No, I don’t think you know what diversity means. Your criticism of my comment makes zero sense… LMAO.
Really? so driving around roads surrounded by palms and cactus ALL THE TIME is diversity??
Yeah sure, whatever you say sir. Frikkin fanboys..
Better than driving around a British countryside for three years. And before you call me a frickin’ fanboy again, I have been one of the big critics of this game and have actually been supporting you, despite your unpopularity with many of the fine folks on here. Well, you just lost probably one of your only supporters, idiot.
That’s like saying FH4’s map is always driving around trees and cobblestone fences.
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So..what is so diverse about the FH4 map?
My original comment is about how Horizon 5 is more diverse than Horizon 4. Where you clowns thought I said Horizon 4 was more diverse, I’ll never know.
its mexico and theyve fit quite a diverse range of environs in whilst still keeping it from becoming too different from mexican locales
what did you expect? other worldly floating crystal structures and then 2miles down the road you have boiling hotsprings with luminous green lava???
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I think a few sliced ‘n diced bodies of rival cartel members hanging from under the bridges would’ve added an air of authenticity.
But we did get Piñatas, so there’s that.
Why can’t I write under passes? Under p a s s e s? How odd.
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^ because the last five letters make a naughty word, and the word filter isn’t smart enough to tell the difference. Legend has it that the same person coded the AI in the game.
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I was first disappointed when. they announced the location. I’m from similar poorness level country so I don’t enjoy going through rough stuff I have around.
Then the map itself - for me there are too many sandy and bland areas- but it’s Mexico, so I guess you couldn’t expect not to be like that. I do like the volcano with exception that anyone else have here - where is the lava from the intro? The volcano is dead at the top. And with the festive season - snowman in this hot surroundings look a bit creepy.
I must say that I like driving through the map but it’s not appealing for the eye - so quite mixed feelings.
The biggest disappointment to me is the highway. It’s damn boring, stranded with mostly no traffic, no tunnels, no nice downhills and the surroundings are mostly rocky/plain/cacti. I was expecting more when I heard it’s gonna be the longest one. It’s the first Forza where I don’t care about highway. The 4 lane curvy road through the heights with 2 (or 3) tunnels and high overpass is great on the other hand.
I also find trains to be less involving that it was in FH4.
The best thing that I find about the map is that it has plenty of real Mexico sites that lets me discover country a bit more through the game.
Waiting for the DLC - I have huge expectations, so let’s hope it’s not gonna be any Duplo thing…
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The basis of a good map falls in line with good open world design. Bigger is not always better. If the ‘game space’ that everyone seems to inflate is dull with no random sequences then it ends up being a scripted mission select screen which is exactly what the game has become.
You spend more time being focused on the end goal rather than the drive in between.
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I think it’s the best map in the series by far, and it isn’t even close. FH3 and FH1 both had great maps as well, FH4 was OK but overall way too same-y and bland, and FH2 was just awful and I hated it.
I do agree that it has a distinct lack of bigger cities, which is a shame. Other than that I love it and I’m not really sure how they could make a more interesting map in FH6. Maybe if FH6 has a map the size and scope of that of The Crew, except, y’know, not being a terrible piece of garbage in almost every single way like The Crew is.
Mon Dieu !
What didn’t you like about the FH2 map, I’ve always felt it was pretty good.
I greatly disliked it aesthetically. Everything looked exactly the same from one side of the map to the other, there was practically no variation, and the yellowish-tan tinge to everything made my eyes bleed. There was no location on that map that ever stuck with me at all; I can still recall plenty of cool spots in FH1 despite not having touched that game since 2013, to say nothing of FH3 and FH4. The roads themselves were also just not as fun to drive as any other game in the series. A lot of the map was also still closed off and unavailable to be driven on, which I did not much care for.
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Fair enough, each to their own and that,
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Worst map yet for me in FH games (didn’t play the first one).
It’s a bit boring, dark and dreary.
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i still think fh3 had best map, here everything looks the same, pretty much
Horizon 3 was too flat and had too many straights. Sprint races were especially boring in lower level cars as a result. Other than that, it had the greatest biome diversity out of all the games, including 5.
All Horizon maps are tiny compared to The Crew 2. The new Test Drive game will be bigger too.
I think the map is largely an improvement over FH4 (which was the worst Horizon map IMHO with how generic and same-y it was all over), and does a pretty good job of incorporating my favorite aspects of all the Horizon maps into one, and finally bringing a couple of dedicated race tracks into the main game map. That said, it does fall flat in a few areas, especially with how little urban driving content there is. It mostly feels like a larger FH3 map with worse cities/towns and more elevation and better driving roads.
The sad thing is that TDU2 from over 10 years ago still has Horizon beat on the map with 2 large islands, both of which are much larger than any Horizon map and had lots of great driving areas.
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