I remember the backlash for that decision. I never used it myself, but I saw the importance of it. Racing itself is competitive.
The map rush races without routes were pinnacle of testing your game knowledge and driving skills, as admittedly annoying as they kinda were. Like this is a proper racing game, not mario kart played by 3 year olds who must always win their lollipop or they'll throw the controller through the TV, and it really wasn't all that complicated and allowed you to download tunes if you truly couldn't read and put together a couple of paragraphs explaining what each setting does...
The cherry blossom trees in FH6 are indestructible based on cultural sensitivity to Japan. Fun fact: cherry blossom trees in Japan are considered protected elements.
I had a feeling they were doing away with Motorsport when they added legitimate GTE & GT3 cars into FH5. Was neat IMO, but a sign of things to come.
They did indeed, I'm not surprised — the Rally Adventure expansion had a large chunk of completely destructible palm forest, I suppose that was their experimental showcase for what they were gonna do in Japan.
Ugh, so it's literally IDDNOCLIP just on until you get to Tokyo.......RIP any and all offroading challenges and point or playing that. Yea, definitely not giving them my money.
I would think that The Eliminator is theoretically easier since there's less of a chance of hitting an immovable, indestructible object when offroading.
Why even have the mode if there's ZERO challenge in it now?
At least there are no achievements associated with it anymore. Forza Horizon 4 introduced it with several achievements tied to the battle royale. It was fine then. Horizon 5's Mexico map is worse than Great Britain.
Achievements as a whole have been a megatarded chud aspect devs shamelessly started using to inflate their damn games' play times and needs to cease to exit. People who want to hunt down every secret will do that without a stupid bullet point telling them to. People who weren't gonna, won't start now. Beauty of not knowing whether you found everything in a game actually made people play it more.
That's nothing compared to what they did for Forza Horizon 6. There's an achievement to reach level 100 that is estimated to take around 750 to 1000 hours of playtime to achievement.
Speaking of the autodrive thing - did they outright nuke fast travel or do we at least get that later on?
I don't know. I don't have Horizon 6. I don't think so.
I suspect that will get addressed soon.
I never tried it but auto drive is in, Fast travel is also in, it's free and available from the start with the only rule being you can only fast travel to roads that you drove on. Doesn't have to be a fully driven road either, if once patch of a road is discovered you can fast travel to it.
No idea how I missed it then, but oh well, I don't honestly plan to pour time into it. 4 was very fond memories from literal launch day to H5 launch. 5 was generously bittersweet hours sank mostly into the weeklies that became soulless as all hell.
4 was my entry to the Horizon subseries thanks to Game Pass. I was impressed with the open world of Great Britain and abundance of vehicles available for the player. I spent a fair bit of time between playing The Eliminator, completing several side missions, creating challenge cards, even closing out my journey by completing its last series playlist.
I’m reinstalling FH4 to revisit my progress. @Cod of War can attest to this; I’ve spent a couple hundred hours into Horizon 4. There was something magical and inviting about Horizon 4 that, to this day, cannot be replicated. Again, I do not normally play racing games so that itself is a glowing recommendation and testament of Horizon 4.
Warhammer 40K: Speed Freeks?
Off the top of my head, the newest example I can remember is Fumes. Looks good, pretty cheap, but Early Access.