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Sony And Microsofts Next Generation Racers Rumored
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yurinka
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I also want this, mixed a bit with Rollcage (riding walls). I want something unique and different instead of the boring typical 'realistic' urban racer.Wish it were the futuristic car racer Wipeout prequel 2048 teased coming from Evolution's end:
But alas, boring old modern cars it is
That's not a tease. That's a full blown promise of awesome. HYPE
All will be revealed. So hyped for what Evolution is bringing to the table.
Chuck Norris
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I'm just hoping that Ged Talbot has control of the game, if he really was a major force behind the PGR games. Evolution have made a bunch of solid games, but I don't think they've ever made anything truly great
Blueandigo
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It only does new IP's.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
If Evolution's mystery title is PGR in everything but name, I'll buy a PS4 just for it.
Unless PGRV is everything I expect it to be. Then I'll buy a NextBox.
Oh fuck it I'll get both. SO BROKE.
How do you know? HOW DO YOU KNOW?!?
(What do you know?)
I'm not super familiar with Evolution's work (I only have the free Motorstorm that came with PSN) but is there any chance that it could become just another tacky, dudebro racer like the NFS games of a few years ago (pre-Criterion)? I'd hope not, but (seemingly) only 2 ex-Bizarre guys in the team, it could go either way. Just look at Forza Horizon.
I know as much as you do. I get a strange feeling that your predictions are panning out.
I'm fucking hyped. I'll create a 60fps PGR4 vid for the appreciation thread.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Frankly, I thought Forza Horizon was my GOTY 2012, so I don't mind it being like that, gameplay wise. I can leave the festival atmosphere, though.
We're going to have to wait for MS to announce their conference before we here anything about PGR.
I'm really excited to see what Evolution has in store. I just hope it's traditional racer and not some futuristic crap with guns and rockets...
If the rumour how they wanted to get "Gran Turismo" brandname in the title, then it is 100% safe to say it is "normal" racer.
I am not trying to dance in the waters of wishing but I see something as great open-world racer in real cities and probably some serious off-roading too.
I have to emphasise again the quality of assets built for this generation of consoles from 2005-2010 - either we speak about Project Gotham series and their modelling of the cities, Gran Turismo with insane Premium models quality, great vehicle models all 4 outsourced studios made for Forza 3&4 (especially 4), what Playground, Eden and Criterion achieved in real-time streaming of complex surroundings..
I think it is very safe to say how even using this-gen assets in full-LOD, with just some HDR, particle and alpha effects and environmental luminosity would look stunning in 1080p/60fps. And for that they'd need *just* 4X more raw power. With current speculation of 8X raw-power and multi-core processing with sub-routines for next-gen, we can only await for our heads to be blown off.
I am not trying to dance in the waters of wishing but I see something as great open-world racer in real cities and probably some serious off-roading too.
I have to emphasise again the quality of assets built for this generation of consoles from 2005-2010 - either we speak about Project Gotham series and their modelling of the cities, Gran Turismo with insane Premium models quality, great vehicle models all 4 outsourced studios made for Forza 3&4 (especially 4), what Playground, Eden and Criterion achieved in real-time streaming of complex surroundings..
I think it is very safe to say how even using this-gen assets in full-LOD, with just some HDR, particle and alpha effects and environmental luminosity would look stunning in 1080p/60fps. And for that they'd need *just* 4X more raw power. With current speculation of 8X raw-power and multi-core processing with sub-routines for next-gen, we can only await for our heads to be blown off.
Yeah we racers this gen came vary close to be photorealistic. Assets are already at point in which they can't be distinguished from real cars. New GT6 or Forza 5 will absolutely blow our heads off.
Ninja Moomin
Banned
Insulting - games industry marketing (or at least publishers') has become purely about scale, rather than creativity or ingenuity.
Please don't blanket an entire profession for the sins of a few.
What's that telling us though? I mean... we knew Lucid was doing something that would come out this year... is there another reason for me to get excited that I'm overlooking?
velociraptor
Junior Member
Evolution haven't exactly made a bad game. Their entire background is racing games. They made the WRC games on the PS2, and of course, all the Motorstorm's on the PS3.
SunhiLegend
Member
Can't wait to see what Evolution studios have in store after reading this news.
Would have been nice to get another Motorstorm game instead, I really liked PGR but Motorstorm was pretty much the perfect arcade racing experience for me this gen. Hopefully the game they're working on has plenty of split-screen options including split-screen online.
Would have been nice to get another Motorstorm game instead, I really liked PGR but Motorstorm was pretty much the perfect arcade racing experience for me this gen. Hopefully the game they're working on has plenty of split-screen options including split-screen online.
REMEMBER CITADEL
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Terbinator
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Who are Lucid Games? The remnants of the Wipeout team?
No. It was founded by devs from Bizarre Creations after BC got shut down by Activision.
REMEMBER CITADEL
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The remnants of Bizarre, but they also have some WipEout people on board.
Terbinator
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Ah, cool.
*Please be PGR5*
*Please be PGR5*
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
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It's just a really great racing series, very dear to many people. It was uncertain whether we would ever see a PGR title again after the last game bombed and the studio that made it went under several years after that.
pgr4 is the best racer this generation
the right mix sim and arcade with awesome graphics for its time
Terbinator
Member
And a sterling online component in every game since PGR2.
Can Crusher
Banned
Man this image doesn't look promising.
Agent Ironside
Member
I was going to say.. where's the textures?!
Ninja Moomin
Banned
Right. Because more of the same is exactly what next gen needs.
We've had the sim racer done to death.
Show me something NEW... something that's not trying to be GT, or Wipeout.
The reason those games are seminal is that they took the topes of the genre and fashioned something new with them.
Give me something unexpected. The last thing we need next gen to feel is 'Traditional'
I doubt it's representative of the final product.
Indeed.
Also I just hope neither the PS4 or the Xbox 3 lock used games, since it would ruin these awesome announcements for me.
velociraptor
Junior Member
Where is this image from? Is this Lucid game's racing game?
dragonelite
Member
Come on man you can hardly see anything sharp with that dof amount.
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I agree. PGR games are known for their good looks, and launching a console with an obviously underwhelming looking racer is not something I see Microsoft doing.
http://www.lucidgames.co.uk/
eso76
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But the road is in focus and DAT road texture looks current gen-ish, seems to lack AF etc.
Man I hope they're not planning to release this on x360 at this point.
Can Crusher
Banned
I would say you can see a bit of the lightning, shadowing and texturing.
3 was pretty damn cool at the launch of the generation but I don't know if I'd call it special. It's just a racing game at the end of the day. It didn't have a cool gimmick like Burnout Paradise or Split Second or anything like that.
I would really like to see a new PRG and that game could make a great launch title (that and the rumoured Alan Wake 2 would be the first 2 games I buy) maybe they could use Turn10's engine and have Lucid make the game like Playground did with Forza Horizon.
I guess they may not be for everyone but as far as arcade racers go I found the PGR series to be right up there with the likes of Burnout (minus the crashing).
For me PGR had some great features like Kudos and the sense of speed and handling was the exactly what I wanted from an arcade racer. It was also one of the first online multiplayer racers I got into (although I have yet to win an online race in any PGR game) and the people I played that game with were all pretty nice and friendly people.
I guess they may not be for everyone but as far as arcade racers go I found the PGR series to be right up there with the likes of Burnout (minus the crashing).
For me PGR had some great features like Kudos and the sense of speed and handling was the exactly what I wanted from an arcade racer. It was also one of the first online multiplayer racers I got into (although I have yet to win an online race in any PGR game) and the people I played that game with were all pretty nice and friendly people.
Terbinator
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The Florence tracks were so glorious.
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