So reading the various user reviews out there leaves the impression that this game is questionable at best. Since it’s over a year since release, I’m wondering if this is still the case? I own both FH4 and FH5 and enjoy both of them, but it would be nice to have a more sim style experience akin to Gran Turismo. The last GT I owned was in the PS3 era, so I really don’t have anything to compare current offerings to except the Horizon games. Can Forza Motorsport be THAT bad considering how good Forza Horizon is?
It has its ups and downs. Launch was terrible a year ago and it always crashed but they been improving things slowly w each update. Plenty of cars and tracks I’m sure you will find some enjoyment. The introduction of nascar has seemed to revamp things. Again each update seems to improve so give it a try and have some patience. It’s the only game company I’ve seen asking for feedback and a place to reporting any issues . I like those features and some good racing w my friends or multiplayer it keeps me here.
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Well now is the best time to buy, you can get a huge discount that’s for sure. I would buy the microsoft version myself. The game may not be everything they promised but it is a load iof fun to play and I have put soooo many hours into it that I’m beginning to think I may be a Forza addict. My main gripe is the fomo events, but the devs have stated they are going to add the expired fomo events back to the singleplayer game bolstering that content sometime in the new year. I’m looking forward to that addition.
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I suggest you try it through Game Pass first and then decide whether to buy the game. FM may be lower in quality compared to Horizon in some aspects, but for me it’s much more fun, so it really depends on what kind of games you like.
If you are lookig for good single player/career experience though - it’s not really there, except for Rivals mode.
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According to Metacritic, the average score of the reviews was 84 just after the release, one year ago. It was not bad at that time. Now, after many improvements , it’s a much better game.
Of course your personal experience with this game may be very different from each other. I had a limited amount of crashes in hundreds of hours (on Xbox), but I heard people that weren’t able to play because of the instability. Now the most relevant issues should be solved for all the platforms.
This is the right game for players looking for a realistic racing experience, without to go into the complications of the modern simulators. This comes with hundreds of cars, many nice tracks and an excellent multiplayer.
If this isn’t enough to buy , you can try the game in Game Pass.
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Thanks for the info folks. I decided to try it for the next 2 days on PC Game Pass and buy it before the sale ends if it plays like I hope.
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The campaign/career mode is still boring and lifeless.
You do not really go through a “career” you just play a list of races that have nothing to do with each other. You have no crew, you don’t build up fans, go to higher championships. They don’t even have events featuring race cars, you know… motorsports. (No LMP, GT, F1 leagues)
NO CAREER STATS
GT7 has much more life in it’s career (and stats)
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Let’s throw some questions in as that will tell you if Forza Motorsport is worth picking up:
- How important is a deep single player campaign experience to you?
- How important is a competitive multiplayer experience to you?
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How important is a deep single player campaign experience to you?
Very -
How important is a competitive multiplayer experience to you?
Not Very
I dare say you’ll be deeply disappointed with Forza Motorsport, then.
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In that case get any previous Forza Motorsport game, because FM 2023 has the polar opposite of an enjoyable singleplayer experience - there’s barely any races, rewards are minimal, and the AI is not an improvement over previous games.
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So my first few hours tell me that the AI loves to run you off the track, and then blame you for the penalty. Also, my car steers fine most of the time, but it whigs out periodically like I’m driving a pregnat elephant. I’ll keep at it a while for the $11 a month, but buying it may not happen. Then too, I only have the “Standard” version which I have no idea if that makes any difference lol
The reviews are bad for good reason.
Misleading messaging/marketing set expectations much higher than the game delivers.
The game has improved since launch, but that’s not saying much considering its condition at launch.
It’s still bare-bones & undercooked.
• Single-player still doesn’t have anywhere near enough to keep players engaged for long.
• Multiplayer only ever has a small list of hoppers/playlists to choose from, and those lobbies are often on a short repetitive list of the same few tracks - and maybe half of the available lobbies allow upgrading & tuning a big variety of cars while the rest are spec races (often for cars with awful default/stock tunes).
• Many/most cars have default/stock tuning setups that are unpleasant & uncompetitive to drive, so if you’re not a tuner or if you can’t find a good tune to download, you’ll likely be fighting the car’s frustrating tendencies.
• The AI/NPC drivers are still nutty.
• The penalty system is still janky.
• The entire UI/UX feels as slow & clunky as trying to help grandma get her dot-matrix printer working on her dusty old Gateway computer that’s still running Windows 3.1 on dial-up internet.
• The company has publicly acknowledged how bad the car audio is, and they’ve said they’ll be updating sounds over time on a car-by-car basis.
• The company has publicly acknowledged how old & unsightly many of their 3D car models are, and they’ve said they’ll begin updating some of them over time on a car-by-car basis.
• There’s still a long list of unaddressed bugs/issues/problems.
This game was years in the making, it’s had a year of post-launch updates, and it still needs years of more work if it ever hopes to match & surpass its own prior installments.
Since it seems like half a game, might as well get it while it’s on sale for half price.
After 20 years of Forza Motorsport, this series should be in a much better state than it is.
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If you flipped those answers around I feel that Forza Motorsport would be great for you (it is for me as I am solely a multiplayer racer).
If you have a chance, I recommend checking out GRID Legends, as it’s great for single player content:
- You have a story mode with live action scenes between races (that are on the good side of cheesy)
- You have a classic career mode with loads of themed events similar to the old Gran Turismo games
- You have a robust Race Creator tool that lets you create some wild combinations (Multiclass between F1 and big rigs? In the snow? With ramps? Why not all 3?)
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Thanks, I’ll check it out!
If you ever do try fm share your experience w us.
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I primarily run single player, and the career races are frustrating. They remain locked for a week, but you only get a hand full if races before you have to wait for the next event to unlock. Something enjoyable will be over and done with before you really get into it.
The open races are normally hit or miss. If you really like the car you are running, then its ok for the tiny bit of time you’ll be spending on those events.
For me, Free Play is where I spent the majority of my time. I got to set the race length, select the car class by picking my car. Then I can set the weather, A.I. difficulty (6 is a good sweet spot), race length and even limit the A.I.'s PI advantage. If the A.I. were more human like, then Freeplay would be incredibly rewarding. Its “have it your way” without having some sort of Burger Monarch advertising saying “You Rule”.
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Listen, it can be fun, it’s okay right now, not quite as bad as it was on launch.
Try it out on GP first, then decide if you want to own it, simples!
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I bought the Series X + FM2023 a year ago. If I had to go back I wouldn’t get the game then, because it was in an awful and shameful state without the ability to upgrade any car we wanted with credits to compete in multiplayer lobbies. I literally did nothing but a couple of offline races in the following months.
Now it’s another story. They fixed what was ESSENTIAL. Go get it.
The multiplayer’s great. The single player experience is frustrating and forgettable.
It did not deserve an 84 on Metacritic at launch. It was a terrible experience: it was severely unoptimized for PCs, had egregious memory leak woes, looked covered in mud with some kind of weird gamma issues, had terribly brain dead AI, was missing critical features, stripped modes, and had very little usable content.
Now?
The good:
- graphics and optimization made huge strides. It’s not going to blow you away, but at least it runs smoothly and they fixed the muddy gamma settings.
- many more tracks than at launch
- proxy radar was finally added; was critical for wheel users and anyone who played in a first person cam
- Multiplayer hopper choices have increased drastically as has their starting interval frequency
- added challenge hub which lets you choose how you want to tackle fomo (groan) content
- people give it flack, but the penalty system is easily one of the best and is in a far better state than it was at launch. One of the very, very few things it does better than GT7
The “improvements” that fall short:
- sounds like junk. They’re working on it
- car selection has improved but at a trickling pace. Huge weak point that’s not improving quickly enough
- the added drift mode sucks. It feels tacked on, like they checked off a box
- speaking of added modes, nobody uses spectator mode. No idea how to even access it
The bad:
- the AI is bottom tier bad.
- still lacking a ton of freedom for offline gameplay; things like grid selection and the lack of individual driver settings means you have less ability to create the ideal setup you’d like to play
- everything related to liveries/decals/painting sucks. The process of applying, the chore of sifting through a clunky, slow gallery—all of it sucks
- the replays are still broken, just slightly less
- no stats to review, so no sense of progress
- there’s nothing to the SP experience; it feels like a waste of time
- tuning is not beginner friendly; completely dropped the ball on improving it with some form of learning system
It feels ankle deep if you’re a singleplayer guy. If you want to try multiplayer, you’ll have good time as long as you remain open minded to practice and understanding you’ll have an occasionally frustrating experience
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