People seem unhappy with gt7. Bought the 25th anniversary edition like an idiot and still haven't opened it. Maybe this weekend.
Between the game and the wheel/pedals and wheelstand I spent like $1,300 on it
At least I can use the wheel/wheelstand on Forza on my PC
Plus PC sim stuff.
That being said the actual driving in GT7 is great, no load times is game changer, there's a solid amount of tracks and you get like 100 cars in the campaign for free. Graphics are clean and serviceable even if nothing special outside some nice time of day and very rare weather (rain is only on 5 tracks out of the 34). Campaign is fun but short and stops before the high end races (most likely because they'll add more to the campaign as the years go along since they're seeing it as a long term platform). Photo landscapes mode is still really cool to take photos of cars. The license plates look ugly as sin and I don't know why people don't complain about this. Always got to hide the license plates for photos.
I'm weird in that in racing sim games I don't really care about the 50% of the car lineup that are 200mph track race cars. I just want to drive around and race cars that I could actually afford, or afford one day and I'm curious about how they drive irl like a classic Dodge Viper or a Porsche 911 or a Mazda Miata. And I get enough credits in the game that these 100,000 or under cars are pretty affordable. I bought the Tesla Model S, The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, the Honda S2000 already no problem, no grind. I always start off with cars I've actually driven or owned (my rl car ownership was a borrowed Honda Accord -> Impreza RS2.5 -> S2000 -> Model 3), so I'm mostly satisfied with it so far.
The AI kind of sucks though. But then again I think the AI sucks in Forza and Horizon too. You either have a faster car and pass everything or you can't keep up. GT games are basically rpgs where if you die on a boss you just grind some levels (parts) and then you win easily. The only thing that sticks out and why I say the AI sucks here is that they tend to be overaggressive and hit you which with the new physics tends to spin you out and cost the race. Combined with GT series having no rewind button, AI that fucks you over 3 laps in is...bad.
Also I hear the dirt racing is terrible. I've only done one dirt mission and it was pretty bad. But dirt racing is like 1% of the game content.
Oh and the online is kind of a mess. You can enter lobbies and race people whatever which you can make balanced and fun. But there's like 3 daily online races in different tiers and to be competitive you have to have a top-class in the allowed range and then spend a ton fully modding it. The races are usually like slow cheap cars, mid-range cars, race cars, so mostly people are complaining that the latter requires crazy money to buy the best race cars and mod them and the game is extremely stingy on credits. Also online pays jack shit credit-wise so it's more a satisfaction thing than a reasonable way to get credits.
There's also the always online thing which is obviously stupid and bad but I've made my piece with games heading that direction in the industry and it doesn't bother me.