I posted this in another thread but it's relevant here as well:
"So I reinstalled AC for fun and man, I really missed this game. I remember the first time I drove the Lotus SC when I got my first gaming PC in 2013 and having a smile on my face the whole night. It's still the same even today. The cars seem so alive! Simple tuning with few adjustments on the street cars, options of track tires or street tires, vintage tires on older cars etc. It's not perfect by any stretch but I feel more of a connection to the road with AC than any other sim I've played. It runs great on the PC and is easy to do triples on max settings as well, with current moderate hardware. Having RSR Live Timing available and able to compare your laptimes to some very fast drivers is great as well."
Intuitive is the right word as Biggles said above. When something is happening with the car, assuming you have a wheel, you know what you did wrong or right. That's not always the case in Gran Turismo, PCars, iRacing etc. It's not perfect. Hard to keep the tires hot in many cars for eg. but for me, it's the game that gives the best pure joy of driving feeling of any I've tried so far. With all the free mod cars/tracks/apps there is endless content and the online community is still very active. I especially enjoy the smaller club/local/obscure tracks like Magione, Vallelunga, Tsukuba, Grobnik, Barbagallo, Goodwood etc. Most are mods but Magione and Vallelunga are included in the base game. I haven't raced the AI much but from what I remember they were very challenging.
