Do you guys like to rather play arcade racing games or simulation racing games?
The idea for this comes from the Gaming Screen Shots thread.
I played Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit on Monday (I beat one of your times btw @Saint_Dee ) Its fun to play but I don’t think I’ve played a sim racing game. Does Dirt Rally count as a sim racing game?
Sim racing is the best racing
Since the middel of last year I really got into racing sims. It coincided with me getting a proper racing wheel. And since then, I’ve been infatuated with racing sims. Currently I have and am playing on a regular basis:
Project Cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Forza Motorsport 7, F1 2018.
It has come to that point for me that I am considering subscribing to iRacing, but I first need to get better at proper driving before I’ll make that plunge.
I tried Need for Speed during the end of last year, and it frustrated me so much that I may have lost the love I once had for arcade racing games. Forza Horizon 4 is great and the perfect blend of arcade and simulator that I can enjoy. But arcade racing games do not appeal to me anymore.
I like a mixture of both. I have mostly played sim racing games. Formula 1, gran turismo, project cars.
Arcade racers have their place, but i tend to lean more towards sim. As hammer mentioned, currently playing Forza Horizen 4 and its a great mix of arcade and sim. I also need a wheel again. i miss that.
i used to be a hardcore forza motorsport fan, until forza horizon came along and i converted ! i prefer the semi sim handling of games like horizon or pgr etc. Some sim games are just trying to be too realistic and then the handling is nowhere near how some cars handle in real life, Shift 2, project cars, assetto corsa etc.
I’m pretty sure IronMan counts as sim…so that makes me a Sim racer 100%!
Yes you used a wheel if you played properly
What kind of trolling was that spoiler tag supposed to be?
Sim 100%.
When I was 5 years old arcade racing was fun
Definite preference for sim. I enjoyed Need for Speed for what it is, especially the multiplayer aspect, but my first love has always been F1 sims, especially the old Geoff Crammond Grand Prix series by Microprose (sadly defunct now).
I prefer semi-sim or “arcade sim” type racers like Forza, Grid and Dirt.
While I enjoy Assetto Corsa, RaceRoom and Project CARS overall their actual feel for what a real car handles like is slightly off and it really puts me off.
FYI - F1 2018 (and all F1 titles) are actually more of a semi-sim than a sim. F1 is just hard and a true F1 simulation would be damn near impossible for most people and no fun at all for anyone
There’s room in my library and life for both, and the many variations in between too.
Sometimes I want to spend as much time fiddling with setups as I do actual driving. Making minute adjustments to damper settings and tyre pressures and suspension and gear ratios in the effort to find the perfect combination of settings for the car and the way I drive.
Project Cars and Assetto Corsa (and to some degree the F1 games) are there for that. I’d add Dirt Rally to those as well. They’re not true simulators in the absolute sense as PsychoFish suggests, but they’re as close to the real thing that I’ll ever afford to get, so I’m okay with them being “sim-like”. I still want to have fun playing a game and not have the stress of worrying too much about it if I overcook a Pikes Peak hairpin and plummet head first into a fiery ball of death in an overpriced and under-insured Ferrari.
Other times I just want to grab a controller and slam into walls and trees and other drivers and not care too much about it. NFS, The Crew, anything along those lines is worth a mindless hour or two every now and then.
The only racing games I really play are the Forza games. And between Motorsport and Horizon I prefer Motorsport. I’m going to try out F1 2018 soon.
standard kind…? 
I don’t like arcadey things like Burnout. I generally prefer sims but some games feel like a good mix of both: Project Gotham Racing and NFS Porsche for instance.
I expected a poll haha, i don’t really like sim racing all that much basically because i am not very good at it, arcade style racing like The Crew, NFSU2 and the first two GRID racing games are more my jam. I am very much a drift style racer so cars that have high grip like f1 cars and “legal” racing cars on an enclosed circuit are not really my forte, give me street and offroad racing with lots of visual body contact, and customization of my cars, and i am in.
I like both. Need for speed’s, gt’s, dirt’s, anything really.