Bored of Dirt 4. Best recent(ish) rally games?

[sparks_E46]

I’ve put about 20 hours into Dirt 4, and if I’m honest it’s got a bit stale. What else is any good on the current generation or PS3? I hear WRC 7 is massively improved, worth a punt? I’m not after any hard core sim, prefer pick up and play.

Cheers!

[tektas]

I am still playing Dirt Rally.
Dirt 4 was a step back TBH, Dirt Rally is way more realistic, unforgiving and for me personally more fun.

[chunder27]

Buy Dirt Rally,

It is by fa and away the best rally sim out there, and I would even suggest the best sim.
It is tough, very difficult initially.

But once you get the hang of it and learn the basics of the stages, the immersion will never leave you. It is truly brilliant

[keith HF]

Another vote for Dirt Rally.

[lazybike]

Anyone play this with a G29? How is the force feedback?

[crimbo]

I play dirt rally with g29 ps4, after some messing around you can get the feedback amazing on gravel stages, tarmac something aint right but gravel and offroad is really really good.

[Vocal Minority]

Got to love pistonheads

Man says - I don’t want a hardcore sim - then everyone suggests a hardcore sim

I can’t help you I’m
Afraid OP - I’m
Quite enjoying Dirt 4 still to be honest - for the same reasons as you - I have both that and dirt rally, but not the hours required to get over the ‘difficulty hump’ and become immersed

I’ve actually been playing the original Colin McRae rally recently - for some distracting pick up and play for half an hour mixed in with good old fashioned nostalgia - love it

[molineux1980]

I quite like WRC 7, it's worth a look. It was cheap on XBL a few months back, so I gave it a go.

[bloomen]

WRC 7 is good. It has a very limited number of stages though.

I think Dirt 4 is st. If you haven't tried Dirt then do so, it'll be cheap now and I vastly prefer it.

You could try Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo. That has lots of variety and good physics, awful sound though. That'll be peanuts too.

[squareflops]

Recently got Dirt Rally too, it is initially difficult but rewards effort and time put into it. It can be frustrating as an off will see a stage time destroyed but that can be part of the fun/challenge. I've got the g29 wheel/gearstick/3 pedal setup with a good frame to bolt it all to and apart from the seating position on my sofa which is crippling it makes it immensely better IMO. The game is very cheap too on PS4 or was 2 weeks ago when I bought it.

Least favourite event is Wales ironically

[GravelBen]

Picked up Dirt Rally for $10 on steam this week

I don't think I'd quite rate it up with RBR (or my memory of RBR at least, its been a year or two) for physics/realism but its pretty good.

A bit... artificially twitchy at times perhaps. Whether I just need to do a bit more fine-tuning of my wheel settings or they decided to add an unrealistic level of unpredictability to make it trickier I'm not sure yet, but every now and then I just get suddenly spat off into the scenery with no warning, or bumps in a straight line will throw the car into a more or less unrecoverable tank-slapper.

And the pace notes are hopelessly inconsistent at times too, but I don't think I've found a rally game with reliable pace notes yet - will have to learn the stages well enough to remember which calls are the really bad ones to ignore.

Thats being critical though - its still very immersive and enjoyable overall, just let down by a couple of things.

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 28th November 10:53

[conkerman]

Dirt Rally in VR is ruddy amazing. The learning curve is steep though.

Mrs C was laughing like a drain when I had my hands over my face for a particularly bad crash.