Forza Horizon 2: Should it have gone MMO?

i think you need a break TC

racing games online are always awful.

mr happens it just so happens i think an mmo racer would be a good way to go. but i would not go with an established franchise on either system to do it. i'd make a 'new' game. it could recycle models from those other games, 'course.

world of speed is going into beta. should be interesting.

The resources required to run such an open world at the fidelity that Forza achieves with more than 10-20 players at a time would be astronomical.

racing games are fun for hours, they are not fun for days

Not really, no.

While it sounds plausible in theory, it would be hard to implement that type of game where Forza is concerned. I had high hopes for TDU2 on the 360, and while I did enjoy it at first, I felt it lacked focus overall and the driving mechanics were not that great. I'm fine with the Horizon 1 formula and it seems the 2nd game is brigning several new things to the mix, so as long as they have those cool co-op missions they had from the first and expand on that, it should turn out awesome. Perhaps an MMO type Forza game could happen in the future, but I would rather it be a spinoff title.....though that could spread the series a bit too thin I don't know.

I wouldn't really want it. Horizon is mighty fine as it is. To me it's the best racing game out there.

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Wasn't TDU limited to like 11 players online? And TDU2 was only 8. I'm not understanding how this was better than Horizon's free roam.

World of Warcraft is hardly even fun for minutes, but yeah...

Ummm no!

It would be rather pointless to make an MMO, not to mention very difficult. MMOs generally have to have rather poor reaction times because they are processing so much compared to a simple online game. As such, they rely heavily on the client doing a lot of stuff, or faking it to cover up the issue. In a racing game, that would be really noticeable. Might be better to go the Diablo route, of having one common lobby area with separate instances which allows those instances to be processing just a bit of data.

I've returned to playing the first Horizon and I'm enjoying every minute of it.

Gran Turismo and the other playstation racer have a bigger and better community....it jus won't work on xbox infrastructure.

Naw, I dont think it would of done that well.

Oh come on now, dont let blatant fanboyism allow you to just pull "facts" out of your ass. Literally nothing you said there can be substantiated with proof or source material. Its just nonsense.

Everything you said is subjective and adds nothing to the topic of conversation. The Forza community is huge and if anything the Xbox infrastructure is better suited to MMO than that of playstation and certainly Nintendo.

Look at the sales. Both games and hardware infrastructure.