Well, needing a single time for a server world for online lobbies I can understand, as that would be a terrbile thing to be dealing with if someone had to drive in the dark while everyone else was in the day, and for someone else it was raining.
As for the world itself in 4, I'm hoping we see Birmingham sometime soon. And some cars blasting down the M5, though I doubt very much whether you'd see the McDonalds and Toys R Us just off Junction 2 in the game.
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@ThanosReXXX No aversion to blue, it's what I said to redd, that the Cobalt Blue BMW specifically is involved in more violations than any other car model for several years in a row (as of a few years ago anyway), making it rated the "worst drivers in America". It's not blue: It's specifically the Blue Bimmer that's infamous
I don't know about blue/hybrids/electrics though, I haven't heard that one. Must be a west coast thing? I've never equated them with a color. Bumper stickers, yes. Colors, no
@DarthNocturnal At least something lives on somewhere. I fear here we're going to have Walazon forever and ever. At least until Alibaba takes over everything.
TRU has indeed shut up here in the UK, but if the Gamestation store in Halesowen is any indication, it'll stand as a relic for years upon years. Unless one of the supermarkets want to try and compete against the nearby Asda.
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@NEStalgia As I said, not being on home soil leaves me kind of in the dark what that is all truly about, but I can imagine that the sneers towards hybrids/electric cars is probably something along the lines of it not being real cars, like the bigger, better, more fuel/oil guzzling American monster trucks that are called cars...
Well, anyway, that is more along the lines of the general reputation we still have in Europe nowadays, and the idiot currently sitting in the White House certainly isn't helping one bit with helping to improve that image...
I think you can probably imagine how glad I am that my Dutch is fluent and completely accent-free...
@DarthNocturnal Sensible World of Soccer? Is that a remake of the 16 bit game? I never even knew that existed. But in any case, gotta agree with @Dezzy here. What a lousy bunch of games to add, while there are SO many other titles that they could have chosen, that are FAR better. Oh, well... I'll keep myself busy with current gen games then, waiting for the next BC batch, I guess...
Forza 7 is actually surprisingly fun. I really didn't think it would be, but it manages to be captivating while still feeling really different from Horizon. I even splurged, $12 on the car pack (normally $30.) Normally I wouldn't care but it's a good price and I figure some of the unusual stuff I'd want to pick are locked away in it. I imagine it's probably a watered down experience without playing it in full manual though either with a stick & wheels, or at least giving the clutch + shift Elite controller setup a try. I didn't try it yet...still learning the ropes of racing let alone manual trans with it.
@DarthNocturnal Well that sounds like it's time to switch back to Sunset Overdrive then....
@ThanosRexxx I dunno, I'm out of touch with the modern world, Dale Sr. was about all I know about racing after Mario Andretti . NASCAR itself sneaked up on me, all I knew as a kid was F1 I'm familiar with Danica though, I mean she was in a Sonic game after all......and on basically every other piece of advertising Never heard of Julia....maybe she'll get into MK9 and I'll find out.
And yeah, Forza has won me over despite not even really liking racing games very much. It's amazingly just a very well made video game, racing or otherwise, and I didn't expect that. I have GT:S sitting there...fuzzy dice and all...but can't imagine it being as fun somehow.
@NEStalgia Whaaaattt??? Never heard of Julia Landauer? What kind of American are you?
(I was simultaneously thinking that you're bound to make someone angry with that comment as well)
She's about to become more famous than Danica Patrick, if she isn't already, seeing as she's the first woman in racing who's ever achieved such a high ranking. From the wiki page:
The NASCAR Whelen Euro Series formed the Lady Cup, a championship system for female drivers in 2014. In 2016, a record 18 different women started a race in one of NASCAR's touring series. Julia Landauer was the most successful within her respective series, finishing 4th in points in the K&N Pro Series West with seven top-five finishes in fourteen races.
I'll let you in on a little secret: even in main series Forza, I don't use manual gears either. I do have all the other stuff activated, so no auto-break and full damage models (with the accompanying effects on the ability to continue driving, or not) and all that, but I hate manual shifting. I'm not THAT much of a racing sim purist.
And yeah, just leave that copy of GT:S in it's foil wrapper. Might even end up earning you some extra cash in a year or 5, seeing as you'll have a mint copy. It definitely isn't a match for Forza, and the entire series already hasn't been, ever since Forza 4, when Turn 10 took the crown from Polyphony, and since then, they haven't been able to get it back. GT is still a good racing sim, but in certain (arguably critical) aspects (depending on sim lover's wants/needs of such games), it's the lesser game.
@ThanosReXXX Hah, I could only anger someone that's a racing fan. Danica became a household name due to mainstream marketing tie-ins with GoDaddy (and....Sonic the Hedgehog All Stars racing Transformed......) but I take it Julia isn't (yet) a mainstream marketing personality, and just sticks to the sport. Sounds like that will change soon. I'm always 5-10 years behind the pop culture curve.
If you didn't gather from my Forza history....I don't follow racing
Yeah once I get used to more of the details I'll look into the damage/assists stuff. Right now I follow the "if you ain't rubbin' you ain't racin" philosophy to get by Auto-brake is almost annoying because manually doing it tends to cause more negative effect than doing nothing. I'm surprised no manual trans for you.....a European that likes auto? You'll out you real identity! I thought that was a sin like calling "football" "soccer" over there
I'm not into it either, so I'm a heathen, but Forza 7 does feel almost like it's missing something if going automatic. I Dl'ed the manual & manual w/ clutch control scheme for the Elite but I'm far from ready to try using it. I don't think it would work well without the extra buttons though. The Elite was kind of clearly designed with Forza in mind given the paddles over the grips rather than down the center like FPSs usually do.
@NEStalgia Good review, that. But it certainly does paint a very bleak picture for people contemplating picking this up, though. And that first comment underneath the article is pure gold. Forza Horizon for the win!
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