Are there ANY good racing games anymore?

[CBR6V]

Seriously. This game is killing my hope that we'll ever see a (new) racing game that doesn't completely suck. It's gotten to the point where I'm starting to look backwards.

Have there been any new racing games released since Horizon 3 that wasn't shovelled out half-baked?

[JackieTheDemon]

Nope

[ManKruel]

Originally posted by Voodoochile:

Originally posted by RdM_BlackDevil:

AC, ACC, Projectcars 2, IRacing, Automobilista 2. Do I need to go on?

None of these are playable on controller, so yea, please keep going.

Sounds like a skill issue

[ManKruel]

Ya nerds still playing them video games? How about touch some grass and fiddle yourself while you're at it?

[Trandana]

If FM isn’t a sim, then I wouldn’t call AC or ACC sims either.

They don’t even use FEM solvers for their tire models.
If we are drawing arbitrary lines in the sand between arcade and sim, might as well just say anything less than the Moog Dallara sim is just an arcade game.

Sure there is varying levels of realism of sims, and FM isn’t 100% scientifically empirical but FM is definitely a sim.

[BlackSunEmpire]

Originally posted by Grand:

I have the same question. Looking for a competitive multiplayer simcade racing game that can be viably played with a controller. While the sim racing games listed in the first comment do seem very good for what they are, not everybody is in a position to invest in a full hardware setup for those types of games.

My favourite racing game on PC is Pacer, which is very similar to Wipeout. Its not for everyone, but the gameplay is fantastic. Unfortunately the multiplayer is completely dead.

Fzero GX and Wave Race are genuinely good racing games.
You can play them very easily on Dolphin emulator.

But yeah racing games nowadays often suck because they only focus on realism and completely forget about the fun. All of the fictional race tracks look super boring, because out of some weird reasoning I do not understand they all have to look like real life race tracks, instead of giving the player beautiful vistas to drive through.

And then there is the view obstructing car interior design where 70 % of the screen in first person view is covered with car interior and you see maybe 30 % of the actual race track. 🤢

[BlackSunEmpire]

Originally posted by Eldin:

To your quote of beautiful vistas to drive through that is why I haven’t played racing game in years, plus a lot went to story mode as the main focus which bores me personally. 🤢

I mean at least Gran Turismo is still trying to give you beautiful vistas from time to time with their fictional courses, like the new version of Grand Valley Highway 1. But Forza Motorsport consists almost 100 % out of boring race track design. 😴 😴 😴

No east european castles, no mountains, no futuristic architecture, no ocean side courses,....

[XX_Swaglord420_XX]

Originally posted by Voodoochile:

Originally posted by RdM_BlackDevil:

AC, ACC, Projectcars 2, IRacing, Automobilista 2. Do I need to go on?

None of these are playable on controller, so yea, please keep going.

beam NG is pretty decent if you like mods. and I play it on controller only.

[TRethehedgehog]

Yea
Gran Turismo, Forza, and MarioKart

[Luna ~]

GT3 a-spec

[TRethehedgehog]

Gt4

I shouldn’t have sold my GT3 a spec copy BECAUSE MY GT4 COPY DOESN’T WORK AND I DON’T HAVE ANY PLAYSTATION AFTER THE PS2

So ig I’ll play forza horizon 4 and forza Motorsport 8

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by VCR2:

Seriously. This game is killing my hope that we'll ever see a (new) racing game that doesn't completely suck. It's gotten to the point where I'm starting to look backwards.

Have there been any new racing games released since Horizon 3 that wasn't shovelled out half-baked?

Well the Horizon series are an "arcadey open-world persistent online" racing game with exaggerated physics. Motorsport is attempting to be a simulation racer, but you can also turn all of the sim aspects off and have an arcade experience as well.

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by BlackSunEmpire:

Originally posted by Eldin:

To your quote of beautiful vistas to drive through that is why I haven’t played racing game in years, plus a lot went to story mode as the main focus which bores me personally. 🤢

I mean at least Gran Turismo is still trying to give you beautiful vistas from time to time with their fictional courses, like the new version of Grand Valley Highway 1. But Forza Motorsport consists almost 100 % out of boring race track design. 😴 😴 😴

By boring race track design you mean actual race circuits used by motorsport organizations like IMSA and WEC?

[TRethehedgehog]

Forza horizon exists if you want beautiful vistas

I just want the only exclusive series the Xbox is worth it for

[awdion354]

Originally posted by VCR2:

Seriously. This game is killing my hope that we'll ever see a (new) racing game that doesn't completely suck. It's gotten to the point where I'm starting to look backwards.

Have there been any new racing games released since Horizon 3 that wasn't shovelled out half-baked?

do you need me to call the waaaaaaaaaaamulance

[TheHuskyGT]

None, unfortunately. They always do one thing good and the other bad, but none feel like a complete package.

Horizon 5 is the only one that comes close to delivering, but then if fails in some aspects and overcompensates for it with nonsense. Unnecessary and detestable voice characters, goofy clothing items, nonsensical toy car maps, having to wait for years for the game to finally work great.

AC delivers in physics, but the game is completely barren in content, unless you mod it.

PCars is in the same spectrum as AC. The first one that is. The sequels get progressively worse.

Gran Turismo forgot how to Gran Turismo way back since 2004. It's more of the Real Kazunori Yamauchi "We take 6 months to fully model a car" Ego Simulator.

Forza Motorsports forgot how to Forza Motorsports since 2011. They graduated from the EA/Activision/2K School of how to push out a rushed, buggy, uninspired overpriced game.

BeamNG. This game is amazing. Too bad it really doesn't have much to offer unless you mod it. And still, it is just a physics sandbox.

The Crew. This is like a Great Value Forza Horizon.

NFS is FIFA on 4 wheels.

Yeah, there really isn't any. And I doubt there will ever be. Making these games is expensive and only a few companies can afford and have the experience on making them.