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DmMacniel ,
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Forza Horizon 4. I fricking love the British countryside!

edgemaster72 , (edited )
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I loved Driveclub back on PS4, think it’s delisted and possibly servers shut down, don’t remember.

Project Gotham Racing (I think 2 was my preferred one), Midnight Club II as well

Mario Kart series

Quantum Redshift on OG Xbox

kindenough ,

Moto racer 1 on PC.

MyNameIsAtticus ,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Not the Greatest of all time, but Growing up the two racing games I’d play the most was Forza Horizon and Little Big Planet Karting. Sadly I had to drop LBPK after my PS3 died and Forza Horizon I can’t find the disk for anymore.

Chozo ,

I miss the arcade-y feel of older racing games. Everything these days tries too hard to be a simulator, that they end up stripping the fun out of it. I want sparks to fly out of my tires when I drift even though they're rubber and wouldn't actually do that, I want wacky announcers with color commentary, I don't want to shift gears.

I want games like Ridge Racer and Need for Speed to make a comeback.

tuckerm ,

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit or Burnout: Paradise might be the closest to what you're looking for. They're both open-world games, but I don't think they really have that open-world filler that you see a lot of. They both got remastered releases in the last few years.

MrScottyTay ,

Hot pursuit is barely an open world game. There’s never a point to find around in the open world, in fact most people might even miss that you can do that.

Jessica ,

I loved Project Gotham Racing because it rode the line between arcade game and simulator quite nicely. I haven’t seen anything like it since.

ColeSloth ,

Mario kart is still a thing. I absolutely hate the not actually random item drops, though. Getting punished for being in the lead is lame.

tuckerm ,

GRID: I absolutely loved the original Grid (I think it was called Racedriver: Grid in Europe) when it came out.

Project CARS 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione: A while ago I tried using a PS5 controller on PC and using the gyroscope to steer left and right by tilting the controller. It works well enough when you get used to it. It gives you more granular control than an analog stick. You really can't tilt an analog stick 15 degrees consistently, but you can tilt the controller like that consistently. I'm not saying its as good as a racing wheel, but if you don't have one, it'll at least let you play games that might otherwise need a wheel. I played a decent amount of Project CARS 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione that way.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a fun kart racing game. If you don't have a Switch and you want something like Mario Kart, you should pick it up. It isn't just a Mario Kart knockoff with Sega characters. Wait no... that's exactly what it is, but it's a good one.

Meta: /m/[email protected] is a community here.

MrScottyTay , (edited )

These are some solid picks. Grid is probably my favourite game that is closest to being a sim racer. Love doing the 24 heure le mans

tuckerm ,

Yes! And if I remember, those races actually lasted 24 minutes, right? I hadn't played a game that did that before. I loved the fact that there was an actual endurance/focus element to that race.

MrScottyTay ,

They did yeah. And the time of day would change throughout the race too which made the night time section quite scary cause you’d have already went through like 15 minutes of racing and now needed to deal with that unique challenge on top of your fatigue (even more so if this wasn’t your first attempt)

missingno ,
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F-Zero GX - As far as pure racing goes, GX is perfection.

Kirby Air Ride - The actual racing mode is... mid, honestly. But City Trial? One of the most interesting and unique game modes ever conceived. Sad this game never got any kind of successor.

PieMePlenty ,

I think Forza Motorsport 2 or 3. That was the peak of the series right there. I also enjoyed Dirt 3 and PGR4.

While I still ppayed all the later forza and GT games, they lacked a good campaign mode.

Anyone know which Gran Turismo has a good campaign?

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Split/Second

Make Way

Mario Kart

I have a type.

marble ,

I’d almost forgotten about split/second. That was a great game.

MrScottyTay ,

I love me the PS2 era need for speed games.

Burnout 3 & revenge.

Dirt 2 has one of the best licensed soundtracks for a game, same for the OG Forza Horizon.

Modern ones, even horizon 4 and 5 feel very hollow compared to these in my opinion.

Super Woden GP 2 is an outlier to that though.

B0NK3RS , (edited )
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There a quite a few favourites over the years.

  • Colin McRae Rally 2.0
  • Live for Speed
  • Hydrothunder
  • Metropolis Street Racer
  • Forza Motorsport 4
  • Burnout 2
  • Blur
  • Wreckfest
  • Gran Turismo 2
  • Wave Race Blue Storm
  • F-Zero X
  • GRIP (and Rollcage 1 & 2)
  • TT Isle of Man
  • Dirt Rally 1 & 2
  • Circuit Superstars
GeneralEmergency ,

live for speed

It’s always nice to see it still being remembered. The first Sim racer I played.

B0NK3RS ,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Same.

I don’t play often but I check in every few months for an update or new mods.

GeneralEmergency ,

Physics wise it still holds up. still some of the best tyre physics going today

hal_5700X ,
  • F1 2020
  • Burnout Revenge
  • Gran Turismo 2
  • Need for Speed: Underground 2
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
  • Dirt Rally
  • Test Drive: Off-Road
  • NASCAR Thunder 2004 (PS1)
  • Ridge Racer (1993)
sag , (edited )

NFS: Most Wanted as a Car Racing game.

BallistcNG as a Anti-Gravity Combat Racing game.

nogooduser ,

Wipeout 2048 was my favourite of all time and is available in the Wipeout Omega Collection. I wouldn’t say that it’s better than the more recent titles but it was just the one that grabbed me.

I also really liked:

  • Dirt Rally was ace on the PSVR
  • Burnout Paradise
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted (the second one)
MentalEdge , (edited )
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2048 is so good. I love the teams each having three craft types. The tracks are really fun, with both wide sections where you can go flat out without a care, and narrow parts where you have to really thread the needle and use the airbrakes with total precision.

If you haven’t already, check out BallisticNG. It’s a retro style re-implementation of the classic WipEout physics, and the upcoming update will fully implement the 2048 physics mode.

!ballisticng

marble ,

Burnout 2: Point of impact (got me into burnout) Burnout paradise Split/second

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