SmackAttack
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Yeah, just read that. Can't freakin' wait to see this game.
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Forza Horizon 2 announced (360, Xbox One), releasing this fall
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Megatron
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Almost by definition!
The more popular something is, the better it must therefore be! It's like science. That's how science works, right? Yeah... science.
TrueGrime
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Well thanks for letting us know bud!
Louis Cyphre
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It's hard to ignore the XBox 360 userbase so I can see why they are doing it and why many other games are still coming out cross-gen. I'm glad two different teams are working on it so hopefully we get a real distinction of how much better the XBox One is because TitanFall didn't really. What's interesting is they are announcing this prior to E3. Must have one hell of a show to announce.
Technically not a racing game. It's a griefing simulator.
TrueGrime
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Yup. I think that's the way it should be with games that will release on current and next gen. Different developers develop the game.
CaptainSlow
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Weren't the winter Olympics in Italy once recently? There's mountainous regions in S. Europe that have snow.
Edit: Torino 06 was in Turin, Italy
Kabuki Waq
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Fuck I would prefer the sumo version for xbone.
Tenchi Ryu
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In this situation, trust in Playground, and to a smaller extinct Turn10 who's helping. They'll make sure to have this sucker locked down at 30.
NullPointer
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I always knew it in my heart, patience means suffering.
Just looks like another ho-hum annualized Forza title with nothing new to me. Stop milking it Turn 10!
HighResTomato
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All that grief in Luigi's eyes. Mario Kart is fun but it's in like a different racing genre.
TypuyBaran
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Post of the year? LMAOROTFLMAO!
Hopefully, it has diverse terrain. Part of the reason they chose Colorado originally is it has so much variety in climate in one region. Obviously, they did not represent the state ultra realistically, but realistically enough so it looks sort of like the state. They should do the same in the second I am sure.
See You Next Wednesday
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NOTaStalker
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Wow. MS must be planning one hell of an e3 with all this stuff being announced beforehand. I cant freaking wait!!
Its pretty cool how the Forza Horizon scene is on Youtube.. plenty of videos of people drag racing, cruising, having car meets, etc etc. I hope Microsoft expands the social features of the game tenfold in the sequel.
Black Mantis
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It happens...
http://storyful.com/stories/18482-southern-europe-feels-arctic-chill
I go to Madrid (not saying that's where the game's going to be) quite often and have seen it snow heavily a couple of times. Italy also has some snowy places.
Gouda Jouji
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If the 360 version is good I might have to bust it out of the closet.
you know, maybe he wants "top" performance in the console realm.
telling people to get a pc whenever they say the performance of the xbox one doesn't justify its price proposition is questionable in my eyes
Wow, that may be the only time I've ever been tempted to get a Wii U.
Excited about Horizon 2, though. Only played the demo of the first game, but I think this might be up my alley.
yes turin is near the mountains but poiting at south europe as "playground" i would cut out that type of scenario like turin.... when u think at south europe . u wanna see ..yellow fields..dry terrain...sun everywhere and sea..there sisnt a lots of difference in weather between turin (italy) and lugano (switzerland)...so coming back to the topic i dont think they add snow as effect
Yeap, announce games beforehand then show a shiet load of trailers for E3!
TheAdmiester
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So hyped for this game, definitely set to be the best racing game of the year.
Does Gran Tourismo interest you more than Fourza?
umm... why?
I love Sumo, but why would they be considered preferable to Playground Games for Forza Horizon? Playground Games are responsible for everything great about the first entry, and made one of the most technically sound 360 games ever performance-wise. Sumo had the disadvantage of dealing with multiplats, but nothing they put out on 360 compares favourably in terms of performance (even for something like Outrun, which was running at 60fps on the OG Xbox).
It's not like Sumo making the Xbox One version would magically turn it into Sonic Transformed.
I dont think a dry road will suddenly get snowed upon and change the physics of the pavement but hopefully they will include some snowy mountain drives for us to play on.
Louis Cyphre
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This game isn't coming to the PS4 so the whole performance gap is irrelevant to the discussion to begin with. On top of that he mentions Project Cars which is why I mentioned the PC since he seems to care so much about performance. His whole post was very questionable but he's been exploited enough, let's move on.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Look at the story in them eyes! Luigi's seen it; the bad side of Mushroom Kingdom Nintendo protects us from.
This guy gets it.
To be honest I'm really happy that Microsoft persuaded me to buy their console. I'll have all three again now.
Really looking forward to what Playground will do with X1 hardware, if what we got on the 360 was any indication this game will be gorgeous on current hardware.
statham
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Bravo. I can feel how much this upsets you that you have to enter this thread to post this.
Mass Effect
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I would argue yes it does in many cases. More people playing = better odds of different game modes and playlists being populated (see the issue with Titanfall PC), a wider range of skill levels (many games with very low player populations only have the hardcore try-hards left, which makes the game no fun for beginners or people who just aren't as good), and helps to keep the game alive longer ("well everyone is playing this game so I might as well too" wanting to play with your friends, etc).
LoL Awesomeness....
Garrett 2U
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#dead
Actually there are, a lot of mountains in that region. Its freaking cold in the winter in some of those countries. I'm from Portugal
:-D
Am trying to think of another example where we have two developers making the same game but... with different engines and hardware....
For the games to be exactly the same design decisions and stuff will still need to be made with the 360 and the old engine both in mind.
Just weird.
Actually I can think of one really old school example... There was this boxing game on PS2 called... royal rumble or something. I played it at my friends house on his PS2 and liked it. I saw it a while later for PS1 (which I only had) and bought it. It was like a completely different game. I returned it the next day and learned my lesson
For the games to be exactly the same design decisions and stuff will still need to be made with the 360 and the old engine both in mind.
Just weird.
Actually I can think of one really old school example... There was this boxing game on PS2 called... royal rumble or something. I played it at my friends house on his PS2 and liked it. I saw it a while later for PS1 (which I only had) and bought it. It was like a completely different game. I returned it the next day and learned my lesson
Am trying to think of another example where we have two developers making the same game but... with different engines and hardware....
For the games to be exactly the same design decisions and stuff will still need to be made with the 360 and the old engine both in mind.
Just weird.
Actually I can think of one really old school example... There was this boxing game on PS2 called... royal rumble or something. I played it at my friends house on his PS2 and liked it. I saw it a while later for PS1 (which I only had) and bought it. It was like a completely different game. I returned it the next day and learned my lesson
Splinter Cell Double Agent?
I'm confident this will turn out better than that did.
Am trying to think of another example where we have two developers making the same game but... with different engines and hardware....
For the games to be exactly the same design decisions and stuff will still need to be made with the 360 and the old engine both in mind.
Just weird.
Actually I can think of one really old school example... There was this boxing game on PS2 called... royal rumble or something. I played it at my friends house on his PS2 and liked it. I saw it a while later for PS1 (which I only had) and bought it. It was like a completely different game. I returned it the next day and learned my lesson
Many of the cross-gen titles from the beginning of the PS3/X360 era followed this structure. Ubisoft and EA titles pop into mind. The results were generally well received.
Super Stardust
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Whipped Spartan
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Looking forward to this. Loved first game.
Hmmmm do I go with Sumo, who have proven time and time again that they can't make a racing game with a locked solid framerate or Playground, the company that produced the best racing game all of last gen? Tough call, but I'm going with Playground on this one.
Good shout. Although those versions seem a little bit more separate than FH2 will be.
However I wonder about the process. Say if Playground wanted to put this specific car into FH2. Do they first have to run this by Sumo just in case it's not possible to get the car into the 360 version & engine without massive compromises?
It's actually quite interesting. Splinter Cell makes sense... they clearly went "well here's the brief... off you go you two teams and do your own things" and you got two versions with differences. FH2... I just really want to know how they are approaching this with the core differences. Interesting.