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Where should Forza Horizon 5 take place?
- Thread starter mavericktopgun
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Spain + Portugal, Canadá, Germany. Japan is cool and should maybe be the game, but there have been 2 games in a row driving in the left :S
Add another vote to Japan, though frankly you could put the Horizon team on the most banal location imaginable and they'd still be able to make it exciting.
Cape Town, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Germany, anywhere Scandinavian. I'd love to see Singapore, Malaysia, or Vietnam - let me race through Rice Paddies!
India could be a really cool and unorthodox pick too. The extremely dense cities and roadways would require some artistic license, but there's a huge car culture there (or at least a lot of hundred millionaires and billionaires that flaunt luxury cars) and plenty of stunning roads and vistas.
Cape Town, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Germany, anywhere Scandinavian. I'd love to see Singapore, Malaysia, or Vietnam - let me race through Rice Paddies!
India could be a really cool and unorthodox pick too. The extremely dense cities and roadways would require some artistic license, but there's a huge car culture there (or at least a lot of hundred millionaires and billionaires that flaunt luxury cars) and plenty of stunning roads and vistas.
A larger area of the US (not just Colorado), kind of like what The Crew attempted.
Japan is also a good answer.
Japan is also a good answer.
It won't be Japan even though it obviously makes the most sense. Japan is home to the world's largest automaker, has an incredibly rich history in motorsports and car culture in general, it's ridiculous that it wasn't already a location in one of the first four games.
The reason why it probably won't be Japan of course is because Japan has its own games industry that would be able to do it more accurately and authentically. Maybe not better as a game than the Forza devs though.
On the other hand the same concerns were there for Ghosts of Tsushima, but that turned out well.
In the end the most likely thing that will happen is setting the game in another Asian country to give the series a similar feeling (at least in the eyes of the public in the US/Europe) completely ignoring that no other country has that same connection to cars as Japan.
My dream would be having the Forza team make a Horizon game set in Japan, working in close partnership with Genki Racing Project to get the car culture details right.
Since that's not going to happen this indie game is probably going to be the best bet:
The reason why it probably won't be Japan of course is because Japan has its own games industry that would be able to do it more accurately and authentically. Maybe not better as a game than the Forza devs though.
On the other hand the same concerns were there for Ghosts of Tsushima, but that turned out well.
In the end the most likely thing that will happen is setting the game in another Asian country to give the series a similar feeling (at least in the eyes of the public in the US/Europe) completely ignoring that no other country has that same connection to cars as Japan.
My dream would be having the Forza team make a Horizon game set in Japan, working in close partnership with Genki Racing Project to get the car culture details right.
Since that's not going to happen this indie game is probably going to be the best bet:
Hmm. Reasonable.
Yo... this would actually be pretty cool.
Actually, I'd love to see a pan-Asian entry. Hong Kong, Shanghai, the mountains of Taiwan or southwestern China, the Great Wall, Seoul, fishing villages of Vietnam, hitting some of the architecture of India. But, I imagine that the political considerations would sink any such endeavor. You could never do any country quite enough justice, and the logistics of portraying free movement across so many contested or tense borders would be nightmarish.
But man, that would be cool. Even if it was just the East Asian block, Japan, Hong Kong, Eastern China, Korea, with a lot of interesting things to check out with giant bridges across the ocean.... lol. But sadly, no.
Japan for sure.
And if the game is going to be more of a platform like mainline Forza is supposed to be then I'd like to see them add all the previous environments updated with seasons and off road. Australia was too good and the fact that it's lost after being delisted is a shame.
And if the game is going to be more of a platform like mainline Forza is supposed to be then I'd like to see them add all the previous environments updated with seasons and off road. Australia was too good and the fact that it's lost after being delisted is a shame.
I talked to a ex-MS guy (who I'm sure had nothing to do with games) who told me Horizon 5 was set in the US, so... Maybe?
Still can't believe they haven't done Germany yet, the country that arguably has the world's greatest car manufacturers and gets the most automotive tourism (Romantic Road, Nürburgring, Autobahn) in the world.
Not only would it feel super natural to race on the Autobahn, Germany also offers a great variery in terms of landscape (from the Alps to the Baltic sea). Heck you could even throw Poland, Holland, Austria and Denmark into the mix to make it even more diverse.
Really can't wrap my head around it that they did Italy and England before Germany.
Not only would it feel super natural to race on the Autobahn, Germany also offers a great variery in terms of landscape (from the Alps to the Baltic sea). Heck you could even throw Poland, Holland, Austria and Denmark into the mix to make it even more diverse.
Really can't wrap my head around it that they did Italy and England before Germany.
As long as there's some verticality to the geography, I'll be happy. I found 3 bland because the aussie setting felt so flat.
As long as the cars drive on the correct side of the road, I'm fine. And the correct side of course is the right side!!!
I am extremely hyped for Horizon 5 btw! My fav racing franchise bar none.
Dwarfed by Germany on all levels. Germany makes much more sense, and has just as epic scenery to boot.
But mainly really, I don't want to drive on the wrong side of the road anymore. Two times is enough.
I am extremely hyped for Horizon 5 btw! My fav racing franchise bar none.
Dwarfed by Germany on all levels. Germany makes much more sense, and has just as epic scenery to boot.
But mainly really, I don't want to drive on the wrong side of the road anymore. Two times is enough.
If they do Japan I want them to base it on Hokkaido. Today I drove across the Shiretoko pass and it was the most epic road scenery I have ever experienced. Stunning in autumn and they get serious snow so the four seasons thing from Horizon 4 could be expanded.
Make it something interesting like morocco or brasil... UK was soooooo underwhelming... I think FH4 is the game I played the less in the franchise. And as much as I'd like a FH5 set in japan, I do not trust playground games with making virtual cities, they've been consistently bad across all FH games. So I'd rather have a well made exotic natural place rather than a disappointing Japan.
Scandinavia is super underrated here.
I mean, look at this shit right here:
They already kinda did that with the Fortune Island DLC for FH4. Same jagged, nordic terrain, and it even has a similar winding road.
I think the obvious answer here is Japan. That's where the series fans really wanted FH4 to be, it has an obvious car culture they could lean on for the "campaign", and it seems like Xbox are trying to court the Japanese audience again. I can't imagine a better way to do that, than with a really good Horizon sequel set in Japan. It also has the kind of geographic and seasonal variability they like.
I'd also love to see Playground handed the Project Gotham license or something, and set a reboot in a complete 1:1 recreation of New York that leverages some of the tech underpinning Microsoft Flight Simulator. People would go nuts for that announcement. However, I suspect the Horizon brand is just too big for them to do that now.
Eh? Their rendition of Edinburgh was fantastic, save for the limitations of the technology available (such as the city being mostly a ghost town)
yeah there surely were 5 or 6 streets that nailed the atsmosphere, sure, but as I see it, it never felt like I was driving in a city, rather in a city-shaped portion of the map (if that makes sense lol). It might just be me because i quite critical of those kind of things, but that's my take on it.
Yeah and I want more of that. Also, Scandanavia is well known for its rallying - FH4 did a decent job on the rally courses but we need more!
Honestly, I don't really see why people want Japan so much. The car culture of a location has never really been given that much attention in the games beyond a few token extra cars.
I personally don't care about Japan either, but speaking in terms of probabilities - I think it is by far the most probable and logical choice for them, for the reasons I stated.
I'd like a Horizon game set in Canada, personally.
It definitely wasn't very big (such are the realities of technical limitations and a two-year dev cycle) but what was there seemed to be very well received by people native to the area.
It seems both Forza games are getting extra long dev cycles this time around (we should technically be getting a new Horizon this fall with their normal cadence), which would give them extra time to really do justice to a city like Tokyo.
Playground did a pretty good job representing Australia along with the people and car culture so I'd be curious how'd they do with an Asian locale. It's not enough to just model a Japanese city and call it a day.
japan is the boring answer but i'd be down. would also love to see cape town though
maybe play gran turismo instead? or that assetto corsa shutoko mod that i really need to check out.
maybe play gran turismo instead? or that assetto corsa shutoko mod that i really need to check out.
It'll be very difficult to top Australia from Forza Horizon 3, imo. That map was incredible and rich with diversity. Coastlines, forests, jungle, desert, rocky areas, modern big city, suburbs, outskirts and what have you. As much as I enjoyed Edinburgh in Horizon 4, with its narrow curvy roads and alleyways, the map in its entirety was nowhere near as fun as Australia. Especially the Goliath course in Horizon 4 was incredibly meh compared to the GOAT in Horizon 3.
As a guy from Madrid, yes please, more games set in Madrid.Japan, Madrid or..
Galicia or Asturias would break people minds as well, they're just wonderful.
Seriously, can you imagine? Driving across the bridge to PEI (one challenge could be to reach every lighthouse in X amount of time)... coasting around Cape Breton... checking out the Bay of Fundy.
I want this so bad.
Absolutely. The Maritime provinces are even the perfect size for a Forza map. Make Halifax the main city.
I can't speak to non-racing games, but I'd heard that there were certain technical challenges with doing some of the urban settings that a Japan-located game would essentially require. (Like, if you're not going to drive through city streets surrounded by neon signs, what's the point?)
So I've always suspected that Japan was at the top of the list for the first next-gen installment of the Horizon franchise, and that we'll get a bit more street racing emphasis as a result. (Like, I think we'll still get the "go anywhere" stuff, but we'll also get driving dynamics that are also suitable for road racing.)
Wild-ish prediction: We'll also get superbikes added to the game. Including inevitable Akira DLC.