Forza Horizon 4 - Design Director Explains Why Britain Was Chosen and How Seasons Work

Forza Horizon 4 Design Director Jon Knoles explains why the Horizon Festival is moving to the UK, and how exactly seasons will work in the game.

[-Foxtrot]

British Seasons are weird though

Winter - Post Winter - Summer-ish - Pre Winter

[XbladeTeddy]

? We have spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Winter is winter, spring is spring, autumn is autumn and summer can be weird with lots of grey clouds and rain but it's still summer enough with heatwaves and stuff.

[-Foxtrot]

It was a joke...as British weather is so crap

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[XbladeTeddy]

@Foxtrot: I'm aware it's a joke but the joke's wrong, it's only winter here in winter, you tried making out it was always winter, it's not Russia. It's always wet, yeah, but only actually cold in winter.

[Hungryalpaca]

Since when does pre and post winter mean winter? Do you know what pre and post mean?

[XbladeTeddy]

@Hungrydude: Yes, I know what those words mean. Pre winter would be autumn and post would be spring.

[zerocarnage]

Yeah as others say our winter us winter not like they have in the states where's it gets that bad at times in other parts of the season because it's come from Russia..

[TheSinsibleOne]

Was hoping for Japan. Lovely views and setting

[XtaZ]

Ditto. I was really disappointed that this wasn't the case. Oh well, maybe next time!

[thrust]

English countryside much better views 👍

[Prince_TFK]

Oh trust me. Its coming. I can’t wait for Japan also.

[OnDec76]

" ..It's coming.." lol , and you know this how?

[Prince_TFK]

Eventually they gonna run out of interesting locations to set the game in. And seeing Tokyo as one of the most interesting locations to set the game in, it is plain as day.

Plus, this is a bi-yearly series now. They have to shake thing up once in awhile to avoid redundancy. And setting the game in familiar locations games after games is not what I call shake things up.

[Yi-Long]

Same. Japan has far more variety and amazing roads. You have a tropical climate in the south, colder snowy areas in the north, heavenly coastlines, gorgeous cities, both modern as well as traditional, etcetc.

Was hoping for a more exotic location than boring old England.

Sure, Horizon 4 will be a great game, and they did a great job making it actually look amazing, but was hoping for Japan.

[zerocarnage]

We have some great mountains that can be jumped off also.

[Gunstar75]

That will be next gen Xbox. All that Tokyo neon / reflections will look amazing. Happy to wait

[gamer7804]

Japan would be amazing, hopefully next Time, although Britain will look beautiful.

[OnDec76]

Tokyo would have been an awesone setting for this game

[Si-Fly]

Best setting evah

[BLAKHOODe]

The E3 demo really impressed me and being day-1 on GamePass sealed it. This is the only Xbox game I'm seriously looking forward to.

[OnDec76]

Lame. I was so looking fowardcto this gane being in Tokyo

[zerocarnage]

It's not fast n furious Tokyo drift yeh know..

[Prince_TFK]

But they have never said that this game will be set in Tokyo. It is just people’s guessing.

[zerocarnage]

Britain yaaay all the way can not wait to race on my streets...

The weather though, we British probably have the most natural weather in the world where it's timing is rite. Alot of other country's weather it's either to cold all year round or to hot all year round in reality that's bad for crops. In alot of country it either rain's way to much or it there are drouts.

At the time if me writing this the weather over the past week had been nice at times but we have had showers but soon we will have some decent hot weather in Britain and everyone will be wishing for it to cool down again..

I just can't believe I wrote all that about weather ,God damn it forza devs..

[zerocarnage]

Think some peeps need to get fast n furious Tokyo drift out there system, this is FORZA in BRITAIN- not tokyo drift arrrrrrhhhhhhhh...

[zerocarnage]

I really hope they get it to scale because if they do ill be visiting birmingham. birmingham has the S bends where I used to go to joy ride where the coppers would chase and the helicopters would be out as well as hundreds of people in the streets on the weekends nights (amazing night scene), there is also the spaghetti junction in Birmingham where it's in the guiness book of records that a woman got lost for a week on there lol..

[WeaseL]

Watching them change seasons in the demo reminds me of a typical day in the UK

[Razzer]

Great setting. Love the change in seasons every week. Really looking forward to this!

[OnDec76]

These Forza Horizon games really need to get out of the forest , why can't the devs of these games think of something different? Last interaction was in Australia now Britain : BORING!!!!!!. Tokyo would have been a much more interesting location imo

[maybelovehate]

They do have very diverse seasons, great choice for showcasing that feature.