Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[Nacho Libre]

I think that cultural representation is also a major factor in deciding where to locate the games, and Colorado (USA), France/Italy, Australia, UK, and Mexico were represented as very laid-back and fun locations (lawless but also harmless). Sorry, but for the tone of the game, China, Korea and Japan have no chill.

 

[Digolgrin]

I think that cultural representation is also a major factor in deciding where to locate the games, and Colorado (USA), France/Italy, Australia, UK, and Mexico were represented as very laid-back and fun locations (lawless but also harmless). Sorry, but for the tone of the game, China, Korea and Japan have no chill.

Germany also falls under that "laid-back and fun" umbrella, I figure--after all, you'd be able to scream down the Autobahn at over 300 MPH in a hypercar, or hoon across the Swiss Alps or the Hurtgen Forest in a Group B monster, either of your own creation or from the annals of history. Maybe not as much as Mexico was (which is something I kind of hold against FH5's depiction of Mexico--I remember the country being typecast as the land of fiesta and tacos when I was a kid, and Ramiro always embodied that side of the country to me), but maybe getting closer to the relatively chill vibes I get from FH4's Britain.

 

[Nacho Libre]

Germany also falls under that "laid-back and fun" umbrella, I figure--after all, you'd be able to scream down the Autobahn at over 300 MPH in a hypercar, or hoon across the Swiss Alps or the Hurtgen Forest in a Group B monster, either of your own creation or from the annals of history. Maybe not as much as Mexico was (which is something I kind of hold against FH5's depiction of Mexico--I remember the country being typecast as the land of fiesta and tacos when I was a kid, and Ramiro always embodied that side of the country to me), but maybe getting closer to the relatively chill vibes I get from FH4's Britain.

Well as a Mexican I'm grateful for Playground Games by depicting a much cleaner and safer version of my home country that gets the geography and urban/rural/weather/road features right (minus the pollution and poor road maintenance we currently have), so I really don't mind if Ramiro sounds like a U.S. born 2nd or 3rd generation dude. And we are a land of fiesta/taco (and much more), just not at all times!

 

[Digolgrin]

Hah, fair enough! Either way I'd welcome Germany as a setting, it seems like it'd fit in just fine with the rest of Horizon--if not moreso than anything else I'd have imagined, Nordic countries aside.

Speaking of, though, a friend of mine has informed me that it's considerably more likely that the German license plates ended up in that archive (and thus, apparently, Mexico becoming the setting of FH5) because of difficulties securing the license to the specific font those plates use, FE-Schrift, which is very tightly protected and only licensed out to German authorities and contractors that serve the German government, and because PGG was apparently unable to really replicate it accurately. If true, we may have been bamboozled.