Forum Overview :: Horizon Chase Turbo :: I'd be all over this if I had a PS4.

[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]You know more about computer car racing than any man I know.[/quote] This means a lot, to me obviously but also hopefully to the Special Olympic selection committee, which just <a href="https://www.specialolympicsusagames.org/usa-games-news/xbox-gaming-tournament-press-release">announced</a> Forza Motorsport 7 is going to be the first video game played in the Special Olympics. And while I'm not retarded - or, as my new brothers in sport and I prefer to say, <i>differently</i> tarded - my social anxiety disorder does technically qualify as a persistent cognitive barrier to employment, which combined with the way I handle a gamepad in my hands instead of shoving it in my mouth should make me the Mario Andretti of wheelchair basketball for unathletic guys with Down's syndrome. I'm really hoping to land one of those Foxcatcher type situations, that looked pretty sweet until it all went to hell. On the topic of Horizon Chase, I enjoyed <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FelipeDalMolin/20150911/253361/Making_a_new_game_from_an_old_genre_with_Horizon_Chase.php">reading</a> how the developers managed to simulate a one-dimensional race course in a three-dimensional engine. Apparently it was really hard! The main reason Mode 7 racers like Super Mario Kart were so much more realistic than traditional sprite-scalers like OutRun or Top Gear was because the courses were fully two-dimensional; crossing the apex of a corner meant travelling a shorter distance than hugging the outside wall. Super Mario Kart was the first time I can remember feeling like I was actually steering a car, instead of simply toggling between turning / not turning states. Back then it seemed like a pretty unambiguous improvement. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize games weren't getting better every year, they were only getting more diverse.[/quote]