Vire
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All Rockstar games have day of release review embargoes and those seem to do just fine in terms of scores.
Then again Watch Dogs and Destiny also had day one embargoes. It could mean something or nothing.
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DRIVECLUB |OT| Cloudy with a Chance of Jaw Drops
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All Rockstar games have day of release review embargoes and those seem to do just fine in terms of scores.
Then again Watch Dogs and Destiny also had day one embargoes. It could mean something or nothing.
Spine_Ripper
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Is the $49.99 price exclusive to preorders, or will that be the same price tomorrow on the PSN store after it officially releases?
psn
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But one is open world, one a track / course racer.
The tracks / courses in Driveclub are made for pure racing. If you want that, you pick Driveclub.
If you want to race through fields and cornfields or race in the open world, FH2 it is.
In FH2 I never get the feeling of track racing, even when racing on the streets. It feels like racing in GTA V for me, obv with a better sense of speed, a good cockpit view etc...
LookAtMeGo
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I guess we will see how ridiculous we can think scores are after we play it tomorrow.
It will be the same price,its not exclusive to preorders.
biglittleps
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No surprise there, mostly DC will get plenty of 6/7 than 8/9 due to lack of single player content as they try to compare this with FH2 and some unfinished features which makes this game attractive like Dynamic Weather, Replay and Photo mode. Hope this game gets an average of 80 if its lucky considering todays metrics for reviews, but i believe this game will do fine in long term due to the updates they planned and word of mouth because of user base(especially EU) for the next 6 months regardless of reviews.
I was assuming in quality level, and that's IF we really do see a bunch of 6s. If those tweets are a bunch of crap then forget everything I said!
Very true.
Unfortunately won't be able to play for another week or so but I look forward to trying it out when I'm back home next weekend.
Citizen_Insane
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Everyone's so busy talking about reviews that no one's talking about the game! There should just be a review thread already.
Anybody playing? Does eastern US gaf have it unlocked already or do they have to wait another 2 hours as well?
Anybody playing? Does eastern US gaf have it unlocked already or do they have to wait another 2 hours as well?
Saberus
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They have to wait..
Vire
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I would be playing instead of talking about reviews if digital releases on the east coast weren't such bullshit.
Gotta wait till 3AM.
I've been doing that. I wish there's an add all button list!!.
Close to two hours left
WoolyNinja
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The comparisons to FH2 are ridiculous. It's like comparing a non open world game like Gears of War to Infamous. Doesn't make sense and you'd never knock Gears of War for lack of open worldness.
Citizen_Insane
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What the hell? That fucking sucks. I think Destiny did that too. I thought they would have sorted it out by now.
I'll be interested in your thoughts on the image quality, since you were similarly concerned like me. I won't be getting it until the PS+ Edition releases.
At the end of the day, both are non-sim racing games that focus on making driving fun for all players. I have little doubt that most reviewers will appreciate more what Horizon 2 offers.
DLC will really flesh out Driveclub as the title matures. Unfortunately, a lot of that content won't be judged on day one.
ChronotriggerJM
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Never going to get the views with that way of thinking =/
Speedy Blue Dude
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No idea who these dudes are, just did a random search on Twitter.
4/10 from Polygon confirmed.
Meh, Driveclub will be great in it's own right. Horizon 2 is fantastic, but Driveclub and Horizon aren't really comparable. Sure they both focus and push the "Social" bulletpoint, but they seem to strive for it in different ways. Forza is open world, and Driveclub isn't, there's no possible way they'd share the same methods for "Social Interactions."
and who really cares which game is "better", different audiences. No auidence is effected by which game is "objectively" better aside from maybe Console Warriors who want to don their flags.
LookAtMeGo
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Lol
Not at all, the topic was fine for a long time.
Vire
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I might not be able to stay up till 3 AM unfortunately. :/
I gotta get up at 8 AM tomorrow. I will definitely be sure to post my impressions of the full game later though, sorry!
Good song. Great album.
Sweet, tuning in now!
EGOMON
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lol you must be a millionaire by now viveks all dat profit XD
nikos
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The visuals are good, but not as good as GIFs and videos have made them seem to be, IMO. My very first impression was that the gameplay was better than the visuals, which actually says a lot because the game is still beautiful, especially from the cockpit view.
It somehow seems to get better looking as you play it, probably because you learn to see past its minor caveats and appreciate the beauty behind them.
jellies_two
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not as good as the capture videos?
that makes no sense.
that makes no sense.
NullPointer
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Thats because we've gone several pages without any DriveClub GIFs.
I am now mad.
Sounds about what I figured! Thanks!
When you watch compressed videos, you can't accurately gauge image quality.
Vire
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Wow the speed is incredible.
Haha, stressed out is a solid way to describe it, couldn't quite out my finger on it...
Spine_Ripper
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Cool. I'll wait til the reviews tomorrow to decide whether I'll drop the cash then.
biglittleps
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Visuals look different in different lighting conditions as they try to do realtime lighting which is same in real life too. Sometimes a place does not look great in under some lighting conditions but great sometimes. So, DC doing like we get the picture of real locations in different conditions.
EDIT: If its baked lightning then developers can make them pretty every time as its fixed unlike dynamic realtime lighting which changes always.
Stillmatic
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It really does, it's pretty weird in that way. Playing the beta my first couple of races I thought it looked good, but nothing amazing. After a few more races it was like, holy shit this looks good.
GIFS I can understand, but how can the visuals be worse than 1080p videos we've been seeing lol, if anything they'd be better. Chances are the game just picks the worse looking tracks/conditions earlier on, and offers more and more of the better looking stuff as it goes on.
Oh I'm not expecting it at all. Not in the US. Was just trying to guess where Vire was coming from
I think the nuanced lighting goes a long way to appreciating how good the game looks.
opticalmace
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Looks great. I really hope this game is good. I've been waiting to play it since last year.
EGOMON
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NoMoChokeSJ
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I don't own either game yet, so I have no vested interest in either, but every time I read this I have a hard time understanding this rationality. Both games are arcade racing games at heart, and the core of the games (handling, sound, vehicle adjustability, graphics, track design, ect..) are similar regardless if they are open world or not. You could compare Burnout Paradise or TDU to Dirt or Need for Speed just as easily, since driving games share the same mechanics. You know if a driving game handles horribly, sounds like shit, looks like shit, or is limited in content regardless of where the racing takes place. Not that either game falls under any of these weaknesses, The biggest issue would be if one was meant to me a true sim like Forza or GT, which neither are.
If a game is good or great it will stand up on its own merits regardless of what it is compared to.
Speedy Blue Dude
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I leave you kids to play on your own for ONE PAGE and the clocks are GONE! Tch tch
PS+ Edition (Tuesday GCT):
Ellie from The Last of Us is in DriveClub?
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