This is down to the death of the mid-sized developers. The PS1 (for example) had a ton of racers and small developers making games for it. Now we only have AAA or indie developers. Basically, if we want the genre to return, it's up to the indie devs to make fun, arcade racing games. They don't all have to be simulators.

Racing games nowadays lack soul. I’ll give credit to NFS for trying a different aesthetic but there’s problems that still plague that game since NFS 2015. Remember back in TDU2 when you can drive like a normal citizen around the whole map and not get bored? It was a Carpg before we knew it. I’d also add this too, I don’t care for festival style racing games. That’s why the old NFS and even The Crew 1 felt fun to play there was a risk and reward factor to those games that modern racing games don’t have.

It's not that 'nobody' plays racing games anymore it's the fact that they all have that same P2W mechanic at least the new ones do.

What I need in racing game is a sense of progression, but modern racing games keeps throwing random stuff via wheel spins, or weekly random awards, best cars right from the start, where sense of progression from slow to fast or cheap to expensive is destroyed.

Nobody plays racing games anymore because of DLC cars. No one likes cars being DLC. Remember in old racing games when all the cars came with thr game and you had to unlock them through progression? Good times.

One racing games series I really miss is Motorstorm. It was so unique being an arcade off-road racer with multiple different vehicle classes. Racing at the same time and it is something that still hasn’t been replicated to this day. Making a new game like it would definitely be something that stands out and the fact that no one has made a modern racing game of that formula which worked so well back then feels like a missed opportunity

since i don't want you to not have a career after failing your exam, you have gotten my sub bro, also please do more of these short form video essays, this video is amazing!

Track mania, hotshots racing, new star gp, hot wheels unleashed, wipeout, wreckfest, dirt 5, redout, art of rally, Circuit Superstars, and many more fun racing games exist, you just have to look for them, mainstream racing games are a snooze fest

I love racing games but I love offline single-player racing games. Most modern racing games just aren't for me as I have no interest in multiplayer and while many of them still have some things to do in single-player, it's more of an afterthought compared to the full-fledged single-player campaigns that we got in racing games up through the 7th generation. And if a game has always online DRM, I refuse to buy it unless they guarantee an offline patch at end of life.

it's refreshing to see someone who understands the *actual* reason this genre's declined. some of the best racing games ever succeeded in spite of their ties to car/motorsport culture, not because of them, and i can list a dozen awesome racing games that don't even feature cars or real world vehicles at all. the genre's insistence on being a niche for enthusiasts has only made it regress from what it once was.

R.I.P. OG The Crew 🫡

Around 2 years ago I got this weird itch in my head. I had enough of racing games, NFS, Forza, Crew, everything just became repetitive for me. I thought to myself something which I'd never thought about or considered before. I thgouth "let's try the complete opposite, let's try the most realistic driving game now". I bought Assetto Corsa, and immediately realized this wasn't going to be fun or even close to "simulation" with a gamepad, so I ordered a wheel, then a little later I ordered a VR headset, then a little later I ordered a full on sim rig. 2 years on I can say that AC is one of the best gaming experience, and the most fun driving experience I've ever had. I haven't and won't go back to arcade or simcade any more and wouldn't play the latest games if they were given to me for free. I don't know why it took me so long but eventually I got the sim itch and never looked back. Now it's not about how fast I can drive, or how many xp or landscape points I can get due to how high my car flew up a ramp or cliff or how many trees I took out, now driving is like a university or a journey. AC is making me a better driver, I've learned about things like proper racing, trail braking, slip angles, I learned how to drift in AC from scratch and learned about things like oversteer, understeer, counter-steering, how to connect drifts, etc. I always used to think those guys with full sim rigs were a bit over the top and never thought I'd be one of them, and here we are. Long live AC, best driving game ever imho.

People love racing games, people hate trend chasing games, racing included. Last racing game I enjoyed was NFS Shift The problem is no on really cares to make a good game, racing games make it easy to DLC everything, they cost more in the long run, rarely try to fine tune mechanics, and always opt for flashy over good mechanics. I don't want to be driving a Lambo with a F150 across me, a dude in a PT Cruiser, and some kid on a scooter. Racing games at their core are best when it's a power fantasy, no one wants a super close race, they want to blow out the competition with their car they have invested heavily in, however that doesn't work because you can't have an offline racer anymore, everything must be online against 12 people from all over the planet. Also 5:28 I'm 34 and for me these games where considered the start of the decline for most of the franchises. People are free to enjoy them I have no problem with that but at the time they where in no way considered peak and really viewed as the start of the decline for folks around my age back than at the time of their release. I guess it depends on your age and the games we played at the time but we do agree things have gotten worse.

*NFS Carbon, Burnout Revenge, Midnight Club 3 DUB, Midnight Club LA and BLUR come to mind when I think of my most enjoyed racing games. Cruising USA, Mario Kart, Ridge Racer Type 4 and Tokyo Xtreme Racer as the OG's 🙌 the genre has come such a long way, I feel like its hit a wall. Personally, I'd love a time traveling racer. environments that constantly time shift while ur racing* 👍

true arcade racing games need to return. currently the big majority of "racing games" are just simcade/simulator car games that try to be as realistic/inmersive as possible while this type of game is not bad at all, this "need for realism" has been happening ever since NFS started to flop, or even other arcade racing franchises just stopped releasing games (wich was a damn long time ago) so its obvious that people are starting to get a bit sick of recent car games. nowadays its just to see wich game provides the best experience, not the most fun one

we need midnight club bck

I really wish that they didn't cancel Blur 2. Such a talented studio with such a unique IP - managed to pull it off with licensed cars too. The original's art style is something that hasn't been seen again, and for that crowd, could have made an amazing e-sport. That is the one racing game that was very poorly marketed and got such a hugely unfair amount of flak when it was.

Rammers and corner bombers is what has turned me off from most online racing. I still play racing games but tend to avoid online play because people are either malicious or utterly incompetent. This Solar Crown info is seriously disappointing. Ive been waiting for this since it was announced and now Im probably not going to even buy it. TDU2 was one of my favorite games ever.

Apologies if this isn't related to the topic on why nobody plays racing games, but paying $10 for a new add-ons pack that's separate from a modern AAA/AAAA racing game's content pass is completely stupid. Why bother paying a hefty price for add-ons that aren't included in the content pass for an $80+ game when the developer could've just updated it with all of the separate add-ons included for free? It saves a lot of time and money for gamers who owns a physical/digital copy of the game. Although I don't advocate the idea of using cheats, glitches, and/or exploits in games, it's totally fine if you use a DLC unlocker mod/trainer to get all paid DLCs and content that was only available within a time period for games like Forza Horizon 5 and Need for Speed Unbound.

Nfs and Midnight Club was the heart of racing games back in 2000's and 2010. I know MC stopped coming out till 2009, I'm talking about the early 2010's Nfs games.

Wreckfest deserves to be talked about more. it's so much fun. Just being able to load it up, find a server and just start racing (and wrecking) is the main reason I have 800 hours in it. It's pure carnage all the time and I keep going back for the adrenaline rush that I get avoiding buses and heavy cars trying to put me into a tree. I just feel like nobody wants to try something different so they stick with the same racing game re-released over and over. All I can say is. If you're looking for something different, something fun from a racing game. Give wreckfest a shot. I personally want more games like it to come out. Not the festival racing snooze fest stuff

I think why beamng drive is so popular and successful because it’s unique and doesn’t have the bs from these major game studios, even though the game does require a somewhat beefy pc and doesn’t have much base content to it

As a car girl and a gamer that used to play a lot of racing games. I can tell you why. (1) because the people who make the racing games are not car enthusiasts. All they care about is making money. So you won't see any cars that we know and love as much. Unless it was made popular by a movie. (2) 2024 and handling and sense of speed sucks. As a drifter drifting sucks. The only game i know that had pretty good drifting was the first tokyo dift game. (3) rubber banding, it doesn't really how fast you are or how good you drive. You can be sure they will always catch up even if they ate it. (4) the best storyline by far is need for speed most wanted. (5) the stupid choice. You know the one where you have to choose. What do you want? Do you want a racing sim with realistic handling and physics. With beautiful graphics but most likely will not have any drifting in it and other then tuning your engine you can't really customize your ride. Or do you and arcade game. That has street racing, cop chases, customization, Aero etc. But handling sucks, and it might hace drifting but it might suck to. And they might say "we have over 70 cars!" But if you really look at it Its just the different types of the same cars. And ots actually just 20. Oh and traffic its almost like they are put to get you. Why are they stopping in the middle of the damn street! And why are they slowing down when ypu drive behind them or stopping? And why are theor weapons? Why can't we have the best of both Why can't we have a street racing driving sim game, that is really good drifting for us drifters, with really good customization, with realistic handling and physics, with cops and NPC racers that uses more good driving skill and np runner banding. Oh and choices. And why not have car meets so we can show off our cars? And meet friends or make them? Why can't we have a game without all these weapons, and ramps that we have to jump every place and we just use pure driving skill? I kinda miss NFSMW

Really enjoyed this one man, I really like your punctual style of both writing and editing that keeps things on point. Keep it up!

With TDU Solar Crown, you gotta keep in mind that this is a completely new team making the game, and they said that they are looking forward to adding houses in the future. And they want everyone start in the same place because it’s give room for players to interact and be social with each other.

Players: We want to start out in smaller cars and make winning and where you place actually matter Forza: Okay, start in any car you want, finishing position still doesn't matter. But you aren't allowed to tune or upgrade your car unless you drive around for 100hrs

One of the issues with nfs nowadays is that in the past they had many soundtrack variety for everyone and i remember it peaked with the underground series up until payback, nowadays it only had rap and whatever genre that sets the tone for the setting.

I still want to play racing games like Motorstorm, Midnight club LA (PS3 version), Dirt 2 (PS3 version) since they have great soundtrack

You hit the nail on the head when it came to racing games, but it’s starting to change, I personally started development on a more arcadey split/second inspired game which will make way into a twisted metal like game. JEM is single-handedly working on reviving the wangan highway racer genre. You’re not the only one who’s been disappointed by what’s been currently the “meta” of racing games and hopefully we won’t be the end of that.

while from a modern perspective it’s pretty bare bones and most of what I say is nostalgia because I grew up with the IP but one of the racing games I always return to every now and then is Hot Wheels World Race on the PS2 and Gamecube, what really stood out to me with this game as a kid was its set pieces, being based on the film of the same name it was set around racing through different realms all having their own distinct biome, Going from the volcanic realm where you would be racing through active volcanoes to the arctic realm that focused in racing through massive glaciers and Arctic mining equipment. This side of the racing genre I find is criminally overlooked.

Glad to see another Racing Games Essay, i have being on a lookout on indie racing games on steam. I love Trail Out,Battle RC, RallyAllyAlly & Smells Like Burnt Rubber. I wish racing/driving genre gets good releases instead of sim.

You also have to realize that the first few Fast and Furious and tuning became a real social phenomenon back then, and boosted the sales of racing games for the next 5 to 10 years.

i recently bought NFS heat for $3 in steam and 1 thing I found on main stream racing game is the depth of car. As a person who recently drive into racing game genre, there is a lot of stuff u need to learn before u can win some end game race. engine swap, turbo, different tire, when to use nitro, all of those stuff make ppl who are not familiar to car interior a wall that need to be break thought by learning those stuff. this is why GTA 5 and mario kart are more popular, bc those 2 game have been simplify enough to let even a child can win a race

A lot of this is due to car compagnies being very rigid about what they allow developpers to do with their cars. In 2010, street racing and illegal races were peak in video games. Now, car companies are worried about the image of street racing, and developpers are hand tied to please them instead of focusing on fun. Making games with real cars became so complicated that developpers are struggling to respect all the rules car companies are imposing to let them use their car in their game. When you try to please everybody, you loose yourself. And that is what happened with car games Best exemple of this is how The Crew and Forza Horizon lost their story mode progressively with each new games

Great Quality ngl.Keep it up mate! I wish You 1mil subs!

I just hope in my heart one day that we get a racing game that plays like San Francisco Rush or F-Zero.

I actually love the drifting in need for speed unbound but I think I’ve only learnt it so well because need for speed was my favourite and remains my favourite game on my console - all there is to it is making the right choice of drift at the right time given your speed in specific car know how, for example with the supercars speed drifting (double gas pedal) is trickier but the best choice, I often suggest you do it then when the car “enters the drift”control it while in the drift without using your gas pedal only re-pressing it just before the car sideway momentum runs out or if there’s more curve you tap it time & time again & your supercar with stay drifting

I'm still waiting for a modern game like nfs pro street. that game's sense of speed was god tier and scary.

If you want something unique from the monotony of the current racing game sphere, you're going to have to dig. I recently found Night Runners on steam, a 90s to mid 2000s street racing game set in japan. it's aesthetic is supreme, and I can't stop playing. It's currently still being produced, but the prologue is out, and I encourage everyone feeling the same as you described in the video to check it out.

A while ago, I picked up the deluxe edition of Grid Legends on a Steam sale for like $5. I never played the other Grid games and I didn't feel like watching cutscenes, so I immediately ignored the story mode because I just didn't (and still don't) care about it. After the initial period of figuring out how to quickly navigate menus and how to set up multi-event races with the race creator, this $5 impulse buy actually became my go-to offline track racing game. I set up my cheap racing wheel too (a Thrustmaster TMX Force Feedback) and it worked with no extra calibration needed, though it took a while to learn the button mapping and I also needed to tune down the force feedback intensity because of how I set up the wheel mount. There's three things I like about Grid Legends: 1. The game has a dynamic music option. - I know it's not much of a selling point, in fact I didn't even know it was in the game at first when I bought it, but I personally like when games change up the audio mixing in sync with whatever's happening in game. Here, the music gradually cranks up the bass and reverb little by little as you approach the finish line or when the timer ticks down to zero in elimination matches. It also has a practical use, as the music also will fade in a different "sample" when you approach corners too fast, and the intensity of the effect depends on how much faster you're approaching the corner beyond the recommended speed of the driving line. It's easier to notice on some songs than others. If the music's getting intense and there's a corner coming up, consider either gently tapping the brakes or feathering the throttle. Sometimes you'll hear the music change up way before you ever see the driving line change colors. 2. The AI has a nemesis system. - The game's not a demo derby by any means (and the demo derby mode from the DLC actually kinda sucks, so play Wreckfest instead if you want to see panels flying off the cars and littering the track), but you won't really be penalized for making contact with other cars and just forcing them out of the way. You'll lose a small chunk of your winnings on your own repair fees if you really bang up your car, but you can always just do another race if you need more money for something you wanted to buy. That said, if you're too hostile, an AI will become marked as a nemesis. They will start biting back and will actively attempt to block and side-swipe you if you've pissed them off. You can piss off multiple drivers at the same time, and the one's you really aggravate can retain their nemesis status through other career events until you leave them alone for a while. This mechanic incentivizes players to be a bit more mindful of both WHERE people are on the track and WHO they are. 3. The AI can make costly mistakes and can sometimes even have sudden performance issues with their car. - Something doesn't always happen on every lap, or even every race, but it happens often enough that you might want to consider going for wider overtakes and outright avoid drafting in some conditions. The worse the conditions, the wider the berth. Even if it means losing positions, I generally try to keep some distance away from a large pack on corners on the chance that one of the other drivers flubs their cornering or accidentally brake checks the hell out of someone else and causes a pileup. Even on higher difficulty settings, they will still make mistakes. Some of the mechanical failures I've seen are a bit absurd though, like when an AI violently swerves on a long straightaway after a cloud of smoke erupts from their undercarriage for what seemed like no reason at all. You don't want to get caught behind that cloud, btw. It's nearly impossible to see through it. So, my point is this: This game released in February 2022. The only other NEW racing game that has been on my radar since then is the free demo for Night Runners because of its visual aesthetic, its soundtrack, and the fact that I actually have to dodge traffic while driving. Yeeting vehicles around corners while jockeying with the pack and redlining toward the horizon is fun, but I'd like some interesting games to play that aren't the usual simulators or kart/zero-g racing games I keep going back to. The festival racers are more like a showcase than a game and don't really have any unique mechanics to mess around with, and there's not much of a middle ground on the market in general anymore, especially not for people who prefer offline play like me. Midnight Club hasn't been around since L.A. on the PS3/360, the last Burnout game released was Burnout Paradise Remastered in 2018 (after its original 2008 release and the last game in 2011, Burnout Crash), and Need For Speed has drastically varied in quality from game to game for so long that it's gotten to the point where I don't bother buying those games at launch anymore, if at all.

My favorite racing game is an old ps1 or 2 game called Tokyo extreme racing. It was so much fun. Had to pull up behind racers and flash your lights to start racing. Much fun, most racing games nowadays are boring.

My all-time favourite racing game used to be NFS High Stakes on the PS1. Even when I was a kid, I liked the stylish menus and relaxing music. And then you picked a very expensive sports car, like you had all the money in the world and then drove the crap out of them while being chased by the police... IN A DAMN TUXEDO!! How cool is that?! Being all smug and classy.

A lot of people tend to forget that one of the biggest issues further franchises downfall is that driving simulation games have taken over the genre completely. I've never been a car enthusiast. But I used to love play unique racing games that I grew up with. But by far my two favorites were always the F-Zero series from Nintendo, and the MotorStorm series from From PlayStation. But both franchises have long since been abandoned by their console platforms. Even though they were made by two different companies in two different regions with different approaches to aesthetic and overall style, they were good old-fashioned classic ARCADE style racing games. You didn't have to be an absolute car geek IRL to enjoy the games. No forced realism was shoved into the fictional aspects of the video game itself. You picked a vehicle that had certain stats, chose a paint job, decided if you wanted to favor acceleration or max speed and enjoyed a free Expedition race or a Grand Prix and just have fun learning the games mechanics as you raced and as time went on you played on higher difficulties and played the more difficult and complex Grand Prix cups to unlock more vehicles and tracks. I even enjoyed some of the Hot Wheel racing games growing up but they didn't impact me nowhere near as much as the other two previously mentioned franchises. (Because even to this day I still boot up my PlayStation 3 to play the original MotorStorm or my N64 to play some F-Zero X) We were given this game called "onrush" that didn't understand if it wanted to be a hero shooter like OverWatch or if they wanted to be an actual racing game like MotorStorm...lame and directionless. And these days people only know of F-Zero because of SSB. Us Die Hard fans were expecting to see a brand new installment in the long forgotten franchise that has been abandoned for two decades... and all we ended up getting was F-Zero 99... you know that forced Trend Nintendo has been doing? The live service digital only type games that are pretty much only given two years of shelf life before being abandoned and then delisted? Usually just focusing on Nostalgia and based around the very first entry in the series instead of actually trying to make something new? SOULLESS AF! As for the Hot Wheels games Hot Wheels Unleashed just never got my attention enough and the microtransactions didn't help either. As for Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 it just doesn't look appealing enough for me. I'll wait till I find it on sale somewhere. I really don't care for driver simulation games. I miss classic arcade racing games. It seems these days the only thing that differentiates from that milked subgenre is Mario Kart...ugh...that's NOT the same at all. ( I also forgot to mention my favorite racing game for the Sega Dreamcast was and always has been Re-Volt also shout out for the PS2 for bringing Smash cars another awesome RC racing game that was for the PS2)

Big clarification - Most Criterion devs (responsible for Burnouts and NFSHP2010) have left the studio long ago. Unbound era Criterion is a different studio altogether.

One thing I noticed with the racing games in the gaming community, it's that yes, they are very overlooked. I constantly read "this genre is dead", which I actually disagree. There are still some fun racing games that released in this last 5 years (Grid Legends, Hot Wheels Unleashed 1 and 2, F1 2020, Horizon Chase 2). Probably those aren't as good as some old titles from the 2000s or mid 2010s, but are a great time But the thing I noticed is that if it's not Forza, Need for Speed or Gran Turismo, then it's not relevant. And it's really funny to hear/read "all those games are the same", but if you dare to say something about the other games, you trigger them lmao. But I don't blame them. If you take a pic in the new Forza and most recent Gran Turismo, without the watermark, and ask which one is which, probably if it's not a fan of those franchise the person won't differentiate which one is from which game. Every AAA racing game has shifted towards realism. Both in driving and visuals. And the only game that tried to look different from anything else, was Need for Speed Unbound.

Translated by Google: There are 2 types of racing games The "Non Car Guy" racing games Mario Kart, Disney Speedstorm, Rocket Racing, TrackMania and more. They are racing games so that those who have no driving experience or knowledge about cars can play them without problem. "Car Guy" or "Car enthusiast" Racing Game: Forza Horizon 5, The Crew Motorfest, CarX Drift Racing Online, Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo 7 and others. They are racing games for car enthusiasts who have knowledge about cars and have driving experience.

I fully agree that a lot of bad practices in the industry are to blame. Let me explain. *TL:DR at the bottom (for those who want to skip).* *First:* times have changed. There was a time when the majority of game Developers were very passionate about their craft, their art, and their game. So they would give their all to sell that game to you once. What do I mean by once? That comes to my second point. *Second:* DLC and Updates. Before those existed, Developers had to do everything they could to make their game as polished and full of features and content before release. Otherwise they would need to release a separate edition at some point in the future. But with the way things are now, they can release a game and add new features and bug fixes later. That's not necessarily a bad thing, mainly in the former case, but it can be a double edged sword. *Third:* As much as I hate to say it over and over again, but it is the truth: Money Talks. Yes, whether we realize it or not, when a game or game developer becomes too big to fail, at least in the financial sense, they will then develop the attitude (no pun intended) on just doing what they can to make more money. In short, that often means leaving out good and proven features that while popular with players and were once common practice 15-20 years ago, is just no longer profitable. I think that's what has lead to the decline of not just racing games, but other genres of games too. *Bonus:* Developing a game is much, much more complicated than it was 20 years ago. The reason is also simple. Games back then were limited by computing power, so that meant it took less time to make a game than it is today. For instance, it was not all that long ago that EA made a new Need For Speed game every year. Now they do it every 2-3 years. Another consideration is this: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000's system requirements were as follows: Pentium 166 MHz (all graphic options off) or faster. 64MB RAM for Windows NT. 350MB hard disk space. Super VGA 16-bit color monitor. Compare that with FS2020's system requirements: Processor: Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200. Memory: 16 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570. Storage: 150 GB available space. Yep, 150GB vs 350MB. With FS2000's requirements, you could play that game on your Smartphone if you wanted to. Imagine how long it takes to create a game only 350mb in size. Now imagine how long it takes to create a game that's over 150GB in size. With all that time needed, it's no wonder that Devs will cut corners where ever possible. Whether it involves graphics, story line, or general QOL features. --- *TL;DR:* Times have changed, Developers are not as interested in their games as they used to be. DLC and Updates are common. Developing a game is more complicated than it was 20 years ago. Devs focus on Money/Profit over Player satisfaction.

The reason why I never got into the crew Motorsport is because I had just got done playing unbound and FH5 not too long before that. So I had already had a racing fill, but TCM being a festival like racer and having so many face value similarities never got me into it deeper than that.

Beamng and AC still carrying the Genre after all these years.. let’s hope for Beamng 1.0 and AC2 to change gears in the industry

Tbh I really don't get the hate for festival racers. I understand the market saturation aspect, but imo a festival is the best setting for an open world racer.

Racing games is a part of my life. GT5 & NFS series were my childhood games

Driver San Francisco to me is the last racing games (idk if everyone will not even consider this game as racing games) that has unique feature and interesting story like what any racing games that let you shift and stole other cars in the city without even having your body getting out straightly from the car, its like seamless GTA not to mention this game has one of the best cockpit camera in racing games history only several racing games that let you do 360 steering wheel animation in cokpit view and how Tanner response to car crash

im going to steal that loading bar transition thing

A hidden gem i highly recommend if you like high speed racing is grip combat racing. Basically fantasy forza with antigravity stages

They thought they were cooking when they came up with Car PG

i used to play many racing games... on PS1, PS2, X360, etc... from many franchises, be it Arcade or Sim. Nowadays... i lost the motivation... i am almost apathetic to the genre... i am waiting for FH6 to rekindle it... and surprisingly, i think GTA 6 will be the one to do it.

We've all moved into playing Sim Racing instead. VR, Triples or a Single Mointor with a Wheelbase is where we're at!

Good video man i thought you had atleast 100k subs with the way it was made

I play them.....in VR. Tried once and can't go back to flat racing. Next level immersion

I started with Papyrus Indaycar and NASCAR in the mid to late 90s. They were amazing, because it was the first sim racing games. As the NASCAR games became more popular, there were add-ons for the Grand National series, truck series, legends cars, plus there was a large mod community that were creating new paint schemes. But, as all racing games became more popular, franchises started coming out yearly, and quite honestly, why am I going to spend another $50 this year, for a little slightly polished version of last year's fame, with new paint schemes, maybe new drivers, but essentially the same game play as I bought last year. (I am still using F1 2020, as I will wait for a major update and discount before getting a new version.) And even Forza and Gran Turismo come out way too soon for non-addicts to play it enough to warrant buying the newest version. Then you have NFS, which at some.point of time, felt like they were pushing 3 or so games a year. I think casual gamers have now realized they can continue playing older games longer and wait for new game engines and even newest gaming devices, and also avoid those problematic releases that takes 3 months of update patched to fix (which is what I did before getting Cyberpunk).

GT2 was the peak. My mate downloaded an enhanced graphics pack for modern TVs and its still the best thing ever. If they just kept bringing in new cars to GT2 and upgraded the graphics a little it'd be set forever.

How’s that scorch mark on your desk under the laptop going

Now I understand why until today I play racing games in my X360, all are different, Dirt 2, Grid, Sonic Racing Transformed, Slip Second, the Original Most Wanted, Pure, etc, each one has something different to offer.

I think that at some point everybody runs out of inspiration eventually. Gran turismo for example, they had a peak at some point (gt2; gt3; gt4) but it's been going downhill since. They obviously tried to make the existing formula better but they ended up making it worse. They kept that base formula but they cut out the best factors from it, in the attempt of modernising it. They simply just ran out of ideas.

Live service games like PUBG, COD, Fortnite, GTA V etc. ruined the sales of several genres as they occupy like 100's of millions of players and it's getting worse. It's like most gamers refuses to play games that isn't "social" now. Live service ruined gaming.

Horizon Chase Turbo and Art of Rally are much more recent and they are two of my all time favorite games of any genre.

I still play racing games pretty often, just not the AAA one, my current favorite is Night Runners.

dude i thought u had 730k subs this video were so well made lol i thought i was trippin when i saw only 730 subs

Didn't play much racing games in a long while.. Then I got gt7 and loved it! Then I got a wheel and it's even better! Arcadesim/Simracimg is so fun, really have to feel it to understand!

I gave up when a controller wasn’t enough anymore. I’d love a wheel setup, but I can’t afford it.

Nobody play racing games? Assetto Corsa, BeamNGdrive, iRacing, Gran Turismo 7, Forza Horizon 3/4/5, Gran Turismo 4, NFS Blackbox Era, NFS Hot Pursuit, All car games of the 90s, and more games: With millions of players still playing, casual players and daily players.

More racing games need to follow the career setup like the F1 games where you follow a season with practice qualifying THEN race day. Bonus points if they could incorporate a super points system (since most games follow Motorsports managed by the FIA) in order for you to be able to compete in better and faster racing divisions

I would love to play racing games if only let us have a ton more customization for the cars themselves and different variety of cars. Only Gta allows you to have a supercharger intake hood but if other games allowed you to add that, it would be great

I haven't been super interested in racing games for a while, but I did get NFS Unbound for like $8 on sale for PC and, my god, the dialogue is so cringy. I guess NFS always had that super cheesy dialogue, and that was part of its charm, but it really does kinda feel a little too "how do you do fellow kids?". I was interested in that Hot Wheels game that came out some years ago, but I never got it. What interested me about it was user created tracks. One of my favorite games as a teen was Mod Nation Racers for the PS3 and I loved the track creation and sharing. The customization of cars and characters was also very robust, which adds a lot to the play time. But that was a Mario Kart style game. Solid progression and story like in NFS Most Wanted (2005) probably makes the most difference imo. Other great arcade racers worth mentioning are the Tokyo Extreme Racer series games. I never got into Ridge Racer, but they certainly are an honorable mention. It just feels like arcade racers don't exist anymore except NFS, everyone wants to be a racing sim.

DR. powerslide : Why Does Nobody Play Racing Games Anymore? ME : are you comedy me?

There are different types of racing games of course. There are three categories. There is Arcade (Mario Kart, NFS, Burnout). There is simcade (Forza, Gran Turismo (I know GT is a bit closer to real life but it still has some arcady feel), Project Cars 3, NFS Shift 1 and 2, Dirt Rally 3-5 (as what some have said, it is iffy along with the F1 games), and NASCAR Heat (or any NASCAR)). Then there are sims/real sims (Project Cars1-2, Assetto Corsa, Assetto Corsa Competizione, iRacing, RFactor 2, Automobilista 1 and 2, and then there is RaceRoom). Some games that I mentioned that are in simcade, like dirt 1-2 are sims. So it can be confusing sometimes. And project cars. But there are so many variations you can play. Or a dedicated series like ACC, F1, or NASCAR. Racing games are ‘dead’, it just depends on what games you are looking at/playing.

Oh i do! :) just the old ones that is,

This is the part where I mention Wreckfest deserves its flowers and to be talked about

Me and my friends who play wreckfest every time we lan- wait, we don't play racing anymore?

I agree with the points you made in the video. But I’m still a fan of Forza Horizon 5, I love the scenery, and ability to buy so many different cars and mod/tune them in so many different ways. I don’t care too much for story missions and stuff, I just like to hop on and burn the itch to drive

i might be wrong, it’s like the flight simulator. Simulation games are still popular (iracing, rf2, acc) but arcade racing game is not popular any more

Why do people forget Codemasters' franchises (Grid and Dirt series)?

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I still pull out grand tourismo on the ps2 once in a while. Still fun with the bois

im still gaming underground 2 and most wanted every now and then. that's all. now i could put this on the fact that i'm older, but i played some of the new NFS and forza. doesn't get me. the new camera axis movement doen't do me any favors as well. can't focus on avoiding stuff on the road at all. i gues it is what it is.

Burnout and Midnight club needs to make a comeback

I just want a Blur remake.. or something like a spiritual successor to it 😢

I just want to cruise around some track in Assetto Corsa if I think about racing game.

Yes I still play NFS Underground 2 and NFS Heat, both with mods, Payback is installed and next on my list 👍🏻

I miss Motorstorm, that shit was insanely fun

Moved from forza horizon and motosport to Assetto with mods and BeamNG for physics, never looked back to simcade ;-)

I cant stop playing Rebel Recing and Real Racing 3 on my phone

The midnight club era was so much fun.

Miss Drive Club and MotorStorm. Such great a time with Evolution Studios 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Arcade Racers had gotten pretty bad that I stick more with Mario Kart sims or Gran Turismo. We'll never get something different again like Motorstorm which is pretty grim.

I still miss Split Second, Blur, and Motorstorm

Just a little note to add 6:57 The crew 2 is on a whole other platform then steam its called ubisoft launcher and you know what it has clearly more people playing crew 2 through that then on steam more so it was at a time given for free so the crew 2 player account isn't the best to go off at least by steam player data. You would of been better off using the new crew game to show the point your getting across since even Ubisoft them selves have admit the 3rd title isn't selling very well at all compared to past crew titles what was a given since ""crew 3"" is a mainly a downgrade to what the games were all to chase the tread what ubisoft lately have been known to keep doing chasseing trends and as they do they make their games flop.

im still playing racing games im into racing games since i was 8 buut i don't really like the new games that came out since 2020 don't get me wrong i enjoyed playing the crew motorfest for couple of hours but i found my self back the imo the golden era of racing games 2008- 2016 from need for speed most wanted and carbon to grid 1,2 split second need for speed prostreet and my favorite blur the most underrated game of all time imo it's heartbreaking that it's didn't get a second chance to shine

Actual sim racing is still on the up n up

One thing u didnt add is the actual player base mentality. I have a friend who LOVES cars. He loves vehicles in general, he is a mechanic even. And we grew up playing nfs. We were drumk the other day and i brought up how i miss the nfs games and he said with artitude "nfs is to arcadey". I believe he isnt ths only one who things this tho. Why so many car gamea are doing the sams realistic driving sim