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This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:
This article was published by Adam Ismail (@glassjaw) on May 31st, 2018 in the Features category.
Forza Horizon just doesn't have that spatial feeling as in TDU, especially from inside the car. Even when I loaded perfectly good FH3 designs to FM7, they looked very weird. The physics is better in TDU as well. But, yeah, what else is there.Awesome game for its time. One day my dream of car game set in the real world with sim handling will come true. Until then, Forza Horizon will have to do.
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I like this Mirror Mode format, and hope to see more in the future with the likes of GTR, rFactor, and others that attempted close to real physics.
Many of these games I cover for Mirror Mode are either childhood favorites or ones I've discovered much later on. The only issue with that is that I never had a PC growing up. So I'd love to cover PC sims that I know were hugely influential, like GTR and Richard Burns Rally, but I wasn't there.
However, I invite my colleagues to wax poetic about their favorite PC sims for Mirror Mode, because that's something we should definitely explore. Guys?
Many of these games I cover for Mirror Mode are either childhood favorites or ones I've discovered much later on. The only issue with that is that I never had a PC growing up. So I'd love to cover PC sims that I know were hugely influential, like GTR and Richard Burns Rally, but I wasn't there.
However, I invite my colleagues to wax poetic about their favorite PC sims for Mirror Mode, because that's something we should definitely explore. Guys?
As in get poetic here in this thread under your article, or submit resources and opinion to you for a new influential PC sim article?
I completely forgot that TDU predated Forza 2. What a strange time. There was PGR 3, NFS Most Wanted and Ridge Racer 6 at launch, and then you had TDU followed shortly by NFS Carbon, right?One of the cool things about TDU is that it really was the first game of it's kind, it was so far ahead of it's time in so many ways. This isn't often mentioned, but perhaps why it got the chance to be successful on the Xbox 360 is because TDU (Sept 2006) was released nearly a full 8 months before Forza Motorsport 2 (May 2007) . There certainly were not a lot of good racing games available post launch on the 360, Project Gotham 3 (Nov 2005) was out but that's really about it. A lot of people just bought TDU to pass the time until the first Forza game on the 360 came out, and they were pleasantly surprised by just how great TDU was. TDU was one of those nice surprises, and it had something very unique, special about it to the point where it quickly became an enduring driving/racing title, a instant cult classic favorite.
I completely forgot that TDU predated Forza 2. What a strange time. There was PGR 3, NFS Most Wanted and Ridge Racer 6 at launch, and then you had TDU followed shortly by NFS Carbon, right?
I will say PGR 3 stands as one of my favorite launch titles ever. That game truly felt like the next generation realized. Between the interior view and graphics, the detail of the car models and cities, the Gotham TV aspect, and that it was basically unrivaled in terms of polish for years after it launched. Loved it to bits.
Nice article, but, TDU 1 servers are not offline anymore. Officially they are dead, yes, but there is an unnofficial server running, called Project Paradise.This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:
This article was published by Adam Ismail (@glassjaw) on May 31st, 2018 in the Features category.
Last time I heard of it, it didn't work for long. Is it still running?there is an unnofficial server running, called Project Paradise
Yes it is.Last time I heard of it, it didn't work for long. Is it still running?
Nice article, but, TDU 1 servers are not offline anymore. Officially they are dead, yes
Not quite, when it says that TDU should be ok for a solitary experience. Since any PC player can still cruise around online.So the article is right all along. Good to know. 👍
I had almost every car in the game apart from the cars you unlock that was until my then friend stole the game.