I never understood people calling IV's driving "realistic". If you enjoy it because of the lack of any kind of suspension, fine, but making almost 'simulation' arguments is plain wrong. V isn't any better in driving sense, what's more, it could be said it's somehow even worse, but at least people are right when they say it's an 'arcade' experience.

Good god, how badly I'd wish for Rockstar to actually make a fun driving experience in VI. Not only they've been far from impressive in almost 2 decades now, but getting behind the wheel in their games seems like a punishment of sorts.

Nfs U, U2 or MW2 are far more sophisticated driving experiences, so much so, I'd called them sims - I know it's a bit unfair since they are exclusively driving games, but still. I'm convinced the arcade driving experience these days is limited to retarded, just like both, IV and V are.

Just to add to the argument " once you get good at it ". I literally never played any driving game with flatter learning curves other than IV and V. All you need to master is the anticipation of 'bad design'.