Why dis game have such bad reviews?

[NTU]

What's the worst thing about DiRT 5?

[CalUKGR]

A mystery to me. Sure, I find the GUI primary colours garish and vulgar, but the game itself, the maps, the driving and the performance I'm getting (yes, even after the 4.0 update) are all perfectly fine - for me. I don't know why so many seem to be reporting technical issues. This game has never crashed out on me. It works great on my fairly modest PC (I'm 'only' rocking a lowly GTX 1080, after all)

Some games just get the dogs set upon them (Project Cars 3, undeservedly, IMO, is another) and they really don't stand a fair chance. But objectively speaking, I find DiRT5 to be a good game - perhaps a little 'one note' (career mode is just a long laundry list of repetitive races to check off), but it is a satisfying burst of arcade racing around some very nice-looking tracks.

No replay mode sucks donkey's balls, and is completely baffling, but as a package the game sports a ton of content (including a custom track builder - albeit gimped into irrelevance). Wait for a sale a pick this one up, if you haven't already. It's a competent racer and, for me, as much fun to play as it is to gawp at (dynamic weather and particle FX are gorgeous).

[ProdigyXP]

I actually find Dirt 5 to be a modern updated version of Dirt 2 (a good thing in my opinion). The car controls feel excellent in my opinion. The tracks are some of the best I have seen in a game like this.

I think the number one reason for bad reviews appears to be people with technical issues and crashes. I myself have had one crash in this game. I also think the lack of private lobbies for online races was giving this game bad reviews. Thankfully they somewhat fixed that issue with the 4.00 patch. I say somewhat, because the implementation of the private lobbies is limited by always resetting all the race options you choose after every race, which is really frustrating when you simply want to change tracks, but leave other options as is, like laps, car type, weather, time progression, etc.

[Highway]

because we had to wait 5 months for basic multiplayer features

[SeansShow]

too much middle ground for me, regurgitates much of the presentation of previous games in a dialled in manner, missing fundamentals such as replays / a proper multiplayer suite killing multiplayer from the start, highish PC entry levels requirements for a racing game, optimisation, sprint, mud not appearing on the vehicles at all on spintires esque muck rinks, the soundtrack, general setup and repetitiveness of the campaign and the bonus goals some of which cant even be achieved in the races making them annoying and pointless.

Codemasters fatigue mostly here, I just feel they've got to the stage where there happy pushing out multiple racing games every year when theres absolutely no need for fluff in the genre, concentrate on making a genre leader rather than saturating the market with average games. Remember when Codemasters made Toca and Colin McRae, they were jaw dropping in comparison to most racing titles of the time.

My library is full of racing games which pummel this im sorry to say. Playgrounds is a good step forward but so many games do it better. I scowl when I see people giving this 10/10 in review press, its rushed to my eyes and unfinished again to my eyes although I respect the devs coming on here and engaging with the few people that post and continuing to work on the game although DLC should come second to QOL and fixes for a game like this personally.

I have high expectations set by whats went before across sim racing, arcade, simcade and console, that's my issue. Blur is better than this and its a decade old, GTA 4 has a better driving model.

[CalUKGR]

Originally posted by SeansShow:

too much middle ground for me, regurgitates much of the presentation of previous games in a dialled in manner, missing fundamentals such as replays / a proper multiplayer suite killing multiplayer from the start, highish PC entry levels requirements for a racing game, optimisation, sprint, mud not appearing on the vehicles at all on spintires esque muck rinks, the soundtrack, general setup and repetitiveness of the campaign and the bonus goals some of which cant even be achieved in the races making them annoying and pointless.

Codemasters fatigue mostly here, I just feel they've got to the stage where there happy pushing out multiple racing games every year when theres absolutely no need for fluff in the genre, concentrate on making a genre leader rather than saturating the market with average games. Remember when Codemasters made Toca and Colin McRae, they were jaw dropping in comparison to most racing titles of the time.

My library is full of racing games which pummel this im sorry to say. Playgrounds is a good step forward but so many games do it better. I scowl when I see people giving this 10/10 in review press, its rushed to my eyes and unfinished again to my eyes although I respect the devs coming on here and engaging with the few people that post and continuing to work on the game although DLC should come second to QOL and fixes for a game like this personally.

I have high expectations set by whats went before across sim racing, arcade, simcade and console, that's my issue. Blur is better than this and its a decade old, GTA 4 has a better driving model.

Definitely agree about 'Codemasters fatigue'. I think that's a fair observation. DiRT5 screams 'competent, but mediocre'. It really could have been something far better. It's hardly as if CM are short of talent (I dunno - maybe they are?).

No replay mode irks me more than just about anything else; it's just such an unnecessary omission unless there's some unfathomably difficult technical reason for its absence. CM have remained totally silent on the issue - although I've seen a great many requests here for the feature to be added.

[4speed318]

wheel support is still not fully working
some work, others like Fanatec, do not
that is my main issue, fix that and I will buy it
it was fun for the 10 hours I tried it

[Xniperwolf]

I love the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game but if I have no hand Animations on my character since the update to optimize amd ryzen processors it sucks, it looks ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ugly

[Frey]

Originally posted by NTU:

What's the worst thing about DiRT 5?

AI is too much easy, we can't find match with online....I had only a few epic moments...and lack of wheel support,...

[XmattbeeX]

The AI is usually too slow or too fast, very rare to get decent wheel to wheel racing. This new engine they're using is a downgrade. Terrible bouncing car physics. Can you believe it's a racing game - a DIRT racing game no less - that doesn't support viewing replays!! They've lost the plot. Oops that was 4 things. But there are so many more.

[RStark]

no replays

[Visual-Voodoo]

I wanted to like this Dirt 5 because of the whole Dirt series really, I've always enjoyed them and owned all of them with the last one being Dirt 4 which I considered the top in it's class and the best Dirt game so far. Sadly this Dirt 5 has not kept it's pedigree from Dirt 4, all the handling, all the feeling of the road under your car and the physics from Dirt 4 have sadly been replaced with what feels like "Standard arcade handling". The game no longer feels good to play, I don't feel like i'm controlling the car much at all and as for predicting what it's going to do when you chuck it into a tight bend and want a smooth drift, well - nostradamus couldn't predict it if you ask me. I want to like this game because it does offer different styles of event for Dirt fans - but I just can't get over the arcade handling and general feel of the game. For me - Dirt 4 is still the king - long live the king.

[SouthendRage]

I think the core of the game is very good, but too many bugs and lack of support for some features. (Multiplayer) Also, the career mode could be fun like the original grid but the AI are very poor/slow. That being said playground (Custom Arenas) is a great feature on it's own and I'd love to see the next game using this engine be more polished, I think they have some great tech and ideas here it's just one of those games where the sequel (or next game team works on) may be worth waiting for instead of buying this one.

[Tsume]

Originally posted by NTU:

What's the worst thing about DiRT 5?

The very stupid ai and the boring gameplay. It looks nice but thats it.
And its not a rally game. Its more like "Dirt Showdown" which was the worst part in the Dirt game series.

[ZivNio]

You could also just read the reviews then you know what it is xD

[NTU]

Originally posted by rdalcroft:

no replays

Marking this as best answer because that's the dumbest reason to hate a game.