Don't Believe Those Forza Horizon 4 Japan Rumors Quite Yet

[Silver Arrows]

Do you think those are supposed to be in-game? They're just early concept art, done at the beginning of development to, visually, show how an idea might look like. This kind of early concept art usually isn't high-quality.

No, but:

No accurate info has ever leaked about location/visuals for a Horizon game, this far in advance. (Someone correct me if thats wrong.) They succeed in controlling the info. They wouldn’t let their partner blow the secret by putting picture reveals on a portfolio site. There will be a contract about that.

Anyway: this is the worst picture of Hong Kong I have ever seen. These peddlers of glossy exotica chose something out-of-time and quasi-exotic to focus on, hence the choice of oldish looking lights and flat boring building, and incandescent candle-like tone and faux-mystical arrangement of lights (instead of neon night glow metropolitan fluorescents). Hong Kong streets are amazing and look nothing like this scene.

This is like if Need for Speed did a cross-over with Sleeping Dogs. This is the picture they would come up with. It looks like a riverboat ran aground on a parkway in New Jersey. I’m surprised they didn’t put a guy playing an erhu next to a buddha statue.

Also, we should remember that we had this same sort of storm of 'leaks' and 'info' when FH2 was about to drop, and people thought it was going to be set in Louisiana based on concept art. That was as far off the mark as one could get, turns out.

Once again people, stop believing everything that's thrown at you when it comes to FH4 and locations. It's the usual sort of flurry of activity in the weeks leading up to E3, and there's going to be a lot of ********. Really, the only thing that you should believe (since it was all but confirmed in the Walmart CA leak from a few days ago, but mainly because logic states it's Horizon's turn in the spotlight this year) is that Horizon 4 is coming, and it, like the past two Forza games before it, will be the star of the Xbox show at E3.

 

[warp9engage]

Also, we should remember that we had this same sort of storm of 'leaks' and 'info' when FH2 was about to drop, and people thought it was going to be set in Louisiana based on concept art. That was as far off the mark as one could get, turns out.

I will grant you the part of it not being in a private portfolio, but didn't I say that the FH2 leak was wrong and that this art was, by no means, a reveal of a location?

Once again people, stop believing everything that's thrown at you when it comes to FH4 and locations.

Oh believe me, I'm taking everything I hear with a grain of salt on the side.

EDIT: Been thinking of Scotland as the best UK location. Edinburgh, Knockhill, mountainous terrain for off-roading...