A racing game question:

So, I'm kinda bored of games that are super dooper ceral you guys.

GT5 is fun, but my idea of fun in that game is to take a car I like and just run laps in it until I get it setup exactly how it's the best for me to have fun with. Case in point, I have a Pug 406 that is somehow both fast(ish) and handles very well(ish). Fast for a sexy fat front wheel drive baguette mobile with 340 whp at the very least.

Still, I'm not very good at online racing as it turns out. It's not that I'm bad, it's just that I focus so much on not screwing up and hitting other people that I inevitably screw up and hit other people.

That said, I'm playing Midnight Club LA again, and having massive amounts of fun with it. There's a perverse joy in being faster than a Skyline GTR in a primered up 79 Firedbird and taking corners better than an Aston in a metallic red 300C with whitewalls and steelies. Also, 65 Riviera ftw.

Are there any other games like that besides the NFS ones? Because all I remember about most wanted, carbon and all of those was that the cars kinda sucked and the gameplay got to be a pain in the dick after about halfway through. Hot Pursuit sucked dong and I'm broke so used is where it's at. You guys know of any that I'm missing?

TOCA used to be pretty good. Lots of cool cars, story line not required and lots of great tracks.

Burnout Paridise is fun (you certainly don't have to worry about running into anyone), but I think the online is pretty light these days. The cops and robbers game is pretty crazy, but again finding people online for it can be hard. It's pretty "arcadey", but the open world is fun.

I wish they would revamp, Enthusia because that was one wildly challenging game. I guess you could say it was TOO realistic.

Split/Second is a solid arcade racer. NFS Pro Street was halfway decent, and the wheelie contests amused me. Burnout anything is a good choice. Revenge was probably my favorite out of that series. If you can go old school, NFS Most Wanted for PS2 was quite enjoyable, much more so than the PS3 reboot, IMO.

I love GRID. It's made by the same people who made TOCA. I would try that.

Not a racing game, but I've really been enjoying Saints Row. Not as good as GTA, but slightly more perverse, and less frustrating at times.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I love GRID. It's made by the same people who made TOCA. I would try that.

I hated Grid to be honest. Dirtiest AI I've ever run into.

poopshovel wrote: Not a racing game, but I've really been enjoying Saints Row. Not as good as GTA, but slightly more perverse, and less frustrating at times.

Dickbat ahoy!

THWACK

Yes, Test Drive Unlimited 2 is an interesting game but the driving dynamics don't hold a candle to GT5. I also can't get it to play nice with my steering wheels (Logitech ProForce GT and Fanatec GT3).

I had heard that TDU2 was broken all to hell because they only put out one update for it before they said screw it.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: TOCA used to be pretty good. Lots of cool cars, story line not required and lots of great tracks.

I loved TOCA. I especially liked how it seemed to avoid the "There's first and everything else, so slap the best go-fast bits on your car until competition can't keep up" syndrome that seems to plague GT and Forza. If you race a series solidly and come in second or even third, you feel like you've accomplished something and are really able to tick the event off and move up the ladder.

poopshovel wrote: Not a racing game, but I've really been enjoying Saints Row. Not as good as GTA, but slightly more perverse, and less frustrating at times.

I'll throw in Driver: San Francisco. The ability to jump from car-to-car sounds hokey at first, but actually adds some fun to the gameplay. Kinda like a GTA strictly in-car.

Worth it if you can find a deal.

i like Dirt3 and burnout paradise. the first for sideways rally car fun, the latter for no worries smash the crap out of stuff and drive really fast with no consequences fun.

If you like motorcycle racing, sbk x was pretty good and as realistic as you want it to be and not completely cheesball like the last motogp.

Beer Baron wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: TOCA used to be pretty good. Lots of cool cars, story line not required and lots of great tracks.

"There's first and everything else, so slap the best go-fast bits on your car until competition can't keep up" syndrome that seems to plague GT and Forza.

No kidding. That's why I love playing spec series with people from here on Forza.

I just bought Horizon today for the berkeley around factor I have heard everyone talking about.

When I just wanna dink around, Burnout Paradise and Horizon are easy choices.

I was working some upgrades last night and Horizon provided lots of fun while the progress bars was slowly tumbling toward 100% and all of the developers' interruptions with questions.

Forza horizon is what you're looking for......basically the game is entirely meant for you to drive like a dick. And it has somewhat similar(although not really close) the car control of the FM series.

I really really enjoyed Dirt 3 as well.
Really fun

In reply to corytate:

Dirt 3 is great. I'd probably do better with the faster stuff if I'd stop driving vintage so much.

Horizon would be good, if it didn't require buying another system.

In reply to Grizz: Ahh, my bad......I keep forgetting that turn 10 was cockblocked from offering on PlayStation.

My last Xbox 360 was less than $100. Buy them used.

I have Forza Horizon, but I've been stuck playing Farcry 3. Racing games get old to me fast.