Assetto Corsa

[Jason]

Anyone here own or play Assetto Corsa? I'm thinking of picking this up for $20 and holding off on Project Cars 2 for a while. From what I've heard, the graphics aren't great, but the handling and AI are very good.

[Brad Company]

Nope. And I'm sticking with P-Cars1 and Driveclub.

[Jason]

I don't blame you. Nothing I've seen or heard about Project Cars 2 makes me want to go out and get it, especially at full price.

[Jason]

I just ordered Assetto Corsa from Walmart.com for $20. I couldn't pass it up for that price and the digital version has been $50 for the past few months with no signs of a price drop.

Project Cars 2 seems to have its share of bugs and I'm already annoyed with GT Sport being mostly online focused and the fact that I was never able to get into the many betas. I also found out today that the open beta for GT Sport, which starts tomorrow, is for PS+ subscribers only, so I'll give them the middle finger right back by never buying their product.

[Brad Company]

The demo is also a walled off version of the full game, it weighs in at 43GB.

[Jason]

The demo is also a walled off version of the full game, it weighs in at 43GB.

Sony finally decided to let us lowly non-PS+ peasants download the demo. I tried it out this morning and it crashes every time I try to enter the "Settings".

[Brad Company]

I'm not bothering with it.

[Jason]

I'm not bothering with it.

Good choice. I'm not impressed with the demo and the sense of speed sucks in it, even with fast cars.

[Brad Company]

Here's a general question re: F1 on PS4. Are any of the titles good, and do any have throwback cars/circuits.
I like mucking about with hotlaps and time trials, mostly. Don't need a career mode thing at all.

[Jason]

I deleted GT Sport today.

I have both F1 2015 and 2016 on the PS4 and would highly recommend them based on gameplay. I don't play the career modes either and also speed most of my time running hotlaps, time trials and quick races, and feel like they're still a great investment. Driving F1 cars provides a much different experience than the other racing games and the handling model is great in this series on the PS4.

Unfortunately, 2015 and 2016 don't have any throwback cars/circuits, but 2017 supposedly does. 2017 came out in late August, so I'd probably hold off for an upcoming sale on it. I plan on getting it myself once the price drops.

[Brad Company]

Good to hear, I'll grab the cheapest one at some point, although holding out for '17 might be the best play.

[Jason]

Good to hear, I'll grab the cheapest one at some point, although holding out for '17 might be the best play.

A demo for F1 2017 was just released today on PSN. I'm downloading it right now. Pretty cool since they never released demos for the earlier games.

[Ted]

Cool.  DL'ing the demo now.

[Jason]

Noticed two things immediately...the controls are less twitchy and there was no screen tearing on the Australian track, which tears badly in 2016.

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[Jason]

I was going to post how I feel F1 2017 is a nice upgrade from 2016 based solely on the car handling, but then I realized just tonight that 2017 also offers HDR, so it's definitely worth the upgrade.