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Forza Motorsport 5 |OT| Open wheel, tyre squeal, orange peel, dat next-gen feel

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Is this true? Did they really go back to flat cardboard cutout crowds?


This is amazing. Not just the billboard aspect. It's maybe 6 different, disinterested people photographed once and pasted dozens of times trackside. They just did a quick color change in Photoshop. These are photos of people at a mall's food court waiting for their pizza. The have no business being trackside at Forza. It's a bizarre and amazing creation.

Surely there was a cubicle of programmers and artists blushing when they finalized these people into the game. And eventually one person got the giggles because of the absurdity of it and, as we all know, the giggles are contagious so that cubicle became full of the sound of teary-eyed "I can't breathe! Ah it hurts!" type of laughter. "Wow we're really doing this! hahahaha oowww man!"

Finally they catch their breathes, shrug their shoulders, wipe their eyes.
"Ah man months and months and here's how we end it. I'll never forget this crunch time. Fun times. Send it to the boss and make it gold. Time for some sleep!"
 

shandy706

Member
Just got an e-mail stating my X1 shipped!!!

Funny thing is, it shipped from the Amazon warehouse 2 HOURS from my house, but won't be here till tomorrow.

Sucks I can't intercept it or go get it..lol. F5 LE has changed to "shipping now".

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eso76

Member
This is amazing. Not just the billboard aspect. It's maybe 6 different, disinterested people photographed once and pasted dozens of times trackside. They just did a quick color change in Photoshop. These are photos of people at a mall's food court waiting for their pizza. The have no business being trackside at Forza. It's a bizarre and amazing creation.

Surely there was a cubicle of programmers and artists blushing when they finalized these people into the game. And eventually one person got the giggles because of the absurdity of it and, as we all know, the giggles are contagious so that cubicle became full of the sound of teary-eyed "I can't breathe! Ah it hurts!" type of laughter. "Wow we're really doing this! hahahaha oowww man!"

Finally they catch their breathes, shrug their shoulders, wipe their eyes.
"Ah man months and months and here's how we end it. I'll never forget this crunch time. Fun times. Send it to the boss and make it gold. Time for some sleep!"

Lol, amazing depiction, thanks for the laughs
 
So..anyone have like $600 they want to give to a good "charity." It is called the "Get Shortt Sirket an XB1 so he can play Forza 5 with GAF...fund."

Hmm..maybe I should start an IndieGoGo page....
 
Guys, does anyone knows if track days and time trials are part of the career events?

ps: I saw a picture of the F40, looks much better and glad we finally have the 1962 Ferrari GTO.
 

Jotaka

Member
Where are the detective GAF to find from where they got the people in crowd? I mean photo are sure from a stock vendor (like shutterstock.com ) because they didn't hire models and a photographer to take photo that match with the environment (AKA crowd in a racing event)
 

Grassy

Member
I hate you. I have to wait til this time tomorrow.

I've just started career mode, it looks and feels fantastic so far :)

I'm still trying to figure out where my photo uploads go though. They don't end up on my profile on FM.net after they've been "Shared"...
 

kuppy

Member
Hm, the Drivatar system really left some questions open for me, not necessary regarding me but just pure interest to the mechanic:
  • Let's say my friends are all better than me or I'm just late to the party, does this mean I stand no chance? In other words how much adjustment is there to the drivatars, will it pull only drivatars close to my level of skill or will it adjust others?
  • So if I turn off all helps and am in the highest difficulty but friends always play in easy and with ABS, ESC and what not on, do I still get matched with their driving profile / do theirs get adjusted to those circumstances?

I actually really like the idea behind it, although it seems kind of vague (it isn't the same competition NFS has, in point of accuracy and actually beating the other person) and having only humans of course has its drawbacks, guess I would have to test myself to truly judge it.
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
any word/impressions on head tracking? is it brought up in any of the reviews?
 

SarBear

Member
I've just started career mode, it looks and feels fantastic so far :)

I'm still trying to figure out where my photo uploads go though. They don't end up on my profile on FM.net after they've been "Shared"...

Can you elaborate more on the general feel? Purchase a 09 ZR1 and give me an impression about how crazy it is to drive, please? I'll gift you a Toyota MR2.
 
Far out, 6GB update. Was this even mentioned recently, I have been pretty actively following alot of the X1 threads and completely missed any word of this. Luckily by Australian standards I have one of the better connections available here but I have friends I am wanting to play with that will probably take 2-3 hours to download this. Sigh.
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
Far out, 6GB update. Was this even mentioned recently, I have been pretty actively following alot of the X1 threads and completely missed any word of this. Luckily by Australian standards I have one of the better connections available here but I have friends I am wanting to play with that will probably take 2-3 hours to download this. Sigh.

is that the day 1 free dlc possibly?
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
i'm probably 10 hours or so away from getting mine. someone post some kinect head tracking impressions
 

Xamdou

Member
Couple of questions I need answered before I preorder the limited edition:

1. Can you still customize cars?
2. Fujimi Kaido map in?
3. Ae86 Trueno in?
4. The limited edition or day one edition?
 
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