Racing Simulator Thread

[G.Irish]

I'm surprised so many have gone/continue on iRacing since car selection is anemic and graphics are...old.

this is why Gran Turismo is the worst thing to ever happen to *sim* racing.
The number of cars is largely irrelevant in a racing sim. The driving dynamics and physics are far and away the most important followed very closely by the tracks.
GT made everyone think that 48 versions of the toyota prius is what racing simulators should have.

a small collection of cars to represent the different types of racing and styles of cars is all you need. Anything more is just diverting development resources away from elements of the game that will actually make it better.

Gran Turismo can definitely be credited for being a landmark racing game that showed that a more hardcore game could sell millions of copies. It's just that the lead guy on the series got further and further off the rails with each release. It's clear he was obsessed with making a kitchen-sink racing RPG rather than the purest driving experience possible. That's why after all these years the sound still sucks, hitting stuff incurs little penalty, and there are hundreds of irrelevant cars.

I just wish that something like Ferrari Challenge could've been iterated on. One car, done extremely well, with a bunch of very detailed tracks. If they wanted to get fancy they could have included some of the Ferrari one-off track/race cars like the FXX, 599XX, F50 GT etc. But I would definitely buy that game with just one car.