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Forza Horizon 3: Review Thread
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JayhawkerStL
Banned
Yeah, this is one of the major reasons I quit PC gaming. I own an XB1. The game is coming, and it will be glorious. The Master Race, who knows? They all have different configurations, so even a review won't really tell you.
Teehee.
Probably just wants to swing his sword?
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Forza Horizon 3 |OT| Play this if you're tired of car games.
Agreed.
johnnydrama
Banned
Two days to go.
Agreed. Although it would behoove MS to really nail their big AAA PC releases. They should be actively listening and catering to the PC community. Sure, PC gamers might not be fond of the windows store today but compelling content (fun games) that meets the community's needs can go a long way to change peoples' opinion.
Neander
Member
Yes, Groove will play music you have stored on your OneDrive. You don't need a subscription for that.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Again, it's not the score but the content of the review
Yeah, no. What is that even supposed to mean?
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Fantastic scores! Definitely on the want list.
I'm all up for people having contrasting opinion, but read the review. The guy doesn't even give any reasoning for his score, all he says is PG are bored of making racing games and that it isn't DiRT Rally. Seriously.
Karak
Member
Agreed completely.
It means you were saying a bunch of things but lacked a point.
Where else other than a review thread are we supposed to analyze and criticize reviews?
I think the issue (as has been said like 100x already) is not the score but the qualitative content of the review to reach that score. The things he criticizes are odd, like the studio seemed bored with racing games..huh?..or the game being too easy and accessible..did he just gloss over that you can turn all assists off and the difficulty up? Or forget that he's playing a game where fun is the goal not shaving tenths of a second off a laptime?
Give the game a 0/5 for all I care but at least have a reason or two that remotely makes sense even if it's just an outside opinion.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
Just preordered the Ultimate Edition so I can get a headstart on training my drivatar to ram into every last one of you Forza-GAF scrubs.
Did you try hdr on xbox one?
mdsfx
Member
OK that's it. Someone explain this damn gif that's been posted so many times in the horizon threads.Just preordered the Ultimate Edition so I can get a headstart on training my drivatar to ram into every last one of you Forza-GAF scrubs.
Yappadappadu
Member
He did.
See the ACG review.
Though I still would be interested to know if he noticed any difference in input lag between SDR and HDR on the B6 OLED TV.
A happy person?
It's from the music video for Bom Bom, a song featured in the original Forza Horizon and everyone's guilty pleasure.
its from this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsy7kJyizoc
one of the horizon games had the song
In nearly every review thread, one reviewer gives the game an outlying, low review score. Then, a large number of posters in the thread go after that reviewer, calling the reviewer uninformed, criticizing his taste in games, etc. It starts to get pretty personal.
It's an observation about review threads in general. This thread is no exception. That's my point.
EDIT: I don't agree with the reviewer. I haven't played FH3, yet, but it looks great.
Falchion
Member
I haven't seen a gameplay video where the driver cycles through all the camera angles. Is it just like Horizon 2? I really want more games to include the Driveclub camera angle that's inside the cabin, but it's very close to the windshield so you don't waste much of the screen on the interior itself.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
Like the others said, from a song that was in the original Horizon and I will not stop posting it in Horizon threads until Helios petitions the powers that be to get it back in.
Groove music support doesn't count dammit!
Hockeymac18
Member
I agree with your general point, it can get out of a hand, especially if the game in question (particularly acute with exclusives) is reviewing "below expectations" (< 90?).
That said, I find the IBtimes review's arguments downright confusingly-written (and full of some straight up errors/mistakes), and I think it's perfectly fair to criticize this review for that reason.
There's no need to get personal or start a witch hunt, though - it's obviously an outlier, and is easy enough to ignore it.
texhnolyze
Banned
Is it really hard for you to wait for other PC gamers' reviews on performance?
Do you really have to pre-order it? You can still play it day one, just wait for the impressions. It'll only take you an hour or so.
Pankratous
Member
But X1S doesn't play 4k games?
Robobandit
Member
notice they didn't say "native" 4k.
Pankratous
Member
But it doesn't do non-native 4k games either. It doesn't change the resolution of games at all.
HDR and perfect upscaling 1:4 pixels. Obviously the difference between that and native 4k will be substantial, but it'll still look a lot better than being on a 1080p set.
So negative bro.
Robobandit
Member
I thought it upscaled the output like it does to 1080p if a game is rendering below 1080p.
I know I read something about there being an option to have it output the dashboard @4k
still.. not sure where they got that from..
EDIT: nvm.
I usually don't like to point out individual critics for giving a game a low score (since I think all games are overrated to an extent) but I was looking at the critic for the International Business Times review page on open critic and he reviewed Advanced Warfare twice. Once for The Digital Fix (http://gaming.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/2693/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare.html) which he scored the game an 8/10. Then again for International Business Times (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/call-duty-advanced-warfare-review-even-kevin-spacey-cannot-save-this-off-target-shooter-1473159) where he gave the game a 4/10. Now it could be two different reviewers and Open Critic's reviewer page is misinformed (I mean Edward Smith might be a common name?). But I find it curious that he would assign two different scores for the same game based on the publication.
http://opencritic.com/critic/1021/edward-smith
On topic. It's nice to see Playground Games go from those band of misfits from a variety of racing developers (Code Masters, Bizarre Creations, Criterion Games, etc) into a extremely well respected developer and maybe the best studio making racing games today. Well earned.
http://opencritic.com/critic/1021/edward-smith
On topic. It's nice to see Playground Games go from those band of misfits from a variety of racing developers (Code Masters, Bizarre Creations, Criterion Games, etc) into a extremely well respected developer and maybe the best studio making racing games today. Well earned.
What is the cheaper alternative? Thanks.
professor_t
Member
Fuuuuuuuuck.
I really dropped the ball on this one. I may give them a call, but I'm not optimistic, and now I'll have to listen to some of you assholes talk about how amazing the game is four days before I get a chance to play it.
You're not really assholes. I'm just jealous.
I think it's two different people.
The pictures on the twitter for the author page for IBTimes looks different than the picture provided on the author page for the Edward Smith on The Digital Fix.
For what it's worth, when I had chatted to MS chat about a refund for the Windows 10 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider, it did take a few hours (they couldn't find my order? I even had an order number, wtf?) but the refund was posted to my bank account later that night (immediately bought the steam version).
texhnolyze
Banned
Buying the game from Singapore WinStore? It's like $50 for the standard edition.
TylerDurden4321
Member
Look at the E3 motion rig footage, it's the "no-onscreen wheel but still part of dashboard at the bottom of the screen"-cam that is close to the windscreen, it also has less wide-angle FOV, but it never makes it in the final Forza games. PC won't have options neither. I wish they would at least say why. It's not that the dashboards are too low res for a closer position, because you would see that in 4k anyway. For the FOV it could be that they don't want the driving in their game to look slow, but that would be a stupid reason with so many other racing games on console adopting FOV options this gen.
I went on MS Online Support and it took me about 15 mins tops to do it. They cancelled my pre-order and I had used money from my MS Account so it was credited pretty much immediately. Then I just bought the Ultimate Edition on the store. Was a really easy process for me.. I wish you luck.
MS is pretty good at refunding preorders, give their support a chat
SkinnerSw33t
Member
For the Xbox club, I think you can go through the Xbox app. Maybe SmartGlass too?
For the FH3 club, you'll have to wait until the game goes live, and then they'll be a signup thread or something.
Download the "Xbox (beta)" app on any windows 10 PC and join through that.