I have trouble getting into car games for the same reason. In a game you have a fixed camera perspective and can't see past the next corner, neither can you guage speed well.
Then you have the whole feel thing, a decent car will comunicate how the road feels to the triver through the wheel, and their backside so you can feel the traction going a long time before you hear the noise of the tires giving out.
You also have gravity that is non existent in a game. It's bad enough that I can have more fun throwing my own car around street corners at 25-30 mph, heeltoing the throttle for rev matching down through the gears balancing the car before turning in and enjoying feeling the threshold of the tires as oversteer starts to kick in as you accelerate hard out.
If you could simulate all those feelings and the buzz when you get it right, you wouldn't need the graphics. There really isn't that much immersion in current realistic games, and the only thing you really do have is like someone else said. A story that negates the repetition and makes you want to find out what happens further along in the game.
Then you have the whole feel thing, a decent car will comunicate how the road feels to the triver through the wheel, and their backside so you can feel the traction going a long time before you hear the noise of the tires giving out.
You also have gravity that is non existent in a game. It's bad enough that I can have more fun throwing my own car around street corners at 25-30 mph, heeltoing the throttle for rev matching down through the gears balancing the car before turning in and enjoying feeling the threshold of the tires as oversteer starts to kick in as you accelerate hard out.
If you could simulate all those feelings and the buzz when you get it right, you wouldn't need the graphics. There really isn't that much immersion in current realistic games, and the only thing you really do have is like someone else said. A story that negates the repetition and makes you want to find out what happens further along in the game.