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[BrokenSymmetry]

PGR4. Its city environments and weather effects are still amazing to behold. Quebec in the snow, or New York in the rain are just beautiful. Also, nobody's been able to copy PGR's handling, which is arcadey but feels sim in its precision, and plays perfectly on a normal controller.

 

[Nealand Liquor]

I am not huge into racing games, but I'd say Burnout Paradise or Forza Horizon.

 

[jem0208]

Probably already posted this in the thread but easily Forza Horizon.


Also one of my favourite games ever. MS better be announcing Forza Horizon 2 this E3.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

GT5 for sim, Burnout Paradise for arcade.

GT5 was not all it could be, but was still the best sim I played. Burnout was really special, and blew expectations out of the park and beyond. The game was clearly built with much love for what was being done, and the post launch support was some of the best I have ever seen

Spoiler

unless you have it on PC

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[Vitor711]

Arcade Racer: Wipeout HD.

Runners-up: Split/Second and Ridge Racer: Unbounded

Honourable Mentions: NFS: HP

 

[jet1911]

PGR4 by far. Québec <3<3<3

 

[jesu]

1)Blur
2)Burnout Paradise
3)NFS Most Wanted(2012)

 

[SirCrush]

Wipeout HD.

 

[Fox Mulder]

An early one:

this game sold me on Live more than anything else. A huge open world where people can race or cruise around together. I spent over 100 hours on it.

It was still early where Live wasn't filled with as many racist spewing assholes or people didn't keep to themselves with party chat.

Shame Atari didn't have the budget to do more with it. Forza horizon was great, but didn't even try to touch on the same scale, online integration, or environmental variety.

 

[Mdk7]

Split/Second.

Black Rock Studio RIP

THIS.

 

[J3ffro]

Forza 4 by a wide margin. I wanted to like GT5 more than I did, but couldn't get into it.

 

[ironcreed]

Horizon is still my favorite overall, but I did finally buy GT6 the other day. It's quite exquisite and is a nice little bump up from GT5 in terms of presentation and even handling. It's right up there for me.

 

[jett]

vs.

vs.

 

[Broadbandito]

bam. winner

pgr4 and burnout paradise also come to mind

 

[beercr8te]

Burnout revenge and burnout paradise.

 

[Accoun]

WipEout HD, no contest. Awesome tracks, modes, music, and the sense of speed married with tight controls. Plus, a surprisingly meaty content on the Fury add-on. All of it for 35€ on release date.

Basically. Also great technically.

 

[Farks!]

Driver: San Francisco

Funny thing is, I'm a little conflicted about it since it isn't a true Driver game in the series classical sense. I loved the original Driver games because they were more about technical and agile driving in city enviorments rather than open road racing, which made it distinct from other racing games. They changed that formula with SF and made it more straightforward with wide, open roads and forgiving crash physics. Still, it's a very solid arcade racing game and it was the first driving game I truly enjoyed in years.

 

[Gilby]

Arcade:
Excitebots

Your are a good person and I hope you have a good day sir.

 

[chepu]

Bought a PS3 back in 2008 for GT5

My favorite games turned out to be Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon and Test Drive Unlimited.

Also I loved DiRT 1 and 2, GRID, Import Tuner Challenge, NFS Shift 1&2 and GT5 Prologue.

I dont know why, but I had way more fun playing GT5 Prologue than the Full GT5 :/

and now since im used to the great sounds of Forza I cant play another Gran Turismo until they fix that. bummer, used to love the GT franchise to death.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Forza Motorsport 4. I didn't count, but I'm pretty sure I spent a lot more than 1000 hours playing it.

I would also like to include Forza Horizon as a honorable mention - it was also extremely fun to play, but it didn't have so much content (cars and events) to spend so many hours playing it and not getting bored.

 

[Jaroof]

Burnout Paradise. Had loads of fun playing with my friend online.

I want Burnout Utopia now.

 

[solpadeine]

Burnout Paradise
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Blur
Dirt 2
Dirt 3
Forza Horizon
Forza 3
Grid

 

[iNvid02]

hot pursuit 2010, arcade bliss.

loved everything about it, shame the series has gone straight downhill since then

 

[bjork]

Test Drive Unlimited. That race that's one lap around the island is the most fun I've had with a mission or a race in a game, probably ever. Shame that TDU2 was pushed in the social direction and was a lesser game for it.

 

[dsp]

Midnight Club: Los Angeles

 

[Markitron]

Wipeout HD and the original Motorstorm.

 

[Vorg]

Hydro Thunder Hurricane
Motorstorm (all of them)
PGR4
Ridge Racer 6 and 7
Wipeout HD Fury

On a side note, I wish there was a version of Asphalt 8 for the ps3. It's one of the best arcade racers out there, and easily on par with anything on consoles. It blows my mind that a game like that is exclusive to mobile platforms.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Split Second was a blast, I prefer arcade style racers.

I liked Burnout Paradise, but one of my first 360 games was Burnout Revenge, and it was sweeeeeeeeeeet.

This. I tried to like Paradise.... but it didn't come close to Revenge.