Boring Boring Racing Sims

Updated: 29 Nov 2024

From what I can tell scrolling through the gaming community on CarThrottle is that we’re all boring. You’re probably thinking I’m being a bit cheeky here but hear me out. Or go look for yourself. Post after post regarding builds, videos and showing off your cars from racing sims. Forza, Real Racing, Project Cars, Gran Turismo. But I suppose it can’t be helped. Load up Steam, your XBOX store or the Playstation store and you’re met with the same level of dullness. Racings sims featuring the same boring tracks with the same cars.

Don’t get me wrong. I too have enjoyed a good racing sim for a good long time. Nothing beats putting down lap times in some of the fastest cars on the planet, or loading up Fujimi Kaido and seeing how fast you can make it down while going as sideways as possible. But do we really need 15 bajillion racing simulators?

Not really.

Which brings me to this

You’re looking at this thinking I’m going to get nostalgic over some PSOne classic. Don’t be fooled. This little gem caught my eye on the Steam Greenlight and is probably the most exciting car game I’ve seen for a while. Brown-ness and low-res graphics aside this game dares to be different. Giving you control of a small communist made jalopy you set off into the world of capitalism. Across various terrains, through different kinds of weather, and while your little car is trying its hardest to break down. You need to keep the car running. From tyres, to carburetor, to making sure you have enough fuel in the tank. But you can’t carry too many spare parts because the trunk just isn’t big enough. All these various mechanics put into a procedurally generated world which makes it different every time you play makes for an interesting time.

Is it not about time we started making fun car games again?

Dare to be different I say.

Comments

s h i t posting some poor bait
article dosent have any argumets only that GT, Forza, Need for Speed etc. is boring
brings up fujima drifting
ends up being some horrible advertisement for his s h i t steam greenlight game
Get back to f u c k i n g Facebook A s s h o l e

Lol 3 post, no car, bare profile says to go back to facebook. XD

I think we need a Race Driver Grid with better and realistic physics

i think we need test drive unlimited 3 >:D

I don’t think we need it, we do need a TDU3.

It unfortunately already exists under a different name: The Crew

And here I am still waiting for a legit off road sim. I´ve tried them all: Screamer 4x4, Motorm4x, OffRoad Drive, SpinTires. But none of them seem to tick all the boxes. Imagine a 4x4 game, with a rich open world, fully compatible with driving wheels where you could push the machine to the limits. That’s my vision of a perfect Sim. Racing as been getting kinda boring…

Sorry dude bit i disagree about your statement, i think racing sim is not boring at all as long you doing it properly. I thing sim Racing/Driving is not only to make the game fun, they’re exist beause it will teach your driving skill so far, how is the feel driving a real car in real physics virtually and other things that cannot explain that in my weak English. Play Racing/Driving Sim game is not only for fun, it’s a (maybe) cheap Guidance to teach us so that one day if you driving/racing in real life in real car you’ll have a little experience but usefull from Sim to the road/circuit that will you tackle of.

(Sorry for my bad English)

The ideas that the choro q series of games brought to the table back in the ps2 era were a stellar example of the sort of diversity within the driving genre that you are talking about and with their car-pg elements they were in my opinion very enjoyable games and I think developers should further explore these kinds of game concept. however I do think there is always a place for the traditional racing sim and I enjoy the diversity in choice between the different titles we get.