How to have fun.

[A Lonely Prince]

This interests me, what do people do in this game to have fun?

I can't seem to get out of the loop of starting the game, modding a few of my 500 cars in the garage to what I'd like to have them look like if I had them irl (no rice) and a few performance mods mostly within A class and rarely S1 - X Then I drive for a minute or two. rinse and repeat.

I was able to play FH3 for nearly 500 hours without getting bored, FH4 turned down to only 200~ and now, FH5 i'm at 82hrs and I don't have much fun if any. Pre-Ordered the game and barely played since launch, at least the crashing issues stopped for me after I got a different CPU.


Driving with a bunch of friends where all of us are using wheels is tons of fun but other than that idk, I need some ideas.

[A Lonely Prince]

Publicado originalmente por S5yn3T:

Publicado originalmente por A Lonely Prince:

I "like" the game. While it DEF isn't my favorite game to play, I still spent the 100 Euro on it and feel like I still have to get a bit more mileage out of it so I don't feel like I wasted that money since I rarely buy any new games and rather spend my money on driving my actual hothatch irl, some new mods or PC parts. Just need a few ideas and inspiration of new ways playing the game.

Ngl, personally i think you need friends (me included) to fully squeeze the fun out of this game, solo there's not much to do

Agreed, cruising and racing in coop is a lot more fun. Just finished discovering and driving on all the 578 roads. Feels good, now off to the next thing.

[Gojdadyr-Incestoslavovich]

delete this game -> play smth else

[55]

lol exact same pattern with me

[vongdong]

If I've finished doing enough of the seasonal stuff then I just mod cars to suit racing or drifting. I'll roam around tuning race builds and drift up and down the mountain tuning drift builds.

[A Lonely Prince]

Publicado originalmente por KoKoKo:

delete this game -> play smth else

you're right.

[Paul.]

Trying to collect all the cars was kinda fun but everything else got boring really fast. If I wanted a fun online racing game I would just play Wreckfest. I guess I'll try to get all the achievements like in Horizon 4 and then will end up deleting it.

[dgr114]

I like building low power drift cars. Usually 190-230 hp range with street tires. If im not drifting then im doing some B-Class road racing online.

[A Lonely Prince]

Publicado originalmente por dgr114:

I like building low power drift cars. Usually 190-230 hp range with street tires. If im not drifting then im doing some B-Class road racing online.

Someday I'll have to take a look at RWD drifting tbh. Yesterday I tried drifting a Viper and got and then realized that it might've been probably a very hard car to do it with given it's reputation irl of being extremely difficult to handle xD

[CunkFeatures]

Publicado originalmente por A Lonely Prince:

I can't seem to get out of the loop of starting the game, modding a few of my 500 cars in the garage to what I'd like to have them look like if I had them irl (no rice) and a few performance mods mostly within A class and rarely S1 - X Then I drive for a minute or two. rinse and repeat.

Huge stagnation in game progression, thats your problem.

Bar a few moved icons, this is the same as 4 and 3 tbh. Just a map pack, a very similar map pack.... Expect to get bored of a game you've played before.

If this had maybe new junction, new trees, new anything. Then it might be worth playing.


I'm here since FH1, wondering how they will ruin FM8 for me.

[LordBamburgh]

FH4 had a sense of fun built-in. It had a sense of humour in the stories alone; from the crazy German who tested insurance claims, to the kinda stereotypical Indian taxi firm owner - it was unPC but harmlessly so.

Fast forward to FH5 and it's woke and inclusive. It's diverse. Nothing intrinsically wrong with this but it makes the game preachy and self-aware out of the gate. It sets the tone: this is serious. It's the mentality of Twitter with game play and fancy graphics.

Personally, I game to get away from that oh-so-serious world, not have it digitally grafted onto an experience which should be about immersive enjoyment. So when a developer essentially offers you the same game on a different map but dilutes the quirkiness which made FH4 endearing, it's gonna feel inferior.

It's also incredibly disjointed in terms of progression. In fact there is no progression, merely grinding. I remember on FH4 doing all the road races to unlock the Goliath, for example, but now it's just offered up for no particular reason.

There's no doubt the map is beautiful but the game is boring. It's like seeing a beautiful girl in a bar who tuns out to have the charisma of dishwater. You'll still chat her up for a one-night stand but you're not gonna marry her.

FH5 is a one-night stand; FH4 was a relationship. I've cheated on 4 with 5, and now I'm going back with my tail between my legs.

Hard to stomach after investing big bucks in FH5, but it's not as good as the game it replaced. Maybe expansions will change that. We'll see...

[kireta]

Publicado originalmente por A Lonely Prince:

This interests me, what do people do in this game to have fun?

We race. Me specifically, usually stock or near stock in SP, tuned in MP. Tinkering with cars to make them do within MP restrictions better can be fun too.

This being said, like most players I'm waiting for map expansion, it's long overdue. Currently replaying first 3 FH games along with playing 5.

[Zero McDol]

I got bored with FH 5 fairly quickly, but here's what I do. Log on and race with my friend twice a week, then log off for the rest of the week. Rinse and repeat. If I want to tune a car, I hop on and tune it, drive it for a bit, and then log off.

Much like you OP, I don't have this issue with FH 3. For whatever reason, FH 5 just doesn't click with me.

I also got bored with FH 4, but not nearly as fast because of my created track. The likely reason for this is because in FH 4, my created track doesn't have a credit hard cap, so I can run the track at 5 or 10 - 17.8 mile laps and really enjoy the neck and neck races with the AI on said track.

In short, I have no reason to visit FH 5 for extended periods of time, unless I'm racing with my friend. As said, created tracks in FH 5 have a hard credit cap of 80+k credits, so there's no point in me running 5 or 10 - 21.4 or 28.3 miles laps, since I only get the credit benefit of one lap.

So yea, that really kills any and all reason to put any major amounts of time into Forza Horizon 5. There's also the extremely boosted AI drivatars, the very annoying NPC traffic spawn distances, the empty feeling map, the limited amount of houses to buy, lack of interest in the normal tracks, and the story that just doesn't interest me.

I guess that it happens..., but the overall Forza Horizon 5 experience just isn't very interesting to me.

[A Lonely Prince]

Publicado originalmente por Vince:

FH4 had a sense of fun built-in. It had a sense of humour in the stories alone; from the crazy German who tested insurance claims, to the kinda stereotypical Indian taxi firm owner - it was unPC but harmlessly so.

Fast forward to FH5 and it's woke and inclusive. It's diverse. Nothing intrinsically wrong with this but it makes the game preachy and self-aware out of the gate. It sets the tone: this is serious. It's the mentality of Twitter with game play and fancy graphics.

Personally, I game to get away from that oh-so-serious world, not have it digitally grafted onto an experience which should be about immersive enjoyment. So when a developer essentially offers you the same game on a different map but dilutes the quirkiness which made FH4 endearing, it's gonna feel inferior.

It's also incredibly disjointed in terms of progression. In fact there is no progression, merely grinding. I remember on FH4 doing all the road races to unlock the Goliath, for example, but now it's just offered up for no particular reason.

There's no doubt the map is beautiful but the game is boring. It's like seeing a beautiful girl in a bar who tuns out to have the charisma of dishwater. You'll still chat her up for a one-night stand but you're not gonna marry her.

FH5 is a one-night stand; FH4 was a relationship. I've cheated on 4 with 5, and now I'm going back with my tail between my legs.

Hard to stomach after investing big bucks in FH5, but it's not as good as the game it replaced. Maybe expansions will change that. We'll see...

This pretty much hits the nail on the head.

[Baron Samedi]

Publicado originalmente por TheHuskyGT:

which Honda is the best Honda.

*extremely RCR voice*

Which Corvette is best Corvette?

[Racecar Johnny]

This game is fun at it's core, but alot of it's appeal i hampered by many small things. It's like death by a 1000 paper cuts. Or that one Simpsons bit:

"You can race people all over the world"
"That's good"
"You're going to get rammed a lot"
"That's bad"
"You can report them"
"That's good"
"You have to go to the Forza website and have recorded a clip otherwise your ticket isn't processed so if this is your first time going to report someone you're in all likelihood not going to have a clip to do so"
"Thats bad"
"Also overlays have been shown to cause performance degradation, so if you turned them off good luck reporting anything"
"..."
"That one is bad"

And it's like that back and forth for about any given aspect of the game. The game is 10/10 in purely mechanical terms but struggles with anything else.