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[GHG]

@Kvally is a good guy. I just think he is way off base here.

Yeh, I'm pretty fond of him in the same way I was SoloKingRobert

 

[Brucey]

I thought it might do well but they should have come in at much lower pricing imo, like half of what it is and get the excitement up for Forza 6 and launch that day one on PS

Yeah no way I'm paying $60 when I picked up The Crew on disc on sale for $20 during Amazon black Friday sales

 

[kevboard]

Yeah no way I'm paying $60 when I picked up The Crew on disc on sale for $20 during Amazon black Friday sales

I am not sure if this is a joke on behalf of the fact that The Crew is not playable anymore because the servers are down...

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Yeah no way I'm paying $60 when I picked up The Crew on disc on sale for $20 during Amazon black Friday sales

Forza Horizon 5 is much better than The Crew though despite being the worst in the series in most ways.

 

[Brucey]

I am not sure if this is a joke on behalf of the fact that The Crew is not playable anymore because the servers are down...

Sorry, the crew motorfest:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7RPMYGK

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

They are doing early access for a game that is already out? … smh

 

[Heart_Attack]

It appears the game won't receive a Physical Release lol.

 

[Topher]

It appears the game won't receive a Physical Release lol.

Who said that?

 

[sendit]

I am probably going to pick up Marathon for my Xbox Series X.

Keep fighting the good fight. I'm rooting for you.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Who said that?

 

[Topher]

Well dang. No gamefly rental for me. Guess I'll have to wait on a sale if it is only digital.

Oh well.

 

[adamsapple]

Sorry, the crew motorfest:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7RPMYGK

The statement still holds true, FH5 is a much better game than The Crew Motorfest.

IMO of course, but more people will probably share the same sentiment.

 

[sendit]

 

[SimTourist]

I am legit interested in seeing how Forza performs on a console platform that has had an 800 lb gorilla named Gran Turismo for decades

It should do well, the racing market is pretty thin as it is, we used to have 10's of different racers, now there is barely a handful. One currentgen NFS, Crew, Test Drive, the competition isn't very stiff. Horizon managed to kill Motorsport so maybe it will put a dent into GT as well.

 

[DenchDeckard]

This game is going to do numbers on ps5.

Will look insane on ps5 pro as it already was a looker on series x.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

This game is going to do numbers on ps5.

I think people should lower their expectations a bit.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

This game is going to do numbers on ps5.

Will look insane on ps5 pro as it already was a looker on series x.

I think this will reduce sales somewhat…

 

[TBiddy]

I think this will reduce sales somewhat…

How much? 10k? 1 million? 5 million?

 

[RetroGamingUK]

How much? 10k? 1 million? 5 million?

Around a quarter of potential sales.

I’d consider it at a heavy discount, I’m not paying those prices for a digital download though.

 

[TBiddy]

Around a quarter of potential sales.

I’d consider it at a heavy discount, I’m not paying those prices for a digital download though.

Probably a good guess since the ratio is about 70/30 in favor of digital sales, but I suspect that if people really to buy this game, they will no matter if it's available in physical form or not. It's a great game, but I think it's too expensive given the age.

 

[Boss Mog]

Yep, the tools will be finally be ready next year and don't forget that next wednesday MS are buying Sega so it's really game over for PlayStation.

 

[Cyborg]

I cant wait to try this.

 

[Gilgalaad]

It appears the game won't receive a Physical Release lol.

No physical release. Full price. No buy.
Next

 

[yogaflame]

I think this will reduce sales somewhat…

Strange no physical copy. But MS will release Ninja Gaiden 2 black for ps5 with physical copy on March. Even Doom dark ages on May will have physical copy for ps5.

 

[Mattyp]

It’s hard when a lot would have played it on PC already, will still be we’ll into the millions.

Launch FH6 Japan setting day 1 and take it back to its roots a bit, which I think they will and watch it break the 40 million set by FH5.

 

[Astray]

Any GAME should never have his fomo bullshit anyways.

True, but at least you can understand the cold business logic of doing this on a brand-new game.. Doing it with a years-old one is just fucking dumb and pernicious for no real reason.

 

[Sebastian1295]

This made me laugh. I had too.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Good to see the Pro support. Won't be double-dippin', but still good to see.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

If you have access to gran torismo 7, would you even want to play this ?

 

[Embearded]

If you have access to gran torismo 7, would you even want to play this ?

Yes i want, because its a different kind of experience.
Gran Turismo is competing with Forza Motorsport, not Horizon.
Horizon is for fun races and sandbox driving. Gran Turismo is for when i feel like I want a more realistic driving experience.

 

[BigLee74]

Early but very late access.

I’d like to think people can wait a few more days. Great game by the way (especially if you’ve not played any of the earlier versions) - I think it will do great numbers on PS.

 

[DJ12]

First, the betrayal of it coming to PS5, then to add insult to injury, they done gone and ENHANCED it for the Pro?

We all knew this would happen, let's see the real tears flow should the standard ps5 also perform better than series x

 

[DenchDeckard]

Great to see they are supporting the pro properly.

Looking forward to seeing the DF on this. I bet it will look slick on the Pro.

 

[TrebleShot]

This game's going to do crazy numbers on ps five I definitely will be grabbing a copy even though i've got it on p c.Already

 

[Unknown?]

No physical release. Full price. No buy.
Next

Yup, was looking forward to this.

 

[damidu]

If you have access to gran torismo 7, would you even want to play this ?

they are as different as something like cod vs gt7
totally different genres.
crew motorfest is the closest clone of horizon on ps, and while not bad, its kinda meh.

 

[Saber]

Why the heck an early acess for this game that already launched on other plataforms, I got no idea.
But I got interested, maybe I bite the regular one.

 

[DJ12]

Hopefully crossplay with pc and xbox

Hopefully not. Played the pc version online and it's full of idiots screaming all the time.

This was around launch dont know what it's like now.

I can tolerate quite a lot, I played burnout paradise online too where the level of butthurt does something to some people, but forza horizon was magnitudes worse.

So much so I had to search for how to stop people being able to talk to me by default.

 

[Synastry]

If you have access to gran torismo 7, would you even want to play this ?

I have over 5000 hours in GT7 and I wanna play FH5.

There different enough games that both can co exist.

Things I like about GT7.

1. Car Models
2. Driving Physics and feel of the cars.
3. The showcase - Livery editor.
4. Photomode

Things I like about FH5

1.The car list so many cars in FH not in GT7
2. Free roam
2. Driving Physics and feel of the cars. in my short time with FH5 back in 2022 I remember how the cars felt better then NFS and The crew 2 which I got to play for a short time before deleting it.

 

[Markio128]

I think FH5 will definitely justify the multi platform route for MS and will likely sell very well, probably more so than Indy.

 

[Saber]

Well dang. No gamefly rental for me. Guess I'll have to wait on a sale if it is only digital.

Oh well.

Yeah, having digital aways in this game will be very difficult for me to buy it.
They can do anything with it, I would be more willing to buy the physical.

 

[Roberts]

Sorry, the crew motorfest:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7RPMYGK

It's still lot better but I understand: there's quite a difference between 20 and 60

 

[John Wick]

Finally good racing game on Playstation, after years of shitty corridor games

j/k

GT7 is fantastic on PS5. The support from PD has been great.
Been looking forward to this. Double dipping even though own it on Series X.

 

[John Wick]

Poor Riky and the Mage fella.

Yeah what happened to that Riky? Is he still here?

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Yeah what happened to that Riky? Is he still here?

Didn't he vanish not long after Sony added VRR-support?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Didn't he vanish not long after Sony added VRR-support?

Was just after the Forza RT marketing scam that didn’t pan out like they were hyping it to be.

 

[Fake]

How Ninja Gaiden 2 get and this don't?

Doesn't make sense.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

How Ninja Gaiden 2 get and this don't?

Doesn't make sense.

Ninja Gaiden 2 will be focused more towards the Japanese market.

If you want your game to flop over there, go digital only.

I wonder if the developer also influences whether they go digital or not.

 

[Beechos]

GT7 is fantastic on PS5. The support from PD has been great.
Been looking forward to this. Double dipping even though own it on Series X.

Hopefully there's cross progression so you don't have to start all over.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Figured I'd drop this here as it's the best FH5 video I've seen and is nearly spot on with my criticism of the game.


I still have hundreds of hours in the game, and I bought the Ultimate Edition Day 1 on Xbox, and then later down the line on Steam for 50%. I will most likely buy the game on PS5 once it hits around 50% off too but that does not mean it doesn't have faults and I think the fact that FH5 despite being the 2nd worse in the series for me (I think I like 2 the least personally) I've bought it multiple times and put hundreds of hours into it over the years. It just goes to show how good the Horizon series is overall.

Personally for me 3=4>1>5>2.

If you have access to gran torismo 7, would you even want to play this ?

Comments like this always come across as fan boyish to me (not saying you are just in general).
Because the games aren't even close to the same thing? This is painfully obvious even just seeing trailers.

Gran Turismo is and always has been a sim racer. Forza Motorsport was created to compete with Gran Turismo. Forza Horizon is an arcade racer with physics that bring in some sim elements. They are so fundamentally different that they don't really have anything in common outside of being racing games.

Now if they were porting the latest Forza Motorsport then I would 100% agree.