HEY ALAN how are you!!. Where have you been?. Glad you are back!!!

Couldn't agree with you more Alan. After the TONS of driving games that I've played TDU still retains a place in my heart for a reason. Well said mate.

Welcome back!! Was so excited when I got the upload notification.

Good to see a video from you.

Great Video and I am am very happy to wait till its ready to releases. Very Excited for this release....

Nice to see you back Allan 👍

Ah man that was a fantastic video . I remember the first tdu your so correct about building a bond with your car . Mine on tdu was a silver amg black series merc . I loved the sound the speed and cruising in it . Thats tdu spending evenings with your mates a few beers cruising the streets . I can't wait for this game im so excited for it . Tu2 ibiza was amazing but I can not wait to get to know hongkong. Keep up the good work sir 👏

Loved your rant! exactly what i think! A NFS game can be a arcade-ish while dirt more more sim like.. they dont need to be competitors. just enjoy what it is for what it is. Can't wait for TDUSC!

The man is back ;)

Hey Alan, thanks for the video, it was again with such a good quality of writing, it was a blast to listen to you because according to me, you're right from the beginning to the end of the video. Take care and we'll see us back on the official Discord server :D

Welcome back! Thanks for the video, well said.

Glad to see you back hopefully more content soon

Yooo Alan good to see you again man

If I could like this 10x times, I would. Great video once again Alan! Thanks for clearing things up and being honest 😇 So refreshing to hear some positivity about this game. Can't wait to play it :)

Great to see you back Alan

Game is looking promising. Thanks for the details. I hope Solar Crown offers an offline mode like the prior TDU1, 2 games. And hopefully DLC motorcycles in the future, as they aren't present yet. Okay, this is online only? Thanks for the info. That's unfortunate IMO. I'm an offline gamer, preferring AI cars instead of real players.

I can't wait to play this one I played test drive unlimited 2 until my pc died.

Great to see you back Alan! hope you're keeping well!

Really good to have you back Alan. 💯

I’m glad to see you again too- if only on YT!! 🎉

With how Forza turned out I find it really difficult to trust trailers these days.

I 100% agree. People need to relax, they are doing a great job developing this game. I am looking forward to more of the features from classic TDU games being implemented in the future.

Ferrari did used to rally, check out the 308gtb

Great video with some very valid points raised. Thanks for the content.

hope it gets VR support

Welcome back Alan! Missed seeing you and your videos! Loved this, strong message given as well! The trolls/most vocal minorities do ruin things for everyone for such ridiculous things. Fingers crossed this does succeed as I loved the original Test Drive Unlimited! :)

@Team VVV great to see you post again! But what I learned from the video it is not definitive. Well what ever is best for you. Just hope you are happy and healthy. Hopefully this TDSC is a positive exception to the very boring gaming world but I await (your?) review(s). Spot on how you describe the Forza throw away nature. You need to deserve a car and bond with a car. All the best and thanks for sharing this, Alan.

Great to see you back !!!

Yay, more Alan Action. This might be the only full priced new game I've bought in years. Looking good so far. I kinda wish they'd adopted the ETS2/ATS format with this game seeing how it's coming along. Having the map and features expand they way SCS does with those games would be really cool.

So looking forward to this. I'm very much excited to play this, and have not been so for any game since FH3/FH4.... anticipation wise.... 😃

I still have my TDU 2 CD with CD key. I'm really looking forward to the new one. TDU 2 even introduced me to the Ben Sherman brand!

My concerns with the online requirement would be entirely quelled if they would commit to working on ensuring the majority of the game remains playable once server support ends. I know they couldn't promise anything specific this far out, and that they may have designed major aspects of the game around social features, but they can always make changes... I just don't want to invest hundreds (or thousands) of hours into a game, just to lose it all... I'll definitely be buying the game either way, as I'm a massive TDU fan, and love Kylotonn games. But my trust and respect for Nacon, and my future purchasing decisions, will entirely hinge on how they handle the consumer friendliness of TDU:SC. I'll happily buy additional post-release content to support them, if they care to support the player.

Good to see you again, Alan. In regards to contacting the devs for feedback, I've actually been trying to contact EA for their F1 games but there is no way other than submitting a support ticket which is unlikely my message will get across. I feel some AAA devs will forever leave community feedback unheard in favour of appeasing their shareholders.

23:16 so true.

Im looking forward to test drive unlimited solar crown but what cars would we get as pre order & do hong kong make any cars that we could get as a 1st car to buy or a pre order car?

Blimey! Good to see you back Alan

Alan i only have 1 very important question....is this a live service game, like the crew motorfest, or can i play it offline too?

It would be awsome if you can actually use low range and lock the diffs on the propper 4x4 vehicles.

This gives me GTA online vibes, in terms of the racing, not the shooting. I had loads of fun racing in that, and this looks like a better way to do it. I’m interested in this now, whereas I wasn’t before.

Looking forward to this game

I think some of the 'misdirected' criticism toward TDU is due to the belief that it's not too late to influence this game, whereas the community have given up with Ubisoft killing nostalgia or NFS having cockpit cameras. The 5% campaign was from a community Project CARS trailer in response to a quote in an article from a Codemasters representative.

I’m very excited about this 🎉

If it's still playable 5, 10, 15 years in the future, I'm good. If that's through an offline patch or releasing required information to enable fan made servers, doesn't make much of a difference to me. TDU1 and TDU2 still function as games, I just ask for the same. That said, I wanna experience Hong Kong again (loved the world in Sleeping Dogs and I get the same vibe with Solar Crown). I've really missed the TDU experience and I'm itching for the day it releases

Seeing this I just want to buy the house close to the beach. Drive there and change the interior 😅 . You can even find video's of Ferrari in a rally. Think it's a 360. And a Gallardo doing rallycross both in real life. I already love how it looks. I have ray tracing and other effects of on 90% of my games I don't see the special in it 😁 . Maybe it's because I'm old and started with games on cassette and floppy disks 🙈 . Exploration was my favorite thing in old Test Drives and the long races around the island. And I think there was a cruise or something as well that was long. Just hope it has enough to do alone as I'm not much of a online racer.

Wouldn't it be crazy if you run out of fuel in this game, or you have to pay for it with in game credits? Good to have you back, Alan.

i hope you can buy a beach front cabin you can go inside, chill out and watch the sunset

Any idea whether or not wheels and pedals will be supported?

Loved the test drive series offline and online

Welcome back, Alan. As far as attacks on racing games. Some gamers only want their games to exist. Over the past 10 years I've seen *some* vocal Forza Horizon fans go out of their way to bash racing games. Hell, even games that are not in the same category (DriveClub 🤦🏾‍♂️)... then that shifted to the Crew Series.. and now it has shifted to Solar Crown. I know not every Horizon fan is like that. I'm sure some are excited to drive around in a new beautiful environment. THAT is what makes having these different Studios create these different games great. We get MORE beautiful locations to drive around in. What's bad about that? Anyway what excites me about this game is how the cars interact with the road/surfaces. Seems like it will be fun to just drive.

Good to see you alan! Provided TDUSC releases in a working state on release, I feel it will have its crowd, Will it explode? no idea, but there isnt really any competition at this point, motorfest exists, forza horizon is stale and its not like theres much choice these days, will have more players than forza motorsport thats for sure. And i feel the dogpiling is just more... direct and immature the racing community because there is so many things that people want, dont get, and dont understand the time it takes or what the cost is be it on the performance side or simply development funds. We get it, people want a 1 to 1 real life sim that can be played with a xbox controler that you can also just get out your car and walk the street but still summon the car like cyberpunk, crash it into a wall where the wall has a realistic impact with soft body physics and you can attempt to fix the car bumper to bumper in VR with a 1 to 1 render of the cars engine where each nut and bolt exists from the spec sheet and has RTX and then change the game to a FPS where the car transforms into a robot like that old citroen advert. I could go on, but obviously this is just dumb, not to mention the game would lack clarity, and i feel that because so many people want x y and z and the cake to be eaten as well, many of the racing games with good resources just evaporate into obscurity because they feel like they only like one segement of racing games when they have not even thought about the others. P.S Play super woden GP 2 :)

i just want a fun racing game , if i can have fun racing and driving that's what matters to me, lets hope there's some arcade elements in the game-play overall game design.

Missed you mate!

I have no doubt that the game is going to be good or even great. However the idea of spending 100+ dollars on a game that effectively won’t exist in 8 years after they shutdown the servers is a big ask, especially with the economy in the state it’s in now. Every racing game that has released lately with a heavy online focus has had the ability to play offline, Forza, Need for speed, Gran Turismo ect. The only one that hasn’t, has been The Crew. Although that’s a terrible example as Ubisoft recently shut down the servers and the game is nothing more than a paperweight now. People even did some data mining and found that it only would’ve taken a change to two lines of code to make it playable offline. Something Ubisoft couldn’t even be bothered to do and they’re one of the largest gaming companies on the planet. The most fun that I can get out of The Crew now is to take the disc outside and light it on fire. I absolutely love retro gaming And crap like this is going to destroy it, no one is going to remember The Crew series or even care about it because in 15 to 20 years none of these game will even exist, which is a damn shame, because all three of them are quite good. Adding the ability to play offline isn’t difficult. It wouldn’t delay the game for a month, not even a week and it’s absolutely something that Kylotonn need to address. If not at launch then soon after with a patch.

What happend Alan ? Is everything good ?

17:10 I see people using the "We care" argument so much on non-constructive criticism. (not saying all that use it are being non-constructive)

great video alan, every bit is well said!

As much as I want to be completely against the always online nature of this and just about every game for the fact that when I pay for it, I would like to be able to play it for as long as I would like to because I bought it, I have to say that I’m intrigued by the community aspect and I hope that this is a fun part of this game. I am significantly visually impaired, and do not have the ability to drive in real life, this game could afford me the chance to cruise around and hopefully make friends that enjoy doing the same Even if I bump into them from time to time. I would just hope that maybe there would be a way to patch in some sort of off-line experience so that when this game inevitably closes its life cycle, there is still a way for me to enjoy the amount of detail, depth and passion these developers have placed into this world into these cars and into everything that test drive unlimited claims to be. I haven’t played one of the TDU games before myself, but I’m looking forward to this potentially being the first time I do so. I hope this point makes sense and I really like the way that your video was constructed, thank you for giving credit to the developers who works so hard to make this game and I hope everybody else has a fantastic experience when the game releases

Welcome back!

OMG!!! Alan is alive. I thought that maybe you got kidnapped while on holiday in Mexico. Then you got dumped in a hot desert in the middle of nowhere hence no videos.

06:13 I have to wait for 3080 gameplay to see can I turn on ray tracing with stable 45 fps...

i always like your talk

Nail on the head when you said 'TDU is about the vibe'. I hope this game recaptures the magic of the first 2.

SOON

The latest Forza games were so boring. I'm looking forward to test drive for something fresh. Great video btw!

Alan is back !!!!!!!! We're u been????

Tdu 1 whas realy a perfect game. I hope this one gonna be better.

chase camera seems horribly rigid , I hope there will be parameters to give some inertia in the rotation

SOON™️

Hi do you know if I can remap the D-Pad for Accelerate / Braking / Steering ? If it can then I’ll buy it. I’m disabled so I need remapping etc.

so no news

I really hope this game gets forza and the crew to become more ambitious. As much as the original crew had its faults, it was a very good effort, but nothing in the past 10 years since has attempted to have the same ambition, just safe and boring game releases. I think its a problem with games in general and not just racing games.

Will this game have wheel support on PS5? Let's hope so!

I have a 3060 and 16gb of ram. I7 12th gen. I play at 1080 60. Will i be able to play this game?

TDU:SC demo out and nothing from Team VVV? Is it because it's so bad?

Looks like FH5, which released years ago..

They drive on dusty roads without any dust ? Looks very strange..i'm not excited.

Don’t like community games. Can’t invest the time. Single player is where it’s at.

i was super excited for this game right up until i saw the gameplay, i feel its just a re-skined NFS at this stage

Always online = no buy

Why are ‘fans’ whining before it has released? The entitlement is strong with this generation. You don’t like it, make your own.

Tbh , the clip looks very boring

So far i only have to issues with the games, the car selection, and the location selection, i don't know but HK isnt very exciting to me and seems pretty limiting

Wheel support on launch for console? I have to ask since Taxi Life… also release date?📅