Thread 714423001

Let's talk about Racing Games.

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They're all realismslop boring trash nowadays

go fast and don't crash

>>714424182
>go fast
got it
>don't crash
I don't understand - you could phrase this differently? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTJXIMz-ig

>>714423001 (OP)
lets not
lets instead talk about DRIVING games, not racing games
just games that are about driving.

>>714424728
like?

>>714424779
test drive duh - the hint is in the name

>>714424779
uhmmm....
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well lik-
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:)

>>714424779
My Summer Car

What went so wrong? I thought it was prophesied that this game will save racing

TXR full release when

>>714425116
according to Genki,in September.

>>714424779
TXR :^)

Screamer will be good right?

>>714425714
>Twin Stick control scheme
what the fuck

>>714426086
i'd not seen that. We inertial drift nao.

>>714426086
>>714426369
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N67j_RxZLxU

>>714425116
>>714425226
what's so great about txr anyway? looks pretty barebones from what I've seen.

>>714425226
TXR is a racing game so shit that it becomes a driving game
>>714426667
Real Tokyo highways and JDM cars, it's comfy to just cruise in everyone's favorite Toyota sedan, listen to city pop and larp as a Japanese ojisan in the 90s
I'd say modded Assetto Corsa is even better for this but setting it up is a pain

>>714426667
Tokyo Xtreme Racer's biggest selling point is it's simplicity when compared to how most modern racing games are.

>was marathoning the black box era nfs games
>played underground, ug2, most wanted, and carbon
>got to prostreet and kind of hated it because I wanted to street race
>skipped prostreet and played undercover
>it was so dogshit that I took a break from playing the games altogether
>come back after a month to restart prostreet
>almost done with it now
>it's now in my top 3 nfs games
I still don't quite understand the pivot from carbon to prostreet but I appreciate it now

>>714424779
ETS2, which is soon going to add drivable coaches

>>714428106
Prostreet seemed cool, but I never got into it. Hot Pursuit in 2010 was the newest game I’ve played. I liked it, but I never finished it.

>>714428106
>>714429758
Prostreet is my favorite racing game of all time, the sense of speed, and the sheer danger of driving on Nevada highway are unmatched to this day. I just wish drift and drag weren't so shit.

>>714429758
yeah it's kind of an acquired thing, it's definitely jarring if you're used to the other NFS games
>Hot Pursuit
I tried this one briefly after I finished undercover and I just kind of hated it desu
the handling felt weird and I found the tracks so boring

>>714430072
>I just wish drift and drag weren't so shit.
I agree with the first half of your post but hate the second half
prostreet drag is legitimately my favorite drag racing implementation in a video game
the drift I did think was weird at first but it kind of clicked at a point and I love it now (though some of the drift tracks in prostreet are just straight up garbage)

>>714428106
I remember hating Carbon for being so fucking short and then being hyped as fuck for ProStreet. I played the PC demo and had fun. When it launched I had to play the PS2 version because poor fuck but I still enjoy it a bit.
It was very ballsy of them to do that, sadly it didn't work out because NFS community is kinda like the CS community, they hate change. It's getting some love now but it could've been the Forza Horizon for NFS but instead people just wanted Underground/MW again and that let to basically the series' death.
>>714430072
The OST, customization, sense of speed are my favorite parts of the game but it's been a while since I played it, I can't remember the bad stuff about it.

>>714430694
>prostreet drag is legitimately my favorite drag racing implementation in a video game
I agree and I still called it shit despite that
The aspect of building and tuning your drag car is fantastic, it adds endless potential for decision making, plus it's much closer to what real drag is about
Wheelie, tire minigames and 3 runs are just not it. In a perfect world prostreet drag would have none of that, and a steeper difficulty curve to make mid-game less of a cakewalk. Then in the endgame when your builds are finalized it would appear less often
I agree there's a ton of fun to be had with drag on your first or second playthrough but I played a lot more than that, and other modes hold up better

Problem with prostreet is to get the most out of it you have to abuse the physics rather than go with them because shit is fucked. Tank slapping is not a feature.

>>714431402
>they hate change
this is why I don't feel bad for the majority of nfs fans
we had genuinely good games after mw in carbon and prostreet but because they weren't most wanted they bitched and moaned and blackbox overcorrected after they didn't do so well
>>714431739
there's dozens of handling mods and corrections that remove input lag, but otherwise ps really isn't good outside of playing on pc

>>714423001 (OP)
hood camera angle masterrace

>>714431629
fair enough, I'm not really a big tuner so I don't even really bother with that
wheelie comps can fuck off but I enjoyed the wheel heating desu, it's more engaging to me than pressing right-trigger at the right time for a perfect launch

>>714432182
wheelie mode was easy as shit all you had to do was max out the power on your car
its only annoying on certain tracks like willow springs because you'll go into the dirt and flip over

>>714431998
That is the most retarded angle of all giving all downsides and no benefits.
>bumper cam - get to see everything infront obstruction free, trade off is rear of vehicle is now controlled by feel than vision
>cockpit - total immersion and for more detailed games you get all the dials being easy to see and working mirrors for full situational awareness
>external view/heli cam - get to see what the vehicle is doing at all times, expanded viewpoint around the vehicle (so you can see opponents, hazards etc) better. trade off is nose of vehicle isn't visible

Whereas the retarded hood game:
>get the hood obscuring half your view, 99% of games don't have a FoV wide enough so you can't see the corners of your car so you'll hit things even though the viewpoint has you in the clear, dials are now sitting ontop of the hood visually which is a distraction and you get no external awareness
Hood camera is for people who are too retarded to use bumper cam ("can't see where i'm pointing help me"), too retarded for cockpit views ("wtf all this shit is in my face this is stupid") and too arrogant for external cameras because they think they are hardcore ("lmao external cameras are for chumps but i'm a real pro!"). I bet hood users also always drive auto as well.

>>714432743
flatout 3 looks great

>>714432385
>wheelie mode was easy as shit all you had to do was max out the power on your car
that's kind of the problem

>>714432559
>rear of vehicle is now controlled by feel than vision
Skill issue
>the hood obscuring half your view
Obscuring a few feet of pavement? Oh no
>you can't see the corners of your car so you'll hit things even though the viewpoint has you in the clear
I bet you have this problem irl too
>dials are now sitting ontop of the hood visually which is a distraction
Skill issue
Bumper cam is fine, but having the camera that low isn't doing you any favors. Cockpit view is retarded outside of VR. Your FoV problems are even worse than how you describe hood cam.
Chase cam isn't necessary bad but it gives you the least visibility through corners and unless it's one of the few games that locks the camera to the car, you're getting less feedback on what the car is doing

>>714433741
>Cockpit view is retarded outside of VR. Your FoV problems are even worse than how you describe hood cam.
nta but I played through all 5 forza horizons with cockpit view
or in your words
>skill issue

>>714431998
DMX is dead anon, let it go.

>cockpit view for race sims with a wheel
>chase cam for everything else
simple as

Is it me or in forza horizon 4 does disabling ABS actually give you more braking power?

>>714436763
abs and tc always off

I think I'm going to get NFS Unbound while it's on sale on Steam. Yeah? Nah?

>>714438353
nah
the physics are ass
the music is terrible
so much of the driving is just "drift for a bit then boooooost", grip driving doesnt give enough boost and feels awful
car list is just a slightly more varied version of Heat's which was an upgrade of Payback's which was mostly recycled from 2015, but with a way shittier grind, you'll spend several hours more on 2-3 cars rather than being allowed more leeway like in older games where you werent swimming in cash halfway in but you had enough room to buy 2-3 new cars, grind parts for them and for the endgame you could keep this up until you had your favorites.
cop chases are ass too, you cant damage them much at all and they are way too easy to evade because of bugs and glitches with their ai.

>>714430072
>I just wish drift and drag weren't so shit
I hate the tracks for drifting in that game, and I hope they use actual drifting competition rules for the challenge instead of artificially making the tracks terrible. It's quite ironic, like the whole idea of Prostreet comes from Formula Drift
Also, I feel like drag racing is just too boring it's so plain. Maybe multiplayer was where this event really shined, since it’s more of a battle of tuning
>>714431958
>this is why I don't feel bad for the majority of nfs fans
Yeah, NFS unironically always gets a decent game, and some people can't even criticize it properly. I remember watching a youtube video I think the guy was an NFS youtuber where he replayed Shift 2 and couldn't remember why he hated the game before

If the game doesn't have a center HUD when using the bumper cam, I'll use the hood cam instead

>>714436763
that's how it works in real life, yes

>>714423001 (OP)
I played NFS Heat before my PC upgrade so I want to try it out at a decent resolution this time.

>>714426517
...this makes sense but I don't want it/

>>714423001 (OP)
is Night Runners the only street racing game in the last 20 years with actual atmosphere?

>ProStreet
>Official racing on pimped cars
So it was a less gay Nascar?

>>714441113
>jeetrunners

is there a single good looking assetto corsa hud?

>>714425069
Looks like CarX Drift, but with le Initial D meme

>>714438805
aight. Thanks for saving me $20 and even more time.

I am noticing a disturbing lack of obstacles on the road in most racing games.

Any tips for gitting gud at GT4 (Spec II)? So far I'm a mix of golds, silver, and bronze in B license and I am autistically insisting on getting all golds in B and A like I did in GT2 before I go on to actual racing, but I can't seem to get the feel down for how it wants me to brake into corners this time around. GT2 oddly felt so much more intuitive with its handling between rear and front wheel drive.

>>714425069
I tried the demo, and it was painfully western for a game called "JDM".
It's also not really a racing game. All the events seems to be about scoring points by drifting. There's a time limit to reach the finish line but it's so long that it's basically not a factor.

>>714443678
Get pedals and wheel
modmaker has a touch of the tism and """rebalanced""" things for how he plays

>>714426667
Its a racing game for people who hate racing and actually want an rpg.

>>714445970
What the fuck are you on about

>>714432743
what game is this? doesnt look like Flatout 3 (or Wreckfest :^))

Fast Fusion kind of seems worse than RMX bros..

Is there any GOOD and RECENT racing game where you start with a crappy junker and save up money to buy better and better cars? Also open world.

>>714432559
I like hood cameras because my ideal setup is cockpit view but with the steering wheel hidden and almost no games have that these days. Hood cam just takes what you'd naturally focus on (the windshield area and the road ahead) and makes it your whole view. Chase camera fucking sucks and I hate it in every single game that has any amount of sway where the car moves before the camera does.

>>714449959
Unbound

>>714432559
>dials are now sitting ontop of the hood visually which is a distraction
bitch

what's the best racing game for a sim-lite experience while still being able to use a gamepad?

am I the only one who feels the average arcade racer of the past had better physics/handling than the modern equivalents? the only arcade racer I played recently in which I felt like the handling was actually competent was Wreckfest. Everything else felt massively weird in one way or another. Even Forza and GT, which are often regarded as competent at worst, felt much inferior to previous titles in their line-up.

>>714450128
>no games have that these days
ACC, rFactor, Dirt Rally, and ice racing have this feature
>>714450463
rFactor is quite playable with a gamepad, and if you want to use clutch you can bind the clutch and shifter to the same buttons using antimicro