Problem with F1 23 (I havent bothered to buy F1 24) is the fact that literally every single car goes on the same strategy. It is SO boring not to see any variety. I mean I had a wet race in Austria, was running P2 and decided to gamble by boxing for softs and managed to get back up to P2, literally none of the AI came in, which is just unrealistic. IRL probably a couple teams at least would pit. There just needs to be that variety in strategy and the racing would then come naturally with it as you have people on different aged tyres
@Spikyteam0.0 35%, I understand that the strategy is more diverse the longer the race but at the same time I don't want to be doing 1.5-2hr races unless I've got some friends doing it with me
@@Mc10editsF1 23 also has BRAKING POINT 2. F1 23 imo was the LAST GOOD F1 GAME. Even though its behind F1 2021, its good overall. I still strongly agree that F1 2021 engine sound is so much better than 24.
The problem of 21 for me was the strange handling it had and still has. I was so often spinning for no reason! Strange physics. BUT! Camera? Design! Graphics! And small shit like the engine starting sound in the pits that is way better than in all games after was fantastic! Much ♥️ for 21!
I didn't know about Matt's supermarket > TH-camr story. No matter how big or small, stories of daring and determination are always really good to hear. We are very fortunate. From my own perspective, I know I have benefitted greatly from his commitment both alone and with Gary Owen. And how providential that exactly when it needed to be, Codemasters delivered the bet F1 game ever under their watch.
Even though if its just nostalgia, f1 2021 is the best f1 game, ahead of 2020, the media was at its peak with this game with co op, and the f1 season made it so much better
F1 23 is underappreciated man. People say "last good game was 2020/2021" but then forget about 23 in between 22 and 24 which were the bad ones. If 24 was 23 handling it would definitely be a better experience. It was one of the best games for me. Regarding the other games, can't always be perfect as much as people want it to be. F1 24 if you ignore the handling is a decent game tbh. So they have a good base. People have short term memory loss a lot online so it's not surprising that people forget easily.
Handling isn't the only problem with F1 24. ERS balance and AI management of it is also a huge issue, and there are probably more that I can't think of at the moment. Even the updated driver career has many issues on its own. 23 is overall a better package.
2021 was the first game that was a step back imo. I loved the classic cars in 2020 and there was really nothing new. I didn’t get the game until they added imola a few months later
2021 has the best circuits and was an improvement of 2020. Not sure how it was a step back in anyway. It had all the same features plus the first year of the story mode.
@@Agdem_ the cars had so much understeer compared to 2020. It feels like were doing revisionism here because i remember people and creators were furious on twitter and f1 game forums talking about how unfun the cars were to drive when the game came out. Everything else tho was perfect
My first F1 game was F1 2018, even though i bought it in 2020. I played 1 season of driver career before i upgraded to F1 2020, where i played 3 seasons of MyTeam career and won one world championship. When F1 2021 dropped, i was absolutely hooked because the real life season was insanely intense and so i played 9 seasons of MyTeam career where i won 6 world championships (my AI level was probably a bit too low for my skill level). Even though F1 2020 had the better handling and classic cars, i still prefer F1 2021 because it was the first game that had quick practice (which was really nice if you knew all the tracks already) and because it was the game that introduced player engine failures which had the ability to make championship fights in career mode so much more interesting.
F1 2021 truly is the LAST EVER GREAT F1. Both in game and real life. I still never forget the intensity between Hamilton vs Verstappen throughout the entire 2021 F1 Season, all the way till the final lap of 2021 F1 Season.... 3 years ago feels like yesterday. 😭
Me personally I fw F1 2018 heavily, after that game, on f1 2020 and f1 2021 I was plagued with broken tracks that would take a million years to load, making me uninstall and reinstall over and over just to fix it
I've learned that nothing in life is perfect. Do i wish games did this and that, or I would've done things differently? Sure, but i also learned when it comes to racing games its not easy to get them to be exactly loke real life so i dont set my expectations to high. And people should've learned by now not to pre-order and wait for reveiws or watching others do gameplay before buying it.
Still playing f1 2023 and f1 2020. For me the best two games in the last years. F1 2023 is much better than f1 2024, it has a good handling. In f1 2024 I cant fell the car in the low-speed corners.
such a good game loved it my school didnt have zoom calls alwell so i grinded this game and 2020 loved it and we need to re visit 2017 loved that game to
F1 2021 was definitely where I felt I was at my fastest personally, I felt very good in TT, Multiplayer was very fun, and Career was Career tbh, it’s honestly been the worst part of the series imo. I would definitely agree that F1 2021 was the last great game we’ve had, it was the final game before EA acquired the studio and had influence, so that was a major plus.
Is it just me or is taking abbey in silverstone hard on f1 2021 because I always oversteer into the corner and crash when I try to take it flat out, to the point where I have to lift.
I literally just downloaded the game again the only thing about this game as a controller player it’s not very nice to drive on controller as f1 23 as I haven’t played f1 24 yet
What if we n f1 career mode you could choose a year you start and go back to those cars with the same teams and driver line up and the cars and livery that changed every season you did to what they were irl with every time the rules and regulations changed like in f1 22 the cars would look as they did in the years after for the next 4seasons
This is probably my least fevoriet F1 game from a gameplay standpoint, I despise the handeling (altho not as bad as 22 but atleast I had fun in that game from time to time), altho the OST, especialy the multiplayer lobby theme, is a banger, and it added F1 coop career back with an option to be on oposing teams rather then just the same team, and Real Season Starts which for some reason never made a return and that sadens me. For me tho F1 2012 and 2020 will always be the best, in that order. Also fun fact according to the steam charts, F1 2015 was the game with the most peak players and driver transfers were added in F1 2019.
2019s biggest strength is contract system like irl drivers do. Onward 2020 21 22 23 that was gone only goal is doing good job for teams standards. Contract systems are replaced to contract renwel perk which requires money meaning you only had to play invitational event and facility isnt working well for driver caree4 24 being able to sign multiple Year contract and team transfer limited to RTG level is brilliant imo
Hey Matt! I just tried to go back to F1 2021 after playing F124 and I am just finding the cars so horribly understeery. I can't throw them into the corner and I feel like I my trail braking is not working anymore. Any ideas why the cars feel so understeery?
No... just no... F1 2021 was the first BAD F1 Game in the new F1 Era. 1. The Graphics are worse, than in F1 2020 2. We had a lot of bugs in the game, which also made the Multiplayer unplayable sometimes And 3 (and this is the BIGGEST Gamebreak in F1 2021) the differential had a bug, which made you losing grip in high speed corners. Turn off the Traction Control and you will see, what I mean. For example it is almost impossible to drive full throttle through the last corner in zandvoort or eau rouge at spa or the last corner at portugal.
For me it's actually one of the worst in the series,I know everyone loves it but I can't understand why,I absolutely hate the handling (2020 was amazing but I can't for the life of me drive in 21) ,they removed classic cars and the hybrid whistling gives me headaches in this game,so I can never play it for more than an hour xD Edit: also the bugs,to this day I still often get that bug where your car drives like the floor is destroyed at random
So as someone who has F1 21 and 24 should I bother buying f123 or is 24 equal to it? They should be making it more like f1 manager 24 get the real driver and race engineer voices into it tell mark/jeff to f&ck off. It would give much better immersion just a simple tweak like that. Also for the love of god please give us a patch that reflects the true pace of McLaren, alpine and Aston Martin. Alonso on second row every race isn’t realistic and I can’t live in a world where lance stroll makes it into q3 every race 😂
F1 2021 Isnt the est f1 game far from it. Imo 2020 was the last good f1 game, everything went downhill from there. Was f1 21 worst than f1 22 and 23? No but as a pad user the handling and racing wax HORRIBLE for me. I didn't enjoy it as much as 2020, compared to 22 and 23 it was ok but just ok for me.
Handling was amazing, story was good for its first attempt, and my team and career didn't need updates at that point because it had just gotten a massive one the year prior (the addition of my team itself) Plus you got the real season start and career customisation with the r&d and the cash sliders. That's a good improvement from 2020 which was a very very good game anyway
@@Frizzstroyer for controller the handling took a huge step back from 2019 and 2020. The story unfortunately wasn’t good in 21 or 23 which is a real shame bc I wanted it to be good so badly, but it wasn’t as good as Grid Legends even which is in itself a cringe story but they managed to do the whole DTS thing better than the actual F1 games have. Career sliders I will admit was a good addition but I don’t really think they have much impact on the career, at least not as much as I’d like them to.
Counter point... Brake point didn't need to be amazing story telling, it told a semi realistic story which can and has happened in F1 before I'd go so far as to call it safe. In 23 it tackled a fairly hot button topic in how the first female drive in F1 would be like and the pressures that'd have. Whilst also keeping a fairly compelling but again... safe narrative it's genuinely hard to make a story for F1 without going either too Hollywood or too bland whilst also being somewhat realistic about how tensions and such play out
@@drebbihc I played on controller in 2021 and switched to wheel when I got one at Christmas that year. Wheel felt better, but that's given. Controller was fine. You just need to make your own setup to suit it You can't use the default or premade setups by other people because it won't work
@@Frizzstroyer yeah that’s what I dislike about it though, it loses the pick up and play element. I only play on controller and tbh I don’t see any point spaffing £70 on a game that I can’t just jump in and play. It’s not iRacing, it’s a game for everyone to be able to play and if you have to start messing around making your own setups to be able to control the car it’s a big no for me. Might be good for someone with a wheel who sweats the game and wants to think they’re a pro like most of these TH-camrs but for the general casual player it sucks arse.
f1 games have definitely been worse since ea came around. but is it a surprise? ea ruins every single brand and sport they put their greedy little hands on. madden for example (a football game for those who may not know) runs on the same fkn game engine as battlefield does. ea will never put in any effort to make a game good, just profitable.
Absolutely not. And I have reasons. 1: The handling was complete garbage. It's like EA wanted to make Need for Speed, but they made F1 instead, and the cars felt like that, like they wanted to drift in any corner. High speed corners were nigh impossible because the cars had a huge tendency to spin. Especially Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Catalunya and Silverstone were absolutely nightmarish to drive, and don't get me started on the curbs that were basically made of ice. 2: Speaking of Melbourne, the calendar is incorrect. The 2021 calendar has Melbourne as Round 1 followed by Bahrain, Imola and Shanghai (later replaced with Portimão), but this isn't depicted in-game. Instead, Melbourne is the third to last race, and EA SPORTS was too lazy to implement a function to change the race order in-between seasons, making this the worst calendar in the history of F1. 3: AI driver performance is completely unrealistic. I have seen several cases in which Valtteri Bottas becomes champion instead of Lewis Hamilton, who is certainly the better driver. Worse though, ever since the update that changed the car performance, Verstappen dominates everything in Career Mode unless you hold him up or take him out. Heck, even Daniel Ricciardo became champion one time! 4: The damage is ridiculous. You just minimally scratch your front wing, and it feels like 95% of your front downforce is gone even though there is zero visual damage. Like, what the heck has EA SPORTS been doing? This is no damage model for an F1 car, and it's not like F1 cars don't have an underfloor that generates high speed downforce. 5: Engine failures. While it's nice that the player can suffer terminal failures too, they happen way too often. I have seen one case in which someone suffered two failures in five races on low fault frequency, which is absolutely ridiculous, and it's sad that the durability upgrades don't decrease the probability of it happening. Especially since the bug in F1 23 from the same developer that gives terminal failures on standard fault types, I don't use this feature anymore. 6: This may be a perspective thing, but another big problem is the lack of soul. After taking over the development, EA SPORTS didn't even bother to get some of the experienced staff from Codemasters who made F1 2020. If they did, the game would have had more content like classic cars, short tracks and invitational events. However, EA SPORTS only made a basically barebones game with just the most necessary things. Heck, unlike F1 2020, the current F2 championship was missing at launch. I understand that this was EA SPORTS first F1 game since 2002, but considering that F1 2020, the predecessor, was the best F1 game ever at that time, the successor was not just a disaster, it was an utter catastrophe. Looking back, had the buyout never happened, F1 2021 could have been massively better compared to what we got, and this is so sad... I don't know how you guys feel about it, but F1 2021 is the worst F1 game ever, that is before F1 23 came out and reached an even lower all-time low.
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Problem with F1 23 (I havent bothered to buy F1 24) is the fact that literally every single car goes on the same strategy. It is SO boring not to see any variety. I mean I had a wet race in Austria, was running P2 and decided to gamble by boxing for softs and managed to get back up to P2, literally none of the AI came in, which is just unrealistic. IRL probably a couple teams at least would pit. There just needs to be that variety in strategy and the racing would then come naturally with it as you have people on different aged tyres
There are NO AI strategies in F1 24 and it makes it very frustrating...
What length of races do you race?
@Spikyteam0.0 35%, I understand that the strategy is more diverse the longer the race but at the same time I don't want to be doing 1.5-2hr races unless I've got some friends doing it with me
@@Rollercoaster_Madness yeah, but how long do you do? I do 35% a d its always a one stop
@@Spikyteam0.0he said 35%, so same as you
F1 2021 was a great game, F122 was garbage. F123 was decent. Really enjoyed f1 2021 , the games have gone downhill since 21.
For me 2023 was super good, idk why
@@Mc10editsbecause it has the best handling model, that’s probably why
@@Mc10editsF1 23 also has BRAKING POINT 2. F1 23 imo was the LAST GOOD F1 GAME. Even though its behind F1 2021, its good overall. I still strongly agree that F1 2021 engine sound is so much better than 24.
Conveniently, 2021 was developed before EA bought Codemasters :/
My favorite game is 23. Because of the handling. I LOVE the handling on 23
The problem of 21 for me was the strange handling it had and still has. I was so often spinning for no reason! Strange physics.
BUT! Camera? Design! Graphics! And small shit like the engine starting sound in the pits that is way better than in all games after was fantastic!
Much ♥️ for 21!
What a nostalgia trip.... my fav F1 Game... and that Soundtrack in different menus was something else...
F1 2021 Main Theme also as legendary as even Nijigasaki Season 3 OVA Ending theme of "Singing Dreaming Now"... 😭
2021 is where series began to fell, 2020 was the last actual good one
F1 2020 was the one
2020 and 2021 are still legendary games along with F1 06 Championship Edition.
For some reason in my f1 23 I’ve never had rain in a race in over 4 seasons
maybe you have it turned off xD
Bro climate change hit hard
😂@@Archetaa
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Set your races to 50% or more and try a track like Canada.
I just bought F1 2021 today
Absolute banger of a game
I didn't know about Matt's supermarket > TH-camr story. No matter how big or small, stories of daring and determination are always really good to hear. We are very fortunate. From my own perspective, I know I have benefitted greatly from his commitment both alone and with Gary Owen. And how providential that exactly when it needed to be, Codemasters delivered the bet F1 game ever under their watch.
Even though if its just nostalgia, f1 2021 is the best f1 game, ahead of 2020, the media was at its peak with this game with co op, and the f1 season made it so much better
F1 23 is underappreciated man. People say "last good game was 2020/2021" but then forget about 23 in between 22 and 24 which were the bad ones. If 24 was 23 handling it would definitely be a better experience. It was one of the best games for me. Regarding the other games, can't always be perfect as much as people want it to be. F1 24 if you ignore the handling is a decent game tbh. So they have a good base.
People have short term memory loss a lot online so it's not surprising that people forget easily.
Handling isn't the only problem with F1 24. ERS balance and AI management of it is also a huge issue, and there are probably more that I can't think of at the moment. Even the updated driver career has many issues on its own. 23 is overall a better package.
I 100% AGREE
@@steelin666 I don't play career so I know very little about the AI things. Mainly do league racing
@@CombinedYT15 ERS management supposedly sucks for online racing as well, but I guess it's a personal taste thing to some degree.
@@steelin666engine sounds in F1 2021 and 23 both also way more authentic than 24.
i think f1 23 is capable of competing for this title but f1 2021 is better by a tiny margin
I might have to also re-visit F1 23 👀
2021 was the first game that was a step back imo. I loved the classic cars in 2020 and there was really nothing new. I didn’t get the game until they added imola a few months later
2021 has the best circuits and was an improvement of 2020. Not sure how it was a step back in anyway. It had all the same features plus the first year of the story mode.
@@Agdem_ the cars had so much understeer compared to 2020. It feels like were doing revisionism here because i remember people and creators were furious on twitter and f1 game forums talking about how unfun the cars were to drive when the game came out. Everything else tho was perfect
My first F1 game was F1 2018, even though i bought it in 2020. I played 1 season of driver career before i upgraded to F1 2020, where i played 3 seasons of MyTeam career and won one world championship. When F1 2021 dropped, i was absolutely hooked because the real life season was insanely intense and so i played 9 seasons of MyTeam career where i won 6 world championships (my AI level was probably a bit too low for my skill level). Even though F1 2020 had the better handling and classic cars, i still prefer F1 2021 because it was the first game that had quick practice (which was really nice if you knew all the tracks already) and because it was the game that introduced player engine failures which had the ability to make championship fights in career mode so much more interesting.
F1 2021 truly is the LAST EVER GREAT F1. Both in game and real life. I still never forget the intensity between Hamilton vs Verstappen throughout the entire 2021 F1 Season, all the way till the final lap of 2021 F1 Season.... 3 years ago feels like yesterday. 😭
The supermarket story motivates me to practise and get faster. I ❤ the channel, always very entertaining and funny!
I think the top rated F1 game is F1 2020.
Me personally I fw F1 2018 heavily, after that game, on f1 2020 and f1 2021 I was plagued with broken tracks that would take a million years to load, making me uninstall and reinstall over and over just to fix it
I've learned that nothing in life is perfect. Do i wish games did this and that, or I would've done things differently? Sure, but i also learned when it comes to racing games its not easy to get them to be exactly loke real life so i dont set my expectations to high. And people should've learned by now not to pre-order and wait for reveiws or watching others do gameplay before buying it.
Many 2024 games need to take notes on what 2021 games actually did.
After 20 driver career felt just doing good job for teams standard
I liked 24 career alot
F1 2021 still holds up very well even in 2024.
Still playing f1 2023 and f1 2020. For me the best two games in the last years. F1 2023 is much better than f1 2024, it has a good handling. In f1 2024 I cant fell the car in the low-speed corners.
23 was my favorite game. I loveeee the handling on 23. And i am a controller player
such a good game loved it my school didnt have zoom calls alwell so i grinded this game and 2020 loved it
and we need to re visit 2017 loved that game to
The only bad thing was that there was classic car
F1 2021 was definitely where I felt I was at my fastest personally, I felt very good in TT, Multiplayer was very fun, and Career was Career tbh, it’s honestly been the worst part of the series imo. I would definitely agree that F1 2021 was the last great game we’ve had, it was the final game before EA acquired the studio and had influence, so that was a major plus.
Is it just me or is taking abbey in silverstone hard on f1 2021 because I always oversteer into the corner and crash when I try to take it flat out, to the point where I have to lift.
I hate that you can't buy f1 2021/2020 anymore
Imo f1 2017 was the best f1 game I've played from the current Xbox 1/ps4
Same
F1 2021 Jeddah was so much fun I wish Qatar was in that game. F1 2021 was a great game
This game also added 2 player career mode
TH-cam just keeps recommending kiwis with absolutely the best takes on videogames and I don't know why.
2020. downfall since then
I literally just downloaded the game again the only thing about this game as a controller player it’s not very nice to drive on controller as f1 23 as I haven’t played f1 24 yet
I have 400+ hours on this one... more than 3x more compared to every game I've ever owned!
Sadly, F1 2021 was not included VR. Otherwise, not bad at all.
My first f1 game follow from this game but I am never play this game I have good memories from this game I love this game I miss this game soo much
from f1 21 to f1 22 properly dropped because of the amount of fans that was mad about the carnage that was Abu dabi
2020 is the best F1 game followed by 21 a close 2nd.
If were talking current ea era yes, 21, 23 22 in that order from the first 3 ea additions but otherwise no far from the best f1 gzme i ever played
What if we n f1 career mode you could choose a year you start and go back to those cars with the same teams and driver line up and the cars and livery that changed every season you did to what they were irl with every time the rules and regulations changed like in f1 22 the cars would look as they did in the years after for the next 4seasons
2015 = 3/10
2016 = 5/10
2017 = 7/10
2018 = 7.5/10
2019 = 8.5/10
2020 = 8/10
2021: 8.5/10
2022= 4/10
2023= 7/10
2024= 5/10
If only a f1 21 steam key wasnt like 60 bucks still
This is probably my least fevoriet F1 game from a gameplay standpoint, I despise the handeling (altho not as bad as 22 but atleast I had fun in that game from time to time), altho the OST, especialy the multiplayer lobby theme, is a banger, and it added F1 coop career back with an option to be on oposing teams rather then just the same team, and Real Season Starts which for some reason never made a return and that sadens me.
For me tho F1 2012 and 2020 will always be the best, in that order. Also fun fact according to the steam charts, F1 2015 was the game with the most peak players and driver transfers were added in F1 2019.
2019s biggest strength is contract system like irl drivers do.
Onward 2020 21 22 23 that was gone only goal is doing good job for teams standards.
Contract systems are replaced to contract renwel perk which requires money meaning you only had to play invitational event and facility isnt working well for driver caree4
24 being able to sign multiple Year contract and team transfer limited to RTG level is brilliant imo
To answer the title yes 😂😂😂
Hey Matt! I just tried to go back to F1 2021 after playing F124 and I am just finding the cars so horribly understeery. I can't throw them into the corner and I feel like I my trail braking is not working anymore. Any ideas why the cars feel so understeery?
I hope F1 2025 will beat them all
Robbing a fantastic Driver him 8 ,world title Now a fantastic GAME .WOW .
F1 2020 was the best I’ve ever played F1 21 was still up there F1 22 was terrible F1 23 was a bit better than 22 24 is a better game than last years
go back to f1 22 next, preferably on stream
brother that game was ass
@@lucasdiazlehmann2615 It's for throwback videos. It'll be an "F1 downfall" video
No. f1 2020 was actually really good
No... just no... F1 2021 was the first BAD F1 Game in the new F1 Era.
1. The Graphics are worse, than in F1 2020
2. We had a lot of bugs in the game, which also made the Multiplayer unplayable sometimes
And 3 (and this is the BIGGEST Gamebreak in F1 2021) the differential had a bug, which made you losing grip in high speed corners. Turn off the Traction Control and you will see, what I mean. For example it is almost impossible to drive full throttle through the last corner in zandvoort or eau rouge at spa or the last corner at portugal.
13:11 Through goes Hamilton!!
F1 21 was a huge downgrade compared to 2020
For me it's actually one of the worst in the series,I know everyone loves it but I can't understand why,I absolutely hate the handling (2020 was amazing but I can't for the life of me drive in 21) ,they removed classic cars and the hybrid whistling gives me headaches in this game,so I can never play it for more than an hour xD
Edit: also the bugs,to this day I still often get that bug where your car drives like the floor is destroyed at random
Funny it is best last game because EA didnt do nothink and codemaster go quality over everything that why they pumped banger after banger
Nope.. The F1 2020 was the last best F1 game.. classic cars, normal handling, smaller bugs and this is my most played F1 game ever in the hybrid era..
I've played 7 seasons on f1 career on 24 and i haven't had one ai crash/safety car
To each their own but guys will spend good money on racing gear just to choose tv pod view, makes no sense to me. No realism or immersion there.
F12021 was okay, a step back from 20 in every way though. Worse handling and no classic cars.
Yes it was
So as someone who has F1 21 and 24 should I bother buying f123 or is 24 equal to it?
They should be making it more like f1 manager 24 get the real driver and race engineer voices into it tell mark/jeff to f&ck off. It would give much better immersion just a simple tweak like that. Also for the love of god please give us a patch that reflects the true pace of McLaren, alpine and Aston Martin. Alonso on second row every race isn’t realistic and I can’t live in a world where lance stroll makes it into q3 every race 😂
no bro, I liked f1 2018 better
F1 2021 Isnt the est f1 game far from it. Imo 2020 was the last good f1 game, everything went downhill from there. Was f1 21 worst than f1 22 and 23? No but as a pad user the handling and racing wax HORRIBLE for me. I didn't enjoy it as much as 2020, compared to 22 and 23 it was ok but just ok for me.
Merc engine sounds the worst in 21. Also
No, the handling was horrible, story was bland, my team and career got like no upgrades
Handling was amazing, story was good for its first attempt, and my team and career didn't need updates at that point because it had just gotten a massive one the year prior (the addition of my team itself)
Plus you got the real season start and career customisation with the r&d and the cash sliders. That's a good improvement from 2020 which was a very very good game anyway
@@Frizzstroyer for controller the handling took a huge step back from 2019 and 2020. The story unfortunately wasn’t good in 21 or 23 which is a real shame bc I wanted it to be good so badly, but it wasn’t as good as Grid Legends even which is in itself a cringe story but they managed to do the whole DTS thing better than the actual F1 games have.
Career sliders I will admit was a good addition but I don’t really think they have much impact on the career, at least not as much as I’d like them to.
Counter point...
Brake point didn't need to be amazing story telling, it told a semi realistic story which can and has happened in F1 before I'd go so far as to call it safe. In 23 it tackled a fairly hot button topic in how the first female drive in F1 would be like and the pressures that'd have. Whilst also keeping a fairly compelling but again... safe narrative it's genuinely hard to make a story for F1 without going either too Hollywood or too bland whilst also being somewhat realistic about how tensions and such play out
@@drebbihc I played on controller in 2021 and switched to wheel when I got one at Christmas that year. Wheel felt better, but that's given. Controller was fine. You just need to make your own setup to suit it
You can't use the default or premade setups by other people because it won't work
@@Frizzstroyer yeah that’s what I dislike about it though, it loses the pick up and play element. I only play on controller and tbh I don’t see any point spaffing £70 on a game that I can’t just jump in and play. It’s not iRacing, it’s a game for everyone to be able to play and if you have to start messing around making your own setups to be able to control the car it’s a big no for me. Might be good for someone with a wheel who sweats the game and wants to think they’re a pro like most of these TH-camrs but for the general casual player it sucks arse.
Nah, it was the first step back
2020 was good 2021 same 22 rubbish but 23 and 24 are good
no after 2020 only 2023 was good.
f1 games have definitely been worse since ea came around. but is it a surprise? ea ruins every single brand and sport they put their greedy little hands on. madden for example (a football game for those who may not know) runs on the same fkn game engine as battlefield does. ea will never put in any effort to make a game good, just profitable.
Absolutely not. And I have reasons.
1: The handling was complete garbage. It's like EA wanted to make Need for Speed, but they made F1 instead, and the cars felt like that, like they wanted to drift in any corner. High speed corners were nigh impossible because the cars had a huge tendency to spin. Especially Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Catalunya and Silverstone were absolutely nightmarish to drive, and don't get me started on the curbs that were basically made of ice.
2: Speaking of Melbourne, the calendar is incorrect. The 2021 calendar has Melbourne as Round 1 followed by Bahrain, Imola and Shanghai (later replaced with Portimão), but this isn't depicted in-game. Instead, Melbourne is the third to last race, and EA SPORTS was too lazy to implement a function to change the race order in-between seasons, making this the worst calendar in the history of F1.
3: AI driver performance is completely unrealistic. I have seen several cases in which Valtteri Bottas becomes champion instead of Lewis Hamilton, who is certainly the better driver. Worse though, ever since the update that changed the car performance, Verstappen dominates everything in Career Mode unless you hold him up or take him out. Heck, even Daniel Ricciardo became champion one time!
4: The damage is ridiculous. You just minimally scratch your front wing, and it feels like 95% of your front downforce is gone even though there is zero visual damage. Like, what the heck has EA SPORTS been doing? This is no damage model for an F1 car, and it's not like F1 cars don't have an underfloor that generates high speed downforce.
5: Engine failures. While it's nice that the player can suffer terminal failures too, they happen way too often. I have seen one case in which someone suffered two failures in five races on low fault frequency, which is absolutely ridiculous, and it's sad that the durability upgrades don't decrease the probability of it happening. Especially since the bug in F1 23 from the same developer that gives terminal failures on standard fault types, I don't use this feature anymore.
6: This may be a perspective thing, but another big problem is the lack of soul. After taking over the development, EA SPORTS didn't even bother to get some of the experienced staff from Codemasters who made F1 2020. If they did, the game would have had more content like classic cars, short tracks and invitational events. However, EA SPORTS only made a basically barebones game with just the most necessary things. Heck, unlike F1 2020, the current F2 championship was missing at launch.
I understand that this was EA SPORTS first F1 game since 2002, but considering that F1 2020, the predecessor, was the best F1 game ever at that time, the successor was not just a disaster, it was an utter catastrophe.
Looking back, had the buyout never happened, F1 2021 could have been massively better compared to what we got, and this is so sad...
I don't know how you guys feel about it, but F1 2021 is the worst F1 game ever, that is before F1 23 came out and reached an even lower all-time low.
I quite like 23 but on everything else you nailed it
21 was the worst
F1 2021 was absolutely shit