IS DiRT an arcade racer (like NFS) or more like a driving sim?

[jpr-gaming]

Big fan of arcade racers here, especially NFS in its heyday with Most Wanted. Just wanted to know - with around 30 hours left in the sale - if the DiRT series plays more like an arcaade racer like the NFS series; or, does it play more like a driving sim (like idk... GRID, which I did not enjoy)?

[ALDI TOK]

This game feels like driving sim. If you want to buy this game, think twice because the steering sensitivity is terrible and i hope you have a Logitech G27 or any steering wheel.

[jpr-gaming]

Okay not buying it in that case... I don't like the sensitivity of driving sims and I don't have a wheel (was planning to play using a Xbox 360 controller).

fwiw the only recent driving game I've tried was The Crew and I quite liked the driving aspect of that.

[mattraptor]

arcade racers should always be compared to trackmania imo

[mattraptor]

dirt 3 is not a driving sim :P

[mattraptor]

it feels like Mario Kart sometimes, but sometimes it's also like TrackMania, a time-based arcade racer

[mattraptor]

oh and also, the game is great with the 360 controller
I just bought the game and I love it so I would reccomend it

[jolobolo1230]

driving sim - really no

it's heavy arcade - racing, similar to all previous codemasters rally-type games

[Hoodoo]

feels plenty arcade style to me, there are some "driving sim" style adjustments you can make to tune the car's perfaromance a little, but it's mostly just grip it and rip it... fun game, good variety of tracks/cars/livery, i'm enjoying it plenty for the price... i use a Logitech gamepad and it's taking some getting used to the sensitivity of the steering, but that's just gaming... i'd definitely reccomend it at the deep discount they are selling it for right now...

[Ypulse]

its not arcade
i found grid 2 or grid autosport the closest to NFS from codemasters,but still not the same

[2Steps]

It's a term called sim-cade. Not quite one or the other. You have to accelerate and brake at the right points but it's by no means gonna teach you how to drive a real rally car. Pretty much all of Codemaster's games are like that, except their most recent Dirt game (not this one) which is pushing far more towards being a legit simulation.

But if you found Grid too sim-like, then you'll likely find this game too sim-like too.

[tor7ure]

@2steps is right, when you turn off all driving assists like me, then its challenging
If you're into rally and have 30 bucks,then buy Dirt Rally

[robertedell]

No is not arcade you can not do impossible or ridiculous things like in NFS, The Crew or Track Mania. The physics in Dirt 3 are fairly realistic. It is however it probably best described as "Simcade"

https://pretendracecars.net/2015/05/11/do-people-even-know-what-simcade-means/

The steering sensitivity is easily adjusted and drives great once adjusted.

[sellinbooty]

grid is far from a sim...

[Frigidman]

Its more arcadey than diehard super ultra realism driving. It is a lot like GRID 2 and Autosport (same makers), so if you didn't like GRID, you wouldn't like DiRT3.

I play it with a xbox360 controller, and do just fine hitting 1st place in all races at middle-difficulty (mainly because I don't like beating my head against a wall on harder difficulty... I just drive to have fun).

Although I do have stick extenders, which helps with the steering. There are a bunch of settings to make the game do things for you though to reduce the complexity of driving. Although I recomend turn them all off. Even the HUD. It plays better without all that crap going on, and you just see the road in front of you.

[Rc - |1402|Razvan]

is full of cheaters
don't waste you're money