Sorry, thought we were talking about sim racers.

And that are still releasing =p

Plus it is funny that he mocks not all racing being similar, because no one said that, even though he grouped games that aren't really on the same genre.

Yeah, iRacing and Micro machines are as far removed from each other as Dark souls and Fat princess. You walk around in both carrying a sword, same thing! Don't like the difficulty in one, play the other :)

Anyway, atm I wouldn't mind having an arcade mode in Dirt Rally 2 with rewind feature. Even without hardcore damage on I still somehow get stuck in the scenery and get terminal damage forcing retirement from the championship. Realistic maybe, fun no. At least you have 5 restarts or you can simply restart the game when you're out of restarts (it doesn't save until you click continue). There's not much choice on the rally side of racing and I blame the move to more time consuming strict career nonsense for that. Dirt went the wrong way by neglecting rally for rally cross and focusing too much on silly festival nonsense. Dirt rally goes too far the other way with so called realism restricting the user base. WRC seems to sit in the middle but has been low quality for ages with crap handling. I haven't tried WRC 8 yet though, maybe it has improved. The last one I played was either 6 or 7, disliked it so much I traded it in.

Yep I cringe when people ask for damage modeling on GT and others simulators, first none of them can really properly simulate the real damage and effects it have on handling. Like on a F1 even a very slight bump could destroy your foil and make you retire from race. You are supposed to not hit anyone, if you do that them you don't need damage, and if you aren't capable of doing that them you would hate if damage was modeled the right way. I rather have a good punishing system for multiplayer and let it out of single player, on SP you decide if you want to be challenged so much that if you bump someone you hit restart race or forfeit because that is what would happen in RL.

I have no issue with games being hard, my real problem is the saving progress. As an adult working full time with a family I find it hard to get time to play, so it pissed me off to spend an hour in a game just to be killed and lose all my progress. If a boss is hard I enjoy finding a way to kill him, but not doing all the dungeon again. For me difficulty is not a problem, I enjoy the challenge, but losing all my progress just because a bad turn. That is going to make leave a game.

There isn't any "simulation" in the question. If you wanted 20 SIMULATION racing games, add SIMULATION in your question.

Funny how peoçple like to create a gazillon genres when it suits them, but refuse to accept that soulboirnes are not for them and must add them in a specific genre. I didn't group games, he asked about RACING GAMES, I gave a list of games when you ... RACE. Wow, I answered a specific question, and you are not happy with the answer, what a surprise.

I'm not part of that convo you two are having, but I just wanted to say that even I noticed what Sven was trying to ask you. I knew Sven was asking for 20 sim based racing games. It's not like it was hard to follow, given the previous quotes you two have had with one another. 

At the end of the day, if you're going to list 20 simulated racing games, your list is going to have you delving back in time, rather than only listing whatever 20 sim games you can find in the present, because, well, there's just not that much big of a crowd for racing sims over arcade and semi sim racers out there. That and the actual proper equipment you're supposed to sport for that niche sub genre nets a hefty price, meaning even less people within that sub genre. 

I too am an adult with stuff to do, but I still prefer fewer save points, because when I know I cant die before saving, then Ill be more cautious, making the game more exciting. To date, 30 years of gaming, the best gaming feel I ever had was on ZombiU with the hardcore mode, 1 single life, if you die, you had to restart from the very beginning, you would lose the save so there was no getting back if you died.

It gave me a lot of tension, pressure, specially having to manage 2 screens, with no pause when looking into inventory and stuff, it created a lot of realism, and I actually felt myself in that world fighting to survive.

And if I lost 1 hour progress, then I would know it was my fault, and I would know I have to be more careful next time, that enhances the game for me. And I respect more developers who treat us like real gamers, there should always be an easy option for kids, even tough I'd prefer if there wasn't, I'd prefer there would be more games aimed at kids, and other games aimed at teens and adults. 

But kids these days are too soft, I was finishing games like Zelda and Tomb raider back in the day when we didn't have internet and we could get any help and our parents would have no clue, we had to figure it out by ourselves, I was age 8 and I finished the first tomb raider by myself, there was no easy mode or frequent checkpoints, and there were more ways to die, jumps had to be very precise. At around the same time I finished GT, there was no easy mode, and it was hard to get gold in everything.

All other games that have restarts from a checkpoint 2 minutes ago, they all lose the impact, because you never care if you die, you know youll just get back to where you were. If gams had less checkpoints and less lives, then games would put us more on the edge, and be more realistic, example, if you fall off a cliff, you wont just magically get back in real life, that's why in real life we are more cautious and think more about the actions we do.

Worst of all was Mario odyssey, a game in where you cant lose even if you try, so what's the point, I still enjoyed the game but it would have been a much better game if you had a limit of lives, and had to really try and be careful. That's like watching someone playing the game on youtube, yeah its still cool and all but what's the point, you wont get that feeling of pressure to succeed, because you already succeeded from the get go.

The reason I started playing games in late 80's was to be able to pass the challenge of passing a level or finishing the game, they we had more challenges, to hit better scores and such. That's why games were more addictive and exciting back then.

Some modern games still have that feeling, like resogun for example, you will have to sweat a lot to complete all the challenges. And the hardest mode is next to impossible, I love it.

For me, difficulty can make or break the game, example, I loves new super Mario U, but I hated new super Mario on 3ds and wii, because those were far too easy.

People play games for different reasons and to get different things out of them. You might like the stress no saves and hard difficulty add to games, for others it simply adds irritation. However there is no problem having both! You can play any game and make a pact with yourself to start over whenever you die, or not use certain items, for example ignore all healing items.

"And I respect more developers who treat us like real gamers, there should always be an easy option for kids, even tough I'd prefer if there wasn't, I'd prefer there would be more games aimed at kids, and other games aimed at teens and adults."

I find this a rather disrespectful attitude. I guess I'm not a real gamer looking for an hour of relaxation from the day to day stress. If it's not multiplayer, it's entirely up to the person playing how they want to spend their time. I hate games that don't allow pausing and I'm glad my kids and wife are lenient enough with me to be able to race online, luckily those races aren't that long.

What's the point of playing a game you can't lose? To enjoy the game without stress. You can't lose adventure or puzzle games, plenty challenge there. For example https://indreams.me/dream/mUvEzWskFXxhttps://indreams.me/dream/mUvEzWskFXx How long does it take you to finish all puzzles. But perhaps it would be better with a timer running that resets all progress if you don't solve it in time? ;)

Mario Odyssey is awesome, got a bit too hard in the end game so I never finished collecting all the stars (or whatever the currency was in that one) I love games that don't waste my time by having me repeat things over and over.

Then we are not really talking about a genre but a specific target audience. If you narrow down that much, then just list a few games. I don't play this kind of games, I don't know why some people would play them and I don't really care if they have fun. I like to target specific achievements in Europa Universalis IV, some tries are taking 30h+ but I can understand why some people wouldn't do that.

But the main point is still here: if a specific game has a very narrow target audience, where is the problem? To be honest, I get it: random player A doesn't have enough time/motivation/skill/willpower/etc to play a specific game, while many people are liking that specific game. So he wants an easy mode, i.e. several changes in the game to suit him, without even noticing that the game could be less popular for the current players. He could play another games instead, but no.

This is exactly the case with Sekiro. A part of the hype around the game is the difficulty (or in a simRacing game, an ultra-realistic setting). By asking for an easy mode (or in a simRacing game, a less realistic setting) you are asking for a change in the core of the game. This is getting boring, again there are enough games. They could just stop to be selfish and claim "every game should be for me".