You answered the question yourself - nothing would make them happy. As space_wadet said earlier, JDM fans have extreme, Instagram model-esque expectations that'll never satisfy them. And if they can't ever be happy regardless of what you do, is there even any point in listening to them in the first place, even if it's commercially viable (potentially - this naturally ignores players from South Korea and China who may still have some understandably sour feelings about their nations history with Japan)?
I would very much love to have South Africa be the next setting for Horizon, since I'm the kind of person who prefers natural landmarks/scapes over urban/cities (but I'm not totally against the idea of having one in the map however). I also want PG to choose it out of passion like they did with Australia for FH3, and NOT Japan because that's what the "community" wants.
That's what I'm banking on, albeit not much but I am banking on it nonetheless. Let Horizon have the better driving model because everything else that it lacks and those games (ideally) capitalize on will put pressure on it to innovate everywhere else.
Whatever they’ve chosen has probably been chosen already with the next game in pre-production. Open world games take ages to develop.
We’ll see I guess. Forza Horizon 5 has 28 million players (yeah, yeah, Game Pass etc.), the highest of any driving game outside of Mario Kart 8. I don’t see any auto-based game hitting that number in the coming years unless it’s got “Grand Theft” as its first two words.
Totally agree with you. I'm no programmer or coder (hell I wouldn't even know where to start) but I imagine these things take years of development to create. Just voicing where I'd personally like the series to go next and quietly hoping this next DLC might be vaguely pointing to South Africa.
You're right that past patterns don't guarantee future patterns. However, there is a pattern at work. FH2's Storm Island previewed more extreme weather in FH3. FH3's Blizzard Mountain previewed snow in FH4. FH4's Fortune Island previewed more extreme elevation in FH5. The rocky and sandy terrain in this rally expansion suggests the next location could have plenty of that. But it doesn't guarantee it. Still, it's fun to speculate.
You're not wrong, but at the same time I really dislike when a franchise stagnates and does more of the same in a new location.
Horizon: "The next expansion will be a perfect replica of the entire city of Tokyo, plus we've added Fujimi Kaido, and we're including all 100 of the most requested cars for free."
Not surprised, I read some of the comments there earlier and had to actually stop because it's just so sour right now.
I mean. They're the same folk that got butthurt when someone posted that real Forza fans actually enjoy a Forza game for what it is (much like GT), and the reddit people would tell them to stop having fun with Forza, it is terrible.
I had to laugh because it got them worked up. But that's what they are; a bunch of soured babies who'd hate anything Forza does when it's not what 'they' wanted. They're a joke.
Same here. The lifestyle aspect of TDU, The Crew and NFS is interesting with the customisation, player houses and whatever else; something that's obviously not PG's forte, but the core basis of actually driving the vehicles is incredibly lacking in those games. I can live with all the "downsides" because the driving part of the game is miles above everything else in the genre.
Have we ever had a third expansion in a previous game?
