I sub to GamePass so I've just played it on there. I bought the previous FM but found that it just didn't hold me attention that well, hence the lack of purchase this time. To honest I think I've only played FM23 a handful of times.
I've just never played it, I'm more of an FM4 man and that'll probably never change. But I do admit, its model does sound more like a FOMO version of GT7's--some cars go right into the showroom, some are tour reward cars that don't come back for any reason. I don't even think they have Hard-to-Finds, which makes that whole thing feel worse.
They do with the unlockable exclusive cars in the monthly career tours, but it's like... you can play all of them on free play without owning the car, you just need to know the tricks in setting up the event.
Yeah, considering how my own GPU can't handle ray-tracing--I had to turn off the ray-tracing in Forzavista 'cause I knew it was impacting frame rate in its interiors--an FH6 that's totally reliant on it would be a no-sell for me. T10's ultimately in charge of Horizon's tech so if they make PG use ForzaTech, warts and all, I guess I'd be hopeful they'd figure out a way to skirt around those issues.
For sure. If they bring over any graphics improvements from FM, I really hope it's these. It just makes getting photos of the vehicles so much more fun and also adds a bit more immersion when you're driving, since you're seeing the tail lights a lot especially.
I'll have to remember to give him some back-sass once everything's all wrapped up.
We'll probably know what the community picked for our first returning Playlist starting tomorrow. Going by the less-than-inspiring returning car list for Italian Automotive, I'll bet it's High Performance that won.FH5 Release Notes: February 12th, 2025 (Hotfix)
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I imagine my gaming time on my Xbox is split pretty similarly bud.So yesterday I realized one of the two cars I sold off to help me catch back up with Horizon Extreme and Holiday Mixup was in the Backstage Shop already, so I snapped it back up using one of the Passes I've been saving. At this point, once I get the GTO next week, my Horizon journey will probably end with that unless they do add cars with Horizon Realms. So I figure, may as well wax lyrical like everyone else seems to be doing.
I actually never bought FH5 myself, the Ultimate Edition I have was a gift from one of my Steam friends. He'd been playing a lot of Warframe and... I swear I remember him joking that, once I got through a lot of the live service stuff, he got it for me just so I knew what it was like for him to be playing that.
That being said though... The other day, I installed Playnite, just to make my life easier once FH5 does end for me and it's time to pick a new game to play on my PC. What I saw pretty much absolutely floored me--all told, FH5 accounted for around 40% of all my time playing PC games, and that's not counting all those times I did start a game without Steam and never got super far with it.
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Like it or not, for pretty much all of FH5's runtime, this game pretty much defined my entire gaming existence. I can certainly imagine my life without it, but to finally, truly be freed from Mexico's live service, even if only for a couple months before we have to start thinking about Horizon Realms and what that might bring (I'm still firmly on Team Realms when it comes to when we get our final cars), is absolutely surreal to think about. Despite only missing that one car until next week, I've never missed an Evolving World update. I've seen some truly tremendous highs, and some hilariously low lows. Even though this was my first Horizon since FH1 twelve years ago, and even though I wish I could've been there for all of FH4 as well going by how much better that game flows, I can confidently say I will never forget anything I saw in Mexico over these last three years.
With that in mind... well, one more week left for me to enjoy Mexico to the fullest, right? I'd better get to the rest of this bucket list.
Yes, you're right. This week's eventlab events are far from the best (a race along the freeway is very unoriginal), but having something fresh to do every week does add a lot of variety to the game. I do those plus the Forzathon each week now, as a rule.
I've definitely said it before, but I think my big reservation surrounding China and South Korea as settings would be that there's not much of a car culture over there that PG could pull from for anything. Sure, China has an untapped wealth of cars that would absolutely belong at Horizon, like BYD's hypercars and NIO's EVs, but they haven't really done much with it since the Lunar New Year update.
Koenigsegg carries the Sweden flag better than Saab/Volvo-Polestar ever could. But it won't be Sweden.
If FH6 goes to the Nordic countries it'll probably be Finland, or even an FH2 situation where it's two or even all of them at once. They are the most celebrated rally locales that aren't Kenya or Greece--and FH2 technically already went to Monte Carlo, another major rally venue, so it wouldn't be unusual.
It won't be Sweden as no one can spell Koenigsegg...
I mean they can't even spell Ferrari right (see FM23 thread!) 
