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Forza Horizon 2 - Ten Years Later
How does THE CREW hold up 10 years later? IT DOESN'T, so instead of making a long, pretentious video essay about a game we can't even play anymore, let's make a long, pretentious let's play about a 2014 racing game you actually can still access today: FORZA HORIZON 2!
From massively expanded multiplayer functionality to racing in the rain, Forza Horizon 2 set a foundation upon which the series could grow on the Xbox One and beyond.
If you have any personal hot takes on Horizon 2, feel free to share in the comments below, hit the like button if you enjoyed the video, subscribe for more gaming content, and ring the bell to be notified about more content from the classiest cavern on the worldwide web!
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Graphical Fidelity
03:26 - Picking a Car
04:03 - Horizon 1 vs Horizon 2
04:53 - User Interface
05:51 - Handling and Driving Physics
06:28 - Horizon 6 Speculation
07:05 - Open World Off-Road Driving
08:10 - Remastering Horizon 2
09:42 - Wet Weather Driving
10:10 - Cross Country Races
11:06 - Car Damage
11:43 - Wheelspins
12:48 - Bucket List Challenges
13:55 - Xbox One vs Xbox 360
14:43 - Drivatars
17:42 - PC Emulation
18:33 - Showcase Events
19:52 - Multiplayer & Horizon 2's Legacy
Relevant Links:
- stopkillinggames.com
- How Forza's Drivatar Actually Works - ua-cam.com/video/JeYP9eyIl4E/v-deo.html
- Finally! Xbox One Emulation is here - ua-cam.com/video/ufRwW-BVuUU/v-deo.html
Music:
- The Crew Main Menu Theme - Joseph Trapanese
- Liberate - Eric Prydz (covered by someone else because UA-cam is fighting with the record label and we're all being punished as a result)
Copyrighted material used under Fair Use. If you are the copyright holder and believer your material has been used unfairly, or if you have any suggestions, feedback or support, please contact us at: thedankswankchannel@gmail.com.
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  • @Forza_Horizon_designs
    @Forza_Horizon_designs Місяць тому

    Map code or name?

  • @benn87
    @benn87 Місяць тому

    It's sad how relevant this video still is over a year later. Almost everything in this video has come true. Except for the microtransactions. They don't exist (yet). But the way the game is being received, I wouldn't be surprised if they were to come soon to try and make some money from the game. By now, even the most passionate defenders of the game should have gotten the message. The game has turned out exactly as predicted. But the developers are supposedly listening to the community. Yeah right...

  • @nightshadehelis9821
    @nightshadehelis9821 Місяць тому

    Why the actual fuck would pronouns be in a driving game?

  • @WillFuI
    @WillFuI Місяць тому

    Man this game looks good. I can’t wait till the emulation community make it so I can play this beautiful game at 1440p 120fps. 30fps for the time I didn’t notice but I can’t play it with feeling like I have vaseline on my eyes

  • @Unique_malique
    @Unique_malique Місяць тому

    Still looks beautiful

  • @LiljamezZz
    @LiljamezZz Місяць тому

    You are a REALLY good commentator for your channel size ❤

  • @JGYoutube0
    @JGYoutube0 Місяць тому

    I'm surprised you haven't made any content bringing up how you saw this a mile away. But I figure you're tired of trying to lead horses (consoomers) away from poison water and yet they still mindlessly choose to drink it. And if that's so I don't blame you.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      I mean, I did mention that I saw this coming in the "It's Time to Talk About Solar Crown" video, but I figured beyond a brief mention of that fact, it wasn't worth it to perseverate on it (especially considering that, like you said, some people just can't be reasoned with)

  • @essplays6636
    @essplays6636 Місяць тому

    i wished this was on PC

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      @@essplays6636 no need to wish; Xbox one emulation is finally approaching viability! Check out the link in the description to see!

  • @darknid158
    @darknid158 Місяць тому

    Forza will never be remastered because of the licensing

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      NFS Hot Pursuit (the 2010 game) got a remaster, so it isn't impossible (especially considering that Turn 10 and Playground games still have a pretty cozy relationship with each car manufacturer), but that would depend upon whether or not Microsoft is willing to pay for licensing to make a remaster, and it's genuinely hard to see them doing that. Not impossible, but certainly unlikely...

  • @rtrojosh
    @rtrojosh Місяць тому

    oh god. the last amazing forza game. dont get me wrong, the games up until fm reboot and fh5 are good, but nothing lives up to this game. hearing liberate by eric prydz in the beginning brought tears to my eyes, and seeing the old festival reinforced that. my favorite forza game of all time. i wish it was still on the marketplace, it was taken off because of DRM. i have a series s, so i cant use a physical copy to install it. i hope they remaster the game to have the graphical fidelity of the modern forza games and some of the better things from them, like the race builder and online features like ghosting cars outside of your convoy. obviously keep things like super wheelspins and clothing out of it, because that (in my opinion) ruined the whole series. horns can stay though. i miss this game. i wish it could come back.

  • @tjm1101
    @tjm1101 Місяць тому

    I still have FH2 on the 360 and I like it

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      @@tjm1101 I mean, it can still be fun (it is a horizon game, after all); it’s just not as refined or graphically impressive as the Xbone version. Like I said in the video, Sumo digital did the best they could with what they had.

  • @Blaczek297
    @Blaczek297 Місяць тому

    I still can believe that this game is that much old, best forza horizon of all time

  • @RodrigoTodescatto
    @RodrigoTodescatto Місяць тому

    Nice video!

  • @finlayquinn7047
    @finlayquinn7047 Місяць тому

    the wheel spins are the only hand outs added in fh2, you keep the cars from showcase events on fh1

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      @@finlayquinn7047 yeah but the one they give you at the start of the first game is an old Mustang and the one they give you at the start of the second game is a modern Ferrari. I’m not saying that Horizon 2 has anything close to the chronic progression problems plaguing the series from 4 forward; just that this moment foreshadows what was to come later in the series.

    • @brunogiansante-n9n
      @brunogiansante-n9n Місяць тому

      @@dankswank9088 fh2 just gives you the ferrari the other showcases dont give you the car

  • @shoreiguess
    @shoreiguess Місяць тому

    R34 with the race turbos🤩😪

  • @brandonjimenez
    @brandonjimenez Місяць тому

    For me, the crew is the only game i didnt finished because it was online only. Forza horizon 2 is the game i did finish but there was one problem, i didnt get the dlc.

  • @Kuli24000
    @Kuli24000 Місяць тому

    100% it ruins the sense of achievement. I want the haul to be tough and slow with a crappy car.

    • @ShyGuyBay
      @ShyGuyBay Місяць тому

      I personally feel it was alright. Plus this was the supercar era (2008-2014)

  • @XGPLAYZ
    @XGPLAYZ Місяць тому

    Yeah yeah!

  • @JAX5N
    @JAX5N Місяць тому

    This is a hella underrated channel! Keep up the content my man I hope you get the recognition you deserve!

  • @MaskNinjaSquared
    @MaskNinjaSquared Місяць тому

    It was the game’s BIRTHDAY! (30 September 2014). I don’t get why FH3 is 8 and still gets loads of videos on it. I swear this is so underrated.

    • @MaskNinjaSquared
      @MaskNinjaSquared Місяць тому

      *10th birthday, so not just a normal birthday

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      3 is incredible too, but I think the reason 2 doesn't necessarily get more hype is the community itself; Horizon 3 is a few years younger and (given how young the audience for these games often is) people tend to favor games that are more easily remembered. Given that the game is now 10 years old, it's likely most of the people who played it are in their late teens or early 20s at the youngest now, so it makes sense that Horizon's current target demographic (which seems to skew younger and younger each release) simply are too young to have played Horizon 2, hence why it may be slept on by the community.

    • @slippinsammy4359
      @slippinsammy4359 Місяць тому

      FH3 was the 1st Horizon series that got released on the PC I didn't play any Forza prior to FM7 and FH3 and played these because they got a PC release, meaning many people got access to it besides the console player base.

    • @MaskNinjaSquared
      @MaskNinjaSquared Місяць тому

      @@slippinsammy4359 I guess, but now we should be able to play it on PC (as it showed).

  • @LesleyJohnsonlmjr
    @LesleyJohnsonlmjr Місяць тому

    Wow, this creators voice is so butterya smooth 😏. Great content, love the nostalgia.

  • @ultima69
    @ultima69 Місяць тому

    Came for The Crew, stayed for Forza Horizon 2. Awesome job b0ss

  • @IamMarkSmith
    @IamMarkSmith Місяць тому

    You have a choice of 4K, 30FPS or 1080P, and 60FPS in Forza Horizon 2 if played on a One X, or Series X. Did I see that you can play 1080P/ 120 on Series X as well? Can you verify that? That would be awesome.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      You can play certain games at 120 (like Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1) but unless there was some patch I'm unaware of, Horizon 2 is stuck at a native resolution of 1080p and a 30fps cap; no doubt it could be rendered in 4K at 60 (maybe even 120) on current gen, but at the present moment, setting the Series X to 4K doesn't actually make Horizon 2 4K; it just blows the 1080P render up to 4K on my monitor.

    • @MaskNinjaSquared
      @MaskNinjaSquared Місяць тому

      It’s because Horizon 3 and 4 (even 1) got patched to run on the One X at 60. And because the first Horizon game is the first - come on it’s the start of the series - they enhanced it. Horizon 3 got enhanced because it was the latest game at the time in 2017, but they had no reason to do the same for 2. (By the way, you’re not running FH2 via backwards compatibility - it’s fully native with no modifications, just like running GTA 5 on Windows 10 and Windows 11 on a slightly better PC with no changes settings - no difference really.

  • @IamMarkSmith
    @IamMarkSmith Місяць тому

    I like the swerve, @Dank Swank. Well played. I would rather reminisce about FH2 than The Crew anyways.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      Same here; never really a fan of ubisoft's racer, even without the online requirements

  • @coreymckee4844
    @coreymckee4844 Місяць тому

    Atleast crew 2 is getting offline mode but crew 1 not getting that is infuriating. Could they come back someday and add offline to crew1? I dont know.. maybe. But atleast crew 2 and motorfest will be playable offline.🤷‍♂️👍

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 Місяць тому

      They hypothetically could, but that would require Ubisoft to actually care about their customers. Given how Ubi has a history of outright abusing their workers, I somehow doubt a company willing to hurt the people making their games care much about the people buying them.

  • @lonewolfex
    @lonewolfex 2 місяці тому

    And here I thought Horizon 5 crashing every 20 minutes was the worst it could get. How foolish of me, at least I got past the main menu. haha

  • @od13166
    @od13166 2 місяці тому

    2:30 alao TCM getting mirror working in Year2 but looks smooth

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 2 місяці тому

      Great to hear; it’s even better that the game is getting patched for offline play (supposedly)

  • @od13166
    @od13166 2 місяці тому

    Now turn 10 just turned 10 making FM2023

  • @od13166
    @od13166 2 місяці тому

    Just about time TC2 TCM announced get Offline mod makes it redundent picking this up

  • @pktrsho6055
    @pktrsho6055 2 місяці тому

    FROM THE FUTURE: The game released and it is currently a shit show.

  • @TheLazyBoi_
    @TheLazyBoi_ 2 місяці тому

    I honestly do not know what people were expecting

  • @Sixteen-Angels
    @Sixteen-Angels 2 місяці тому

    This game has the same publisher who made the Gollum disaster by the way 💀 ua-cam.com/video/g1IWpCzryKU/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

  • @VX-97
    @VX-97 2 місяці тому

    DankSwank has been right along, this game is disaster, atleast in current state. Really bad server issues, optimization and graphical issues and game is pretty soulless currently.

  • @RandomCryptoHodler
    @RandomCryptoHodler 2 місяці тому

    And it's crap.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 2 місяці тому

      Yeah I wonder how everyone that thought we were crazy feels now…

    • @RandomCryptoHodler
      @RandomCryptoHodler 2 місяці тому

      @@dankswank9088 I was one of those people up until a year or two ago.

  • @krocialblack
    @krocialblack 2 місяці тому

    Pack it up folks. It's joever... Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is a disaster. Expect a half hearted "we're listening" ChatGPT apology from the Nacon twitter account in the coming weeks...

    • @Sixteen-Angels
      @Sixteen-Angels 2 місяці тому

      They’ve done it before with Gollum 💀 ua-cam.com/video/g1IWpCzryKU/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

  • @suslopster
    @suslopster 2 місяці тому

    "advanced access" launch and the servers apparently don't work already, shocking. sad to see this series' corpse being masqueraded as a soulless online only drm-pre order bonus early access-fomo pass-post launch roadmap-poor performance-target audience abandoning-slop. TDU2 was probably my favorite racing/car game when I was like 10, and my steam wishlist shows this game as added on 12/23/2020, so I've been awaiting this game. I hope we can soon escape this era of drip feed gaming, and return to great games that function well and proper from the opening to credits without an internet connection kicking you out. I could see this game going something like the way of the Sony Concord tbh. heartbreaking. time to forget TDUSC: Gold edition, and return to TDU: Platinum, which I can play with a power outage on a low end laptop, and still get 60fps. reminder to never pre-order digital products.

  • @RCmies
    @RCmies 2 місяці тому

    I played the PC demo and really enjoyed it. Because the car physics felt good to me, the cars sounded very realistic and the sense of car ownership was there. The core gameplay felt like thought was put into it. The graphics are better than FH3 for sure. You can see it in this video alone. Also, FH3 had pretty horrible performance when it released. It's unfortunate that not all TDU features are there at launch, and it's unfortunate that the optimization isn't perfect. But my experience with the demo was pretty good in general, except for NPC cars spawning and de spawning, and some weird fps drops that required to restart the game. I wanted to actually play the demo every day because I had fun which can definitely not be said for FH5 for example. I feel like people are asking for way too much and focusing on irrelevant details. But I also understand that this game's marketing is hyping this up so people are going to have those high expectations. It's also not a very good sign that to market the launch of the game, they make a video about the features that won't be there at launch but added later. It's kind of like what happened with No Man's Sky, partly talking about a game that was still just an idea and not actually there. But of course they redeemed themselves, maybe KT has the same idea of sticking with the game. I know that I will enjoy playing this no matter what though because I loved just cruising around Hong Kong island in a car that sounds good and has fun handling.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 2 місяці тому

      @@RCmies the physics are solid; the execution left me wanting (I was using a controller but I hear it felt a lot better on a wheel). It looks good for sure but idk if it’s better than Horizon 3 (consistency seems to be an issue with how buildings and people look relative to foliage and car models) and while performance was also an issue with Horizon 3, my experience with Solar Crown was definitely worse (especially considering that horizon 3’s performance problems were often solved by simply turning off msaa as shown by Digital Foundry) I honestly didn’t find myself any more enticed by Solar Crown than Horizon 5 and at least Horizon 5 had a lot more I could do, regardless of wether or not I had other players to do it with (Horizon 5 still has a lot of problems tho and I talk about a lot of them in my review of the game). Sure, people are asking for a lot from Solar Crown but Nacon also promised a lot for Solar Crown (a 2022 release date on half a dozen consoles including the switch, for example) and a lot of what is being asked is reasonable and should be expected from a TDU game (offline functionality being the biggest example). I do agree that their promise of giving us the features we want potentially years after we pay for them is a pretty glaring red flag and while I hope they can pull it off for the sake of the people looking forward to this game, idk if Nacon really has the budget to follow through. Regardless, I hope they have the decency to provide offline functionality (or at the very least an offline patch that can be saved to a usb for preservation purposes) so that people who enjoy the game can keep playing it even if Nacon pulls the plug.

  • @Ratselmeister
    @Ratselmeister 2 місяці тому

    Are there versions without online on now, 2 years later? really would like to play that game.

    • @dankswank9088
      @dankswank9088 2 місяці тому

      It's still online only 🙃 If it's any consolation, I'm not happy about it either.

  • @VocaloidEnjoyer1
    @VocaloidEnjoyer1 2 місяці тому

    Of course you are American wouldn't expect anything less from the most uneducated nation to be accepting of woke garbage radical leftists ideas and no there is no such thing as being transgender braindead american you can't change your gender.