Gran Turismo was my first PS1 car racing game and played it a lot with my cousins, but it was Ridge Race Type4 that made me really appreciate racing games. That game was fresh af.
The jump from Rage Racer to Type 4 is insane. Crazy how one sequel on the same platform can just make such a huge leap in fidelity and art direction. The menus in Type 4 still look modern to this day.
Too bad it's pretty much stopped there. Just finished replaying Type 4 again and I can say it was a peak, it's all downhill from there except graphics. Unbounded was kinda cool step in different direction, but honestly nobody care about that game on release, Namco completely missed their "big mainstream racing game" train. The only thing they can do now is reboot it with some kind of mid-2000s NFS or Burnout 100% arcadey style, too many karting and "serious" racing games out there.
Graphism GAO was insane however rage racer had a tuning and customization part that no other game in this series will ever have. Plus rage racer was the last game we're you could adopt different type of driving. After rage racer, you HAD to drift in almost every single curve. My favorite is stole ridge racer revolution. I'm looking forward to play it again.
@@J0rdan912 The market is ripe. Fusion and City Pop is on an upswing to a point that it has some mainstream appeal. They need to lean hard back into R4 and go in on more Y2K/Jazz aesthetic. People would eat that shit up. Even a remake of R4R would be better than nothing. It happened with Klonoa.
@@TofuTehSurvivor Basically just something that will not attempt to compete with very serious and realistic racing games. Something with pure fun, arcade gameplay, boatload of nitro boosting and drifting, without falling to some kinda mobile trash. Genre is stuck at mediocre rally, NFS/Burnout and Forza/Gran Turismo games. I tried some small indie racing games recently like Horizon Turbo and Hotshot Racing (highly recommend btw), and it was amazing, if new Ridge Racer or Rage Racer was something like that, but bigger and better, that's totally fine.
I thought Ridge Racert Type 4 was really beautiful when it was released and the songs were great too! We had never seen anything like it before and having lived through that time was great! To this day, I sometimes play Ridge Ricer from the PSP, but on my cell phone via an emulator.
That ending is very sad, when you realize how phones destroyed the fun of the games. even though its way more powerful than old consoles but the gameplay became so childish.
For easy gameplay - music & story (dot at the end of sentence) You're missing out if you didn't try Ridge Racer 2 (PSP), Ridge Racer 6 & Ridge Racer 7.
One thing that I learned from the video is that you suck at ridge racer lol brought me back to the arcades and wasting quarters away with the same driving skills.
RR peaked on psp those games were amazing for a handheld at that time. I've loved this series since day one. But the older titles are difficult to revisit with the dodgy collision physics. If you collide even if a car swipes you they shot forwards and you stop nearly dead. And all Nintendo releases feel like a different game. Good but not the same for me anyway Namco 100% needs to bring this series back to consoles. Mobile not so much
I've been playing RR2 on my G Cloud and it is glorious. Took my PS3 out of storage and started playing RR7 again. I will never get tired/bored of this series.
By far the best in the series were the PSP versions, specifically Ridge Racer 2. Oh how I remember struggling against the Kamata Angelus special car boss race... But once you win that car, it was such a satisfying feeling. And fun fact, Reiko Nagase the animated girl who appears in most RRs has a sister named Kei Nagase who features in the Ace Combat series.
I'm great FaN of ridge racer, games,, before,, initial D,, & Wangan midnight maximum tune,, arcade games,, & I love that game so much, on pC gameS,,,😆😀😄
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