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absquatulate , (edited )

These days I play a lot of Forza Horizon 4 and not much else, since I haven’t found anything else to really click. There’s a couple good ones out there though: Motor Town is pretty good as a car game in general, not just racing. Also BeamNg if you just wanna fuck around with the physics engine. Ooh, and Dakar Desert Rally is a fantastic rally raid simulation (albeit somewhat flawed)

Otherwise I would give some classics a shout: GRID the original, still holds up today. Also NFS Porsche, which was so ahead of its time it’s ridiculous.

Almost forgot: Driver San Francisco is a gem of a game, and Re-Volt, which is bound to get the remaster treatment any day now.

perslue ,

Megarace 2

astrsk , (edited )
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Gran Turismo 4
Dirt Rally 2
Forza Horizons 4

And the godking itself, Burnout 4 Revenge and its understudy Burnout 3.

Bonus point to Extreme-G and G2.

I’m also going to mention Generally. It was a tiny game with a small dedicated community but gods damn if it wasn’t just super fun to make maps and play community created events/maps/contests.

dentoid ,
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Oh god i almost forgot about generally. The laughs and the furious screams from the LAN parties of yesteryear were all brought up to the surface 🥲

Buddahriffic ,

I’ve got Gran Turismo 7 and it’s great in some ways but they ruined the pacing of the game. It hands out cars like they expire in less than a week. It can be fun to try out a whole bunch of different cars, but there’s not much sense of progression like the older ones gave.

I remember building a connection to some of the cars in older games. When you bought a car, it was meaningful because it took time to win enough money to afford something, and then I’d spend a while upgrading it until eventually hitting a ceiling and needing a better car to upgrade to progress to more races. And then add some variety with a few races with rules or restrictions along the way to give a reason to buy some other cards in the same tier, but then then it would be a big decision.

In GT7, all except the top end supercars feel like an afterthought, my garage gets filled for free as I win races, and any time I want to try a different car, first thing I do is buy most or all of the upgrades because it’s all trivial. Race with limiting rules? Ok, give me 5 minutes and I’ll find, buy, and max out another car to win this one.

Granted, it has more of an emphasis on the driving than the older ones did (where you could usually take your super car into whatever races your wanted and see how many times you could lap everyone), but I think I like the progressing through cars part more than the racing part and GT7 is disappointing in that regard compared to GT4 or GT3.

Blaster_M ,

GT7 going back to its roots… most races in GT2 would vomit up a car at you… and also you had a 100 garage limit due to a hardware limitation.

Blaster_M , (edited )

I had to scroll far to find this…

Extreme-G and G-2

aka Cyberpunk F-Zero but with Tron Lightcycles

marble ,

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

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

sag , (edited )

NFS: Most Wanted as a Car Racing game.

BallistcNG as a Anti-Gravity Combat Racing game.

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)
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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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)

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.

MyNameIsAtticus ,
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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.

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