/v/ - Video Games

That's kind of the whole point of sandbox games like GTA. You're not a special snowflake fam

I never completed a single GTA game mission wise and was just toying, driving and making tricks on motorcycles.

I think i was autistic.

Truck Simulator now go

>>14820521

i get that, but im asking what specific games are good for playing them like that? With some places or country side to see and such.

>>14820504

>having a stick on sat nav when there is clearly a centre console with a screen capable of displaying a sat nav.

>PCars 1 & 2

Probably one of the best driving sims on PC

>Assetto Corsa

Has massive mod support for both cars and tracks with a few open tracks there's one in Paris which looks great.

>Euro-Truck

Is the map 1:1 or is it estimated?

https://assettocorsa.club/en/tracks.html

>>14820816

Euro truck is absolutely smaller.

>>14820504

Forza Horizon 3

>>14820531

>I think i was autistic.

It's a neural condition. You don't stop being autistic.

Midnight Club series

Burnout Paradise

Driver series

>>14820731

Underrated post

In a similar vein what are some games with good camera modes? I've spent a lot of time taking plenty of screenshots on emulators and when a game includes an in-game camera I easily end up playing it for far longer than it it did not include it.

>>14820731

>>14821145

Gonna go with the Driver series.

Driver 1

>absolutely cool 70s setting

>funk soundtrack

>day/night cycle and you can choose whether to drive at day or at night

>realistic muscle car handling

>damage modelling

>impressive AI for it's era

>cars based on real muscle cars

>levels based on classic patrician choice 70s police crime / poliziotteschi movies

>still runs on 64 bit windows perfectly, albeit without the music

>requires a lot of skill to play

<shitty damage system due to technical constraints of being made in 1999

<cops ram you instead of trying to spin you out of control

<requires A LOT of skill and patience to play

Driving around in SF is my favorite.

Driver 2

>basically Driver 1 with bigger world and more balanced difficulty

>can get in/out of any car like GTA

>even better soundtrack and atmosphere

<is only on PS1

<horrible framerate due to PS1's inadequate hardware

<worse graphics than Driver 1

Driv3r

>day/night cycle

>impressively realistic car handling and damage modelling

>great soundtrack

>great looking cutscenes and cinematography

>three cities around the world: miami, nice, and istanbul, with their own selection of cars

<buggy and very difficult missions, but for driving around purposes it should be perfectly okay, the missions themselves aren't bad at all though, just really really really fucking hard

>graphics sometimes look janky and unfinished, this game was prematurely released

Driver Parallel Lines

>unironically one of the best GTA clones ever made

>great looking and unique art direction

>still keeping the 70's atmosphere, only there's a more blaxploitation/cheesy B-movie feel to this one

>can travel between the 70's and the 2000's, each era has their own different looks, cars, and music selection

<would be a perfect game if they didn't dumb down the car handling

<can't play your own music, but that's fine to me coz it may potentially ruin the atmosphere

Driver San Francisco

>pretty impressive graphics for it's time, not Crysis level but the city looks beautiful and the cars are somewhat a kind of photorealistic

>can move from one car to another car swiftly anytime anywhere because you're literally a ghost

>can do really sick things inside and outside missions using this sickeningly innovative ability, it's seriously a fucking great all decade GOTY deserving feature that isn't found in any other driving game whatsoever

>pretty great selection of licensed car, both old and new

>lots of mods that add new cars

>bonus missions are homages to classic police movies and even blues brothers

>first person view feels very good

<car handling isn't terrible, but still watered down and boring compared to the original Driver trilogy

<not much atmosphere and unique feel compared to the previous games

<can't play your own music, now this really is a nuisance this time around

>>14820843

>GfWL

Anon, I…

>>14821145

>Burnout Paradise

It sucks. The map is way too small and samey and the races are a joke because the AI insists on taking the scenic route every time and the second you can get your boost going the race is done. The takedowns are worse than the previous game and the music isn't even fit for THE LAZY GENERATION.

Red Dead Redemption

I played The Saboteur quite a lot just so I could drive old French cars around.

I also loved LA Noire and played the free mode despite nothing much there to do.

>>14821494

I haven't seen any game other than Morrowind where large map size is actually useful.

>>14821504

Just GTA SA vs GTA V reminds me that it's more important to use the space well than just have it large for the sake of being large. Sure V was technically larger but it was mostly shitty mountains as opposed to three cities, a dozen small towns and diverse environments. I'd take the anthill Mount Chiliad from SA over boring realistic mountain ranges of V.

Just Cause 2 is one where I've been just driving around. Pick a car that's not too fast and doesn't spin out of control constantly, and go for a road trip. I especially like driving from one region/biome to another

>>14821494

Not to mention you're going really fast in Burnout Paradise in most cases, which makes the map feel small.

>>14821605

It's not so much that but the fact that the races don't have specified tracks means you can very easily choose a route where you simply go forwards and boost, with no regard for tight turns or corners.

>>14821644

That too, only bikes and the island got races with laps and more than one checkpoint.

Am I the only autistic enough to play GTA games following the traffic laws and reloading as soon as I accidently smash my car ?

Also refusing to steal cars, and use the same vehicle for the whole game ?

>>14821734

No. If you ever need to ask this type of question, the answer will always be "No"

>>14821571

Yes, I enjoyed driving in Sleeping Dogs too

Watch Dogs ist very comfy for thus purpose.

>>14821734

Yes.

>>14821494

That image is fucking wrong.

>hurrdurr if you look at things from different distances and angles they look equally big

>I can shop an image into another image, that means both images have the same scale

If you have ever played Just Cause 2, you will know that the trees on the front island are fully sized trees. The other island is far beyond that. In the image used you can see several boats that would be far bigger in the image of the bridge. Your "debunking" is shit and so are you for posting it.

GTA IV and V seems your best bet if you want traffic to be a big part of the game.

>>14820731

>>Actual online radio integration

Does this shit not work for anyone else?

The online radio has been fucking broken for me no matter if I use the default stations or my own streams. Actually I remember only a single Polish station working from the default ones and I have no clue why.

>>14822436

gta 4 has the worst traffic ai of any game, absolutely disgraceful. stopping at a red light will have your ass rammed until they get by you and subsequently run the red light.

The Forza Horizon series has top tier driving and scenery and the absolute best engine sounds, but the radio DJ is obnoxious and the Drivatars will crash into you for no reason when you aren't even racing. I think you might be able to turn all that crap off but I never tried because I spent most of my time actually trying to win things.

>>14822457

>stopping at a red light will have your ass rammed until they get by you and subsequently run the red light.

Oh shit, I remember that. They never fixed that? Pissed me off to no end.

I don't remember them doing that in V.

>>14822528

gta 5 has even worse ai but only when at high speeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUJc20yu28

Right now, Forza Horizon 3 is probably the best game for that.

>varied and detailed car selection

>good, customizable driving

>good graphics/enviroment with decent optimisation

>fun special missions

<shit music

<all cars potentially feel the same if you customize them

<some parts of the map are retarded

<microtransactions on an already very expensive game

<cancerous hypernormalfag culture

I want to play GTA V solely for driving. Spent hours driving in San ANdreas and GTA 4. My 780 can't run it on a 1440p monitor. Also too scared to pirate cuz bitcoin miners.

>>14822369

Prove me it's so fucking big then contrarian torfaggot. I have certainly played it and there's no fucking way Hantu Island is nearly as huge as the whole state of San Andreas.

>>14822551

<cars from forza 4 still not added into eighth gen games

i will never get this

>>14822551

I love Forza because you can buy an absolutely retarded huge amount of shitboxes instead of being limited to racecars, and tune the shitboxes to be shitty. 50's Chevy with the original gutless engine and 3 speed transmission? 0-60 in 20 seconds in MY racing game? Absolutely possible.

>>14822562

San Andreas just feels big because it's densely packed with stuff to look at. You can cross the entire map in a very short amount of real world time. Just Cause takes fucking forever to get anywhere unless you're in a supercar or a plane. It has vast swaths of nothing, but they're still vast swaths.

3rd image: Waypoint shows 5.95km

assuming a generous height of 1.5 km, then the ground distance is sqrt(5.95^2-1.5^2)=5.82 km. That is the MINIMUM possible ground distance. Let's generously assume two thirds of that is the length of the island, then we have a length of 3.88 km. Do you see the brown lines in the third image? Those are ROADS.

<cooljunk productions

Anon, have you ever been outside your house? Have you ever looked out of a window during the take off of an air plane? Have you ever looked at a map?

>>14822562

I hope you don't actually believe the map of san andreas is comparable in size to that of a state.

I played through both TDU games.

TDU:

>decent graphics for a 2006 game

>nice mix of arcade/sim handling (especially the "hardcore" setting)

>okay variety of standard music on "radio stations" (different genres), completely customizable

>races and missions can be completed in any order, with the only limits being experience and the kind of car you have

<half of the island is unpaved, good luck getting to the middle of the giant forest area on the north end with a corvette

<multiplayer servers are down Seriously, why the hell haven't I seen anyone start a group or something here?

TDU2:

>decent graphics

>offroad vehicles (Spyker Peking-to-Paris is OP) with dirt roads on both islands

<linear "story mode" with bullshit "licenses" to race with certain cars

<need to grind for money after the game end if you want more than what the career gives you

<the whole leveling-up system

<abominable handling and a generally bulky feeling when controlling any of the cars

<stuck with corny "DJ" and "commercials" on two standard radio stations

<forget about multiplayer if you're not buying the game

Both:

>sizable mod community

<underwhelming selection of cars when compared with games like Forza (TDU2 had 3 bikes, on a paid DLC)

<engine sounds don't usually sound like real-life counterparts (they nailed it with the MV Agusta F4 in the first one, though)

I loved driving on the interstate in GTAV in my customized Tornado(57 Chevy Bel Air)

C O M F Y

>>14824138

They absolutely don't listen to a word the community says, which is reasonable since the game is full of casuals and "simracers" are largely retarded. Still a great game for recreating IRL races or autistic hotlapping, though.

>>14820731

>Helps you burn fat

>driving

>burn fat

>fat

whut?

>>14820504

Real Life

I spend an average of 3 hours on my off nights just going for drives

>>14824671

I already have Spintires, is this worth it? Man I feel so betrayed by this

>>14821494

That second picture is the dumbest fucking thing ever. You can literally check the game files for unit references. Both of them have average human beings in them, you can use those for size reference too, not

>"hmm golden gate looks pretty big in this screenshot and that island looks pretty small in this other screenshot, really makes u think"

And then the absolute retard who made it goes "I used road sizes for reference" when both maps are fucking painted. Yeah, that island in JC2 is really fucking big, it has several bridges that are comparable in size to the Golden Gate. JC2 is much, much bigger than GTA:SA. SA uses a lot of tricks to make it seem like it's bigger than it actually is, it forces vehicles to go much slower than JC2, it uses fog to hide parts of the map even in perfect weather so you can't easily notice how closely packed things are.

>>14826150

The driving is kind of crap. The map is nice and you can have some fun in freedrive, but to get better cars (or even just different types of cars) you are forced to participate in certain races/time trials and some of them are ridiculously annoying and difficult thanks to the crappy driving mechanics. The best part is probably offroad driving because the tarmac roads don't really suit gottagofast cars that much (unlike, say, Hot Pursuit where all roads are designed for going fast) and going slow isn't fun on tarmac.

>>14826200

Fair enough. I never got to play it in its heyday because I was playing Forza Motorsport/Horizon and Project Gotham, but the advertisements for it looked good.

>>14826195

It's that fucking unmarked island from the LOST reference mission, it's seriously not that big. Play the game for once instead of parroting buzzwords.

>game files for unit references

Notoriously unreliable. Every single game treats distance units different, it's evident in-game in JC2 where you can put a marker like right next to you and it'll show the distance as being much further than it actually is.

>>14826449

I've played JC2 for 300 hours, I've played SA for thousands, I know how big they are and which location is which. If you actually look at that original size comparison, you can see that the island itself is only like 40% of the area of the SA map, the rest is over the surrounding water, and that island is definitely big enough to cover 40% of SA.

>in JC2 where you can put a marker like right next to you and it'll show the distance as being much further than it actually is.

"Actually is" by what measure? Did you compare how many human- or car-lengths it is or are you just saying it because it feels short to travel? Because it definitely feels short to travel, JC2 has all around fast movement. Maybe units are unreliable, but they won't be 50% off, at most they might be 5-10% off by real scale.

The JC2 map is flat out wrong, there were terrain changes done after they finished making the map and they never updated it, but this shows in missing locations, not any scaling issues.

>>14826113

Go to the steam workshop for mudrunner, check out all the mods and maps people are making for it. Might make up your mind. The Dev's are still making free addons to boot

I'd throw in Mafia 1, can't really think of another where you have to obey some traffic laws, or not, when a cop isn't around. They also really put quite a bit of effort into making the world feel fairly alive, and it's one of the rare games set during the 30s oddly.

>>14820504

>>14825073

https://www.fatsecret.com/fitness/

>160 lb person

>107 calories per hour burned sitting

>122 calories per hour burned driving

Anon isn't wrong.

>>14820731

>You could die

>Implying that's bad

Euro Truck Simulator looks like it could be very enjoyable for you

>>14826113

If you thoroughly enjoyed the original it's absolutely worth it. Better graphics, better physics, active development, cockpit camera, better wheel support, tons of QoL improvements.

>>14828460

so the "Mudrunner" re-release of Spintires is still getting content added?

Does that include the console versions as well?

>>14829044

Yessir. The consoles aren't getting any modding support, of course, but they are getting the new maps and vehicles that dev is adding. The new content has all been free, as well. This is a top-10 anime crossover level of a game coming back from the dead.

>>14820504

Test Drive unlimited and Test Drive unlimited 2 are my favourite games for these genres. Relaxing, large worlds where you can just Drive, buy houses, cars, bikes, garages, race if you want, time trials, pick up hitch hikers really attractive chicks who sit in the car with you, looking at you longingly. Love that game.

>>14820731

>>14820731

Nigger just drive on a twisty rural road, no niggers or thots or anyone really

>>14820504

I want a driving game with snowstorms at night. That’s all I need. I hear that Euro Truck can do it, but I abhor truck handling and they haven’t hacked car driving yet. I just want some cars and some snow and some night. Anything like that?

>>14821571

The camera is absolute fucking SHIT, though.

Oh shiiiit I just remembered City Car Driving, was always interested in it, they actually just released an update in April. The dream would be realistic physics in such a game..

>>14829468

If I remember correctly, the Blizzard Mountain expansion for FH3 has snowstorms.

>>14820504

I miss being a trucker in San Andreas multiplayer. That was comfy as fuck.

>>14832072

i never really realized just how small san andreas's map really was. it hides it well; it feels really big when you're actually playing it

>>14820504

Deadly premonition had some comfy driving.

The main character has nice conversations with himself during the trips too.

>>14826150

>>14824166