Yup. Racing games will be racing games. No next gen gameplay here.

We'll see how the battle between Forza 6 and GT7 turns out. Or Forza 7 and GT7, you never know with PD :) For now FH2 can't come anywhere close to the weather effects in DC.

I just finished a 40 minute endurance race on Sinclair pass reverse in the Maclaren P1, with dynamic weather from 1pm to 11pm. (with time compression) The transitions from wet to dry to wet and day to night with the sun peeking through and under the shifting cloud cover make every lap unique. Definitely a huge difference from doing an endurance race in GT with dynamic time and weather.

This is what I love, we are arguing about Driveclub (Brand new IP) Vs. Forza (Established IP). Sony has yet to show their top dog, Polyphony Digital. Now that will be a massacre.

Not to mention Evolution has, as far as I'm aware, never made a realistic looking racer. They've mostly done Motorstorm.

I wouldn't expect Forza 2 to match DC in weather.

1. It's open world
2. It's a cross gen game
3. It wasn't delayed for an extra year
4. It didn't have a special post-launch weather patch AFAIK
5. It's on weaker hardware

Dynamic weather is nothing new or special anyway.

I agree. I do think they resort to clickbait sometimes as well, but not as much as most of the other major gaming sites. I wouldn't say they've given anyone a free pass, either. They rode Nintendo pretty hard for the company's first year, now it's Sony and Microsoft's turn.

1. You can't use the open world excuse for everything. Less detailed geometry / background sure. But lighting and effects no.
2. It was developed separately for 360 and XBox One, only sharing the same assets, which is geometry again, not lighting and effects.
3. Came out around the same time, and it's an established IP borrowing cars from it's big brother and most of the groundwork from the previous game.
4. It did have storm island, doesn't look close.
5. I guess that's the only valid excuse.

The concept is nothing new or special, the implementation is. It has a profound impact on the experience and tests your knowledge of the tracks a lot more than the weather does in previous games. Anyway I can send you the endurance race or you can create it yourself, then see for yourself if it's nothing you haven't done before.

lol you don't need to send me any video, I own the game thanks :)

And all of those reasons are perfectly valid. If you don't think being open world and having much larger spaces to account for and process with weather and so many more textures and traffic matters when it comes to weather effects then there's really nothing else that needs to be said :) I'll just take DF's word over yours, thanks.

I meant the challenge, I didn't make a video of it. It's in my event history.

You praise Infamous for its effects, so that open world doesn't have those limitations?
What's DF's word?

Better is still subjective.  Actually this article brings up some issues where the PS4 would have the better resolution if only slight but the X1 would have the better framerate.  This has happen a few times where developers have gone for better resolution for the PS4 because it seems thats what gamers want but to the determent of framerates.

3 frams vs 44% higher resolution