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Forza Motorsport 4 - The Floodgates Have Opened...
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Spaceman Spiff
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shinnn said:
lol ea
They better not fuck around with the Huayra's 2011 exclusivity while they're at it.
antiquegamer
Member
brotkasten said:
Yep no plan for 3rd so far and didn't Slightly Mad said there were some "creative differences" between them and the publisher regarding the direction of the game.
I enjoy Shift well enough but 30 FPS and occasional shitty physic model really ruin the game for me.
So we will 4-5 Porsche model only in the arcade racer due to EA. So much for Peter Moore being Microsoft Trojan Horse.
This statement by Dan really make me sad -
"While we respect EA's need to run their business as they see fit, we've regularly collaborated in the past and hope we can find our way back to that approach," continues Greenawalt. "Forza had the exclusive license for all Ferrari cars, for example, on the Xbox and PC platforms. But at the end of the day, we've always found that we just weren't willing to block other racing games from having Ferraris outright, as we believed that this would do nothing but hurt the racing ecosystem."
Well. According to wikipedia (yeah, I know) the last NFS branded game to include Ferrari was 2002's Hot Pursuit 2. While shift 1 had Ferrari DLC. (?)
I'm not condoning EA's actions here, but from my armchair perspective Microsoft appear to be being even more arse-holey with the Ferrari license.
I'm not condoning EA's actions here, but from my armchair perspective Microsoft appear to be being even more arse-holey with the Ferrari license.
antiquegamer
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lord pie said:
May be EA didn't want Porsche in the game and doesn't want to pay for the license?
When they do, MS granted the license as in the case of Shift 1 DLC. (The license holder on PS3, I think it's System 3, did not allow EA to put Ferrari on that platform that's why there was no DLC for PS3). According to Badned in the other thread, that Ferrari DLC was something Slightly Mad had been working on before Shift.
More for troll value, but actually looking into it, it'd be pretty sweet to have in a game. Interesting environments and corners inspired by some pretty major circuits. Assuming that being a test track, there'd be many combinations of layouts, too.
Edit: Cheers BADNED. Didn't realise it was in any games at all!
Edit: Cheers BADNED. Didn't realise it was in any games at all!
Trunchisholm
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Shaneus said:
That's not going to happen. People seem to conveniently forget several things about PGR4. Come on, I absolutely love that game to bits, but it ran at 30fps, with some serious framerate dips with rain and with no more than 8 cars on screen. They even had to get rid of dynamic shadows in an update in order to have decent performance. There's no way you can do that at 60fps on a 360 unless you are willing to cut those many corners, and then some more.
To me, the one thing that they could improve on without wasting resources is the sense of speed, which is next to none in Forza. Would it kill to have the option to use a more dynamic kind of camera? I'm not talking Shift levels of movement and post-processing retardation, but something subtle, PGR-like.
Everybody is talking about the Porsche from the interview and nobody prasied the actual game structure details revelead.
Great ideas there gathered in one place. All 7 classes of Rivals, rivalry execution and benefits, Badges, Medals, allround leveling, car Affililation, everything.
From whar is disclosed, it seems at this point - on paper at least - that FM4 will give one of the best game-structures ever concived in driving genre. Somehow I really wished they'll further ehance everything eith some License system, along the lines of Great Driver Challenge from F355 Challenge game in order to avoid comparasions with GT system.
But nevermind, this overall career system already looks nothing less than gorgeous.
Great ideas there gathered in one place. All 7 classes of Rivals, rivalry execution and benefits, Badges, Medals, allround leveling, car Affililation, everything.
From whar is disclosed, it seems at this point - on paper at least - that FM4 will give one of the best game-structures ever concived in driving genre. Somehow I really wished they'll further ehance everything eith some License system, along the lines of Great Driver Challenge from F355 Challenge game in order to avoid comparasions with GT system.
But nevermind, this overall career system already looks nothing less than gorgeous.
Technically it isn't: it's in NFS Pro Street.Shaneus said:
Jeez, I crack myself up.
BADNED, for the sake of our sanity, throw us a marrow-filled fleshy bone in this darkest of hours. Have mercy on us, just this once. No hints, no cryptography, no riddles wrapped in conundrums. Confirm something cool and we will love you forever.
Trunchisholm
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amar212 said:
Great news. Both career modes on Forza 2 and 3 were a chore. There was no real sense of progress or achievement; it was plain boring. I'm glad they're spicing things up this time around.
eso76
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G Rom said:
nope, they already stated it was a VERY old friend, so it's either a returning fm1 track (which i doubt but you never know) or a track that has always been there.
At the same time, "revealing" an old track wouldn't make much sense, unless the track has received a significant update.
And what old track needed an update the worst ?
I'd say it's Nordschleife.
Either way, we're probably going to be treated to some delicious direct feed replay footage, so it could even be sidewinder and i'd be happy
Great, todays reveal has been ruined. I bet Dan was just lurking in this thread and thinking along these lines:
"Hm, can't wait until we do the unveiling of Nordschleife tomorrow. It's incubated long eno... wait, what's this?"
"Hm, can't wait until we do the unveiling of Nordschleife tomorrow. It's incubated long eno... wait, what's this?"
"Fuck it. If the folks want Sidewinder, then that's what we'll give them! Add the rest of the tracks as DLC."eso76 said:it could even be sidewinder and i'd be happy
fabricated backlash
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Youtube finally uploaded my video:
Sorry for the shaky camera and the suck ass driving, but drifting around corners with the BMW M5 was tons of fun:
Gamescom Gameplay
Sorry for the shaky camera and the suck ass driving, but drifting around corners with the BMW M5 was tons of fun:
Gamescom Gameplay
Diablohead
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so happy that the driver turns the wheel more then 5degrees now when using a pad, that shit was annoying in forza 3 especially in regular cars.boris feinbrand said:
Trunchisholm
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CozMick said:
Not for me. It doesn't make sense to have weather if your framerate is going to sink, which would most probably be the case. I would love to have proper weather implemented, but they have made the right call making sure that they support 16 car on track and having proper, rock-solid, v-synced, 60fps gameplay.
Night racing to me is simply not worth it. Sure, it might be cool to have them check that box, but it adds nothing from a gameplay perspective; it's just the same tracks with poor visibility.
Metalmurphy
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Trunchisholm said:
Are you serious?
Trunchisholm
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Metalmurphy said:
I am. I hate most night racing unless it's in a street circuit. Even then, I barely tolerated it in PGR4. To me, it's just no fun.
Snkfanatic
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Jamesways said:
That is a shame...I really enjoyed Shift 2. It runs amazing on my PC and while the controls and car physics are not the best I still had a great time with it.