May 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

[alligo]

I bought the GOTY Forza Horizon 6 (steam)

[marvelvscapcom2]

I bought the GOTY Forza Horizon 6 (steam)

How is it?  I always assumed Tokyo or Japan in general would be such an excellent setting for the game series. I gotta wait for it to come to PS5 like a good boy




I bought more rare PS3 games


1. 50 Cent Blood On The Sand JP copy for trophy support

[sly345]

How is it?  I always assumed Tokyo or Japan in general would be such an excellent setting for the game series. I gotta wait for it to come to PS5 like a good boy

More of the same, basically. NPCs and your own character are downright ugly, which led to a lot of memes so far. The dialogues in the cutscenes are cringe as always. The Music is atrocious - if you set a game in japan, bring in some japanese music, considering their diverse musical scene but no, we get the same rap mumble garbage (like Lil Nas X) and synth slop as usual. Only one station (Gacha City Radio) has japanese music and it's the worst of their pop music. No visual kai, metal or anything...I pretty much instantly turned off all sounds except the car engine.
The AI in races is all over the place. Wheelspins are nerfed aand that was promoted as a good thing somehow. The progression is still not there, you instantly get supercars. I think Gran Turismo always did that better with buying a cheap, used car and work your way up from the bottom.
And it still has a lot of the same old graphical flaws like the pixelated red smoke on checkpoints

On the positive: the game is optimized and runs on old hardware. My PC can ran it maxed out without any problems (AMD GPU, despite that, Raytracing works perfectly)
The world is definitely a huge, massive improvement over Mexico. Way more interesting and diverse with its biomes and cities.
The car list is big, some interesting new cars, but also a lot of annoying omissions (i miss the A-Team Van)

Overall i'm glad i got it relatively cheap from a key store, it's definitely not worth the full price.

[dhaabi]

How is it?  I always assumed Tokyo or Japan in general would be such an excellent setting for the game series.

The Music is atrocious - if you set a game in japan, bring in some japanese music, considering their diverse musical scene but no, we get the same rap mumble garbage (like Lil Nas X) and synth slop as usual. Only one station (Gacha City Radio) has japanese music and it's the worst of their pop music. No visual kai, metal or anything

Based on your comment, I don't think you know what mumble rap is. Lil Nas X's song in the game "Light Again!" is a pretty upbeat pop song with hip-hop elements, completely devoid of the slurred or unclear style of delivery that mumble rap is characterized by. In fact, I don't think any of these songs could be classified as mumble rap. Maybe "Super Up"?

On that note, the Gacha City Radio station isn't the only one to feature Japanese music. While it's the only one to exclusively feature Japanese music, several other stations based on this track list feature music from Japan too. One, I will add, that's centered around rock and metal music. Of course, I'm not here to comment on the quality or diversity of tracks available in the game, but some of what you'd like to have been included is present. And unless music videos are featured in Forza Horizon 6, I don't see how visual kei could be represented.

[marvelvscapcom2]

How is it?  I always assumed Tokyo or Japan in general would be such an excellent setting for the game series. I gotta wait for it to come to PS5 like a good boy

More of the same, basically. NPCs and your own character are downright ugly, which led to a lot of memes so far. The dialogues in the cutscenes are cringe as always. The Music is atrocious - if you set a game in japan, bring in some japanese music, considering their diverse musical scene but no, we get the same rap mumble garbage (like Lil Nas X) and synth slop as usual. Only one station (Gacha City Radio) has japanese music and it's the worst of their pop music. No visual kai, metal or anything...I pretty much instantly turned off all sounds except the car engine.
The AI in races is all over the place. Wheelspins are nerfed aand that was promoted as a good thing somehow. The progression is still not there, you instantly get supercars. I think Gran Turismo always did that better with buying a cheap, used car and work your way up from the bottom.
And it still has a lot of the same old graphical flaws like the pixelated red smoke on checkpoints

On the positive: the game is optimized and runs on old hardware. My PC can ran it maxed out without any problems (AMD GPU, despite that, Raytracing works perfectly)
The world is definitely a huge, massive improvement over Mexico. Way more interesting and diverse with its biomes and cities.
The car list is big, some interesting new cars, but also a lot of annoying omissions (i miss the A-Team Van)

Overall i'm glad i got it relatively cheap from a key store, it's definitely not worth the full price.

Damn... this will probably make me prolong or outright not pre-order. Sounds like a wait for a sale kinda game. Esp at 70.   To host a Japanese racing game and not tap into the elements of the culture that make the Japan street racing scene iconic is blasphemous. 

I was skeptical when Luke Riely for IGN gave it a 10 again.  I just instantly knew objectivity left the room which seems to be typical of IGN because I have trouble imagining what exactly can be done new with the formula to transport the franchise enough to have hack to back 10s or if they have any intent to at all change the recipe. I feared it being just more of the same and you seem to have cemented that.


Does it at least focus heavily into Japanese car culture plot wise? Like tuners, drifting, JDMs?  Does it allow for more customization like underglow, cherry bombs, roof scoops, tuner spoilers, more body kits and such on JDM cars?  I cant imagine a Street racing game.set in Japan without the glory of the street scenes there that defined a good chunk of the 90s car culture.   Does it even have drift events or just drift zones?


But I assume based on what you said its still the extremely limited sets of body mods that look factory, street suspension with community liveries over top.  5 spoilers to choose from but 2000 Fortnite emotes lol.   


Damn... that's a bummer.  I always thought Japan would transport them or inspire them to go wild with lore.  At least you got it cheap and are having fun. 

[2ko]

Picked up some really cheap JP Gamecube games over the weekend. Recently I've come to realize I've waited too long to collect GC. I have a small collection of stuff from my childhood but it's not that big (I was one of those kids who would always sell my games to EB/Gamestop in order to buy new ones, so I never had a huge collection of games really until I was in Uni and working part time).

So, much like the gameboys, I'll collect JP for GameCube. Picked up Pokemon Colosseum, Mario Kart Double Dash, The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, and Luigi's Mansion for about $75 after conversion. Pokemon alone would have cost more than that.

[sworddude]

I will say one thing about jp gamecube. those cardboard sleeves are an absolute sin.

kinda tricky to find clean condition ones. and even in Japan so many cube games are missing them on top of that. I ain't saying it's like regular cardboard boxes but it's getting close