Forza Motorsport Review - Why Does Everyone Hate It!?

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[MrLathor]

It turns out that negativity gets views on YouTube. People seem to enjoy watching people dunk and tear apart a new game release. YouTubers have noticed this and produce videos specifically to target those people. It representative of how toxic the gaming community can be.

[jeffreyt]

This is the first Forza Motorsport game where I fully enjoyed racing a C class car. Even cars I’d consider slow in games feel as fast and fun as they should.

Sense of speed is awesome, driving feels awesome. And I thought I’d hate the car level idea, but now choosing a car is meaningful again.

[PianoManCallum]

Definitely agree the AI need some work. I also find when starting a bit further back, 1 or 2 cars will manage to break away and create a huge gap after the first lap. Even if you are a second a lap faster there's just not enough laps to catch them as the races, at least in the early championships, are quite short. It's great fun though.

[mayday]

Im really enjoying this game. Just doing random stuff like multi class racing with F1 cars Vs E class cars.

It's definitely a bit half baked in a few areas but it's very fun to just go racing

[satireguy]

Only a couple gripes from me. The clutch needs to be a bit more reactive and there needs to be an open track day mode like fm7 had. I really enjoyed that mode.

[petrolhead]

I think the progression is a little steep, given that you can't max out a car's level in one tour... but I think its a good idea tbh. It does make you learn your car and have a better appreciation of what upgrades do to cars. I think the graphics are great tbh, sunset at Spa is absolutely gorgeous and night time rain races are stunning. This game feels more mature than the previous entries and I'm absolutely okay with that. Let's hope updates to multiplayer races, more cars and tracks and a few alterations to the game (car divisions are really weirdly organised, maybe doubling the CXP or adding more ways to get it like posting good laps or clean racing, some more customization options etc)

[HSThompson]

Really enjoying it. Only a couple of hours into it but it's impressed me. Some of the real time weather changes in race are tip notch too. Had a race earlier that started in quite thick fog, it ended in bright sunshine.... Wonderful to see it transition during the race.

[goatlps]

1:08 Dude you can't skip the tutorial, and it takes at least half an hour, and the online intro racing is even longer. It an awful start, but somehow gets worse.

[OrkDiktator]

"Everyone" hates it, because it's an Xbox game. "Everyone" is a part of the journalists and the majority of the content creators. Starfield's player count is (only on Steam!) between 50, 000 - 100, 000 more than a month after release, while the game parallelly released on Gamepass. there are certain interested groups in the industry who want Xbox to fail. If you take a look who is spending the most money for ads on those websites and gaming channels, you know what's going on. Always follow the money. Traditionally there's what people call "Xbox tax"... Xbox games get 5-10 points lower ratings than games of same quality from other publishers. And since the attempt to block the ABK-deal it got even worse. There was a campaign on steam to buy Starfield, give it a negative review and then to refund the game. Not talking about the review bombing on Steam, MS store and Metacritic.

[sharriff]

I agree with your review, it seems
Like certain YouTubers diss certain gaming companies no matter what they do lol but will praise other ones and ignore obvious flaws

[jacekatalakis]

Post 1.0 patch, my two biggrest issues are stil there

1. Currently, no racing car tours

2. Currently, you don't have an incentive to use a car after a tour. Sure, I could go work my Class C RS500 for example, up to B, A, S and R and so on, but why when I can just buy a car that is already in that class and has better PI, I did like using the same car for all the open tours and felt like I was feeling the upgrades and car evolving, but not everyone is going to do that.

However

Rivals mode is super super fun and I find myself going back to rivals mode every day to try bettering my times on tracks and having a blast with it. No AI to get in the way, unlimited fuel, tires, and just you, the clock and a target time. It's hot lap heaven and it works really, really well

[mig]

the penalty system for cutting the corner is actually really cool

[goatlps]

This is why people who've never played the previous FMs shouldn't rate the latest one.
The game has no play modes/features. FM4 from 2011 on 360 had at least 10x more stuff, including user hosted online races/series of races. FM4 had drift and drag events - this has drift suspension and drag tyres, but no drifting events and no tracks with a drag strip! LOL

[racingbs]

The progression system is my largest issue. It needs some work to make upgrading less tedious without using the AFK method.

[plumbertime]

Forza is about tuning and racing. When it takes 2 hours of lapping to build a car it’s ridiculous.
I’ve played forza since forza 1 and this game is killing what forza is. Building and racing cars!

[SamK-thqr]

I’ve played forza motorsport since the 2nd one, and I’m loving this game so far. It’s far from perfect but I truly believe it’s the best forza motorsport since forza motorsport 4, and it beats forza 4 in many key areas too.

[crazyjak]

They added a stupid progression system when they figured it out almost 20 years ago with 2.

[Zilvia]

The hate stems from the over hyping of "ground up build"

As new to forza Motorsports or new forza player, then no you cant understand the disappointment.


But as veterans and returning players. This is just the same game we already had with new physics. So yes driving wise, it's great. But the content removes from the game, the glitches, the issues, the lack of new stuff or lack of updating.

There is a massive growing list on the forza official forums of known issues that's pages long already.

The overall experience of the game will die fast, replay-ability that is.

[anhtuanhu]

I greatly enjoy this game - to me it’s a great mid way between ACC and Forza Horizon

[SXI_lol]

watchin this 2 months after the vid came out, they since fixed: The AI, the handling of the cars, visual bugs, disappearing track sections. the game is still not a 100% bug free, especially in the online races, people can go insanely fast lap times with the help of a little lag, like a 0:03:185 on spa that i saw a few days ago. the game is generally enjoyable and fun to play, however if you think this is a close to simulator level game, you will be disappointed really quickly. i recommend the game, but it definitely has its flaws. but as of right now they still develop a lot of things in the game and as its being out for longer we can expect more and more fixes and upgrades. The most negative thing with the game is being 130+ GB and it will probably just be more and more as time goes on.