Magic Carpet
Gold Member
QWOP racing with raytraced graphics and the most advanced physics ever put forth in a video game.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Asobo Studio (Microsoft Flight Simulator) is reportedly prototyping a racing game for Xbox.
- Thread starter Eddie-Griffin
- Start date
CeeJay
Member
Thanks for that. Even more impressive then that Asobo built the engine in house.
SportsFan581
Member
Hopefully a kart racing game with all the Microsoft ips
Ever since I saw the fortnite Master Chief on that mini warthog (I saw a gif on twitter, if someone can find it, please post/tag me)
It made me realise they could easily do a great kart racer and make it work
Edit: don't matter posted an image below.
They have a ton of IPs they could bring into something like that, new and old. I'd be interested in giving that concept a look.
Although an OTT arcade racer on city streets with randomized, fast moving npc traffic during races akin to a modern midtown madness would be cool too.
Last edited:
marjo
Member
"Nick’s source "
Personally I wish Asobo would create a combat version of FS like the one MS made years ago. That was awesome.
I would love a modern game in the same vein as Strike Commander!
Last edited:
Oddvintagechap
Banned
Forza Vertical, Forza but the car are planes.
CamHostage
Member
Eh, that'd be a pretty different game. Forza is about a place and a sense of speed and tournament play and striving for perfection even in the wild open "world" of Forza Horizon; Midtown Madness would be more silly (depending on how they did the driving/crashing mechanics) and more exploratory, more for the fun of driving than the thrill of the race (although Forza has that too, in a different way.) And if we're assuming that they're going the Flight Simulator route of real roads, that's different than the Forza feel of one place meticulously designed for fun. Real roads aren't mapped out to be fun.
...Eh, but we should be careful about over-assuming what this game would be and what "Flight Sim tech" can do, probably?
Flight Sim has petabytes of stored data to put through to players for its representation of the globe and yet it's still drawn at a scale of detail proportionally way, way, way down from what you would need for even a casual driving sim. The roads are simplified geometrically, the terrain has very little elevation data (which is fine when you're 20,000 feet up or flying over a mapped hill but flat as paper if you're actually rolling around a neighborhood,) and the buildings are generic representations (albeit with actual low-res textures/color-values from satellite and street data.) Also, a flight simulator can compress and re-use material across its loaded section of the globe map, which would be a problem if you were experiencing a game at street-level. It for example only launched with 7 types of trees, which you can re-use and re-color to fill a forest or the vegetation around a hand-detailed airport, but just seven types of trees would not cut it if you were driving around town or cruising famous mountain roads. And while a Driving Sim would move through areas and biomes much less often due to the relative difference of speed, the specificity and variety would need to be much higher.
Now, Bing Maps does have a lot more data than what Flight Sim would use, but they're still mapping individual cities in 3D (and, eh, not really doing it too well? They did make strides in detail level when Flight Sim grabbed these maps so maybe the Bing Maps viewer just sucks in resolution? User-contributed 3D maps are also in the Bing Maps data, but those aren't up to driveable detail either) and do not have an actual 3D model of every town on the globe yet. So we're probably still a ways off from a racing game where you can drive past your house.
Last edited:
alucard0712_rus
Banned
I will play new open-world racing simulation game. FH is gone to me due being exact same game every time and way to 'arcadey'.
Lady Jane
Banned
Yeah FH2 was the last one I enjoyed. 3 felt the same and 4 and 5 didn't shake it up enough for me to be interested.
TwiztidElf
Member
Came here to say this. I almost certainly believe this is it.
I can't believe it took until page two for someone to put 2+2 together.
If they can land this, it will be huge.
Last edited:
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Flying over earth is not interesting to me, but driving on it? Hmm... Sounds cool, if it's true.
Goalus
Member
So they're prototyping a bumper car simulator?
God damn one can dream right. Microsoft driving simulator.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
What about just a driving sim sans racing? Would be cool if it was 1:1 to real world countries. Just pick a car and drive around the real world like FS. I would be down for that, though I don't think it will happen.
Last edited:
bender
What time is it?
Warablo
Member
GTA V is basically that at this point, if only the matchmaking wasn't trash.
BlackTron
Member
I don't think there is a rule about this. Nintendo had Mario Kart, Wave Race and F-Zero, also Diddy Kong Racing, maybe even more...as long as the games were good, no one ever complained that there were too many! The thing is, they were distinct enough.
