LOL

I've no idea about The Crew or Testdrive.

I've been looking at in game videos of Project Cars and the weather system looks great. I'm sure that's not it's only selling point, but it's something reviewers seem to latch onto.

I can't get into circuit racing games really. Drive as fast as you can! Oh no, you went too fast and crashed! Do it again but slightly slower! 

Yet for some reason I really enjoy Dirt Rally which is the same thing and really punishing. Maybe because I don't feel any urge to learn the stages, just rely on the pace notes co-driver guy. 

Other than that I enjoy driving very slowly and getting stuck in Spintires, and getting into massive pileups in Wreckless.
 

Wrecking the other [bot] drivers' cars was the best thing about NFSPU.

:D Do you get to race against a number of other cars in Dirt Rally, or is it you vs the stage?

My all time favourite racer is TOCA2 (the original series) I got a copy off eBay not so long ago and played through it start to finish. It's ropey compared to modern games, but it really gets the rough and tumble close quarters racing. I remember Rally Trophy being ace as well.

I quite like circuit racing, as there's a only a number of corners you've got to learn how to take, you can learn them in 15mins but beyond that it's like you say, getting the right balance of speed and control to do it well, which is enjoyable, providing the game and controller are working properly. I've done a bit of jumping from game to game and the difference in how the wheel feels is immense. It's really stiff (no matter how much tweaking I do) in F1 2014, the Grid games are fairly skittish and it just won't work in Colin McCrae Rally. It only seems to support turning left while going backwards... :(

 

And driving a car into a ball and making it go into a goal. At various speeds. Sometimes backwards. Often driving in the air.

Literally the best driving game.

There's a Rallycross mode in it where you do race other cars (and also go around a circuit), it's pretty fun.

I did used to like TOCA2, yes.

Xen - I keep meaning to try that out. I've never liked games that try to combine cars with other sports before like this (I'm sure car football was done badly somewhere before anyway) but enough people speak highly of it that it must be good.

Yeah, it's actually irrelevant that it's cars. It just feels how football games always should've felt but didn't. It's actually fun and exciting, like an idealised form of football. Plus hats.

"G2A is dodgy as fuck, yeah. They're essentially just key marketplaces. People buy games when/where they're cheap (either bundles and sales or just in places where games are much cheaper due to regional pricing) and G2A essentially acts like ebay, matching up buyers and sellers. The extra you pay is to protect you against fraudulent sales and region-locked cd keys for games. Otherwise you take your chances. A slightly less dodgy (in that only one third party is profiting instead of two) is just to buy games from overseas stores like Nuuvem. It's complicated though. I think we'd all agree that regional pricing is a good thing - games *should* be cheaper in places where incomes are much lower. Taking advantage of that as a person in the first world (and potentially jeopardising it) is quite a twattish thing to do. On the other hand anyone *should* be able to do whatever they like with software they buy, including selling it. I'd steer clear and use isthereanydeal instead." I don't agree with you at all. I think that g2a is just an intermediary so that we can get the cheapest games. In my case, I'm very angry to buy a game for 60 euros and then have it be a piece of shit. For this, I buy it for half price at G2a or any other key site. I think it's very good that you claim the obligations we have in the first world, as if we all had a lot of money, but we don't. I'll keep buying from those sites, and so far I haven't had any problems.