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If you want an actual challenge, play Forza Motorsport. Or an actual sim, for that matter.
Well, the Forza Motorsport series has been discontinued in favor of Horizon and from recent layoffs. Shame, I remember Forza Motorsport 3 being a pinnacle of track racing for any platform yet.
 
Well, the Forza Motorsport series has been discontinued in favor of Horizon and from recent layoffs. Shame, I remember Forza Motorsport 3 being a pinnacle of track racing for any platform yet.

I'd still put FM4 on the pedestal of peak Forza Motorsport. It still looks phenomenal for an Xbox 360 game, there's a good mix of relatively accurate real life tracks and OC tracks (Bernese Alps my beloved), and the difficulty feels more balanced towards the AI since you can't take a car multiple PI groups higher than the opponents into events anymore. Even though FM made the Autovista a standard thing across all cars in the later series, the curated list and attention to detail of the few cars that have it in FH4 are top notch, only made better by the voice of Clarkson himself. The biggest loss from FM3 was the Amalfi Coast course, which was a blast in all configurations with all classes of vehicles.

Given the state of the automotive industry these days, this intro has aged like a fine wine.
 
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Went ahead and purchased Horizon Chase Turbo on Steam, since it's being delisted from all digital storefronts in a few days. I got it on the Switch a few years ago, great game, but the AI kicks my ass at a few of the later races, so I never got far in the campaign mode.

Also I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned in the thread yet, but there's a game called Slipstream that was inspired by older titles like Outrun, and it's worth checking out.

It also has a great soundtrack, here's the music from the trailer.

It's on Steam, GOG, PS4 & 5, Xbox, and Switch.
 
PGG posted this infograph about FH6's 1st week of launch:

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And other games have acknowledged the absolute legend that is bowie knife99:

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Well, the Forza Motorsport series has been discontinued in favor of Horizon and from recent layoffs. Shame, I remember Forza Motorsport 3 being a pinnacle of track racing for any platform yet.
FM2 for me

I loved the customisation in FM2 and the soundtrack was banging

FM3 though had a better track selection and a bigger car list

Both games are supreme in their own right
 
The stunt jumps/speed traps/etc are fun but the fucking drift zones are insane.
Use a Formula Drift car with an R-class AWD tune, keep the speed up but make sure that you're always drifting. Easy mode.
There is no progression nor sense of accomplishment to take pride in. I played for 30 minutes and owned 4 S2 Class hypercars, solely from wheelspins. I didn't grind for them, I didn't win them in a challenge, they were handed to me.
You realize that you don't have to race S2 class? You can race whatever class you want and the campaign forces you to use lower class cars. By the way, some of the PR stunts require good driving and an R-class car in order to get 3 stars (e.g. the dirt speed trap near the rocket launch site).
The physics give almost any car you want F1 levels of grip and power. There's videos of people going around circuits taking tight corners and never even having to release the throttle. Driving is fun because it's hard, and it's dangerous. Cars are not glued to the ground. Take a corner to fast, die. Take a corner too slow, get run over and die. Accelerate too early? Spin out. Brake too late? Hello walls. Shift wrong? You picked a fine time to leave me flywheel. But in this game, you can just hold the throttle wide open while you ruminate on the fact that your father left you and Darius is now fucking your 300 pound mother in the bedroom directly above you.
If you have an ultimate grip tune, you will get destroyed on any track with long straights. It's also not an issue for lower classes.

In the 180 hairpins he never even gets fully on the brakes. There's turns there that no sports car would ever be able to take flat out, and yet he does with ease lol. If this is "technical" then god damn, gran turismo must be wizardry to people.
He trailbrakes into the hairpins, going 75% brake on entry and only fully releasing the brake at the corner midpoint. That's exactly how you'd drive those corners in real life. If he did 100% brake on corner entry, he'd lock up the tires (since he's disabled ABS).

He's also driving a WTAC car which are track-only race cars designed for that type of track in the real world and have insane aero and sticky slick tires.

You sound like a redditor.
I get you want a more realistic racing game but that's just not what arcade racing games are.
He doesn't. He could go play iRacing, but judging by his lack of driving knowledge, he'd spin out on the first corner in the starter Miata and never play again.
 
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BeamNG.drive will be coming to PS5:


I do wonder if the game will be optimized for the base PS5, or will it make a PS5 sound like a turbojet engine with the fans running at max speed?

And even Sea of Thieves, iRacing, and Honkai Star Rail have all acknowledged the GOAT that is Bowie Knife99:

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"we are talentless DEI hires and can't do shit besides a new map, how do we sell a new forza horizon?"
"remember those "thing. thing, japan" 'jaks? yeah, make the game set in japan, that'll sell it, especially to vtumors and their fans"
"also normies love memes, so create and astroturf a meme, like a crazy ai driver or some shit like that"

Was it really that easy to get people so hooked up on FH6? No wonder the gaming industry is so shit.
 
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