Forza Horizon 5

[DANGERMAN]

to be fair, because this is getting a bit tiresome to read so I'm going to add to it 😄  Forza is very much the outlier for racing games. The regular series in the genre, Ride, Project Cars etc don't sell anything like this much, and would not be considered mainstream.  Racing games have got more specialist, it's just you do get the occasional Forza and Mario Kart in amongst that

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Nag said:

10 million people have played Forza Horizon 5 since launch.

Ohhh ya I was forgetting it’s on Xbox One. I had it in mind it’s only on XBSX.

[DisturbedSwan]

The game is great, kudos to Playground for putting out another banger 🔥

 

I expected as much from Xbox’s best studio. 

[bellow]

On 20/11/2021 at 12:41, DisturbedSwan said:

I expected as much from Xbox’s best studio. 

Haven't we already discussed this, young fella-me-lad.

[DisturbedSwan]

19 hours ago, bellow said:

Haven't we already discussed this, young fella-me-lad.

 

[mfnick]

 

Slightly disappointed it’s Hot Wheels again, especially now there’s also a decent official game based on it. But God damn it looks fucking awesome! 

[Maf]

Successful first time why not again eh 

[Nag]

 

😁

[Nag]

 

[spatular]

The rally dlc for the first game is awesome! So fingers crossed for this one to be as good.

[mfnick]

Big rally fan so I’m well up for this. 

[DisturbedSwan]

Yeah well up for this as well, should be a banger.

[Maf]

Damn

 

I suppose Sea of Thieves was already a huge game to go 3rd party but seeing one of Xbox’s big legacy titles go over is really sad

[Maryokutai]

It really seems like they've given up if that turns out to be true, and series like Halo and Gears aren't an 'if' but a 'when' question now.

 

On the plus side they probably would have to re-negociate those licensing deals for this release, so if nothing else this at least extends the game's shelf life on Xbox.

[one-armed dwarf]

Will be interesting to see if they use Dualsense haptics as a selling point on this, and if that makes it better than the Xbox one

[Nag]

Look on the bright side... at least PlayStation will have a decent driving game.👍

[Maf]

There’s a big Xbox guy on Twitter who denied this, but we’ll see

[mfnick]

Holy shit. This is like the best XSX game & Forza is a huge Xbox name. Massive if true. 

[Maryokutai]

As seems to become more common with Microsoft's releases, this won't get a physical version on PS5: https://insider-gaming.com/forza-horizon-5-has-no-current-plans-for-physical-release-on-ps5/

 

Now just by principle this is dumb IMO, but if you add the tiny issue of time-limited licenses to this then we're yet again looking at a game that will disappear from the face of the earth in five years or so, and the only version that will still be available then is a pre-owned physical Xbox One version. Admittedly it was a pipe dream to expect MS of all publishers to ship this content-complete on two discs for PS5, but it's more than just a little unfortunate that only the worst version of the game will remain available in the long run (at least on console, on PC there will always be 'workarounds' I guess).

[Guest]

How much they charging for it I wonder. FH5 is one of those games/series like gta that I keep trying and wanting to love over and over.