Rate The Sims: Community Edition | Assetto Corsa Competizione

[Paul Jeffrey]

We are looking to crown the 'RaceDepartment Community Favourite' racing game - get your votes in now for our next game on the list... Assetto Corsa Competizione!

Our dear RaceDepartment community. You folks are the most mighty fans of sim racing, often displaying an immense amount of understanding and depth of knowledge when it comes to our favourite hobby.

With sim racing and eSports in such a wonderful boom period of late. Gamers looking to have some fun with their virtual racing machines have never before had such a wide and robust variety of software to enjoy.

Now occasionally I've been in a position to rate new racing titles that have come my way, and almost every time I've received a wide variety of folks agreeing, or strongly disagreeing with my own opinions.

Opinions are great, but sometimes the opinion of one person, with their own likes and dislikes taken into account, can often give a bit of a skewed picture (intentional or not) to the greater cause in which said person is trying to explain.

As such, rather than doing one myself, and in the spirit of engaging some interesting community discussion, I thought it could be fun to let our own community rate each of the key sim racing / racing games available today.

As always with these things, please do try and respect each other and their opinions, and let's try to see if we can give a fun, but fair shake of the stick to each of the games included in this poll.

For transparency, I'm going to be featuring the following racing games over the next weeks:

• Assetto Corsa
• Assetto Corsa Competizione
• Automobilista (AMS)
• DiRT 2.0
• F1 2019
• GT Sport
• GRID
• iRacing
• NASCAR Heat 4
• PCARS 2
• RaceRoom Racing Experience
• rFactor 2
• WRC 8

I'm going to launch the article each Monday evening, and keep the poll running for a full week until the next new article is pushed live. So get your votes in quick!

Once I've completed the full list of games, I'll publish a final results feature, and we can award the winning developer the lofty title of 'RaceDepartment Community Favourite'!

Have fun, stay sensible and let the voting commence!

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[Ciccina2016]

i Think we, sim racers, are not happy with the current products in the market and we tend to stick to the one we like the most .
We have been looking for the ultimate simulator with realistic physics, engaging offline mode and thrilling online but it does not simply exist.
ACC created a lot of expectations but it failed miserably like rf2, pc2,automobilista and I think the new coming next year will do exactly the same delivering partially customer expectations.

I think we need all to low our expectations and accept the reality as it is.

 

[randomcallsign]

What's the "best sim", though? Is it by simulation value alone, or a title that will connect simulation with a good metagame?

If its the first, rfactor 2 is amazing, very likely the best sim. If its the latter, rfactor2 has huge flaws.

 

[Ciccina2016]

What's the "best sim", though? Is it by simulation value alone, or a title that will connect simulation with a good metagame?

If its the first, rfactor 2 is amazing, very likely the best sim. If its the latter, rfactor2 has huge flaws.

You could combine the specific best features of all sims in the market

iracing -- > multiplayer
AC -- > modding
ACC or RaceRoom --> audio
r factor 2 -- > physics
pc2 or ACC --> Graphics
Rf2 or Raceroom --> AI
offline --> GT sport

new features we don't even know --> ??


That could be a good starting point ..
maybe a big company like Microsoft could buy the best developers from each software company and build the ultimate sim.

 

[Deleted member 197115]

That could be a good starting point ..
maybe a big company like Microsoft could buy the best developers from each software company and build the ultimate sim.

Was playing gorgeous FH4 the other day and was thinking exactly the same.
They have the best flying simulator, don't they?

 

[CrimsonEminence]

They have the best flying simulator, don't they?

X-Plane 11 is made by Laminar Research

There is no "best". This will always be a decision by taste and preferences.

 

[Lurkusmaximus]

What's the "best sim", though?

What's the "best sim" and what's the "best game" are two very different questions.

 

[randomcallsign]

What's the "best sim" and what's the "best game" are two very different questions.

And often conflated.

 

[CrimsonEminence]

just for the record...after 1.2.3 -> 8/10

They've delivered! Period.