@NEStalgia Thanks for the compliment.
For some reason, if I think of Eastern European Art House movies, I always see a black & white movie in my mind, featuring some peasants using hovels, rakes or pitchforks, digging into the mud on a field in the middle of nowhere, and they'll be living the simple life, wearing mostly the same worn clothes every day, and staying in some clay and straw building or tiny farm, and they're all SO very happy about the single potato and carrot that they get to eat each day, thanks to communism...
Of course, this isn't the reality, but the combination of Eastern Europe and Art House does invoke those kinds of visions in my mind.
@NEStalgia But getting back to the topic of gaming: I bought the Forza Horizon 3 Blizzard Mountain expansion (yes, I didn't have that yet, although me marketing the hell out of it towards others might have made you suspect otherwise) because of the current discount. I hope to be able to try it out some time this week or in the weekend.
'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.'
@ThanosReXXX LOL....actually the first half of that actually sounded kind of dreamy until the Red Potatoes part I think those East European films are more common over there but don't make their way over here. The arthouse ones here usually come from some holier than thou director either from South America or the US, on rare occasion Europe, and is similarly designed to touch upon every "social issue" of the year and make everyone feel guilty to have flushing toilets while so much of the world does not. Not so different from the Red Potatoes though
LOL, you didn't have Blizzard Mountain yet? That's too funny. I'd have pointed out the sale day 1 if I thought that! I still haven't unlocked the expansions. I turned off auto braking, steer assist, and one of the other settings and now can't finish better than 11th in a race and spend most of it fishtailing, spinning out, and flying wildly off course
@NEStalgia Later today, I'll have a look see into what settings I have switched on or off, and what cars I have been using. Right now, watching the Soccer World Cup in Putin Paradise again...
Well, just be patient, and keep at it. You already have one festival unlocked, so that's two in total, seeing as you already begin at the first one, if I remember correctly. But if not, then there's two more to go, and not all experience points come from winning races. You also need to scour the map for barn finds, and complete the objectives that these give you.
The benefit, besides experience points, that this gives you, is that you also get instant access to much better cars than the ones you've started with, because most of the barn finds are already tuned up.
The only "annoying" thing about barn finds as opposed to other objectives, such as races and other way points, is that the game only gives you a ball park direction of where the barn find is supposed to be, so it'll drop you in the vicinity of it, but you'll have to do some smart and slow driving around to actually find them.
'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.'
Not that spinning 190 degrees non-stop in a race and swerving back and forth like a sailing ship in a monsoon isn't fun.....but I would like to actually be able to turn a corner and end up at least near the road, pointing the right way
I love the barn finds system. What is this game teaching children. If you go find a Porche in a barn you can keep it? Well, I guess that's how NY works already so it makes sense....
Is it just me who finds the snow tires on Blizzard Mountain pointless? I'm able to get around a lot better without them, and when I have to go back to them it feels as though I've been limited in movement again.
@NEStalgia Well, the big difference is, that in real life, these cars aren't perfectly tuned, much less in good driving conditions to begin with. I've watched enough "car find" programs on History and Discovery Channel to be able to make that distinction. I would dare to wager a bet that most children or even teenagers wouldn't have the cash on hand to restore these real life barn finds to their former glory...
'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.'
@ThanosReXXX Isn't that the system in NFS (reboot?) I haven't got that far into it yet, just the intro stuff, but I remember when they E3 show spent way too much time on that between FIFA and BF1 that you find rusted out buckets of junk on the road have have to have parts to rebuild them into something usable (probably with money from microtrans.....because EA.) but that sounds kind of cool and way more like real life.
@NEStalgia To be honest, I don't know anymore. Perhaps in the later games, but not in the first one. Or maybe it is. It's been many years since I played a Need for Speed game to such an extent, that I would be able to make any sensible comment on that. Perhaps someone else can chime in to give you an answer. Maybe @DarthNocturnal or @redd214?
'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.'
@NEStalgia But cool? Nah... semi-automatically buying new parts or simply sending your digital car to the digital garage isn't really a substitute for doing the work properly, as in real life. Parts just don't magically pop up and get placed by a pointer...
'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.'
@redd214 It was the question he posted directly above the comment I made in which I mentioned you and @DarthNocturnal. But I'll save you having to scroll back three comments...
He wanted to know, if there was an option in one of the rebooted NFS games on last or current gen systems, that had some kind of option in it, to find and/or buy old, worn down cars, and fix them up in a garage.
Not to be confused with a function to simply repair your own car in a garage....
The question came about because we had a discussion about barn finds in Forza Horizon 3 and how these feature all kinds of prime model cars, which are completely tuned by default. That turned into a real life comparison, in which I simply mentioned that cars found in barns in real life, are mostly rust buckets, that are hardly in any driving condition, much less a good one.
And that ended up in the question that we now have: did or didn't one of the NFS games have some sort of garage function where you could find (or buy) and fix up such broken down and neglected rust buckets?
@ThanosReXXX ah gotcha. Yes NFS payback has "Derelicts" which are basically barn finds. You find the chassis then have to find 4 parts scattered throughout the world. Then can be tuned up to the maxed level. I don't believe the 2015 release had anything like that from what I recall, been a few years.
What's nice about Horizon 3 is you don't have to go too far into the main game to play the expansions. Like I'm around 20% done with the main game and just finished the Hot Wheels expansion, I don't remember the unlock requirements though.
@Grumblevolcano You have to have opened up three festivals, for the Hot Wheels expansion to unlock. Don't know about Blizzard Mountain, but I expect the same rules to apply.
'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.'
Hello everyone! I decided to join the home console people and I bought Xbox 360 E! I know it is late but it is a new path to collecting games!
For now I own:
Fable Anniversary
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
On Friday I am expecting The Orange Box (oh yeah what a treat!) and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Elements.
@Dezzy Well I am more aiming towards XBox One X but given the current status of the PS4 ... it is hard. The PS4 just have and will have amazing games that beat the Xbox in exclusives. On the other hand One X gives better graphics and better frame rate on ... well everything compared to the PS4 Pro.
I aim to get the last and current gen consoles separately. Also I do not like backwards compatibility via internet download/emulation.
That is why I hunted down a PS3 60GB Fat model to play PS2 games. It plays them like native PS2 console.
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