Forza Horizon 5: General Discussion

[Digolgrin]

It looks very nice but see how a game like this or Tokyo Extreme Racer, or the highway in GT7 contains the player to roads. A Forza Horizon game (from 2 onwards anyway) makes possible for you to go offroad at any time, and trash any object that is not fixed (furniture, utilities, fencing, vegetation, etc.) Would you put a danger sign over a Torii gate? Would you mow down blooming Sakura trees?

Somehow that would not feel right IMO.

In my mind's eye, I feel like that's mostly out of respect for Japanese geography and wanting to be as 'realistic' as possible. I feel like folks would be able to accept a Danger Sign over a shrine or a temple, if it's with the understanding that those things should be indestructible. Heck, just limit the sakura trees to inhabited areas and make them indestructible, just so you wouldn't be able to just plow 'em over with a Unimog.

I'll bet that Mexico was partially an experiment with just that idea, of going to a place with sacred and historically important monuments and negotiating with their government to let them have those sites in the game in exchange for the promise that they won't be treated in any disrespectful manner.