I guess kindly asking you to drop this rather lame joke won't have much effect, so I'm just going to take a leave of absence from this thread, and this discussion...
'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 To be fair, the game would almost certainly crash right before your train gets to the hermit anyway....
It's a great sim...but it's a big buggy. Crashes, stalls, or completing objectives and it doesn't recognize you completed them so you have to restart. It's answers the question "what if Bethesda made a train sim...."
@NEStalgia Better stick to those Japanese sims, then. I remember having tried out one on the Dreamcast, many years ago. It didn't leave much of an impression on me, but what I do remember is that it was a really complete game, and it ran like clockwork. Even had a special train controller made for it.
'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.'
Sorry to breakup the old men arguing about Pokémon convention ... But the Lego expansion is insanely fun so far a couple hours in. Would love a fully developed Lego Racer game with real vehicles!
@ThanosReXXX I'll have to look for one of those. I love TSW, don't get me wrong, it gets a lot really right. But it has an odd emphasis on German railroads for a British game, and the XBox version of it is missing some of the big US stuff I'd want (the whole CSX freight pack is PC only, etc.) I'd love to see a sim with some Japanese rails....that's some fun stuff you never get to see much of.
Plus they done gots them there trains that have them Poe-keey-mons on 'em!
@redd214 How do you get into it, actually? I was thinking it launched yesterday and went looking for it, but obviously I had the day wrong. I still dont' see any expansions though even though I put a ton of time doing events, so I'm not sure what I have to do to unlock expansions.
@redd214 Glad you're enjoying it so far. If I would have already owned Forza Horizon 4, I probably would have bought it as well, seeing as I also own all the DLC for all the previous games in that series.
'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 That is incredibly awesome! Another case where DC was way ahead of it's time. The sim looks solid (LOL at the anime conductor though), and that controller looks like a blast! I'd love to see a modern take on that! Plenty of kanji in there I'm not familiar with, but I could get by mostly
Related slightly but was I the only one floored and thrilled to see MS Flight Sim return after a massive disappearance? That was THE game that fueled the PC peripheral market back 15, 20 years ago! And a console edition is icing on the cake!
@NEStalgia Better get a translator with it, then. It's rather text-heavy, even though some English labels are used in-game, in the start menu. As for those controllers: no idea if you'll even be able to still get your hands on one, so it's either going to be retro-game shop or eBay, and on the latter, it's probably going to cost an arm and a leg...
'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 Sadly I don't have a Dreamcast (I'd left the Sega wagon after 32x....) though it looks like there's PC (my PC currently isn't a gaming grade PC) and PS3 edition (I suppose I could dig it out, it's not hooked up.) Nothing on XBox of course. There was a DS edition somewhere but I doubt it's particularly good. I wonder if my Japanese arcade will get the new arcade edition? The controls on that should be even more amazing.
Seeing as the controller for the post-Dreamcast versions is USB, it'll work with any compatible device.
There's also a spiritual successor series, called Railfan.
And the games are not that demanding, so I'm pretty sure even the most bog-standard "every day use" PC could run them.
@Grumblevolcano TBH I don't know...back in Fall I was just doing all the events on the map I was finding, which of course keep growing, so I have no idea what I haven't and haven't unlocked
So, I just noticed the Battletoads E3 trailer is getting utterly slammed. I was very surprised to see that, since I figured people were excited for the game, and they didn't announce anything like, making it a mobile runner game, or a gritty FPS reboot or whatever.
...but then I watched the trailer a couple times and realized it's really just a bad trailer. I found it difficult to parse anything from it, and I can see why the comments were filled with people who were angry over the art style, since that's more or less what they shove into your faces throughout without really showing much in context. They were trying to go for "90's attitude" and well, I'd argued it backfired. They really should've shown some gameplay so people get a better idea as to what it is - is it a modern interpretation, a faithful return to form with a new coat of paint, or something entirely different? The question feels like it was left up in the air, when it really shouldn't have.
Anyone know how to access the Lego expansion in Forza? I bought the DLC, but the Lego Speed Challenge maps are all locked. Any idea how to unlock them?
Just as I did with the main game - and Fortune Island as best as I could - I hunted down and three-starred all the PR stunts before getting to any [except one] races. The Speed Champions expansion is a lot of fun even having only been focused on the stunts. There's plenty of challenges to be getting stuck into, including some extras relating to the PR stunts, which I also polished off before ending the session.
@SuperWeird Depending on when you bought it, you'll need to update the expansion pack 2 data so it becomes the full Speed Champions data. Just go into the manage game data and it should say that it needs updating.
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