What's on Your Mind

[InbetweenDreams]

I don't have any consoles, so I don't know what Forza is like. I only play PC games. rFactor series, Project CARS, Live for Speed, Assetto Corsa - all these are considered simulators, altough I find nothing simulative in them, especially when you try to drift. In all these games the car behaves like a tram - taking turns as it's on tracks and no drift is possible.
So far the best rally and drift games I've played are WRC 2, Race Driver GRID and GRID 2. If you try Race Driver GRID you should know something important - you must find its cracked version by RELOADED because their crack fixes some problems with black screen and game crashing with Windows 7. I have a purchased version of RD GRID but those morons don't provide any tech support, even if you have bought their product and there are also no patches to fix these problems. So the cracked version is your only chance, if you wanna play Race Driver GRID.
As for WRC 2 I'm not sure whether you'll like it because it requires specific car settings for each type of track covering and type of tracks. For instance, the super special stages (closed circuits on stadiums) require very specific settings (different than anything else) otherwise you won't be able to beat the opponent and most likely you'll damage the car to a point that it won't be able to cross the finish line, all the more if the car you're driving is 4WD. If you want I can make screenshots with those settings and send them to you in a personal message.

Forza is by far the best racing game I had ever played... The graphics were great, and very accurate simulation of physics...the only thing I will say is that on take offs the cars would spin out way too much... Otherwise, everything was pretty accurate...and had huge car packs... They even have a Prius on the game lol. Can tune vehicles and all sorts of stuff... Once the 360 is cheaper I might pick up one again, but right now too much debt and the last thing I need to do is waste another $200-300 on a console that I'm probably only going to play one....maybe two games on lol

I heard good things about GRID, but if they don't work well on 7, doubt they'll work any better on 8.1. I would go back to 7 but for some reason with my RAID 10 array I have with my hard disks, Windows 7 fails to install...I had to install Windows 8 RTM and then upgrade it to 8.1... So yeah definitely have to stick with what I have or learn to love Linux lol

I'll take a look at those games, see if I can get a demo and whatnot...