Tales from the frontline

[Dustan]

I'll play rage if its free. It looks like fun but not worth the cash with Skyrim and Call of Duty: BattleField 3

[tabletop]

Yeah three discs and the 'best experience' is had by installing one of those discs to the HDD. That'd be a 4GB install I assume of textures and other resources.

Still glad I sprung for the 160GB HDD version of the XBox.

[Dustan]

4gb, dude its would be up to 20GB.

the xbox discs are dual layer at about7.5gb average for a single disc game iso

[tabletop]

Oh yeah maybe I'm thinking of CD's .

But honestly as far as I understand you only have to install ONE of the DVDs, not all three!

[Jonathan]

One at a time.....  especially if you have one of the original 20GB XBox 360s

[Aaron]

Well there is something about Forza/Gran Turismo games that I just love.

But to be honest I cant really see too much improvement from F3 to F4 and I suspect (although I've only played F4 for an hour or so) but I just wonder if Gran Turismo has edged back ahead of Forza...

Now I just have to write the review for Dark Souls so I can play guilt-free Forza!   

[tabletop]

I detest GT with a passion. I find Forza completely inoffensive.

The difference is Forza lets you pick your difficulty but toggling all the driver assists. With the all on my kids can play it as an arcade racer. With most of them off I can play it as a more challenging simulation. Fucking GT is ridiculously impossible simulation all the way.

[Aaron]

The way I have Forza set up I cant actually tell any difference between the handling characteristics in GT or Forza.  In fact last night I found Forza to be leaning more in the direction of a simulation than I remember GT being.

But yes I agree, the way the difficulty settings work in Forza is brilliant and although GT has improved on this Forza still does it better. 

Also Forza has the cheaty re-wind button of doom, which is great if you've just spent 30 minutes doing a race then had a small child walk infront on the screen as you approach the final corner.

[tabletop]

Oh yeah rewind too. Forgot about that. Damn that feature is handy . Wish life had a 10second rewind.

[Dustan]

If life had a 10 second rewind I would spend all day killing people who piss me off without ever getting bloddy... and wargaming would be no fun cause you could keep rerolling untill you got what you needed