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DaveMMR:
I keep seeing Race Drivin' mentioned. I can't help but think that game was "all technology and no game". Sure maybe it was amusing enough for it's day, but compared to older racers (like Pole Position), it has not aged well.  Xiaou, if you disagree, please reply with two long posts.  ;D

And, in the middle of all this discussion, we're forgetting the most important thing: does Gray_Area like leaf switches yet?
ChrisK:
You could say the same about many of the modern sims, though.  In the first release of Live For Speed, for example, you're given a few cars and a few tracks and told to go wild.  You race against a leaderboard, mainly.  I put a lot of hours into that sim, despite it being little more than a sandbox.  For me the fun was in driving an accurately-modeled car more aggressively than I would allow myself to drive my own cars on the track.  Racing sims have the vital virtue of a destroyed car not ending your racing season.  :)

I liked Race Drivin because of its more sedate, realistic feel compared to other racing games of the time.  I liked Pole Position because it was racing would surely be like on cocaine.  Everything was moving a million miles an hour and doing well was a matter of cranking the wheel around like a madman.
opt2not:
I never cared much for the newer racing games. Mainly because they're boring to me. If I wanted to drive realistic, I would just jump into my car and head to the highway. Give me an arcade racing game any day. For modern arcadey race games I prefer the Burnout games. Revenge is my favourite, mostly because the demo was probably the closest to an arcade game experience with it's track timer and quick restarts (without ending!). Paradise was really fun too, but I didn't care much for the multi-player aspect of it.
You know, I would probably go so far into saying that the Burnout Revenge demo is the best demo I've played. Period.

Ond:
I'm amazed at the energy some folks here put into defending their POV and personal likes/dislikes, or maybe it's just low effort, stream of conscious typing for them  :dunno.

Interesting about the driving sims though, I really enjoy blasting down the track in a Lamborghini or Porsche with realism turned up high, the whole thing shaking around and engine screaming in GTR2. Am I behind the times with that game or is still a good Sim by current standards?  I don't quite get the same experience in my car  ;D.  That said a buddy of mine (with way more money) does both, he's very happy to challenge others on-line in a Sim or take his AMG C63 to the track.   

Right, now about leaf switch sticks ......*crickets chirping*..............
ChrisK:
GTR2 was a very popular and well-respected race sim.  It did a lot of the racecraft stuff well, which is more than you can say for the console sims (Forza, Gran Turismo).  It has kind of been eclipsed by iRacing (well, everything on the PC has been) because of iRacing's variety in cars and tracks and excellent online racing mechanics (both the on-track stuf and the online ranking/scoring).  But it's certainly no slouch.

Yeah, sorry to drag this even further off topic.  I do like leaf switches, but only the kind I use.  Everybody else's suck.  ;)
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