I bought one to play American Truck Simulator because I support workers.
Been thinking of doing exactly this but haven't bit the bullet yet. There's always a good deal on a used setup on craigslist, but then I fantasize about buying a bigger and bigger kit until I realize I'd be spending way more than just a starter
yea id been wanting to spend as little as possible too. someone on ebay was selling this wheel for like $100 shipped, but it was untested, but it had a return policy so i took a shot and got lucky. it feels more natural than a controller, especially for a carbrained american. hitting the gas and brake at the same time is more natural now. i pretty much only like rally and arcade style(like Burnout) racing games but maybe ill emulate gran turismo or something.
Gran Turismo, make a drift car or grab one of the prebuilt ones and have fun recording sick drifts
i dunno what it is about drifting but if it's not part of the racing i care much less. I tried some F1 games once and being like "sick corner" is meh to me.
That's why I love Initial D and loved Auto Modellista.
One of the most memorable gaming experiences of my life was an extremely intense race at the arcade with some random dude on the Initial D 4 machines that ended with us sharing a very sweaty bro hug.
Burnout 3 or burnout 4 as the goat? I lean 3 because of the radio, but 4 had better mechanics (shunt takedowns ftw)
Burnout 3 is definitely the first great burnout game. Those first two felt like PSOne games. But I love 3, Revenge and Paradise. 4 did add some cool things though so I would say that probably is the best since it really expanded on 3. Paradise is great too, but it's mostly the same stuff just open world.
Might be a hot take, but I didn't think anything added in the sequels after 3 improved the game.
Not that Revenge is a bad game, but 3 is just much better and for some reason they made it much harder to take down opponents in road rage.
Paradise is a bad game.
The jump from 2 to 3 was big, and the jumps between the rest of them weren't as big. How was Paradise bad though? I know on PC its kind of a shit show because it seems to not work on Steam or something, but on Xbox 360 it was great and it was well reviewed.
They made it open world for no reason other than it was the style at the time, and it adds nothing of value to the game. In the first version, which I originally played, you couldn't even restart an event, you had to drive all the way back to where the start is, which tells you how much they put thought into designing the open world.
The one thing the open world brings to the game is having to choose which route to take, which absolutely sucks ass because it's not fun and if you miss one turn, you might as well restart (in the original version, have fun driving all the way back). Crash mode was also removed in favor of the bouncing car thing, which is boring and way too easy. I will give them credit for making takedowns in road rage much easier than Revenge and de facto removing traffic checking, but that's about it.
One decent wheel costs half the price I paid for my shitty 30 year old car a few years ago in my country 
I’d be first against the wall with my bourgeois setup.
full cockpit with 3 monitors or something? that is the dream but i dunno if ill get that far.
I have a full aluminum profile cockpit of my own design but I use a quest 3 instead of monitors.
my gf has an oculus, i didnt even consider VR
Make sure your aim is true or the aluminum profile will deflect the bullets. And don’t 
at my collection of steering wheels too much.
The steering wheels will be collectivised in a publicly run gaming cafe where we will hold a racing sim tournament in the most balanced way possible: Everyone gets a lada.
(A worker owned communist gaming cafe would actually unironically be rad as fuck)
There are Lada mods for Assetto Corsa, we were talking about doing some races in the racing game thread.
How do I not know where to find the racing game thread? 
I'll have to join you unfortunately, I may not have a fancy wheel, but I'm in the 40+ pieces of content club on iRacing.
I recently rebuilt my PC. Now I want to pull out my racing wheel and play Dirt Rally. Its the most immersive experience I've ever had in gaming.
it's sad the peak rally racing game is pretty fuckin old. ive heard the newer ones don't compare.
People still play and mod Richard Burns Rally from like 2003.
I've never driven a rally car so idk if the physics are actually much better/realistic, but graphics don't deter me because I still play cruisin USA every time I see an arcade machine for it.
i have heard thats the most realistic one, ill have to try it out finally.
You can download an installer at https://rallysimfans.hu/rbr/index.php with the game itself, fanmade patches and dozens of gigs of cars and stages.
force feedback wheels are rad dude
highy recommend also trying it with beam.ng
What's beam ng?
soft body physics simulator focused on cars and crashing them.
Hell yeah I have a saitek x52 pro and can relate. Playing flight sims with throttle and stick is so fuckin rad.
My friend used to have a force feedback racing wheel with pedals and that was rad as fuck.
Hell yeah, flight sticks are great. I especially like when they have compatibility in non-flight games, like Battlezone or MechWarrior.
I'm proud of you.
if youre sincere, thanks! if this is sarcasm, you a ho.
I'm not mocking your improvement to your gaming setup. It's good.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
3rd International Volunteer Brigade (Hexbear gaming discord)
Rules