So I’ve owned every game since the first one. F5 didn’t blow me away and online was poor enough to put me off 6, but I stayed with it anyway. After 6 I was done and refused to buy 7 without seeing how it went. Looking at YouTube videos it looks like same old same old. Game looks the same, looks like nothing has been done about the online mess, and graphically doesn’t seem like anything new. I’m guessing car packs are still one good car put with junk you don’t want, with the good car being necessary if you actually intend to be fast enough online, assuming you ever get a nice clean race.
So am I wrong, should I take a punt, or is this series as done as I feel like it is, it sure looks it onto the tube.
Assuming this isn’t a troll post wanting forum members to fight among themselves…
I was put off buying the game purely by the comments I read on this forum. When I realised that I absolutely loved Forza Horizon 3 after all the fake hate I just bought FM7 anyway and surprise surprise, the haters are WRONG.
Keep in mind that I don’t try to play the game on any fancy PC or enhanced Xbox,. That’s when people seem to get problems.
Read my signature and my profile, I get a lot of likes for my positive posts. I should have ignored the negativity here.
It’s a good for graphics (my console is an Xbox One X), but for me, I really don’t like the locked car system and particular elements of the gameplay. You’re not able to buy to tune and drive/race your favourite cars on your own time schedule as easily - you’re more locked into an unknown roster of availability to purchase some cars, which hasn’t worked reliably so far. Some seem to like this new system, I do not. I would rather just have access to the vehicles or pay for DLC if it’s special.
I have also found myself being required to participate in many events - including multiplayer - which I wouldn’t normally to unlock cars (which are available unlocked or from paid DLC in other Forza titles) and, I have often been extremely frustrated with my skills and ability to obtain the targets. For me this has turned out not being an easy game and because of this is often not enjoyable.
Not complaining, but I’m a car fanatic with physical impairments affecting fine motor skills and unable to drive real cars anymore. I don’t think the developers consider users like me and I’m starting to feel a bit excluded from collecting my favourite cars and enjoying the game how I have with previous Forza titles.
With the DLC car packs, they’ve been a bit dull… Also, there are stacks of cars the same but with different livery whixh are considered “unique” and a whole bunch of vehicles more intended for off-road tracks, which there are none of as yet.
I play on an xbox one, xbox one x and fancy shmancy PC, the only problems i get are the constant bugs. Which are the fault of developers, not what i’m playing on.
Let’s see, Forzathon’s don’t work. Stopped even attempting them. Liveries turning grey is still an issue. Random button presses in livery editor where the button will sometimes decide you pressed once, sometimes two. Haven’t done any painting due to those two since release week.
Cars suddenly all choose to have the same accident at the same part of the track at the same time. The aggressive behaviour button is the opposite of what it says. Or is it? Who even knows anymore. Turn 10 certainly don’t.
Whole swathes of track will suddenly drop out from under you on longer races and you have to guess where you’re driving.
These are some of the most egregious examples, but i’d be here all day listing them all.
Oh yeah, remember the corrupt saves bug which has plagued pretty much every Forza ever, it’s still here, despite being “built from the ground up” for xbox one, and “rebuilt from the ground up” for PC.
Etc Etc.
Forza 7 is a good game when it works, but it’s not often that happens and it’s not a good forza game by any stretch of the imagination.
I’ve been trying not to post negative stuff on the forums, but this far after release they should have basic things like Forzathon’s working proprerly. At this point Forza 7 is a joke and not a good one.
My advice - read the forums to get an idea of the concerns and complaints people have, but take them with a grain of salt at first. Use them to form your own decision, but don’t let the masses completely decide for you.
I held off on buying F7 for several months because I got brainwashed by the ongoing complaints about ‘money grabbing T10 locking a bunch of cars away in loot crates,’ ‘homologation ruining the game’ and other nonsense that turned out to be completely false once I actually got the game and played it.
There are some legitimate concerns for those who play online (I don’t do it very much) and those who were attached to certain game modes or features that are gone now. I have never been a huge online guy, so it doesn’t matter to me - but I can see how it would matter to others.
The homologation system complaint is garbage… You can still tune but it a different way. The issue is there are now not a lot of rivals events. The days of each class and track in rivals are gone.
A ton of cars will be locked, some of which you won’t know how to unlock… My guess is over time they will be released for rewards…some are in car crates other not. I don’t particularly car about any specific car. Maybe you do.
If you have an Xbox one x and a 4ktv there is a massive improvement to graphics. I am playing 5,6, and 7 one after another to try and get to the next rewards tier and it cannot be understated. You won’t think about going back if you have 4k.
Forzathon is great but goes down frequently.
I don’t play online except with friends so I expect it is still a crash fest.
My overall opinion…way better than fm5 and moderately better than 6 with graphics significantly better.
The homologation system, to me, is NO different than in FM6 aside from a couple of additional requirements (HP and tire width) which in many cases won’t apply anyway. I do understand the concern about the class based features being lost, but like I mentioned before, I’m not a multiplayer or time attack guy, so it’s not a big deal to me.
The majority of the locked cars have been released through various means (career mode, specialty dealer, etc.) already. I do not believe there are any cars that are exclusive to the crates, but everybody was so certain that T10 was doing it so they could make more money on micro-transaction loot crates…which still hasn’t happened, 6 months after the fact.
I agree with you in that with 740 cars in the game, I’m not going to lose sleep about the 50 or so that are still locked. I’ll just drive something else until I do have a chance to get it.
Are there bugs? Yeah, a few. Mostly inconsequential. The worst one (and the only one that seems to occur for me) is some pretty goofy stuff that happens in intermission between races while in online lobbies - the menu sometimes doesn’t come up, the game displays a TOTALLY different vehicle than the one you’re currently using, etc. Annoying and I don’t know why it’s still like this after 6 months of the game being released, but not a huge deal.
The biggest upgrades to the game vs FM6 are the upgrades you receive if you have an Xbox One X. 4k gaming is absolutely beautiful, and FM7 is visually stunning in a way I didn’t know was possible. The cars look so good that you almost want to lick your screen.
The driving experience/physics are also better than they’ve ever been, but let’s be honest, they’ve always been good. Career is excellent also.
It’s absolutely worth buying if you have an Xbox One X. It’s still worth buying if you’re on a standard Xbox One, but not quite as worth it.
If you like to hotlap and chase the leaderboard that is essentially gone.
Leagues are ok but its all homologation divisions so if you dont like the 3 choices at the time you are out of luck.
Essentially the online is pretty much worse in all areas In my opinion.
The career mode is ok. I never played them in any other version as they are super boring and unchallenging. I only played this time due to the fact that they lock cars behind some events and youll need them in some of the leagues.
On the whole I would not recommend this game to anyone that values playing against other humans. If you like racing bots that are slow than its ok but if I had the choice again I would not buy FM7.
In general this is how I feel about FM7. Online is really suffering with FM7…devs can fix my biggest complaint which is the track rotations/lap counts…but they have not up to this point. Hopper races are too short, endurance races are too long to play more than one or two at a time. FM6 has the better online track rotations/lap counts.
I can’t compare FM6 to FM7 single player as I don’t play the game for them. The last single player Forza I played all the way through was FM4. Really enjoyed that one as I could go through it with any car I wanted and the game would adjust to it. Not so much with the present day.
I played FM7 last weekend after the latest update to see if they’ve fixed it…but alas no. The car selection between online races is still terrible…if there was an improvement, I can’t tell.
Needless to say, I will not put the time into FM7 that I put into FM6 or FM4. I skipped FM5. Makes me wonder if they have two dev teams as so far the odd numbered ones in the last few years have not been good.
This is a good point, there are only so many iterations the game can go through until it begins to feel like the same game…but at the same time, racing cars around real tracks has tons of replay value because there’s skill involved. If you love that activity, it theoretically shouldn’t get old.
It’d be nice if they released a standalone “Forza” game where they simply added a ton of content over time. Maybe 1-2 games per console generation?
the game is a HUGE mess. Day one glitches still left unfixed how many months later, Most cars locked behind arbitrary “community events”, Absolutely abysmal DLC packs filled with pickup trucks and SUVs, Cars classed out of competition, A homogliation system that pledges to eliminate leaderboard cars but in the same broad stroke completely erases any character the car had programmed in.
And then there’s the constant CTDs, the lousy performance on PC, the non-existent support for any sort of licensing issue, 5 months in and i still can’t connect to the licensing servers and have to do work-arounds just to launch the game! And the help forum is an exercise in pure irony. I’ve met stray cats more helful than their “support team” which is undoubtebly a bot that spits out canned phrases to keywords. Then there’s the issue of paid posters infesting the forum(Look up some of the people decrying any and all turn-10 negativity. Twitter accounts with ONLY microsoft posts.) If they catch you, you get ghost-banned for a month or two, as in the log-in “cannot connect to the server” yet if you log out, there’s absolutely no problem browsing them while you’re logged out. These two issues alone really tell you the character of the people who work on this game. This is who i’m expected to give $100 to every year.
And then there’s the Multiplayer. No system to penalize rammers other than give mod controls to a few people, Nothing to penalize corner cutters, Extremely limited hoppers, terrible league mechanics where if you lose a single place you go down 4 ranks but if you go from 20th to 1st you barely move up one,
Forza 7 COULD be a good game, it could even be the best racing game of the current generation, but it has so so SO many little things that turn into a huge monster. The dev-team has no time to fix them as they’re already elbow deep into Horizon 4 and Motorsport 8 to keep up with those quantity-over-quality yearly releases. So you’re left with the framework for an epic racing game that’s filled with rot. It’s by far more frustrating than if the game was “bad” or even “Average”.
