Too bad my PS2 cant read GT4 anymore (can't play DVD's either)
Community Questions | Best Console Racing Title?
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For me it's Gran Turismo 3, that game was a quantum shift in terms of how good a racing game could look, such a step up. I bought a PS2 just for GT3 and had nothing to play really (some robot game) until GT3 was finally released. I didn't care about the lack of cars because each one looked so much better than previous gen. I bought a gamepod (still use it!) and the GT logitech wheel...good times. Never clicked with GT4, too much understeer.
Good shout, loved structure in that game with the challenges to move between the teams. I could win the title with the bottom team
In the PS4 is GTsport.
I liked GT4 on PS2, then GT5 and 6 on PS3, GT sport looks very good visually, but is missing something, and there are cars in the GT class that seem very unrealistic, or simply don,t exist, I thought steering not realistich in some classes. PC2 and F1 are no match for the PC on the console either. So I sold the PS4 pro, I've had all the playstations. Nothing beats the pc,
Rf2, ACC and RRoom
Rf2, ACC and RRoom
I forgot to mention in my previous comment - has anyone played the latest GRID title yet? Is it fun and satisfying to play? Curious about it but don't want to end up with a shallow experience if it's too simple (without wanting to sound elitist)!!
Big shout out to retro racers too - been racing since Spectrum +2 days throughout! Gotta love the classics like Outrun, Enduro Racer, Super Hang On, WEC Le Mans, Buggy Boy, and my favourite, Hard Drivin' !!!
Big shout out to retro racers too - been racing since Spectrum +2 days throughout! Gotta love the classics like Outrun, Enduro Racer, Super Hang On, WEC Le Mans, Buggy Boy, and my favourite, Hard Drivin' !!!
Super Off Road for the NES.
Seriously though, my friends and I had a ton of fun playing that and the SNES version as kids.
Seriously though, my friends and I had a ton of fun playing that and the SNES version as kids.
I never had a console, but besides all the sims i also enjoy the Forza games on pc, which count as concole racers, so i vote for Forza Motorsport 7 and Horizon 4
i played diveclub some months ago. it was ok but not great. it felt like a delayed attempt from sony to copy the glorious project gotham racing series.I don't wanna set the internet on fire, BUT LET IT BURN!
The best console racing title was DRIVECLUB! Sony bought Evolution Studios so they would kill off the franchise, making way for they're then unfished GT Sport. When it came to console racing being simcade that is, DriveClub had the best sounds, best graphics, best race lobby (now GT Sport), best handling when it came to a simcade. And to top it off, when it came to VR they didn't hold back. It was so immersive that the sensation of speed was so real on a still standing body that it caused nausea to VR newbies!
But development was halted after Sony acquired Evolution Studios, this was one of the earliest forms of cancel culture. After a couple of months they thanked us and bid farewell leaving the cryptic R34 Skyline behind as the last update. Gt Sport was released after e few months, it was SOLD in a VR bundle!!! But game has a VR mode, a very small portion with only one weak Ai opponent, the rest was not in VR! And still today compared to DriveClub, Gt Sport handling is asinine! Only the ones that got used to it could make the best of it, as I did. But it made me a struggling sim driver.
DriveClub had Poliphony truly losing at it's favorite game...
it had nothing special besides the stunning graphics, too bad it didnt even survive this console generation.
Best console racing game made so far is Forza Horizon 4. There's just so much to do, so many ways to play, great gfx, great physics, just massive fun. FFB is a definite let down but the rest of the game is just so good.
Other faves over the years:
auto drift style:
NFS: Hot Pursuit (later one) - surprisingly fun with FFB wheel. I turned my seq shifter into up for nitro/down for handbrake
Sega Rally on dreamcast
Rage Racer (aka ridge racer 3) - PSX
Outrun Coast 2 Coast - xbox one I think?
auto modellista - PS2 - deserves honorable mention for visual style
arcade action racing:
Motorstorm Apocalypse - PS3 (amazing w FFB wheel, just so fun)
Midnight Club LA - PS3 - big map, great car selection, fun arcade racing, and hands down the best wheel/rim customization options to date. Control offset, profile, paint on each part, etc. Meanwhile FM couldn't paint wheels white for over a decade XD
Wipeout XL/2097 - PS1 (latest HD collection is def worth it tho, it's still good)
Hydro Thunder - DC
Burnout 1 - 3 - gamecube, PS2/xbox
Flatout series
San Francisco Rush - DC
4 Wheel Thunder - DC
sim style:
GT series (GT sport needs more cars & career tho).
Dirt 2 - PS3
F355 Challenge - DC
and honestly we should mention GTA V. Although not a pure driving/racing game, you can have some solid racing action in there, car customization, etc along with anything else you want to do. extraordinary technical achievement in that game.
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Other faves over the years:
auto drift style:
NFS: Hot Pursuit (later one) - surprisingly fun with FFB wheel. I turned my seq shifter into up for nitro/down for handbrake
Sega Rally on dreamcast
Rage Racer (aka ridge racer 3) - PSX
Outrun Coast 2 Coast - xbox one I think?
auto modellista - PS2 - deserves honorable mention for visual style
arcade action racing:
Motorstorm Apocalypse - PS3 (amazing w FFB wheel, just so fun)
Midnight Club LA - PS3 - big map, great car selection, fun arcade racing, and hands down the best wheel/rim customization options to date. Control offset, profile, paint on each part, etc. Meanwhile FM couldn't paint wheels white for over a decade XD
Wipeout XL/2097 - PS1 (latest HD collection is def worth it tho, it's still good)
Hydro Thunder - DC
Burnout 1 - 3 - gamecube, PS2/xbox
Flatout series
San Francisco Rush - DC
4 Wheel Thunder - DC
sim style:
GT series (GT sport needs more cars & career tho).
Dirt 2 - PS3
F355 Challenge - DC
and honestly we should mention GTA V. Although not a pure driving/racing game, you can have some solid racing action in there, car customization, etc along with anything else you want to do. extraordinary technical achievement in that game.
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Paulo Ribeiro
Animals and Racing Lover
All xBox I bought was only for playing Forza series. Not bad.
All Playstation I bough was only for playing Gran Turismo series. Good.
Mostly, i'm a PC player.
Best titlle therefore, is for PS and is, GTsport .
All Playstation I bough was only for playing Gran Turismo series. Good.
Mostly, i'm a PC player.
Best titlle therefore, is for PS and is, GTsport .
It's gotten so much better with a wheel, but it's still pretty bad imo. Yet, when you play with a controller... Forza is the most fun console racing game that could still be counted as "sim". What it needs from GT Sport is the controller motion steering. Best motion steering in any game so far, yet it's wasted on that games once-you-lose-traction-you're-not-getting-any-grip-ever-again tire model... (not to mention GTS's no-oversteer-under-braking-EVER policy).
JamieG
OTCR_Simracing
I drove all the GranTurismo till GT Sport on PS4. Bought even the PVR only to realize it would only work in arcade mode against one car. That triggered a research on google and I discovered there was another hidden world from me. Downloaded PC2 and then AC... that was it! AC was something from another planet.
And there it started going downhill.... ;-)
And there it started going downhill.... ;-)
Not Sony but Evolution Studios, Sony bought Evolution Studios in 2016 and canned the project. So GT Sport could have a smooth unfinished launch. You tried it first time in 2019/2020 imagine it's release in 2014?
Put a few setting down and it ca run great in 60fps. Consoles can handle large amounts of 3D data.
They have very fast unified memory, so no need for bringing data from one part of the system to another.
Windows is not the greatest OS for gaming. So many background tasks going on.
