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Forza Horizon 6 Early Impressions - Jason Gives His Impressions For Playground Games Forza Horizon 6
May 15, 2026
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Forza Horizon 6 Early Impressions - Jason Gives His Impressions For Playground Games Forza Horizon 6
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Next up on Jason's video game source, we
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got a oo we got a good one. Fors of
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Horizon 6. Uh I bought the early
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edition, the deluxe, whatever. I'm
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playing it on Game Pass, but then I
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spend like the extra money to play it,
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you know, 5 days early or whatever. So
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yeah, I spent probably about I don't
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know 18 hours. I think I made about at
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this point close to 50 gameplay VODs for
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Forza Horizon uh 6. Developed by
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Playground Games, who are one of the
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best developers in the video game
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industry, by the way, in my opinion. Um
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and published by Microsoft Microsoft
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Game Studios
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or Xbox Game Studios, I'm sorry. Uh
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relate it, uh initially will release on
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uh May 19th, so in a couple days. Uh far
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as my history is concerned,
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I don't remember playing Forza 1, but I
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have played Forza 2, Forza 3, Forza
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Horizon 2, Forza Horizon 3, Forsa
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Horizon 4, and Forsa Horizon 5. Uh the
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previous ones I believe took place in
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Mexico, uh the UK, and Australia, I
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believe. Anyways, Fors Horizon is one of
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my favorite uh driving games. And um I
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think it started back when on the early
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years of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, I
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used to play a game called Burnout
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Paradise, which has like an open world.
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I always had a sense of accomplishment.
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Very crazy, very fun. But that game was
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about crashes. Um we have been clamoring
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for uh Fors Horizon to take place cuz
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they do an amazing job at the settings
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of the games, the open worlds. We've
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been clamoring for uh Japan and Japan's
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here. So, how's Japan? You know, I never
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been to Japan, but it makes me want to
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travel there. I mean, so far it's been
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amazing. I'm not I'm not going to blow
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smoke up your ass. I can see why some of
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these outlets gave this game a 9.5 and a
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10. And I haven't even spent 24 hours
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with it. So far, this has been a master
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class as far as video game, you know,
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presentation goes. Has been a
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masterclass of exploration. It's been a
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master class of uh uh the gameplay loop
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and uh the sense of accomplishment. If
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that sounds like games like Elder Ring
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and stuff, that's because this is a
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driving game though. But it has that
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sense. It has that feel. Has that fun
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factor for me at least. This is all
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subjective. And by the way, this is like
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early impressions. Like I said, I
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haven't even played 24 hours of this
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game yet. And so far, it's been
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magnificent. Uh, I don't have a inkling
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of a clue how the hell playground games
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can uh make each iteration.
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Although they do subtract, you know,
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some gameplay mechanics and they do add
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some things over the course of the last
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three or four Force Horizon games, they
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have been an improvement. I don't know
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how the hell they do do this. So, I'm
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not a game developer. Um, I don't know
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how the hell they do this, but they keep
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making these games better. And you could
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say it's just a setting. No, it's not.
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just a setting. It's little It's little
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tweaks and turns. It's a yin-yang of of
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of getting rid of something and adding
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stuff and and just tweaking the
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mechanics of everything. I'm talking I'm
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talking about everything, man. You can
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smash ramen bowls in Japan now. I mean,
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this is just awesome. Okay, I'm having a
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blast with this with this game. And um
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the you know, a lot of the past Forza
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Horizon games centered around you
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completing the Forza Festival events,
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which are like the big events. Man, I'm
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just driving around Japan, man.
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Chilling. I'm just, like I said, I'm
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hitting ramen bowls. I'm hitting uh
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smashing uh, you know, these these cute
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Japanese dolls and these mascots and
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stuff. I'm doing story like story
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campaign missions. I wrote down the name
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of it. Uh,
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I thought I wrote the name down up.
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Yeah, but they got these story campaign
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me. meet this girl that basically sets
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you up and hooks you up with the the
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Horizon Festival named May. And you can
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like drive around and do sightseeing and
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take photos and and do, you know, go
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through the bamboo forest and go through
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uh various parts of Japan that are like
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famous tourist attractions and stuff.
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Has nothing to do with like the Horizon
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event. Like I'm doing a bunch of stuff
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that has nothing to do the Horizon
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event. Granted, I am doing also doing
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the wristband events to level up in the
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Horizon. There's so much to this game
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and it's all laid out perfectly. It's
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easy to navigate. Uh today I was playing
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uh my first multiplayer match. Uh I
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don't know if you guys ever heard of
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Initial D, but there's something called
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Togei Showdown. I believe it's spelled T
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O U G. Togei Showdown. It's like uh you
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go you drive around these mountain
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passes and stuff and drift and stuff.
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It's it's like the classic cultural
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Japanese, you know, you know, car
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culture thing, right? It's it's pretty
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famous around the world actually. So, I
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did that online, right? And I am not a
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professional car racer. I'm not I'm not
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a professional gamer. I'm a professional
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hobby gaming lover. That's what I am,
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right? Uh I got smoked the first race,
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but the second race, I actually smoked
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him and the guy quit or she quit cuz she
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ran into he ran into a wall right off
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the bat. And uh I got all my assists
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turned up for gameplay videos. Plus,
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like I said, I'm not a I'm not, you
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know, a Carson guy at all. So, I got all
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my assists turned up, so it was easy for
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me to to break and corner and
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accelerate. It's very easy for me. Uh I
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am a forza loyalist. Uh so, I got like
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right off the bat. They gave me like 20
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extra cars plus the plus the, you know,
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deluxe edition cars and stuff. So, man,
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I had like 20 cars right off the bat
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pretty much starting the game and stuff.
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You unlock a lot of cars easily. I I
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bought a aftermarket Miatas driving
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through the countryside of Japan and
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stuff. Uh there's so much. There's
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treasure hunts with treas like special
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cars where you got to look at a photo of
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like a windmill or something around
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Japan and you got to figure out where
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the car truck is. Also got a barn find.
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Uh I think it's a god, what was it? It's
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a NSX like GTR. It's like a special
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super rare. There's only been like a
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couple ever made of this NSX from the
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90s. Uh looks badass. I haven't got it.
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They haven't fixed it yet for me. But
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yeah, found that in a barn driving
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around. Of course, they got the boards.
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They got ramen ramen cups you can smash.
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Like I said, they got the all these
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collectibles throughout Japan you could
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collect. Uh yeah, the early sequence
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pretty much sold me in the game right
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off the bat. And I knew it was going to
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be a great game cuz you follow May uh
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the girl I was telling you about down
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into Tokyo City from where she lives in
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the country. And you drive down and you
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see the Tokyo Tower. You drive, keep
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driving through, you see you cross the
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Shabuya, am I saying that right? Shabuya
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crossing, which is like famous. I mean,
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if you play Persona, you got idea that I
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swear to God, I saw Kamaroo that uh I
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was looking for Curio Kouma. Uh but man,
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it's it's just a great it's a great
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game. The feeling of exploration in a
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driving game, open world driving game,
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it's top tier. It's it's a masterclass
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presentation. Uh, visually it's one of
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the best probably looking Xbox Series X
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games I played and it runs amazing. The
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footage isn't going to do as justice
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because I'm like recording the footage
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and gameplay and putting back over and
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stuff. But no, there is so much to this
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game that's so good. Little things,
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everything, the menus like just getting
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into an online match or getting out of
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online match, you know, finding the
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different, you know, they explain
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everything so good in the menus where,
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you know, uh, you also got Anna who's
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like the AI assistant of your car or the
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forsa horizon festival. You can you can
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use a drone now. You could fly around
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your car with a drone and look at
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motorcycles across the street or
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something. You could do so much. Oh
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yeah, and there's also
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uh food delivery. I swear to God, I feel
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like I was playing Crazy Taxi 1999 on a
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Japanese G Dreamcast. I mean, there's
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just so much to this game. Everything's
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fun, you know? Like I don't This game is
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so good. I don't care if I suck at it.
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It's like it's that fun. It's that good.
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The exploration, the loop, and the sense
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of accomplishment because you're always
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getting XP. You're always getting XP. I
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don't care if you just see a see
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something over there, you drive over
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there, you get probably get XP for it,
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man. I mean, it is just so many game
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modes and they're all everything is just
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solidly pres presented. Now, the only
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thing that sucks
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dog [ __ ] is uh, you know, the radio and
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the music and stuff because I'm playing
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on streaming mode. By the way, I love
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animals. So, the radio and the music and
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Forza Horizon 6 sucks more than dog
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[ __ ] I love dogs and animals. Uh,
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so that's the only like blight on this
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game really to me so far, you know. Uh,
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May's house, the girls helping you out
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with the event and the festival and
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everything. She has a house and it's
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like a little just just little quaint
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house, right? And, uh, that's where you
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do your auctions. That's where you do
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your car buying. That's where you modify
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your car, throw decals on your window.
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That's where you do all the, you know,
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the the, you know, the custom work. I'm
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pretty sure you could buy cars and stuff
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later, but uh they added a sense of
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coziness to this game, which is like I
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didn't think they could do. So, there's
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a little little sense of coziness too,
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if that makes sense. But there still is
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a huge festival. It's still the huge
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spectacle of the Fors Horizon event
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always on the background if you want to
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get into it or not and level up to rank
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for it and everything. Um, so many
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options to make the game easier. Access
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accessility
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options. I can't even say the word. uh
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options, too. Um,
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from an early sequence, I saw you racing
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a [ __ ] mech in this game, man. I
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cannot wait to see that [ __ ] That has
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got to be in the game somewhere. I
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haven't got to that yet. I only been
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playing this game for just under a day.
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But
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I can see where the 10's come from. I
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can see where the 9.5s come from. You
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know, I don't like read or look at
9:42
anybody's reviews, but I do just skim
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them real fast. And I was like, "Wow, so
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this game is better than uh Mexico,
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really?" Like, yeah, I can I can see why
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it's better than Mexico. They tweaked it
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just enough. They really did. Uh, so
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Playground Games, man, to me, you got a
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game, you got a potential game of the
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year game. You know, I, you know, racing
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games are not going to win a game of the
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year. They need to change that [ __ ]
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because I actually remember when Forsa
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Horizon 5 came out. There's a lot of
10:08
gamers, man, clamoring for that to at
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least get, you know, be a contender,
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right? And yeah, it might be a travesty.
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you know, I got a lot more to learn and
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play and experience and and whatnot with
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Fors Horizon 6, but if this game doesn't
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like get any like game of the year like
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nods or, you know, at least being a talk
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of it cuz I played all the game of the
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years pretty much I think this year so
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far. And yeah,
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this game has that it factor of making
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you of just like you want to wake up and
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keep playing it. Like I love making
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gameplay VODs for this game. Even though
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my gameplay VODs suck a lot of times, I
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love making gameplay VODs for this game.
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It's just so good. Uh, what else is
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there? Oh yeah, before I go, make sure
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you check out Bobby Vegas Gaming, my
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brother. He actually is streaming.
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Started incorporating Fors Horizon 6
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into his stream. So check that out. And
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also check out the best video game
11:03
website, art and entertainment gaming
11:05
site community on the internet and
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Jason's videoamesource.com.
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Uh, also something popped in my head
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this week. Uh, I want a million
11:14
subscribers, you know, that honestly.
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And it's weird because I don't care
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about stuff like that. I really don't. I
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just uh love making a lot of gameplay
11:22
video videos. Uh, and I could do that
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alone. You know, I made 94,000 94,000
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alone. You know that. But I can't get a
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million subscribers. And I want some
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reason, I don't know why, I want a
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million subscribers. I just do. Um,
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and trust me, I know that I have a
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personal YouTube account. There is so
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many amazing
11:42
gaming um, channels that I'm subscribed
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to personally. So, I'm not going to name
11:46
them, but I am subscribed to a lot of
11:48
gaming channels and stuff. So, let's
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keep the community going, help everybody
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out, and that's about it. Uh, so that's
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it. Today's Friday, and always, thank
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you for your support for the people who
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has been been there for a long time.
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Thank you. Jason signing off. I'll see
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you in the next one.
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