Games with weighty driving physics (Mafia II/TOC, GTA IV)
I'm almost certain I've played every damn game that fits this description but I'm looking for open world games with driving that has an emphasis on weight transfer. Driving is my favourite thing to do in a video game but 99% of them that I've played feel too arcade-y for my taste. It seems that even in games made for driving specifically (NFS, Burnout, Forza), the cars weight transfer and suspension seems to be stiffened up to accommodate a less cautious driving style. But I love that in games like GTA 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, you're punished for not being mindful of the weight being thrown around. I just finished Mafia 1, 2, and Old Country (I didn't like the driving in 3), and I'm looking for more like it. Especially like Old Country, the driving on simulation mode feels ridiculously fun to me.
I think one of the problems most games with driving have is that the roads, paths and terrain tends to be very flat and straight, which I find boring to drive on.
Here are some of the games that I've already played that may be suggested otherwise (they don't all fit the description, but I'll mention them just in case):
- GTA IV
- The Mafia Series
- Snowrunner/Mudrunner
- LA Noire
- Cyberpunk
- BeamNG
- Wreckfest
- Mars First Logistics
- Mad Max
- The Crew
- My Summer/Winter Car
- CarX Drift/Street
- Motortown: Behind The Wheel
- Euro/American Truck Simulator (I'm looking for regular cars really, regardless of whether the game is set in 1907 or 2907)
- DIRT, WRC, Colin McRae, Richard Burns Rally
- Street Legal Racing: Redline
- Battlefield 1943 on the XBL Arcade
- Forza, Gran Turismo, Assetto Corsa, iRacing, Live For Speed, and a few other of the popular racing sims/simcades. Some of them aren't open world, so don't really fit the bill for me. I like the freedom to explore and act like a normal pedestrian sometimes.
Any suggestions? Driving doesn't have to be the main focus of the game either