The Bike Game of Our Dreams? - a First Look at RIDE 5

[@CBadger]

It still amazes me that Milestone have managed to release Ride 3 for a third time.

[@waider]

Yeah, I haven't even scratched the surface of ride 4, 5 will be without me. I skipped 1, bought 2, skipped 3 bought 4, when they bring 6 I'll consider getting it or not.

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@waider I skipped 1, 2 and 3 and still barely played 4 🤣🤣 It just seems they are made by people who have never ridden Motorbikes before.

[@MatthiasBuesing]

@@HalfdeadRider Why that? And - do you prefer other motorbike games over the Ride series? 🤔

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@MatthiasBuesing the bike physics are just not realistic, the rear wheel spins way too easily, as does the front wheel come up. In lower gears (on real bikes) you'd have to be pretty aggressive with the throttle, in higher gears you can be aggressive with the throttle without the wheel spinning, or doing a massive wheelie. They also do stopoies way to easily in game too. Rims Racing is much better, but only about 8 bikes, very well detailed though and you can upgrade everything and fit them yourself. You can adjust the sensitivity of every control, throttle, brakes, front and rear, steering etc. Hopefully they will bring out another game, improving that further and bringing more bikes.

[@MatthiasBuesing]

@@HalfdeadRider - yeah, I'm with you. Would like to give Rims a spin but there's no demo. And I don't want to deep dive into alle mechanical aspects so the Ride series seems more appropriate to me.

[@51iohC]

need a free roam street bike game with simulator gameplay with high way racing between cars

[@dan19233]

When honda f4i is gonna be in the game i gonna play it

[@stevenw4334]

Usual lameness I'll wait for the crack n dlc hack

[@Berserker187Xxx]

the AI in Ride 4 wasn't much better the worst one for me is that the fast AI rider pretty much always runs away with it

[@arkadyromanov7803]

As a real life motorcyclist, IMO the steady head cam is more accurate than a shaky head cam. Onboard cams shake, but the view of the rider is much steadier because our eye doesn't move as much, and our brain compensates for the little shake we do get. So TECHNICALLY I say steady first person view is more accurate.

[@josephvallejo2094]

so true

[@bmuDLuck]

Have you played moto gp? Do you think it feels more realistic than ride 4?

[@TheInfantry98]

I completely agree as a fellow real life rider

[@TheInfantry98]

@@bmuDLuckI own and play both. I personally believe that MOTO GP 23 is definitely more realistic

[@bmuDLuck]

@@TheInfantry98 seriously?? I think I played 19 and it get awful. Didn’t feel any connection to the ground. Where as ride 4 I could fell the bumps and all that. Is 19 shit and the newer one really good? I also felt like I almost had to force myself to be able to loose traction and fal on a turn where as ride 4 IMO it’s so hard to even stay on the bike/track

[@dazmorland]

The smoke from the 250's are because they are 2 stroke engines, and oil is mixed with the fuel during combustion (to stop them seizing) glad they included this here :)

[@getsideways7257]

I just don't get it... Why realistic physics "is not fun"? And why exactly the game should be dead serious about EVERYTHING if it has proper physics in it? People have fun IRL with *real* bikes, you know - you can't get any more realistic than that. Still fun somehow... Or not? Should it absolutely be a brain dead kind of entertainment to be "fun"?

[@pecak]

2 stroke bikes, of course there is smoke.

[@west-tekesportsracing4239]

The ai just reminded me of every experience I've had with trying the MotoGP games. At this point it just feels like Milestone just don't know how to do it

[@carlad2640]

Their games aren't aimed at hardcore sim racers, its aimed at casuals.

[@hayerenders4576]

​@@carlad2640that didn't show in 4 with the difficulty for the tests and some races for when you want to race casual 🙈

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

@@carlad2640 having the AI ride around single file is not fun for a casual, before I got into sim racing I was playing the hell out of ride 2 and F1 2019 & actually having on track battles in either game, as a casual, was amazing. for people just looking to hop on and do a quick race, actual racing is at least a bare minimum requirement, AI hanging out in single file lines is not fun regardless of your level of enthusiasm for racing games.

[@Lemkinizer]

I put about 400 hours into Ride 4 and really enjoyed it. I've been interested in Ride 5 but I think I'll wait. Hopefully they'll have some updates in the future that will fix some things. Probably pick this up when its on sale in the winter.

[@JamieS1992]

you should just buy it now with the few bugs in it its 10x better then that pile of trash called ride 4 the only ride game i put down and didnt finish

[@xXturbo86Xx]

Wait until the final release and for a discount. Milestone always releases a ton of updates and sells a lot of DLCs so it's not worth buying it now. I'd say it's not with buying in general because it's pretty much Ride 4 with some additional features.

[@JHMBB2]

I played Ride 2, and it was pretty fun, but nothing so far ever topped Tourist Trophy on PS2. Something about that game made a great impression of controlling the rider vs. controlling the bike that felt so natural, that I felt Ride 2 lacked. I'll have to give Ride 5 a go, because I love bike games.

[@GreatAsaf]

TT was such an awesome game. Played it even more than GT4 at the time!

[@Brusselpicker]

TT was an awesome game, put more hours on it than I care to think about. Anyone got a PS2 and a copy they wanna lend me for a bit?

[@001sander2]

You could probably get Ride4 for a big discount

[@rideroundandstuff]

Totally! The new Tourist Trophy 3 is very realistic and so is Rims. But they just don't feel as good as the old Tourist Trophy did.

[@hayerenders4576]

The old one was from Jester Interactive wasn't it. It was difficult but I liked it a lot. Played the 3 TT games on Steam as well and found them easier then Ride 4 on whatever track. Bit weird that TT feels easier then normal tracks 😂😂

[@kombuscha1777]

This game has got less bikes than ride 4, maybe like 10 new ones and a lot of old ones removed to sell as dlc in the future. Shame

[@monkeybase01]

Ride has been the best mainstream motorbike franchise for me so far. Spa Francorchamps would be a very nice addition, though.

[@Evets_79]

Yes i think it needs some more reallife tracks… sad that Phillip Island is no longer in the game…

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

Ride 4 really reinvigorated my love for racing games after a bunch of lackluster releases I played before checking it out. Can't wait for the next one to come out!

[@JamieS1992]

you liked ride4? legit the worse game out of the 5

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

@@JamieS1992 Which one is the best?

[@jonboy602]

@@JamieS1992 Why? Seemed much more realistic to me.

[@JamieS1992]

@@EpicTyphlosionTV i have not played 5 enough to add that to the mix but before it 3 would be the best 5 could change that i am enjoying other then a bad 2 bugs i have found and reported

[@JamieS1992]

@@jonboy602 milestone games imo get better each installment with the way the game feels i mean more career mode the way that was handled ruined the game for me which is why in 5 its not similar its very different a lot of people didn't like how the career mode was done so that's the reason if you just into time trials and online then yeah 4 is great

[@rob1sp]

Cadwell park really broke me in Ride4, I really struggled with the tight corners and hairpins, hoping the handling model is better for slow corners

[@CobraAce04]

brutal honestly? as someone who has played every single Ride game. This one is a large step backwards. Lots of features that were in older games were taken out, the bike list is stale, the type of racing is stale, and while I haven't had enough time with the career mode to really judge it, I don't have much faith in it being better structured than Ride 4. The series peaked content wise with Ride 3. Ride 4 was a step backwards to improve the core product, but Ride 5 inexplicably seems a further step backwards. I'm dissappointed, and I fear Milestone have too many games on their plate between Hot Wheels, MotoGP, SBK and Ride, and all the games (besides maybe hot wheels) have become stale as a result

[@f1GP69]

The bikes are two strokes Jake so they use a mix of oil/fuel for lubrication hence the puffs of smoke. 0:34

[@andyjentsch8539]

You have right it feels easier.on the brakes.we can so long so hard brake but not fall.maybe wirh a update a little bit more direction ride 4.more harder please

[@twt3716]

It must be very hard to make a bike game realistic and enjoyable. The Ride series have been brilliant and this latest one looks cool. Thanks for posting this vid mate, me and I'm sure lots of your viewers live bikes too. Keep this up and if you can please make a series of vids on bike racing. Nice one pal 😊

[@BuddyCorp]

I've been a biker more than half my life now, and I've always struggled hugely with bike video games. The feel just has never been there for me. But I'm excited to see your opinion and decide if this is for me.

[@Chris-wq3pe]

same... i'm riding 40 years now, and never been happy with a bike game as far as being able to be smooth in the game like you can be on a bike.

[@Grasshoppa65]

Me too. I think the whole delayed cornering is over emphasized to portray line taking. It probably doesn't help that I suck at controllers.

[@puckloki873]

At one point I looked into bike specific controllers like we have for wheel and pedal Sims. Somebody needs to invent something....but it will be hella expensive

[@1000sofusernames]

It's the same old Milestone rubbish. I did a trackday this week at Cadwell on one of the bikes in the game, you aren't translating it to a video game, a game which just seems not to handle like bikes handle. GP500 in the 1998 was a better bike game than anything Milestone have put out.

[@MattSwain1]

Yeah I’ve had a licence for almost 20 years and share your struggle. I usually struggle to find controller settings that aren’t excessively twitchy and my rider rarely looks smooth going round corners. I think if I had to ride my actual bike with thumb sticks then I’d crash before I even got my bike out of the garage and be dead before the end of the street! In recent years I’ve played a few iterations of the MotoGP games and both of the current TT series but never a Ride game

[@edwardburek1717]

No Macau GP circuit?? For shame sir!! But joking aside, this game seems to be filling quite a niche. I hope there are regular updates and a customise function where you can make liveries from yesteryear, such as Wayne Gardner's Coughmans Honda, Wayne Rainey's M*rlb*r* Yamaha and even Fast Freddie Spencer's Goodyear express and Barry Sheene's Team Heron Suzuki. I also wanna see Cal Crutchlow's Tech 3 Monster Yamaha as a fitting tribute to the World's Fastest Coventrian.

[@racefeen22p]

Nice first Play about the game but you're killing me about the smoke. Those are two strokes they're supposed to smoke lol

[@bertram-raven]

When you revved the engine KZbin's auto-translate showed "[foreign music]" This is the first time YT translate has been accurate 😹

[@evets4236]

Two Stroke Road Racing Motorcycles all blow smoke and sometimes oil. If you have no oil on your visor, you haven't been racing hard enough. I miss all the two stroke road bikes, the RD, KR, RZ, RG and the NSR, they were all absolute rockets. Then there was the Kawasaki H2 750 Mach IV Triple - Chainsmoker, a two stroke widow maker. This thing had way too much power and a rubber frame, most normal people couldn't ride it or get the best out of it. The few that could usually ended up on the tarmac anyway, the bike was that bad. I'm in the middle of building a motorcycle sim rig, I have most of the controls sorted, I just have the gear changer to sort out. I may attempt adding motion at some stage, I just need to win the lotto to pay for it. Thanks for the look at Ride 5, I'll get it as soon as it's on sale.

[@RTPJu]

The thing with the Ride series is that you never know about the next update other than something you liked will be nerfed and other that you disliked may be better. As a long time fan from this franchise, the only thing I always wished to be developed with care is the AI... in R4 it wasn't really bad... there is only that thing about one of the AI riders being a kamikaze that randomly will ram at you even if you go all the way out of their line. I saw in some replays the AI going all the way out of it's line just to crash at my bike. A complete immersion break and the only reason why I always race at chase cam and with rewind on. Anyway... R5 is at my wish list just waiting for a lot of updates and a price reduction. I wish that you and other virtual racing dedicated channels do more videos about bike racing games. Cheers!

[@WillyX39]

Fyi, “bicilindrica” is pronounced as be - chi (like chicken) - leen (like spleen) - drea (like dream but with an hard R) - ca (as in car). It means “twin cylinder”.

[@bduddy55555]

The Daytona course in this game was used for bikes between 2004 and 2008, so it's not completely made up, just... Very outdated.

[@1teamski]

I can't ride with the level view like that. From the beginning (GP500) I always like being locked to the bike. I get a far better feel for the corners that way.

[@malcolmdonohoe9388]

Real shame they haven't sorted the AI. By far the worst element of Ride4, which I played the hell out of. Like that they've increased the grids - as you say, an endurance race with the tiny number of other riders was dull as hell and it'd be better if they could get even more in, but only if the AI is improved. As for Sim/Arcade, as someone who rides sportsbikes and occasionally tracks them too, I don't get the point of super accurate PC sims for motorcycling. With car stuff, you can accurately represent the control inputs even if you're missing the G force. With a bike, the nuances of weight placement, how you apply force to each contact point and the physical interaction of your weight with the bike weight transfer are so intrinsic to how it works, even with a full bike and hydraulic leaning rig, you can't simulate that. So something like this that tries to get the reactions of the bike/rider platform pretty close, with how you have to fudge the input for it to make sense on a controller in a static environment, seems to me to be the sweet spot.

[@GPLaps]

100% agree with your point on Physics! I think they do a fine job here

[@kingrioni9561]

5:04 ok im from the Netherlands, but disapointed to not have tt assen, they can basically import it from the motogp game, but yeah, sad.

[@AdonSagat]

It looks great. I do have a question though. In terms of physics and ride feel. Nothin up til now that I've tried, (all motogp games) topped Polyphony’s (Makers of Gran Tourismo) Tourist Trophy. If you've ever played that, how does ride5 compare? Anyone else?

[@squidstems]

I played Ride 4 and the physics were so easy it bored me to death so I uninstalled it and went back to Tourist Trophy. My suggestion would be to stick with Tourist Trophy.

[@mattcowlard4662]

The best vid of ride 5 so far u did a good job, the smoke is because they are 2 strokes but that would clear as the bikes warm up

[@Pete_Harris]

Loving Ride 5 so far! Too much bias against Ride 5...there are new features if you look for them.

[@kartaltoth684]

7:35 20 bike grids are pretty large but hearing "not impressive" makes me go "how much is enough".

[@themountainman491]

I still play Ride4, Plug in every weekend for Weekly challenges, by far the best motorcycle sim

[@old_man_8033]

It's still so far behind motogp. Motogp graphics and physics are so much better

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

Honestly, the promise of a deep and interesting single player career mode, especially featuring endurance races, has me curious for this game. Is it worth a pickup for someone who loved traditional Gran Turismo career modes but was massively underwhelmed by the likes of GT7? Bearing in mind Ive generally enjoyed riding and racing in the recent MotoGP games 😊

[@floww2953]

Late, but in my opinion Gran Turismo does career better. It appears the same in concept to GT but it's not executed as well. The championships/events feel monotone and hardly have a theme like in GT (or it's too open of a theme) and after the couple beginning races they really start to drag on to about 10mins per race, and with kamikaze AI you have to have rewind on unless you're a masochist which makes stuff take even longer. AI flat out cheats in wet quali where they set laptimes that they barely run in the dry. On the plus side the bikes look great and physics are an improvement over Ride 4, the bikes are enjoyable to ride. Game's best if you just go to single race mode and set up your own race how you like it, because career gets boring halfway through.

[@discodan2265]

I owned both an FZR250 and an RGV250 back in the early 2000's. Funnest albeit most dangerous bikes I've owned with that crazy powerband. ❤

[@skodalaskoda8754]

2 smoke

[@eastonwashere]

Dude that is awesome good for you. I love 2 strokes . I've always wanted a 2 stroke sport bike. I'm very jealous.

[@mikehagquist5198]

I played for like 4 hours yesterday. It almost identical to ride 4 ps5 version. The cut scenes are so horrible in the faces and what not. I was tempted to get tt3 instead.

[@jfoz7602]

TT3 is a cracking game if you’re a big fan of the TT and the circuit. The novelty of the free roam feature wears off fairly quick but for me I could do lap after lap of the main circuit and do 🤣

[@ozzie7523]

In Ride 4 the AI would always take you out from behind just before cornering. Judging by your race it looks like it has been fixed in Ride 5 hopefully.

[@williamlindberg2507]

Love the motorcycle content! The single file thing is odd. Been playing on Xbox, 90% AI set to pressing, my AI are always going crazy passing each other. I almost never see them line-up..especially the way they did into T1 for you🤷‍♀️

[@Evets_79]

Yes same here on PS5, i think AI is better than in Ride4, but maybe it depends on the track, not tried VIR yet…

[@tamgaming9861]

Thanks for this review. To me, I have to say - I am not happy with the graphics. They are too clean. They are often a bit blurry or not shiny enough to give you the realism you need to get this feeling that it isn't just a game when I see it. I think in these times - it is possible to give a realistic look at it. But there are no scratches , no fine details. Looks a BIT like low poly graphic to me.

[@therealjuralumin3416]

Ah, did they they remove Phillip island? That's my local track, I was so pleased to see it in Ride 4, that's a bummer...

[@atomicmartini2922]

The puffs of smoke are just 2-stroke exhaust. Burnt oil.

[@theaustralianconundrum]

That helmet cam is garbage. The bike is just weaving and going lefty righty the whole time. You need the camera as if it's stuck on the front of the fairing. Sounds good and replay is ok but allowing your head to move not locked to the bikes front fairing it will just make you sea sick. It's utter garbage. 2/10. Next time try all the video angles for a full race each ok??????

[@NongBenz]

Some of the newer Milestone games use machine learning AI to learn the tracks. It's a cool concept and really racing AI is the perfect use case for ML, but it can definitely be implemented poorly in these early stages. Who knows, they may get improve slightly after dozens of laps, but they likely need patches to make the training models take passing/defending lines into account better.

[@xXturbo86Xx]

That's what they say. In reality it's the same old dumb AI they've been using for many years. Milestone is full of shit.

[@Argy_V]

This kind of review was what i was looking for. I guess i won't spend money on this one as it is now. Thank you 🙏

[@Do.Christ]

I am disappointed with R5… They should have gone with the Unreal Engine 5 and it went more on the side of arcade physics 😢. Tough to gripe about the track count because there are many but the motorcycle quantity is a disappointment.

[@cat-yi9cg]

Lol I hate how it has better tracks and more then ACC. Shesh

[@chiefsittingduck]

So, does this game makes Tourist Trophy obsolete?

[@Terraceview]

The AI in all RIDE games is TERRIBLE, the bikes look great but the gameplay lets it down so much.

[@JallyTee]

Its a tough sell for me, I'm itching to try a bike game/sim and I do like the layout of Ride 5 but with bad AI...Yep, I just know it would make me regret it.

[@BodyRocker9]

I’ve only played Ride 4, been riding motorcycles for a few years now. It seems like I can corner faster on my real motorcycle than the game. Steering in Ride 4 doesn’t quite feel right. I’ll have to see if 5 is any better

[@lampard696]

The physics on the brake fluid are awesome

[@ddnn1142]

Well... They wanted obviously to pay attention to physics but forget about the G Force, while cornering hard a liquid cannot stay parallel to horizon line.

[@JTeam45]

"The AI love to run you over, and it's also extremely easy to run them over because they race very very odd." I see Ride's developers took notes from Polyphony because that sounds exactly like GT7's lol

[@Madgitty2]

I would buy it for the classics as well, having owned the rd350lc and 500 lc and the rest of the old bikes

[@seuthee5082]

I don't get how in Ride 5, you don't lowside if you slammed the brakes mid corner anymore. Unlike in Ride 4, where if you slam the brakes or open the throttle aggressively without any traction control you can lose the rear and lowside easily. In Ride 4, you must be very careful with your inputs but in Ride 5 it feels like I'm still playing with the easiest physics even when it's turned to the highest difficulty setting.

[@MatthiasBuesing]

Love how smooth it looks in 1st person. I'm using the conventional Xbox controller and in 1st person it's much to hectic because you can't fully control the bike that smoothly...😞 Years ago Thrustmaster had a bike controller. Which they would do it again. Wheel maybe smoother but controlling a bike with a wheel seems even more weird than with a controller to me.

[@Chris-wq3pe]

Yes ...when you replay a race in helmet or cockpit mode, it looks absolutely incredible and you just think 'i wish I could play the game like this' and not go off track every few seconds....

[@dbamastore9428]

For Low Spec PC, RIDE 2 s the best. For Mid High PC, Ride 4 is the best.

[@Evets_79]

Career mode is a bit boring, i liked it more in Ride 4, now it seems very linear… win this to unlock the next… 😴 don‘t know why they changed that 🤷‍♂️

[@GamingLife420]

The game feels exactly like Ride 4 when it comes to bike variety, but the physics feel crap. They messed up the game for me, ill stick to Ride4...

[@davidboydarnott417]

Thanks for posting! Worth watching your review just to see a TZR250 from lots of angles. I didn't think the 2 stroke engine sound was at all bad.👍😂😂 When was the last time you changed the brake fluid? It looks a bit milky.😂😂😂 You should look around for an old FZR4 or 600 and spend the Winter giving it a clean up or respray for use next year! 👍😂😂

[@Sugar_K]

I had that TZR250 in real life.. awesome bike

[@dathyr1]

Right now I have Ride 2 and 3 and will probably wait for a good sale price on ride 5. I think you are handling the race as good as you can and since the AI bikes are aggressive and bump you around, I feel we have to pretty much do the same back to the AI bikes. Just kind of nudge them around to do your passes. I wonder what would happen if a real race biker would hit the back tire of another biker. Probably the outcome would not be too good. I am more of a SIM race car driver than a SIM biker, so I agree with managing a SIM bike around the track is a new learning curve. Glad they have more AI bikes to race against in Ride 5. I do these games just for a change of paste and entertainment. The only thing about all these "Ride" games is I wish they would give us all the bikes and tracks right at the very start. It is kind of ridiculous that we have to spend thousands of hours trying to unlock everything. Especially when I just do quick races and time trials. Not much in to doing Career mode in any games. Thanks for the video review. Take care.

[@ricksgamemisc10]

Hmmm. We are very different players, that's for certain. Edit: I want to be clear as a kind of tl;dr; that I mean no offense or disrespect herein. I'm just legitimately confused by some of the things you (op) bring up. It is very possible that at your level of play you are seeing/feeling things in the game that I am not skilled enough to see or feel. I'm a very casual player. Ride 4 was fun for me, but I couldn't quite get it to feel right (for *me*). But Ride 5 just seems to work for me. I don't know whether I hit the assist settings just right (that I couldn't get right in 4), but I'm definitely enjoying it. I actually think you kind of alluded to it a bit in the beginning when you said something to the effect of it feeling subtly different. I was having the same conversation with a friend. I think it dampens some of your inputs VERY slightly so that if you aren't smooth, your bike doesn't jerk about. And imo that helps a LOT especially on a controller. You stated being very unimpressed, and it playing very similar to Ride 4 (which you like) and then turn around and lament it even "being released in this state." This genuinely confused me. You like 4. You say 5 plays like 4. And then you say 5 is trash (that last is MY interpretation of what you said). I'm objectively not sure what you're looking for. Also one very random thing - you called the Daytona layout weird or wonky or something like that. I have watched a lot of IMSA 24hr there and the track layout seemed right to me. I think there was one small sequence of turns that was mildly different, but in career the announcer made some reference to the "bike layout" which would explain (to me) that small difference. So legitimately curious what you see as wrong with the Daytona layout?

[@wheeliegames]

Hi! Want to test Wheelie King 5 newest version with controller support etc...?

[@RazorBrain1]

Being someone who has both raced cars and motorcycles IRL I never had an issue jumping into most sims for cars. I gave Ride 4 about 5hrs of my time to just drop it. Gorgeous graphics but the game didn't leave me feeling like I was riding a motorcycle like a car game would. If anything it just frustrated me. For me it had nothing to do with the front and rear break feel or the throttle it was the way the bike leaned in. I can lean in SOOO MUCH faster IRL than in the game if I wanted or needed to. I guess what I'm saying is I couldn't get the bike to go where I wanted it to. I think games have a long way to go for motorcycles. Maybe its ok for people who don't ride IRL IDK. Just my opinion as someone with experience. I'm not the best Motorcycle rider. I am a very skilled driver and could hold my own against the best.

[@bmuDLuck]

I’m so confused. A lot of people say GP is the best motorcycle sun. I tried 19 and through it felt terrible! Felt like the bike floated along the track. I’ve owned motorcycles and maybe wasn’t a pro rider but IMO ride 4 by far felt the most realistic.

[@Arkham_UK]

Thanks Jake I'll stick with Ride 4. Were you using wheel and pedals again?

[@GPLaps]

I am!

[@lobotomyscam1051]

First person viewing is boring for spectators, that's why it's only shown sporadically when watching real motorsports. If I had a nickel for every time someone complained about a games AI, I would be the richest dude in the universe. We are still a decade away from racing games AI to be somewhat close to human.

[@dizzychizzy1]

Looks great. This will help any car sim driver hugely in the importance of line setup… bikes really need to hit the fist point to make a good pass where as people think you can correct the car more later but this is all 10ths adding up.

[@TheKing-vb2bw]

I never thought about it like this. Thanks for sharing this information.

[@snippidippi]

Roadrash style 😂 (that game was great)

[@neilmcewen5771]

Why have you only showed one racing view, completely unreal. The track appears horizontal for 100% of the race and you are sitting upright in a chair also for 100% of the race. Bikes lean, the rider leans so if you are sitting upright then the horizon must lean to give a REAL perspective of what a bike does to get round a corner., the player can then then tilt his or her head to affect the lean feel. Putting a bike cockpit in front of you and swaying it from side to side does not make me feel like I am on a bike, simply a car sim with a bike front end stuck on. Was there a view where the horizon swings to simulate lean fully? I know it is not your game but trying to get information from milestone is harder than hitting a 2 iron.

[@kea1234]

Idk man I spent some time in ride and ride 2. In my memory the only decent moto game was mx v atv I've never played a road course game that hit the spot. Forza(not horizon) scratches the itch for cars but anything 2 wheeled always feels off. Please give me good news.

[@UnitSe7en]

There's no variance in the individual rider AI. Every bike is exactly the same - That'd be why you get the single-file stacks where nothing. ever. happens.

[@chrish4483]

As someone who actually raced motorcycles.....Ride 4 controls was horrendous..not even close to realistic. I wish that it wetre better bc I really want to love it... Although that track selection looks fantastic with Infineon - Sears Point being my home

[@thomasduhamel6766]

Honestly i dont get this developper. Ride 4 isnt even 2 years old and already, they release this "new" game? Seems to me it's just another same sauce cash grab. They haven't even pushed ride 4...

[@machucast]

have you tried piboso motorbike sim? No other game comes close to it in the physics, they all seem so artificial compared to it.

[@mrdcato]

I just downloarded this today and looking forward to playing it. About the AI, I'll see if I can spot what you mentioned about their lines and so on, but that said, your lines were a little eratic too. LOL

[@beaumas]

I honestly don't think this game needs to exist, you may aswell just play moto gp. As far as actual bike choice goes its pretty sparce. There are so many more bikes out there that aren't sports bike that would be great to include in a game, and before i get shot down for saying that, its the same as having muscle cars or old roadsters in car games.

[@AGRIV8TD1963]

The physics on this game are terrible!!! I've been riding motorcycles for 56 years, and this is off.

[@tomasburian6550]

Looks like the gameplay is fun but the graphics are very lacking behind the current generation. If they manage to catch up, it'll be a blast.

[@S3RAVA3LM]

No open world, no buy. TT isle of man: ride on the edge 3 is the best motorcyle game ever and arguably the best race game ever - so i think, anyways.

[@felipeduarte1997]

I could only wish that Polyphony Digital release a Tourist Trophy 2 :(

[@jdub264]

If your TZ suffers from brake fade it's time to change your brake fluid, pretty dark. Good review!

[@emlyndewar]

I think it could be good to see some more bike videos, but maybe it’s one to wait and see if it improves.

[@UnitSe7en]

Don't support companies that bury their product in DLC. Let me say it again: *Don't support companies that bury their product in DLC.*

[@stuarthunter7559]

The problem i have is that its totally unrealistic. You can get away with a controller or a steering wheel with car games and a joystick for flying but theres nothing that comes near to riding a real bike. Waste of money

[@AGRIV8TD1963]

The game is CRAP!!! Unplayable! The physics are way off! Buyer beware!!! 😢

[@davido1953]

how do you have this and not buy a real motorcycle...I built a 1/35th scale motorcycle once then had to have a bike so I bought one

[@abegaz9582]

the puff of smoke from the bikes Infront of you is completely normal because these bikes are 2 strokes ..they burn engine oil as they go . that's just the way they are.

[@jacekbalcerzak3655]

Dlaczego wszystkie, ale to WSZYSTKIE gry tego typu wyglądają jakby pojazd po stole lub po idealnej równej tafli jeździł?? Nie kumam...tyle lat i nikt nie wpadł na pomysł, żeby dodać trochę dynamicznych, krótkich ruchów kamery- efekt jak jazda po nierównościach. Każdy onboard, czy widok znad kierownicy ukazuje wstrząsy, szarpania itd. A w grach? 100 kl/s i jazda po tafli. Dlatego żadna gra nie budzi u mnie namiastki symulacji...

[@UnitSe7en]

Jiggly camera like a gopro on a helmet is not realistic. Your eyes don't vibrate like that. That's not the view you have in the seat.

[@YajGrindin704]

I pray one day someone make a open world motorcycle game specifically for motorcycles no cars. But can tune and upgrade like forza.

[@sky46alexcodmobile23]

From what I understand,you can't play ride 5 only with subscription! I am wrong?

[@MrBigPipesYT]

I don't understand why they took out the Honda Hornet 900/919 in Ride 3 but kept kept the Honda Hornet 600/599. It's a great game but still feels lifeless for a $60 title. I wish Milestone would allow free roam and combine their Mx series into a single game. Right now, Milestone essentially sells 4 $100 DLC's to get a larger spectrum of the motorbike world. The graphics are great, I love the cameras, although there are no rain effects on the helmet. It just feels like it could be so much better and really there's just not enough street bikes available to ride. For a lot of the bikes, there's a race variation which counts in the total bike count. I'd also say that the gear ratios on the street bikes are often inaccurate. So, bikes don't really have a unique feel to them. I dunno, the handling just feels sluggish and prone to over oscillation. It's getting there and it's the best we have so I'm hoping to see further improvements to the series. If anything, just get more bikes and add a free roam option. There's a TON of motorcycles and besides Tourist Trophy on PS2 there has never tackled street bikes in a racing game. I've found The Crew 2 to have really fun motorcycle gameplay, so hopefully Motorfest pans out. Props for being available on GeForceNow so I can experience the game maxed out on a 4080. Where is the ray tracing and DLSS btw? Tire physics? Edit: I wanted to add that I've purchased all 5 installations of the series and the beautiful bike models are worth it for me alone. No other game has motorcycles that are rendered in such accuracy and fidelity.

[@discman9999]

drives ok, but still looks waayy dated. I can't understand how they can't make it look good.

[@xxShadrimxx]

What's with the flat textures like trees and pop in like the brake markers.. This looks like an early ps4 game to me..

[@LeviAckerman-kv3ee]

it's their 5th title yet still didn't manage to remove that mirror and rear fender for the opponents bike, it looks so ridiculous