Inside Sim Racing previews Forza Horizon 2

shinnn said:
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The part where he finally makes it through the trees into the open field.

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Between this and Sunset Overdrive it looks like I'll have my hands full. Both look like the kind of games you can spend hours and hours in. Xbox Fall lineup is looking like it's really shaping up to be good.
 
That second video has some great footage in it! Nice to finally see some new stuff. This game is going to rock.
 
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...welp... time to walk to that loan officer.

roxa said:
Will the smashable signs make a comeback? Free roaming and hunting them was so much fun in horizon 1. Was kinda like hunting for orbs in crackdown.
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I really, REALLY want the signs to be for the repair/upgrade guy's competitor, instead of his own signs. I loved them in gameplay terms, but I just felt bad destroying his advertising and being rewarded for it.

Helios? Wouldn't that make more sense?
 
DJKippling said:
The biggest thing for me is definitely going to be the music. The fact we no longer have custom soundtracks on Xbox One meant Forza 5 was a nightmare with its terrible music.
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While I agree we need custom tracks back, why would anyone play music while racing in Forza 5???!

Those engine/atmospheric sounds blasting through a surround sound system with no music is the only way to play. ;)

Some cars give me chills with that rumble/roar.
 
shandy706 said:
While I agree we need custom tracks back, why would anyone play music while racing in Forza 5???!

Those engine/atmospheric sounds blasting through a surround sound system with no music is the only way to play. ;)

Some cars give me chills with that rumble/roar.
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To be fair i can't argue with that. My neighbors probably hate me it for it too.
 
Not being able to drive past the barriers in the first game was one of my only gripes with the game, now that it's solved - it's time to buy an xbone :D
 
i wonder just how big the game is compared to the first. they keep saying "3x the drivable area" but in the same sentence mention the ability to drive freely without barriers... is the game's world roughly the size of horizon 1's but since its truly open there is much more to drive on?

so glad i picked up the thrustmaster. fh1 was LOADS better with a wheel.
 
op_ivy said:
i wonder just how big the game is compared to the first. they keep saying "3x the drivable area" but in the same sentence mention the ability to drive freely without barriers... is the game's world roughly the size of horizon 1's but since its truly open there is much more to drive on?

so glad i picked up the thrustmaster. fh1 was LOADS better with a wheel.
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The FFB was amazing when you went off road.
 
Looks incredibly fun, but I'm still not blown away by those visuals like I was for Horizon 1 at the time.

I was expecting more of a leap to be honest.
 
soundscream said:
The FFB was amazing when you went off road.
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the transitions! seriously though, i always had a hard time on the different surface types and especially with weaving through traffic at high speeds with the pad. once i started using my wheel though, it was night and day. biggest difference i've experienced with car control, more so then mainline forza surprisingly.
 
When will we see more of this? It's out 2 months from now. I feel like we've just been shown the same parts over and over until this video, which was off-screen gameplay that I assume wasn't meant to be seen (since behind closed doors).

Can't wait to see more of it!
 
T.O.P said:
Any anticipation on the tracklist? Pls
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From the press demonstrations, they said three times the size of the original game, in terms of driveable area (my guess is a little less than double the road-size), but these aren't discrete tracks.
 
Gestault said:
From the press demonstrations, they said three times the size of the original game, in terms of driveable area (my guess is a little less than double the road-size), but these aren't discrete tracks.
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maybe he means the horizon 2 soundtrack?
 
Gee I sure wished that Forza Horizon was on sale on XBL so I can finally try this series. ;~; Playground pls
 
JLck said:
When will we see more of this? It's out 2 months from now. I feel like we've just been shown the same parts over and over until this video, which was off-screen gameplay that I assume wasn't meant to be seen (since behind closed doors).

Can't wait to see more of it!
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They just unveiled it less than 30 days ago dude, have some patience lol.
 
At what point do we start passive-aggressively posting gifs in response to perceived criticism to try to distract us from our excitement? Because that's a thing I feel like I'd enjoy.
 
guitarhero said:
Why do game developers do this, release the games I want AFTER summer?
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tell me about it, since titanfall came out it's been a slow slow release for games I want on the xbox one, and suddenly destiny and horizon come out within a week of each other among the wave of games this winter, it's annoying.
 
Miles Quaritch said:
Racing against balloons, planes, etc was easily the worst part of Horizon 1. Hated them. Absolutely hated them. They weren't fun, they were just exercises in how much the developers can frustrate a player.
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I loved them. Instead of race to point whatever in a few minutes, it was race a fucking plane that will buzz you a few times. Something different and fit the theme.
 
Khalifa Jayy said:
The date it was unveiled has nothing to do with how long it's been in development. I don't see anything wrong with expecting a bit more official media for a game releasing in two month's time.
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More media's obviously coming, they just want to space it out accordingly. Seems fine to me.
 
Does it bother anyone else when Darin says that the game will be a "fun distraction"?

I have no problem with sim fans. But they can be real snooty fucks sometimes.
 
Red Chocobo said:
Does it bother anyone else when Darin says that the game will be a "fun distraction"?

I have no problem with sim fans. But they can be real snooty fucks sometimes.
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makes sense in a way...
through the eyes of a sim fan, you can get unlimited hours of enjoyment perfecting a raceline, a laptime.
you can race against a balloon with the lack of the above precision only so many times.

good thing is they are saying they are using the full f5 physics system.
I guess I will have to try it for myself to have an opinion on how it will play.
but there is potential there for it to be really great even for ...snooty fucks :)
 
Iced_Eagle said:
I've seen reviews of the Thrustmaster TX Ferrari 458 Italia wheel and it's been extremely positive (ISR has a review up as well as The Sim Pit I believe). Compatible with Xbox One and PC.

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en_US/products/tx-racing-wheel-ferrari-458-italia-edition

The biggest complaint with the set are the pedals as it lacks a clutch pedal.

It's $335 on Amazon which is a bit too much for me personally. Hopefully between now and the fall they will go a bit cheaper, or more options get announced. I've been itching to get a good wheel myself.
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WTF? 335 and no clutch or H-Shifter.
 
It's so funny that this game combines so many elements from some of my most beloved franchises of all time:

- Driving skill system
like Kudos in Project Gotham Racing

- Weather, awesome rain
- like in Project Gotham Racing

- Totally open-world and free roam
like in Midtown Madness and Test Drive Unlimited

- Huge world, huge foreseight, jumping possibilities
like Motorcross Madness

- Signs, collectables and those car wooden huts (reasons to actually discover the world)
like in Crackdown

- Arcade driving mechanisms (yet not totally crazy)
like in RalliSport Challenge
 
Red Chocobo said:
Does it bother anyone else when Darin says that the game will be a "fun distraction"?

I have no problem with sim fans. But they can be real snooty fucks sometimes.
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No. From what I can recall, they really enjoyed the first game, but they get a lot of complaints from some people whenever they cover games that are more on the arcade side (hell, some are even against anything that's not a PC sim).
 
The way they tout the world size seems odd to me. Apparently nowhere is off limits and yet they state the drivable space is only 3 times that of the first game. That to me would suggest that the overall map size is actually smaller than the original.
 
Red Chocobo said:
Looking great, as usual.

But I'm getting so sick of seeing that Lambo driving through vineyards. Show us something new! I want to see different parts of the map.
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Yeah, show us an Audi R8 driving through those vineyards. I know it's basically the same car, but damnit, it's a sexier, curvier version and I like it.
 
bkfount said:
I loved them. Instead of race to point whatever in a few minutes, it was race a fucking plane that will buzz you a few times. Something different and fit the theme.
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Yea, I really don't understand the complaints about them. They were basically just a time trial with a more graphical representation of how you were currently doing. Maybe people just found them disproportionately difficult compared to the standard races?

Dee Dah Dave said:
The way they tout the world size seems odd to me. Apparently nowhere is off limits and yet they state the drivable space is only 3 times that of the first game. That to me would suggest that the overall map size is actually smaller than the original.
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I think they're probably referring to the general area of the map, rather than considering how much of it is roads vs offroad. So the area could be three times as large as Horizon 1, even if there were only a single track going around the outline of it.
 
Here are the perks he goes over in the video:

XP EVERYWHERE
Earn XP from banking Skills in Freeroam

BOUNTY HUNTER
Drivatars with Head to Head bounties can be seen on the map and mini-map

PAPARAZZI
Cars you need for Horizon Promo are called out

IMMUNE SYSTEM
You start games of Infected in a ghosted state for 15s unless you start as the first Infected player

FAST TRAVEL ANYWHERE
Enables fast travel anywhere

GHOST KING
Your ghost state lasts 2s longer when you become King

DAILY DOUBLE
You earn double the reward from your daily Drivatar payouts

BARGAIN HUNTER
Permanent 10% discount at the Autoshow

ET TU, BRUTE?
You earn 25% more Credits when you beat a Friend's Drivatar in a Head to Head race

DISCOUNT PARTS
Permanent 10% discount for Upgrades

PROFIT SHARE
You earn 25% more Credits from Tuning and Paint downloads
 
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