We Played Forza Horizon 6 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Forza Horizon 6 Preview

Episode Date: April 8, 2026
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Snowbike Mike, Andy Cortez, Paris Lilly
Main Theme: In-depth first impressions and analysis of the Forza Horizon 6 preview build, with a focus on its setting in Tokyo and the surrounding areas of Japan.

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Episode Overview

This episode features the whole Kinda Funny Games Panel as they break down their hands-on experience with Forza Horizon 6. The conversation covers everything from the authenticity of its Japanese setting, gameplay improvements and new features, to concerns about whether the Tokyo map delivers the excitement fans have waited for. The group also addresses community questions and speculation about the game's potential impact and legacy.

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Episode Structure

• [02:08] – Crew Introductions & Japan Stories
• [03:55] – Forza Horizon 6 Preview: General Impressions
• [05:11] – Paris's Take: Authenticity and Expectations
• [06:42] – Mike: Features & Exploration
• [09:19] – Andy: Discovery & Accessibility
• [12:56] – Blessing: Forza Compared to Other Racers
• [15:49] – The City of Tokyo: Satisfying or Flat?
• [17:14] – New Customization: Garage & Compound Building
• [19:34] – Hands-on with Tuning and UI Frustrations
• [21:42] – Japan-Specific Gameplay: Mascots and Verticality
• [24:18] – User-Generated Content & Multiplayer Social Features
• [27:28] – Andy vs. Blessing: Driver AI, Bugs & Driving Assistance
• [29:43] – Approachability: Controls & Onboarding
• [33:47] – Q&A: Soundtrack, Environment, & Set Pieces
• [44:03] – Roses, Buds & Thorns: The Panel’s Pros, Cons & Hopes
• [51:34] – Hype, Release Info & Closing Thoughts

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Authenticity in Setting: "It was amazing. I always ask myself why I came back." – Paris ([02:48])

• Paris describes his three-year stay in Sasebo, Japan, adding unique perspective on how Forza captures Japanese culture, landmarks, and biomes in the game world.
• The group compares their own travel experiences in Japan, highlighting the game's embrace of cultural details.

First Impressions: "You’re in a different location, but it's all the mechanics and things I loved about Forza Horizon 5." – Andy ([09:19])

• The preview offers about an hour of content: The prologue, a few events leading to the Horizon Festival, and then open-world exploration (excluding Legend Island).
• Initial feedback is that Forza Horizon 6 feels familiar, echoing the strengths of Forza Horizon 5 with "gorgeous visuals," "vast biomes," and a soundtrack embracing Japanese culture.
• The unresolved question: Is this an evolution or more of the same in a new skin?

Standout New Features & Content

• Drone Mode: Allows free aerial exploration of the world ([06:42]).
• Garage Customization and Compound Building:
  • Players can now personalize their garage/compound spaces, place props, and even collaborate co-op in building ([17:28], [18:41], [18:44]).
  • Early impressions are mixed due to tutorial confusion and limited preview scope.
• Japan-Specific Collectibles:
  • Mascots (ramen cups, mochi balls, peas) scattered throughout the map, “fun and good” to collect but possibly lacking in variety ([08:54], [24:39]).
• Verticality and Biomes:
  • The map includes mountain touge/toge (winding, hilly racing roads) and verticality never before seen in Forza ([21:47], [22:32]).

Gameplay & Controls: "The guiding arrows are just—it’s my favorite feature. I love everything about this franchise." – Andy ([14:21])

• Classic Forza feel: The controls, feedback, and assist systems (rewind, traction, onboarding) maintain the series’ sterling reputation for accessibility ([29:43]).
• Races & Events:
  • Set-piece intros are as exciting as ever, even if the preview only teases the full campaign spectacle ([12:56], [13:11]).
  • Tokyo Drift homage is highly anticipated, though not present in the preview ([34:17]).

Social Features & Organic Competition

• Live driver and friend comparisons: As in prior entries, you see your friends’ stats, and this fosters friendly competition ("That’s the secret sauce" – Paris [25:29]).
• Driver AI (Drivatars): Embodies friends for organic races and challenges, though their appearance can sometimes break immersion ([26:10], [27:04]).

Critiques & Concerns

• Tokyo Feels Underwhelming:
  • Multiple hosts feel the in-game cityscape, especially Tokyo, feels "flat," "plain," and less lively than hoped during the daytime ([15:49], [16:52], [44:04]).
  • The group speculates that nighttime street racing and future set pieces may be the remedy ([16:13], [16:18]).
  • Forza’s sense of place shines brighter outside city centers: "I care more about the beautiful vistas and winding hills" – Blessing ([17:14]).
• Not a Radical Evolution:
  • Forza Horizon 6 is "more Forza"—which is great, but most feel the jump from 5 to 6 isn’t as radical as 4 to 5 ([41:13], [41:33], [42:40]).
  • Building mechanics and tutorializing (garage/compound) need polish ([47:35], [48:37]).

Soundtrack & "Tokyo Drift"

• Streamer Mode Limited the Preview: The soundtrack was muted in places, so the final listing remains unknown, but the panel hopes for a Tokyo Drift moment ([34:13]).
• Forza Horizon's festival vibe: Always about music and cars, and the expectation for regional hits remains high ([34:57]).

Fun, Notable Quotes & Moments

"A Phantom just pulled up." – Blessing, on Forza making his previous favorite racing game feel obsolete ([13:56])

"Even if this was just Forza Horizon 5, but in Japan, it's still going to be great." – Paris ([15:32])

"I want to live that Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift fantasy." – Paris ([50:09])

"I want this game to have the best set pieces of the Forza Horizon franchise." – Blessing ([50:59])

"If they've not worked out the licensing for this, I'll be shocked... it's gotta be Godzilla!" – Paris ([50:41])

Panel’s "Rose, Bud, and Thorn" (Pros, Hopes, Cons) ([44:03])

Rose: The core Forza Horizon 6 experience and the beauty/verticality of Japan.
Thorn: Tokyo city feels lifeless and underwhelming thus far.
Bud: Hopes for nighttime street racing, memorable set pieces, Godzilla/special events, and what user-generated content/co-op compound building could enable.

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Important Timestamps

• [02:48] – Paris’s Japan authenticity reflection
• [05:11], [06:42], [09:19] – First impressions from each panelist
• [12:56], [13:11] – Praise for set-piece intro
• [15:49] – Blessing’s Tokyo critique
• [17:28], [18:44] – Garage customization/co-op
• [19:34] – Frustrations with tuning/UI
• [21:47], [22:32] – Japan-specific racing and biomes
• [24:39] – Mascot collectibles
• [25:29], [29:43] – Secret sauce: social features/onboarding
• [34:13], [34:57] – Soundtrack
• [41:13], [41:33] – "More Forza" debate
• [44:03] onward – Rose, Bud, Thorn segment

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Overall Tone & Takeaway

Excited, honest, slightly critical but overwhelmingly positive.
Everyone on the panel is thrilled for Forza Horizon 6 and emphasizes its polished gameplay, wonderful visuals, and the promise of racing through Japan’s landscapes.
However, there is a shared desire for the Tokyo map to feel more vibrant and for Playground Games to deliver new, mind-blowing set pieces and innovations.
If you love Forza, you’ll love this—just don’t expect a revolution. All eyes are on launch day set pieces, user-content, and that elusive Godzilla cameo.

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Quick Summary for New Listeners

The Kinda Funny crew delivers an enthusiastic but measured preview of Forza Horizon 6, loving its Japanese location and signature Forza gameplay, while raising honest concerns about the Tokyo cityscape’s energy and questioning how much new ground the sequel breaks. Genuine hope remains that nighttime racing, set pieces, and post-launch content ("Godzilla DLC!") will fulfill fans’ dreams for a true next evolution in the franchise.

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Curious about the full soundtrack, set piece events, or just how wild multiplayer will get? So are they. Stay tuned for the review!

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[E]

Yo what's up? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Wednesday, April 8, 2026. I'm one of your host, Blessing Ad O Yay Jr. Joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike Bless.

[F]

What up?

[E]

Morning.

[F]

Good morning. Good to see you big dog.

[E]

We're also joined by the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez.

[G]

Hello.

[E]

And we got the best voice in the biz. The one and only Paris Lilly.

[H]

Good morning Blessing.

[E]

Paris, we got quite a few things to talk about because I learned right before this you used to live in Japan.

[H]

Yes, when I Was in. In the United States Navy. I lived in Sasebo, Japan, which is on the Southern Kyushu island for three years.

[E]

That's really cool.

[G]

Wow, three years.

[E]

What was that like? I want to hear hear about it.

[H]

Oh man, don't get me started. I loved it. Honestly. I always. I always ask myself why I came back. I love living in Japan. It was amazing. I don't speak the language as well as I used to, but I still understand it somewhat. Really embrace the culture. Got to see just tons of stuff. Like I know we're going to talk about Force Horizon 6. Even made it my way up north to Yokohama, Tokyo a few times. Just tried to see everything. It was a great time there. Great. Really great place. If you have never been. I would say this to everyone. Go at least once. You gotta go. You won't regret it.

[G]

You will hate your country when you come back.

[E]

Dude, for real though. Yeah. No going to. Because Andy, you went to Kyoto.

[G]

I went to Osaka.

[E]

You went to Osaka? You. Have you not been to Tokyo or Kyoto? I think I might end up going to Kyoto for the first time later this year because I'm taking a trip with some friends. But probably the same experience of went to Tokyo and it's so clean and everybody's so respectful and I'm like, this is great. Food was amazing. Yeah, shout out Japan.

[G]

You come back and you're just like, ah man.

[E]

Yeah, it came back to San Francisco.

[G]

We got to get our ducks in a row.

[E]

Yeah, you got to figure some things out. But enough about all that. Of course we're going to talk a lot about Japan on this episode because this is our Forza Horizon 6 preview. We've all gotten a chance to play a little bit of the game. So we're going to talk all about that. Of course it's. If you're watching live, be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kindafunny games remember, we couldn't do this without our producers. Over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. For now, let's begin with topic of the show. Forza Horizon 6, a franchise I think we all very much enjoy quite a lot. We're on our sixth entry. Here we are visiting the one and only Tokyo, Japan. In the surrounding area of Tokyo, Japan, we got to get our hands on a preview. The preview featured about an hour worth of gameplay. More if you just want to drive around the open world and hang out and do Whatever. Mike. Actually, no, Paris, I want to start with you as the man who used to live in Japan. What are your thoughts? What was your experience experiencing this preview?

[H]

I loved it. I think Forza Horizon 6 is great. It's obviously built off of everything we've come to expect with Forza Horizon 5, but putting it in Japan and going through that open world map and seeing all the different biomes and just again, they're bracing Japanese culture. Some of the music that that was playing during. During the preview I thought was great. Obviously, it was very limited because it was essentially the prologue. And then you did a few events which led up to the Horizon Festival. So, you know, about an hour's worth of content, but you were able to free roam the open world after. And the majority of the map is open. I know there's the one island, I think. What is it called? Is it Legend Island? I. I'm blanking on it exactly. But that wasn't available during this preview period. But the game's gorgeous. I mean, we played it on X Xbox Series X. I know it was locked to 30 frames because it was only in quality mode, but even at that, just beautiful game. And what I'm the most curious about is once we get the final game and we can start unlocking everything, the question that I still have is, is this just Forza Horizon 5, but it's in Japan, or how much of the improvements are we really going to see? How many lessons learned did playground games get from Forza Horizon 5 that they're implementing here into 6? They've talked a lot about it, obviously. You know, we'. We've heard about it, but we weren't able to really experience any of that in the preview.

[E]

I mean, I already got things I want to follow up with just regarding what you just said, but I want to go around the table. Mike, what are your thoughts on playing this Forza Horizon 6 preview?

[F]

Yeah, Paris, I think we're going to see a couple of really interesting things that are added on from five and into six and new things that are brought on, especially with kind of outside the cars. Want to, what I want to call out photo mode, of course, but there's a drone mode now where you can explore everything with a drivable drone in the air, which is pretty cool. I think you can customize your garage. What I got to do a little bit of. I don't know if you guys dove into the garage customization. Decking that out and taking photos inside the garage was really cool. We'll kind of See the factory and homestead add on to this. I think that's going to be the big stuff. But yeah, Paris, I mean, I'm happy to report. Bless. Yeah, it's more Forza, which is a big positive. Right. I am a little let down by this demo or this demo that we got to experience because it is only three main races, a couple of outside side activities and that's really it. I didn't really get to taste the full experience of Forza like I want. Right. But it was to highlight all of Japan. You got to drive around as much as the map as you wanted to, except for Legend island, as Paris said. So I did find myself once I finished and wrapped up the races that they provided to me, I just started driving. Right. And nothing better than a Forza experience. Getting hey, I've collected 45 out of X amount of roads already. Oh, Andy's done 55 roads. I'm at 57. That's awesome. Right now they have fun collectibles. There's the XP boards all over the place. But there's Japan specific mascots that they have all around the the map that you can just ride up to run over the mascots and those feel fun and good. I really liked this drag race mechanic that I saw. I don't know if that was in previous ones, but they had a great drag strip setup. You rolled up, you even got to do the timer like you were in a a real drag and just rip it. I thought that was fantastic and really well done set piece wise. And so yeah, I got to experience a lot of Japan which I enjoyed. The scenery, the visuals. Driving around all of the map was really, really fun to see the different biomes and what you could add in Japan. I think we're coming off the Baja of five and it's like, you know what you expected from the Baja and they did so well with that to now go to Japan and see so much vast and difference to the cityscape.

[G]

Right.

[F]

We'll talk a lot about kind of just the heart of Tokyo there and having Shibuya Crossing and other stuff. It was really cool.

[E]

Of course I remind the audience if you're listening or watching live, you can ask us what questions you have about Forza Horizon 6, because again, we've all played probably around an hour each between all of us maybe a little bit more, maybe a little bit less. And Andy Cortez, what are your your thoughts with the preview build here?

[G]

It was awesome. I mean it was. It felt like coming back home. It, it's You're. Except you're in a different location. But it's all the, it's all the mechanics and the things that I loved about Forza Horizon 5. I think with a bit more organic discovery, I, I really enjoyed just kind of driving around Japan and running into new things and discovering things. And I really, really love their Siri AI thing. That Anna, Anna, Anna. Which is great for people like me with bad ADHD who, who sometimes take forever to get started on a task. When you get that big open world popping up, you could sometimes get that and, you know, decision paralysis and you open up the map, it's like, oh, I don't even know where to start. What the do I do first?

[E]

You gotta find a fun name for it. I'm iconomania. There's icons all over the map.

[G]

Okay.

[E]

That's what I, I'm open to better ones.

[G]

I figured that's what you meant. I don't think I need an explanation.

[E]

I'm making sure you know, you know,

[G]

okay, because it's icons. Yeah, I like that. I like that for now. We'll sort of workshop it a little bit later. You see the, you see the map pop up with a bunch with a buttload of icons and you kind of get like, oh, wow, a little bit overwhelmed, right? But I love this AI Anna, you know, sort of guide that you could just ask her, what do you recommend I do next? And she says, I recommend this. And you go, that's perfect. Because I wasn't sure what I should do next or what. You know, there was too many things to select from, so I really enjoyed that portion of it. But aside from that, the game is gorgeous again. Kind of a bummer that we only had the quality version of 30 frame per second mode. Looking forward to play this at launch where we will have the performance 60 frame per second mode. The game is still insanely gorgeous otherwise.

[E]

I.

[G]

And I was surprised by one thing. The pronouncing the pronunciation of the car, the Celica. I always called it Celica and she called Celica. I was like, huh? I've never heard that. I've always said Celica as well. And she was like, you have three cars that you could choose from. This is the Toyota Celica. And I was like, huh, Never heard of that. But you know, Japanese do it different, man.

[E]

You know, Chandler in chat says, I constipated. Oh, think about it.

[G]

I constipation. I like that. Yeah, that's really good old thing that. Hey, that so far that's in the. That's the leader.

[E]

All right. Yeah, like, better than icon. This is like a lot of icons.

[G]

Yeah, I heard that.

[E]

Yeah. Yeah. I echo every single thing you guys say, right? I think for me, Forza Horizon is like coming back to a vacation destination that like I go to every single year or every other year where it's. This is my spot. I know it's sunny, I know it's vibrant. I know that I can get that feeling of like the wind flowing through my hair or like, you know, that nice feel when the sun hits the skin. It is that game that I come to and I'm like, man, this just feels good to play. And Forza Horizon 5, or, sorry, Forza Horizon 6 is more of that. It is more of what you. You experience from Forza Horizon 5 to where I kind of feel where Mike's coming from as far as the demo, where you go in, you do three races and. And then you're just hanging out in the world and it is. All right, cool. Yeah, this is. This is Forza. I think a few things I'll note. The Forza game, Forza Horizon games always start with a fun like, set piece style thing where they introduce you to the world and you're racing and you're hopping between these different races and they're trying to intro you to. This is what it's like in the world of Forza. And the one they did here I thought was fantastic. They always are fantastic. They. This one had me in my fuels a little bit where I was like, man, this is all just so good.

[G]

This is sick as hell.

[E]

This is just so cool. They didn't allow us to record for footage that specific part. But a lot of the B roll you're seeing, if you're watching the video version is. Is my B roll for when you're out in the open world, which they did let us record. But just trust that the set piece stuff was really cool.

[G]

It's one of those wear really good headphones or have an awesome speaker system during that intro prologue because it's. It's going to get you hype. You're going to have goosebumps. You're going to re.

[E]

You're going to.

[G]

You're going to remember I'm playing one of the best racing games ever, 100%.

[E]

And to the thing of one of the best racing games ever. My current game of the year is a game called Screamer, which is an arcade racing game. And I'm going to talk a little bit of shit about my game of the year, even though it's not really talking shit. I'm just making a joke here. But there is a Cat Williams standup from like 2007 where he has a quote that says know my buddy drives a Chrysler 300 and he talks about it like it's like a Phantom or whatever. And you like the, the, the, the thing is a Chrysler 300 does look like a Phantom until a Phantom pulls up.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

And like for me that's Screamer. And for in Forza where I'm playing Skreemer and I'm like, yo, this might keep of the year. Like Skreemer's so good. And then I pick up Forza and I'm like ah, a Phantom just pulled.

[G]

God damn. Yeah.

[E]

This game. Oh man, I forgot how good the racing in Forza is. I forgot how good like the, the trigger feel when you're, when you're you know, hitting the acceleration, the sounds the cars make. The little like every single detail is so dialed in.

[G]

The guiding arrows are just, it's my favorite, probably my favorite feature of the game of just like letting you, the gamer know when to kind of slow down. I, I love all, I love everything about this video game and about this franchise.

[H]

I, I, I mean you just have to look at it this way. I know we talked about it a few days ago with the fixing Xbox, but Forza Horizon is Xbox's number one IP now. I, I don't even think it's close. This, this is it. This is arguably their biggest game. I don't even think arguably this will be their biggest game this year outside of maybe Call of Duty. But yeah, I mean even if this was just Forza Horizon 5 and oh, you're in Japan now, it's still going to be great. I, I, I think that's what I took from this preview. I'm just curious to see how some of these new modes are going to play. Like, I know Mike, you even talked a little bit about the garage and going to be able to do, do the, the co op building now of, of like your, your garages and that collaboration aspect of it and then just the in game open world, you know, matchmaking with, with various races that you're going to do. I, I want to see how all that plays out in real time, you know, with your friends in competition, just all these things that you're going to be able to do. And it's in Japan, which has been the number one requested thing people have wanted from this franchise. We're finally getting it. So like I said, it's A preview. We will see what the review isn't saying it's a 9 out of 10 or anything like that because we don't know until we review it. But even in just as limited preview, I. I was impressed with what I played.

[E]

Yeah. I want to talk about the. The garage. I want to put a bow on my thoughts. Right. Of course enjoyed it like I've enjoyed every pass forward. So my only thing and this isn't to Forza Horizon because this is to be expected because of the game that Forza Horizon is. It's so dial in so you know what you're getting when you're playing Forza Horizon. I feel like Tokyo in the game is underwhelming in the way that I don't know how. I don't know how to remedy that. That though because it's like every other Forza game.

[G]

Nighttime.

[F]

I don't think we got the taste of it. Yeah, nighttime is going to be the remedy here.

[E]

You think so?

[F]

It's going to be nighttime. It's going to be nighttime drift racing. It's going to be nighttime street racing. We didn't get to experience that in this build. And yeah, you only saw it really during daytime. And yes, blessing it is a little underwhelming. But the size of it, when we talk about Forza Horizon games, that's the. Oh wow. This is exciting because it's the largest cityscape we've ever gotten and it is larger by so much. Right. And so there's going to be a lot of fun exploring to this. I think you'll see a lot of great photo mode out of it. And I'm expecting big things when it comes to the racing. But yes, I totally agree. At first look you're like this cityscape is pretty plain.

[E]

It's pretty plain. It doesn't feel like the streets are pop in and it's like, well, I don't know how you do that with Forza and the kind of game that I think Forza shines most honestly when, when you're outside of the city, which is the tough thing about putting a game or having this game take place in Tokyo, slash around Tokyo. I'm kind of like, well, I want to get out of Tokyo so I can be in these beautiful vistas and like drive and drift around these cool winding hills and stuff.

[G]

Fuji in the background.

[E]

Yeah, it's like I care more about that stuff than I care about the actual city. But let's talk about the garage customization. Mike, you said you got your hands on that, that was something that I kind of. I peaked at and then went back to the racing. Can you tell me more about what

[F]

that looked like I was pulling? You know, once I finished my 3 ra, I was like, all right, let me start doing some open world activities, which is fun. The drift challenges, I was smashing signs and I rolled up past your house, right. And you've had the house before in other games where it's like, hey, this way you change your car. This is right where you want to kind of take a moment, deck it out, take some cool photos. And I pulled up and they were like, hey, inside the garage, you can customize it, you can dial it into however you want, add different fun items and props and make it your own. And so I thought, you know what, I'll spend a little bit of time in this. I love the Sims. I like the idea of it. I think when I come to these games, I am the worst photo mode taker. I don't have the eye like Jack Quaid to get it dialed in, mess with all the filters, but I definitely can make a fun background. Andy's room, think, yeah, he'll get there one day. I spent some time in there and yeah, they give you a number of props, a lot of different props that you can put in and start kind of moving around and adding to it. So I put a bunch of arcade machines behind my car. I put some fun little lamps and couches. So it's like a great way to stop, deck out how you want it to be made. It'll be really interesting to see in a larger scope what I could do because there was like some items there that wouldn't really fit in the garage proper. So I wonder where those will go

[G]

because a big ass bus there. Yeah, yeah.

[H]

But you get, but you get to build like your own compounds or however it's for. Yes, exactly. Right. So that, that's going to be the thing. And like I was saying before, you can collaborate with people to do it via co op. So I think that's going to be interesting part of the game as well.

[G]

Paris, did you check it out at all?

[H]

Just, just a little bit. The only thing I really did was I actually took some of the credits that I had and I, I bought a car and then I tinkered a little bit with tuning, but that, that was about it really.

[F]

Did you buy that much? Did you buy that BMW?

[H]

No, it was, I think it was another Toyota or something.

[F]

There was a cool one of like you're driving around, you're like, because you go and you open up the menu like, oh, everything's locked right? Like, I want to let me buy cars. So we see it. But there's cars on the side of the road that you roll up to and you can buy right there. I thought that was fun to see like a cool BMW at the drag race that I wanted to buy. And I was like, I'll save it, I'll skip it. Since it's the demo. Yeah, I thought that was fun.

[G]

There were some things about the UI that kind of confused me and that it's likely just because of the preview build, because of how we were locked out of certain aspects of it. But the. I looked at the three cars that they give you and I said, I want to tune up one of these cars the way you would Call of Duty and tune up your gun and make the recoil better or whatever the hell. It's like, I want to make the engine better. I want to make my tires, you know, have more handling or whatever. And you go to the tuning section and says, sorry, you're locked out, but you could do it if you are in the main NPC's house.

[E]

Okay.

[G]

And I didn't really know how to differentiate. Differentiate those two because I'm still tuning up the car inside of her house, but I can't do it through the menu. So I was. It's more of a preview issue and more of like a. You may think you're locked out of this whole feature, but you're not. Because you could like similar to in Forza Horizon 5, you could stop by somebody's house or whatever, your GTA safe houses or whatever, and you could kind of like chill there at that area. And that's where you could tune up your car. So that there was a bit. A bit of confusion there, but I didn't really get into any of the. The painting or any of that. Like we saw, I saw blessings. Car looks way cooler than mine because I didn't get to any of that. Were there any improvements there?

[E]

Bless. I mean, I couldn't tell if there are any improvements. Again, it comes back to the thing of this is this being a preview build and the game not being out for everybody. Because what I always do in Forza Horizon is I look at those, the spray or the liveries, whatever they're called that are online and people will always make a Naruto. Yeah, I'm always like, I'm going to take whatever you guys got. And so that's honestly one of my favorite parts is Having a garage that just has a bunch of different. All right, here's my Spider man car. Here's my, you know, I don't know, my fucking Haikyuu car. Whatever random anime shit there is. But here, because the game's not out for everybody. Yeah, I was just rocking with whatever options they gave me. And even with just doing my own thing here. Right. I found this fun little like, I don't know how what you call it,

[G]

like a chrome kind of pearlescent.

[E]

Pearlescent color. Yeah, like a darker color that really shines. And I. Yeah, I stuck with this for the. The demo, but I'm sure it's gonna be all the things that you already expect for Horizon.

[F]

This is a good race right here.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Going out in the. The farmland side of things. I liked this.

[E]

If we're talking about the races, the races that they had for the demo, again, they were very limited, but they're all fun. They're kind of what you expect. I think one of the additions here, when you're talking about what Japan brings is like the kind of like drifty roads that you have. Like kind of like the windy vertical roads which. Very vertical. This map at some point. So I want to shout that out. There's a lot of verticality, verticality here. But I forget the exact. There's a word for the race. I might have written it down here somewhere. Touge. It's T O U G E. Which are like, I think Japanese style races where you are drifting around hills. They have one of those in the opening for the game and I can't. I. I'm looking forward to experiencing more of what that has to offer because that seemed really novel and fun.

[G]

Did you have the game say your name? Paris? No, I selected Andy and then I selected Nitro.

[E]

Toge. That's what I said. What did I say? I said touge. You said to get toge. T O U G E. Do any

[G]

of y' all have the AI say your name?

[E]

No. Which I do want to make a request because I know people at Xbox sometimes watch this, you know, put Blessing in the game. Please put Blessing in the game. You have so many names in there, so many words. Blessing is a. It's a popular name in Nigeria. He said it's not like it's only me that has the name.

[G]

Yeah. I was shocked that one of the starter cars was a gmc.

[F]

I like that. I like.

[G]

I was kind of surprised by that.

[F]

I'm looking for my forerunner. That blessing just overtook right there on the side. But I do love these off road races. I am such a big fan of getting in the big cars and just ripping outside of the road. It's so much fun. And this was a good race as well. We've seen this in all the other Forza games. When you go off road, it is so much fun. And to see the diversity in cars, right, we're talking about 500 plus cars that launch is what they're saying. So yeah, you're going to have a lot of cool cars like this.

[G]

I didn't, I didn't do much with the compound base building. I grabbed an object, try to place it down, it disappeared and I quit out of it. I was like, I don't know, I'm just. I was a little bit overwhelmed by that. And I love, I love customizing and making bases and things of that nature, but not really seeing how it fit into the core gameplay. I was like, I just want to get back on the road. And I'm also reviewing other stuff. So it's like, just get me back onto the road. I want to be back out in driving over, you know, these off road races or trying out the little drift challenges or the speed challenges that, you know, Forza is really, really great for having massive big races and then in between little challenges that you might sort of come across here and there.

[F]

Yeah, I mean, don't forget about the big user generated content.

[G]

Right.

[F]

We saw that with Forza Horizon 5. They'll be bringing out the 6. I even drove out to a stadium that's just a completely empty stadium and you know that's going to be the home of a lot of user generated content of like, hey, here's a ton of different things to put in the world. Put it in there. I can't wait to see what the community creates.

[E]

Mike, earlier you mentioned the mascots that are just out in the world. Yeah, that's something that I think is neat. I wish they're more varied though. I kept running into the same one.

[F]

A lot of food mascots, huh? It was like a lot of ramen cups.

[E]

Okay, maybe you definitely found more than

[F]

I. I found a lot because I

[E]

only found the peas in. The peas were everywhere.

[F]

Ice cream scoops, it looked like. Or maybe I.

[E]

Ice cream suits.

[F]

Might have been mochi balls.

[E]

It might have been mochi balls. You know what, that makes more sense. I ran into like three of those and I was like, where are the other mascots at?

[F]

Yes, they have the regional mascots which are very similar to the XP boards. They are just static they're just standing there and you run them over, but you'll see them all over the map. You'll see little face on your mini map. And it was like, I saw, it was like Blessings ran over two. And I'm like, well, I'm gonna run over three. And then of course like you talk about with Icon Mania or whatever we're calling it, it's like I want to run over a million.

[E]

I want to run over a thousand Pikachu in there.

[F]

Just keep going over.

[E]

Let me run over Pikachu.

[H]

What you're describing right now, I think is kind of the secret sauce of, of horizon in that community aspect. You're seeing your friends doing something that just that little number. You go, well, I want to beat that. I gotta be that now I'm gonna go do it, you know, so it keeps you fully engaged.

[F]

That's been the secret sauce is the driver. T is how it started. My friend's name over there over the car. Oh, now it's starting to take like their data and how they race. Put it in there. And then, yeah, now it's like, yeah, I saw Phil Spencer and Forza Horizon 5 drove on 75 roads. It's like, well, I got to drive on 92 right now.

[E]

If you somewhere in the footage. Sorry to send you on a goose chase, but like I definitely run into Andy and I face off against Andy in a one on one race.

[G]

Really? One, one v one. Now the only thing I don't love about the driver tires is that the, the way that they are. Like I love it when they do feel real and organic and you know that it's not actually that person driving. But when it does, you know, I try to like sort of just get into that escapism and go, yeah, that, that's, that's Blessing right there, even though it's not. Or that's Danny Pena even though it's not. But then the times where it really, really breaks the immersion is where I'm on this massive bridge in Osaka and I'm driving just on a straightaway and it is like highway just straight away. I've been driving for what feels like just a minute straight going 150mph and I see Blessing up ahead and I pass by him. Blessing pops up ahead again in front of me. Oh yeah, Blessing gets popped. It's like, okay, well now, now I feel like how the. Like now you're kind of breaking that immersion for me.

[H]

Yeah, I, I would assume we'll see a lot less of that in the full game. Because then it's obviously going to be opened up to. To everyone in your entire friends list and stuff. So you should start. You shouldn't have those repeat encounters over and over like you're discussing now. I will point out one thing, though, because, like, you brought up Danny Pena. Every time I saw him, I ran him off the road every time.

[G]

Nice. Nice.

[F]

As you should.

[G]

I had to beat all of his records. He was the one that was always in front of me.

[F]

Did you ever use the auto drive feature? So when it gets announced, she goes, hey, I have some different features for you. I can show you what's next to do to help you with decision paralysis. And I can take you there. And it just has an auto drive. I turned it on immediately drives into a car. T boned.

[G]

Oh, no.

[F]

And that would do. In the Waymo situation where we are there for 30 plus seconds as the car is bumping into an AI car, I'm like, all right, like, what are we doing here? And then sure enough, they get disconnected. Starts driving. We go through a tunnel, exits the tunnel. Bang, pile up, smashes. I'm like, we got to tune this up a little bit. Smashing into the area of technology.

[G]

Yeah, I would have never taken a bad turn like that. These drivers need to be more accurate. This is such a bullshit. Like, this doesn't represent me, representation of me.

[E]

I'm just way ahead of. Oh, no, there you are.

[G]

We're right there. We're right there. We're catching.

[E]

So I was capturing this footage, right? I had to, like, stop and restart because, like, my first. The first video I took, it was. It was very shameful stuff of, like, me forgetting how to play Forza because I'm so screamer pilled and so, like, I like bammed. I hit. I hit you, like, face to face. Andy, like, ran right into your car. And I was like, oh, I want to challenge Andy. I just got my. I got fucking destroyed. And I was like, I got to delete this.

[G]

I started recording.

[E]

I can't let the world see this footage.

[F]

I mean, for those of you who, you know, maybe you're having a first timer right there. They've done so many incredible things with helping you with driver control, right? Traction control arm driving assists. You have the rewind button right there. You have the map with the arrows in front of you that show you to slow down, speed up at all times. Like, they've done a really good job at onboarding new.

[G]

Look at this.

[F]

Drivers to just go out and have fun with it.

[E]

Idiot

[G]

My AI just giving you so many chances. Like I must have been driving four miles an hour.

[E]

I cut through the truck trees to beat everything.

[H]

But, but that's the thing, Mike, that you're saying, that's the beauty again of, of this game is they make it. If you want a full sim experience, you can go in and change everything to make it that way. If you just want it to be a very easy arcade experience, you can do that. So it's very approachable for new people. But experts and people that got the full racing, you know, setups at their house, they, they can have that experience in the game too. So I think that's pretty good.

[E]

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[E]

And we're back. I want to bring in a couple of super chats, starting with one from Kebabs who asks how's the soundtrack? Which artist does it have? And then also we have1 from Meta318 who says this will be unplayable if Tokyo Drift song is not in the soundtrack. Unfortunately the build that we played I believe was on streamer mode the whole time. So there was some music that was there was music that was playing. But like we didn't have access to the entire soundtrack.

[G]

Okay.

[E]

But like, music seemed fine. There was no Tokyo Drift from what I heard.

[F]

Yeah, they have an opportunity to do something really, really fun with Tokyo Drift in the song. And like a moment there.

[E]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[F]

Like, I would be backing up the truck to make sure we paid for that and got it cleared.

[E]

That'd be such a fun set piece. Race. Like the Tokyo. Tokyo Drift homage. Race. Race against the dk. We got another one from.

[F]

Music was good though. Of course. Forza Horizon Festival is all about the music and the cars and the fun. It is one of those of like, I spent a lot of time in these games to the point where I eventually just start playing my own music. But so far I enjoyed the playlist that they gave me. I'm excited to dive in more. I think you got some really cool regional hits and music that was like, oh, nice. I'm excited to hear more of this.

[G]

It makes me envious of the world that they live in in the video game. I just want to live in a world where all like, it's just cars and racing. Like, that's all they get.

[E]

That's all that matters.

[G]

That's all that matters in. In Forza games. And it's just like, oh, that's why everybody's so happy. Everybody's so happy. Music Forza Horizon Festival like, the whole world cares about this festival, dude.

[E]

Even my GPS is happy, you know, Like I. So you asked about, did I give him my name? No, I named my character Beast because if you look at my license plate in the game, it's okay, Beast. And whenever you tell it to tell to point you somewhere, the navigation is like, okay, Beast, let's go over here.

[G]

I like that.

[E]

It's been like that for like quite a few of the the Forza Horizons. So that's a tradition for me. Bring in another super chat from Casper J87 who says, did you try Forza Horizon 5 after to see the difference from your footage and others, the environment looks more dense and less open. And did you try photo mode? Yeah. Well, how would we compare this to Forza Horizon 5?

[G]

Well, I mean, the environment being more dense and less open, I think a lot of that has to do with the biomes. You know, in Mexico there are more wide open spaces with less foliage. And in a lot of the spaces here in Japan, you are apart from like the farmland areas. But a lot of the spaces in Japan are going to have. It's going to be roads surrounded by a lot of trees. Now all the trees are still breakable. Like you can still just drive through all the trees. Which answers another super chat from ARNAV Dugad, who super chatted as well. Thank you for your generosity. Who asks, are the trees destructible in the game? Yeah. And no matter what car you're using, it's not like only heavy cars break it down or whatever. You can just drive through trees all day and night and it rocks.

[F]

It feels like 90, right? Because I did smash into a small tree and got pissed.

[G]

Oh, really?

[F]

I feel like it's not all of them.

[H]

Right.

[F]

I feel like eventually one of them stops you.

[G]

Maybe you found the one tree.

[F]

I feel like there is some sort of punishment of like most of the trees are breakable. Then there's like the one that is real. Like it's going to stop you because I. I was driving up a hill and a baby tree stopped me and I was like, I just ripped through about a thousand big trees. Why is this the small one stopping

[E]

the one bug tree?

[G]

Yeah, I was assuming maybe it was one of these trees on a road track that is purposely meant to be an obstacle. Yeah, that is, you know, because the trees in the middle of the forest, those are the trees that are like, we don't want you to not have fun in our video game.

[E]

Yeah.

[G]

We don't want you. We are not here to frustrate you. So we're going to let you drive through everything out here. But you may have found the one. We'll have to. We'll have to get the footage of that.

[E]

Super angry Waller says you're not supposed to run into. Into trees. I don't think that's true. Don't you get points because they have the arcade. Whenever you do anything in the game, they have like the arcade style score at the top.

[G]

Oh, yeah. You know, it's called like landscaper or something like that.

[E]

Yeah, I think, I think. Yeah. You get like points for destroying things and so there's always a moment. And I think I do it during this demo where I'm just out in the open and I'm just drifting around all these trees.

[H]

Yeah.

[E]

Just trying to level myself up. I'm sad the demo didn't have any of those wheel spins, or at least I didn't unlock any wheel spins and

[G]

I didn't get any either. I don't think so.

[H]

No, no, I didn't either.

[E]

Yeah. Where do we want to go from here? It's an interesting one because I feel like to sum up this preview. Yeah, it's More Forza Horizon, you know, and it's amazing.

[G]

It's going to be great. Yeah. And this is going to be one of the highest reviewed games of the year.

[E]

Do you guys think this lives up or this is now to get speculative about it. Do you think this lives up to what people desire from a Forza Horizon in Tokyo? Do you think this is going to hit that bar also? Baron, I think I broke this microphone does not stick.

[H]

I think the interesting thing will be the Legend island because that is, you have to unlock that progressing through the campaign and we obviously have no idea what that environment is going to look like and what you're going to be able to do. I mean, it's tracking towards yes to, to answer your question. But you know, we still have unknowns in there to. To see the full game of what it's going to do. But I mean, we'll see. Like I said before, even if this was just Forza Rising 5, which, and it was just in Japan, I think it would still be a very good game.

[E]

Yeah.

[H]

But there would be some disappointment with that because you're, you're looking for that next evolution of Forza Horizon and that's what we still need to see.

[E]

Yeah.

[G]

Yeah, I think so. I think it's absolutely gonna be what people want. I. I think a lot of it comes down to having large spectacle races with a lot of fun stuff to do in between. And I don't think, in my opinion, I don't think Mexico had the amount of cool like pois to go look for and go hunt out and go seek out as you're driving. I think Tokyo is going to have a lot more of those spaces in the open world sort of when you're just kind of driving around and vibing out. You know that those. And that's some of my favorite to do in Forza Horizon is just let me just drive on this hill and just see how far I can send it. I think in those moments you're going to find a lot more cool, discoverable, organic things in this. In this little player space of Tokyo as opposed to Mexico.

[F]

It's a high bar. I mean Forza Horizon 5 is currently sitting at a 92 on Metacritic. Game of the year for IGN. A big conversation piece when it did come out in 2021.

[G]

Right.

[F]

Here we are now it is more Forza. It is very exciting. We're going to Japan off of these three races that we got to do. The initial kind of just jump in. I was, I'm leaving excited, but not like, oh, wow, this is going to change everything, right? And I think that'll come down to the game. Those are the big set pieces, those are all the races that will do. Those will be all the unlockables. What is this giant outpost that me and Paris will work to create and share this kind of fun creative moment with? What is the. What are the users going to generate and like allow other people to jump in and play and see what they can make over there in the world? 92 is a high bar. Will this go past it? I don't know.

[E]

Bless.

[G]

I, I don't think it will, but I don't, I don't know if it needs.

[F]

There was just something special about Mexico was kind of like a big jump from the UK and like what they were pushing and doing. This feels more of the same and I don't see the, like, oh, wow, this is gonna be crazy.

[E]

That's where I, that's where I feel like I land where I didn't play this demo and go, damn, this is the best Forza Horizon game. I played this demo and went, oh, this is more Forza Horizon, right? Like, this is more of what I like from the previous ones, which is a fantastic place to be because to that point, I think you land in the 90s. I think you land at least, I would hope, at least at a 90, right with it. If you're trying to follow up on the previous stuff.

[G]

I think a lot of it has to do with Forza Horizon 4 being obviously an insanely popular game, but 5 being the true coming out party. I think Forza Horizon 5 being the one that everybody and their mama got into. And it wasn't just the racing fans. Forza Rise of four still did that to a degree. That was like when Forza Rise of War was on Game pass. That's, I think, pretty sure. Forza Horizon 4 was my first one, maybe it was 3, but like 5 was the true coming out party to where everybody said, shit, I have to be on board for this because everybody who, who. All of the. My favorite influencers, all of my favorite, you know, the, the people that I look to for gaming tastes, they don't give a shit about racy games and they're saying this is a must play. I should, this should be a must play for me as well. I think that was just a moment of Forza Horizon 5. Everybody's playing it and we're getting into that sort of territory of can you relive, can you re. Can you give that experience again to people And a lot of that comes down to, like, it's kind of a hard thing to do, but you could certainly get really, really close.

[H]

Yeah, I think what you'd like, what you're building on, what you're saying, Andy. I think it really comes down to expectations. I. The expectation for Force Horizon 6 has been raised from previous games as good as 5 was. I didn't go into 5 expecting the leap that we saw with 5. Right. So now I think with 6, you don't just want more of the same you're expecting. All right, now, how are they going to blow my mind this time? With Forza Horizon 6, we're in Japan. This is the thing that people have wanted to see from this franchise. So I think that'll be the thing more than anything. The game's gonna. I'm pretty confident the game's gonna be really, really good, but I wonder if people's expectations will be too high for it as a result.

[G]

But.

[H]

But we'll see. I mean, like I said, I. I think it's tracking to be a really, really good game that to the point, should at minimum be high 80s. It probably is in the 90s again, but we just need to see more. I think that's. That's it. We got it. Like, there's a little taste of it and you're like, okay, now show me the rest. Because they've talked enough about it that I want to see what the rest is, how it's going to play, you know, when we get to get hands on.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. For me, like, I know for previews, I often do the thing with the rose, bud and thorn, which is rose being what you like the most, thorn being what you like the least, or what you dislike the most during the preview. And bud being what you want to see more.

[F]

Right, Right.

[E]

My rose is that, hey, this is more Forza Horizon. It's the quality of Forza Horizon. Right? Like, you get your hands on the controller and you're back to the euphoria you felt playing the previous games. That's awesome. My Thorn. And this is a Thorn that could be reverted back into something that works, depending on what that final game looks like. So maybe it's. Maybe it's a bud. Is Tokyo itself where I. It's what I expected, but I feel like I had low expectations for what I would get out of my time in the actual Tokyo city, where it feels a bit dead. It feels like, okay, there's not much going on. Yeah, like, that's what Forza Horizon. Forza Horizon has never been a game that's been filled with traffic, so it's a tough expectation to have. But, yeah, when you take the city of Tokyo and then combine it with Forza Horizon, there's something about it where I'm like, damn, I just wish there was more going on. I wish it was more lively. We're at Shibuya Crossing right now and it's empty. You know what I mean? It's almost like. I wish even if you had to, like, rope them off, I wish there were crowds or something. You know what I mean? I wish there were, like, lights or something. Maybe nighttime brings that. Yeah, maybe nighttime brings what? I'm ludicrous. Ludicrous. Yeah.

[F]

Bow wow on the side of the road, Mike and Blessing sideways into the sidewalk.

[E]

Well, that's why I'm saying you have to rope them off and make it strong rope. You have to protect the crowd.

[J]

It's really strong rope.

[E]

Yeah. Video game rope. But yeah, I'm like, okay, yeah, okay. This, for me, the. It's not the. Actually, I'll take. It's not the Tokyo that's really dialing into setting this time around for me. It's Japan. Best dialing in the setting for me this time around where I love the verticality, I love the hills, I love when we get outside the city.

[G]

And then from a naturalistic.

[E]

Naturalistic standpoint, I think it's. The vistas are full and beautiful. And then, yeah, my Bud kind of being the Tokyo thing as well. But then also for bud, the accoutrements around it. What are those special events? What am I? What does it look like when I race that mech? You know what I mean? What is the soundtrack? How do those wheel spins and barf barn finds make me feel and all that shit, right? What are the. Are the accoutrements hidden? Mike, I'm going to pass to you. What's your rose button Thorn?

[F]

Oh, damn. Bless. I thought yours were perfect. I. I echo yours. I mean, what is my rose? My rose is being in Japan, being in the center of Tokyo and looking forward to the events that they'll have at night with the nighttime street racing in the heart of the city. I want more city racing. As someone who has enjoyed Forza Horizon, I love Horizon for being, hey, I can drive anywhere. I can rip everything. But there hasn't been much city racing. And I'm excited that now, like, this is the push for that. My Thorn is when I turned this game on, it did just look like Forza 5 right now is a Tough one of like, hey, we've maxed this out. There's only so much we can do. But the positive is it's, it's more Forza and it's really, really good.

[G]

Right?

[F]

And so the but is, hey, it's more Forza. I'm excited to jump back into this as much as I say it looks like Forza Horizon 5. I loved 5. I wanted more and more of 5. And I'm excited to be able to do all the things that I've already done before. Right. I want to smash signs, I want to break speed records, I want to jump off of giant jumps. I want to create with Paris. I really want to see what this garage outpost is like. What is this idea? How do you make it? So I'm actually interested in this because I think a lot of the user base is like, I just want to rip. I just want to ride and drive as fast as I can. How do you say, hey, let's build and enjoy? Which is something different for Forza, unless you're building your own car and like having fun with that. But building an outpost, that's a very interesting idea to me.

[E]

Andy, what's your rose?

[G]

Thorn and Bud, that would be my thorn. I think the building and the tutorializing for being a brand new big feature that you're adding to an already amazing video game franchise. I don't think that they. I don't think this little demo portion previewed as good as it should have. Like, it, it just kind of felt like very secondary and the actual tutorializing of it just didn't feel smart or engaging. And that's why I kind of just, I put that object down and when it disappeared, I was like, I don't. This is already kind of annoying and I'd rather just get back to racing. So if you're gonna make somebody like me who's already super into building things in games, like, it shouldn't be that hard for me to get into something like this. And so that's probably my, my biggest disappointment in a game that I probably won't spend a whole lot of time building stuff anyway because I do think the driving is. That's why you're here. And it is so damn good. The rose, I would say, is

[H]

the,

[G]

the world of, of, you know, just the map of Tokyo of Japan just being gorgeous to drive through and being, I think, having its own separate biomes, whether it's out on the farmlands or doing these sort of like cross country races or now you're in the city. Now you're on highways. I just love the, you know, the differentiation there. And then the Bud. I would say I hope to get some. I want to see what this whole mech race is going to be. And I hope we do something like what. What doom the dark ages did Paris when like the big mech arm. The. The big mech would put its arm down. Then that's the. The bridge that you're driving across. Like.

[E]

Yeah, I would love to see some

[G]

cool sort of interactivity with that.

[E]

There was a bullet train in that, like, initial intro. He didn't race the bullet train, but it was there. That was kind of cool.

[F]

You'll race that, you think?

[E]

I hope so. I really hope that. I don't know if he's crazy. That's a really good point. Bullet trains are fast.

[G]

Bullet streets.

[F]

You can cut different ways that a bullet train can't go.

[E]

That's true. That's true.

[F]

Shortcut things.

[E]

That's a good point.

[H]

I think you all missed something. For the Bud.

[E]

Yeah.

[H]

There's one thing that you gotta have. Okay, actually, I'll save the Bud for the last. So my thorn, ironically enough, I agree with you. Blessing is Tokyo itself. Because I want the street racing aspect. So. And. And again, we don't know. So we'll see when the final game is out. I want more street racing. I want that night racing. I want. Want to live that Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift fantasy. Right?

[E]

Yeah.

[H]

Yeah, yeah. So that would. Right now to the preview, that would be the Thorn. I mean. I mean the rose. It's like. Like we've already said, it's. It's just the overall world when you're outside the city and just experiencing some of these biomes, like that one stretch where it's all the cherry blossoms. Oh, I. I could do that every time. It's just beautiful to do the Bud. For me, it is the. If they've not worked out the licensing and the collaboration for this, at least at some kind of dlc, I'll be shocked. It's got to be Godzilla. Come on, we gotta have Godzilla.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[H]

How can you not have Godzilla?

[G]

Yeah, you're so right. Him just out there in the distance. Oh, man.

[H]

Exactly.

[G]

Jumping, you know, walking through the city as you're kind of driving through the feet. Oh, that'd be so awesome.

[H]

Yeah.

[G]

Driving up the tail.

[E]

This game has a high, high ceiling for what you can do with those.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Pieces. That's the thing is I want this game to have the best set pieces of the. Forza Horizon franchise.

[G]

There's no reason why it shouldn't.

[E]

That's my hope for it, you know.

[F]

Only gotten better every single time.

[E]

They really have gotten better.

[F]

Only gotten better every time.

[E]

And I love it when you, like, you dry, you drive off a thing and then like two motorcycles.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Do slow mo flips in front of you. God, I love Forza Horizon. I love the person in chat that's like, why are they being so negative? I asked them to be negative. I asked them each for a Thorn. That's mine. That's on me, y'. All. Thank you so much for joining me on this very fun preview of Forza Horizon 6. Really looking forward to the final thing coming out. When? Mike, give me the exact date.

[F]

May 18th. Paris. I'm guessing on that one.

[H]

I think 19th. I think it's 1919.

[E]

You're real close.

[F]

But there's Mike.

[H]

But there's early access, so I think five days early access. So you can. You can get it before. Yeah.

[F]

Is this on PS5 day and date though, right? No, no, no. Too bad.

[E]

Xbox and a PCI Zoom.

[F]

Yeah, of course.

[G]

We're all playing it PC, man.

[F]

I'm driving with a wheel.

[E]

Really?

[F]

I'm setting up the wheel. I think I'm gonna try to do like 90 of this game.

[E]

Should I play on PC? I always play these games on Xbox.

[F]

Well, they're both PC boy. Now cosplay.

[E]

That is true.

[G]

Anywhere they play anyway.

[F]

Follows you. As long as you're on the Xbox

[H]

app, you gotta play. Think about it. 100 frames, the ray trace.

[G]

Come on, come on.

[E]

This will be my first Forza that I tried on PC.

[G]

Come on, buddy.

[E]

Really excited for it. Paris, thank you so much for joining us. Mike, Andy, thanks so much for joining

[F]

me, making this a great one.

[E]

Sounds like we're all very much looking forward to Forza Horizon 6. Go check out Paris's YouTube channel.

[F]

He's got a preview up.

[E]

Ooh, yeah. Go check out that preview.

[H]

I had to re up it. I kind of effed up the first one I put up.

[G]

Nobody needs to know that. Yeah, don't admit it.

[E]

You can't prove Xbox.

[G]

Remove this from the edit.

[E]

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[G]

Champions.

[E]

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