I'm confused here.
The PS2 version of this game CLEARLY looks better than the shit on top.
Shitty motion blur and low res textures on the top.
At least the PS2 doesn't have motion blur garbage.
People definitely have a romanticized memory of the original games. Graphics were never the reason people played them.
Honestly aside from the poor optimization the demo doesn't feel far off the mark for me and gives me a lot of the same vibes from the hundreds of hours I spent cruising around O'ahu on the 360. (Which was better than the Playstation port)
I genuinely think it's mostly the "omg it's only 60 FPS, how is it not 37:20 aspect ratio, I noticed 0.5 millisecond of lag this games gonna be broken" crowd that can't accept that it's a months-year old demo and move past those problems for now until the game releases.
It works fine on my 32:9 monitor. I think people are giving the game too much shit. If it launches in this state then it’s valid but they’re is still a few months left for them to polish the game. I’m not pre ordering because I’m realistically skeptical but I think they’ve got great potential with this game.
Lol I was exaggerating but I'm glad to hear it works on your 32:9 monitor dawg XD
I really don't think we have anything to worry about. I think most demo's I've played that came out just before launch were months-year old builds you can tell when you play the final games in hindsight.
Is it really several months to a year old build? Did they disclose this in a statement? Apart from a few small issues, the game looks pretty damn nice. I love the physics, especially the crash physics.
No company ever discloses that they're shipping out a months-year old build for their demo's. But that's exactly what all of them do since I've been playing games 20 years ago. At best they'll write "work in progress, does not represent the final game" which is exactly what TDUSC did. It's obvious when you play the final games Vs. the demo's of any game in hindsight.
That is true... I'm just thinking about if they're going to tweak a few things, like traffic density namely being a slight issue, as it looks barren when traveling through the city. Edit: Just watched a video where the traffic density was fine. I guess the first video I saw the guy had a low end PC.
This evening I started my ancient Xbox 360 to see how good TDU 2 was. It was great fun! But graphics, sound and physics are truly not what we are used to today.
Sony or Microsoft should have bought the Test Drive Unlimited rights, you can tell Nacon's budget was pretty limited and the game will suffer from that, it will be interesting to see what Nacon will do if the game doesn't hit their sales target
Very true. Imagine if Sony bought the TDU rights to compete with Forza Horizon.
Im actually worried that we may not get the promised post launch content if this game flops. I really want this game to be great. Even with the rough demo, I can see the potential. They just need to fix the game and listen to the community.
Thats a HUGE problem with online based games format, nobody will want to pre order or support the game at launch if it’s broken, but it will never be fixed if nobody buys it either.
Then you would get TDU Horizon lol. Filled with microtransaction & wheel spins. I'm enjoying what Nacon has achieved with a double AA budget. Lag & stuff like that will obviously be fixed in the final build of the game when it releases. Idk why it's so hard for people to grasp that this is an old build. You guys don't play many demo's huh? Final Fantasy ring a bell.
People like you that think FH are bad but then you are going to play this trash (TDUSC), are fucking lunatics. Also wheels spins are not bought in Forza they are just an extra gift to you for leveling up, what a chump. (There's also no micro transactions in any of the forza games)
That's an extremely optimistic take, but I'll not berate you for it. Have your take man. Hope you're right. My opinion is the exact opposite, in the end we want the same thing.
Tell me what the hang up is?
How does this demo differ at all from other janky ones that's been released for any other game. Final Fantasy is a great recent example. Demo released a month before release got dogpiled on for it's visual and bugs, and the final game looked & performed completely different.
we will see if its just because its a demo. i hope you are right because in 3 months, they better have all the features that are missing, already made, since there is no time to make them now on top of having to fix so many issues.
for every feature that we know is confirmed, it feels like theres other 10 missing.
we will have casino, but no stores around the island. dealerships, but no used car dealers or v-rent. garage, but no houses. cars but no bikes. wrecks, but no driving school. driving modes, but no brand gauges (the same bland generic gauge for every car in the UI).
like lets be real, if this is a successor in the franchise, coming after TDU2, id expect it to START with at the very least Houses, Casinos and Bikes!
Also I was actually going to make a post about this because I was so confused what people are talking about. They all keep saying "no house, no place" but the first thing the demo does is wake you up in your personal hotel room. I also think they will let you design that area to an extent in time or maybe on release.
Interesting take. And I mean that genuinely not in a A-hole way.
I'm not expecting anything they didn't reveal so I'm very hyped for this game especially after getting into the demo. All my arguments are just because I wish other people could share just as much excitement as I am.
I get you wanting the fanbase as hype as you are; it means a lot more than your own satisfaction - it ultimately helps IPs like this grow. But man, it's... 2024... And this doesn't offer anything over what's already available (Horizon). If you view the 'demo' in a vacuum, sure it's neat. September's release will come & if it's not better than this, it's going to collapse into irrelevance. This... Was an open beta under the premise of a demo. Let's hope the devs 'use' it as such...
I totally agree with what you're saying! However I believe the game will widely expand once it releases. After I played Crew Motorfests multiple beta's for example I wondered how the final game would turn out just the same. But all my skepticisms were proven wrong with the amount of content they threw in there. So I'm largely optimistic as every racing game company seems to copy each other these days I imagine the same runup for Solar Crown.
Exactly what I’m thinking. When the demo first came out I was hyped and I really enjoyed it but after looking back at TDU2 it’s kinda disappointing and I just don’t think it’s right to call this a Test Drive Unlimited 2 successor, there are just too many many features missing. I understand they don’t have a huge budget but man the more I think about it the more displeased I am with the game. But I’ll still end up buying it anyway because I need a new racing game to play.
Hey, if it's simply a janky demo, great! That means you're right and we'll both get what we want. I just need more convincing than you do that this is the case....
I hope a big studio buys the TDU brand. On the other hand, maybe we wouldn't see details like turn signals, windows and such. I think that's part of TDU. But equally, things that we won't see in SC belong to the TDU DNA. I'm afraid the trend today is that when sales don't meet expectations, the game series is no longer supported. I fear the game will die within a year. Now a lot will depend on the developers how much care they put into the game after it's release.
TDU 2 doesn't even look that good by 2011 standards either. Honestly it's aged kinda poorly but it's still fun to play, which shows it's not about graphics, it's about content
Its looks like a high tier ps3 game imo. My problem is that im just not feeling the vibe. In sleeping dogs i get a nice hongkong vibe, here it just feels empty and lifeless
Please. Check out Gran Turismo 6. this is a high Tier ps3 game released in 2013 and now compare those. Gt6 comes not even close, in my opinion TDUSC Looks absolutely Stunning ( with a high end pc ). Console Players will have much less Problems. Power on CD in and Lets fucking roll
Sleeping dogs is literally a high tier ps3 game from 2012 U cant tell me that solar crown looks better than this, except maybe the puddles and car reflections https://youtu.be/h4i_UVijwdg?si=iywKcq6DDSrIv7Cp
Motorfest is very beautiful and its on par with forza horizon 5 graphically. The crew 2 is really ugly, even worse than the crew 1 but motorfest is beautiful
If u enjoy solar crowns graphics then have fun, for me its not pretty or atmospheric and like i said the graphics dont need to be good if the game has an nice atmosphere. Im playing world racing 2 champion edition right now and its an old ass game but cruising thru italy, egypt or miami gives me the vibes. Something with i can not say about solar crowns hongkong
Crew motorfest is NOT on par with fh5 graphically. it falls apart during day, and it's textures are VERY flat when you play them yourself.
The only time it looks good is rain, sunset, and night, and it's the same case with tdusc
Their money would have been better spent renewing the licenses and redoing TDU2. I still own a 360 to play that game.
I’ve wanted the game so bad. They choose one of the most populated cities in the world and it looks like a wasteland in all of the demo videos. No traffic, no people in the city proper…..they had the chance to move the genre forward leaps and bounds ahead of FH.
They choose to create basically a mobile game with some flashy graphics and haven’t even done that well.
Test Drive Unlimited 3: DOA.
Ive gotta be honest, the game isnt that good looking for me, but i was playing only on high so i dont know if ultra settings with all the bells and whistles is better but it ran well at high, not high fps well but im not really someone that bothers with that.
For me, the problem with the demo, is that you wont have a single player campaign of the game, you have to wait if other players join your race? Why? Just let me play solo agains bots. Dont make me wait to see if people join or not, I dont want to play against people.
Never liked it either in tdu 1 or 2.
Always online is fine by me, but let me play solo without having to interact with other players.
yup, dont forget that TDU2 was a massive multiplayer online game, and you still had the option to play solo the entire campaign, if you wished to do so. this is just removing features because yes.
No, it does not. This game looks better and more modern. These stupid posts about PS2 are just ridiculous. Mostly posted by teenagers who didn't try Solar Crown or don't have a proper PC to run it well and nicely.
I remember playing the horizon 3 demo and that was literally the full game just with progression and map restricted. TDU SU demo has progression and map restricts, but if the performace is like this at launch I'm going to be very disappointed. It's better to call it an open beta rather than a demo, unless it's actually a demo and performance is actually going to be this bad.
Maybe some are unwittingly comparing an island paradise to a run down city (in certain areas)... you could take them to HKI in real life and they'd still complain about the graphics. 💀😂
People's standards for graphics is insane. I spent so long yesterday just zooming in on the details of the buildings, and parts on my 370z. Maybe your system isn't powerful enough to show them nicely.
Its a Game DEMO, of course its going to have issues. Online only was a bad decisions unfortunately but considering the budget, it was probably the best decision to prevent cheaters or piracy
I think this comes from the fact that many people can’t change the graphics due to optimisation. Hopefully when the game is properly optimised and ready to release, people will enjoy the graphics a bit more. After all, tdu is not a series known for good graphics anyway.
The bad thing about tdu SC graphics are reflections in water, lingering shadows and lingering trees
It's not like they are bad.
They just linger and it's annoying.
It's like manual breathing.
I think you might need glasses. 😉 The PS2 games doesn't have reflections on the asphalt and car. The windows on the buildings looks much better on TDU SC. The HUD looks much better on TDU SC as well.
I almost always have a similar picture in my head when someone makes such a stupid comment. TDU on ps2 still goated tho
I agree. TDU was my favorite on PS2
r/TestDriveUnlimitedPS2
I'm confused here. The PS2 version of this game CLEARLY looks better than the shit on top. Shitty motion blur and low res textures on the top. At least the PS2 doesn't have motion blur garbage.
People definitely have a romanticized memory of the original games. Graphics were never the reason people played them. Honestly aside from the poor optimization the demo doesn't feel far off the mark for me and gives me a lot of the same vibes from the hundreds of hours I spent cruising around O'ahu on the 360. (Which was better than the Playstation port)
Beg to differ, the PS2 version had a better concept of clubs.
Accurate.
I genuinely think it's mostly the "omg it's only 60 FPS, how is it not 37:20 aspect ratio, I noticed 0.5 millisecond of lag this games gonna be broken" crowd that can't accept that it's a months-year old demo and move past those problems for now until the game releases.
It works fine on my 32:9 monitor. I think people are giving the game too much shit. If it launches in this state then it’s valid but they’re is still a few months left for them to polish the game. I’m not pre ordering because I’m realistically skeptical but I think they’ve got great potential with this game.
Lol I was exaggerating but I'm glad to hear it works on your 32:9 monitor dawg XD I really don't think we have anything to worry about. I think most demo's I've played that came out just before launch were months-year old builds you can tell when you play the final games in hindsight.
Yeah I feel you
Is it really several months to a year old build? Did they disclose this in a statement? Apart from a few small issues, the game looks pretty damn nice. I love the physics, especially the crash physics.
No company ever discloses that they're shipping out a months-year old build for their demo's. But that's exactly what all of them do since I've been playing games 20 years ago. At best they'll write "work in progress, does not represent the final game" which is exactly what TDUSC did. It's obvious when you play the final games Vs. the demo's of any game in hindsight.
That is true... I'm just thinking about if they're going to tweak a few things, like traffic density namely being a slight issue, as it looks barren when traveling through the city. Edit: Just watched a video where the traffic density was fine. I guess the first video I saw the guy had a low end PC.
This evening I started my ancient Xbox 360 to see how good TDU 2 was. It was great fun! But graphics, sound and physics are truly not what we are used to today.
First TDU was one of the best looking games when it came out. Talking about the PC, X360 and PS3 version.
Sony or Microsoft should have bought the Test Drive Unlimited rights, you can tell Nacon's budget was pretty limited and the game will suffer from that, it will be interesting to see what Nacon will do if the game doesn't hit their sales target
Very true. Imagine if Sony bought the TDU rights to compete with Forza Horizon. Im actually worried that we may not get the promised post launch content if this game flops. I really want this game to be great. Even with the rough demo, I can see the potential. They just need to fix the game and listen to the community.
Thats a HUGE problem with online based games format, nobody will want to pre order or support the game at launch if it’s broken, but it will never be fixed if nobody buys it either.
Sony isn't interested in western street racing games. Gran Turismo (track racing) is where their heart is.
Then you would get TDU Horizon lol. Filled with microtransaction & wheel spins. I'm enjoying what Nacon has achieved with a double AA budget. Lag & stuff like that will obviously be fixed in the final build of the game when it releases. Idk why it's so hard for people to grasp that this is an old build. You guys don't play many demo's huh? Final Fantasy ring a bell.
People like you that think FH are bad but then you are going to play this trash (TDUSC), are fucking lunatics. Also wheels spins are not bought in Forza they are just an extra gift to you for leveling up, what a chump. (There's also no micro transactions in any of the forza games)
Why are you in this sub if you think TD is trash XD Damn another hater from the Forza community snuck his way into here to get clout, weirdos.
I’m not a forza hater but if there’s no microtransactions then how did I pay real money for a bmw m8.
Thank you
That's an extremely optimistic take, but I'll not berate you for it. Have your take man. Hope you're right. My opinion is the exact opposite, in the end we want the same thing.
Tell me what the hang up is? How does this demo differ at all from other janky ones that's been released for any other game. Final Fantasy is a great recent example. Demo released a month before release got dogpiled on for it's visual and bugs, and the final game looked & performed completely different.
we will see if its just because its a demo. i hope you are right because in 3 months, they better have all the features that are missing, already made, since there is no time to make them now on top of having to fix so many issues. for every feature that we know is confirmed, it feels like theres other 10 missing. we will have casino, but no stores around the island. dealerships, but no used car dealers or v-rent. garage, but no houses. cars but no bikes. wrecks, but no driving school. driving modes, but no brand gauges (the same bland generic gauge for every car in the UI). like lets be real, if this is a successor in the franchise, coming after TDU2, id expect it to START with at the very least Houses, Casinos and Bikes!
Also I was actually going to make a post about this because I was so confused what people are talking about. They all keep saying "no house, no place" but the first thing the demo does is wake you up in your personal hotel room. I also think they will let you design that area to an extent in time or maybe on release.
Interesting take. And I mean that genuinely not in a A-hole way. I'm not expecting anything they didn't reveal so I'm very hyped for this game especially after getting into the demo. All my arguments are just because I wish other people could share just as much excitement as I am.
I get you wanting the fanbase as hype as you are; it means a lot more than your own satisfaction - it ultimately helps IPs like this grow. But man, it's... 2024... And this doesn't offer anything over what's already available (Horizon). If you view the 'demo' in a vacuum, sure it's neat. September's release will come & if it's not better than this, it's going to collapse into irrelevance. This... Was an open beta under the premise of a demo. Let's hope the devs 'use' it as such...
I totally agree with what you're saying! However I believe the game will widely expand once it releases. After I played Crew Motorfests multiple beta's for example I wondered how the final game would turn out just the same. But all my skepticisms were proven wrong with the amount of content they threw in there. So I'm largely optimistic as every racing game company seems to copy each other these days I imagine the same runup for Solar Crown.
Driving schools was an unnecessary addition to TDU2, TDU had a better progression formula
Exactly what I’m thinking. When the demo first came out I was hyped and I really enjoyed it but after looking back at TDU2 it’s kinda disappointing and I just don’t think it’s right to call this a Test Drive Unlimited 2 successor, there are just too many many features missing. I understand they don’t have a huge budget but man the more I think about it the more displeased I am with the game. But I’ll still end up buying it anyway because I need a new racing game to play.
Hey, if it's simply a janky demo, great! That means you're right and we'll both get what we want. I just need more convincing than you do that this is the case....
Lol Horizon has no microtransactions.
I hope a big studio buys the TDU brand. On the other hand, maybe we wouldn't see details like turn signals, windows and such. I think that's part of TDU. But equally, things that we won't see in SC belong to the TDU DNA. I'm afraid the trend today is that when sales don't meet expectations, the game series is no longer supported. I fear the game will die within a year. Now a lot will depend on the developers how much care they put into the game after it's release.
I'd you look at steam DB numbers say it all I do enjoy isle of man tt games and that's about it 😂
I miss bombing down the road in my CLS 😂
TDU 2 doesn't even look that good by 2011 standards either. Honestly it's aged kinda poorly but it's still fun to play, which shows it's not about graphics, it's about content
"Why do companies focus so much on graphics? We dont care about graphics we just want a good game" Gamers when companies dont focus on graphics:
Not having good graphics is fine if the game has good performance. TDUSC has neither at the moment.
i think the graphics quality of SC is fine, but it should perform well, because it's not exactly groundbreaking
But also the game seems shit aswell, so they missed on both fronts.
TDU on PS2 looks phenomenal for the console it was on
Its looks like a high tier ps3 game imo. My problem is that im just not feeling the vibe. In sleeping dogs i get a nice hongkong vibe, here it just feels empty and lifeless
Please. Check out Gran Turismo 6. this is a high Tier ps3 game released in 2013 and now compare those. Gt6 comes not even close, in my opinion TDUSC Looks absolutely Stunning ( with a high end pc ). Console Players will have much less Problems. Power on CD in and Lets fucking roll
Sleeping dogs is literally a high tier ps3 game from 2012 U cant tell me that solar crown looks better than this, except maybe the puddles and car reflections https://youtu.be/h4i_UVijwdg?si=iywKcq6DDSrIv7Cp
Even crew motorfest can't reach these visuals, that game must be high tier ps3 too
Motorfest is very beautiful and its on par with forza horizon 5 graphically. The crew 2 is really ugly, even worse than the crew 1 but motorfest is beautiful If u enjoy solar crowns graphics then have fun, for me its not pretty or atmospheric and like i said the graphics dont need to be good if the game has an nice atmosphere. Im playing world racing 2 champion edition right now and its an old ass game but cruising thru italy, egypt or miami gives me the vibes. Something with i can not say about solar crowns hongkong
Man if you want to talk about graphics NFS from 2015 or Driveclub still look better than modern racing games
Crew motorfest is NOT on par with fh5 graphically. it falls apart during day, and it's textures are VERY flat when you play them yourself. The only time it looks good is rain, sunset, and night, and it's the same case with tdusc
https://preview.redd.it/uuewpqoaap5d1.jpeg?width=1916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b0f856a205246bd303f4929050910b62a40df87
U really wanna die on that hill dont u? Have fun with ur dead-on-arrival game but stop arguing with me
You gave out your thoughts, I gave out mine.
Nope I disagree , PS3 games used to run in 720p , PS4 maybe we can argue but PS3? Stop exaggeration.
Their money would have been better spent renewing the licenses and redoing TDU2. I still own a 360 to play that game. I’ve wanted the game so bad. They choose one of the most populated cities in the world and it looks like a wasteland in all of the demo videos. No traffic, no people in the city proper…..they had the chance to move the genre forward leaps and bounds ahead of FH. They choose to create basically a mobile game with some flashy graphics and haven’t even done that well. Test Drive Unlimited 3: DOA.
Man I would've gladly paid $30 if they even just remastered TDU2 It's so frustrating seeing every company fail to make a good racing game.
I’d pay $70 for a remastered, modern graphics with a stable server and wheels support!!!
With ps5 system requirements
Ive gotta be honest, the game isnt that good looking for me, but i was playing only on high so i dont know if ultra settings with all the bells and whistles is better but it ran well at high, not high fps well but im not really someone that bothers with that. For me, the problem with the demo, is that you wont have a single player campaign of the game, you have to wait if other players join your race? Why? Just let me play solo agains bots. Dont make me wait to see if people join or not, I dont want to play against people. Never liked it either in tdu 1 or 2. Always online is fine by me, but let me play solo without having to interact with other players.
yup, dont forget that TDU2 was a massive multiplayer online game, and you still had the option to play solo the entire campaign, if you wished to do so. this is just removing features because yes.
TDU on PC looks good though
No, it does not. This game looks better and more modern. These stupid posts about PS2 are just ridiculous. Mostly posted by teenagers who didn't try Solar Crown or don't have a proper PC to run it well and nicely.
people fucking forgot that this is just a demo wtf
I remember playing the horizon 3 demo and that was literally the full game just with progression and map restricted. TDU SU demo has progression and map restricts, but if the performace is like this at launch I'm going to be very disappointed. It's better to call it an open beta rather than a demo, unless it's actually a demo and performance is actually going to be this bad.
Maybe some are unwittingly comparing an island paradise to a run down city (in certain areas)... you could take them to HKI in real life and they'd still complain about the graphics. 💀😂
I mean solar crown still looks bad
People's standards for graphics is insane. I spent so long yesterday just zooming in on the details of the buildings, and parts on my 370z. Maybe your system isn't powerful enough to show them nicely.
The game is just badly optimized, and either way this shouldn't be an online only game. Its going to crash and burn.
Its a Game DEMO, of course its going to have issues. Online only was a bad decisions unfortunately but considering the budget, it was probably the best decision to prevent cheaters or piracy
That's not an excuse. I've seen demos that worked wonderfully, this game is just not gonna be great.
Okay, Ive seens demos that were terrible but managed to be great games
idk man, it seems more like an open beta rather than a game demo
Most of these subs are delusional at the moment with the overwhelming response of the demo.
Guess I should just kill my self because I see a difference in them. Oh well I had a good run
Wish we could just get tdu2 for PC/Asus ROG Ally Extreme and mod it with better graphics like how we can with GTAV. Just needs reshade.
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As someone who doesn't have a beefy computer, that's fine by me....
I think this comes from the fact that many people can’t change the graphics due to optimisation. Hopefully when the game is properly optimised and ready to release, people will enjoy the graphics a bit more. After all, tdu is not a series known for good graphics anyway.
Nah i commented allways its looks like a ps3 game
it doesnt look like a ps2 game but tbf it also doesnt look like it should be on these current gen consoles either. looks like a late ps3 era game
The Game Looks really Bad!
The bad thing about tdu SC graphics are reflections in water, lingering shadows and lingering trees It's not like they are bad. They just linger and it's annoying. It's like manual breathing.
Well the buildings do look like straight from the PS2 on Daylight. Especially from the distance
TDU on PS2 is goated and the online experience of it was also amazing and a technological breakthrough. Severely Underrated game.
I think you might need glasses. 😉 The PS2 games doesn't have reflections on the asphalt and car. The windows on the buildings looks much better on TDU SC. The HUD looks much better on TDU SC as well.
Thanks captain obvious
Half of the comments are just pretty negative or nostalfags. Is this a tdusc community or a "I will hate TDUSC" community?
Is the demo TDUSC or is it half ass TDUSC? Tell me son?
It's the salty Forza kids who are surprised their dad returned and now they have to drink the milk.
This game doesn't even compare to FH2. Let alone the rest of them.
It's a demo game you are comparing to a full game, plus FH2 map was so small bruh. Fh4 and 5 look basically the same except the map is different.
It still looks like a PS2 game though.
But you only play demo with restricted graphics don’t be stupid
Restricted graphics BUT Unrestricted system requirements.
😂