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Open place to chat about your favorite pc racing games.
 
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I think most people would point you toward Project CARS (although it doesn't really have any customizing) but unfortunately you can't buy into it anymore unless they re-open the backing for it.

You say you aren't of fan of NFS, but does that include the SHIFT series as that was more in the sim vein than the others in the NFS series.
 
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I'm not into the whole racing super cars thing, I love forza for the reason that you can get every day road cars and race them in the classes that you are expected to race them in IRL. and i love tweaking suspension settings, and all the minor things like that.

I know the Xbone has the new forza at launch, but thats alot of money just to play a racing game, as I have no desire to buy a console.
 
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If you have a decent wheel setup, iRacing is the most realistic sim by a large margin, in my opinion. It's the only game in which I can actually feel the grip of the wheels and intuitively know the limits of the car from real driving experience. Tracks are laser scanned from their real life counterparts as well.

Conversely, a game like Live for Speed might be technically realistic, but you have to drive it like a game, if you know what I mean.
 
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I'm not into the whole racing super cars thing, I love forza for the reason that you can get every day road cars and race them in the classes that you are expected to race them in IRL. and i love tweaking suspension settings, and all the minor things like that.

I know the Xbone has the new forza at launch, but thats alot of money just to play a racing game, as I have no desire to buy a console.
Unfortunately as far as I'm aware, there's just nothing on PC that comes close to what Forza and GT offer in terms of amount of cars and customizing, tweaking etc. Forza is one of the 2 reasons I still have my Xbox 360 and one of the reasons I'll be buying the One.

PCARS is at least supposed to cover a crap ton of racing styles, letting you choose where your career path takes you from go karts to super cars and Le Mans. It should have some of the entry level leagues and stuff you're looking for. Granted it's still in pre-alpha at the moment so it doesn't have everything the final build will have.
 
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Unfortunately as far as I'm aware, there's just nothing on PC that comes close to what Forza and GT offer in terms of amount of cars and customizing, tweaking etc. Forza is one of the 2 reasons I still have my Xbox 360 and one of the reasons I'll be buying the One.

PCARS is at least supposed to cover a crap ton of racing styles, letting you choose where your career path takes you from go karts to super cars and Le Mans. It should have some of the entry level leagues and stuff you're looking for. Granted it's still in pre-alpha at the moment so it doesn't have everything the final build will have.
totally agree. Shift (well, Shift 2 by now) is the only one that comes close in presentation - but sadly we haven't heard anything about another sequel yet

I race my own car in SCCA a lot, but I'm avoiding racing sims on my PC again (had a G25) just because none of them come close enough in all areas for me. I'll just leave it to monthly events to get my fix
 
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I'm not sure if its on PC and I know you don't like NFS but Underground 2 has tones of customization options. Even things Forza is missing, such as ECU and Turbo tuning. I've played lots of Forza 2 and 3 on xbox, and I love it too. The driving isn't the same by any means but its a great game for tuning. Lots of fun dynoing. I don't think you can tune air pressure though. You could tune the suspension and a few others things too. Haven't played it in yeaaars though
 
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totally agree. Shift (well, Shift 2 by now) is the only one that comes close in presentation - but sadly we haven't heard anything about another sequel yet

I race my own car in SCCA a lot, but I'm avoiding racing sims on my PC again (had a G25) just because none of them come close enough in all areas for me. I'll just leave it to monthly events to get my fix
Shift sequel is PCARS, technically anyway since it's Slightly Mad Studios and they made both Shift games. I'd say it's a spiritual successor that's better in every single way
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Shift 2

its not a NFS game
Actually it is, they just dropped NFS from the name.
 
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rFactor is Great. Custom cars by that modding community and it's a full simulation with cockpit views and sequential shifter support. Many tracks and cars to download. Also a long time Sim I've know about since 2003 was Racer. The website is Racer.nl, it's just for testing out cars and physics there's no game mode except LAN, but the amount of cars and tracks is up there since it's been out. Shift 2 for PC has good graphics, but it's not what I'd look to for realism, thats what project CARS is for, but that won't be out till later. Also dirt 3 is fun with a wheel. I had to add my 2 cent's since I love racing games. Also almost forgot anything by SIMBIN is pretty realistic also.
 
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I thought pCars was basically dead in the water? I knew that It had been in development for quite a while, I've not heard anything new about it in a while.
It's coming out towards the end of the year.
 
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If you just want a fun open world racing game that is not too serious you sould look at Test Drive Unlimited 1 or 2

Yes they are not new gamers anymore
 
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If you just want a fun open world racing game that is not too serious you sould look at Test Drive Unlimited 1 or 2

Yes they are not new gamers anymore
Dang. Forgot about those. They are properly brilliant.
 
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Dang. Forgot about those. They are properly brilliant.
The first one i played the hell out of i got over 3000 km in the GTR R34 alone

The second one not as good as the first one the story i could do without
 
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Brilliant? The handling in TDU2 is terrible.
That I will give you, the drifting threshold is hilarious, but for an 'open-worlder', it's hard to do better IMO.
 
#25 ·
Wish they would port Forza 2/3/4 to the PC

THey did with Halo 1 and 2 so why not Forza
 
#26 ·
Dirt 3 would be my current favorite. The Gymkhana might ruin your experience a bit if you are not into that.

Until GT gets "Damage", im not going to invest anymore on those types of sims. Once you play a game where the car actually breaks it's hard to go back.

Been waiting on Dirt 4 for quite some time
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