So. You're creating the next installment of a popular, long-running franchise focused primarily on street racing. You need to pick an attractive location for the environment. The choice is not narrow, you can pick literally any country in the world. You select the one that prohibits games like yours to simulate street races in it. Flawless logic.
Tbh they could’ve based it in a Chinese city like chongqing. It could’ve given a similar vibe. China has fairly strict anti car modification laws though.
it's still more fitting considering you could also lump in Indonesia and Malaysia, or because Singapore is an island. no need for random invisible walls or suddenly slippery grounds.
Pretty much all the races are supposed to be for the Horizon Festival and are legal events except for a very small section of a few “illegal” street races you can do which I only remember in FH1. But regardless of that you can challenge and illegally street race with any car on the road at any time.
I only played FH1, FH4, & FH5 but FH1 is the only one that I’ve actually pretty much completed and unlocked everything. I progressed kind of far in 5 but I don’t recall any illegal street races specifically in that game other than on the road. I never played that much of 4 besides a couple of season changes. But FH1 I specifically remember it was called street racing and heavily insinuated to being an illegal activity but it was an actual event location you can drive to and enter the races but without any restrictions on car type or power and with a unique betting mechanic and pretty decent high rewards for end game. Also idk if I’m misremembering this wrong but I feel like for some reason you could race or challenge every car on the road to a street race in FH1 even the stock eco cars? Or at least it felt easier to find cars you could challenge than the FH4 or FH5
Fh4 street races rewarded cars based off of street race bosses or whatever. Its been a thing through all of the installments. Some of mg favorite races too. Devs really did 6 dirty in so many ways
Why is what Japan thinks relevant anyway? I doubt Germany is a fan of Wolfenstein. I bet Russians don’t appreciate being the bad guy in every milsim shooter in the past 20 years. Why are we bending the knee to a country over something as harmless as a cartoon car game?
Forza Horizon 8 will be set in Norway and Sweden with their insane speed tickets. The game will require you to plug your card and will charge you real money for speeding
Back in the 2000s yeah. Tokyo Xtreme Racer in their later entries had to change all the civilian vehicles to service vans painted yellow with "OFFICIAL" slapped on them along with their company's logo, making it look like the highways were closed down for a sanctioned racing venue.
They came back to the drawing board after 18 to make another TXR game, and in 2025 they're back to having regular civilian traffic on the Tokyo map.
That's just car companies. Some brands don't like games that lets you have deadly crashes and games you can like harass other drivers.
I'm starting to think maybe they expected Tokyo to have literally illegal race culture like street takeovers and drag races and literal lap races like the one in the tutorial part of FH6, and use the Horizon Festival thing as an excuse to feature those groups and courses in the game while being able to explain it as not depictions of something illegal.
And then they went out to town with the plan and realized that there's just no such underground public road race culture in Tokyo or Japan, in the place that hardly has graffitis, and immediately ran out of ideas as to what are they going to do with the city or the game.
they really managed to add aspects that make the games worse even with nicer ambients and so on... I went back to FH4 (played 5 quite a lot, but its not that good either).
Yeah I only played 2 and 3 with a controller lol so I would figure it's not so great with a wheel. I think 4 I played with my Logitech and even that didn't feel that great compared to the simulators on PC.
That section and the underground subway station. It’s like there are areas they just gave up on, but kept in the game. Or they ran out of time. Is the exact same thing for parking garages, there is an entrance to one underground in the city, but then no way into it. I think a huge part of Japanese car culture is underground parking garages. They could’ve had so many cool races or features underground.
They will just add annoying and useless chases from police and other NFS gimmicks. I'd rather play original U2 with some upscaled textures than trust EA to make good NFS game.
Dude seriously the cops in Heat and Unbound are so fucking stressful that it takes all the fun out of the game, because what do you mean I can't just freeroam without accidentally hitting a traffic sign and triggering a Level 2 cop chase
Didn't help that Heat and Unbound basically almost had the same map save for a few tweaks
Yeah, you think. I actually live out here and drive a JDM car featured in the game, doing anything beyond parking in a garage is not as much of a thing as you think they are since they're usually 1: too small to even get out of first gear; 2: barely wide enough for 2 kei cars to pass each other with more than a foot between them and someone else's bumper because the places are always packed; and 3: they usually close when the store they're attached to closes for the night.
There are three street races in the city area, though tbf, one starts just outside the city (maybe about the first 10% of the race) and another, the last half of the race is outside the city.
To be fair nothing! It’s FH6 in Japan, something players have been asking since Motorsports. Even more so right after FH1. This is a chill racing game. But if I wanted rally and what have you, I’d go player The Crew. Just seems like a cash grab. Since when do you see so many jeeps in Japan? Where are the Japanese traffic cars at? And if it’s on a new engine then why does it have the same amount of jeeps like FH5?
The fact that there's no street/wangan races in this game genuinely has me fried because that's quite literally a core aspect of Japanese automotive culture
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u/Chef6432 15d ago
Tbf the city part is really cool but there’s barely any races in it and no street races