It's been a good few months since Forza Horizon 5 launched, and our minds are wandering, thinking about what's next. Developer Playground's latest racer has two expansions coming — much like the last two games — and rumour has it that we're not far off from the game's first DLC.
We've been dipping into the Forza Horizon 5 festival playlist as of late, and a recent Showcase Remix got us thinking about what we'd like to see from Expansion 1.
The Showcase involved us barrelling across the dunes against a squad of dirt bikes, and to be honest, we think its high time Forza introduced some two-wheel racing into the Horizon series. Dirt bikes seem a perfect fit for Forza Horizon 5's dune-filled desert, and in previous years, Playground has delivered a more down-to-earth DLC for the first expansion, so that'd fit the bill. A separate island filled with plenty of PR stunts would be a blast for some dirt bike action, and hopefully we'd be able to bring the new vehicle type back to the main map as well.
Anyway, enough of our speculative spitballing, what would you like to see from Forza Horizon 5's first expansion? Something similarly realistic, or do you want Playground to double down on the Hot Wheels-type content and deliver two OTT DLCs this time out?
How do you want the first Forza Horizon 5 expansion to take shape? Throw your best ideas down in the comments.
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Bikes? Hell no! A stunt island like the two previous games? Hmm, no, I'm good.
Honestly, I don't really have inspiration myself, but something like Tokyo would be great for drifting and intense street races - and I'd like to see some electrification as well - but I don't think it's very likely.
Given no-one knows what's going on with Forza Motorsport, I think a more serious and realistic 1st expansion would be the best fit.
I'd love a prequel DLC/game that takes place during the very first Horizon festival, kinda like Woodstock.
Or the opposite to Blizzard Mountain where it's all out in the desert with more emphasis on sandstorms like with dust devils & such.
A map full of racetracks.
Days Of Thunder themed dlc. Just spitballin’
Micro machines...
Forza should not have bikes. I'd actually like a swampier area, personally. One to really test the offroading out on.
Cross promotion with Hasbro.
Would love to be racing autobots vs other autobots.
Somewhere in Mexico there's a hidden space bridge to Cybertron, right?
Well we had Hot Wheels in Horizon 3 and Lego in Horizon 4 so my bet is on some sort of toy collabration for at least one expansion.
I’d really like to see a new showcase. They were the highlight of the main game for me.
Motorcycles would be AMAZING.
I’d love to see the ability to have fair races…how about patching that in? That’s the biggest flaw with this franchise now. I can just about live with the increasing over the top ‘personality’ they keep trying desperately to force into it with every entry… and even the increased focus on f2p mechanics of constant wheel spins and other nonsense that drags the gameplay down… but playing online races is just an act of frustration and oddly goes against the whole ‘accessibility’ they’re aiming for with the rest of the game.
Nearly ever race I play online I’m under powered compared to 99% of the people I race against. If I don’t have a car in the required class I get offered the recommended cars that are also all under powered - if The race is using A class cars for example the cars I’ll be racing against will all be 800 (the max A class can be). The recommended cars I’m given will be far below that. So basically I need to make sure I do upgrades to cars I have in every class…and then optimise for off-road racing etc…which for single player is fine. For online, I just wanna race. And even in sp it’s not like you can just upgrade your car without being thrown into different menus or a completely different place on the map.
Forza horizon makes everything accessible other than actual racing. I go from this to playing something like Grid or Dirt online and the awkwardness of how FH does online racing real sticks out. I really hope they start working on this.
I would like to see a large city environment to race in.
Something crazy and different that changes the loop. More hot wheels like mayhem than Fortune island
Anything that will keep me playing longer than a month, which is about how long I played the base game for.
Bikes would be a brilliant addition, haven't played a truly good arcade racer with bikes since the mighty PGR4.
Hoping for some more papa Fernando mentions, or maybe drugs cartel arrive from Mexico City and 'festival' gets taken out in the Cross fire...
I jest of course, but as a 42 year old gamer, the festival backdrop is cringeworthy. I just tune out and ignore it as much as possible.
Currently tucking into gt7 on tge ps5, will return to fh5 after to do a comparison. Haven't touched fh5 for a few months now, but must say I did enjoy it. The sense of speed much better in fh5. I get fh5 is more arcady, motorsport being contender to gt. Physics in gt are great, even the snap oversteer in rwd are manageable with no TCS, but I didn't play gts, so didn't have to detrain my muscle memory. Looks like serious lack of content for now though, once 'menus' are complete... some screenshots doing the rounds of select people having access to a load more races. Odd PD elected to seemingly cut out content on its release.And annoying you can't sell any cars, economy looks very questionable in its current state... both very good games for car lovers in their own ways though.
Hopefully the updates will be semi realistic and not lego lands and the like. But if the weird, totally unrealistic stuff is well out the way, not end of world
Id like to see the M3 f80 (my car Irl!) or the new m3/m4 gxx series and some new events. would keep me happy enough.
A 10th anniversary recreation of the original Colorado map with the same layout but better graphics, the 2012 soundtrack brought back and the Revenge of Darius Flynt.
@TheIronChimp Forza Horizon: Barbie’s Dream Island
@hawkeyed2604 God no 😅. Id go for Micromachines though.
@TheIronChimp that would be awesome
I would say something to do with the snow, considering how we have snow tires and there is barely any snow in the game.
I know this doesn't make any sense but I wouldn't mind helicopters, strictly for exploration purposes... And finding those signs I can't reach.
A Jurassic World tie-in. A new island, slightly off the current map. Illegal races through dino-infested biomes. Escape pterodactyls on dirt-bikes and/or wingsuits. Race 4x4's alongside dino herds while a T-Rex bears down in the rearview mirror. Beat hungry dinos down a mountain to a waiting boat. Out-run a volcano. When he visits to open the park, you are Jeff Goldblum's chauffeur on a disaster-laden VIP tour. Rescue a reclusive novelist (Michael Chrichton) from his jungle compound and transport him to safety using a variety of vehicles while enjoying his excited narration. Race through a series of Ratchet-style time-holes, jumping seamlessly between now, the actual Jurassic era and an extreme-weather future. And Laura Dern on comms as my (nervous) race manager.
I still want Forza 8!
@RadioHedgeFund
This! Exactly this!
They could also add some racing to their racing game. It’s definitely the weakest part of the game.
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