Do racing games need to get better?

Do racing games need to get better?

If publishers/developers want to keep selling and making them: yes.

Is it cracked yet? dat photorealism

yes

when you change from 5th gear going 300mph into 2nd and the engine blows up then they dont need to get better but this illusion that you can engine break going that fast down 3 gears in one drop is fucking stupid and has held the genre back for 2 decades.

>they could have topped Motorstorm: Apocalypse
>instead they are gone forever
>and this is why

Not every racing game has to be a sim you cuckold

And sims are not on stage either, so kindly jump from a bridge.

im not saying that but the ones that claim to be fucking do. Arcade racers are the only enjoyable ones because of this. All the forzas and driveclubs need to fuck off. They arent fun when theyre like
>we realistic racers
>but only when its easy for us to code it

grid and shit like that I can enjoy for the
>drive fast and win races
simplicity but thats the only thing the genre has going for it

Fuck, really? I loved Motorstorm

Yep, Evolution Studios was shuttered earlier this year (March, I think).

>gone forever
But they aren't. Codemasters bought them. Now they're no longer stuck on playstation and will make games for PC as well. Driveclub was a blessing in the skies.

Codemasters hired a lot of them.

Motorstorm is gone for good and they'll never get to work on a Jet Moto reboot (I was sort of hoping).

They can still do spiritual successors if they want

its not hard really, remove this social integration bullshit, remove obnoxious UI, make racing feel fast

HOUSE REAL BIG

First GRID was near perfect arcade sim, only thing I disliked was how you'd always start in last place unless it was a tournament, should have randomized starting positions or add qualifiers, would have been perfect.

Also that pseudo team management and sponsorship was fucking amazingly satisfying even though it barely had any depth to it, no idea why they didn't expand on it

They've already perfected the racing game genre, it's a shame that since then, no other racing game has been able to top it.

The one case of based SEGA doing what Nintendon't and Nintencan't

What I'd give for a new F-Zero right now

If it's not simbin, sector3, or reiza, its trash.

It's not that they need to get better, it's that they need to stop sucking.

The social shit really needs to go. Nobody uses it, nobody cares, *I* don't care about it.

I don't care about FuckwitcocksuckerxXx_91's new record on ridge overpass, nor whatever the fuck time my friends got. Just fuck off.

>implying

I had a lot of fun with it in NFS HP 2010 so you can piss off.

Also, that kind of thing isn't even in NFS 2015.

what do you want out of a racing game?

Beats me, I liked NFS 2015.

"More than Driveclub", how about that?

i don't know, i wish you could tell me.
i'm a racing sim player so i maybe could have helped in that regard. apart from circuit racing, i'm sure you have any options...

i'm not sure*

Super Drifto?

Well I'm inclined to more arcade racing games (although I can still give sims the old college try if the mood strikes). I like carefree drifting and really aggressive competition (like wheel-to-wheel rubbing and such) in my racing games.

Driveclub isn't very sim-like but the actual racing experience is very bland and devoid of exciting moments. At least in a proper sim you can feel kind of badass by carving a corner just right but Driveclub doesn't even have that satisfaction about it.

>I like carefree drifting and really aggressive competition (like wheel-to-wheel rubbing and such) in my racing games.
Assetto Corsa is probably the best sim you can get your hands on right now, and it also has a decent drift platform and fucking HUGE modding community.
as for aggressive racing, iRacing might be your thing (if you have more money than sense, mostly. AC's multiplayer is still getting improvements.)
RFactor 2 is also an honorable mention. if that's not enough you can go over to /ovg/ over on the /o/ board and ask around some more, they organize pick-up races. i've gotta go to sleep now, hope you find what you're looking for.

the only worthwhile racing game nowadays is Forza and Forza Horizon
everything else is kinda of trash, especially """""simulators"""""

I don't even want to finish Forza Horizon 2, it's just dull.

And I used to be a staunch supporter of Horizon.

It's always online tho

That's a different beef, it has nothing to do with social competition.

what game?

NFS 2015.

>NFS 2015.
any good?

I like it quite a bit but I've been fairly forgiving to the NFS games since HP 2010 (The Run being the exception).

No.

I bet you also think Ridge Racer Unbounded is shit, DON'T YOU?!

It's an ok game, but it's not Ridge Racer. I played the series since the first on PS1, before you talk shit.

That...I agree with. It was made by the people who made FlatOut.

FlatOut sux.

NEED A 2016 STREET SPORT MOTORCYCLE ONLINE RACING GAME i love motorcycles i love life mc2 was my favorite game what you got for me

Well yeah, that's primarily the reason they are revisited every generation.

it's actually the only good NFS after HP 2010

How could you say that to a man who has four separate versions of NFS MW 2012?

Burnout Paradise

Everyone who shat on the crew is fucking lying, it's fucking awesome like seriously who want to turn an escalade into a dirt vehicle and cruise around the mountains and then turn it into a performance vehicle when you hit the streets? The motorcycles can so flips n shit and the street car I used for racing can be turned into a fucking monster truck! My only gripe is that the story ended way too early and was kind of weak on the ending but I was surprised it even had a story in the first place, unfortunately I got it for free on Xbox live last month and it's mostly dead now but when it came out I would have been playing that shit every fucking day

This is one of the best racing games to come out in years.

>type all that shit out
>tried to make it grammatically correct
>miss wouldn't at the very beginning

Fuck

I like that too. Not as much as NFS 2015 but it's still a fun game.

Too easy, though. Just upgrading your car through standard play is enough to breeze through the story races.

Please take an English class.

yes because they have gotten fucking worse aside from the forza and forza horizon series which are still goat

shit ive been replaying tokyo extreme racer 3
midnight club 3 etc lately because they are better than most modern trash

I think the entire point of the story was to get your car to pvp standards anyways, which by now is totally dead

My education system has failed me

People calling current games shitty perplex me.

I mean, sure games like Driveclub are pissing in the bathwater but I've still bought a share of fun racers even as recently as last Christmas.

Can we agree that regardless of gameplay quality or EA jewery, NFS2015 is one of the prettiest looking games on the market?

I still have a hard time accepting it's actually rendered in real time.

>EA jewery

All NONE OF IT? The game has zero paid DLC.

Are you joking?
They only have to render corridors, how is that hard at all?

Meant it in the sense that liking games under neo-EA's jurisdiction is usually a bad idea altogether.

Doesn't detract from the point. It still looks amazing even for being rendering only corridors.
Name another game that looks just as good or better that also renders only corridors.

Oh well, carry on then.

Every other game is an Open world meme.I'm not taking the credit off the designers but games should have been like this years ago.

I was going to make a sarcastic comment about if you were a GPU designer or videogame programmer as to say games were supposed to look like this years ago.
Then I remembered like 95% of current devs are completely incompetent and their games buggy, unoptimized garbage and decided against it.

I guess there's some truth to what you said.

sure