Why Forza Horizon 5 feels boring

Despite the unblemishing praise from all over, Forza Horizon 5 isn't as good and great as it seems, espeically in 2023. It has gigantic flaws, ones that destroy and crumble it's fun. It's such a vast game, but with such little depth. Playground games sure knows how to make a technical marvel, but are clueless on how to make a good, game. This is my video essay on Forza Horizon 5.

This is NOT a review for forza horizon 5 (FH5).

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(My voice sounds a bit different this video as I had a pretty bad cold while recording, so I couldn't raise my voice much while recording.)

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[jaytd]

About FH5's starter cars, the car you pick doesn't matter because the game gives you all three anyway

[jhfcdgkxdhfk]

Another reason why it feels boring is the road design. They go out of their way to make roads easy to drive on, not just by making them very wide, but also employing a variety of other techniques. For instance all curves are circle arcs, there's never a curve you can't see because of a bump, there's always some banking to help you etc.

The game is entirely geared towards being easy and unchallenging while also constantly obsequiously praising the player and showering them with achievement-like pseudo rewards designed to give a little boost of dopamine without actually rewarding anything substantial. It's obnoxious.

[Uknown]

The world needs pedestrians and more NPC drivers it feels like you're the last survivor in a nuclear wasteland

[exestudios]

Forza Horizon 1 was truly the best and most rewarding. I remember grinding just to get an Aventador.

[irvanray]

one of the problems with Horizon 5 maps is that they actually designed it to accommodate the fake Battle Royale mode they have.

[Adrid]

the map just feels like there was a nuclear explosion in mexico and we are the one and only survivors.

[matthewlee]

I think one of the biggest issues with the map is the lack of npcs on the road. There are so little people the world just feels dead and boring. You don’t need to actively dodge traffic doing 200 km an hour on a back road and it’s one of the many reasons why there is no sense of speed.

[fernandezfilms]

I keep saying this, it’s the lack of NPCs and NPC cars. FH3 has plenty of people roaming the streets during the day, other cars zooming past and it makes the world feel alive.

Rockstar Games a so good at making the world feel like it can exist without you because the NPCs feel like they truly live in that world. Horizon 5 is just a baron wasteland, even the city is mostly empty and lifeless. Adding some sense of life into the streets will make the entire world feel like it’s actually alive.

[marioforever]

I play forza just cuz its relaxing, and i imagine myself driving this empty roads without any traffic or disturbances in pure bliss.

[lil_legalo]

I don’t like how horizon 4 and 5 lets you use any car for any race. When it was locked to a certain class or car type in the previous games I found it way more enjoyable. It made me use way more cars instead of my top 3 favorites.

[thesorrow]

Playing Forza Horizon 4 & 5 feels meaningless. There's no end goal. You just drive until you get bored and then quit. I don't get these games at all.

[BGOWN]

I got the game off game pass and it instantly gave me a car token, so I just went and bought a Bugatti veyron as my second car💀

[alexross]

Something I genuinely enjoyed in FH4 was the seasons. I LOVED building different cars for different seasons, and doing online races with them. Having a car built for winter, for the muddy spring rally, and then the wide open roads of summer was a blast.

[Smokedship]

The other thing I found pretty disheartening about FH5 is the sudden burst of activities that are thrown onto the map… The previous versions had a better progression path with the activities slowly opening up. This isn’t the case with Fh5 and it just feels confusing when you open up the map.

[xxevnxxe]

"Realism is not fun, I played game because I want to have fun".
- Gabe Newell

[TheReaper-gqjz]

FH1 had the best progression in the series because it actually HAD progression.

Every game since FH1 just feels like a big sandbox where they throw hypercars at you and tell you to go do 1000 challenges.

[GodlyKJ]

You nailed it on the head with the game feeling like a Tech Demo. You get everything up front and see all the graphical advancements to make you say “Wow” and never play the game again yet still leave a 10/10 review, exactly the state of Forza.

[jacksonmartin]

I think horizon 5 is the definition of the quote “a game for everyone is a game for no one”

[dwightschrute]

This is legit straight to the point, I bought FH4 on last sale. I had all great cars on my fingertips and there was no satisfaction of progression i barely spent 10hours on that game.

[lucakoselj]

For me, 2 was the peak of the series. The tours you had to do from city to city were such a cool idea. I don’t like the newer feature of upgrading the festival itself or being somehow involved in it. I just want my car and tours from city to city