Remember reading an article from about a month or so ago saying there wasn't a story. My mistake then -- would prefer if there wasn't one TBH.
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Forza Horizon 2: Driving Social Drivatars, 1000 player clubs, instant multiplayer
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Remember reading an article from about a month or so ago saying there wasn't a story. My mistake then -- would prefer if there wasn't one TBH.
You work on Forza?
Wat. No. Just played it on GC.
Miles Quaritch
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Friend played this at Gamecom and he hasn't stopped gushing about how amazing it was.
The openness of the game, the visuals, the weather effects, the sound. He fell n love almost straight away and made me mad jelly in the process.
Where's the demo, Playground? WHERE'S THE GODDAMN DEMO.
The openness of the game, the visuals, the weather effects, the sound. He fell n love almost straight away and made me mad jelly in the process.
Where's the demo, Playground? WHERE'S THE GODDAMN DEMO.
That's true, to call it a story would possibly be a bit much which I think is where the initial confusion stemmed from. But there are inter connecting cutscenes in Forza Horizon 2 in very much the same vein as the original.
drugstore_cowboy
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That's enough for me.
There's downsides to openness, imo there needs to be structure and incentive to explore otherwise I spend most of my time doing the bits I enjoy and ignoring the rest.
This is a problem I have in the FM career when I end up with dozens of events I can't be arsed with as I've driven all the 'good' ones first. Makes the game a chore to complete.
Horizon 1 played great with a wheel, no worries apart from cockpit and bumper visibility when crossing the fields.
There's downsides to openness, imo there needs to be structure and incentive to explore otherwise I spend most of my time doing the bits I enjoy and ignoring the rest.
This is a problem I have in the FM career when I end up with dozens of events I can't be arsed with as I've driven all the 'good' ones first. Makes the game a chore to complete.
Horizon 1 played great with a wheel, no worries apart from cockpit and bumper visibility when crossing the fields.
I wonder if MS are working on something for the XB1 that's similar to the Wireless Speed Wheel on 360. I used that to play Horizon 1, and it worked surprisingly well. I think the only time I ever used a controller to play FH1 was during the demo.
It sucks that I can't use the Speed Wheel on XB1.
It sucks that I can't use the Speed Wheel on XB1.
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44 days til this is out!
drugstore_cowboy
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Time flies when there's a flood of media, hate the wait when it all dries up.
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I wonder if MS are working on something for the XB1 that's similar to the Wireless Speed Wheel on 360. I used that to play Horizon 1, and it worked surprisingly well. I think the only time I ever used a controller to play FH1 was during the demo.
It sucks that I can't use the Speed Wheel on XB1.
I couldn't agree more. I'd love them to offer something similar for Xbox One, and soon.
Porsche9146
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Here's an early approximation of the full map:
And here is the fantastic video that it came from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqb1bWJsyNk
And here is the fantastic video that it came from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqb1bWJsyNk
skyfinch
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Not too impressed with this video. A lot of draw in and I don't like how bright everything is when going through tunnels.
guitarhero
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Looks quite bigger than Colorado's map. How the hell are they going to put that into the 360?
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its probably going to smaller, its being worked on by someone else
Here's an early approximation of the full map:
And here is the fantastic video that it came from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqb1bWJsyNk
Oh God, I love this.
My hype for this game has been a constantly increasing scale, and I can't wait for it now. Day one, easy.
nikos
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Here's an early approximation of the full map:
And here is the fantastic video that it came from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqb1bWJsyNk
This is disappointing, as it seems to have the same issue Forza Horizon's map did. It felt like a bunch of tracks that were connected via random highways rather than a real map. I understand we can go off-road this time, but off-roading in non off-road vehicles, which most of the lineup will probably consist of, never appealed to me.
Hopefully there are roads on that map that aren't visible because it's zoomed too far out.
and those do not show up on the map nor the in-game gps map.
It's actually all of the active aero parts, so I'm sure they'll be fixed by launch. I was wondering why it was popping up so rapidly on the Bentley before; funny to see.
Imdon't get the apeal of going off road with super cars, seems silly to me. It's great that there aren't invisible walls on the roads but encouraging off roading with those cars is weird IMO.
Will there be a demo for this? My son will probably want this, i got him F5 yesterday and he seems to be on a racing games spree right now.
Will there be a demo for this? My son will probably want this, i got him F5 yesterday and he seems to be on a racing games spree right now.
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Then don't.
Dee Dah Dave
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People are happy with the map? Looks a bit small for my liking.
Wut? Just check the size of the streets. It seems to be pretty large.
Certinty
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Hard to tell from just a picture of it, but it seems like there aren't as many roads as I expected.
Silly? It's a video game! It's gunna be awesome.
I dont know if this gamespot video was posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqYDhUJYVs
dudes (apparently not very familiar with f5) they try to do a race not for placement, but for skill points.
see how that worked out for them lol
(also all aids you can see are on yet they have this ..trouble)
which in turn means I am less worried that this would turn too much arcade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqYDhUJYVs
dudes (apparently not very familiar with f5) they try to do a race not for placement, but for skill points.
see how that worked out for them lol
(also all aids you can see are on yet they have this ..trouble)
which in turn means I am less worried that this would turn too much arcade
Dee Dah Dave
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I'm not saying the map is small, just not as big as I thought / hoped it would be.
And whats going on with that large and seemingly unused area to the left of Sisteron, will that be driveable or somehow blocked off? Same thing on the far right. Hmm.
And whats going on with that large and seemingly unused area to the left of Sisteron, will that be driveable or somehow blocked off? Same thing on the far right. Hmm.
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I was perfectly happy with the map in the first game, so anything that size or bigger - and this seems bigger - is fine by me.
FH1 map for comparison
http://www.myforza.net/horizon/images/map/fh_map_minisize70.jpg
Seems bigger. Maybe 1.5x the size? Since they are hesitating on talking about a specific size. They would talk 2x bigger, 3x bigger if it was the case.
edit: theres a golf club, a industrial area.. and looks like NICE has a big area for street races.
http://www.myforza.net/horizon/images/map/fh_map_minisize70.jpg
Seems bigger. Maybe 1.5x the size? Since they are hesitating on talking about a specific size. They would talk 2x bigger, 3x bigger if it was the case.
edit: theres a golf club, a industrial area.. and looks like NICE has a big area for street races.
Black Mantis
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Same thing as the previous game. The map is presented as part of a larger country, with the drivable area in the highlighted portion.
The area you can drive in is 3 times bigger:
Fulton stresses that Playground Games has been able to create a world that is bigger in virtually every dimension than the one we had in Horizon.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06...ramerate-music-more-detailed-ign-first?page=3
thats a great reference point, nice catch.
worst case scenario though would be that the airstrip is long enough for a mile drag, plus comfort zone front/back which would make it maybe around 2,5-3km
maybe helios can just give us the spec for airstrip length in forza horizon scale
if he does want to give away yet the total square km number
If you watch the video linked with the map image, the green waypoint line is 10.9 miles long. If you straighten it out, you are clearly looking at less than 10.9 miles east-west. Let's say it's 10 miles, that would be around 16 kilometers. It's not a huge map by any means, but it will probably do just fine.
Personally my expectations for open world driving game world size is now set by The Crew. I'm not saying the world is quite as detailed or that The Crew can compete with FH2 when it comes to driving physics or production quality, but the sheer size of their map is nothing I've ever seen in a racing game (ok, there's Fuel, but that map felt just hollow in comparison to The Crew/FH2) and that's why FH2 map size feels, while sufficient for the purposes of the game, really small in comparison.
(The Crew has a lot to improve though, hopefully the next beta in couple of weeks shows a lot of improvement. That game has another huge advantage and that is the fact that (on PC) our existing wheels work just fine with the game.)
I dont know if this gamespot video was posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqYDhUJYVs
dudes (apparently not very familiar with f5) they try to do a race not for placement, but for skill points.
see how that worked out for them lol
(also all aids you can see are on yet they have this ..trouble)
which in turn means I am less worried that this would turn too much arcade
They were just "competing" with each other for skill points, and didn't care about placement....still though..
#1 rule of gaming journalism..
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Took the time to match up (somewhat) the size of the maps. Going by the main highways (size wise), this is my best guess.
Horizon 2 in color, Horizon 1 in B&W.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Looks freaking stunning from these videos. So glad this is up "first" in Xbox's major releases this fall, it's my most anticipated, more so than SO and MCC.
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