Is Forza Horizon 5 a bad game?

[Daniel H]

I never played any games in the series but i always heard that 5 is regarded by many to be the worst in the series. Is it worth playing?

[suddenly]

it's better then 4 but the map is very boring. 4 has way more better map.

[CascadeHush]

This forum is full of haters who love to say how bad 5 is compared to 4. They just lurk around ready to respond with nothing better to do apparently.

[Nursemorph]

It's not a bad game, no. It has it's issues but is still a good game. Is it the worst in the series? Some will say yes, some will say no. Personally, I do think it's the weakest in the series.....for me, the map is the primary reason for how good I think the game is and FH5 has the most boring and bland map of all 5 games. However, it does have very good areas like EventLab where players can create pure custom races which can be serious or fun or a combination of the 2

[PanPan]

Gameplay and graphics are god tier.
That's enough (and actually the most important) to be the best driving game.

Content is lazy, recycled, made for retention and online service.
And that's where FH4 is a better game.

Tuning is actually bad : stats are wrong. Am a casual that was interested in tuning. Not anymore...
Collecting and farming is not enjoyable.

I want to play when i want what i want with fair competition.
This is where most companies fail online to cheaters...

[ph!l]

Originally posted by Daniel H:

I never played any games in the series but i always heard that 5 is regarded by many to be the worst in the series. Is it worth playing?

No it's not a bad game, yes it's worth playing.

[Vin Petrol]

My take is
Amazing graphics, sound effects, car choice and tyre physics.
I just despise the kid pleasing arcadey nature of it.
No cinematic cams at all, in replay or whilst driving.
Colourful illuminated track banners everywhere and no actual race tracks, just checkpoint routes mainly.
As I say its great for the younger car cruise drifter style player, less impressive as a motorsports simulator, I enjoy free roam though.

[Joey Two Bastards]

As others have said it's the map that lets it down - it's OK but it's just bland. Other than that there are more cars and more things to do in this than in previous Horizon titles.

[JtDarth]

Functionally, the main cons are as such:
1. FOMO and FoTM content cycles.
2. The map is pretty mid.
3. AWD supremacy.
4. Strongly entrenched Meta that offers little reason to experiment with different cars.

The map is the biggest detractor here for general enjoyability. It's reasonably big, but it also is chock-full of dead space and boring, overly-straightforward roads, and it lacks in variety pretty hard. You basically have 4, maybe 5 'biomes': Desert with white dunes, desert with plants, farm plains, and then on the east side of the map you have a forested area, with some of it being 'southern rainforest' while some of it fits more in the temperate forest category. There are little dots of other terrain types here and there, but they are out of the way and tiny enough to forget they even exist. The game follows a pretty obvious and formulaic 'X% of map is this terrain type' checklist, and it's basically just washed across the map in contiguous chunks from west to east, starting with Desert and ending with forest. It just feels 'designed without passion'.
The Rally Adventure expansion's smaller, but more dense and more importantly, complex map is a lot more fun, even though it shows a lot of the same variety lack. The game also lacks anything that REALLY feels like a city or populated space. You've got one 'city' in the form of something that feels like an 'old quarter' or 'historical district' in a larger city, and that's basically it.

[Daniel H]

Originally posted by CascadeHush:

This forum is full of haters who love to say how bad 5 is compared to 4. They just lurk around ready to respond with nothing better to do apparently.

Thats all i read, people seemingly hating this game and me as a newcomer was confused because from what ive seen from the gameplay, it looks just fine

[Daniel H]

Originally posted by ph!l:

Originally posted by Daniel H:

I never played any games in the series but i always heard that 5 is regarded by many to be the worst in the series. Is it worth playing?

No it's not a bad game, yes it's worth playing.

thats good to know

[kireta]

I'd say it's a game with very solid core, plenty of fun to have, but also has ton of small annoyances that keep getting on your nerve

+ best driving an arcade game can offer. The only game to come close IMO is Dirt 3.
+ unmatched car selection, both sheer number and variety
+ robust upgrade and tunning system
+ drive anything you like, SP doesn't restrict what you can use, you can clear the map in starter car if you want to
+ new cars added to game every month

- map is dull compared to previous entries
- AI is insultingly bad, balanced mostly by rubberbanding
- lack of any active balancing in PvP. There's clear meta, and it hasn't changed since day one

[Million Dollar Mullet]

i like it, played it before on xbox and now bought it on steam with discount

[harbinger]

The problem with this game is definitely not the map (which I actually like), but the number of stupid events or challenges that the game has and the annoying things and bugs that the developers never cared to solve.

If they removed arcade events (or at least allowed us to permanently disable them) and fix all annoying issues, like no way to skip cutscenes, long loading times, stuttering, allowed us to disable speed traps permanently, allowed us to memorise our map preferences, if they completed all cut-scenes (which are unfinished), etc., then the game would become good. Note that there are many more problems with the game.

So, right now, we cannot say this is a good game, because it has many issues, but we can say it's fun to drive and it has many cool cars. It also got other things right, like the controller experience. However, the developers keep adding new cars instead of solving the actual problems. New cars will not make this game better. They don't understand this.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by suddenly:

it's better then 4 but the map is very boring. 4 has way more better map.

I think the map is beautiful. Matter of taste I suppose.

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Is Forza Horizon 5 a bad game? - No