Forza Horizon 4 !

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Russian Troll Bot

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228 months

Sunday 23rd September 2018
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ajprice said:
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Ikemi said:
My only concern with the XBox X is it's life expectancy. How long until it's replaced with something better? Rumour has it the PS5 will be released around 2020/2021 and as a result, I imagine Microsoft has something planned too. I've just bought a 4K television, so I'm tempted. However £400-450 for 2-3 years is ... not great.
Apparently they are working on the replacement, but it's not as if they'll switch off support for the One as soon as it comes out. Besides, launch is the worst time to buy a console as you get the early adopter problems, like the 360s that red ringed, or the Ones that you had to buy with Kinect and kept munching discs.
From what they said on the XBox One X launch, Xbox One is a platform now, the Xbox One X2 or whatever they call it should be backwards compatible with XB1 and XB1X (and maybe 360), and the games could be updated for extra shiny stuff on XB1X2.

I've got a Day One edition Xbox One, I've got a 1080 TV. I might skip the XB1X and upgrade to the XB1X2 at some point, and I'd probably have a 4k TV by then to go with it.
Knowing Microsoft, they will call the Xbox 4 something stupid just to make searching for older versions that little bit harder, like the Xbox One 2 or Xbox XX.

AndrewEH1

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154 months

Sunday 23rd September 2018
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craste said:
https://youtu.be/nnBEwblkj1s

Think I might buy this game, wished GT Sport had more uk hot-hatches etc.
That video has definitely increased my hype! biggrin

smithyithy

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119 months

Sunday 23rd September 2018
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maxdb said:
Juat tried the demo and it played quite well considering my system specs. I got about 25fps on 4k with everything on ultra, which isn't too bad as I only have a GTX970 and an I5 2500k. Maybe i can hold off upgrading for a little while longer smile
Turn some settings down and get that framerate up dude! You shouldn’t need everything on Ultra, especially with 4K resolution

BenjiS

3,818 posts

92 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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Ikemi said:
Out of interest, if you have a digital copy of FH4, if you were to change to the XBox X, can you download the 'X' enhanced version for free?
I assume it'll do that, as FH3 did. I had that on Xbox One, bought a new One X, and installed it. A little while later, when they released the textures, it automagically updated itself to the Xbox One X Enhanced version.

chris4652009

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85 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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Ikemi said:
Out of interest, if you have a digital copy of FH4, if you were to change to the XBox X, can you download the 'X' enhanced version for free?
As I understand it everyone has the "enhanced" version, however it only plays as enhanced on X model
That was the reason for all the large updates to everyone when the X was launched. we all downloaded them weather we had an X or S or vanilla model at the time

Edited by chris4652009 on Monday 24th September 10:39

BrotherMouzone

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175 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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BrotherMouzone

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Monday 24th September 2018
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BrotherMouzone

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Monday 24th September 2018
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Bought the one with NBA & FIFA for £429.

You bad influence you laugh

BrotherMouzone

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175 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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Question is, with the money ‘saved’, do I buy the Ultimate Edition as well? laugh

Drew106

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146 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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BrotherMouzone said:
Question is, with the money ‘saved’, do I buy the Ultimate Edition as well? laugh
That is the question...

I'm not one to buy the special editions really, think the last one I got was Forza (Motorsport) 4.

Tempted though!

I got Horizon 3 with the Hotwheels add-on and never played it. Didn't really appeal. Heard good things about the Blizzard Mountain, but never bother with that either.

I'm not too fussed about missing out on a few cars tbh. But curious what the future add-ons will be like. Maybe a Welsh mountain add-on I could get on board with haha.

PPPMAT

85 posts

231 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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Ikemi said:
Apparently, it's being released an hour before midnight. That said, others have said that previous online releases of Horizon have taken several hours to unlock e.g. 3-5am. As such, I've decided to take Friday off work to have some time to play it! FH4 seems fairly similar to FH3, which is only a good thing, imho. I'm looking forward to exploring the world!

My only concern with the XBox X is it's life expectancy. How long until it's replaced with something better? Rumour has it the PS5 will be released around 2020/2021 and as a result, I imagine Microsoft has something planned too. I've just bought a 4K television, so I'm tempted. However £400-450 for 2-3 years is ... not great.

Out of interest, if you have a digital copy of FH4, if you were to change to the XBox X, can you download the 'X' enhanced version for free?
Next Xbox is prob 2 yrs away and if you decide to upgrade then your Xbox One x will still be worth a good bit in part ex so it’s not all lost money. As others have said the game will recognise the x and will update itself with the high red textures etc.

BrotherMouzone

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175 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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Drew106 said:
BrotherMouzone said:
Question is, with the money ‘saved’, do I buy the Ultimate Edition as well? laugh
That is the question...

I'm not one to buy the special editions really, think the last one I got was Forza (Motorsport) 4.

Tempted though!
For most people, one can sell the normal version on eBay for £25-30 I guess? So Ultimate would cost £50 for extra cars & future maps. (I’d be giving mine to my brother)

I’m same as you the last special was Forza Motosport 4.

I agree that £80 for a game is silly. :-/

BrotherMouzone

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Monday 24th September 2018
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wildoliver

8,789 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Only 65 and a half hours to go!

smithyithy

7,258 posts

119 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Leaving my PC running with Mixer streams on 24 hours until launch now to milk that sweet Influence laugh

Drew106

1,400 posts

146 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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I didn't actually notice, that if you order the Ultimate Edition you get it on Friday! That's a clever little marketing trick.

I was expecting not to buy it until mid-October, as I've got a wedding to go to next week and relatives visiting the week after. But I would have a little bit of time this Saturday.... hmmmmmm. Is £80 worth it though.

Don't mind me, just thinking out loud!

Drew106

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146 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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fk it. Ordered the Ultimate Edition.

Amazon Prime, so may get a day or so early. With Amex 5% cashback it's essentially only (only!) £75.99.

Didn't take long to justify it to myself haha.

p1stonhead

25,570 posts

168 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Drew106 said:
fk it. Ordered the Ultimate Edition.

Amazon Prime, so may get a day or so early. With Amex 5% cashback it's essentially only (only!) £75.99.

Didn't take long to justify it to myself haha.
£75!?!

What is the ultimate edition?

Drew106

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146 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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p1stonhead said:
£75!?!

What is the ultimate edition?
Well £80 really, just happened to have a cashback offer on my Amex card, but won't see that 5% back for a while.

I know, it's a tad ridiculous for a game! But I buy maybe one a year. In fact I haven't bought a game since the last Forza.

The fact you get it earlier was the reason I bought it tbh. The standard edition is released on Monday. The Ultimate on Friday.

But you also get some additional cars and the two add-on packages that will be released in future.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forza-Horizon-Ultimate-Xb...

smithyithy

7,258 posts

119 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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p1stonhead said:
£75!?!

What is the ultimate edition?


It's expensive, but based on the individual prices of all the stuff they released for the last game, you're saving about £40 by buying the Ultimate Edition up front, and you get the other in-game bonuses like more credits, more XP, more bonuses, and being able to play it a weekend earlier wink