Computer games.

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GTA 4 cars were like boats.
I prefer more realistic physics and agree about GTA 5 driving was too arcade, but GTA 4 really overdid it back then.

Some of them were but they still handled far more convincingly than GTA5 and were actually fun to drive with a certain level of skill required to drive them well.

GTA5 undid all this because people moaned about GTA4 cars being too hard to drive

I can't really think of an open world game with better driving physics than GTA4 tbh