OK, the game’s marketing just dropped a tweet saying, “You’ve got the keys. Now build the dream ride,” putting a car and such marvelous imagery with it, and the replies went crazy. This is so much of a community moment in itself showing how much the gamers really get into the custom side of things. And sometimes, people just go crazy.
Let’s get down to what the whole thing really is about. Forza Horizon, any person under a rock, is an open-world driving series that Microsoft. Free will, driving beautiful cars through beautiful places, and most importantly–customizing those cars to your own taste. This tweet is a sort of prompt on the side asking the audience: “What would you do first to a newly acquired car?” Pretty straightforward question. The answers? Not so much.
These answers ran off into beautiful wild cacophony between genuine, serious car talk, and pure, raw nonsense. The performance people were already there. A user named MisterrrAdjei identified the car in the promo picture as a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Forza Edition. Certainly, a highly specific glimpse of knowledge. The first mod? Aero upgrade (Forza wing). Very practical. Very race-car. DominicKir68111 seconded it with the only-make-sense decision to do “engine more power.”
Then there were the aesthetics crews. Most of his responses were rim or exhaust for sure. FrtDavi attached a picture of a barely-contained boredom with huge exhaust pipe big enough for some aesthetics. Dragonborn was into it and suggested a more patriotic route? That would be slapping a Saint George’s Flag on it. Because why not?
Weirdness aside, which was getting strange, the next suggestion came from UnderTheGuac: “Rig it to blow.” Which is… concerning? Hopefully a joke about giving it top speed. Then along came AuraMercedes_VT with some life wisdom: “make sure the car runs first lmao.” A real voice of reason in a sea of horsepower dreams.
The absolute best part of this whole thread, though, was the side arguments that originated from basically nowhere. User steviejoewonder made a joke about if the car is new, the first mod being “selling that crap and buying a classic.” A valid take! But then deox1de jumps in to argue the semantics of the word “new” and whether it meant brand new or new to you. They went back and forth for a couple of replies. It had nothing to do with cars. It was just people arguing on a video game-related tweet. Peak Twitter behavior.
You’ve got to remember the ones that just took this opportunity to rant for a minute. AdonisHercuIes pops up with “Can I get a free game code, please? No? Okay… back to Big Rigs then…” A mood. A whole mood. Then there’s Gro3_, who manages to turn a question about car mods into a commercial for their social media engagement tools. The hustle is real, my friends.
Some of the answers here are just elegantly simple with a minute to gloriously awkward interruption from AdonisHercuIes. Kleinchristoph2 answered with “No mod” and the shrug emoji. Sometimes a car is perfect as it is. Hooni76909604 agreed enthusiastically with a heart-eye emoji: “Nothing, it’s perfect.” Meanwhile, llinops simply ignored the question and demanded, “FH6 – Japan.” We all want it, buddy. We all do.
Threads like this are the ones that keep reminding you why community engagement is big for games like Forza Horizon. It’s a driving game, after all- yet all that culture surrounding the cars exists. The urge to customize in the hope that they make something uniquely their own or just putty fast. The developers pose a very simple question and are then inundated with responses that are very creative, some very funny, and others rather oddside tangents. A snapshot of what are on the minds of the players right now.
The very thought of it makes you crave to jump back into the game even quicker. You can almost see yourself opening up the upgrade menu and immediately starting to tinker. Large turbo? Race suspension? Big wing: slap it on and call it a day? It’s a trick question, really, because there are no wrong answers. Well, maybe rig it to blow is a wrong answer… probably don’t do that.
Most likely, the thread continues even to this very moment, with people piling on their two cents on air filters and weight reduction and whatever. It’s still going and much more alive. Rather cool inside view of what truly defines the Forza community. A bunch of geeky, car people, and downright jokers share a common love for virtual cars. Excuse me while I hit the shops for an exhaust for my digital Audi.
