This would be a fantastic inclusion for Mexico.
Biomes are usually areas that are distinctive for their plant and animal life, as well as weather. A desert is a biome. A rain forest is another type of biome. Tundra, boreal forests, grasslands are all different kinds of biomes. It sounds like FH5 is using the word biome not only for these areas, but for cities and towns as well.
I love that truck and I'd find myself going back to Blizzard Mountain and FH3 just to listen to the exhaust echo through the valley.
That's the default one, as someone already pointed out. I just left it like that, never bothered with this silliness. Also, very nice of the game to make unsportman-like behaviours part of the game's mechanics.
That's something I've though about for some time now. Why don't they do that in the Horizon games? Bring back an old map, with new events. Since old games in the series are removed from stores, it would be nice to drive those maps again, with the new content.
I don't see why we couldn't have some basic stuff that would be the same for every vehicle though. Think of the variety of spoilers in the NFS games (no need to have those crazier ones that don't even look aerodynamic though), or of steering wheels, seats, or a rev-counter, like in Midnight Club L.A.
Would definitely be a nice change
12 months? It took me 2 years.
Then they can export all those grinning Lightning McQueen cars to FM8 just to further hack off the srs bsns crowd.
There's a difference between having a fun sandbox and being a GTA Online clone. That is something FH4 is guilty of when Eliminator and Super7 were launched.
FM4 had car bowling as I recall and that was supposed to be a serious sim (or semi-sim). How much evidence do we have so far that EventLab is going to lead to the total loss of the game's identity? We don't even know what it can do yet.
FM3 featured Tag mode, FH3 danger signs and Hot Wheels Addon. Those stupid
It never ends, does it.
Well, considering this is a public forum that I quite enjoy, hopefully it does indeed never end. Opposite opinions are fine so long as they are voiced properly, if you want an echo chamber this isn’t the place for you.
Direction is important no matter the genre. One of my bigger issues with Forza overall lately has been the lack of real direction as it seems both titles have been trying to please everybody. The fact both titles now seemingly have a clear direction is very good news to me.
and spicing things up means breaking consistency with the world the game is in? I don't see why making fun things in an open world has to mean putting cartoon cars in a world that has been grounded with some form of reality.
Once again, I don't get why fun and appealing to the casuals means you have to break the immersion. and yes, immersion can apply to arcade games aswell. Every video game in general has a world set in, that world has a defined art-style to give viewers an idea on what to expect. Putting lego cars on the grid with realistic-looking ones goes against that and leads me annoyed.
I personally am not looking for a hardcore cruising sim, I'm looking for an open-world racer with a realstic art direction across the board and some more grounded driving physics. Which Horizon has been good at aside from the wacky expansions given in the past 2 games.
Me. I would feel the same way if a more arcady game like Mario Kart decided to switch directions one day.
I'm fine with differing opinions too - but like, the initial opinion makes no goddamn sense. What is it about Super7 and Eliminator that makes FH4 (and presumably, 5) more like GTA Online? What do you expect a racing game of Horizon's caliber and free-wheeling nature to add on after release that isn't just cars and the two expansions, that will keep people, most importantly those who aren't that interested in racing games in general outside of Horizon, playing the game?
The issue is that the 'lack of direction' come from, since 3 really, the game throwing more and more events at you and not giving you a real obvious and meaningful climb to the top like FH1 did. That I can understand with regards to 'lack of direction', but when it comes to stuff like Eliminator and Super7? I don't really understand how 'lack of direction' comes into play, especially when, as I've stated before, this is pretty typical stuff for a developer who has a smash, interest spanning hit that absolutely needs to please everybody, in the Horizon front at least.
It was added so late that it essentially made it a different game compared to when it launched. If you’re like me and took a longer break from it you left a typical Horizon game where it’s generally based in reality with some arcade elements thrown in and came back to a bunch of new features that don’t really seem to tie into the base game as you would expect.
I know you already mentioned it, but it honestly needs to be said. Forza Horizon is an arcade racer and therefore, cars like lego and even hot wheels are bound to find there way into forza.
A GTA Online clone? There is nothing wrong with adding more flavor into the experience that doesn't have to replicate GTA. And Super7 and the Eliminator? Those added more fun into the gaming experience for everyone, making the game more popular because of them. Heck, look at The Crew 2, it's literally doing the same thing with its Motorflix thingy; from ramming cars off screen to jumping off of skyscrapers. FH4 is not guilty of anything.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain wrong. Arcade game doesn't mean an automatic open invitation to have wacky cars to be included into Forza. Especially on the scale they were implemented. There's a range to the types of arcade games out there, there's ones more grounded to reality and one's less so. Forza Horizon was more grounded to a realistic style of arcade. It's not like mario kart of crash team racing where there's silly gadgets
Um, yes there were. Nothing screams more "out of place" than seeing a Lego car appear in a grid of realistic-looking cars. and they kinda do ruin it to some degree. As I said before, they're immersion breaking, much like seeing PS2 cars appear in a PS3 game like in Gran Turismo 5 for instance. and before anyone says it, immersion exists in arcade games too. Every video game has a kind of immersion that can be broken when introducing something different.
How is that consistent? They're putting cartoon cars in a game centered around realistic cars? That's the very definition of inconsistent. Playing it safe with content would've been the more consistent option.
"Grounded in a realistic style", yet you can drive across the fields at high speed with literally any car you have, smash through signs and other destructible objects like trees, guardrails and cobblestone fences, rally any supercar and hypercar on dirt/mud, drive off cliffs on any part of the map, etc.
And there lies your problem: because they're different and thus ruin the experience, or in you context, "immersion". IMO, nothing screams more "out of place" and "immersion breaking" than tossing your cars across some random field, or plowing through snow in your supercar without consequence. In FH1, you can throw your car across open areas, and smash through stuff. Yet a lego car among real cars is a problem?
That is an opinion. In my opinion, I don't mind PG trying new things if it works within Forza Horizon. Not Mario Kart fun, but fun to the driving experience.
No. Playing it safe would be not to include different things. And if you want to include, "inconsistency", than what is Super7 which allows you to put random probs on the map?
Yes, "realistic style". As in Art Style and direction, not actual realism with driving mechanics.
There's no problem I have other than you missing my point completely. As above, I'm looking at this game with a realistic look to the environment in the same vain as games like Test Drive Unlimited and Midnight Club. The immersion I'm talking about is the game's world, not how realistic the cars drive.
Yup, sure is an opinion. and I'm expressing that my fun is spoiled when cartoony cars are clashing with my realistic looking ones.
Content I have no problem with, because it doesn't clash with the world present. It's easy to see it as part of the craziness of a Horizon festival. Lifesize lego cars controlled by lego people are not.
Than you should really include "art style" instead of "realistic style", because that could mean a lot of different things which led to my confusion.
Then I really can't help you with that if that is what you're looking for. It's not like everyone drives them in game for you to see them. The only suggestion I can give you is simply creating your own events and delist the lego cars if they bother you so much, unless this is online by players?
Than I guess we can call a spade a spade and leave it at that I guess? 🤷♂️
I really do like the lego cars for their quirky, yet interesting appearances. My most favorite is the Porsche 911 Turbo. I know it's not for everybody, but driving them is some of the most fun (and funniest) I had out of FH4. I wished we had more because the Speed Champions was packed(!) with cars. 😲To each their own, I personal started liking FH when I saw them do the hot wheels tracks/cars and legos an extension of that. Maybe its just pulling on my nostalgia but that is where the draw is for me. And as good as 5 is looking whats most interesting to me is the editor and the things people will create.
I love this is in real life so of course I'd love it in a game thats drivable
