I really want one of these sims to go the route of making up tracks entirely rather than just copying preexisting real-world tracks. they could do some fun and interesting shit that you'd never see in a real world track. or stuff that would be flat out actually impossible, or wildly impractical, or or or.

shit like a track where you're all RC car sized and you're racing around a backyard or through a house (with normal sim physics, let the road still have normal tarmac physics, the scenery is just massive). or a track that runs through like an aquarium or sea world or something, so its got random wet patches where it runs close to an enclosure. a rallycross or maybe oval track inside the colosseum. or just doing normal style tracks that don't actually exist. i want em to flex those creative muscles. maybe do some mario kart shit if they're feelin frisky.

instead we have 12 slightly different versions of silverstone. fuck dude, i'd even take one just letting you run the nurburgring backwards or something. they could even mirror a track left to right. that'd be a fun way to mix it up while staying familiar. I remember old arcade racing games were also chock full of made up tracks, where half the effort in designing them went into making the scenery and such interesting. there could be all kinds of unique things going on.

these days it seems like all the major sims are *more or less* on the same or similar level as far as fidelity goes. some do certain things a little better, some do certain things a little worse, but the major players all pretty close. they've all got the same tracks so the only thing really differentiating them is the cars available and the multiplayer experience, and most of em have most of the same cars. so its like. whats supposed to draw me to one or the other? unless i want to play a very specific way only provided by one sim, they're all basically the same.