Specifically games like Forza and Need for Speed, are these games just not realistic or is there another reason?
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There are a lot of factors to speed perception. Obviously we as humans don’t have a built-in speedometer, we deduce speed from outside influences such as acceleration (which we can sense), the movement of other objects in our field of view, vibrations coming from the car, the sound of the rushing wind outside and the sound of the engine.
However in a videogame you lack most of these, your only two tools are the in-game speedometer and the visual queues from the objects passing by. The latter is quite tricky to convey properly because objects rushing by on a flat screen can never quite adequately replicate what its like in real life. A VR headset does get around that problem, and that’s why the sense of speed is much better in VR racing games.
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