robthehermit
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Post by robthehermit on Oct 11, 2021 14:10:50 GMT
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Post by beastmaster on Oct 11, 2021 15:30:52 GMT
Hmm. For the first time I don't think I'll be day one on this.
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Post by robthehermit on Oct 11, 2021 15:58:28 GMT
I will be. Thanks to GP it would be rude not to.
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Post by gamingdave on Oct 11, 2021 16:22:21 GMT
Looking forward to this one, and with GP it will be day one for me.
Previews seem to all be mentioning the new handling model and it letting you feel the cars (and their differences better) as well as the option for a more sim setting. Hoping it will play nicely with a wheel and pedals setup as I found FH4 unplayable with it, unlike Forza which is a delight.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2021 17:16:24 GMT
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Post by vicedestroyer on Oct 21, 2021 19:59:01 GMT
Look what just told me it is ready to pre-load?  |
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Post by dfunked on Oct 21, 2021 20:01:05 GMT
Nice. I bizarrely love getting everything installed and ready weeks early like this. Hopefully there's just a tiny day 1 patch (if at all)
Nearly time to start planning my holiday to NZ!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 20:06:18 GMT
Jesus, that's a big game.
I guess they're all big games at this point, I just tend to forget because games download in the middle of the night for me.
But yeah, I'm day one for Forza. My favourite Horizon was 2, and this is giving me similar vibes to that and 3.
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Post by KD on Oct 21, 2021 20:07:11 GMT
If you change your region to Kiribati rather than New Zealand it has a 2 hour earlier time
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Post by malek86 on Oct 21, 2021 20:55:06 GMT
It's 103GB on my Series S too.
I must admit, that whole thing Microsoft said about S games being smaller? Not that I ever believed it much, but it's disappointing to see that after Gears 5 they already stopped even trying.
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Post by jp on Oct 21, 2021 21:03:13 GMT
This may have been because I got into it after all the DLC and added cars had already been out but I found FH4 a bit overwhelming. It was hard to know how to progress and incredibly easy to get the nicest cars right out of the gate.
I remember the days of Gran Turismo 3 when it felt like you’d really earned each car.
Am I missing something with the progression? Is there an ultimate goal that people are trying to achieve?
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Post by darkling on Oct 21, 2021 21:12:49 GMT
This may have been because I got into it after all the DLC and added cars had already been out but I found FH4 a bit overwhelming. It was hard to know how to progress and incredibly easy to get the nicest cars right out of the gate. I remember the days of Gran Turismo 3 when it felt like you’d really earned each car. Am I missing something with the progression? Is there an ultimate goal that people are trying to achieve? I feel exactly like this too with FH4. I'm loving the maxed out Escort Cozzie I was given at the start for the off-road races, and the maxed out Lamborghini Aventador I easily bought after 10 hours for everything on tarmac. Is there something I'm missing? There's no structured progression whatsoever. |
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Post by malek86 on Oct 21, 2021 21:27:39 GMT
I quite liked the progression in FH1.
But FH4 was somewhat overwhelming. And the public events were a bit too long. I finished the mandatory main story events and then left it there. I'm hoping FH5 will be more focused.
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Post by Frog on Oct 21, 2021 21:28:15 GMT
Nope, it's pretty much use what you want. You are limiting your experience if you only use 2 cars for everything
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Post by jp on Oct 21, 2021 21:51:59 GMT
Nope, it's pretty much use what you want. You are limiting your experience if you only use 2 cars for everything I sort of get the appeal but when there’s 460 cars at launch, it quickly becomes overwhelming to a car layman. Since this is the casual version of Forza I just sort of want a linear progression of better cars. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 23:42:56 GMT
You can use favourites so you've got a shortlist of cars you can concentrate on and get to know, one or two in each category to cover all the different events. Helps cut through the drowning in cars thing a bit.
I do agree a more linear progression is preferable, but equally I don't miss the old GT days of 10 races in an MX5, to get a slightly faster MX5 for the MX5 endurance race.
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Post by Frog on Oct 22, 2021 5:59:53 GMT
One of my favourite races on horizon was one I created, racing down a mountain forest at night in the rain. It had a piece of classical music set to it and you were doing it in a Robin reliant.
It just wouldn't have been the same in a lambo.
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Post by spacein_vader on Oct 22, 2021 6:59:46 GMT
The Motorsport series is about linear progression, this is a lot more freeform. The best thing is that races tend to tune themselves to the car class you're in. I tended to find A class as the sweet spot between speed and drivability.
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Post by askew on Oct 22, 2021 7:45:41 GMT
It's 103GB on my Series S too. I must admit, that whole thing Microsoft said about S games being smaller? Not that I ever believed it much, but it's disappointing to see that after Gears 5 they already stopped even trying. Christ. What to uninstall? FH4, I suppose. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2021 19:33:29 GMT
forza has never been "do 500 races in clapped out mx5 to get a slightly less shit mx5" but still would like a better progression for both forza games
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Post by Frog on Oct 22, 2021 19:40:18 GMT
I tended to find A class as the sweet spot between speed and drivability. It's my favourite as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 22:27:41 GMT
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Post by mothercruncher on Oct 24, 2021 9:13:21 GMT
Yeah, on my S, I’m going to have to ditch Flight Sim for this. I love it, but the Xbox is very pick up and play for me and FH5 will suit that better. I added an external HD, but find most games I want to play are X/S enhanced so it hasn’t actually helped with space much.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 24, 2021 9:55:11 GMT
It's 103GB on my Series S too. I must admit, that whole thing Microsoft said about S games being smaller? Not that I ever believed it much, but it's disappointing to see that after Gears 5 they already stopped even trying. It seems that both the X and S versions are indentical apart from resolution. So that's good in one sense but fuck me that's a massive filesize. It's only going to get worse. I imagine Halo infinite will be bloated over time too. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 10:27:01 GMT
No doubt FH5 will increase in size with free content and the paid DLC will be added in (not the actual DLC but sometimes games have the base files for the paid for DLC in an update)
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 24, 2021 11:49:59 GMT
Yeah, I remember by the end Halo 5 was huge. Back to those days then.
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Post by mothercruncher on Oct 24, 2021 13:19:18 GMT
2024- 0.7 games per Series S ☹️
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Post by probablymuttler on Oct 25, 2021 11:39:07 GMT
Digital Foundry have released a great video posted above absolutely eulogising Forza Horizon 5. It looks phenomenal. I've got it downloaded and I am so ready. I'm looking forward to this more than Halo I reckon.
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Post by Matt A on Oct 25, 2021 11:42:45 GMT
I found the last two games to be very similar. Not that I didn't really enjoy both of them.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 25, 2021 12:00:37 GMT
Yeah, it's interesting that I'm not massively more enthused for FH5. It looks absolutely stunning, but then so did 3 and 4. And arguably 2 and 1 in their day.
It's going to be an iteration on the theme of the most recent two, in a new locale. I'm not going to beat myself up about not completing all the content, I'm just going into this one as a fully casual dive in and out kind of experience without any real impetus to advance.
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