That Doesn't Happen

"SHARPSPEED" (SHARPSPEED) 11/13/2014 at 14:31 • Filed to: None

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The Duke Boys and a P1 GTR on the same road. It's shit like this why I love this game.

ACESandEIGHTS > SHARPSPEED 11/13/2014 at 14:35

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I've had a copy of it sitting around for the better part of a week. Gotta get that in rotation.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > SHARPSPEED 11/13/2014 at 14:39

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Yeah well my game has 70 different skylines all pulled straight from a ps2 game.

*cries*

area man > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 11/13/2014 at 14:42

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Don't forget the Evos!

daender > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 11/13/2014 at 14:43

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It's sorta sad when I can boot up my old silm-PS2 and drive cars in GT4 that are rendered in the same quality as the current GT title.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > daender 11/13/2014 at 14:46

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Yep, they're spruced up slightly but fundamentally the same. more annoying though is that the rest of the game has barely advanced either.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > area man 11/13/2014 at 14:47

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So many duplicates...

ACESandEIGHTS > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 11/13/2014 at 14:49

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Haha, ah refreshing to hear some honest criticism of a series that seems stuck in the 90s. I don't know how you go from being the hands-down godfather of video game racing to not even really being a flagship title anymore.

70 different Skylines, every iteration of the Civic.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 14:53

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I still play gt6 from time to time simply because I paid for it, but I have no misconceptions about it's many flaws. They just seemed to stall between gt4 and gt5 then never recovered.

Mercedes Streeter > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 15:02

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It's a double-edged sword too. After Forza 4, Turn 10 and friends have found the perfect way to earn more money: Release the game with an abysmal car list, then charge you for the cars that should've been there to begin with.

Love the Forza games, but refuse to buy the DLCs.

ACESandEIGHTS > Mercedes Streeter 11/13/2014 at 15:05

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Yeah. Wow they nailed it with Forza 4 though. Tons of car packs and a $20 Porsche add-on. Considering EA made money off of a Turn 10 game without actually having to do anything, I'm somewhat shocked there weren't Porsches in F5, Horizon 2.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 15:12

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The Porsche thing is a licensing fuck up. Blame it on EA who owns the license and won't let others use it or blame it on Porsche for granting an exclusive license, either way you can't blame the lack of Porsche in F5 or H2 on Microsoft or Turn 10.

Mercedes Streeter > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 15:14

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IIRC, Turn10 got the Porsches through like some one-time deal thingy. Don't quote me on that...

The first Horizon was truly disappointing to me. Not only with the fences and crap that can't be driven through, but with a car list only slightly larger than the one found in Driver: San Francisco. But otherwise, pretty amazing.

Forza 5 is pretty amazing too, but also with a "greatest hits" style car list. Though, being a release game, Turn10 deserves a little slack.

ACESandEIGHTS > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 11/13/2014 at 15:15

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It's unfortunate. It's what made Forza 4 the most complete racer I can think of and what makes other games lack just a little bit of substance because it's about as big as excluding, say, Ferrari.

RotRod > SHARPSPEED 11/13/2014 at 15:24

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The "Holy shit was that a ___________ racing with a ___________??" moments are a huge part of the fun when you're just cruising around.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 15:41

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Yeah, the whole Porsche license is a clusterfuck of epic proportions. I'm not even sure how Turn 10 managed to get Porsche licensed for Forza 4. Either way it is crazy that Porsche hasn't stepped up and said "we're losing a ton of exposure by exclusively licensing to EA" and either leaned on EA to open the license up to other publishers or flat out renegotiated their license agreement with EA.

Frankly the NFS series just sucks. I bought NFS Rivals for PS4 and played it once or twice before I sold it to Gamestop after watching it collect dust for six months. That Porsche just sits there and thinks that is good enough exposure is fairly surprising.

ACESandEIGHTS > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 11/13/2014 at 15:49

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I'm with you. I keep wondering what EA is doing with the license other than thinking that by sitting on it they're somehow hurting their competitor. I can't tell you the last time I saw a Porsche outside of the Forza series.

And you're right. Porsche—which I understand is percentagewise the most profitable brand in the world —is fading as a kid's dream car, which translates into lost sales to BMW 20 years down the road.

Good to know about NFS Rivals. I was slightly interested but then read a bunch of bad press on it, and finally ended up with a copy of Horizon 2. So basically I'm trying to make each purchase count for the new generation, and glad I didn't drop even $20 on it if it sucks that much.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ACESandEIGHTS 11/13/2014 at 15:59

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I couldn't get into NFS Rivals at all. The physics just sucks and you can't drive around for any length of time without getting chased by cops. At least on the old ones you had to be trying to get cops chasing you, this one was just a pain because you couldn't even cruise around to try and figure out the map.