Test Drive Unlimited 3 incoming
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OverclockN'
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Form the little I've played....Forza Horizon 4 is almost the same. Difference is TDU 2's feels more... like your building a car collection. Your entering races, finding new races as you explore a given island, building up cash, unlocking cars, finding a dealership to buy such cars, buying properties to store those cars, customizing everything and if I remember right you could even browse your various garages to then pick your car to go drive..... it was allot of fun
Oh and the maps where fairly accurate recreations of real locations. So driving around felt like a real place... because they where based on real places. Driving around Oahu was awesome
I've never played Forza Horizon beyond about 5min of screwing around at a buddies. I chose a car, tore off down the road, then tore through a fence, through a creek, and down a grass pasture or something. Then I sat the controller down and never played a Horizon game again.
If this is like that, I'll likely pass on it. I'm just curious what the appeal is and what brings everyone back. I was thinking there were more activities or things to do than it seems.
I've never played Forza Horizon beyond about 5min of screwing around at a buddies. I chose a car, tore off down the road, then tore through a fence, through a creek, and down a grass pasture or something. Then I sat the controller down and never played a Horizon game again.
If this is like that, I'll likely pass on it. I'm just curious what the appeal is and what brings everyone back. I was thinking there were more activities or things to do than it seems.
In essence it's still racing. Just, in an arcade environment. I think the appeal is similar in that the game offers the impression of controlling a car in tricky circumstances. Not so different from even the most hardcore racing sims, where the essence is still... Controlling a car in tricky circumstances.
There's the smoke and mirrors of getting more credits / cars / locations, but overall, it's still a racing game.
No interest from me in Forza Horizon either - I prefer my racing on closed circuits with a bit more realism.
theshadowcult
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Horizon defaults as an arcade racer. However, it has both arcade and softcore sim. There is an entire section in the menu for upping the difficulty by turning on all the sim options. Makes the game soooo much better.
Also, if thats your only impression of horizon Overclockin, you really missed out. Using the softcore sim, Horizon 3 is probably the best car racing game (overall) we've had on pc since Test Drive Unlimited 1
One caveat though. Unfortunately it only turns sim settings on for you... playing multi player, or the ai are usually not going to drive properlly, and you can get taken out of a race easily on even the first corner by some arsehole ai who just rams you.
Also, if thats your only impression of horizon Overclockin, you really missed out. Using the softcore sim, Horizon 3 is probably the best car racing game (overall) we've had on pc since Test Drive Unlimited 1
One caveat though. Unfortunately it only turns sim settings on for you... playing multi player, or the ai are usually not going to drive properlly, and you can get taken out of a race easily on even the first corner by some arsehole ai who just rams you.
OverclockN'
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Nah, I don't have much interest in arcade racing. I only asked the question because I was trying to determine what all there is to do in the games. Because if it's just going to come down to purely racing, it's not going to cut it (for me). I'll just go play a sim.
metroidfox
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Given how much they're hiding things, there is 0 way this is going to be good.
theshadowcult
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tdu 1 didnt have the money behind it, it turned out amazing