I meant like... to play. The basic verbs of gameplay are actually fun in a way that BoF4's is not. Combat in 4 is something you have to slog through, whereas in 5 it's actually kind of interesting and fun.
Also 5 made the dragon being able to destroy the planet or whatever actually feel real and not them just talking it up. Even in 3, you still need help from the other party members and you spend a LOT of time beating on the final boss, even though supposedly it can wipe out civilization. In 5 if you turn into a dragon it's complete slaughter for everything in your way, and that's the way it should be. It's far, far more interesting as a finite resource that trivializes basically everything than in other games where it was just something you did on boss fights to make them go faster.
Then again that's a problem with MP-based systems in general.