Forza Horizon 5 Coming to PlayStation 5 in the Spring

[MagpieRacer]

To what effect is what I ask myself?

Will GT8 be open world - no.
Will PD swap out Smooth Jazz for EDM - no.
Will there be a Gran Turismo Music Festival - no.
Will GT8 be an arcade game or feature arcade controls - no.
The sevice-y aspect - probably, but that is a path PD are/were already on.

Gran Turismo will continue to to its thing and find its audience and FH will do the same.

Cars go brrrrr.

GT8 needs to be a huge step up from GT7 first and foremost, GT7 kind of shows that PD don't really care enough about what the fans want, GT8 needs to correct that in a big way.

But lets address the points anyway, fruitless a task as it may be:

Will GT8 be open world? - We don't know. Look at AC Evo, it's not impossible given it being a highly requested element and as AC Evo will be a direct competitor to GT/GT8, it can't be ruled out.

Will PD swap out Smooth Jazz for EDM? - We don't know. GT has always featured extremely varied music libraries, as does FH with multiple radio channels covering almost all genres.

Will there be a Gran Turismo Music Festival? - We don't know, unlikely. Car festival? Maybe. GT is a celebration of cars ultimately.

Will GT8 be an arcade game or feature arcade controls? - Unlikely, is Forza Horizon an arcade game? No. Both games tread the line between full sim and sim-cade (hate that term but let's roll with it) Both games feature realistic underlying physics systems with filtering and assists laid on top of that it make it more accessible to the masses. Does Forza Horizon do this slightly more aggressively than Gran Turismo? Yes.

Service Aspect? - 1'000'000%. It is what they want GT7 to be, they just made a pigs ear of doing it.

Yes the games will do their own thing, that doesn't mean they can't affect each other.

Motorsport began declining immediately after Horizon 1 released with each game selling less and less while Horizon was ramping up at the same time.

For sure it began declining, but it didn't kill it. The 2 should be able to coexist if they committed to taking Forza Motorsport in the direction they were aiming to properly, instead of making a complete hash of it.

 

[Fezzik]

I must have missed the realistic underlying physics in this simcade when I was doing loop-the-loops in my Hot Wheels or attempting to jump into the stadium in a drivetrain-swapped AWD hypercar.

 

[MagpieRacer]

I must have missed the realistic underlying physics in this simcade when I was doing loop-the-loops in my Hot Wheels or attempting to jump into the stadium in a drivetrain-swapped AWD hypercar.

Likewise in GT7 doing 630kmh round the Nurburgring in under 3 and a half minutes 🤣

 

[danimac]

It’s the Biff timeline.

Great Scott! Woah Doc this is heavy! Precisely!!!

 

[RazorSharkz]

I think this may be a good business decision ngl. You can buy an Xbox and get Forza with Game pass which is an easy 15 a month plus so many other available games. But if you have a PS5 you pay full price. I know more than a few PlayStation loyalists who are very jealous of Forza so they'll get that money from them.

 

[i386]

So people with low budget that want a racing game will have to decide between GT7, FH5 and other racing games.

Both games are regularly on sale (already).
And if you have a ps5 (pro) now you probably don't have to worry about a budget for games...

 

[kjb]

This is very interesting I may be interested in getting this. I have never had an Xbox so this will be interesting to play.

 

[StarRacer]

Pointless fantasy thought of the day:
Give me ALL of the cars in any Forza platform (I know......licensing) on GT plus a normal single player career mode......BOOM!

 

[Doncarlone]

This is very interesting I may be interested in getting this. I have never had an Xbox so this will be interesting to play.

If its your first forza horizon, you will have a blast 👍

Oh, I would prefer Great Britain as well. In the gameplay videos I viewed, it has quite the charming atmosphere. Mexico on the other hand seems a little bland. Beggars can't be choosers though!

Its just preference. Nothing wrong with fh5 map. But the diferent seasons in fh4 map were so cool. In winter season the rivers and lagoons freeze, you can drive on them. That was so cool.
Fh5 does have better dlc though. Hot wheels and rally dlc were top

 

[Force-Feedback]

It's certainly a fun game on the controller. Had FH3,4 and 5 but got my most hours out of FH4.

I still miss FM4 back when that was in it's prime!

 

[odeepaanh]

Link to the games store page.

Anyway it's fine, no need to explain, just another news site I will stop visiting. Cheers.

Lol

 

[pez2k]

I Don't think Horizon killed Motorsport, Motorsport killed Motorsport.

I think there is some truth to Horizon taking players from Motorsport. There is a fairly large casual market of players who want to tune up cars and drive them around but aren't bothered about big name circuits, for whom an open world map is a big positive. The way Horizon throws money and cars at players as well as including some fairly wacky engine swap options is a direct play to this market. Those players will largely no longer be as interested in the Motorsport series, because Horizon fills that role much better for them.

That shift is also visible in how the Motorsport games have changed tack when it comes to upgrades and multiplayer. FM7 tried to lock down upgrades and make them more of a way of balancing diverse cars into a competitive field, while the latest game initially leaned towards upgrades being more of a reward for sticking with a car and giving options to keep driving it in other events. Both of those experiments to me are a focus on the more serious players who are playing Motorsport for motorsport and close competition, leaving the wacky fun times to Horizon.

However, I suspect there should be enough of a core market for Motorsport for it to do well, they've just kept fumbling the game design.

 

[juanffy18]

I prefer Forza Motorsport but this is a great welcome for PS5 players

 

[skazz]

Forza Horizon is for people who:

• Started on arcade racers (and don't use the brake trigger) and want something a bit more mature without nerdy circuit racing
• Been circuit racing for years seriously and just want to chill with cars using a controller
• Want to show off the graphics of their Xbox PS5
• Enjoy cars, chilling, being able to drive anywhere in any car and love collecting a vast array of older and brand new cars

I'd argue that FH5 is just as likely to draw new players to GT7/GT8 than it is to steal them. Although at launch there will be loads of car guys who like the idea of just chilling.


I'm happy that Playstation-only players will finally get to experience what is without doubt one of the best car games ever.

 

[hawkeyez]

Never played FH5. But watching gameplay videos, it looks a bit too arcade. I do hope it puts pressure on PD to start giving us more tracks in the free updates.

They can work at making GT8, but I suspect they’ll carry over all the things I despise about Gran Turismo so by the time they do that, we’ll have AC2 and/or Project Motor Racing. IF PD makes GT8 just like GT7 only adding a lot more tracks, more competitively grouped cars removing the need to muck about tuning a bunch to make classes, tune sharing, better radar, custom HUD display and AI in multiplayer lobbies then I might stick around for GT8. Oh and make it much less of a grind to obtain cars.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Never played FH5. But watching gameplay videos, it looks a bit too arcade.

I will say that with all the assists off, the physics become a lot more nuanced and cars actually behave how they should. It’s obviously not to a GT/FM level, but there is a believability to the way they cars handle… it’s just that they’re also very forgiving when you want to throw it into a slide or hit a jump. It’s honestly a weirdly perfect mix (for me anyway) and is the whole reason I’ve dumped so many hours into it. It’s just fun to drive around.