Forza Motorsports AnandTech Car Club?

[Jeff7181]

Anyone with Forza interested in joining an AnandTech Car Club? Would be nice to find friendly/fun/competative races with mature individuals.

*EDIT* And to buy/sell cars... of course... with the game being as easy as it is to make money, you could pretty much buy every single car and every part for it, lol.

 

[clickynext]

Damn GT4 without online play.

 

[jcovercash]

w00t Forza is awsome, but No xbox live for me, I do have xlink Kai though. System link play should work fine with forza...

 

[Modeps]

I'd join if I had it... but my CoH addiction trumps most right now.

 

[Rent]

I just want to race some AT Folks

 

[Wingznut]

I'm going to pick it up tomorrow... So, count me in.

Racing with Rent will be just like the good ol' PGR2 days!

 

[blurredvision]

Kinda wishing I hadn't sold my XBOX now, but the reason I sold it was because I wasn't playing the games I was buying. Was becoming a nasty cash sink, and I couldn't keep spending all the money on games I didn't have time to play. Oh well, guess it'll start up again when the XBOX 360 hits in November..............

 

[AgentUnknown]

Had a chance to spend some time with Forza. The customization is great. I like how u can change everything from the bumper to the paint on the car. Graphics aren't as good as GT4. But they are up there. Can't wait to take it online.

 

[Malak]

No Xbox live right now, maybe later. Forza r0x0rs.

 

[Jeff7181]

If someone else wants to start an AnandTech Car Club go ahead... I don't have an Xbox Communicator so it would be difficult for me to organize anything as well as someone else could.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: KruptosAngelos
No Xbox live right now, maybe later. Forza r0x0rs.

Didn't you get a 2 month trial card with it? If not, I did, and you can have the code if you want.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: KruptosAngelos
No Xbox live right now, maybe later. Forza r0x0rs.

Didn't you get a 2 month trial card with it? If not, I did, and you can have the code if you want.

I did, but I don't want to waste it yet. I am in an actual car club already, they may want to form one in Forza later if enough get the game.

 

[rh71]

had xbox live but cancelled it because I never went online, even with Halo 2. Oh well.. have fun.

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
I'm going to pick it up tomorrow... So, count me in.

Racing with Rent will be just like the good ol' PGR2 days!

Wingz - "Don't ram me into that wall man..."

*Rent accelerates into Wingz using him has a shield for the corner*

Wingz - *DAMN YOU!!!*

:laugh:

I should probably play some PGR, but Forza is killing my free time ;x

 

[Wingznut]

Just played Forza for a few races, and I'm in love. :heart:

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
Just played Forza for a few races, and I'm in love. :heart:

Still playing? Wanna run one?

 

[Jeff7181]

For those of you who don't have it... here's a picture I took of the TV during a replay. It's on a 10 year old 19 inch TV, so... it doesn't do the game justice. But I thought this was a cool shot. It's not touched up or doctored at all... all the lighting and shadowing effects are so realistic, it's hard to believe it's done using 5 year old hardware. I'll post a short bink video for ya soon too.

2000 Cobra R

 

[Malak]

Yeah, although I'm still not sure if the car models are as good as GT4. GT4 uses all the power of the PS2 in how good the car looks, while Forza has to also display damage and the underside of the car, along with having much better scenery. Anyone else enjoy seeing the effect the sun and night lights have on shadows and lighting of the car?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: KruptosAngelos
Yeah, although I'm still not sure if the car models are as good as GT4. GT4 uses all the power of the PS2 in how good the car looks, while Forza has to also display damage and the underside of the car, along with having much better scenery. Anyone else enjoy seeing the effect the sun and night lights have on shadows and lighting of the car?

The models are very good though. I mean... looking across the roof line or at the wheels/tires you see ZERO bumps from "low polygon modeling." The anti-aliasing is surprisingly good too... compared to PGR2.

Here's the video by the way. (right click, save as... it's a bink exe so even people using a Mac or Linux can see it ) It's kinda pixilated from the Binking process, and because of the TV... but you get the idea... hopefully.

*EDIT* Thank god Forza wasn't an EA title or I'd be missing out, lol.

**EDIT** Here's a better quality one... 5.5 MB... the other one is around 1 MB for dialup people. In this one there's no crappyness from compression, just from the TV.

 

[Malak]

I really need to get an HDTV, it looks better on one of those I bet. Better than my ancient POS...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I need to get my XBox fixed (has trouble reading clean/undamaged discs) and Forza usually "crashes" to a "this disc cannot be read because it is dirty or damaged" screen, usually right after I complete a race and can't continue on...

Really fun so far though, none of my other games would quit like that (they were only hard to get started up) and I'm now definately wanting to find a solution to the problem.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
I need to get my XBox fixed (has trouble reading clean/undamaged discs) and Forza usually "crashes" to a "this disc cannot be read because it is dirty or damaged" screen, usually right after I complete a race and can't continue on...

Really fun so far though, none of my other games would quit like that (they were only hard to get started up) and I'm now definately wanting to find a solution to the problem.

Have you tried one of those discs with a little brush on them to clean the lense?

 

[Kobota]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
I need to get my XBox fixed (has trouble reading clean/undamaged discs) and Forza usually "crashes" to a "this disc cannot be read because it is dirty or damaged" screen, usually right after I complete a race and can't continue on...

Really fun so far though, none of my other games would quit like that (they were only hard to get started up) and I'm now definately wanting to find a solution to the problem.

same thing just started happening to my poor launch (thompson) xbox. Now i can't even get in a race without a dirty disk error. I never had any problems before and was hoping to make it to november (xbox 360) .

 

[Jeff7181]

Here's a full lap from that race.

 

[Malak]

Can you not change the size of wheels you get?