New Forza Horizon 4 stream just wrapped up. Focused on autumn, showed the full map which is absolutely packed as well as a few other details. Looks great thus far!
@NEStalgia Of course I'm right. I'm a Titan, which, for all intents and purposes, is a demi-god...
And besides that, I'm also a Taurus; a star sign famous for always being right. (or was that for always being dominant and wanting to fight?)
But if you're anything like me, then trying to control/keep in check what is almost like an instinctive thing, must at the very least mean a bit of a struggle. I don't break controllers anymore, but like I must have mentioned to you before once or twice, I do have some difficulties sometimes keeping my bearings, especially in hectic situations, and mostly in anything first person.
And no matter how hard I try, I can't get that out of my system, so that physical or mental defect of mine can definitely NOT be fixed with one of the age old adages of gaming, such as "practice makes perfect"...
So, if gripping controllers too tightly is your thing, then you're actually fighting yourself to some extent, trying to keep your precious Elite controllers in one piece...
The map isn't even all of it, from what I've read, [though I think that might just be wishful thinking on the part of some redditors] which means they are keeping surprises for us to find despite showing a lot of things off. Autumn definitely looks like a great season to be in, and the Forzathon Live stuff is an interesting way of encouraging co-op play.
Also - https://i.redd.it/syyykc1laka11.jpg - as complete an image of the map as we'll be getting at this stage. And looking at it, I'm pretty certain it is all the map.
@ThanosReXXX a Titan? You wot, Gramps? (Xenoblade 2.... You'll get the joke when you get a switch )
Yeah it's true, though I've never actually broken a controller, (not sure how) just the drifting stick modules. But in those stressed moments of say Splatoon or sushi striker, yeah I'm jamming that stick as though more pressure will make me run faster.... Can't escape it, hands are grabbing tools. Imagine how fun trying to lean musical instruments was many years ago
(Xenoblade 2.... You'll get the joke when you get a switch )
Oh, great... now I'll have to wait almost 6 months until I'll finally get the punch line. And that is also assuming that I'm even going to buy Xenoblade 2 as my first game...
Thanks ever so f-ing much...
yeah I'm jamming that stick as though more pressure will make me run faster.... Can't escape it, hands are grabbing tools. Imagine how fun trying to lean musical instruments was many years ago
@Zuljaras I'll have to leave that answer to someone else, since I haven't played the game, but where getting used to console gaming is concerned: the only real difference is the controls, and not being able to extensively change graphics settings, but other than that, I'd say that console gaming is far more convenient and more instant.
Although nowadays, with having to install the game before you can play it, the experience is coming closer to gaming on a PC, but personally, it's still different enough for me to prefer consoles over PC's any day.
Don't care much about mouse/keyboard controls and/or being able to max settings on certain games.
I'm sitting 10 feet/3m away from my TV, so Full HD images on the Xbox One, and even sub-1080p on the Xbox 360, are more than fine for me.
""All-new Xbox hardware" to be shown at Gamescom - but what does that really mean?"
Well, the Xbox One ThanosReXXX, of course. Or simply Xbox One XXX, for short...
It'll have 4x the power of the Xbox One X, will be 8K out of the box, super-sampling 2.0 for those poor saps that still don't have a 4K TV, bigger and much faster internal hard drive, although with 8K games, even the standard 2TB drive will hardly be enough. And then there will be even more backward compatibility than EVER before, bigger, better titles, more third party support, Elite controllers as standard, HoloLens as optional peripheral, combined with Kinect 3.0, which will be smaller than ever before, so you will hardly notice it sitting underneath your TV, the BluRay drive will also be massively improved, and to top it all off, the console will be almost 30% smaller in size than its predecessors...
Okay, dream time aside, and in all seriousness, I only suspect some peripherals, and HoloLens might actually be one of these things, or maybe a special edition Xbox One steering wheel & pedals, for use with Forza Horizon 4...
Xbox One XXX - The console of choice for HORRRRRRN! I mean... racing games, of course. Gotta get that truck driving on the system first, though. Microsoft Truck Simulator XXX or something similar.
Anyway, there's an Ultimate sale starting tomorrow until the end of the month, so I'm hoping there's going to be a good discount on the Hot Wheels DLC, and a few other things as well. I suppose I might also add Motorsport 7 to my Forza collection if there's a good enough discount.
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@Grumblevolcano Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised. Of course they do it after I held off a month to decide to buy a new one or not. There was a prototype floating around since January with leaked images from Hong Kong, and with the constant shortages, everyone expected a new one at E3. I started looking at Elites back in Dec when thinking of getting a 1X or building a new PC.
It's a very significant possibility. (And now I won't be participating )
@Zuljaras I remember PC gaming being "play play, stutter, hard choppy freeze, stutter, then corrupted screen and loud high pitched whine from speakers - reboot". Couldn't resist. I have the game on PS4 and X1, but never on PS3/360.
@ThanosReXXX Nah, they've already said HoloLens was never really intended for consumers and presenting it with XBox was probably the wrong place to do it. It's just too expensive. But where do I pre-order the X.B.O.X.X.X.? And does it come in a bundle with Senran Kagura and a 6-month trial of HBO? It really should to sell the idea.
@DarkRula Ultimate sale? Holy geeze I just spent a bunch on the Amazon + CDKeys + a handful of MS store sales (and 2 full price older fighting games I've been looking at and Captain Toad) Plus Sony's big sale last week. The sales are killing me but I have like 10 years of games to play. I kid you not, I'm up to 107 XBox games (some are duplicates of PS4 games) and like 25 PS4 games to play. Plus a dozen Switch. I need to fold time.
Still....looking forward to see what's up there.
And here I was about to buy the KH3 complete edition preorder on PS4. (I really want it on X1, but the bundle of KH1.5, 1.8, 2.8 + KH3 for $100 is hard to beat, and since the first two are PS only and I don't have them.....it kind of doesn't make sense to buy them separately while buying KH3 on X1 )
@NEStalgia Well you are better than me. I just spam A or just play the vs/arcade mode in games that have long story scenes. BBCTB I have yet to play the episode mode after starting it and pretty much nope-ing back out to Vs mode.
Glad you are liking the Razer! I've been lurking on shoryuken.com looking for padhacking guides for the procon. I think I'll be making a procon stick for the switch soon enough.
KI has always been weird...you will have to elaborate. (never liked it much growing up but I did get the new one...cuz I buy all fighting games I can.)
Once the bug gets you that's it. Especially once you find "your" franchise to play. Also I can't help you...I buy FGs I don't even like (why do I have MK9 and X? I loathe MK but I have friends who play so...yeah.)
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@NEStalgia Hm... handily stepping over my previous witty comment, which also contained a beautiful rendition of a Queen song, I see...
And it's not going to be the X.B.O.X.X.X. (what's with all the periods anyways?), but the Xbox One XXX, or triple X, whatever sounds best. As long as it's porny and adult-oriented...
But where you can get it? Well, it's not out officially yet, obviously, but I've had a little chat with Phil, and my excellent sales & marketing skills have convinced him to do select pre-sales in certain areas, so those interested can send a reservation sum of $400 to my PayPal account.
Of course, since it's a pre-order, there's no guarantee that you'll actually get one, or that you'll get all your money back, but in exchange, game discount vouchers will be readily available as a consolation price...
Ordering starts from November 1st...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Ryu_Niiyama LOL I've gone a little...err...nuts with fighter purchases in the last 7 days (ugh, now there's that big sale coming up!) I refuse to give into SF.V, so it's all XBox and Switch and sticks to match now.
The Razer really is pretty slick. Comparing screens it's actually a lot like the TE2 (which makes sense with markman consulting on it since you pointed out he was behind the TE2.) One thing nice about it that actually it's newer PS4 cousin doesn't have is where the PS4 version has the artwork as a glued down thin vinyl sheet like the Hori, the XBox version has paper artwork below a plexi panel, like (American) arcade machines, so it has an overal "real" feel to it with a plexi top surface (JP candy cabs tend to not do the plexi sheet and have a generic panel design more like the Hori sticks, though, so it's a 50/50.) Still the overall feel of it is fantastic....I do have to say I like it more than the RAP, not just for the Sanwa parts but for the lapability feeling more ergonomic (and it can stand on end....an oddly beneficial perk.) The metal plate on Hori is a plus though. This is just a plastic box. Heavy plastic, but plastic. I'm not into modding, but it's an easy mod like the TE2 which is a plus. Easily the best stick I've used (tied only with the JP candy cabs at my arcade....which is of course the same parts.... ) Total feel is nice. I've heard win10 support of all x1 sticks is dodgy though (apparently an MS issue, weirdly.) The art design stock is kind of bland (leaning toward ugly but it's also almost understated compared to JP cabs.)
My FG list now consists of:
(X1)
Tekken 7 (fun story, weird story, horrible AI.)
BB:Chronophantasma - OMG that is just crazy with over an hour of dialog before a single fight. I want to love it but it makes it so difficult. Then again that much recorded localized dialogue is worth the purchase price.
DoA:FR: Weird...surprising....very different from DOA4. That was a fast game with dynamic maps. This is slow and almost boxing-like. Which is kind of cool in a way, very different from everything else. The story mode is even more soap opera than it ought to be, and way too much money was spent on playing up the Swimsuit Edition creds of the game but the different pace makes it interesting.
Injustice/I2: Ok I have to say these things are just plain fun. I know they're not competition. But they're darned fun with the single best woven story mode in the genre. Probably my fav, even if I have to hide to say it.
MvC:I : Very similar to Injustice in design, similar to Blaz in gameplay...pretty cool actually. #2 favorite?
DBZ:FZ: (I know it's coming to Switch, but it was $33 on the Prime Day sale.....I couldn't help it ) I know nothing about DBZ and XV2 was really confusing and MMO-like boring...I barely touched it. This is actually really cool and fun feeling. I'm impressed. May double dip. Similar play to BB (both ArcSys) but feels more cohesive.
And then there's KI. The Shadow Lords thing is cool....mixing a fighting game with a roguelike is a great idea kind of like what I was talking about! But...something about the play...the fights....isn't gelling. And both the roguelike and overall game seem designed for lootboxes? But even arcade mode....something seems...I can't place it. I'm not sure or established in the genre enough to figure out what's odd about it. I simultaneously want to like it (mostly for the roguelike mode) and can't quite attach to it. Not sure if it matters but I'm only using the free version for now, I haven't splurged on "definitive" yet.
(Plus VF, SFV, SC2, the freebies from 360)
On Switch:
I'm still hoping Smash supports the HRAP....that would be awesome!
BB: CTB : I'm hoping story mode pacing is better than Chronophantasma (only paid $14 for that so I'm not mad)....the series should be cool but it feels clunky. Rachael sells the series for me Also, Teddy better be in it, even as DLC......
DBFZ double dip: Maybe? Guilty Gear will be a must.
sigh
@ThanosReXXX Nah, I didn't have anything to add to it, and there's no like button in forums Well as people pointed out with the XBox One X, the acronym is X.B.O.X. So yours is the X.B.O.X.X.X. Or maybe X.B.O.XXX which fits better but also sounds like a Square-Enix title.
You need to put it on GoFundMe. It's more believable when millions of people pay money for a product that never gets made if you do it there.
@NEStalgia Yeah, I figured as much, except the last three X's need not be separated, so then the acronym would have to be X.B.O.X.X, which I like even less than X.B.O.X.X.X...
But as you know, I hate acronyms in general, especially in online forums and so on. It feels like laziness to me, that people apparently aren't able (or more than likely: willing) to type complete names anymore for even the shortest of names or phrasings, such as a certain someone I know that always abbreviates "on the other hand"...
And I truly hate having to ask people about it, because it might potentially make me look stupid, so what happens instead, most of the time, is that I end up spending WAY too much of my time Googling what it might possibly mean, and that's still no guarantee of getting it 100% right, so damn all these people, and their awful, lazy @ss internet habits...
GoFundMe? I thought that Kickstarter would be more than sufficient already for false promises...
@ThanosReXXX Haha, well we need some slack. When you write as many words as you and I do you have to trim the fat where possible I at least truncate words to make up for the quantity of them. Most kiddies today don't even need paragraphs
And bad as we are, Ralek has us beat 100x over
GoFundMe is like Kickstarter for those who think Kickstarter is anti-moneyhatter.
@NEStalgia My main love for the TEseries (aside from the sanwa parts I'm less picky about joystick and gates oddly enough but buttons are everything. Sanwa's are twitchy sensitive but they make piano inputs a breeze) was the fact that it was built to be modded. The HRAP not so much. (I also don't like the hayabusa buttons but they do in a pinch)
Looks like you are amassing quite the collection. I'm a SF snob so I can't stand MK style games. Too slow, input timing is off (to me). My brother likes injustice so I play it on occasion, but its a snooze fest for me.
Taiko is good for the soul, Hoisa!
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While Hot Wheels isn't on sale, the all in one Forza Horizon 3 bundle has returned 75% off (£33.74) so if you don't already have a digital copy now is the perfect time to get one.
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