Agree. Too many personal preferences involve to make a single sim become absolutely, universally "best". So, any opinion here should be taken under "IMHO" context and respected. Anyway, I'm amaze that nobody gets killed here after so many pages. Someone in my local sim racing forum made a thread similar to this not long ago. He almost started a World War III.. Tells me about how a lot more mature you guys are, and why I prefer to hang around here than anywhere else.

Well said, for people like me various games are actually "best sim" for different things and moods I see no reason to bash someone else's best sim:
* iRacing - best online racing and "pickup" races that feel like league races since I don't have time for a league
* rF/GTREvo/Race07 - best variety of fan made racing mods and tracks that are unique and don't exist in other official sims
* nKPro - best sim with great physics and FF that also supports rain, great track mods and converted tracks from rF/Race07 etc (Macau is my favorite)
* GT5 - best Nordschelife (and now Spa) hotlapping sim with endurance type 24hr weather and changing daylight/night effects
* FM4 - best car collection and car career sim
* RBR - best rally sim
* SBK 2011 - best motorcycle sim

For me there are lots of "best sims" and I am just glad that we have all these quality options available at reasonable expense that I can afford, we've sure come a long way from the days where I caught the simracing bug on the C-64 and then PC.

Well said... We will always have our favourites for different reasons... And with such a vast array of packages out there, there will never be that one sim that has everyone loving it... Someone will always find a flaw that has another title raised above the general concensus...

You obviously have not visited the animals at the SimHQ Zoo located within the Cliffs of Dover/IL-2 Sturmovik Forums.