DIRT vs GRID

[Protag]

so, this year, both DIRT rally and GRID 2 have been given away for free from humble bundle. what i wonder is...whats the difference between the 2 racing games? i am not a person who is into car racing in general but i want to know why i should play 1 over the other. one car game i was interested in is the one with the fully destructible cars, was that beamNG?

[ncaa|Seawolf]

BeamNG features soft body physics which let you take cars apart.
GRID 2 is a arcade racing game.
DIRT Rally is a rally game.

[Greywolf]

Dirt rally is a Sim. Not an arcade racer.

[Lowry]

grid 2 has no playerbase, its a worthless pile of dog poo

[Supernovae]

GRID has a very unrealistic "arcade" style of handling focusing mostly on racetrack wheel to wheel racing. DiRT Rally on the other hand is a very realistic Sim focusing on Rally races against the time of the AI and wheel to wheel Rallycross races. GRID is easy to play on a keyboard or controller while a controller or wheel are strongly recommend for DiRT with it's much less forgiving physics.

[Elio]

What else ?
Short and good words which make sense !

[Greywolf]

Yeah just apples and oranges. Two different beasts.

Cheers and good racing!

[Shadeball]

Grid is fun and not realistic. Dirt is realistic and not fun. Choose your poison. Also, if you have friends, you can play with them in Grid.

[Meles Meles]

I really don't understand the sim label for Dirt Rally. As a simulator it's really bad. As a racing game that requires a bit of skill, it's extremely fun and rewarding.

Codemasters have really never been on a level where they've been able to create accurate systems.

Anyone ever play Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising? I remember playing around with the editor and realizing just how ridiculously limited the EGO Engine was.

It's all held together with twine and scotch tape. Anything you see in a Codemasters game isn't simulated, it's hacked together and there's a huge difference. One is an attempt to model a system accurately, the other is just meant to trick you.

It's the difference between having actual AI opponents in a game, and AI opponents that magically disappear when they're out of view, like they do in their F1 games.

Simulators are supposed to contain as many accurate systems as possible, that's what a sim is. I don't think Dirt Rally is that.

Sorry for going off-topic, but I never played Grid 2. When I heard they couldn't be bothered to model the cockpits, I made sure to avoid it, and when I heard it was because they were relying on marketing data, instead of leaving design to the passion and creativity of their devs, I just facepalmed.

The original GRID still holds up though.

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GRID 2019 应该OK

[`Scorpio'M]

Dirt is realistic and fun from my experience. GRID 2 is fun but career mode gets annoying later on. (I use gamepad when playing dirt. Grid 2 on the other hand has that damn oversteer which makes it a lot harder to use gamepad).