Hip Hop
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I'm waiting on Amazon to drop an open box Xbox One below $299, but they won't budge. I'm ready to get an Xbox just for this game.
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Forza Horizon 2 - 3 Gameplay videos (IGN)
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I'm waiting on Amazon to drop an open box Xbox One below $299, but they won't budge. I'm ready to get an Xbox just for this game.
Miles Quaritch
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Weather system sounds incredible. Also love what I'm hearing about rainwater collecting on the ground and filling in cracks in the road.
And with heavy rain comes MUD. Glorious, glorious MUD.
And with heavy rain comes MUD. Glorious, glorious MUD.
KnightHero117
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TheAdmiester
Member
I can't believe that's footage from a game, let alone a console game on the supposedly weaker machine.
There's literally only one thing that gives away that it's not real and that's the slight shimmering aliasing + glow on the edges of the vents.
Based on that tiny gif you can see them impact, and the beads either shift or collapse as the surface tension gets hit by more rain. It looks pretty close to that in real-life.
Flame suit on....
I personally have one big problem with this game, that being, it's ridiculous seeing lamborghinis, corvette, Ferraris etc... Going 100+mph off road. Heck if you can't go 30mph in a vineyard without breaking something (they don't even slow down off road). Being open world is fine, just that the gameplay would be better if they focused on cars that actually could race off road like a Mitsubishi evo or Subaru wrx. Compared to supercars that stays on the pavement.
I personally have one big problem with this game, that being, it's ridiculous seeing lamborghinis, corvette, Ferraris etc... Going 100+mph off road. Heck if you can't go 30mph in a vineyard without breaking something (they don't even slow down off road). Being open world is fine, just that the gameplay would be better if they focused on cars that actually could race off road like a Mitsubishi evo or Subaru wrx. Compared to supercars that stays on the pavement.
Miles Quaritch
Member
There's no need for a flame suit. It's an arcade racer, there's no need to adhere the stubborn rules by which sim racers go by.
Man. Can not wait for this game.
Miles Quaritch
Member
It came out three weeks before the game.
It was an amazing demo. I wasn't interested in the series at that point as I figured it was just another Forza, but that demo was a revelation. I haven't changed my mind about a game as fast I did when I played that demo.
Want to say it was about a month or two before the game released. Don't completely remember though.
Muppet of a Man
Member
This game looks like a ton of fun. I wish all arcade style games had this much going on.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Three weeks before the game was released.
BruiserBear
Banned
August at the earliest.
:/
Heh, sorry about that. Who knows though... Things may be different with the sequel.
Come on, man, you're losing control over hyperbole levels.
The first unrealistic thing I notice on this clip is neither the shimmering nor the aliasing, but saturated as hell colours, giving some cartoon feeling to the whole scene.
It's a really good looking game, but there's literally no way it could pass for reality.
It's almost cell-shaded, yeah.
super crazy beautiful, but seems very autovista - photo mode will look great. The gameplay clips of actual races looked a lot simpler to me.
That looks pretty decent. Rain looks nice though, for sure!
eddfromtheriver
Banned
I take it you're not looking at the background then?
That is the guy who said this game looks far better than DriveClub, so...
Gif does look awesome, though.
I dont think rain disappears when they hit a surface in real life, look at the bottom right corner of that gif. irl it collects and drips down (even moreso on a slopped surface), what i see on that gif is rain drops hitting the car and disappearing...also from a couple of game play clips we've seen, while the cars are doing 110mph the rain drops on the vehicles are static, theyre not being effected by wind.
TrueGrime
Member
Photomode looks vibrant but the game itself doesn't look like it so much.
Terbinator
Member
Is this meant to be the XB1's equivalent of The Orders 800p? Jesus fucking Christ; beating, meet the dead horse.
Terbinator
Member
I think fog/mist/haze are in.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
This game is absolutely stunning.
Nice.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/18/forza-horizon-2as-radical-new-weather-ign-first
I think there aren't "fixed" weather situation in this game. Sounds like it's dynamic based on different factors. Rain will not always be just rain. It will be different every time. Add some wind - and you have a completely different situation. Heavy rain. At night. Cloudy. Light rain with fog. And so on ...
For me the rain and the way it stays on the rooftop is the bigger way having said that the game truly looks beautiful also chalk me up for someone who doesn't like the colours.
I love colours but to me it's looks too "plastic"
I think you could add lighting and thunder for effects given thunder was hinted in the reveal trailer and am guessing lighting will also be there.
Miles Quaritch
Member
We can dream
GT?
Ricky Ricardo
Member
That's why I don't really pay attention to the console wars crap.
Look at some of the games the Wii U is putting out. In terms of the almighty "gap", the Wii U is several steps BENEATH the Xbox One technologically. That's not stopping Ninty from making some gorgeous looking games.
XONE games will continue to get better, weaker specs considered and cast aside.
No, real-life. I wasn't a fan of the implementation in GT, even though for the sake of a bullet-point, it does what we're talking about here.
This is normal gameplay speed, btw:
(At full-size it looked also like oversized squares, too.)
I'm still a PGR man, for loving my rain effects.
TheAdmiester
Member
The trees look far too detailed to be GT.
The only saturated thing seems to be the car, and that's because it's a crazy shade of yellow. Everything else is fine colour wise, it's not like the world loses colour in the rain.
I am looking at the background and it looks great.
EDIT:
@Above: The main shortcomings in GT's rain are the wipers. The raindrops would look fine if they were smaller, but the wipers look like they're running 30fps animations in a (mostly) 60fps game and they make the game's screen tearing REALLY noticable. There's only like 10 frames of that gif where the wipers are actually in one piece.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Oh man this game is going to be so much fun.
Have they revealed anything else about the Barns? Are they the same as before?
Have they revealed anything else about the Barns? Are they the same as before?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Oh dear, can't believe I was stupid enough to think it was from GT.
Barns are back. I was hoping for a change, but I guess barns are cool.
Barns are back. I was hoping for a change, but I guess barns are cool.
TheAdmiester
Member
I can't remember which interview it was, but apparently half of the barn finds are completely new cars to the Forza franchise.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Well that's one way to make sure people hunt them down. I do hope they are much harder to find in H2 though. I didn't feel like they hid them well enough in H1.
Probably like 90% of my enjoyment of the more recent Need For Speed Most Wanted was just searching for the cars hidden in the environment. It scratches the same sort of "itch" as the agility orbs for Crackdown. I love it when they do it right in these arcade-style open-world games.
Maybe it's not colour saturation and they just cranked contrast up to 11, but there's obviously something very off in this scene's lighting.
That's what Tuscany looks like in the summer, by the way:
Notice how the olive trees look dark in the game, although they're quite light in the real life.