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Forza Motorsport 4 - The Floodgates Have Opened...
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Snkfanatic
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Thinking of finally getting my Xbox soon, I was hoping for a price drop around Gamescon. When I saw the drop on the PS3 I was sure Microsoft would follow suit, guess I was wrong.
I did cancel my collectors preorder though. I think I am just going to get the standard this time around.
EDIT: Just looked at Bestbuy's ad and they are running a deal for the Elite that gives you a $75 gift card so I know where I am going. Well as long as my Bestbuy has power since the storm passed through yesterday lol
I did cancel my collectors preorder though. I think I am just going to get the standard this time around.
EDIT: Just looked at Bestbuy's ad and they are running a deal for the Elite that gives you a $75 gift card so I know where I am going. Well as long as my Bestbuy has power since the storm passed through yesterday lol
Iknos said:
Shit yeah. Release an ALMS track pack. Release a multi-city map pack (old tracks from PGR2).
The thing is, people talk about the cars, but it's the tracks which keep them coming back. I don't even think most people understand it. But it's true. The cars are nothing without the tracks. The tracks give the game staying power!
Without good tracks, there really is no need for a racing game at all. They could just give us a minigame of chess or scrabble to earn money with which to buy cars and then walk around in some dumbass showroom. Seriously, who gives a shit? Concentrate on the core game dammit.
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The car/track imbalance is just something we are going to have to suck up, I think. I'd love it if Turn 10 announced a new DL track every two months, but it just ain't gonna happpen. What we'll get instead is more cars. Lots more cars. All of which are already probably finished and are being held back for DLC.
We don't really need more cars. There are already plenty in the game, and what people seem to forget is that tuning and upgrade options mean that there are actually orders of magnitude more cars in Forza beyond the official car list. There must literally be millions of permutations.
If Turn 10 built a really flexible and detailed track creator into the Forza series, one with tools sufficiently powerful to enable creations as detailed and beautiful as the in-game tracks... well, imagine what would happen once the kind of XBL talent that produces the awesome FM liveries were let loose on it.
I had a racing game track creator on my Commodore 64 about twenty-five years ago. It must be possible.
We don't really need more cars. There are already plenty in the game, and what people seem to forget is that tuning and upgrade options mean that there are actually orders of magnitude more cars in Forza beyond the official car list. There must literally be millions of permutations.
If Turn 10 built a really flexible and detailed track creator into the Forza series, one with tools sufficiently powerful to enable creations as detailed and beautiful as the in-game tracks... well, imagine what would happen once the kind of XBL talent that produces the awesome FM liveries were let loose on it.
I had a racing game track creator on my Commodore 64 about twenty-five years ago. It must be possible.
It really wouldn't suprise me that they're holding back Spa and/or Bathurst for DLC. It just makes too much sense business wise. A track like Hockheim isn't exactly at the top of many wish lists so it wouldn't sell very much separatly. Spa or Bathurst on the other hand are the most requested tracks by far on any website talking about Forza, and if they integrate them in career, you can bet that these will sell like gangbusters, even at 400 MS Points each.
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Time, budget, disk space, potential DLC sales loss, etc...
Many reasons could explain it unfortunately.
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saladine1 said:
Time, budget, disk space, potential DLC sales loss, etc...
Many reasons could explain it unfortunately.
Xanadu said:
I presume that means no. T10 fails.
What about Career mode? Any word on what that will be like?
EDIT: also, my biggest gripe with F3 was the fact that credits took a ridiculous amount of time to accumulate. Did they fix that?
Are they still planning to give out cars that you can sell for only 1 credit every time you level up which causes the online auction house to be flooded with them?
Well I don't mean cheap cheap, but something not too expensive.Mascot said:
Edit: Is it looking likely that the Ferrari 458 wheel will be good? That's somewhat cheap if the price on Play.com is accurate.
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/23010...0&searchstring=xbox+360+wheel&urlrefer=search
eso76
Member
Mascot said:
plus i'm sure there will be a better custom quick race mode.
Having to resort to the multiplayer race trick and setting 7 opponents as Cpu cars worked but was stupid.
Saladine said:
No wait, i was just kidding.
There was indeed such poll on fm.net and Spa and Bathurst came first.
I just imagined either T10 ignored this or decided to take advantage of it.
Or maybe EA owns the rights for those as well
Not just Che. Dan himself said career events would be dynamic (tracks used in events would change according to your style and preferences) and even rewards would change according to the way you were playing, what your favorite cars were etc.
Very close to release Dan said they ran into problems and had to scrap that.
We can assume they fixed those problems with fm4, who knows.
Metalmurphy
Member
There's a track editor? oO
How did I miss this. Any footage?
How did I miss this. Any footage?
Xun said:
No force feedback. Hence if you can find a good MS FFB wheel for similar money it's the best place to start. It's perfectly OK, but you do get what you pay for. I wouldn't be without my Fanatech GT2 and CSPs, but the pair were around £450.
To do a wheel justice you need (at the very least) a good firm table to clamp it to. Don't even think of using a lap mount. It's a waste of time. People often forget this.
You referring to this one?amar212 said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003YBUSMW/
And yeah I was going clamp whatever wheel I get to the table since it would be un-drivable without.
Xun said:
i think he means the newly announced one from E3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwHE2lkC5g
G Rom said:
Yeah I know for cars but I'm the kind of guy who, weirdly enough, doesn't really care for the cars lol. Personally I'd take a game with only 100 or so cars but twice the tracks. That's why I'm having so much fun with Shift 2 right now (on pc with a Fanatec wheel AND more importantly a good physics mod). The track selection in that game is just crazy.
Don't get me wrong, I can't wait for FM4, I got the LCE pre-ordered but the track selection so far kinda depress me. Don't care for the new Hockenheim and I would take Sunset Peninsula over Indy (basically the same thing but with a lot more ribbon options).
Snkfanatic said:
Saw the 360 going for dirt cheap over the summer. $129 for Arcade and $229 for 250gb. Was a one or two week promotion but when I saw that I thought to myself that those prices would probably be the new Fall prices. Maybe I'm wrong...there's a deal now where you get 5 free games with the 250gb.
ElyrionX said:
Career mode is better and they did fix the money problem. Sounds like we'll have too much money now but I'd rather have that than too little. I was broke as a joke in FM3.
It's better now. They give out a choice of 3 cars. So you pick what you like most. Still might have some that you don't want and we don't know if they will keep the same auction rule for it.
In a lot of ways the stuff the was broken in FM3 is fixed for FM4. Some things like customizable controls haven't been mentioned yet but overall all the more talked about issues that hurt the game have been addressed.
What's worry about the lack of news updates is that it makes you wonder if there's much for content left to show at all. Maybe I'm being too cynical.
Anyone have a copy of the Forza 4 questionnaire than hinted at "Forza World"?
http://www.dealspwn.com/forza-4-survey-hints-features-54274
http://www.waybeta.com/news/92560/x...ort-4-included-500-car-nbsp-has-leisure-mode/
Sounds like "Forza World" is just a more open ended career mode that takes you around the world as we see in the demonstrations.
eso76
Member
Iknos said:
wow, seems kotaku was right ! and that ford gt pic at sunset was a pretty big hint too.
Forza world sounds more like a side project, by a different developer.
if it keeps the cars-upgrades-customization etc and physics from fm4 in open world then that's interesting. Shouldn't replace fm5 but i suppose they could merge at some point.
Not only that, it would have the Forza branding which would instantly mean entirely open asset sharing between Turn 10 and the Forza World team. I wouldn't imagine that it'd be as open as FM in regards to upgrading and modifications, but I'd imagine they'd maintain most of the feel of driving (even if the driving model is simplified a little).eek5 said:
Shit, if they could find a way to pull the driving model from PGR4, assets from FM4 and use them in an open world setting, I'd be all over it. Midnight Club LA did a really good job of it, but could've been far less cartoony.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
that would be greateek5 said:
evil_as_skeletor
Member
Any chance anyone has a pic of the XB Ford Falcon in game?
I thought T10 were posting photos of the newly announced cars on their bookface page.
I thought T10 were posting photos of the newly announced cars on their bookface page.
fu3lfr3nzy
Member
Nah. They announce new cars daily, but its rare that ingame pictures accompany them :/