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Driving Games...

Anomaly1964

Anomaly1964

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New to consoles and want to try some driving games...

1. Which ones do you guys suggest...?
2. What's a good steering wheel/gas/brake device to get...?

Thanks!
 
i'd go the other route and say how boring driving simulators are because to me they have no sense of speed and are usually just a grind, making you drive some shitty slow cars for the first 5+ hours of gameplay until you can then start to get into some slightly fast cars.

if you are into arcade racers, Burnout is great as well as the new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Pure was also an awesome arcadey ATV racing game.
 
RavenSEAL said:
GT5 being uber superior to Forza of course.

PS3: Gran Turismo 5
http://www.gran-turismo.com/

360: Forza 3.
http://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/default.htm
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I've never played Forza....... but it must be one sad ass game if it's inferior to GT5.

OP, you may like GT5 if you are completely new to racing games/sims, if you have any experience with them and want a good racing experience... stay away from GT5. It does let you take pretty pictures and racing online against friends is great, but the in game racing against the AI cars is the worst possible, PD has no clue on how to make the AI even remotely playable and it ruins what otherwise could have been a great game (well it has other issues, but the AI is the one I hate most).

There are other good racing games for both consoles, try to test some on friends systems, or rent games to try out before you decide.

The Logitech G25/27 wheels are good entry level setups.
 
Forza 3 all the way...although I do not have the GT5 option since I do not have PS3. I've heard that DIRT2 is pretty good...but haven't tried yet. I really enjoyed DIRT1.
 
boshuter said:
I've never played Forza....... but it must be one sad ass game if it's inferior to GT5.

OP, you may like GT5 if you are completely new to racing games/sims, if you have any experience with them and want a good racing experience... stay away from GT5. It does let you take pretty pictures and racing online against friends is great, but the in game racing against the AI cars is the worst possible, PD has no clue on how to make the AI even remotely playable and it ruins what otherwise could have been a great game (well it has other issues, but the AI is the one I hate most).

There are other good racing games for both consoles, try to test some on friends systems, or rent games to try out before you decide.

The Logitech G25/27 wheels are good entry level setups.
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Because the AI isn't patchable? 🙄
 
It really depends on how realistic you want it to be. There's sort of a sliding scale of realism - from the simulators (Forza 3, GT5) to the arcade racers (most Need for Speed games, Burnout) and the ones in between (Grid, Dirt, Need For Speed Shift).

For arcade racers you only really need a controller. Sims benefit more from a wheel and pedals. If you have an Xbox 360 then the only good wheel is by Fanatec. The PS3 can use Logitech G-series wheels, which I've heard are great, but they only work on PS3 and PC.
 
RavenSEAL said:
Because the AI isn't patchable? 🙄
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Do you honestly thing PD is going to patch the AI? Honestly? Every other GT game has had shit-for-brains AI and there is no reason they will fix it now when I'm sure they're already working overtime trying to fix the game's broken online play and other show-stopping bugs.

I would consider GT games to be "driving simulators," which is what they've always claimed to be, and not "racing games." GT really is the ultimate driving simulator.

A game like Grid puts a lot more emphasis on the "racing" and the "game" aspects.
 
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AstroManLuca said:
Do you honestly thing PD is going to patch the AI? Honestly? Every other GT game has had shit-for-brains AI and there is no reason they will fix it now when I'm sure they're already working overtime trying to fix the game's broken online play and other show-stopping bugs.
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LOL, REALLY? No previous version of GT had online access, the final version was final, that is no longer the reality, sorry to disappoint you.
 
RavenSEAL said:
LOL, REALLY? No previous version of GT had online access, the final version was final, that is no longer the reality, sorry to disappoint you.
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What are you even talking about? I guess you're saying that the broken online play is because it's the first GT with online multiplayer. That's fine, I know they'll fix it. I'm just saying they're never going to improve the AI. I'd be surprised if they made any changes to it for GT6 (if it ever gets made, that is).
 
AstroManLuca said:
What are you even talking about? I guess you're saying that the broken online play is because it's the first GT with online multiplayer. That's fine, I know they'll fix it. I'm just saying they're never going to improve the AI. I'd be surprised if they made any changes to it for GT6 (if it ever gets made, that is).
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Wow, you must really hate Gran Turismo.
 
AstroManLuca said:
No, you're just a fanboy who goes into panic mode whenever someone levels even a single criticism against one of your precious PS3 exclusives.
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LOL, you're the one pretending that this is 2002 and there is no way of fixing anything in the game, seems to me like you're the one hating, get a life bro.
 
Anomaly1964 said:
New to consoles and want to try some driving games...

1. Which ones do you guys suggest...?
2. What's a good steering wheel/gas/brake device to get...?

Thanks!
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What are you looking for in a "driving game"?

As others said, GT5 and Forza are BOTH great games; but they're not anything like Need for Speed games... It really comes down to what you are looking for
 
RavenSEAL said:
GT5 being uber superior to Forza of course.

PS3: Gran Turismo 5
http://www.gran-turismo.com/

360: Forza 3
http://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/default.htm
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LOL.
RavenSeal's credibility is going that way fast ----------------------->

Back on topic...OP - what system(s) do you have? If you have both a PS3 and 360 I would suggest Forza3 for now until GT5 gets a chance to mature and patch for a while. If you have one system or the other, the choice is pretty clear. Get a wheel of you really are serious about playing it a lot, it makes it more fun and generally easier.

Edit: If you want more "arcadey" racing games, NFS or Burnout are a lot of fun.
 
ExarKun333 said:
LOL.
RavenSeal's credibility is going that way fast ----------------------->

Back on topic...OP - what system(s) do you have? If you have both a PS3 and 360 I would suggest Forza3 for now until GT5 gets a chance to mature and patch for a while. If you have one system or the other, the choice is pretty clear. Get a wheel of you really are serious about playing it a lot, it makes it more fun and generally easier.

Edit: If you want more "arcadey" racing games, NFS or Burnout are a lot of fun.
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Forza was so crappy they had to bundle it with the console to add figures to the sales numbers, GT3 and GT4 sold over 18m copies alone, you tell me.
 
Forza is great. If you play on easy, you don't even have to brake at all...which is brilliant. I got my 5 year old son playin it, and he loves it. He doesn't want to go back to the hot wheel games at all now...haha
 
digiram said:
Forza is great. If you play on easy, you don't even have to brake at all...which is brilliant. I got my 5 year old son playin it, and he loves it. He doesn't want to go back to the hot wheel games at all now...haha
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How is that brilliant? It defeats the purpose of actual simulation.
 
RavenSEAL said:
I read the sentence after that...making the game playable to 5 year olds isn't "brilliant".
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I know you're closer to 5 than you are to being a father yourself, so you maybe you don't quite understand the benefits to having a game that a father and young son can both play and both get something from it. Just because easy is easy doesn't make it not "brilliant". Many brilliant games have a super-dumb-easy mode.
 
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