Forza Horizon 5

Why do I keep hearing the gap between 4 and 5 is too short? It's the longest gap there's ever been between Horizon games 😀

I've 15 hours in the game already and it's great fun 😊

FH5 holds current title of Best Looking PC Game 2021, jesus its stunning.

Also more of the same kind of gameplay so thats good.

I done every race in a R34 GTR class b, can't remember how long the Goliath took me but the Colossus took me around 20 minutes I think it was

It's like the driving sections from GTA if they bothered to put in Actual physics

When I picked up Horizon 5 the opening sequence was like an unbelievably awesome version of Sega Outrun from the 80s

Does this happen again in the rest of the game? Doesn't seem like it but I've barely scratched the surface

There are more expeditions and PCgamesn called them

"These new activities are the Horizon Showcase’s studious cousin, taking the premise of a tightly scripted adventure and slowing the pace down to something more meditative, inviting you to appreciate the view as you scour areas for objectives."

Its more of a subtle guided drive than a full on race, you can repeat them for faster times.

really like it after playing last two nights but some amount of console crashes / freezes playing it on series x🙈

Tried this out on GamePass on PC last night...basically, it's the same game with slightly improved graphics (at least on PC, it's a far cry from Horizon 4 on the Xbox One), but the setting is miles ahead of that of Horizon 4, which might as well have been set in the local Tesco car park. Also the concept of the "seasons" is gone - I guess it caused a lot of "dead time" as people usually avoided playing when it was "winter" in game.

The whole overbearing stupidity of the Horizon series is still there, and it's unfortunately more insistent that a Jeova's witness ringing your doorbell at 8am on a Sunday. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the series exists and I have no problem with a bit of harmless, brain-dead fun on 4 wheels - what I really dislike about it is the fact it forces the player through it. The opening sequence with the "airplane drops" is Fast&Furious level cack and I'd have been glad to skip it. Every few minutes some utterly hopeless bellend with a squeaky, hyperactive grown up children voice screams in my ears to tell me "there's a new [insert idiotic stunt here] available! LOOK!". And the "advancement missions". Oh dear. Spent 45 minutes absolutely destroying invaluable Mayan ruins (more to that later) in a 4x4 to find an insufferable moron who thought he could fly a crop duster in a storm.

I wish they added a "free" game mode where you can disable all of the unnecessary rubbish and cruise around the scenery in peace, listening to some uninterrupted music without an utter pillock of a "DJ" constantly screeching about the "what will the Horizon guys have in store for us?" and cr@p of the same making.

Of about 3 hours I played, I spent probably 2 just driving around a DeLorean at motorway speeds (well, anyone who knows how the DeLorean performs, will know it's not that easy to go PAST these speeds 🤣), which is the real strength of the game and something no other series can offer (TDU came close to it, but it wasn't as polished). Did the occasional race with different cars, but racing in Horizon does nothing for me, it's more "Dukes of Hazzard" than racing; Thing is, it's not really a "racing game" like the journalists/reviewers stubbornly call it but rather its own genre, something like a "car adventure game" .

The one actual criticism about the environment is that it's completely and totally desolate. Hardly any people or traffic around and all is very static...well except for the occasional player-driven hypercar flipped on the roof passing you at 350kph going the wrong direction.

Finally I gotta say...the setting in Mexico does make for a bunch of hilarious things. First of all, the complete and utter disregard for anything sacred/ancient/cultural...Mayan ruins? Priceless remains of an ancient mysterious culture that has been already ravaged by foreign invaders? Sure, let's throw in a bunch of brain-dead millionaires with hypercars and 4x4 to leave tire marks and crash into anything 🤣.

Not to mention the few times you actually see a pedestrian standing around...I can't help but imagine their conversations: "Hola Hector, que pasa?" - "Todo bien Miguel! Horizon festival is in town!" - "Tell me about it hombre! It's great! Yesterday, a billionaire skinny-jeans wearing hipster gringo in a 5 million dollars hypercar crashed through our multi-generation home, which my great-grandfather built, and flattened grandma under his tires! Such a show!"

EDIT: One major thing...no Alfa Romeo in the game yet (licensing issues, as far as I understand). Bummer...but also means I might get to drive some other cars for once 🤣

The willy jeep is a much faster way of getting cars ( i dont care of XP just want cars :) )

Did one real lap of the goliath in my AMG @ 10.54

Not getting the last 5 would really bother me

Me reading this thread as a PlayStation owner...

This is an outrage.

Actually the game did call me by my first name when I first booted it up which I found a bit weird as I'm pretty sure I never gave it my real name in any previous Forza, that explains why.

Does it not use the name you picked in FH4? I just assumed that was it, didn't even think twice about it when I heard it

Actually, that might be better than series s as it has a disk so would serve as a gamepass machine and BC for old games i missed. Hhhmmmm

I wouldn't use the word "pandering" as any move towards accessibility and inclusivity is only a good thing. I do find Forza's particular implementation quite grating though as it's clearly nothing more than corporate box ticking from people who don't care, making sure you can choose you pronoun and switch any limb for a prosthetic, but heaven forbid anyone who's old, overweight or generally not conventionally good looking could be represented.

Lots of things about the game grate me tbh. I think it's because it's the exact same game I've already played multiple times, all the little UX problems that they still haven't bothered fixing really annoy me.

Why can't I buy / upgrade my car for the race I'm about to do, rather than drive across the map to a festival location then drive back? There is no reason for it at all.

When I finish a race in 2nd and want to restart to try for 1st it warns me unsaved progress will be lost. Which progress was unsaved? Do I lose the credits for finishing 2nd? Do I lose the XP for the feats performed during the race? Am I better off not restarting but instead continuing, going through a bunch of menus, then returning to the start line? Why can't the game just save my damn progress before it restarts?

Why does switching cars take so long, put you through multiple loading screens, and reset your position? You should be able to switch cars easily in free roam in the way you can switch transport in Rider's Republic. It makes it an absolute chore to switch to the correct road / offroad car you need for a nearby PR Stunt.

The whole issue of different car classes, offroad, race, drag and drift tyres and setups, races that are categorised by class but PR stunts that aren't, just causes tons of headaches and micromanagement. Faster car switching would certainly help but there's probably more that could be done to make all the management around this less painful.

I've joined an online race once so far, the random race mode. It said class was S2 on joining so I picked my McLaren Senna, the only S2 car I had at the time. I was then left sitting in free roam waiting to join the race for about 8 minutes - I say free roam but it's some kind of lobby where you can't do stunts or make progress on anything while you wait, just drive around the empty map randomly. Then when the race finally started it was a dirt track with no option to change car so I was left with a car that was completely undrivable. I still finished in the top half mind you because most other players were in equally unsuitable cars. I haven't bothered going back to multiplayer since.

And as others have said, all the voice overs are super annoying with their over the top self praise of everything, it really comes across as trying too hard.