Is Forza Motorsport Good Now? – Nick's Notebook

Forza Motorsport has been out for 6 months and seen a host of updates since then, and so I'm taking a look at how it was and how it is now in this new longer format where I get to just sit and talk a bit about a topic.

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[syphe]

You mention GT career mode at 20:00, I can't agree, the career mode in GT7 is the worst thing about that game, not a single race is an actual "race", you start at the rear of the pack and have to pass 15 odd cars which are all lapping 4+ seconds slower than you, it's mundane. Conversely, in Forza, while it's not perfect, with the difficulty at 6/8 I find myself more often than not having good races, last night for example I finished a race in 4th place starting from 12th, with the leaders best laps marginally faster than mine, it's a much more realistic race experience.

[labombaromba]

I've been playing alot of FM2 lately and I played so much FM4 back in the day, currently on the fence about this game. From everything i've heard, the singleplayer is still really lacking in the new game.

It's really sad because FM4 had hundreds of events. It also had the World Tour mode where the game would take you across these events automatically by rotating between tracks (because the player is 'travelling across the world) and showing you three different events with different rewards each time, based on what car you've picked. It was such a natural, varied and easy approach to progression without taking away freedom.

[scottrathmanjnr]

I enjoy it, the driving is realistic enough to enjoy it on the wheel, but the amount of newbs is crazy, the matchmaking doesnt work, amd the penalty system punishes the victim 90% of the time

[ishaqgt]

I never played this game. My pc won't run. But i love watching this beautiful game. Wish i get to play this one day

[nikolaig]

I need more to do. Career is funish. Im getting tired of grinding 3 hours to level 50. To get brand affinty. Cut the time in half. 1.5 hours. Its a bit absurd.

[johnpar]

Its telling when even my predictions of the youtube tag farmers didnt come back around this time saying "Forza is ACTUALLY GREAT NOW" never came around. Genuinely so few people actually play the game. By rebooting themselves "From the ground up" they've further lost any definable identity to the entire car community and are now just know for their game being "problematic". And not in the political way. But in the 'its got so many little problems no one is even bothering to play it' way.
I counted it dead in December. And even though they have made 2 distinctive updates that has shown even a cynic like me that theres still a glint of inspired passion there. I still dont think there is a path forward for the series. Not without significant time, and in their case, money.
The studios story is the same as every other in the industry. Too much bloat, No passion. Old guard are leaving or being pushed out by certain specific interests. and middle management middle managing.
Its a spaghetti mess that leaves everyone holding the bag but the investors and execs.

[MJMoonwalker]

Things I'd like to see

Feature tours permanent
Open tour car rewards in the shop once it ends
All open Class available in multilayer
More monthly Cars
Better graphics on xbox and remodeled Cars

[wwjnz]

I normally play at medium settings without Ray Tracing due to performance issues (weak CPU older GPU). Last week I turned RT on and to my surprise I lost nothing in FPS. A couple of hours ago, I turned RT back off and set the game to ultra, and I finally started seeing hits to the FPS. So I settled on high performance settings but ultra car and high track, and the game looks good? This cant be. I see no DLSS artifacts, the FPS barely drops below my soft-capped 75FPS. Thats on Daytona, Suzuka, Hockenheim and Hakone. It looks like they made good on fixing performance on weaker CPUs.

[thestoicwhinger]

I've actually started to enjoy the gradual upgrade system in career, it's fun to play around with tuning and find which upgrades gain the best performance. The AI is suitably aggressive at higher difficulty and I don't always finish first, it's actually tight racing

[DaveYT]

Have you played it recently btw, if so what do you think?

[prophetate]

cool video :) I am happy to hear someone also want to have a race serie with stock tuning on the cars, where you actually can choose car A and B Like ford vs ferrari, bmw vs mercedes, porsche 911 vs nissan gtr etc. Thanks again for your video and great thoughts and comments :)

[ThePhilberto]

Microsoft should have closed down Turn 10 and given Forza Motorsport to another development team. Every Motorsport since 4 has been a disappointment. Built from the ground up apart from the cars, AI, livery editor etc. etc.

[ForTheChillofIt]

Forza 4 had the best campaign set up i think.

[QuickSticks]

Is it likely or even possible for them to fix all this with updates?

[dcampbell]

I like the simplistic nature of Forza....it is getting a lot better with every update. I like that it is all racing and really no drifting or hitting bowling pins etc. Definitely would like to see some more content in single player like spec series stuff like that and continue to improve AI and as you mentioned the system of if you are not good in practice you shouldn't be in the race either. Also add a qualifying option in career mode like multiplayer. So yes it can be better but I really am enjoying the game as it is right now.

[versusforward]

I too loved the progression in the Gran Turismo games, but haven't owned a console since the ps2 - I play on PC these days. Looking for any recommendations of racing games with a similar system as GT?

[Aussious]

What a frustrating game I just tried several times to start it up and just got stuck on the first loading screen...So typical of Xbox these days as the bloody DVR has also not been working for weeks now.

[thepaywall]

I find when I notice a lot of rubberbanding on career I wait til everyone bunched up and take the lead car out 😂

[dominicreid]

I was a huge fan of nfs shift when I was young, and forza motorsport is an improved, modern replacement for that. Gran turismo was always a different beast from these games. I loved gran turismo 5, but it didn’t make me dislike games like nfs shift.

[brandonmccarthy]

The biggest problem is the game doesn't friggin run man, it hasn't had stable performance on PC since day one