You're a fanboy then.No.
I don't think it's correct or fair to call someone is a fanboy for making a specualtive judgement of something they haven't played yet. We judge whether to buy a game or not often before playing it afterall. There's nothing wrong with looking at TDU:SC and drawing conclusions, we just need to be mindful that they are just speculative judgements at this stage.
I think the whole point of Horizon is that it's deliberately not as realistic as other games, it's meant to be more action driving and whatnot. For what it's worth, personally I hope they are not like the WRC game physics, I don't think they would translate well into this type of game at all. The tarmac rallies for me are the absolute worst in those games.
What about it makes it weak? I think it's pretty dam good when you look at the different types of racing it offers. It's certainly more varied than 4, and I'd say on a par with 3.
It's certainly varied, but the road layouts just don't do much for me and the scenery didn't exactly blow me away either. The mountain pass is probably my only real highlight.
I suppose that's the point now at least, but it still leaves me in wanting an arcade game that's more grounded in its driving mechanics. Not necessarily a sim, but something that doesn't go too ridiculous with its driving. Horizon actually was a bit like that in its first entry, but lost that. I'm hoping this sort of fills that void left.
Horizon 1 was more geared towards an mature audience it became more for kids with each new entry.
Yup, I figured with the hotwheels expansion in Horizon 3 starting this. It's fine and it's great people are happy with it.
FH4's map was such a wasted opportunity. As someone who lives relatively close to parts of where that map depicted and has visited a large number of the places it took inspiration from, they really could have done more to make it stand out from the rest.
Indeed, Scotland has some super beautiful roads that I hope to visit someday and I felt FH4 really dropped the ball in that aspect.
Same with the FH3 map. I have visited many places from that map and they really dropped the ball there too. The Great Ocean Road is a spectacular coastal road with many tight and twisties. The mountain passes coming from the tablelands down to the coast are amazing too. FH3 was just massively wide, straight, flat roads.
Yeah I bought WRC 8 when it came out and the stages blew my mind! Seeing that it’s the same guys doing this I have full faith in the map. Procedural generation and photogrammetry has gotten pretty good lately so I’m sure the map will be plenty pretty.
Since it's abandonware you can find it for free on myabandonware as long as it isn't again available on gog, steam, etc.
TDU2 is unfortunately not very mod-friendly from what I've heard. There is, however, a mod called Project Paradise 2 that restores online functionality and has some fan patches that include support for current systems.
Your best (AUP-friendly) bet for both games is to find a used console copy, which sadly isn't very convenient nowadays because none of the console versions are backward compatible. TDU2 is still available digitally on the Xbox store, but it was never on the PS store. The physical PC versions probably have DRM that makes it not worth it to hunt for a used copy.
If you are able to find a PC version of TDU2, I've been playing it with the TDU2 Unofficial Pack, which fixes loads of the original problems with it, and adds a bajillion new cars: https://turboduck.net/files/file/330-tdu2-unofficial-patch/
...I'll be happy if it doesn't get cancelled...
