Lame duck reveals have really seemed to drag the forum down.
Despite all the negativity, if you had FM7, will you have fun? Think back to what you enjoy the most. Chances are you’ll get many hours of enjoyment. Would that be considered a pretty good game if you devoted that much time?
What is fun to you?
For me it is building and tuning cars for a variety of classes to do well online and competing in esports. I also enjoy leaderboards even though there’s likely no overall ranking methodology.
I always have a plan to document each car and how well it performed via best times, in traffic, and win/podium percentage. A bit dorky but I love stats and excel.
As a person who loves those 3 old tracks that coming back, Mugello Suzuka and Maple Valley,
I’d be inclined to say yes, you need both (actually, no only FM7, you can sell your FM6 copy if you like)
I’ll be enjoying every part of the game, things that have been announced and things to come!
One of the things I’ve found, especially with FH3, is how fun and relaxing it is building liveries… then getting to see them out and about being used by other people. I’ve also been sharing forzatography on twitter & Reddit, engaging in a wider audience and learning new (and better) ways to design more detailed vinyls.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the racing side of the game… i’m just not very good at it. FH3 (and an Elite controller) has seen that improve a bit, but i’m no Car_Lightining… not yet anyway. I’m looking forward to developing my skills further.
Easiest question I’ve had to answer all day. Of course I’ll have fun. That’s what the FM series is all about. It will never go full sim like some people are so intent on it being.
*Also I have spreadsheets for everything including charting performance at work and a sheet with all my console games with genre, format, and date of release.
Don’t worry about the forum negativity. It’s the exact same story every single year. Turn 10 engages in their cryptic and seemingly inexplicable marketing scheme and a crop of new forum posters, thinking they’ve discovered something the rest of us haven’t watched unfold year after year, point at the sky and declare it falling.
Forza is dead. Forza is dying. Forza is doomed. Forza is about to be killed off by competitor X, Y, and Z, all at the same time! Forza must do so-and-so to stave off imminent demise, Forza has to immediately add features A, B, and C from competing titles in order to stay relevant. They’ll stamp their feet and threaten to hold their breath unless they get all the information they want right now. They’ll pre-threaten to pre-cancel their pre-orders. Some veteran posters, with their own axes to grind, will even join in in an effort to give some legitimacy to the doomsaying so that it feeds on itself and whips itself into a maelstrom of malcontent.
And they’ll all, to a man, be here on early release day playing the game.
I didn’t enjoy Forza 5 and 6 very much, so unless 7 is a big improvement then no. Yep it’s negative… but it’s based on a couple of hundred hours playing 5 and 6, and many hundreds more on the previous versions, which were much more enjoyable to actually play rather than just the graphics being better.
I feel that Forza Motorsport has put the cart before the horse, it’s all about graphics and car count, and the actual game is an afterthought.
As a solo player for the most part I found FM6 far better than FM4. The career in FM4 made no sense and there were alot of weird events. The “world championships” never amounted to anything and qualifying in the first race didn’t give you a better starting position in the second. FM3 had better career than FM4. The races were on a calender, the cars were in the same division, and the progression made sense.
I came to console gaming because pc gaming is way too expansive nowadays, so i think i will enjoy it because i will have again the chance to race with my friends who don’t own a console.
I only had chance in my xbox one to play fm5 and 6 and i enjoyed more the last one, FM7 looks like a good improvement over FM6 to me.
Nothing I do will change the FORZA path, so I’ll play and enjoy the game for what it offers me, not for what I want from it. Mostly racing on line and Leaderboards], painting and then some time ago started with tuning. Approaching level 2000 now in FM6, so will continue that in FM7. I have quite a stressful job so FORZA became my stress release.
As for the negativity, yeah, I’ve seen it all, but like Hieronymus said, they’ll all be back, including the ones I recognize on those threads for their countless crashing in the hoppers. Funny that they complain about a few cars, but are also the ones using those cars to crash others.
Yeah, many of the posters who master finger their keyboards on this forum and spite their conspiracy theories of how Turn 10 “don’t care” and “only make money” are generally the same people who beg for their precious JDM dreamboi cars and Eurobeat hypercars at the same time.
Thankfully they all seem to sod off after a week or so.
Glad to see that people who stick around here can see that even though the game may potentially have it’s flaws, we can all still look forward to having a great time.
Will I get my moneys worth out of it? Again, more than likely
What I’m not seeing is any reason to buy the new game, having FM2 through FM6, I can always go back to one of those to do what I’d do in the newest iteration. Same goes for the whole dynamic weather stuff, I can always go play Project Cars 1 for that.
The new menus look nice and i LOVE that the track loads in the background while you’re fiddling with other settings. Great move T10!
The new Motion Effects seem pretty cool, if maybe a little overdone. Same goes for the components shaking from speed/wind.
New Dubai track looks interesting, especially how the heat will affect the tires.
I’m interested to see just how impactful weather and day/night are on the races. Horizon they’ve always seemed like little more than window dressing.
I’m definitely interested in any development on the awful career mode we had in FM6, but I suspect it won’t be as spectacular as what we had in FM3 or 4
Obviously graphics and sound boosts on Xbox One X (if I ever get one) will be a nice touch too.
Some old favorites coming back like the Mitsubishi Starion and Maple Valley!
Unfortunately all of these things just don’t add up to $60 for me. Especially when I have a ton of content to still explore in FM4, FH3, and FM6. Hopefully that opinion changes.
Are you sure about this? I’ve decided to go back and play through the last series on FM4, the only one I have yet to complete. The career and showcase events in FM6 are much better and more well defined than those in FM4. Sure you had “seasons” with a pre-set track rotation, but that’s about it. None of the events are really related. The World Championship events have heats that don’t have anything to do with one another. The race selection will change with the car that you pick and there aren’t series of inter-connected races with related cars like in FM6. I completed the first race in the series with a Nissan against a field of muscle cars and random cars in the same class that had nowhere near the handling of the car I was in and I completely smoked them.
In recent races I’ve had non-sensical events like “Eclipse vs. Talon” and events where you have to see how many slow cars you can pass on Sebring before two laps are up. This isn’t the most thrilling racing. Sure the last endurance events I have to complete in FM6 are with LMPs and I’m not a fan, but at least there’s a sense of accomplishment there.
With FM7 I cannot wait for this game. I run mainly in solo play and it has what I’m looking for. To be honest I would WAY rather have the tracks from FM4 back instead of some new random tracks I’ve never heard of. So for me, my checklist goes.
FM4 tracks such as Maple Valley, Mugello, Suzuka, etc. back and completely remodeled from the ground up.
Porsche 928 finally in game.
New career mode with Forza driver cup (sounds cool but I’d like more details)
New dynamic weather system.
All Porsche in game from the start, all FM3 cars and DLC (for the most part) in game from the start, return of FM4 cars to the game.
So with all those in mind, FM7 is worth every. single. penny… for me. I’m not a huge multiplayer guy so I know some are upset that changes haven’t been announced. I’m not a huge sim-fan, nor do I need any revamping of tuning which I don’t do myself. I’m also not a real world race series fan so it doesn’t matter to me what race cars they put in.
(actually, no only FM7, you can sell your FM6 copy if you like)