Video Games Thread - Gamertags in 1st post

[G.Irish]

I find Gran Turismo style CarPG games boring to be honest. It's like driving a car, minus all the fun parts. I'm sure they would be really fun if you were in one of those hydraulic setups that simulate acceleration, but without that they're just dull.

fixed that for you.
Gran Turismo style mainstream "racing" games has ruined a whole generation on racing games. A 3 lap race where you pass all the other cars on the straights, bounce off the walls in the corners, but still win to collect 'credits' and buy another car is boring and tedious, and puts the goal of the game (collecting cars, licenses, etc) in the absolute wrong place

Going toe to toe with equal cars, 3 cars wide into turn 1 knowing that one little fuckup and you are toast for the whole race or spending 3 laps just to set up a pass for 1 position gets your blood pumping like no other video game ive played

This. I've never sweated so much playing a racing game as I did playing Ferrari Challenge. Then again, I've never rage restarted a race so many times.

I think you nailed what is tedious and dumb about the CarPG's. I hate having to do all that grinding to get the cars I want, and to be honest I'd rather have a handful of super realistic cars than 800 cars that aren't all that different. Im hoping Project CARS is more of the former.

Then again, maybe I need to finally break down and pay for iRacing.

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