I guess you can't always believe what the developer of a game says then. That would go for devs of all games, right??
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Forza Horizon 2: Resolution (1080p), Framerate (30fps), Music, & More Detailed - IGNF
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You honestly believe that they modeled out 200km worth of terrain and that when you will be playing the game all those 200km are being rendered constantly just so you can have a pretty vista to look at?
It does. I'm sure we all remember Bungie on Halo 3's draw distance. Make a model of something, scale it to be hilariously large and place it very far away (not exactly a difficult task for a 3d engine). Boom... you can now claim X hundred miles of draw distance.
He's not wrong. It's due out this Fall. Microsoft has a long history of debuting games at E3 and then releasing them later in the year.
Ol No Bones
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This is probably the reason for the delay. They had to detail all that shit we wont see.
REMEMBER CITADEL
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Why? Southern Europe has beautiful, varied locales.
MikeE21286
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Damn this game looks so swank. I'm surprised anyone is disappointed at the teaser in terms of how much we saw - E3 is like, what, five seconds away now? We're gonna see much more I'd wager
It really does look like it will be great from the brief snippet we saw...
akachan ningen
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I love the box art because Lamborghini have always been known for their off road prowess.
Once the 1000 Club content was added in, I thought the play-area and event density seemed right where I'd want it to be, but you're totally right about drivable area vs game size. People will probably want to keep that in mind.
arhra
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I'd be interested to know what exactly they mean by "drivable area", because the intuitive answer (total area of all roads + off-road areas in Horizon 1 vs total area of all areas you can drive on in Horizon 2) wouldn't seem to make sense - a road-side field, for example, could easily have dozens of times the "drivable area" of the road it sits next to, by that definition, since roads are generally extremely narrow in comparison to fields, so 3x the drivable area by that measure would make the overall map significantly smaller than the original
So I figure they must mean something else. Maybe total area enclosed by the outermost limits of the area you can drive on?
Dee Dah Dave
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I wonder how they will limit the play space this time. The edges of the map in FH1 were basically defined by the mountains and also the road barriers. With the new game being in a different region the terrain could be quite different with less surrounding mountains.
Also FH2 is apparently free roam, go everywhere so it's more difficult / awkward to use barriers as restriction.
It's already confirmed there are coastal roads but I wonder if the entire map is an island this time. That would make it easier to 'contain' the play area.
Also FH2 is apparently free roam, go everywhere so it's more difficult / awkward to use barriers as restriction.
It's already confirmed there are coastal roads but I wonder if the entire map is an island this time. That would make it easier to 'contain' the play area.
pickle tooth
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Well that was a teaser alright. Looking forward to Monday!
Miles Quaritch
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Damn this game looks so swank. I'm surprised anyone is disappointed at the teaser in terms of how much we saw - E3 is like, what, five seconds away now? We're gonna see much more I'd wager
Are you serious right now? That was a god awful teaser. We didn't even get five seconds of actual footage...
I'm still vexed over how bad the teaser is...
Hockeymac18
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Yea it was pretty pathetically-short. I think they get a pass just because we know more is coming on Monday. But, if they had they released that a few weeks ago, though...
Miles Quaritch
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I don't think they should get a pass. This was just poor after how well the Sunset reveal was handled.
wut... SO got a CG trailer and gameplay only months later.
Its a first in-engine teaser, following a E3 annoucement in 3 days and probably gameplay on the showfloor, and walktrough demos on big sites... like every Forza in the past E3's.
edit: If I remember correctly, first Horizon teaser was just a bunch of videos, without any footage of the game.
BruiserBear
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What pissed me off was the 5 day build up to the teaser. They announced the game on Monday. They could have just put the teaser out then, or the next day. The longer you make people wait the more you build up expectations.
This is probably the issue, more than anything else. I think the teaser is fine, but the timing was out of order. You don't announce a game with no footage, and then tease some of it after 5 days when everyone knows it's coming the next week. Not that I'm frustrated, but I can see where the frustration is coming from.
Hockeymac18
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Yeah, you're right, they shouldn't get a pass. Maybe that was a poor choice of words by me. It wasn't the best teaser, and I'm not very happy about it. But, I guess my point is I would be a lot more mad, though, if I knew we weren't seeing more in a little over two days. I can wait a little bit longer (even if I don't want to)...
And yea, the SSOD reveal was handled amazingly. This hasn't been as good. I'm guessing they made the decision to save most of this reveal for E3.
IGN teasing the teaser (a teaser for the teaser...oh boy) was a bit much, too. Probably made this a bit harder to deal with and is why most are not happy about it.
Muppet of a Man
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Looks like they went for a tiny bit of a cartoony-stylized look. Very pretty. Love to see the open world stuff in action.
LittleJohnny
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The ending was the best. Rolling thunder got me excited!
JackAubrey
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Lamborghini was first and foremost an offroad company - it built (and still does) agricultural tractors.
The cars came later.
I'm not sure if the cars and tractor companies are under the same ownership anymore. But they were started by Ferruccio Lamborghini
The irony is that Lamborghini (the dude) made tractors and made a lot of money. He owned a few Ferraris and Maseratis. The legend is that after an argument with Enzo Ferrari (the dude), Ferrari told Lamborgini that he didn't know anything about cars as he made tractors. Since then, Lamborgini was founded.
Here is a nice link of the history
This was actually the first vehicle that made me aware of Lambo's off road past. It was the only off road vehicle in their lineup back then. My dad had bought me a book on Lamborghinis since the Countach was my favorite car as a youth. PEACE.I know you jest but..
I hope they have a Countach with a front wing as a barn find this time.. That would be awesome
That's on IGN. They made it seem like they had something significant to show and it was just this. Gotta get page hits somehow I guess.
bout what i expected from the tease, but that last shot with the landsscape was nice. cant wait till monday to see more.
buuuut, i must say that what little shown seemed a bit disappointing. could be the time of day and/or weather, but lighting looked really flat. actually, it looked like forza horizon 1 turned up a few notches. hardly the breakthrough in atmospheric rendering and lighting discussed in the previews. i hate to bring up comparisons, but the atmosphere and lighting in drive club looks quite natural, where this looks much less real and solid. a bit like a painting. maybe thats what they are going for?
not passing judgment yet. we'll have more to see soon enough anyway.
buuuut, i must say that what little shown seemed a bit disappointing. could be the time of day and/or weather, but lighting looked really flat. actually, it looked like forza horizon 1 turned up a few notches. hardly the breakthrough in atmospheric rendering and lighting discussed in the previews. i hate to bring up comparisons, but the atmosphere and lighting in drive club looks quite natural, where this looks much less real and solid. a bit like a painting. maybe thats what they are going for?
not passing judgment yet. we'll have more to see soon enough anyway.
NullPointer
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They showed very little, but they definitely showed enough to properly set the stage.
That showcase lambo, looking great, kicking up mud, driving through a grassy area that'd probably have been walled off in the first Horizon, in a picturesque European locale with those classic Horizon draw distances, all while storm clouds gather overhead.
It says all the right things while also vexing us enough to be glued to the conference come Monday and any footage beyond. So yep, mission duly accomplished. Our coin purses have been collectively jingled.
That showcase lambo, looking great, kicking up mud, driving through a grassy area that'd probably have been walled off in the first Horizon, in a picturesque European locale with those classic Horizon draw distances, all while storm clouds gather overhead.
It says all the right things while also vexing us enough to be glued to the conference come Monday and any footage beyond. So yep, mission duly accomplished. Our coin purses have been collectively jingled.
The way this game is disseminating its information is making me hate IGN even more. A 5 minute interview with the game blurred out in the background, the promise for more in a couple days... only to give us 5 seconds of gameplay, with another promise of more. I hate this bullshit.
This game (or its sequel), however, is pretty much a guaranteed must-get for when I eventually pick up a used, cheap Xbone in two years. Unless Sony kicks Polyphony's rear into overdrive and they crank out a GT competitor.
Fox_Mulder
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a Lamborghini Huracàn on a field
Kssio_Aug
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But what you expected from a teaser?
Some of you should just calm down, it was just a teaser, and in a very compressed video what is also expected coming by IGN. The gameplay will be shown in 3 days!
XtremeXpider
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That was the teaser?
Mmm.... yes? what "teaser" mean to you?
That's what the developer said.
Garrett 2U
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That is also what I think.
Why don't you guys go talk about DriveClub in the DriveClub thread? I thought I'd clicked on the wrong thread or something.
Colbert
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I thought the same looking into the last pages ...
rokkerkory
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Can't wait to see the weather system / effects and also more about the music selection.
Being 3x as roamable as FH1 is pretty sick.
Being 3x as roamable as FH1 is pretty sick.
cartoon_soldier
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