Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[UKMikey]

Is it other Nintendo games as well today? Oh well, happy Mar 10.

I kinda stopped buying their consoles when the Wii turned out to be the Gamecube in a different box with wiggly sticks attached. 2000s-era Mikey would've loved the Switch for his daily commute though. Maybe when Switch 2 OLED comes out I might get back on the bandwagon, although I figure I'd likely be plugging it into an OLED TV most days anyway so the onboard display quality is probably moot.

The SNES is still one of my app time favourite machines.......it still has the best power switch on a console ever. Such a satisfying clunk for on and off.

Regrettably I ended up ditching my PAL SNES for an NTSC model in order to play grey import JRPGs that were never released in Europe. I don't recall the US power switch being quite as clunk-clicky.

 

[Nacho Libre]

If other Xbox properties begin to pop-up on the Switch 2... portable FH would be something.

 

[Edax 76]

Is it other Nintendo games as well today? Oh well, happy Mar 10.

I kinda stopped buying their consoles when the Wii turned out to be the Gamecube in a different box with wiggly sticks attached. 2000s-era Mikey would've loved the Switch for his daily commute though. Maybe when Switch 2 OLED comes out I might get back on the bandwagon, although I figure I'd likely be plugging it into an OLED TV most days anyway so the onboard display quality is probably moot.
Regrettably I ended up ditching my PAL SNES for an NTSC model in order to play grey import JRPGs that were never released in Europe. I don't recall the US power switch being quite as clunk-clicky.

The Switch 2 is a day one buy for me, I'm saving already.

If any console ever gets released with an equivalent to the SNES power switch I'll buy it for pure nostalgia value.

 

[Apple Slipper]

Looks like Turn 10 & Playground did a big oopsy again. They leaked the Maserati MC20!

 

[UKMikey]

If any console ever gets released with an equivalent to the SNES power switch I'll buy it for pure nostalgia value.

If I ever get the urge I can take my SNES Mini out of the box and practise turning it off and on again.

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Is it me or (given the playlist probs we've been having recently) is one of the events this week a little too on-the-nose naming-wise?

 

[Justuxful]

Looks like Turn 10 & Playground did a big oopsy again. They leaked the Maserati MC20!

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Can they just get their stuff together and finally release it, at this point as a free apology gift for being the only major racing game franchise not to have it… Like how hard can it be?

 

[Digolgrin]

Looks like Turn 10 & Playground did a big oopsy again. They leaked the Maserati MC20!

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Oooookay, the plot is thickening slightly. I'm guessing this might come in a car pack, but if Horizon Realms isn't our final update that would be an incredible surprise.

EDIT: So I thought about this a little bit. Surely Horizon Realms would come with its own dedicated Playlist with FOMO cars to celebrate that milestone, right? The Realms cars themselves are permanent, but that means Xbox and PC players that already have everything, like me, could just pop in for a couple days, grab those cars, and get out. Maybe Realms having its own Playlist is the catch to hook 'em in for the month?

 

[skazz]

Oooookay, the plot is thickening slightly. I'm guessing this might come in a car pack, but if Horizon Realms isn't our final update that would be an incredible surprise.

More likely this is a stock image they made ages ago. I think there was another one in an earlier playlist.

I'm still pretty sure that they had to give us the Battista (which was already in FM23) in a paid DLC car pack instead of the MC20 due to emergency licensing problems, which were never fixed during the lifetime of FH5.

 

[Digolgrin]

More likely this is a stock image they made ages ago. I think there was another one in an earlier playlist.

I'm still pretty sure that they had to give us the Battista (which was already in FM23) in a paid DLC car pack instead of the MC20 due to emergency licensing problems, which were never fixed during the lifetime of FH5.

Someone did manage to save the video and post it on the Horizon subreddit, FYI.

 

[meganinja]

2 two cents about the DLC news that came out and i only had noticied beacuse someone had posted on FM part of the forum lol

1- i feel this is pretty much huge indicative that maybe we are having FH6 in Japan after all
2- Nissan Figaro is a such horizon type of car, even as DLC, i am so glad that it is already for FH5 and hopefuly comes at launch for FH6 independly if is on Japan or somewhere else

 

[UKMikey]

1- i feel this is pretty much huge indicative that maybe we are having FH6 in Japan after all

Hoki Hoshi agrees, although he's worried that if true it may be hard to do it justice given the size of the Tokyo metropolitan area compared to that of past Horizon games.

 

[sirjim73]

Hoki Hoshi agrees, although he's worried that if true it may be hard to do it justice given the size of the Tokyo metropolitan area compared to that of past Horizon games.

As per my hypothesis on the other thread, I don't think it will be set in or around Tokyo, but will be around Mount Fuji, Osaka or somewhere central Japan instead.

 

[GBalao888]

As per my hypothesis on the other thread, I don't think it will be set in or around Tokyo, but will be around Mount Fuji, Osaka or somewhere central Japan instead.

If anything, the Universal Studios Car Pack might give a hint to the potential location of FH6 being around the Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto), considering Universal Studios Japan is in Osaka.

 

[Digolgrin]

If anything, the Universal Studios Car Pack might give a hint to the potential location of FH6 being around the Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto), considering Universal Studios Japan is in Osaka.

To be fair, that's a theme park, not an actual branch of Universal. But I think it is also worth mentioning, too, that they don't even have to go to mainland Japan or Hokkaido at all; I fully expect that the Sierra Nueva equivalent will be somewhere near Okinawa or even in one of the smaller islands near Japan proper. Really just depends on what priorities they choose for their map design.

 

[Beebo]

Hoki Hoshi agrees, although he's worried that if true it may be hard to do it justice given the size of the Tokyo metropolitan area compared to that of past Horizon games.

I am a big fan of how he's put some of these ideas to a bigger audience. For quite a while now I've been wondering what fh5's expansions were testing but it makes sense rally adventure's road and map design would make their way into the FH6 base map given the track record of DLCs being tests of things/ideas. What I hadn't realized though, was a few of the possible hints he mentioned. It's fun to speculate!

Though I can't imagine the vitriol from, lets just say more "vocal" players if they finally did Japan and didn't add some of the stereotypical things like tokyo and others. The expectation may very well be why they don't wanna do that location at all, who knows.