Is Forza Horizon 4 worth buying if you already have Forza Horizon 5?

[TheFireLauncher4]

I just wanted to try out Forza Horizon 4 since it's a different location. Also it's on sale right now so I was thinking of getting it..

[LordOfTheBread]

I would say no, the game itself is not that different and the map is worse.

So unless you do like doing the story missions (some are pretty cool) and like to coplete all teh littles dots on teh map, I would not recommend it.

[S5yn3T]

Game itself is much more polished and imo has better vibe than fh5

Map is smaller, and in grand scheme of things maybe boring but it's still great.

Fh5 is getting more and more difficult to recommend with some bs changes that pgg makes to fh5, making it into a worse experience overall

[_Matti_]

YES! I played all of them and they're all fantastic games with a ton of content. Horizon games for me are the definition of "pick a country and jump in" kind of game. Britain is wonderful, so if you like FH5, I'm sure you will also like FH4 :)

Base game is massive just like FH5, but I also found the LEGO expansion to be really cool, if you want to get it in the future.

[RatBoggles]

It's pretty fun, You may still be able to sign up for xbox games pass on pc for like $1 your first month, it's on there. Might be worth the price of admission to give it a shot.

[baddog993]

Just be aware they turned off multiplayer online for PC players when Forza 3 was no longer being sold. So I expect them to kill the servers in Forza 4 once they no longer sell it online for the pc.

[Moga CMDR]

Personally, I'd get it cheap on sale before it goes away forever.

[Saracchini (on Fire!)]

Yes, it's totally worthy.
The map and seasons are much better than FH5. You have really striking autumns, snowy winter, rainy springs and dry summer. The map also seems to have much more variety of environments. The Fortune Island also brings a nice island to explore with dangerous cliff races. I love rally races in Winter Season ! There are only little snow puddles in Mexico in comparison, and seriously... rainy and sand storms are not sth nice. The FH5 map is also very plain, and you can take a offroader and cross a good deal of it just going in a straight line. Try to do that in FH4 and you will hit cliffs, hills, villages, walls... it feels much more densely packed of features.

I also feel that there's a bigger variety of cars to you do any kind of race you want. Eventually FH5 will catch up, but for now FH4 is a more complete experience. plus, they have Lancia, Alpha Romeo and other brands that are just missing in FH5. What Fh5 has more are eletric cars and stuff like Delorean.

Attention to details: drive into a tunnel in FH4. You will notice the radio will cut off once you get deep on it, as it would happen in old tunnels. In Fh5, it makes no difference.
It also gives you the impression to you be in a big festival which the entire city prepared itself for. In Fh5 looks like.., yeah, Horizon is here.

Note that not everything is better:

What FH5 does better is in some new niceties and quality-of-life improvements, and much more robust multiplayer experience. Actually the car sounds are impressive compared with FH4.
Multiplayer. in Fh4 is way worse. As mentioned in other threads, you can stay stuck in 10-15 minutes on a loading screen because someone else crashed, dropped or has a potato PC on the other end, and this affects everyone !
I never had much issues like that in Fh5, so it's where I see the biggest improvement.
You are also walled-off of the Seasonal events until you do a long tutorial step, where you need to gather a lot of influence. You MUST do all the seasons, and it takes quite a while. It's almost the same effort to get into the Wall of Fame in FH5, just to be allowed to play in the general scene.


To be honest, it also has bugs that do not allow you complete 100% of the season, so you will feel at home !

[EVOLUTION]

It is more worth it. There is more value in buying FH4 ultimate edition than FH5 at this point in time. Horizon 5 hasn't even gotten the first expansion yet, 6 months after release. Horizon 4 is easily the better game in every way except car sounds.

[CunkFeatures]

Stay back. Will only ruin your Forza perception of how alike all Forza Horzion games are.
I mean it wasn't a bad game coming out, but you're just filling a instant gratification hole buying the last after this one and you still wont be satisfied with the same content/map layout and design only for the location.

[A.Noob-is]

FH4 is better game. It works and it has way more interesting map. This one is just sand, sand, sand and small glimpse of something else for a few seconds right before you drive on sand again. FH4 map is sadly smaller but cities are interesting, countryside is charming and seassons are distinctive. Not just another shade of sand and skybox. It also has an amazing treasure island expansion with very variable weather. Simply tons of amazing things that totally disappeared or was really badly crippled in FH5. Only better things here are bassically just car sounds. In everything else is FH5 just one big dissapointment.

[SecretAgentKiiN 特务健]

FH4 graphic & performance is much smooth and sharper

[LordOfTheBread]

Originally posted by SillyAgentKiiN:

FH4 graphic & performance is much smooth and sharper

Depends oin your hardware really, I get 91fps average in 1440p at ultra settings. But yep it is cheapoer, it will also soon end-up not having multiplayer tho.

[TFerretNXG]

scotland map never really spoke to me, but the lego island dlc is one of the greatest dlcs of all time

[w_wooden]

I have both, and love 4 way more, the driving mechanics are way more responsive, when I come play 5 after 4 it feels like it takes a moment for my car to start turning. The graphics are only slightly better on 5 and only in certain aspects. The auction house on 4 is way better, and I play and win eliminator over there because nobody is cheating. (here I see teleporting cars, flying cars, invisible cars that reappear at will, etc. it's amazing that anyone still bothers playing it. I own all the DLC's, car passes, etc. for 4 and 5 and still play 4 way more than 5.

[UnableRogue]

I still play FH4. I prefer the handling and the seasons are a nice change....except winter