DRIVECLUB: 30 minutes of new Beta footage

did someone post this gif ?
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Yep, post 136.
 
Now that's what I'm talking about! Gorgeous!

Evo and Sony seriously need to start putting out quality footage till launch.
A playable demo would be welcomed as well.
 
That's basically it. People cry out for things to advanced genres... Though never elaborate on HOW they should. Honestly the criticism that a game isn't advancing a genre is becoming a lazy one imo.

Reminds me how at the start of the gen so many people, and even media personalities were condemning so many games for not having "Next Gen Gameplay",
"Sure, it looks pretty and advanced, but the gameplay doesn't feel next gen".

Have we figured out what next gen gameplay means yet?
 
IGN's Vince actually had an interesting set of tweets about this - whether or not you agree with his view. It's an interesting take. (This was in regards to Destiny, but can be applied to many games)

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Good insight on the matter. I too have made errors in judgement similar to that which he's describing.
 
I walked all the way up to my school to get internet to see this.

No regrets.
Lol how did u know it was there to begin with and thus make the trip to school??

Video looks amazing!! But I've never doubted evolution studios. Especially not after pacific rift. Still can't decide if I want digital or retail.
 
Thank you DC for being smart enough to realize that weather effects doesn't mean ice, rain, debri must explicitly leave an artifact on the viewing screen, in the name of emotion, I mean immersion

Nothing worse in a racer than not being able to see whats in front of you
 
Thank you DC for being smart enough to realize that weather effects doesn't mean ice, rain, debri must explicitly leave an artifact on the viewing screen, in the name of emotion, I mean immersion

PS2-era was super frustrating in that regard. Overdone "lens" effects tend to be obnoxious.
 
PS2-era was super frustrating in that regard. Overdone "lens" effects tend to be obnoxious.

It bugs me in every game that does it, regardless of genre, it's lazy, but more recently that new Need for Speed game had crap attaching itself to the screen constantly, it was needless, it's always needless!
 
Lol how did u know it was there to begin with and thus make the trip to school??

Video looks amazing!! But I've never doubted evolution studios. Especially not after pacific rift. Still can't decide if I want digital or retail.

Net on my phone. Not nearly fast enough to load videos though, thus I had to make the walk.
 
I think this criticism of the game being unimaginative is a natural result of the progress of gaming.

Whereas good graphics was good enough an excuse when Crysis released it doesn't cut it anymore now. Now there has to be some inovation for it to really to gain support.

Not that I agree with the criticism though. I'm perfectly fine playing a refined experience.
 
I think this criticism of the game being unimaginative is a natural result of the progress of gaming.

Whereas good graphics was good enough an excuse when Crysis released it doesn't cut it anymore now. Now there has to be some inovation for it to really to gain support.

Not that I agree with the criticism though. I'm perfectly fine playing a refined experience.

Same. Just because I've had steak before doesn't mean I need chicken next time - I'll never turn down another good steak!

Edit: i realize this is a poor metaphor i'm just hungry right now :(
 
Hmm, here I thought that Kura in the other thread had just told us all that FH2 has godlike IQ compared to DriveClub's shitty IQ.

He's now banned

lol. I don't want to be banned. D=

But I mean, this game is purely a next gen title. Horizon 2 is cross-gen. So I think that hurts it. I can just see it when I'm playing Destiny. So much held back. I know they can do more.
 
Reminds me how at the start of the gen so many people, and even media personalities were condemning so many games for not having "Next Gen Gameplay",
"Sure, it looks pretty and advanced, but the gameplay doesn't feel next gen".

Have we figured out what next gen gameplay means yet?

Nope, pretty sure it has no meaning. Next Gen Gameplay is a myth.
 
Reminds me how at the start of the gen so many people, and even media personalities were condemning so many games for not having "Next Gen Gameplay",
"Sure, it looks pretty and advanced, but the gameplay doesn't feel next gen".

Have we figured out what next gen gameplay means yet?

Next gen is 8x SGSSAA at 60fps. We're still a gen away, unfortunately
 
Same. Just because I've had steak before doesn't mean I need chicken next time - I'll never turn down another good steak!

Edit: i realize this is a poor metaphor i'm just hungry right now :(

Suddenly I feel the need for lasagne.

ot: That whole snow video could be turned into one big gif. Daaaaamn.
 
The other thing about the "advancement" and gameplay arguments is that really there's only so far you can take the racing game.

Racing - you drive a car down a road and try to go faster than other cars. No matter what you do with the environments, backgrounds, etc, it's ALWAYS going to be steering a vehicle down a track to a destination. That's not something that can necessarily be innovated on indefinitely. Game modes and objectives can add some flexibility but as technology continues to improve you're going to have a hard time doing anything than simply refining the genre.
 
There was enough in those video streams to indicate the AI is pure cack on all difficulty levels.

Why would you prefer them to do that? What is special about these Evo tracks? I've seen nothing from the videos even remotely interesting track design wise, I don't get it.

Thousands of creative minds vs a dozen at Evolution? It's no competition, with a fully fledged course creator, the quality track count would have far outstripped Evo's limited output, it would have kept the game alive with a healthy flow and made the future a better place for all racing game fans. But it seems setting up a race on a mobile phone took pride of place, which was such a fucking dumb decision.

Maybe now that Rushy is in the boss seat he can right the wrongs of his predecessor? Rushy pls!

It's not about the Evo tracks it about them being base on real world locations and there are so many awesome looking places in the world to drive.
Most car games backgrounds look like crap so it's great to see them pick parts of the world and base stuff on it with all that detail.
While a course creator would be good i don't expect the tracks to ever look as good as evo ones so i rather evo spend time on that.
Maybe we can get one for DC2 after they get more assets .
 
Transitioning from within the menus to the game is crazy fast. Wow.

All of the loading seems really fast. From the stream yesterday you could see that restarting a race happens instantly, going from a race to the menus takes about two seconds, and loading a track takes around five seconds. I've never seen a racing game load as fast as DC.
 
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