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There were many games I’d avoided following Susan’s death. I watched Susan play the game each morning for the half-hour she allotted for it because seeing her joy was how I wanted every day to begin but beyond that, I never touched Horizon 4. At the time, I was working as a dog walker and spent my word day stuck in a car driving all over Chicago.
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An Ever-Present ConnectionĪfter hundreds of hours spent in FH2 and 3, I lost interest in the series beyond seeing how pretty the cars and worlds were in Horizon 4. For me, it provided a nice break from the “critique brain” I’d grown into as we also began working in accessibility advocacy.
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A Deaf woman, she adored simply being able to start the game and play it, not worrying that she was missing the story or essential audio cues. Susan could play Forza games barrier-free, which was far from the case in most other games. Discovering some form of the rush of racing via our new Xbox One in 2014, she told me, gave her back just a bit of what she’d lost to the illness. Susan had suffered a serious illness after an accident which left her having frequent seizures and unable to drive in 2013, a terrible blow to a woman that once adored cars and, much to my dismay, driving at high speeds. Drivatars, AI replications of Xbox friends that have played Forza games, are a core component of all games in the Forza franchises and they are the sole reason I’d avoided all things Forza from the time of Susan’s death in early 2019 to the summer of 2021 when I finally felt ready for the jarring sight of AI Susan.įorza Horizon was something of a reprieve for both of us and she started every day by playing it, from September 30, 2014, Horizon 2’s launch date, until March 3, 2019, the day of Susan’s death. I anticipated this moment, seeing her in the latest addition to our favorite series even though she’s been dead for two years, yet still, it caught me unprepared. I utter a quiet, “Hi,” and just for a moment, I can feel her weight on the couch beside me, smell her subtle fragrance of vanilla and rose, and hear her boisterous laughter as I crash into an oncoming car.
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My late partner, Susan, pulls out just as I enter. I round the last corner before arriving at Horizon Festival grounds for the first time when it happens. The Forza Horizon I’ve loved since the release of Horizon 2 in 2014 but prettier, more photoreal than each past entry in the series. Racing along the lush desert roads of Mexico in my orange Corvette and I’m in awe of the world before me.