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One of the top sim racing video producers in our community Digiprost just released a video that chronicles the history of Project Cars that spans the last three years. Man, has it been that long ?? The title “Project Cars History 3 Years of Videos” is based on the many videos he has put together during that span. If you’re a fan of his channel, you have been witness to many Project Cars videos, 107 to be exact. As you can see, since November of 2011 he has put a lot of time and effort into Project Cars.
It’s a little over 5 minutes in length and set to some very dramatic music.
Some people have been saying that Project Cars is “not a sim” in our forums. What do you think ?
You can check out all 107 of his Project Cars videos in this playlist on You Tube.
Wish I was playing it now….
“Not a sim”? I’ve seen the flaming and rhetoric passed off innocently as “opinion” on other forums. I tend to ignore it for the most part. IMO, if a developer is putting serious effort into making a game as close to the ‘real thing’ as possible, then that game is a ‘sim’, regardless of their success or complete failure at portraying reality. It is still a ‘sim’ simply because that was the developer’s intent. If there is no intent to be ‘real’ (Need for Speed), then a game is not a ‘sim’.
Are we willing to go back and look at Papyrus’ old games like Indianapolis 500 and say those were not sims because they ‘weren’t real enough’? Games like Project CARS are what we in the sim racing community need to keep pushing things forward. So whether you play it, or you don’t, I see no reason to bash it or ridicule the developers.
I for one am not content to just play iRacing for the rest of my life, blind to potential progress made by other developers. I hope I’m not alone.