What Racing Game Has The Best Driving Physics?

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12/10/2014 at 17:29 • Filed to: None

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As the title says.

I've been playing a lot of Midtown Madness 2 recently, and that got me thinking. The game has a surprisingly great physics engine.


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Kinja'd!!! ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:32

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I don't think any of them get it perfectly correct, nor are any that much better than any other (among the top-tier racing sims like GT, Forza, Asseto, etc).

They all do certain things very well, and fall short in other areas.


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12/10/2014 at 17:33

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iRacing


Kinja'd!!! ACESandEIGHTS > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:33

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Midtown Madness w/o a doub... wait.

Between Forza 4 and 5 for me.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:35

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Obviously...


Kinja'd!!! Nibby > PS9
12/10/2014 at 17:38

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Love driving a Testarossa and crashing into a semi truck, flipping the truck over and nothing happens to my Ferrari.


Kinja'd!!! Nibby > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:38

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Mario Kart 8 duh


Kinja'd!!! tromoly > promoted by the color red
12/10/2014 at 17:42

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iceRacing?


Kinja'd!!! tromoly > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:42

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Assetto Corsa, Project Cars, GTR2, GT Legends, and rFactor are all super good.


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:43

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Im a fan of Fourza. Obviously.

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Kinja'd!!! Converse > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:44

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iRacing is very good. However, can be prohibitively expensive to go fast as you need a decent computer, steering wheel and $100-$300 in content to really be into it. Also, there's the complexity of a real race car's adjustability to tune it for each track .

Forza 4 is very good. Forza 5 is way too arcadey in its feel. Forza 4 is great though.


Kinja'd!!! promoted by the color red > tromoly
12/10/2014 at 17:46

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http://www.iracing.com/


Kinja'd!!! Autofixation > tromoly
12/10/2014 at 17:48

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Are those for PC or gaming systems?


Kinja'd!!! tromoly > promoted by the color red
12/10/2014 at 17:51

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I know what it is ;)


Kinja'd!!! tromoly > Autofixation
12/10/2014 at 17:52

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PC, though pCars is coming out for XBOne and PS4 as well.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:53

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Define "Best".

If I had to pick most enjoyable it would be Forza 5 no doubt. The cars in that game feel so much more alive and ready to go compared to everything else but Turn 10's policy of "power oversteer makes everything better" isn't exactly a simulation benchmark.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/10/2014 at 17:56

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Kinja'd!!! TheCraigy > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 17:57

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AS REAL AS IT GETS.

Honestly though, as real as I want it to be.


Kinja'd!!! AthomSfere > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/10/2014 at 18:01

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My vote... Haven't spent more than a couple minutes with 5 to see the improvements.

Of course real sims are a little better, but Forza 4 is damn good.


Kinja'd!!! Baeromez > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:01

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Rush 2


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > PS9
12/10/2014 at 18:03

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Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > djmt1
12/10/2014 at 18:05

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Basically the Spintires of racing games.


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > AthomSfere
12/10/2014 at 18:05

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Is close enough to be great fun with a bunch of other people.


Kinja'd!!! MultiplaOrgasms > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:17

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RBR.


Kinja'd!!! CRider > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:17

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QWOP, definitely.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:18

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In that case. Micro Machines on the PS1. That game simulates what racing miniature cars on a pool table is like far more accurately than say iRacing does with its cars and tracks.


Kinja'd!!! 472CID > TheCraigy
12/10/2014 at 18:20

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It's not the most realistic, but GT2 is still my favorite balance between sim and arcade.


Kinja'd!!! titsinmymitts > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:24

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None of the consoles compare to iRacing, Assetto Corsa, or rFactor, really.


Kinja'd!!! Saracen > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:35

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Kinja'd!!! Sam > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:40

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Assetto Corsa does a pretty good job in the physics, visual, and audio regions. We need to get an Oppo Assetto Corsa trackday going on at some point...


Kinja'd!!! Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:59

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if you're saying most realistic ...

It's a tie between Live for Speed, Rfactor, Assetto Corsa. in my case anyway.

I like Forza's "simcade" physics, it feels realistic, but it doesn't simulate everything.

I'm also up for Midtown Madness online, 'cause why not.


Kinja'd!!! avens > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 18:59

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The correct answers are:

1.- For time trials, Asetto Corsa.

2.- For racing (with real life rules), iRacing is unparalleled.

3.- For racing (without real life rules yet still sim-like physics, tho inferior than those above), Horizon 2 or Forza 5. The GT series just didn't do well in the PS3 generation and PC games/sims aren't as good in this category as Forzas are.

That's it really.


Kinja'd!!! avens > avens
12/10/2014 at 19:03

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And since I can't edit that post, in the last category I'd buy Horizon 2 only and wait for Forza 6, which should be quite an improvement over 5 since the latter suffered considerably from being rushed and from being the first racing game for a new console.


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12/10/2014 at 19:05

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Kinja'd!!! 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash > TheHondaBro
12/10/2014 at 20:25

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Race 07, or GTR evo, both are great for realism, but are dated in the graphics department.


Kinja'd!!! Jessicandrift > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/10/2014 at 23:03

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I agree with this.


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Jessicandrift
12/10/2014 at 23:22

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Then you should come race with us. We only have one race left in the current series, but we are starting a fresh one in a couple weeks.


Kinja'd!!! Jessicandrift > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/10/2014 at 23:26

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Well I just started playing so I'm not that good. I'd hate to get in the way of you guys.


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Jessicandrift
12/11/2014 at 18:48

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Bah, so many people say thay and turn out to ringers. Besides, if you never race, how are you gonna improve?


Kinja'd!!! Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > TheHondaBro
12/11/2014 at 22:56

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Spintires of car racing games = Live for Speed. Very accurate simulation and can run on a Pentium 4 with no issues. I'm saying this analogy because Spintires runs pegged at 60 FPS with everything maxed out on my system (AMD FX8350 with Nvidia GTX560), and it has a very good mud simulation without taxing my processor or graphics card a lot. LFS can run about 300 FPS if I overclock my GPU a bit.


Kinja'd!!! Jessicandrift > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/12/2014 at 00:47

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True, I guess I could try it. How do I get in?


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Jessicandrift
12/12/2014 at 14:32

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Give me your gamertag, then I friend you and or add you to the car club in game. We use the car club to send out invites to start the races.


Kinja'd!!! Jessicandrift > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
12/13/2014 at 19:04

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It's the same as my username on here.


Kinja'd!!! TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Jessicandrift
12/13/2014 at 19:22

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right on. Ill add you and all that next time Im online