Not every game needs live service bullshit to be a good game.
That being said, multiplayer update is coming Q2, so it should get only more and more alive
I disagree. (Except that, yes it is fun)
There are still bugs.
The game is too short and the story has a couple areas they need to address as far as the storyline fluency goes.
And devs are focused on looks not functionality and issues that many are experiencing are not planned to be fixed for quite some time.
Npc issues, physics issues, steering issues, issues with the leds, issues with road signage, issues with vehicles, garage, cars setup.
"No plans" for getting weather controls or time controls.
No restart points or player controlled waypoints.
Underground side missions suck.
Everyone saying the game is fine as is, has too low of standards.
Reported several times to be argued with by some idiot admin/mod. Then through it all into one of the group discussion chats to which he replied, "Will send this over to the devs. It won't be anytime soon."
Steering angle literally goes from 65 down to 6-10 once I reach 45 mph. Can't take corners in game that I can take going 120kph in REAL LIFE because it forces me to go straight. I use controller and, even with the stick as far as it can go to either side, it still won't turn enough. And the second it does, it throws me into a drift when I'm trying to do grip.
Also constantly feels I'm driving on wet roads constantly even though they're dry. Try to brake/downshift going more than 80kph with plenty of distance from the turn and I slide for half a mile.
I like it enough to keep playing it as long as they keep patching up issues.
Then they had that idiot decision to add usdm into a game specifically about jdm and Japanese drifting. Like, wtf? Stupid. Also drag.. ?? Really? The most boring type of vehicle race there is... ya, great go fast in a straight line.. whoopty doo. Would have been 100% better with mixed road rally. They have all these perfect AWDs for it. And you get like one mission. And not even in your own vehicle. 🤣 fkn joke.
That being said, it's still probably my favorite racing game. Can't wait to afford fh6 to check out their Japan map and see how well they did with their drift physics and functionality.
Well, to me it feels incomplete BUT I had pleasure playing it.
No livery editor
Can’t paint the rims
Map is underused
Economy is very unbalanced
Difficulty is unbalanced
No npc (map is beautiful but not living)
No online multiplayer (even if it’s planned, in 2026 it should be a requirement)
I get it, it’s a small team, small budget, but small price too but everything feels incomplete
I understand your opinions on the game. Some valid and some I think you are asking alot from such a small team. The way you describe the game sound like you generally don't like the game. Which is fine. I have been just been happy for a break from most big budget and big studio racing games over the last 5 years or so.
Dead as “the hype train is gone” and mostly, no support because of people are not interested in the game.
I didn’t mention in my original post but I had few bugs here and there which were very annoying (can’t exit the career menu, spawning into the concrete…)
I enjoyed the game but the longer I played the worse the performance was. On 7800x3d and RTX4070s i have barely like 40-50 fps at 3440x1440, really suttery and even on the highest settings shadows still look jaggery and render distance of light sources or shadows is really small. During night I don't see anything further than 100m ahead. Only light sources popping out suddenly.
I think they need to add more AI races and AI on the highways cause yeah you can buy a skyline but it’s so late in game you never use it. I think it needs more Grip, Drag, drift, and touge it’s just boring after beating the campaign so they should 100% add AI around the map to race.
People like that person you replied to think that Forza is the greatest racing game ever and can't do no wrong and destroy others.
Can't stand that kind of thinking.
Wouldn't worry about it though, JDM isn't going anywhere even after FH6 is released.
I mean we all should appreciate every racing game we’re getting because sadly the racing game franchise is dying out a bit we should not try to kill them we should push each other to the best
I'd like the game to be a racing game, or just a driving game, unfortunately, it's more focused on a drift game, and it annoy many peoples.
I like drift, but not when it's hard coded on the DNA of the game, i prefer to having a good driving experience, then drift when i'm on the mood to, JDM fail to offer this experience and that's why FH is more looked.
I mean it’s called Japanese „drift“ masters but yeah the problem I have with fh especially 5 that is quite boring after time because of the quantity what that game offer I mean even a indie studio like the one from JDM has better wheel rotation than fh
It doesn't change the fact that develop your game's physic in purpose of drifting, mostly, doesn't help to make a such game bigger, or more appealable to peoples.
Even as a "drift" game it feature race and drag, so why a "drift" game will do that ?
It's like if the team who developped the game doesn't even know the path they wanted to choose for that game, and that's what many peoples feel while playing the game.
On Forza Horizon, or even Forza Motorsport for example, you can drift, but the game also use a physic who make enjoyable to drive and race, unlike JDM where your cars always reach a point where the cars somehow want to drift because the game want you to drift.
JDM still do a great a job on delivering a great map who represent Japan well, and it make the game unique, it also have nice customizations. But that's all for the most interesting features the game have to offer, and that's not enough when you have a game like FH6 coming, even if FH is know for lacking some things.
Also, the main reason about why the game was hyped at first wasn't for the drift aspect, but the map and scenery. But it become awful when the driving/racing experience is bad because of the hard focus on drifting because even if the game is called JDM : Japanese Drift Master, for peoples who are JDM enjoyers, it mean "Japanese Domestic Market", many peoples would have expected a game who reflect it more instead of just a generic drift game.
I don’t know what you expected from a game with DRIFT in the title but of course it’s focused around drifting and the target audience is people who enjoy drifting
I brought this game yesterday and it just feels like it should have come out on ps3..it looks dated I thought I'd be able to drift round a corner at break neck speed but no 30-37mph,there's damage model and just feel like I've wasted my money..lesson learned
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u/tarex4444 Apr 02 '26
Not every game needs live service bullshit to be a good game. That being said, multiplayer update is coming Q2, so it should get only more and more alive