Driving Force GT - Best Force Feedback Racing Games

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Hey everyone,

I've been searching for some info that I couldn't find, so I thought what better a place to ask about driving games than here!

I own a PS3 and want to buy a Driving Force GT and play driving games in my room. I'm just wondering which games are best. I prefer open-world/sandbox games. The only ones I've found so far are Burnout Paradise and Midnight Club Los Angeles.

Do those two games provide strong force feedback? Are they realistic?

What are the best games that provide an open world with realism with strong force feedback? (If there aren't any, whats the next best thing?)

Thanks a mil in advance
 
Hi, I have the DFGT and PS3 so I can offer a little help. It works with Burnout Paradise just fine and the game is perfectly playable and enjoyable with the wheel and the feedback. Most racing games I use the feedback to react to the way the tires are interacting with the road. In Burnout you're going so stupidly fast and so constantly weaving that the feedback is really more of a special effect for the crashes. It's good, but is it realistic? This is a question that you should not be asking about Burnout Paradise because nothing about that game is meant to be realistic except the fact that yes, cars do generally drive on pavement. It's lots of fun, though 👍

I haven't tried Midnight Club but I *think* I read that it's officially compatible on the Logitech site so you can expect it to work well.

The wheel also works well with games like Dirt, Dirt 2, Grid, NFS: Shift, and of course the king of the bunch Gran Turismo. All of these games provide useful feedback and can be set up to work with the wheel very well without much effort. I can tell you from personal experience.

You mention sandbox styles games and if you mean stuff like Burnout you're set but stuff like the driving portions of GTA will leave you very disappointed, wheel is just not meant for that.

Hope this helped, get one and you'll like it 👍
 
Thanks for the reply. I'm more encouraged to buy Burnout Paradise now. I'm kinda disappointed that force feedback in Paradise is more for special effects. I wanted a game that would fight with me for the wheel.

What about Midnight Club Los Angeles? I read on the Logitech website that the game supports 900 degree steering, but I also read that it only supports 200 degrees. Anybody got any clarification on that? And does the game react good with a wheel? Is it semi-realistic?

Thanks again!
 
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Midnight Club games are good fun , only LOS ANGLES IS A BIG FLAW !
Sell the game and get anotherone .
Dirt or grid for serious arcade racing.
GranTurismo If u wanna get hooked
Most fun arcade game is Burnout Paradise (Online it sux)


The Midnight Club problem is: (MY WORST BOUGHT GAME EVER!!! the last 2 games where good fun thou)
The Ai stays on your tale even if u Got a batmobile and them a 50cc kart :/ they always cach up ...
So its better to drive in the back so they keep it low paced and u overtake at last parts of the race.
And if u hit 25% or something the progress is SOOOOOO SLOW it gets realy booooring.

U get more fun off mario kart :)
Sorry for offtopic got a little carried away. bad feelings coming back when i read u play midnight club :p
 
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The wheel also works well with games like Dirt, Dirt 2, Grid, NFS: Shift, and of course the king of the bunch Gran Turismo. All of these games provide useful feedback and can be set up to work with the wheel very well without much effort. I can tell you from personal experience.
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This may be down to my hatred of fiddling with Calibration screens, but of the games you listed, Dirt and Grid have terrible DFGT support.

gamerboy
Thanks for the reply. I'm more encouraged to buy Burnout Paradise now. I'm kinda disappointed that force feedback in Paradise is more for special effects. I wanted a game that would fight with me for the wheel.
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Have you played Burnout Paradise? If that game had force feedback like you wanted, your wheel would expire in days.
 
SHift 2 and Midnight club LA is fine dont listen to that fool about it
 
Honestly when I was playing MCLA I wasn't using the wheel soo often because if you want to win races you have to be very responsive in traffic, avoiding other cars with MCLAA force feedback can be more tough than with a pad. I warn you, Midnight Club Los Angeles is a chaotic game, and AI is very competitive, probably too much, in fact lot of players criticized Rockstar for that.
If you are looking for some fun with your wheel you should consider Dirt series 1,2 or 3 depending on how much you want to spend.
For realism: GT5. (also Shift 2 but I wont advice it until they fix the freeze issue)
Shift 1 has great atmosphere but physics of cars is a total mess.
If you like formula 1: F1 2010 (or F1 Championship Edition if you don't mind about old licences).
If you like touring cars you can look at Supestars V8 Next Challenge.
I didn't heard great comments about Test Driver Unlimited 1&2 force feedback honestly.
 

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