Is it Worth $30?

[StoOopiD]

While i was making a catchers mitt, preparing to wipe. I thought to myself " Is Forza worth $30 ? Does it have VR yet ? Do I need 8K ? Why do they have to sell the game in pieces? They should sell the game in one piece. DLCs are scary. How much does the whole game cost? Debating on Forza or a Premium ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ subscription

[the bat kite]

Ever since the game was officially completed with the second of two expansions, and the car packs DLCs began being offered outside of the Deluxe game's contents, many people say it isn't any fun after about 30 hours of play. It's boring, is the cry. But they usually play for hundreds of hours anyway.

Final verdict: No. It is boring, even if you like racing games, and devilish in that it leads you to play in mental bondage only to buy every car that PG has or ever will put into the game. They haven't stopped, putting out seasonal reward cars and these 5 cars in a pack DLCs that run about $5 - $10 each, so people are suffering out there.

I haven't heard strong opinions yet about the car vouchers that allow you to pick up any car in the autoshow for $1 each. (minimum $4 DLC). That car voucher deal is a DLC that came along with the car packs, post rally expansion/completion of game.

The Premium game is half-off, btw, right now.

[Joker]

If you enjoy a mix of arcade and sim
I'd say yeah for sure
It's the best open world racer series imo
You can potentially spent hundreds of hours

You can also pick up forza horizon 4 instead
Cheaper
Allthough if multiplayer is a big priority you should probably go with 5 as they dropped support for that in Forza Horizon 3

Personally I have +200 hours in Forza Horison 4
Think I spent less than 100 hours in Forza Horizon 5

They are both good games
While Forza Horizon 5 have better graphics on a technical level, I much prefer the location of Forza Horizon 4 and the variety it brings with its seasons
Allthough, it's a shame you can't change the seasons whenever you feel like it.
It's on a timer
My favorite location was probably Forza Horizon 3 though
But never got to play that game except for the demo :D

Alternatively, you can just subscribe to game pass and play
Either to keep playing it there, or just to test the games

I haven't tried the DLC for Forza Horizon 5 (except unlocking the treasure map and xp boost)
The DLC for Forza Horizon 5 looks really nice though
It's the same concept they did for Forza Horizon 3

In Forza Horizon 4 the DLC was allright, mostly enjoyed the Island expansion for the drifting
But the base game was the meat of the game for sure

I am myself considering picking up Forza Horizon on steam myself
And will go with 4 if I do
I prefer it

[StoOopiD]

I'm just sick and tired of developers making a game, then dividing the game or lock parts of it to DLC later.

I see right through their fookn scam.

[the bat kite]

Origineel geplaatst door StoOopiD:

I'm just sick and tired of developers making a game, then dividing the game or lock parts of it to DLC later.

I see right through their fookn scam.

And so you are of them: several hundred cars will not do! and the game makers can never say you paid this much for this that and the other, and [now] we've made all that.. IOW, the game you bought from us is in a completed state. You can read!

The fook'n' scam believers and preachers say that they can't complete the business deal in print, made for everyone's consideration, and then have a post-life of car packs where newly made cars cost between $1 to $2 each. When a game is finished it is "locked." Any game that has any extra DLC, unevolved or evolving, is "divided."

[Joker]

Origineel geplaatst door StoOopiD:

I'm just sick and tired of developers making a game, then dividing the game or lock parts of it to DLC later.

I see right through their fookn scam.

You get enough content to be worthwhile the price of the base game

Anyway, sounds like you have already made up your mind before you made this thread
So don't understand the point of your thread

[shitass]

Not worth it. If you buy the base game you'll have to spend 90 euros extra on dlcs (keep in mind that the devs will add even more) . And the game itself is basically doing chores simulator.

[Joker]

Origineel geplaatst door IHaveALotOfBraincells:

Not worth it. If you buy the base game you'll have to spend 90 euros extra on dlcs (keep in mind that the devs will add even more. And the game itself is basically doing chores simulator.

Racing in a racing game is doing chores?

[MBK]

Origineel geplaatst door Joker:

Origineel geplaatst door IHaveALotOfBraincells:

And the game itself is basically doing chores simulator.

Racing in a racing game is doing chores?

Clearly their username does not check out

[soldier6661111]

DLCs are scary? LMAO kid Your name checks out.

[the bat kite]

He hasn't played since May 4 of last year. He gave it a negative review then, played five more hours, and split.

He is obsessed with getting payback...on others in discussions about something they didn't do to him. He needs negative attention. He ought to go play a game, you know?! He changed his avatar recently to a thumbs down. He used to have an avatar with Hitler in it.

Maybe the thumbs down representation of himself is disillusionment about all games...gaming?

After almost 9 months of being a non-FH5 player, in just discussions about FH5 instead, that his money didn't get him the post rally expansion car pack DLCs where cars cost one to two dollars each. How does he even know this? He does not play. He quit last Spring.

[shitass]

Origineel geplaatst door Joker:

Origineel geplaatst door IHaveALotOfBraincells:

Not worth it. If you buy the base game you'll have to spend 90 euros extra on dlcs (keep in mind that the devs will add even more. And the game itself is basically doing chores simulator.

Racing in a racing game is doing chores?

The racing in this game is just afwul. Idk how anyone can enjoy racing against cars that all follow the same line and don't even try to hide the fact that they're cheating or how anyone can enjoy racing online with the braindead penalty system, broken meta and neanderthals that will just ram anyone that they see.
The devs did the bare minimum to pass that as racing. The "racing" in the game is only there so they can call the game a racing game.
The other gameplay is doing chores from the festival ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ so you can unlock cars that should have been there at launch.

[the bat kite]

They weren't dishonest about what you'd get for your Premium game buy-in. The content descriptions are detailed enough. Only the 2 expansions - what they'd be! was a blind gamble. IMO, Hot Wheels theme park (expansion 1, of 2) up in the sky was a dishonest gyp. It isn't the game; instead it's an unrelated mini-game stuck inside the Forza Horizon 5 storefront for $20-something dollars. But the new Hot Wheels cars themselves weren't unrelated to the game. They are based on toys looks but the devs made them convincingly real for the Mexico game map.

There should have been two expansions like the rally race map/events. Rally racing is related content type to FH5.

We are AGAIN talking cars here. People are up in arms. It's the insanity that has erupted in discussion that is the SCAM,OMG car packs. And now people are pissed that it's cheapo Chinese cars and not "good" Western cars.

There's even a turf war on that DLC announcement where alot of Chinese customers are battling it out, about Korea. Korea. It never ends, the stuff that isn't about the game weirdness.

What we, the Premium game buyers, were buying in that package deal is clear. These car pack cars weren't in the DLCs the Premium game included. Sad but true.

Remember that the norm is [that] game makers abandon their games after two or three years, even big big games. They're done. Content ceases. They and we move on. P.G. has essentially abandoned FH5 in terms of new content. A trickling of 1 and 2 dollar special interest cars. That's all they are making. No tracks, nothing (else) to get.

Games where all the evolving content is free and open-ended for full game customers year after year aren't a thing. Look around in your library.

As for seasonal reward cars, that is the game's way of keeping players engaged. IMO, only the 20 point cars are worth the effort. I DO understand O-CD desire for more and more cars. But let's be reasonable too; there are several hundred cars that you either bought outright or can buy with credits earned in the Premium game.

EDIT: the number of cars in the Premium game are so numerous that no other racing game, in full form, in full expense, can 'touch' P.G/Turn 10 on that.

[shitass]

Origineel geplaatst door ghariyal:

He hasn't played since May 4 of last year. He gave it a negative review then, played five more hours, and split.

Yeah because the devs not only fixed any issues with the game giving me a reason to come back, they added more car packs giving me less of a reason to come back. Another reason is that the game is 170 gb. I can install 10+ different (and better) games instead of fh5 using the space saved uninstalling fh5.

Origineel geplaatst door ghariyal:

He is obsessed with getting payback...on others in discussions about something they didn't do to him. He needs negative attention. He ought to go play a game, you know?! He changed his avatar recently to a thumbs down.

I am giving the game criticism it needs. The game is praised as being the greatest game of all time when it is highly mediocre.

Origineel geplaatst door ghariyal:

He used to have an avatar with Hitler in it.

I don't see how that changes anything? And yes, I used to, but I changed it. And it also was an edit of a historical photo where eminem is rap battling hitler, not just hitler. You on the other hand, proudly have trump and putin at the background of your profile, 2 of the most degenerate people currently alive.

Origineel geplaatst door ghariyal:

After almost 9 months of being a non-FH5 player, in just discussions about FH5 instead, that his money didn't get him the post rally expansion car pack DLCs where cars cost one to two dollars each. How does he even know this? He does not play. He quit last Spring.

How do I know this? I still get announcments from fh5 on my steam library page because the game is still installed on my slow disc where the game is half playable, with me using it only for photos.
And also now that you know why I'm still making discussions on this game, I wanna know why it bothers you so much? You know that you can block people that you don't want to see posts from?

[the bat kite]

My Trump and Putin background is a Steam creation. Your whoever who was singing to Hitler avatar was not. It was all you, was it not? Now your avatar is a thumbs down. What does that mean? What did a singer and Hitler mean? Is it a meme?

That was a monor point in my comment that you seized on. But let's talk about it at length, shall we?

You use my profile against me because you don't like my comment.

My entire profile - all of it - is a carefully & thoughtfully made spoof on the right-wing extremists in my country. But I am indeed angry about them.

My avatar is a bigot cartoon character who in this still is running a right-wing war room Rush Limbaugh-like radio station. It's from an Adult Swim's Squidbillies episode. He's not a historical genocidal war criminal.

Trump isn't your problem in the Netherlands. The TEA Party and MAGA are mine. Over a span of fifteen years this political movement has separated our people into warring camps.....caused my family to separate me out as a dangerous to America and Christianity liberal commie.

Trump supports the war criminal, Putin. THAT is the meaning of the Steam background. They are associated, don't you know? What do you, in the Netherlands, know about Trump? I'll tell you: he is a want-to-be autocrat running for office again after an insurrection of his here in the USA.

I invite the people you might have stirred-up about my profile to LOOK at it. It's sharp cutting satire. Your avatar was just a guy with a mic and Hitler in it. No context.

You will complain forever it seems, and that will accomplish nothing. The devs are done. You are only talking to fellow customers and we can't do a gawd damn thing about your obsessive desire for payback for whatever you lost out on, *and you know that.* 430 hours of gameplay was a loss? Really!

Just leave the game. Uninstall it and no more updates will inform and trouble you. Make tracks to other games and leave it. You are definitely done with it afterall. You literally quit it nine months ago.

Your thumbs down review was made nine months ago and you played a mere five hours more and never ever logged-on again.

[the bat kite]

Origineel geplaatst door Joker:

Origineel geplaatst door ghariyal:

My Trump and Putin background is a Steam creation. Your whoever who was singing to Hitler is not. It was all you, was it not? Now your avatar is a thumbs down. What does that mean? What did a singer and Hitler mean? Is it a meme?

My entire profile - all of it - is a carefully thoughtfully made spoof on the right-wing extremists in my country. Trump isn't your problem in the Netherlands. The TEA Party and MAGA are mine. Over a span of fifteen years this political movement has separated our people into warring camps.....caused my family to separate me out as a dangerous to America and Christianity liberal commie.

Trump supports the war criminal, Putin. THAT is the meaning of the Steam background. They are associated, don't you know? What do you, in the Netherlands, know about Trump? I'll tell you: he is a want-to-be autocrat running for office again after an insurrection of his here in the USA.

I invite the people you might have stirred-up about my profile to LOOK at it. It's a sharp cutting satire. Your avatar was just avatar with Hitler in it. No context.

You will complain forever it seems, and that will accomplish nothing. The devs are done. You are only talking to fellow customers and we can't do a gawd damn thing about your obsessive desire for payback for whatever you lost out on, *and you know that.* 430 hours of gameplay was a loss? Really!

Just leave the game. Uninstall it and no more updates will inform and trouble you. Make tracks to other games and leave it. You are definitely done with it afterall. You literally quit it nine months ago.

Your thumbs down review was made nine months ago and you played a mere five hours more and never ever logged-on again.

I'm neither American or a Trump fan boy, but if you still believe the Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy theory, you might want to watch something else than CNN for a change

Unrelated, Joker. The topic is Forza Horizon 5. IHaveAlotOfBrainCells made that into a strawman he could burn. You want in?