First impressions......

[Jay]

The worst game PD have ever made, you can't even start the game unless you download 107GB. I bought the disc and still need to download 107GB.

**** PD

Happened to me too, apparently it’s a bug.

 

[bjl23]

A disc is nothing but a physical license these days. That’s not specific to PD and surely doesn’t make GT7 the worst Game they have ever made.

Every other game I've brought in the last 12 months let me start the game and play it, never needed to do a day 1 download.

Maybe I'm to old the gaming now.

That is impossible. Did you accidentally buy GT Sport?

I owned every gt title, when I got GTS I played for 3 for hours and never played it again, so in books GTS is better because I at least got to play GTS when I put the disc in without downloading 107GB two seconds after the disc went in.

Happened to me too, apparently it’s a bug.

I hope so.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

Still waiting on my delivery. Starting to annoy me, I have zero patience at the best of times.

 

[Michael88]

Played it for 4 hours but 2 of those were spent on figuring out how to make my Thrustmaster Wheel and pedals work with the game. Still, not too happy with the FFB but I'll have to fiddle around with it a bit more. Just finished Sunday Cup and B-License on Gold. Driving feels very easy, cars are easy to control. Money seems to be easy to acquire in this game, I'm like on 75k already and I did only a couple laps plus license testing.
Graphics look excellent, the menus are easy to navigate. Also no complaints about the AI so far. Biggest con so far is the Trial Mountain circuit, I just don't like how it looks with the extended tunnel on the straight. Too much concrete.

I have not figured out how to sell any of my cars yet though.
I can view them in my garage but that's it, is that something I have to unlock?

 

[DodgySyrup]

That 5 hour intro was a bit much.

Funny, everyone begged for old school Gran Turismo and now I see people complaining there's too much fluff, too much filler, and they just want to race.

You can't win, I guess.

The handling, as always, is sublime, it looks great, and there's a lot of content for the money.

I'm happy.

 

[Cayit]

I Played for 3 hrs...WOW!
I still have to let it sink in

 

[WJHMH]

4.5 hrs until Game Stop opens, this might be my longest wait in awhile.

 

[jamiewalton19]

The HDR is completely broken which has been pointed out already in a few online reviews.Its far to bright and washed out it looks awful even compared to GT Sport. The HDR calibration settings are rubbish and don't even work properly.Go check out the in game HDR settings of Sport then compare them with GT7.For some reason when you go in to Display settings and choose the settings assistant, after choosing frame rate it brings to boxes up, one being exposure and the other Saturation.There is a picture of a Porsche on track with trees either side, go in to exposure to reduce and it alters nothing it's completely useless and the screen remains too bright and washed out.
I have posted about this issue on here about the HDR.

 

[MOPARbarrett5]

Played for almost six hours (about half of that doing Circuit Experience) and I'm enjoying it relative to what is unlocked. The physics are much more in depth and there are only rare quick drops in framerate on a base PS4. I wish PD implemented some way for us to at least try the new important features early on such as engine swaps, wide bodies and new vehicles. This would keep the people contemplating whether to play again interested and give everyone a taste of what they are working towards.

 

[CustomX]

First impressions? Played a few hours on PS5.

• graphics look sweet but honestly not that different to how GTS looked on PS5
• physics are improved and enjoyed the extra challenge
• hating the boringness of Sunday Cup cakewalks in crap cars. I have dreaded this for years and its as bad as I feared.
• I don't understand people who say it throws too many cars and credits at you early on. For the amount of boring racing I've been doing, I've got boring cars and only a modest increase in credits.
• I'm sure that after 50 hours of play I'll have a nice collection of cars to enjoy the new graphics anmd physics with.

Honestly? I'd have been happier if they just upgraded GTS, let me keep my 300 cars (or however many there are in the game), and let me pay £90 for the upgraded physics and slightly upgraded graphics.

 

[OldSilentHill]

I've got a question. Does the fan noise gets louder when you play GT7?

I'm trying to decide between getting PS4 Pro or Slim, probably used one.

It's odd, it used to happen the first years but I've gone through the last year without having this issue (and with a whole summer with 35-44 C°).

I honestly forgot about it until you just have mentioned now 😂

 

[justin credible]

Had my PS5 since Christmas and turned it on this morning and got it set up ready for GT7, I don't like any other game apart from Driveclub but the server got switched off on that boo so I decided to wait for GT7 I have Played for 2 hours straight I find the graphics etc quite good.
I am still on that very first one the Hooked on classics where I need 5.47 miles for gold, best so far 5.33 and I cannot get faster lol I can do slower but that doesn't wash.
I am beginning to think if I can't do the very first thing I haven't a prayer at the rest of it! lol
I need to find out how to get around the game as I haven't a clue what to press or what is where as my game arrived and there is no instruction manual so I will have to do it all by playing and see where I end up.
I need to find out how to get to garage or how to earn or how to buy cars or where the race tracks are I can drive on apart from this Hooked on classics one.
I may be doing something wrong but no matter what I press it seems to make this Hooked on classics one start again. I think I must have to complete that before I move on?
I can see this first one taking me a few months to conqour but being retired I have the time 👍


When I put the disc in it said copying and I had to wait five minutes while it copied to 100% is that normal?

 

[FrankieStail]

Has it got proper fov adjustment?

 

[NevilleNobody]

Wait, so you need to grind to even play sport?

Seriously wonder if there's two game lines here, take SPORT in another direction and leave the "grind with a kei car for 100 hours to upgrade to a supra then add tunes" to the crowd that likes that aspect of the game.

I am here to race and it looks tome like GT7 took a hard turn away from that.

 

[GTboyz]

Happened to me too, apparently it’s a bug.

So what's the solution?

 

[barak181]

I played for a few hours last night and really enjoyed it. The thing that jumped out at me the most was the DualSense controller. Wow! That was a gamechanger for me. The pressure on the triggers as pedals, the subtlety of the haptic feedback - when they were touting how much of a game changer it would be during the pre-release hype I really thought they were overblowing it. I was wrong. A huge leap forward for players on controllers.

The AI is still bad but is also a big improvement from GTS. (I did a few offline races on GTS before the GT7 unlocked last night so I think I have a pretty good comparison.) Yes, it still sucks but it does make me wonder what they're going to be able to do with the Sophy technology.

Personally, I'm glad that they've chosen to use their resources on improving the graphical detail of the car and tracks, rather than the surrounding environment. Resources are finite, use them where it matters most.

The implementation of variable weather also impressed me more than I thought it would. However, if I didn't already know that weather has an adjustable multiplier I'd likely be a bit confused about how quickly things dried up. But at the same time, it's very on brand for PD to put that in and just let the player figure it out on their own.

 

[Rivanov]

Has it got proper fov adjustment?

No

 

[KosmoKazi]

Was worried we had no idea of how it would play on PS4 but given the comments here so far, seems not an issue. Looking forward to trying it this weekend. And dammit if I didn't order a Fanatec DD combo, while hyped up that GT7 seems to be a hit already.

 

[Xptpete58]

I am really underwhelmed by GT7. I thought there was a bigger leap using GT Sport on my PS5. Disappointing 100 gig d/l and then all the BS just to play Sport mode. Meh

 

[Theufcveteran]

I am really underwhelmed by GT7. I thought there was a bigger leap using GT Sport on my PS5. Disappointing 100 gig d/l and then all the BS just to play Sport mode. Meh

In essence, GT7 is Sport+, visually and in terms of features. I can definitely see how the long intro would dissuade some players who want to jump straight into MP - an option to skip it would be nice, perhaps if it detects Sport save data/liveries on your console/account.

Perhaps you’ll find some fun in the more detailed physics? I haven’t played for myself yet, downloading now, but I’ve heard good things about the feeling of the cars, sans FR rear traction, which seems too weak at the moment.

 

[wasenhorn]

5 hrs in (according to gameplay stats), on PS5 and Dual Sense, did 20 something cafe menu things, unlocked every menu (I think?), got license all gold on B/A/IB, drove a bit more than 500km, 15 trophies, and these are my first impressions;

• License gold difficulty: For the majority of tests, I got gold on my first try, and the rest rarely need more than 2 tries to get gold. I think it's still on the easy side, but somewhat more difficult than GTS.
• Missions gold difficulty: I only got all gold on the first one (the magic mountain, which has one pepper on it), so I'm not sure about the rest.
• The cafe menu thing: You need to do this cafe menu thing, to unlock other features of the game (including multiplayer, sport, etc). Mostly, it either requires you to collect 3 cars (you can either outright buy them or win them as a prize), or win a certain race, or use a recently unlocked feature, so it's not terribly time consuming, but it certainly takes some time to unlock all essential things (for example, you need to clear roughly 10 of them to unlock multiplayer). I guess this is only a minor annoyance to most people, but it is the worst thing for me so far, because I have 4 PS5/account combo in my home and I need to do this 3 more times. 8 minute long unskippable opening or mandatory first race also doesn't help.
• Dual Sense: Adaptive triggers mostly works like this; If you have less grip available for acceleration and braking (especially sudden full braking or sudden full throttle), it gets firmer. You also get less amount of travel before the repulsive force kicking in. As such, it's almost all the way firm on wet track, and it'll be relatively firmer on slippery tracks, whereas it's pretty soft when you drive a low power car with racing tires on dry track. On another note, new vibration motors are certanly better than the old one.
• Graphic: It's a mixed bag. It's definitely improved, but it's not something completely on a different league (compare to GTS or other games). You'll also notice some pretty bad graphics here and there (especially on some mandatory video playbacks after some menu unlocks).
• Loading: On the previous iterations, I always got annoyed by the long loading time, but this one doesn't bother me on almost everything. Pretty much everything is fast enough (receiving a car, buying a car, starting a race, etc).

I like it so far though.

 

[NevilleNobody]

Virtually everything I am reading is the complete opposite of what I personally want from the game other than maybe a slightly less grip on the rear end which was needed.

The grinding, the "unlocking", the harder focus on driving, the lesser focus on racing, the tuning in sport, the set up changes in sport, the annoying intro, the "music rally" bs, the cafe menu and just the general bloat and lack of focus is all going against my core desire to just jump on and within a few minutes be racing guys of equal skill level in a variety of cars with decent grip. Massively disappointed if I am honest.

 

[Famine]

Wait, so you need to grind to even play sport?

By the definition of "grind", no.

There's a total of 12 single-player races - almost all two-lappers - between you and Sport Mode. You don't need to repeat any of them, and you can skip seven of them out by buying the prize cars instead.

 

[DodgySyrup]

So, I've put a few more hours in...and I'm a little torn.

I definitely like the addition of new content, stuff that feels more like vintage GT.

There's a lot there.

But, I kind of feel like I'd have preferred a more conventional racing game structure where I could just enter different championships and work my way through the various tiers earning money and unlocking progressively faster cars as I went - while also having the ability to go back/go to the cafe, driving test/license stuff as and when I wanted to.

I fully appreciate that isn't necessarily the Gran Turismo formula, and some might even say you bought the wrong game if you feel that way.

Personally, I like all the classic GT stuff - I'm just not completely sold on the way THIS game is structured.

Anyway, 3 months from now we'll all need complaining about a lack of content...so it is what it is.

 

[Obsidian-2]

I played for 3.5 hours last night. I like the improved physics for the most part. Going over curbs feels much more realistic. I am not sure about the twitchy rear wheel drive cars though. That seems broken. I drive a 370Z IRL and they do not spin that easily, LOL.

I fixed most of the things I found annoying via the settings. However, I can't seem to find one to turn off the auto replay after races ... anyone know how to do that? Thanks.

 

[sumbrownkid]

I rate it Gran Turismo out of Gran Turismo.

Good game.

 

[atfmarko]

I like the game..and was pretty descent at gt sport...but I salute all who can play without any assist .... don't spin and put descent lap time. (because I do all the time) 🤣🤣🤣 plus I am slower for about 4 seconds

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo 7 Releases Today as Players Share First Impressions​

Gran Turismo 7 is officially here. As clocks have ticked over to midnight in the various regions, pre-loaded downloads have unlocked and, as we speak, delivery drivers and postal workers the world over are popping BluRay cases into people’s homes...

 

[danthespaceman]

I'm really excited! If they provide regular updates on the level they did for GT Sport, this game will age quite well.

 

[tyuk0d1]

Is not it possible to completly turn off the Countersteering Assistance? I drive with the DualSense controller, steering with the left stick. Even if the Countersteering Assistance is off, the steering wheel turns automatically in case of a car spin.