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SvennoJ on 04 June 2014
walsufnir said:
Lafiel said:
walsufnir said:
Lafiel said:

Turn 10 Playground Games sure knows how to take some sweet looking bull shots (just like Polyphony).

But it's not that Horizon didn't deliver in 2013... Definitely one of the best looking racers if not *the* best of last gen.

[...] so why should the customer buy the next racing game in 3 years or one for the next console in 6-8years if going by the "screenshots" there is no difference in quality?


I believe you didn't read the article on IGN where they say:

 

"“We believe next gen beauty isn’t about poly counts,” says Fulton. “It’s not about texture resolution. Those are last-gen concepts. Next-gen beauty is about light.”

“It’s about light and how it plays on every surface in the world. How it reacts to them. How it scatters from them. It’s about the way sunlight glints on the bodywork of a car. It’s about the way the entire world reflects back at you from the surface of a puddle in a cobbled street.

“It’s about really revealing those imperfections that make something feel real. I’m talking about the minute scratches on a brake disc. I’m talking about the flaky paint and rusted metal of an old barn door. That’s what next-gen beauty is.”"

I've never looked at a brake disc, I guess the barn door looks nice after you crash. Looks like next-gen is about screenshots...

Add heat shimmer, realistic puddle forming, water spray, drifting snow, dust devils, bouncing hail, wind gusts, drifting fog, rain evaporating of a hot road surface, reflective road paint, road reflectors, reflective signs, headlights that cast shadows for all cars, all stuff that you see while driving. puddle reflections and flaky paint is last-gen.



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walsufnir on 04 June 2014
SvennoJ said:
walsufnir said:
SvennoJ said:

Yay bullshots. At least they remembered to scale them down to 1080p, so obvious wen you release screens at 2560x1440.

At least we know photo mode is going to look good. A bit more of the environments would be nice, a picture of the map would be even better. Raindrops on cars are nice, but the background hiding in the blur filter is what I'll be looking at when driving.


Actually the game looked very good in both photo mode and actual gameplay. Let's wait till friday before we really call bullshot.

It looked good, just not as good as the trailers and screenshots pre game. I remember being initially disappointed with the graphics, but got used to it and still found plenty great looking vistas. It was a mixed bag.

I'll be very skeptical with everything shown at E3. The only thing that affects my buying decision for FH2 is map size and gameplay variety anyway. It's going to look good to great regardless. Dunno why they always need to oversell the graphics.


You are right, the graphics will look good, for sure. I just want to see it on next-gen, though ;)

And yes, the game itself was fun. A lot of fun and although it got 85 meta, to me it was too low... The interview on IGN was very, very promising to me that content-wise the game will deliver, the maps they told us is 3 times as big as the first one.



walsufnir on 04 June 2014
pbroy said:
DC is better, but I still fapped to it.


In which way better?



walsufnir on 04 June 2014
SvennoJ said:
walsufnir said:


I believe you didn't read the article on IGN where they say:

 

"“We believe next gen beauty isn’t about poly counts,” says Fulton. “It’s not about texture resolution. Those are last-gen concepts. Next-gen beauty is about light.”

“It’s about light and how it plays on every surface in the world. How it reacts to them. How it scatters from them. It’s about the way sunlight glints on the bodywork of a car. It’s about the way the entire world reflects back at you from the surface of a puddle in a cobbled street.

“It’s about really revealing those imperfections that make something feel real. I’m talking about the minute scratches on a brake disc. I’m talking about the flaky paint and rusted metal of an old barn door. That’s what next-gen beauty is.”"

I've never looked at a brake disc, I guess the barn door looks nice after you crash. Looks like next-gen is about screenshots...

Add heat shimmer, realistic puddle forming, water spray, drifting snow, dust devils, bouncing hail, wind gusts, drifting fog, rain evaporating of a hot road surface, reflective road paint, road reflectors, reflective signs, headlights that cast shadows for all cars, all stuff that you see while driving. puddle reflections and flaky paint is last-gen.


We will see what they are able to do to make their fakes look like real because a lot of stuff looking real is of course not simulated as real



LudicrousSpeed on 04 June 2014

DC isn't open world? All this time I assumed it was and that was why its 30fps.



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sales2099 on 04 June 2014
dp


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sales2099 on 04 June 2014
Fusioncode said:
Hmmm they haven't announce the framerate yet. I expect some major crow eating if they announce 30 fps.

Actually we can have our cake and eat it too. Forza mainlines maintain 60 fps where as Horizon 1 was 30 since it is more arcadey. In this spinoff, smooth gameplay can be sacrificed for better graphics, while maintaining our stance that real racers have 60 fps for Forza 6 :)



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sales2099 on 04 June 2014
Planetaryseizure said:
think-man said:
Images look very nice, DriveClub is going to have a hard time competing with Forza later this year. Hopefully the freshness of DriveClub will sway some sales it's way.


LOL no, Forza will have zero impact on drive club, install base of ps4 will be near double by the time this comes out, forza is not exactly a sales beast, project cars and the crew are more competition then forza. Different systems, different racers.

But if one game is critically better then the other then that matters more to gamers no?



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sales2099 on 04 June 2014
Azerth said:
Putin said:
Driveclub still looks better XD

i would hope so since ones closed circut-with 50 cars- and the other is open world 

50 cars? Thats gonna hurt the meta.....



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efilysp on 04 June 2014

BS.