Though I do have reservations. I've read it has an emphasis on Micro transactions and has limited single player content? Although that it's a live service? I mean, Benny said earlier they're slow dripping the game content rather giving us a complete game like GT4. Can you articulate why it's your GOTY or how this game works?
This is almost completely incorrect.
If you care about the top 10-20% of the cars that cost millions in GT3/GT4 and are the end game cars, yeah microtransactions are a thing. The other 80% of the hundreds and hundreds of cars are all normal prices and normally obtainable as trophy cars and from the used and new car lot. A lot of the griping initially came down to the MP. Basically if you wanted the best top 1% cars to compete in the top MP races it was a grind to get them. I think that's a bit better at this point.
It also has the best single player campaign in the series since the old games. It took me about 40 hours to go through and that's before the GAAS additional campaign mode events they've been adding. I was 100% satisfied with the single player campaign. Between the license tests, the special events and the main campaign it was a nice meaty single player arcade-sim racer, the likes I haven't played in many years and I've played all the Forzas and GTs. It's not open-ended at all, it's a very pinpoint linear campaign like the old GTs and I prefer that for racing campaigns.
Instead of playing the 3-10 hours of additional single player campaign (basically post-game campaign) every month or two when it drops I'm taking a break. I got 40-50 hours of great fun from GT7 and was fully satisfied. I'll come back once a year or so if they keep adding to it and have myself a nice little 30 hour free DLC expansion campaign and new cars to enjoy.
The online is fun too, though it's taken a few steps back from Sport which was GT online at its best. There's some nice modes but people drive dumb and the game is bad at penalizing bad drivers that push you off turns and stuff. It's a fun diversion but for me GT7 is just a really good single player game.
It also controls amazingly well and looks nice and has a ton of tracks. The only downside is it's missing city tracks because PS4 can't handle that graphically and it's cross-gen. If GT8 isn't cross-gen I think we'll get cities again to drive through. But there's some truly great tracks in here.
Also GT7's focus is on verticality. Something I've never seen in a sim racer before. The stages have lots of elevation changes and the physics work with it so you have to take the vertical changes into consideration along with the horizontal changes in the road as you're driving. It's pretty cool and gives it a unique challenging and exciting feel especially if you keep most of the assists off. Driving heavy cars through downhills with turns is crazy difficult but rewarding.
I've never spent a cent on any microtransactions in GT7 fwiw. I had like 150 cars or something in my garage by the end of the game and have a decent amount of money still.
Also the photomode stuff is pretty great and there's like 8,000 locations to shoot at
