Racing games meta prediction!

[Chris Hu]

Zekkyou said:

Chris Hu said:

There are already more then a couple of interviews there numerous long in depht articles about the game already and there are already more then a couple of people that actually played the game for a good amount of time already.  The developers pretty much released all the info about the game already the only thing we don't know for sure is the final roster count of cars and the song list everything else is pretty much a open book.  Turn 10 on the other hand was much more secrative about Forza 5 because they pretty much already knew that the final product wouldn't be as good as the previous game due to lack of content and features.

You're missing the point. How do you know FH2 won't be penalized for being too similar to the first? How do you know the map won't be less interesting because they had to make it bigger? How do you know the events won't be more repetitive since they have to make more of them? How do you know it won't be criticized for not feeling "next gen" enough, like infamous was? How do you know expectations won't climb too high then not be met? The answer to all of these is you don't.

It's perfectly reasonable to assume FH2 will be better than the first, and i agree with you that it has a high chance of being so, but it's not at all reasonable to say "LOL nice joke post" to someone for predicting it's final meta won't be the same as the first.

Games aren't rated simply on how good they are compared to their predecessors.

We already know that Horizon 2 will not be anything similar to the first game (except for the 360 version which will proably have a lot of less feautres then the X1 version).  So there is no way it can be penalized for being too similar to the first game.  We already know that the events will not be too repetative either since they added new showcase events to the game one that is already know about is where you race against a train.