Trackmania! Man, the original was a hoot and i spent way too long in Trackmania; Sunrise. The tracks are still second to none, and the track editor; powerful. It allows you to save as many ghosts as you want and then produce a video. This was mind blowing to a younger me; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcQmJwTnBg
Racing games are by far my favorite genre, I don’t think I could pick an absolute favorite, so I’m just gonna ramble for a bit.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 through Carbon are fondly remembered for a reason, they still stand up so well today. Outside of the golden era of NFS, Hot Pursuit (2010), The Run, Most Wanted (2012), Heat, and Unbound (absolute trash update today, nevermind on Unbound) are very good as well. Other games in the series are good too (I’m a strong defender of Rivals despite it being objectively subpar), but I’d consider these to be the highlights.
The Burnout series is excellent, especially Takedown, Revenge, and Paradise.
Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon 1 are the absolute peak of that franchise, absolutely beautiful games, I love the atmosphere and career pacing.
The PGR series is great as well, and only got better with every title. PGR4 (the last one) is amazing. This team also developed Blur before shutting down, basically Mario Kart with real cars, which is massively underrated.
The Flatout games (1 and 2, we don’t talk about 3 and 4 is eh) are great. Bugbear also developed Wreckfest, which is a spiritual successor that improves on the original in almost every way.
Driver: San Francisco is one of the greatest games ever made, and I’ll never forgive Ubisoft for abandoning the series.
The Motorstorm games are great, and Evolution Studios also worked on the excellent Driveclub before being bought and merged into Codemasters (and later EA…)
Enthusia is another super underrated one, really unique progression system that encourages you to drive interesting cars instead of the fastest.
The DiRT and GRID franchises have some great entries as well, especially DiRT 2/3 and GRID 1/2. Codemasters also developed FUEL, which I think held the title of biggest video game world for a long time (it might still if you don’t count stuff like Flight Simulator).
Split/Second is excellent despite its shitty PC port.
There’s a bunch of great indies as well, Distance, Redout, Inertial Drift, Horizon Chase Turbo.
There are lots more, Midnight Club, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo, Test Drive, but this comment is way too long as-is… It is also fairly depressing that most of these are dead franchises, and/or aren’t available to purchase anymore due to licensing expiration.
I love Distance. It feels very satisfying to play, with the anti gravity you can pull some fun moves driving on the walls and such, definitely worth checking out
Stunts (1990, DOS) is what has stayed with me the most. Crappy graphics, unrealistic controls even for its time, buggy physics (a wrong move could launch you into the stratosphere) but for some reason we stayed up all night taking turns trying to shave one more second off the lap record on our favorite track.
This was the first Flight Simulator I played with an analogue stick. This blew my mind and I had to have a PC! I only used digital Joysticks up until then.
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Ridge Racer Type 4. Beautiful controls, amazing soundtrack, just an amazing game
Trackmania
I love race sims, but I always come back to Trackmania!
Trackmania! Man, the original was a hoot and i spent way too long in Trackmania; Sunrise. The tracks are still second to none, and the track editor; powerful. It allows you to save as many ghosts as you want and then produce a video. This was mind blowing to a younger me; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcQmJwTnBg
Does Mario Kart count? It’s probably the best game to play with friends of different skill levels.
Also the older need for speed games up to undercover.
Out of recent games Need for Speed Unbound. GOAT is between Burnout 3 and NFS Underground
FH3>FH5>FH4
I’ve not played any car games in years but I have fond memories of Outrun and the 1st Gran Turismo.
Racing games are by far my favorite genre, I don’t think I could pick an absolute favorite, so I’m just gonna ramble for a bit.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 through Carbon are fondly remembered for a reason, they still stand up so well today. Outside of the golden era of NFS, Hot Pursuit (2010), The Run, Most Wanted (2012), Heat, and
Unbound(absolute trash update today, nevermind on Unbound) are very good as well. Other games in the series are good too (I’m a strong defender of Rivals despite it being objectively subpar), but I’d consider these to be the highlights.The Burnout series is excellent, especially Takedown, Revenge, and Paradise.
Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon 1 are the absolute peak of that franchise, absolutely beautiful games, I love the atmosphere and career pacing.
The PGR series is great as well, and only got better with every title. PGR4 (the last one) is amazing. This team also developed Blur before shutting down, basically Mario Kart with real cars, which is massively underrated.
The Flatout games (1 and 2, we don’t talk about 3 and 4 is eh) are great. Bugbear also developed Wreckfest, which is a spiritual successor that improves on the original in almost every way.
Driver: San Francisco is one of the greatest games ever made, and I’ll never forgive Ubisoft for abandoning the series.
The Motorstorm games are great, and Evolution Studios also worked on the excellent Driveclub before being bought and merged into Codemasters (and later EA…)
Enthusia is another super underrated one, really unique progression system that encourages you to drive interesting cars instead of the fastest.
The DiRT and GRID franchises have some great entries as well, especially DiRT 2/3 and GRID 1/2. Codemasters also developed FUEL, which I think held the title of biggest video game world for a long time (it might still if you don’t count stuff like Flight Simulator).
Split/Second is excellent despite its shitty PC port.
There’s a bunch of great indies as well, Distance, Redout, Inertial Drift, Horizon Chase Turbo.
There are lots more, Midnight Club, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo, Test Drive, but this comment is way too long as-is… It is also fairly depressing that most of these are dead franchises, and/or aren’t available to purchase anymore due to licensing expiration.
I love Distance. It feels very satisfying to play, with the anti gravity you can pull some fun moves driving on the walls and such, definitely worth checking out
Mario Kart Wii or BeamNG.drive
Stunts (1990, DOS) is what has stayed with me the most. Crappy graphics, unrealistic controls even for its time, buggy physics (a wrong move could launch you into the stratosphere) but for some reason we stayed up all night taking turns trying to shave one more second off the lap record on our favorite track.
Oh yes!! I immideatly thought of this game, but couldn’t remember the name. Maybe one of my most played game…
And you also could design your own tracks!
Did you ever play Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat? That was the flight sim of the same era that gave me similar vibes.
This was the first Flight Simulator I played with an analogue stick. This blew my mind and I had to have a PC! I only used digital Joysticks up until then.
No, I never heard of that game…
But some time later I got a new PC with a CD Rom drive and with it came Need for Speed 3 (I think…).
Need For Speed Underground 2. Just the right vibes and level of customization to keep me playing through the entire campaign without getting bored
Yeah, that’s definitely one of my favorites too.
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