Played 5 first

[OriginOrange]

After playing 5, I decided to buy 4 during the summer sale, before it gets delisted. Started playing it this week and oh man do I like 4's map better. So much more detail and pretty to look at. The towns are waaay better too. Glad I picked up 4. 5's world feels barren of detail and scenery in comparison. 4's map feels far from small too.

Cars feel better in 5 though.

Don't get me wrong still love 5.

[TheHuskyGT]

The map is better in FH4 for sure. Even if it's smaller

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by OriginOrange:

After playing 5, I decided to buy 4 during the summer sale, before it gets delisted. Started playing it this week and oh man do I like 4's map better. So much more detail and pretty to look at. The towns are waaay better too. Glad I picked up 4. 5's world feels barren of detail and scenery in comparison. 4's map feels far from small too.

Cars feel better in 5 though.

Don't get me wrong still love 5.

Funny you say that because it's actually the opposite lol.

FH4 is set in a super empty world, devoid of color and life.

[OriginOrange]

Originally posted by JackieTheDemon:

Originally posted by OriginOrange:

After playing 5, I decided to buy 4 during the summer sale, before it gets delisted. Started playing it this week and oh man do I like 4's map better. So much more detail and pretty to look at. The towns are waaay better too. Glad I picked up 4. 5's world feels barren of detail and scenery in comparison. 4's map feels far from small too.

Cars feel better in 5 though.

Don't get me wrong still love 5.

Funny you say that because it's actually the opposite lol.

FH4 is set in a super empty world, devoid of color and life.

there are literally fields of yellow and then fields of pink flowers lol

[MBK]

FH4>FH5

[Selphea]

I played 5 before 4 too!

I like FH4's attention to detail in the map. The city feels less copy paste and has details like traffic lights and trains running. Also all the little terrain details like flowers, walls, rock formations.

The music stations in 4 are better too. The songs actually have a melody! 🤯 I wish we could change the music in 5, I'd download a soundtrack mod so that I can keep the DJ commentary.

But the RWD handling in 5 is much better and it's not raining all the time. Also the engine sounds are better and my character can get a haircut!

Also Hot Wheels was a nice addition because of the loops and slides and boosters.

Before Hot Wheels I liked 4 a bit more, after Hot Wheels I'm liking 5 more but I agree the base map feels a little plain.

[LordOfTheBread]

I personally thing FH4 map is the worst map ofg the entire series. It's bland, it's boring and it feels empty. The only redeeming factor is the sasons that really change the map more drasticly thann in 5.

IO do agree that the lack of Alfa, Abarth / Fiat and Lancias do hurt the game overall tho but sicne I bought 5 I barely ever played 4.

[TyresTyco]

4 is the reason why our ears are still bleeding playing this game without voices turned off.

[MaChao]

Yeah, i also have to go with FH4 > FH5
The loss of map wide seasonal cycles was the biggest step down for me.
Sure, there are small changes like rivers drying up, but it's just not anything to write home about.

FH5 is the better game, but purely talking about presentation and setting, FH4 wins hands down for me.

[ph!l]

It's easy to debate either way, both maps have their benefits. I'd probably edge towards Mexico if I had to choose one.

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by MaChao:

Yeah, i also have to go with FH4 > FH5
The loss of map wide seasonal cycles was the biggest step down for me.
Sure, there are small changes like rivers drying up, but it's just not anything to write home about.

FH5 is the better game, but purely talking about presentation and setting, FH4 wins hands down for me.

Oh you mean when everyone stopped playing during Winter because it sucked?

[MaChao]

Originally posted by JackieTheDemon:

Oh you mean when everyone stopped playing during Winter because it sucked?

Maybe? I sure didn't. Winter and it's surface mechanics mixed things up nicely.

[kireta]

Originally posted by JackieTheDemon:

Oh you mean when everyone stopped playing during Winter because it sucked?

I would go on vacation to Byron Bay. Mild English winter was more annoyance than a challenge, I hope second expac for FH5 will be rally/offroad focused, wo we can have proper winter like in Blizzard Mountain.

[docup87]

I wouldn't have thought it before either. But Horizon 4 makes the map of 5 seem empty and boring. I have played all the Horizon games and the maps are getting bigger but unfortunately also emptier.

[MaChao]

I genuinely wouldn't say Mexico feels empty to me in any way.
I actually much rather feel that the map isn't properly used to its full potential.
The Mexico map is actually pretty varied in its biomes and has some really great vistas that are often completely neglected by tracks.

I still remember the Windmill hill, the giant dam or the Quarry from FH4.
They stuck with me because they have been regularly featured in tracks and challenges.
I genuinely can't think of a track in FH5 that incorporates a unique vista point other than the northern track under the train tracks.
But this might just be bias on my part. I wouldn't want to rule that out.
It's just how the Mexico map felt to me: Not empty, but unmemorable.

[A.Noob-is]

Well. FH4 map will not get old as fast as FH5 because there are 4 very distinctive seasons and every week you have basically very different experience than the last one and the same theme is always 3 weeks far. In this trash you get just 4 shades of orange filter.