Forza motorsport 4 soundtrack
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Slurs, swearing, and sexual acts described in music should be understandably censored in this game, however so much in Forza Horizon 4's tracklist has been muted it's beyond parody. However, these are dwarfed by the absolute biggest issue with the soundtrack: The censoring.ĭon't get me wrong, some music features language and themes not appropriate for the game. Why were licensed record label stations cut from the game? This perpetually confuses me, as it's a great way to advertise as well as add more music into the game. Also, what happened to the real-world record labels getting stations? Remember Innovative Leisure Radio? Ninja Tune? Epitaph and Vagrant Records? Future Classic? Sure, Horizon 4 has Hospital Records, but they've been with the game for so long I just see them as a default Horizon station. Horizon XS for example, why is Bat Fangs' "Turn It Up" in the lineup? Compare that to "The Infected" by Four Year Strong on the original Forza Horizon, and you can see the music curator's idea of racing game rock music is declining in quality. Horizon Bass Arena is just Horizon Pulse with remixes, there's very little proper bass and techno on there, despite the genre flourishing nowadays. This isn't entirely Playground's fault, as quality in popular music seems to be slowly declining through the years, but I know for a fact the music picked isn't their best.
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I know licensing music is expensive, especially for newer music, but is it worth the money saved for the music to grow so sickeningly repetitive? I don't know why Forza Horizon 4 has around 30 less songs than it's predecessors, but it's not good. I've listened to them so much, I recognize what song is coming next before the current one ends (appears the game is hard-coded to play songs in a certain order.) For example, I just listened to "Little Thing Gone Wild" by BRMC on Spotify to test my skill with this, and yes, "Safari Song" by Greta Van Fleet would be playing next had this been coming from the game.
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I've slowly cycled through each of the stations, and now I'm tired of every one of them. For a game with such a long life cycle, this baffles me. Forza Horizon 2 and 3 both have around 150 songs in their tracklist, while Forza Horizon 4 has just exactly 117. This is where the soundtracks first issue comes in: It's the smallest tracklist since Forza Horizon 1, and music painfully repeats a LOT. I alone have nearly a month's worth of playtime on this game. New content is always being added into the game on a monthly basis. Normally, there's a two year life cycle with the games, but with the next Horizon title up in the air, we're stuck with Forza Horizon 4 for the time being. With the new direct live-service business model, and the hours upon hours worth of things to explore, discover, and grind for, dedicated players have spent a long time in Playground Games' interpretation of the UK's countryside. With Forza Horizon 4, I was expecting a fantastic soundtrack, but it largely missed with me overall, and hearing the rest of the community's opinions, I think they agree with me, too.įorza Horizon 4 is the longest running game in the series. Not only do the soundtracks serve as a "time capsule" of sorts for when the game was released, but they need to line up with the Horizon festival as it's strongly suggested the music that appears in the game is also being performed live at the festival. The first three games had great soundtracks, with each station having awesome music to cruise and race to. You can't have the majority of the songs you use be produced by retired bands or have overtly old music. With Forza Horizon being set at a music festival, carefully making a soundtrack that not only fits the game, but the world of the game too makes it much more important. They can set the mood of a game just as much as a normal made-for-game OST, with the primary difference being that the music wasn't specifically made for the game. Licensed soundtracks are surprisingly more important than most people tend to give credit for.