Poll: Your Opinion of Racing Games

[un4g011enrealms]

Hey Escapist members. What's your opinion of racing games.

Personally, I don't really like them, but that's because I'm not really good at racing games.

 

[Kinguendo]

Bleh... unless they have customisation and free-roam... then I can tolerate them.

 

[Federalist92]

You just do the same thing on a different track in a different car each time. There is very little story and no freedom.

 

[ShadowKatt]

I love them, especially games like the Need for Speed series. Carbon especially, I get home from work and just sit for hours driving around the city.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Racing games are fun!
Especially the Trackania series.
*Cough*They're free!*Cough*

 

[Littaly]

I'm fine with racing games, I just don't like car games (with an exception for Flatout).

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

racing games has my interest for a while but eventually i just got bored of just driving around and NOTHING ELSE..the only games that did hold my interest was Burnout and that was for the crashing myself for points

 

[ddon]

racing game are annoying because you can accidently go in a spin and you go from about to win first place to last place. need for speed underground is the only good one because i can challange random people on the streets.

 

[Jedamethis]

boooooooooorrrrrriiiiiiiing
all I can say about racing

 

[internutt]

The last racing game to really interest me was F-Zero GX.

Real life racers to me are just boring.

 

[Frankydee]

They're okay to me for a once in awhile play but I never really got too much into it. You've got your cartoonish racer which the only one I really ever liked was mario kart 64. You've got your little free roaming street racing which didn't really impress me much. Then you've got your more "simulator" oriented that range from NASCAR to F1 to Gran Turismo. I'm much preferred Gran Turismo simply for the rally racing.

 

[Jandau]

Depends. I like the good ones. I'm not a major fan, but they can be quite fun. I just came back from my vacation where I spent many a fun hour playing Burnout 3 with my friends on my mate's PS2. It was pure awesome.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

They're okay. Fine for killing a few hours, along with a few pedestrians.

 

[ThePirateMan]

Aslong as I can crash into stuff, blow up and possibly shoot other drivers. I'm lovin' it!

 

[dallan262]

aslong as crash damage is there then im fine and splitscreen where theres other ai cars so me and a friend can drive round the wrong way and pick on folk muahahahaha

mind you i do like gran turismo but thats just beautiful

 

[Symp4thy]

I want to like them but it's hard because I'm so bad at them. I did enjoy Gran Turismo 2 back in the day and who doesn't like a good round of Mario Kart, but other than that, no.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I enjoy the more arcady ones like San Fransico Rush, or the Burnout series. Grand Turismo bored me to death. I also enjoy the racing sections in the GTA games.

 

[Zetona]

I grew up on racing games. Now, I prefer ones with depth. They don't have to be realistic, but I appreciate a complex driving model. Trackmania, for instance, does that very well.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I don't particularly like racing games. I find them terribly boring, and lacking in any real fun.

I take my video games with story and bright colours thanks, with a side order of likeable characters, not just a car and a track.

 

[XJ-0461]

Realistic ones like Gran Tourismo bore me, but the ones where you can just go crazy, Like Burnout, can keep me interested.