizon 4 lego11/8/2023 They have made some of the greatest racing games of all-time, and Horizon is one of my favourite gaming series, but they do seem to be getting pulled down avenues they shouldn't go down. Playground Games need to be very careful because they are in slight danger of killing the golden goose here. Instead we have a rather jarring combination of two worlds that just don't work together. ![]() I concede that the DLC's shiny and gleaming and professional, and kids may enjoy it for the very brief amount of fun they'll get from the racing side of it, but it just feels.pointless.Īt the end of the day there is no compelling reason why this game had to exist: building your own cars could have been that reason but it's not here. The rationale for Forza Horizon DLCs no longer makes much sense to me. Maybe they wanted to have Ken and Barbie Dolls' House crossover but ended up with Lego and had to make do? Who knows. The races are lacking the intensity and relative realism of normal Horizon, and there is no real incentive to play once you arrive at the Lego festival except to earn bricks for your house. I'm a keen Forza photographer but I'm not exactly inspired by the sight of plastic ghosts floating next to rows of identical Lego trees.įurther issues: the handling of the Lego cars seems twitchy by comparison with the base game's cars, presumably as a sop to younger gamers who will play this, and the AI in races is almost non-existent. There's certainly no incentive to use the photo mode, which is a big thing for me in the base game. It's better than not being allowed to build anything at all, but it smacks of the devs feeling guilty about not allowing us to alter the cars.Īs for the rest of the game: the map itself feels tiny(about a quarter the size of Fortune Island, the previous DLC) and while it's mildly interesting to explore, the combination of Lego and Forza realism simply does not work. Oh yes - I forgot to mention that you'll have to go through a series of mind-numbing mini challenges just in order to earn a paltry amount of blocks in the first place. Instead we're handed a flat piece of land and told to build.a house. The potential for player creativity was enormous we could have created a Lego batmobile, a BTTF DeLorean, etc. The devs could have allowed us to use Lego cars in a way that would have HUGELY opened up the design elements in Forza and allowed our imaginations to roam free. I focus on this issue because it's indicative of the DLC as a whole: it is a massive, massive wasted opportunity. It's the equivalent of buying a Lego car, taking it home, opening the box, and finding it already assembled, with all the bricks superglued together. They must know how ridiculous it is to hand us fully-assembled cars and not allow us to change a single thing about them. This is almost an admission on the part of the developers that they've scr-wed the players over and denied us the only reason for having a Lego DLC in the first place. Right at the start of this DLC the announcer says, in a mock-jokey, semi-apologetic way, 'I know half the fun of Lego is building the cars yourself, but I couldn't wait', and you're handed a fully constructed(slightly rubbish-looking) Senna. We are stuck with the handful of cars the game gives us. That sounded like it might actually be a good reason to shoehorn a child-friendly franchise like Lego into a serious racing game like Horizon - the ability to reconstruct the outer shells of the Lego vehicles would have justified the whole idea, even though the combination of Lego and Forza still felt off. ![]() ![]() But I at least thought there were possibilities there, genuinely interesting ideas that would only be possible with Lego, like building your own cars. I hoped it would be worth the wait, and when I finally heard it was going to be a Lego spin-off I was disappointed. This DLC has taken a long, long time to get here. Instead the only thing you can actually build in this **** a Lego house. That would be far too cool and interesting. So can you build your own cars? Can you at least swap out the outer parts of the Lego cars you're given in order to make different-looking cars? Well, if you could build your own cars of course. So logically, what would be the only reason to place these two franchises together?
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