Forza Horizon 3 (PC/XB1, 2016) Confirmed; Set in Australia
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I'm more excited about FH3 than any other game at the show, and I don't even own a Bone any more (or a decent PC). This game looks staggeringly good - the thought of playing it at 60fps might just be too good to resist.
Time to think seriously about building a gaming rig. Again.
Time to think seriously about building a gaming rig. Again.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Surfers Paradise!Map from leaked video:
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Helios, just tell me you have the Surfers Paradise CART circuit in there and it's my automatic GOTY.
GlamFM
Banned
Yes boss!
Does anyone have any idea how FH2 performed? I guess this is a moneymaker for MS given the resources they throw at it?
SOON: I will have to abandon all threads related to FH. It's a series that gets me as hyped as anything by R*
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Hopefully we get to see some Xbox One gameplay soon. During the show they said someone on stage was playing it on Xbox One while others played on PC. I wonder if we saw the Xbox One version.
GHG
Member
Now.... we wait.
Don't do this. 100 days... Jesus.
It will be, it did look worse than the PC version by quite a bit when they swapped between.
This game looks absolutely amazing, thanks Playground for giving me another time sink. I loved FH2, the best racer I played IMO and this seems to smoke it.
We saw all lol
The one with the BMW and Lambo was Xbox One. They all introduced them even.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Lol? What difference does it make?
Immersion. Now that you are the head of the festival I wonder how this will translate into the narrative.
What difference does anything audiovisual have to with a game? It defined the original game's setting. FH2 just wasn't the same with the scaled back "road trip" presentation.
I miss hearing about the other competitors, collect wristbands that meant something, hearing the radio DJs interviewing competitors about what they think of the new guy (you), and seeing the stalls set up around the area (not just a bland marker floating in the sky).
The first game had soul.
GlamFM
Banned
I wonder if by "head of the festival" they just mean that you can set up races and events.
Really worried that the music aspect is gone.
Also worried that there is no story and no cut-scenes.
What difference does anything audiovisual have to with a game? It defined the original game's setting. FH2 just wasn't the same with the scaled back "road trip" presentation.
I miss hearing about the other competitors, collect wristbands that meant something, hearing the radio DJs interviewing competitors about what they think of the new guy (you), and seeing the stalls set up around the area (not just a bland marker floating in the sky).
The first game had soul.
This.
I always loved seeing the music festival happening off in the distance...then to drive closer and closer to it, the energy just ramping up. The stages all lit up, pyrotechnics going off on them, you're able to hear the music, the carnival rides all lit and going...
Yeah, really missed that in FH2, and looks like it's gone even more in 3.
Yeah, really missed that in FH2, and looks like it's gone even more in 3.
Wow.
drugstore_cowboy
Member
Cloud reflections on the car gave me some of the same vibes as that bit on end of the GT6 video from a while back.
Wasn't in FH2 was it?
Wasn't in FH2 was it?
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
Going by the speed and time passed the dam itself is 400 meters long from one end to the other. The map is 29 dam's wide (and about the same height), that makes it around 12x1. 2 km or 144 km^2. That map is larger than it looks like.
I want this demo on my console now! Pretty please? Helios? Anyone? aaaahhhh
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Was it footage of the western ring road McDonald's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Hq7NyluYQ
try this link. different player - same car from the other gameplay footage above though.
ScientificPizza
Banned
holy shit this can't be real
It seems easier to grab direct feed videos from this E3. Maybe devs have finally allowed a simple USB plug-in on the demo rigs? Can't say I'll miss shaky potato shit, and quite right in 2016.
tomchoucrew
Member
We also have some gameplay of the entirely E3 demo if you guys want to check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRTqOxOTks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRTqOxOTks
Holy fuckin shit <333
GHG
Member
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
TIL there are fans of the Forza Horizon lore.
Yeah agreed! All we need is that Gamersyde B-Roll. Based Helios, let us have it!
GlamFM
Banned
Atmosphere.
Yeah agreed. I hope we still get a real festival atmosphere. That being said the fact we have basically a fully fledged career creator with the ability to seamlessly play anybody else's created events is amazing with 4 Player Co-op cross-play.
tomchoucrew
Member
Oh, and I don't know if it's new or not but the devs confirmed to us that the map of the game will be twice as big as the one in Forza Horizon 2.
Rubber banding seems quite prominent after comparing those two gameplay videos. The driver in the second video slowed down, stuffed up plenty of times and went off-route a fair bit and still 'just' won by a similar margin to the first, who drove a lot, lot cleaner.
I guess it's needed in a game like this to keep things exciting?
Edit: I was comparing these two videos (as a third was added where the player comes second):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCUo6j7uwGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Hq7NyluYQ
I guess it's needed in a game like this to keep things exciting?
Edit: I was comparing these two videos (as a third was added where the player comes second):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCUo6j7uwGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Hq7NyluYQ
GlamFM
Banned
I want a giant "Burning Man" style festival in the middle of the desert that you can see from miles away at night.
I can only imagine how much nicer the livery editor will be to work with on PC controls. Click and drag mouse controls for vinyl shapes would be fantastic.
Likely so, though now I'm curious how it would do that in their 4 player co-op races. Who would the AI be rubber banding off of?
ResidentDante
Member
I think it's needed on such open racing games, but I found it far to heavy rubber banded in the grand finale race of FH2.
I think it's because a road trip to a certain location, not a race. The AI matches your speed, just like Horizon 2 so it feels like you're apart of a group. That's if you're talking about when the Lambo/Trophy truck drives to the beach.
My man.
Poimandres
Member
Looks sweet, and a local setting to boot!
Thanks for putting this on PC Microsoft.
Thanks for putting this on PC Microsoft.
Mmm. Good point. Maybe it's disabled entirely for co-op events.
Actually, it'd be nice if there was a option to toggle rubber banding off for all events (including SP), but then that would bring attention to it and rubber banding is normally a thing devs don't like to overtly talk about (apart from saying it doesn't exist in game X).
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Looking at the footage the festival is taking place by the coast.
FootballFan
Member
looks excellent
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
Yeah.. that still says nothing really except that co-op mode has cross play. Hopefully it has proper MP cross play though.