Well unfortunately when it comes to licence's for games money talks. The reported over $1 Billion every 4 year world cup cycle EA are saving by not paying fifa for licence will almost certainly make it a bit easier for them to just chuck more money for the licence, for a while at least.
EA owns the licenses to a bunch if different sports, thats why they dont improve their games cuz they dont have any compitition. as soon as another company starts making games competeing with EA thats when we'll see improvements. when 2k made NFL games, they were better than EA, so EA had to try and make a better game. but now that 2k cant make NFL games anymore, EA has no reason to actually make good games because people keep giving them money for doing little to no work
EA is giving F1 the same thing they gave to NASCAR: bad videogames that only get worse as time goes on, until the fans get tired and pray that they lose the exclusivity license
Cuz there are a lot of people who still buy the newest F1 game instead of demanding an F1 title to be released every 3 years and to be updated regularly.
In a sense, F1 2012-2024 can actually be merged into one game. Especially 2022-2024, there is almost no difference. I think either selling DLC at a lower price or packaging them into one product will be much better than the current situation.
@@GeometryEX-hp9zs 22-24 have the same internal version numbers. They have almost the exact same executable file. 23/24 are just really expensive commercial patches/updates.
Started playing f119 career mode and started Haas, 13 race wins later and Lewis Hamilton leave Mercedes mid season to join Haas because I made Haas the top team lmao
Thanks for actually blaming codemasters too and not just blaming EA, ppl think that EA are the ones that make the glitches or the ideas for crap gamemodes lol.
@@junkiexl86 And I believe technically it isn‘t EA that holds the licence, Codemasters is. Correct me if I‘m wrong, but if it wasn‘t for the acquisition by EA, their rep and PR machinery, more people would blame Codemasters, not EA. Then again, even I realise that the relative autonomy Codies was supposed to retain after the acquisition by EA is pretty much gone.
One thing that i've always found annoying is how they can never make the AI difficulty thingy balanced across all tracks. Even F1 2020, a game I still play because the handling is just so good, has this issue. Austria I could drive with 95% AI, but Bahrain I got absolutely destroyed in qualifying with the same 95% ai. And I actually felt faster in bahrain. There are even difficulty calculators that show for which tracks you should lower the AI and where to higher it. I might be stupid here but, how hard can it honestly be to make the AI balanced across the tracks? I really dislike having to fiddle with the difficulty percentage before every race. (And I don't mind being a bit slower on a certain track, that happens. But some tracks I'm like 5/6 tenths slower on the exact same difficulty but my leaderboard time is actually better!. And you really see where the AI gain time as well)
yh, the main problem is when youre consistently slower on the same track each time you race it, so each season of career mode feels the exact same, cos youre literally slow on the same tracks. Same tracks are easy, same tracks are hard. Theres no difference, and thus no challenge.
Doesn't help that the AI gets a grip multiplier. I hate when racing games have poor AI so they rely on literally giving them Hax to be "difficult". Forza does it too.
Finally someone who also thinks that it is mainly Codemasters fault instead of EA that the games are becoming worse. What I can´t grasp is how F1 games from 20 Years ago have certain features that the current games don´t have.
genuinely feel like im going insane whenever i bring this up but i genuinely think that so many of the problems were already starting to show before ea bought them, ea just happened to come in and make them look worse
@@deputyskog It´s because many people think in the following steps when it comes to EA: Step 1: EA buys a (beloved) Studio Step 2: They take control of the Studio and their Games become worse because of it Step 3: EA closes the Studio While not wrong it also isn´t necessarily right which leads to a revisionistic or nostalgic look of the acquired Studios and their Games. Due to this many people forget or have never witnessed how Codemasters operated in the past. Be it having wrong Tracks and never updating them, making Games randomly worse from one iteration to the next or adding MTX. It could also be that due to EA´s bad reputation that these problems are more visible to the players than before Codemasters was bought by them
When I played career mode on F1 04 or 06 I kinda felt like the stakes were high. Fuck up and you're now the reserve driver! In F1 22 you can start your career mode by kicking Hamilton out of Mercedes lmao.
the amount of stuff they've done with that game is insane, it's good for the people with low end pcs or who can't afford to sacrifice a kidney to ea each year
New Spa actually appeared in Automobilista 2, before both F1 24 _and_ iRacing! You'd think for at least EA's sake, being the "Official Game of Formula 1" that we would've had it in 23, buuuut nope. I do hope F1 open up the license so that it's no longer exclusive, because they're losing the market very quickly with EA's incompetence (and complacency). I have 2017, I think 2019, loved 2020, hated 22, loved 23, tried the beta of 24, and immediately lost interest. This yearly model for sports games can't hold up any longer, there's no way people are still willing to shell out $70 for something that could've just been an update to the previous game. The "MSFS Method" would be better, one game every however many years. In F1's case, one game every regulation cycle.
thank you for pointing that out! might see if there's a way i can issue a correction in the video, at the very least i'll add this to the description with a thanks to you for letting me know
@@deputyskog Aw man, RUclips probably auto-removed my comment because of the hyperlink. But if you want a more precise time & date, as per an Overtake article on August 27, 2022, that's when Reiza added the 2022 iteration of Spa! So EA _did_ have time to add it for 2023 whether at launch or a post-release update, and they just... chose not to? Really weird business decision there.
Don't codemasters have more work to do than reiza does with ams2, especially when sponsers, for each car and track, and licences for those things are always in high demand, in such a small time of 10 months
Personally i think that the main issue is because the game releases sooner and sooner. I remember F1 games releasing by the end of the season (take F1 2010, released in September for example). Now the game comes in April, when the season barely started, so the devs can't get any proper data on how the machines perform and on how they can make the physics work to have a good driving feel with the cars, which is the biggest issue with 24 from what i saw (and experienced).
F1 in general lost a lot of fans in the past ~20 years. It became horrible and boring due to the new regulations and rules. There are a lot more interesting series and a lot more interesting games or even simulators out there.
this i agree with. the boost in fans in the last few years was mainly due to drivers personalities, but if you want to watch racing you're better off watching wec at this point. it's been great so far this year
I feel the people that say this kind of stuff are f1 fans who only experience the sport through reddit posts. Last year didn't have a lot of amazing on track action but this year has been one of the best years of the sport in the last 20 years by far. Almost the entire grid is fighting for their own goals and the racing has been amazing to watch. The incoming 2026 regulations do seem bleak with the cars becoming entirely 50% electric, but there's a lot of push back from the drivers against it so things could change.
@@ElKafkaArtinamaKusumahthis year we’ve had more snoozefests than good races Just because we’ve had different winners don’t make the races itself good does it? z only good races this year was Canada silverstone Austria It’s harder for cars to overtake each other than ever before it’s gone to 2017 levels again
And if you’re going to say iracing is ‘more interesting’ where they simulate dirty air like real life then I don’t know what you find fun 😂😂 But yeah enjoy spending 1000 a year on a subscription 😂😂
F1 games are pretty much the "Madden" of racing games nowadays, new season and car models with the same creaky underpinnings that have a large number of old and new issues.
@@mlz_c thats why I preffer GRID because it's unique when it comes to racing as much as I love GT and Forza, GRID is something else... that's why I'm really upset because I'll never see a new one anytime soon
F1 97 has never been topped on console. What frustrates so much about current games is how bland they are with a controller especially. Despite graphics developments, damage is shocking and basic. You can't have car failures. The obsession with "my team". And don't get me started on microtransactions.
F1 games don’t change enough from year to year, buy it once every set of new regulations. I bought f124 and won’t buy an f1 game until 2026. I know loads of people still having fun on f120
Finally someone pointing out that changing the engine won't improve things. It needs an overhaul yes but technically it's solid - the problem is that the handling has gotten confused, multiplayer and backend hasn't been overhauled in a decade, and there's nothing new the games actually offer worth checking out since I last played in anger with 2020.
Does anyone even wanna drive these crappy hybrids? I quit playing F1 games because F1 became crap. I still love ripping around every track released for Assetto in the true greatest F1 car of all time though (naturally i mean the F2004)
lots of people do still love the f1 games simply for the new models and the feeling (even though its sort of drifting away from the sport) but then again playing one of codemasters arcadey games or real sim games depends on opinion.
I started at 2018, you’re spot on. The thing I think is weird is they are trying to make this televised esports league with the game and it’s just not good enough. The drivers aren’t even playing it unless for contractual obligations. Max is playing iRacing not F1
@ yeah, career mode should be the same as 22 but of course with updated rider market and stuff, removing the pointless weekends for like a test day or something. Because the way you get into a new team currently is terrible I liked it when you had to find a contract half way through the season with Suzuki or something
My view, as someone who's played a lot of F1 racing titles over the course of 42 years (yes I'm old) is this: The majority of F1 racing games have not been realistic simulations. In fact, I can only think of one series, which is the Geoff Crammond Grand Prix series from 1992-2002, which really nailed the F1 simulation vibe. Sure there's stuff like rFactor and other simulators that allow you to download and install f1 packs, but they're not officially licenced (as far as I know) and are more of a general racing simulation (a sort of jack of all trades) than a dedicated F1 racing sim. The majority of f1 racing games have been things like Pole Position, Pit Stop II, Grand Prix Circuit, Ferrari Formula 1, Super Monaco GP, Vroom, Psygnosis's F1 series, Sony's F1 series and now Codemasters' f1 games. Basically, in all the years of F1 racing games, the vast majority have been fairly arcadey racers with some sim-like elements, and the number of actual deep and realistic F1 racing sims you can probably count on the fingers of one hand.
@@tacticalmattress Can I see the reasons to it? Apart from classic cars, I don't remember a thing where F1 2020 did better than 2021. The video creator said things that now that curbs do something with your car and not just a different asphalt being a negative and AI "doing corners that I can't" while is a problem with his driving than anything else.
@@ashleysessyoin0999 21 had way worse handling and had no charm or any new anything. This is the problem that every F1 game that comes out feels the exact same. 2010/12 have heaps of personality with 12 having better AI, 13 had classics cars for the first time ever , 16 was the genesis for career as we know it and we finally got safety cars back which worked, 18 had new regs and the AI started getting decent, 19 had a big graphics update 20 had another big career update but since then what has really changed? Allegedly the AI has downgraded by 24. Besides, 14 years on and there are still so many features missing that could exist.
@@roryfarrugia6020 I felt the handling was much more immersive since it punished the players which were too agressive mainly with we talk about the 2021 regs. Also, if we're gonna talk about new things, F1 21 had, only by memory: Damage that really would damage (oh) your car, as in previous games it could launch a missile into your car and only the front wing would be damaged; Engine failures to the player; Car setups actually making a difference; Engine sounds not being the same for all the 4; The curbs, grass, sand being actually what they're supposed to be instead of just different asphalt; Story mode "oh but it's bad!!" while I agree, it's still new content and a ok one, not something totally useless like F1 Life People look harshly on F1 2021 just because it's not as "arcady" as 2020. But it's literally 2020 but better. 2021 does, almost everything, better than 2020.
Also, in career mode, I could talk about the interviews that made the game a little (not much tho) immersive in terms of off-track experience - which it's still not much compared to F1 24 but it's still something against 0 off-track features of 2020; and that you could skip a session by the "fast" session which could really save our time.
I know this isn't really the point of this video (although you did mention it a few times) but I wish the career mode was more interactive. I love F1 23, it's a much better game than F1 24, but the career mode in 23 is basically just "drive and choose which upgrades you want" F1 24 still has a pretty bland career mode but at least it has some new things (the secret meetings, the mid-race objectives, etc) That's why despite being a much worse game, i prefer to play F1 24 over 23. I REALLY wish f1 25 has a much more in-depth career mode. It's the main point of F1 games for me, as I don't have the confidence to race real people online. I (and many other people I imagine) crave a much more in depth and INTERACTIVE and DIVERSIFIED (as in having many different things to do) career mode
@phenomklopsd4633 it's why im not too negative towards future games in the video, codemasters have two teams that alternate development, so next year it's the f1 23 team again, and seeing as they now have a decent base for career mode, hopefully 25 will be okay. it'll be fun to revisit this in a few months time to see if f1 25 fixes things
@@deputyskog I actually didn't know about the alternating teams thing, thanks for letting me know! I made some wild predictions with a friend and one of my predictions was that F1 25 would be a banger game. Let's hope that's correct lmfao
being a game developer is probably very difficult, from the outside we probably see it as easy to create what that fans want but in the reality it might not be
Same way EA has ruined golf games, football games, basketball games, etc etc etc. Obsessive focus on microtransactions and everything else treated as an afterthought
12:25 F1 2021 was the only F1 game I bought and I still play it on controller from time to time. But you just confirming that its not a skill issue on my part and that the AI is just insanely fast on some corners/tracks makes me feel alot better about my driving skills haha. I do play on controller and Im not the best, but tracks like Hungary, Zandvoort, Singapore are just downright impossible to race on for me without lowering the AI at least 10 ticks from my normal difficulty, otherwise the AI just casually pulls 1 second a lap on me
yeah ! it always baffled me how they never bothered to fix that, it was almost unbearable in medium-downforce corners. every time a new season would start in career id end up removing those tracks bc you couldnt race them properly
I hope no one is surprised this has happened. Especially after EA bought CodeMasters. They keep recycling the gameplay and focus on online modes instead of focusing on the career mode. It’s literally exactly what they’ve done with Madden.
The F1 06 made by Studio Liverpool for the PS2 was amazing compared to some of the latest games. I wish they'd get another chance to make a modern F1 game but FOM would probably not give them a go ahead.
The main thing for me is every game after 2018 all looked the same. With only slight lighting improvements and rudimentary ray tracing added in '21. I also always hated the bright vivid primary colors they use, which is unrealistic and detracting. I like the steady improvements of the main core features, as one cannot expect that much real changes here on an annual release cycle. Whats here works. Hopefully they focus more on the realism side. Engine needs to be updated either to a fully next gen EGO 5.0 or Unreal etc that also supports 3D audio, before anything else.
Great video! It’s no surprise that 2 huge sports game franchises with F1 and FIFA have both gone down the toilet and they both happen to be under EA. Who don’t care one bit about any offline career mode, and only care about making as much money as they can.
When the steering wheel in game doesn't match your wheel in real life exactly and it visually has shaking in game just for eye candy, you know it isn't a sim. Its arcade. Every Formula1 game since F1 challenge 99/02 onwards, has been console pleasing arcade-ness.(in my opinion) Rfactor 2 or even more so iracing, are where the proper physics are at.
Super Monaco GP (1&2) on the Megadrive was the last F1 game I really enjoyed. Oh, F1 Career Challenge on the GameCube was pretty good too. The only Codemasters F1 I enjoyed was F1 09 on the Wii. The sport itself is kind of boring, also you can't see the track ahead properly because you're too low in the cockpit. I'd really like to see Super Monaco GP updated on modern consoles. Also a modern graphicsl update of the original game.
I wonder what the expiration dates for licensing rights are... Like, if a studio tried making a game with 1950's cars, drivers and tracks, could they be in trouble for that?
The Verstappen effect is what I call it. The games became deplorable from 2021 onwards just like the morals of the sport. F1 fans are getting exactly what they asked for
EA was always going to ruin the games, less content, more monetization. But tbh the bigger issue is the yearly release schedule, its always gunna make it difficult to have proper improvements
Its down to licenses, i know. But give me a historic career. I want to race next to Senna,Hakinnen,Schumacher. Then Kimi, Alonso, Culthard. Hunt, Lauda. I would buy it. A my team career amongst historic teams would be a goldmine. No wonder F1 2013 and 2020 is still considered the best ones.
I only got into F1 after playing F1 on VR on project cars 2. Now that I see the state of what it is in the official games, I'm just going to mod project cars 2 and keep it up to date that way.
@blaster915 you'd probably really enjoy automobilista 2, it's the same game engine as project cars and has current day f1 cars and a lot of other older ones and they're all included in the base game. it has vr support too, so it may be worth a look if it sounds like something you'd be interested in
@deputyskog funny you mention that I picked that up on sale for Christmas, My only complaint is that it doesn't have a lot of street cars and is much more racing focused and I kind of wanted to cruise around in a lot more classics. Plus getting VR to work was a pain with it.
"Any dumb stuff is Codemaster's fault and their fault only." No. EA gutted Codemasters. They laid off more than half of the company. EA did (obviously) increase their budget, but Codemasters was already a pretty small studio and EA made it even smaller. That being said, I loved the hidden dig at the energy drinks company masquerading as a racing brand. I'd say 2020 is the best if the AI knew how to handle blue flags - I'd spend a lot of practice and quali screaming "get out of my way".
@nandoboiii5215 it's a bit of both, i've done a lot of rental karting since after the pandemic but I'm studying automotive & motorsports engineering at university and i'm currently captain of a university karting team with the aim of competing in the new year
I glad Driver Career been reworked in 24 because i really like F1 2019 over 2020. 2019 you setting your goal by yourself and negotiate with teams basically you set the handicap by yourself. Since 2020 driver career become stale imo your only goal is meeting Teams goal and thats it.
Best F1 game is F1 Challenge 99-02. Btw, when you have to use the menu to change DRS settings (like what you showed for F1 2018), you must buy a wheel with more buttons.
I was part of the beta testing for 2019, 2020, and 2021, and every single year the game's beta was EXACTLY the same. Same bugs in audio, graphics, etc. Same issues. The only things that changed were the car designs. It's just lazy. I understand it's a yearly game, so their ability to revamp and make it great is limited, but that's on them. Put in the effort to fix the problems, and the fans will applaud them, but they don't. I actually jumped back into F1 23 a few days ago (I forgot I bought it) and it's garbage. I played through the Braking Point to see how it ends, then uninstalled.
For the last 2-3 years I ain't even bought the F1 game, go back to 2022 and I was on a plane going abroad to work on F1 esports and also was running the league that was the forerunner to the Creators Series. But the problems lay deeper than just the games performance and as well in the structure of FOM's & F1 Esports own inability to create a proper platform that allows people from all across the world to have access to the esports series rather than just having everything based in Europe. Its just one of the main reasons why along with many others the game is so far behind iRacing & Assetto Corsa in terms of performance & their own esports series, as the people who run everything are so out of touch with the community they don't really care as long as they are getting their pay check for the most part eventually it will hit them one day but that maybe still way off.
Finally someone who just don't blame ea and actually articulate reasons. Ea might have their influence but the series had its bad before the acquisition (as u said f1 2019) but ehy "eA bAd iTs tHeiR faUlT"... It's sad many things got scrapped both for cost of licences and player base not care (untul too late like classic cars) or because of esports olayer not being happy like marbles and wet looks nerfed down (when in the older games u had more spray) or for licences agreement being mad about visual damage (man, i miss the 2021 beta damage) Agree on the ue part being shit for racing games (many seems to just not know)
Somehow the only good racing games are Iracing an world of outlaws (also owned by iracing is nascar 25') An people are hyping that up as the greatest NASCAR game since 15' Y'know what, every racing series should have iracing as there game developers Also screw ea, they ruined tons of games
@Delawaremylove the thing is before i tried iracing i thought it was overhyped and way too expensive. i still believe it's too expensive but they got me spending money anyway because it's so much fun
iRacing is great but is not everyone's saviour. Assetto Corsa and Automobilista 2 are currently the best examples of driving Sims; AC because of its longevity through mods and it feels so good to drive, and AMS2 because they had the balls to completely overhaul their modelling and admit they made mistakes.
Imo, F1 2020 and F1 23 were the best F1 games I have played, and AI have played since 2015! I started league racing on 22 where I had to have traction on medium to at least stay pointing in the right direction and ABS on. F1 23 was my game, traction felt so much better to the point where off felt like medium on the previous years game, however I did run with ABS on for most races as rear-brake locking was very common, but I still managed to win 3 races on it, Hungary was my first in dry-wet-dry conditions, Monaco by 28 seconds (absolutely dominated), and Singapore as the race leader spun out of Turn 3, and I felt confident on it. F1 24... Eh, honestly is quite bad. I don't feel confident at most tracks which maybe is a setup issue, but I still try and perform. The handling to updates have really screwed me over, and I just can't carry as much speed as I see others doing through corners. I finally did though have a good race around Silverstone where I got a P6... Although I did Qualify in P4, passed them and looked for a podium and then wheel dissconections but I still enjoyed it!
@FeaturesGaming congrats on all your success league racing man, especially monaco, that takes some doing! i agree with the rear locking on f1 23 as well, i appreciated that it was in the game the first few times it happened but after a while i felt it was way too sensitive too. i haven't done any sort of racing on f1 24 yet, i just can't find a good feeling anymore plus i spent too much money on iracing so im trying to get my moneys worth and do events on that lmao
F1 can be a one time purchase game, since they're all the same anyways, they can just have yearly updates with older titles available as a game mode if you're into that and can have maybe DLCs here and there.
@@Tsuinryu I was lucky. 2021 was the first game I bought and I always skip a year then buy the next one once its off, so my next one was 2023 at like 10eu
The best one is f23 imo it's just fun. With F2020 being after just because of the classic cars but yeah thx god for ea play so that I don't have to buy for these reskins
@@jornnnnnnnnnnnn you can't really determine the quality of the f1 codemasters game and understand the current trajectory by going to the 90s, but i would love to make a video on the grand prix series at some point.
Saying f1 20 is the best f1 racing game is crazy, i think im missing something because i couldnt make the first corner in bahrain without passing through heaven first, at easy mode the cars dont play at all, and in dificult mode they dont let you pay at all, i felt like buying wreckfest just to get the real feeling of playing f1 20, or even a junkyard sandbox game, those where you mash cars into boxes of metal, not to mention the car oversteer and the awful conditioning system they had on the tires, and the fact you couldnt change dificulties mid season, so ye you need to start over again if you want to be rammed consecutively over 5 hours in the same 3 first corners of BAHRAIN!
Also wrc is great by all means, i tried elite dangerous and eve online before, but after trying wrc i felt like this was actually the best spaceship simulator there is 10/10, its like playing interstellar. On a serious note, if anyone wants an actual racing simulator just get the assetto corsa franchise, any will do, its actually insane that despite the game being 10 years old is so so good any every aspect to racing (its heavily modded and can be fully tuned), and for rally just go rally 2.0
Started to go down hill when they started to remove cool features or game modes instead of expand them. For example classic cars. Such a cool thing. And yet they removed it. Or using most likely huge amount of resources to make a glorified menu (f1 life) or whatever it called. EA just made it a joke of a game. I’d much rather play a gran turismo type game over garbage
Somehow the hardware requirements have jumped dramatically in the past 5 years, while having no noticeable visual fidelity improvements. F1 2019 was a really light game, just sipping power. F1 23 meanwhile is using all the power it can use just to play 60fps. Its very disappointing
I just purchased F1 24 for the first time, I also tried f1 23 on Game Pass PC. I kept spinning over and over. It did not feel right. I don’t know why people complains about the 2024? it’s just so much easier to drive and the Nose so pointed it feels like a go cart after I tried both games Back to Back I made a dedication delete the F1 23 and bought the F1 24!.
EA
Screw EA, they have a track record of destroying game franchises.
FIFA dumped them. The money grubbing, don't care about fans in FIFA thought EA was bad. That tells you how bad EA is.
@@ccramitwrong, EA just didnt want to pay FIFA the money they were asking for for the license, so actually it was EA dumping Fifa 😂
Even in the fellow motorsports like NASCAR. The games were amazing in the early 2000's but fell off in 2006 to 2009. History just repeats itself
F1 2002 and career challenge were the only good ea f1 games
True, couldn't agree more!
I can only hope EA loses the licence to F1
Well unfortunately when it comes to licence's for games money talks. The reported over $1 Billion every 4 year world cup cycle EA are saving by not paying fifa for licence will almost certainly make it a bit easier for them to just chuck more money for the licence, for a while at least.
Monkey’s paw: iRacing gets the license
EA owns the licenses to a bunch if different sports, thats why they dont improve their games cuz they dont have any compitition. as soon as another company starts making games competeing with EA thats when we'll see improvements. when 2k made NFL games, they were better than EA, so EA had to try and make a better game. but now that 2k cant make NFL games anymore, EA has no reason to actually make good games because people keep giving them money for doing little to no work
@@CamTooling given the fact they're now doing console games (they're the official nascar dev) this would be the absolute best move
@@Z24_Officialmaybe wait until 2050 when EA finally surrendered the F1 licence.
EA is giving F1 the same thing they gave to NASCAR: bad videogames that only get worse as time goes on, until the fans get tired and pray that they lose the exclusivity license
Kind of funny there's a comment next to yours that literally said that.
Cuz there are a lot of people who still buy the newest F1 game instead of demanding an F1 title to be released every 3 years and to be updated regularly.
this would be the move
In a sense, F1 2012-2024 can actually be merged into one game. Especially 2022-2024, there is almost no difference. I think either selling DLC at a lower price or packaging them into one product will be much better than the current situation.
I've only bought games every other year, if that.. I had '10, '12, '14, and now '17 is my most recent
@@scottl.1568 add f1 2020 to your collection and its perfect
@@GeometryEX-hp9zs 22-24 have the same internal version numbers. They have almost the exact same executable file. 23/24 are just really expensive commercial patches/updates.
Started playing f119 career mode and started Haas, 13 race wins later and Lewis Hamilton leave Mercedes mid season to join Haas because I made Haas the top team lmao
Thanks for actually blaming codemasters too and not just blaming EA, ppl think that EA are the ones that make the glitches or the ideas for crap gamemodes lol.
EA do put pressure on dev teams to add features and meet deadlines. That's part of being a publisher.
@@demonicsquid7217 Right, but in this case, EA didn't join the fold until 2021. A lot of the series' issues started in 2018, well before EA.
@@junkiexl86 And I believe technically it isn‘t EA that holds the licence, Codemasters is. Correct me if I‘m wrong, but if it wasn‘t for the acquisition by EA, their rep and PR machinery, more people would blame Codemasters, not EA. Then again, even I realise that the relative autonomy Codies was supposed to retain after the acquisition by EA is pretty much gone.
One thing that i've always found annoying is how they can never make the AI difficulty thingy balanced across all tracks.
Even F1 2020, a game I still play because the handling is just so good, has this issue. Austria I could drive with 95% AI, but Bahrain I got absolutely destroyed in qualifying with the same 95% ai. And I actually felt faster in bahrain. There are even difficulty calculators that show for which tracks you should lower the AI and where to higher it.
I might be stupid here but, how hard can it honestly be to make the AI balanced across the tracks? I really dislike having to fiddle with the difficulty percentage before every race.
(And I don't mind being a bit slower on a certain track, that happens. But some tracks I'm like 5/6 tenths slower on the exact same difficulty but my leaderboard time is actually better!. And you really see where the AI gain time as well)
yh, the main problem is when youre consistently slower on the same track each time you race it, so each season of career mode feels the exact same, cos youre literally slow on the same tracks. Same tracks are easy, same tracks are hard. Theres no difference, and thus no challenge.
Doesn't help that the AI gets a grip multiplier. I hate when racing games have poor AI so they rely on literally giving them Hax to be "difficult".
Forza does it too.
5:45, rip my ears
Yeah wtf was that…
Yes holy shit i didnt even understand what he was saying 😂
@@KleinerBruch that is true for most of the video tho
Finally someone who also thinks that it is mainly Codemasters fault instead of EA that the games are becoming worse. What I can´t grasp is how F1 games from 20 Years ago have certain features that the current games don´t have.
genuinely feel like im going insane whenever i bring this up but i genuinely think that so many of the problems were already starting to show before ea bought them, ea just happened to come in and make them look worse
@@deputyskog It´s because many people think in the following steps when it comes to EA:
Step 1: EA buys a (beloved) Studio
Step 2: They take control of the Studio and their Games become worse because of it
Step 3: EA closes the Studio
While not wrong it also isn´t necessarily right which leads to a revisionistic or nostalgic look of the acquired Studios and their Games. Due to this many people forget or have never witnessed how Codemasters operated in the past. Be it having wrong Tracks and never updating them, making Games randomly worse from one iteration to the next or adding MTX. It could also be that due to EA´s bad reputation that these problems are more visible to the players than before Codemasters was bought by them
When I played career mode on F1 04 or 06 I kinda felt like the stakes were high. Fuck up and you're now the reserve driver!
In F1 22 you can start your career mode by kicking Hamilton out of Mercedes lmao.
@@davidp.7620 Even in F1 2011 you had to start with the bottom 3 teams.
f1 2014 was blessed with an insane modding community
the amount of stuff they've done with that game is insane, it's good for the people with low end pcs or who can't afford to sacrifice a kidney to ea each year
F1 2014 with 2024 roster mod is actually work fine.
5:47 BROOO the jumscare had me😭💀
New Spa actually appeared in Automobilista 2, before both F1 24 _and_ iRacing! You'd think for at least EA's sake, being the "Official Game of Formula 1" that we would've had it in 23, buuuut nope.
I do hope F1 open up the license so that it's no longer exclusive, because they're losing the market very quickly with EA's incompetence (and complacency).
I have 2017, I think 2019, loved 2020, hated 22, loved 23, tried the beta of 24, and immediately lost interest.
This yearly model for sports games can't hold up any longer, there's no way people are still willing to shell out $70 for something that could've just been an update to the previous game. The "MSFS Method" would be better, one game every however many years. In F1's case, one game every regulation cycle.
thank you for pointing that out! might see if there's a way i can issue a correction in the video, at the very least i'll add this to the description with a thanks to you for letting me know
@@deputyskog Aw man, RUclips probably auto-removed my comment because of the hyperlink. But if you want a more precise time & date, as per an Overtake article on August 27, 2022, that's when Reiza added the 2022 iteration of Spa! So EA _did_ have time to add it for 2023 whether at launch or a post-release update, and they just... chose not to? Really weird business decision there.
Don't codemasters have more work to do than reiza does with ams2, especially when sponsers, for each car and track, and licences for those things are always in high demand, in such a small time of 10 months
0:20 Latifi fastest lap 😎
the goat 🐐
Personally i think that the main issue is because the game releases sooner and sooner. I remember F1 games releasing by the end of the season (take F1 2010, released in September for example). Now the game comes in April, when the season barely started, so the devs can't get any proper data on how the machines perform and on how they can make the physics work to have a good driving feel with the cars, which is the biggest issue with 24 from what i saw (and experienced).
this is actually such a good point, i wish i'd thought to include it in the video lol
We can't even blame it on ea. Codemaster kept fumbling major things in each game year after year. Ea was just the icining on the cake
5:46 Headphone Warning
Had me watch an F1 video without having played any of the games, pretty solid.
They've been terrible for years. Codemasters had the exact same outlook as EA do now
F1 in general lost a lot of fans in the past ~20 years. It became horrible and boring due to the new regulations and rules. There are a lot more interesting series and a lot more interesting games or even simulators out there.
this i agree with. the boost in fans in the last few years was mainly due to drivers personalities, but if you want to watch racing you're better off watching wec at this point. it's been great so far this year
I feel the people that say this kind of stuff are f1 fans who only experience the sport through reddit posts. Last year didn't have a lot of amazing on track action but this year has been one of the best years of the sport in the last 20 years by far. Almost the entire grid is fighting for their own goals and the racing has been amazing to watch. The incoming 2026 regulations do seem bleak with the cars becoming entirely 50% electric, but there's a lot of push back from the drivers against it so things could change.
i mean last year was boring but now? its amazing
@@ElKafkaArtinamaKusumahthis year we’ve had more snoozefests than good races
Just because we’ve had different winners don’t make the races itself good does it?
z only good races this year was Canada silverstone Austria
It’s harder for cars to overtake each other than ever before it’s gone to 2017 levels again
And if you’re going to say iracing is ‘more interesting’ where they simulate dirty air like real life then I don’t know what you find fun 😂😂
But yeah enjoy spending 1000 a year on a subscription 😂😂
F1 games are pretty much the "Madden" of racing games nowadays, new season and car models with the same creaky underpinnings that have a large number of old and new issues.
The fact they will never make a proper new GRID game makes me despise EA and Formula 1 even more
grid probably won't make enough profit as forza and gt do, because of their shear popularity over the years
@@mlz_c thats why I preffer GRID because it's unique when it comes to racing as much as I love GT and Forza, GRID is something else... that's why I'm really upset because I'll never see a new one anytime soon
F1 97 has never been topped on console.
What frustrates so much about current games is how bland they are with a controller especially. Despite graphics developments, damage is shocking and basic. You can't have car failures. The obsession with "my team". And don't get me started on microtransactions.
as a racing game dev being a game dev is hard
F1 games don’t change enough from year to year, buy it once every set of new regulations. I bought f124 and won’t buy an f1 game until 2026. I know loads of people still having fun on f120
Nice video and commentary! Getting a F1 Clash ad on this video made it even funnier! 😂👍
Finally someone pointing out that changing the engine won't improve things. It needs an overhaul yes but technically it's solid - the problem is that the handling has gotten confused, multiplayer and backend hasn't been overhauled in a decade, and there's nothing new the games actually offer worth checking out since I last played in anger with 2020.
the quality of this is AMAZING - you earnt a sub
Does anyone even wanna drive these crappy hybrids? I quit playing F1 games because F1 became crap. I still love ripping around every track released for Assetto in the true greatest F1 car of all time though (naturally i mean the F2004)
lots of people do still love the f1 games simply for the new models and the feeling (even though its sort of drifting away from the sport) but then again playing one of codemasters arcadey games or real sim games depends on opinion.
I started at 2018, you’re spot on.
The thing I think is weird is they are trying to make this televised esports league with the game and it’s just not good enough. The drivers aren’t even playing it unless for contractual obligations. Max is playing iRacing not F1
MotoGP games the opposite right now. Milestone are testing new things and they are cooking
I wish they brought back something like Nine Season in 22 though. Maybe back to 2 stroke, it's such a unique experience reliving the history.
@ yeah, career mode should be the same as 22 but of course with updated rider market and stuff, removing the pointless weekends for like a test day or something. Because the way you get into a new team currently is terrible I liked it when you had to find a contract half way through the season with Suzuki or something
It is the microtransactions that for myself ruined everything.
Grand Prix 4 was hands down the greatest F1 simulator ever. And the 2005 - 2010 stretch were some of the best years we've seen.
My view, as someone who's played a lot of F1 racing titles over the course of 42 years (yes I'm old) is this: The majority of F1 racing games have not been realistic simulations. In fact, I can only think of one series, which is the Geoff Crammond Grand Prix series from 1992-2002, which really nailed the F1 simulation vibe. Sure there's stuff like rFactor and other simulators that allow you to download and install f1 packs, but they're not officially licenced (as far as I know) and are more of a general racing simulation (a sort of jack of all trades) than a dedicated F1 racing sim.
The majority of f1 racing games have been things like Pole Position, Pit Stop II, Grand Prix Circuit, Ferrari Formula 1, Super Monaco GP, Vroom, Psygnosis's F1 series, Sony's F1 series and now Codemasters' f1 games. Basically, in all the years of F1 racing games, the vast majority have been fairly arcadey racers with some sim-like elements, and the number of actual deep and realistic F1 racing sims you can probably count on the fingers of one hand.
Ok, the horn and the lobotomy graphic made me spit out my coffee...well done.
7:02 WTF, why does it say Peppa Pig Norwegian?
don't ask questions you aren't prepared to hear the answers for
Lmao. When Ea bought it, I knew it was over.
I disagree on 2021, it was one of the best F1 games i played and maybe that's just nostalgia due to me putting in a lot of time during COVID
2020 was miles better. Huge downgrade
@@tacticalmattress Can I see the reasons to it? Apart from classic cars, I don't remember a thing where F1 2020 did better than 2021. The video creator said things that now that curbs do something with your car and not just a different asphalt being a negative and AI "doing corners that I can't" while is a problem with his driving than anything else.
@@ashleysessyoin0999 21 had way worse handling and had no charm or any new anything. This is the problem that every F1 game that comes out feels the exact same. 2010/12 have heaps of personality with 12 having better AI, 13 had classics cars for the first time ever , 16 was the genesis for career as we know it and we finally got safety cars back which worked, 18 had new regs and the AI started getting decent, 19 had a big graphics update 20 had another big career update but since then what has really changed? Allegedly the AI has downgraded by 24. Besides, 14 years on and there are still so many features missing that could exist.
@@roryfarrugia6020 I felt the handling was much more immersive since it punished the players which were too agressive mainly with we talk about the 2021 regs.
Also, if we're gonna talk about new things, F1 21 had, only by memory:
Damage that really would damage (oh) your car, as in previous games it could launch a missile into your car and only the front wing would be damaged;
Engine failures to the player;
Car setups actually making a difference;
Engine sounds not being the same for all the 4;
The curbs, grass, sand being actually what they're supposed to be instead of just different asphalt;
Story mode "oh but it's bad!!" while I agree, it's still new content and a ok one, not something totally useless like F1 Life
People look harshly on F1 2021 just because it's not as "arcady" as 2020. But it's literally 2020 but better. 2021 does, almost everything, better than 2020.
Also, in career mode, I could talk about the interviews that made the game a little (not much tho) immersive in terms of off-track experience - which it's still not much compared to F1 24 but it's still something against 0 off-track features of 2020; and that you could skip a session by the "fast" session which could really save our time.
F1 2010 is still the best
For me, it went down after F1 2021 happened. That game was from my experiences, as good as F1 2019 and F1 2020. But it went down when F1 22 happened.
I know this isn't really the point of this video (although you did mention it a few times) but I wish the career mode was more interactive.
I love F1 23, it's a much better game than F1 24, but the career mode in 23 is basically just "drive and choose which upgrades you want"
F1 24 still has a pretty bland career mode but at least it has some new things (the secret meetings, the mid-race objectives, etc)
That's why despite being a much worse game, i prefer to play F1 24 over 23.
I REALLY wish f1 25 has a much more in-depth career mode. It's the main point of F1 games for me, as I don't have the confidence to race real people online. I (and many other people I imagine) crave a much more in depth and INTERACTIVE and DIVERSIFIED (as in having many different things to do) career mode
@phenomklopsd4633 it's why im not too negative towards future games in the video, codemasters have two teams that alternate development, so next year it's the f1 23 team again, and seeing as they now have a decent base for career mode, hopefully 25 will be okay. it'll be fun to revisit this in a few months time to see if f1 25 fixes things
@@deputyskog I actually didn't know about the alternating teams thing, thanks for letting me know!
I made some wild predictions with a friend and one of my predictions was that F1 25 would be a banger game. Let's hope that's correct lmfao
EA.
The game has 20 tracks and 20 drivers. 1 car. And they still can't get anything right, it baffles me.
being a game developer is probably very difficult, from the outside we probably see it as easy to create what that fans want but in the reality it might not be
Got an ad for "F1 Clash - Official 2024 Game" at the start of this video. hmmm I wonder if that game is any good
Same way EA has ruined golf games, football games, basketball games, etc etc etc. Obsessive focus on microtransactions and everything else treated as an afterthought
I absolutely agree. The F1 Management games feel so far behind compared to what Football Manager can offer
12:25 F1 2021 was the only F1 game I bought and I still play it on controller from time to time. But you just confirming that its not a skill issue on my part and that the AI is just insanely fast on some corners/tracks makes me feel alot better about my driving skills haha. I do play on controller and Im not the best, but tracks like Hungary, Zandvoort, Singapore are just downright impossible to race on for me without lowering the AI at least 10 ticks from my normal difficulty, otherwise the AI just casually pulls 1 second a lap on me
yeah ! it always baffled me how they never bothered to fix that, it was almost unbearable in medium-downforce corners. every time a new season would start in career id end up removing those tracks bc you couldnt race them properly
I hope no one is surprised this has happened. Especially after EA bought CodeMasters. They keep recycling the gameplay and focus on online modes instead of focusing on the career mode. It’s literally exactly what they’ve done with Madden.
The F1 06 made by Studio Liverpool for the PS2 was amazing compared to some of the latest games. I wish they'd get another chance to make a modern F1 game but FOM would probably not give them a go ahead.
11:20 EA been ruining my life from Fifa 09 to whatever the hell F1 24 is
I dont see how they can comtinue to fuck up and still have people playing these games
The main thing for me is every game after 2018 all looked the same. With only slight lighting improvements and rudimentary ray tracing added in '21. I also always hated the bright vivid primary colors they use, which is unrealistic and detracting. I like the steady improvements of the main core features, as one cannot expect that much real changes here on an annual release cycle. Whats here works.
Hopefully they focus more on the realism side. Engine needs to be updated either to a fully next gen EGO 5.0 or Unreal etc that also supports 3D audio, before anything else.
Unreal engine 5 isn't great for racing games
F1 2020 was the first F1 game that I ever bought. F1 2021 was the last F1 game that I ever bought.
Great video! It’s no surprise that 2 huge sports game franchises with F1 and FIFA have both gone down the toilet and they both happen to be under EA. Who don’t care one bit about any offline career mode, and only care about making as much money as they can.
When the steering wheel in game doesn't match your wheel in real life exactly and it visually has shaking in game just for eye candy, you know it isn't a sim. Its arcade.
Every Formula1 game since F1 challenge 99/02 onwards, has been console pleasing arcade-ness.(in my opinion)
Rfactor 2 or even more so iracing, are where the proper physics are at.
Codemasters will axe the F1 franchise before they start pouring money into it.
They’ll likely justify the move as “lack of player interest”
Should kunos simulazioni hold the f1 and wrc licenses?
Super Monaco GP (1&2) on the Megadrive was the last F1 game I really enjoyed. Oh, F1 Career Challenge on the GameCube was pretty good too.
The only Codemasters F1 I enjoyed was F1 09 on the Wii. The sport itself is kind of boring, also you can't see the track ahead properly because you're too low in the cockpit.
I'd really like to see Super Monaco GP updated on modern consoles. Also a modern graphicsl update of the original game.
The thing is when ever i play the new f1 game at first i think its better but soon after I dislike it again
I wonder what the expiration dates for licensing rights are... Like, if a studio tried making a game with 1950's cars, drivers and tracks, could they be in trouble for that?
Dude EA does this with everything, its always just a bugfix. new menue, updated roster, and its always getting worse.
The Verstappen effect is what I call it.
The games became deplorable from 2021 onwards just like the morals of the sport.
F1 fans are getting exactly what they asked for
@@adem1781 “the morals of the sport”?
@ploppyjr2373 correct
EA was always going to ruin the games, less content, more monetization. But tbh the bigger issue is the yearly release schedule, its always gunna make it difficult to have proper improvements
Its down to licenses, i know.
But give me a historic career.
I want to race next to Senna,Hakinnen,Schumacher.
Then Kimi, Alonso, Culthard.
Hunt, Lauda.
I would buy it. A my team career amongst historic teams would be a goldmine. No wonder F1 2013 and 2020 is still considered the best ones.
The quality of the f1 games is directly correlated to Mercedes performance
I only got into F1 after playing F1 on VR on project cars 2. Now that I see the state of what it is in the official games, I'm just going to mod project cars 2 and keep it up to date that way.
@blaster915 you'd probably really enjoy automobilista 2, it's the same game engine as project cars and has current day f1 cars and a lot of other older ones and they're all included in the base game. it has vr support too, so it may be worth a look if it sounds like something you'd be interested in
@deputyskog funny you mention that I picked that up on sale for Christmas, My only complaint is that it doesn't have a lot of street cars and is much more racing focused and I kind of wanted to cruise around in a lot more classics.
Plus getting VR to work was a pain with it.
@@blaster915 play assetto
"Any dumb stuff is Codemaster's fault and their fault only." No. EA gutted Codemasters. They laid off more than half of the company. EA did (obviously) increase their budget, but Codemasters was already a pretty small studio and EA made it even smaller. That being said, I loved the hidden dig at the energy drinks company masquerading as a racing brand. I'd say 2020 is the best if the AI knew how to handle blue flags - I'd spend a lot of practice and quali screaming "get out of my way".
The switch to UE4 for WRC litterally ruined the game with stuttering and bad optimization,on console dirt rally 2 looks and runs better than wrc.
F1 21 was a huge step backwards imo, the handling felt so bad compared to 18-20
How do you do karting alongside your degree? Is it a hobby you just have or are you pursuing a motorsports career?
@nandoboiii5215 it's a bit of both, i've done a lot of rental karting since after the pandemic but I'm studying automotive & motorsports engineering at university and i'm currently captain of a university karting team with the aim of competing in the new year
Its because they stopped putting the classic cars, lets be honest thats the only thing we want in f1 games is the badass classics!
and good handling
I glad Driver Career been reworked in 24 because i really like F1 2019 over 2020.
2019 you setting your goal by yourself and negotiate with teams basically you set the handicap by yourself.
Since 2020 driver career become stale imo your only goal is meeting Teams goal and thats it.
Best F1 game is F1 Challenge 99-02.
Btw, when you have to use the menu to change DRS settings (like what you showed for F1 2018), you must buy a wheel with more buttons.
I was part of the beta testing for 2019, 2020, and 2021, and every single year the game's beta was EXACTLY the same. Same bugs in audio, graphics, etc. Same issues. The only things that changed were the car designs. It's just lazy. I understand it's a yearly game, so their ability to revamp and make it great is limited, but that's on them. Put in the effort to fix the problems, and the fans will applaud them, but they don't. I actually jumped back into F1 23 a few days ago (I forgot I bought it) and it's garbage. I played through the Braking Point to see how it ends, then uninstalled.
I gotta thank Codemasters and EA for making F1 so trash. It got me into actual sim racing games like AMS2 and iRacing. Never looked back.
For the last 2-3 years I ain't even bought the F1 game, go back to 2022 and I was on a plane going abroad to work on F1 esports and also was running the league that was the forerunner to the Creators Series. But the problems lay deeper than just the games performance and as well in the structure of FOM's & F1 Esports own inability to create a proper platform that allows people from all across the world to have access to the esports series rather than just having everything based in Europe. Its just one of the main reasons why along with many others the game is so far behind iRacing & Assetto Corsa in terms of performance & their own esports series, as the people who run everything are so out of touch with the community they don't really care as long as they are getting their pay check for the most part eventually it will hit them one day but that maybe still way off.
algorithm finally doing its job
Finally someone who just don't blame ea and actually articulate reasons. Ea might have their influence but the series had its bad before the acquisition (as u said f1 2019) but ehy "eA bAd iTs tHeiR faUlT"... It's sad many things got scrapped both for cost of licences and player base not care (untul too late like classic cars) or because of esports olayer not being happy like marbles and wet looks nerfed down (when in the older games u had more spray) or for licences agreement being mad about visual damage (man, i miss the 2021 beta damage)
Agree on the ue part being shit for racing games (many seems to just not know)
This is a great video man. I honestly thought it was a great doco kinda movie and it was great to “take a look through the past…”
We all saw it coming as soon as we heard EA was part if it
Somehow the only good racing games are Iracing an world of outlaws (also owned by iracing is nascar 25')
An people are hyping that up as the greatest NASCAR game since 15'
Y'know what, every racing series should have iracing as there game developers
Also screw ea, they ruined tons of games
@Delawaremylove the thing is before i tried iracing i thought it was overhyped and way too expensive.
i still believe it's too expensive but they got me spending money anyway because it's so much fun
iRacing is great but is not everyone's saviour. Assetto Corsa and Automobilista 2 are currently the best examples of driving Sims; AC because of its longevity through mods and it feels so good to drive, and AMS2 because they had the balls to completely overhaul their modelling and admit they made mistakes.
Imo, F1 2020 and F1 23 were the best F1 games I have played, and AI have played since 2015! I started league racing on 22 where I had to have traction on medium to at least stay pointing in the right direction and ABS on.
F1 23 was my game, traction felt so much better to the point where off felt like medium on the previous years game, however I did run with ABS on for most races as rear-brake locking was very common, but I still managed to win 3 races on it, Hungary was my first in dry-wet-dry conditions, Monaco by 28 seconds (absolutely dominated), and Singapore as the race leader spun out of Turn 3, and I felt confident on it.
F1 24... Eh, honestly is quite bad. I don't feel confident at most tracks which maybe is a setup issue, but I still try and perform. The handling to updates have really screwed me over, and I just can't carry as much speed as I see others doing through corners. I finally did though have a good race around Silverstone where I got a P6... Although I did Qualify in P4, passed them and looked for a podium and then wheel dissconections but I still enjoyed it!
@FeaturesGaming congrats on all your success league racing man, especially monaco, that takes some doing! i agree with the rear locking on f1 23 as well, i appreciated that it was in the game the first few times it happened but after a while i felt it was way too sensitive too.
i haven't done any sort of racing on f1 24 yet, i just can't find a good feeling anymore plus i spent too much money on iracing so im trying to get my moneys worth and do events on that lmao
F1 can be a one time purchase game, since they're all the same anyways, they can just have yearly updates with older titles available as a game mode if you're into that and can have maybe DLCs here and there.
F1 2011 on 3DS was truly the peak.
I really enjoyed the campaign in F1 23 on ps4.. didn’t bother with F1 24 because they removed any campaign..
F1 1950>F12024 and f12022
@@Tsuinryu I was lucky. 2021 was the first game I bought and I always skip a year then buy the next one once its off, so my next one was 2023 at like 10eu
I gave up playing F1 games after 23. Without a new engine, it seems that we are always playing F1 2019 with a different skin.
The best one is f23 imo it's just fun. With F2020 being after just because of the classic cars but yeah thx god for ea play so that I don't have to buy for these reskins
I stopped buying the exact second that EA took over. The games are just like free to play games now but at full price
The best place to start wasnt F1 2014. It was Grand Prix 2.
@@jornnnnnnnnnnnn you can't really determine the quality of the f1 codemasters game and understand the current trajectory by going to the 90s, but i would love to make a video on the grand prix series at some point.
apologies for the loss of music and the abrupt cut at the end, had to make some changes to get monetization and youtube's own editor sucks.
When he said next gen hardware I thought he meant the 2014 hybrid regs
€A thats why
Saying f1 20 is the best f1 racing game is crazy, i think im missing something because i couldnt make the first corner in bahrain without passing through heaven first, at easy mode the cars dont play at all, and in dificult mode they dont let you pay at all, i felt like buying wreckfest just to get the real feeling of playing f1 20, or even a junkyard sandbox game, those where you mash cars into boxes of metal, not to mention the car oversteer and the awful conditioning system they had on the tires, and the fact you couldnt change dificulties mid season, so ye you need to start over again if you want to be rammed consecutively over 5 hours in the same 3 first corners of BAHRAIN!
Also wrc is great by all means, i tried elite dangerous and eve online before, but after trying wrc i felt like this was actually the best spaceship simulator there is 10/10, its like playing interstellar.
On a serious note, if anyone wants an actual racing simulator just get the assetto corsa franchise, any will do, its actually insane that despite the game being 10 years old is so so good any every aspect to racing (its heavily modded and can be fully tuned), and for rally just go rally 2.0
Started to go down hill when they started to remove cool features or game modes instead of expand them. For example classic cars. Such a cool thing. And yet they removed it. Or using most likely huge amount of resources to make a glorified menu (f1 life) or whatever it called. EA just made it a joke of a game. I’d much rather play a gran turismo type game over garbage
EA Sports:
Get Rights to game
Get Official support from athletes
Make shit game
Next year
Make same shit game
Next year:
Make same shit game
Somehow the hardware requirements have jumped dramatically in the past 5 years, while having no noticeable visual fidelity improvements. F1 2019 was a really light game, just sipping power. F1 23 meanwhile is using all the power it can use just to play 60fps. Its very disappointing
It’s EA. Every time they get ahold of a property, they ruin it.
never do that jumpscare again bro
F1 2020 Checo was on same level with Norris, I wonder how that will look like in 2025 xD
This guy deserves 100K+ subscribers
I just purchased F1 24 for the first time, I also tried f1 23 on Game Pass PC. I kept spinning over and over. It did not feel right. I don’t know why people complains about the 2024? it’s just so much easier to drive and the Nose so pointed it feels like a go cart after I tried both games Back to Back I made a dedication delete the F1 23 and bought the F1 24!.