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Making a similar analysis to our friend "Apocalipse211", for me it would be the following:Several months on many sims, without playing AC1 that much. This is my conclusion how we could get the perfect sim.
Best driving simulator: Assetto Corsa (and it's not even close)
Best force feedback: Assetto Corsa, Automobilista 1, rF2/LMU
Most annoying flaws/issues: Assetto Corsa (lack of blue flag/outlap ai, lack of modern F1 rules, bad oval physics, no rolling starts etc)
Best kerb physics: Le Mans Ultimate
Best F1 game: F1 2020 (I absolutely love that game, superb, GOAT of all F1 games)
Best AI: F1 2020 (people argue that F125 but its rain AI is broken)
Best features in a sim: Automobilista 2 (rolling starts, good oval ai etc)
Best graphics: ACC / EVO? (actually I don't even care, they all look good enough)
Best driving GT3 cars: Le Mans Ultimate
Best rally game: Richard Burns (AC Rally when 1.0 is out?)
Most fun to play rally game: Dirt Rally 2 (my personal favorite, I know it's a bit arcadeish but it's so much fun)
Best online sim: iRacing
Most promising new sim: AC Rally
Most revolutionary sims: Geoff Crammond F1 games and RF1 set the standards for 10 years. RBR and AC1 set the standards for the next 10-15 years (still the standards which is sad).
Worst GUI/menus ever made: rF2 (I love the driving but can't use it because the menu system is horrendous)
Forgotten decent sims:
Raceroom (it's free now and after the update it's pretty good), Live For Speed (nobody remembers this classic, it drove well)
Conclusion:
If we could combine AC1's driving feel and FFB and modding possibilities with AMS2's features and iRacing's online system, AI from F12020, we'd have a perfect sim.
I'd love to praise EVO but I'm not feeling it... it's not bad but driving feels too much like ACC... AC1 driving feels so much more natural to me.
*disclaimer: Some people claim that F12021-2024 had even better ai, but those games were bad so I haven't played and tested them excessively. Either way, the ai is on completely different level in those games and all "hardcore sim developers" should be ashamed how atrocious the sim ai's generally are. AMS2 and LMU have half decent ai's.
What do you think? Is my list even close?
*Most complete simulator: Assetto Corsa (we can drive practically any car, from any category, in any era of motorsport), even with the minor problems mentioned.
*Best F1 game: of the modern era, I also agree with F1 2020 (it was also the last one with classic cars), but in my point of view (who knows, maybe in the near future), an official game with all seasons (or that would be added over time), even with licensing problems (driver, car, circuits, something similar to AMS 2).
*Best Rally Game: from what I've always read, it was or is "Richard Burns", but I believe Assetto Rally (could replace it soon), Dirt Rally 2 (almost complete), EA WRC (could be "the game") but it was a disappointment for me. I still partly prefer (WRC Generations), to fill the gap (diversity of cars/stages), we fall back on Assetto Corsa.
*Most Revolutionary Simulator: certainly the series by "Geoff Crammond" is still glorified.I remember very well when we did championships/races (me, my brothers and some friends), in the famous "hot seat" mode... which was also present in some rally simulators, but never in other games that followed (they emphasized the online mode)... but the "hot seat" mode was quite interesting.
Nowadays what we do (are "time trials" modes)... usually at my house (... the pressure of trying to find a fast lap), knowing that the opponents are behind your chair (cheering? for you to crash into the wall)....
*Worst GUI/menus: without a doubt, this award goes to Rfactor 2, even though it's a very good simulator.
*Race Room: very good (with frequent improvements and updates), new packs are offered regularly (but few participate) when compared to other simulators.
*Automobilista 2: For me, we could say it's Project Cars 2 (of the modern era). A multitude of content could still be included. In my opinion, the versions of the classic tracks are unbeatable.
*Assetto Corsa Competizione: has always been a game (that requires a lot of hardware to run minimally) somewhat similar in this respect to Le Mans Ultimate (in my case, I can play much better).
*Best online simulator: from what they always say, iRacing has a guaranteed spot, but it's not for my "pocket, $$$$".
Result: To take the place of ASSETTO CORSA, it will be very difficult in the coming years, only if something similar happens with Assetto Evo (migrating the official and mod content to that title).
