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[Chad Holdenford]

If I wanna have fun, I pop up any Mario Kart, the original Crash Team Racing, Burnout 3 and Burnout Paradise.
If I wanna feel nostalgic, I play either one of the Need for Speed Underground games. Those where the bitch's teats here in Brazil in the mid-2000s.

 

[Pee Cola]

I used to be really into them back in the PSX/PS2 days, but I've sorta let it go since then. TOCA 2 Touring Cars for the PSX is still my favourite racing game of all time. The physics were realistic, the cars would suffer damage, the AI was just as dirty as the real BTCC drivers of the era and Tiff Needell did the voices on the cut scenes. What more could you want?

 

[feelings]

Road Rash (1996) ofc. Why reinvent the wheel?

 

[Dark Edea]

Any Midway racing game and ExciteBots Trick Racing for Wii.

Road Rash (1996) ofc. Why reinvent the wheel?

Also this.

 

[Balr0g]

For me it's Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione.

Though I sometimes unwind with Wreckfest or some good old Need for Speed Underground / Most Wanted

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

Driver San Francisco is perhaps one of the most underrated video games ever and you can’t even buy it on any gaming console or even the Ubisoft website (they made the game). You can only buy a code or hard copy. Beaten it on my Xbox 360 over 10 times. NASCAR Thunder 2004 handles well and is the best NASCAR thunder game in the franchise.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

7 on the 3DS is really good and the one I've played the most (specifically for online multiplayer). Unfortunately the buttons on my 3DS decided to break on me, so if I want my Mario Kart fix, it'll have to be 64 on an emulator. My sister has 8 on the Switch, and it's pretty cool. Would be something I would own if I was desperate enough to get a Switch.

Regarding other racers, WipeOut and Wip3out on PS1 are games I've played constantly and are really fun. The soundtrack on those games are fucking amazing too. CoLD SToRAGE and DJ Sasha became my favorite artists because of those games.

Cruis'N World is another fun one. Playing Championship mode while getting enough points to upgrade your car and give it a new paint job is fun. Also as someone that live in NY, it does a somewhat decent job at representing it. The stage kinda looks like a certain part of Grand Central Parkway, but it could also be somewhere in the Brooklyn like the BQE near Sackett Street.
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Also I'm probably the only one that unironically likes Sonic R... both the game and soundtrack.

I played Crusi'n USA and thought it was fun but there really was no variation between the cars, a school bus or a Ferrari they all handled the same and it just got worse in Crusi'n World

On the other hand San Fransisco Rush in the arcade was my game.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I played Crusi'n USA and thought it was fun

That game is a fucking joke with it's courses. like 5 or 6 California tracks and the rest of the states can get fucked apparently. It doesn't even do New York, it just stops at DC. It should have been "Cruis'N California feat. 5-6 Other States"

Also fuck getting the upgrades in that game. As soon as you increase the difficulty, it's damn near impossible to catch up with the other cars to get 1st place unless they collide with another car going the other way.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Grand Prix Legends is great, it's 60's Formula 1. It's old as shit but it had something I haven't found in other racing games: fear of going fast.
It requires an analogue throttle of some kind, the ones on an Xbox controller doesn't have a stroke long enough because this is a game where you fear giving it too much of a push too fast and going flat out was not something you wanted to do. The cars didn't have spoilers so there was no down force, going really fast felt incredibly dicey and the cars left the ground when going over crests. Anything and everything would wreck your shit, including shifting gears(the game had a semi-clutch system) which if done incorrectly could lead to a crash due to fishtailing or damage the engine.

I played for a while in an informal online league where points where counted across a season and it was really fun. Crash and you get nothing, surviving to the end would get you at least some points and with this game it was all about seeing how brave you were, always pushing up at the edge of control.

 

[A Pox]

 

[ShortBusDriver]

That game is a fucking joke with it's courses. like 5 or 6 California tracks and the rest of the states can get fucked apparently. It doesn't even do New York, it just stops at DC. It should have been "Cruis'N California feat. 5-6 Other States"

Also fuck getting the upgrades in that game. As soon as you increase the difficulty, it's damn near impossible to catch up with the other cars to get 1st place unless they collide with another car going the other way.

It's been 20+ years since I played but I'm not sure I knew you could mod a car, at least in the arcade.

I remember double tapping the gas peddle would spray nitrous and make your car do a wheelie.

It also seemed kind of clunky to me compared to SF Rush, and it felt like it was meant for an N64 home release like a lot of games of that era. In fact I seem to recall it even advertised as much on the cabinet.

 

[StraightShooter2]

Has anyone bought Project Cars 3? Most of the reviews are fairly negative and say it is much more "dumbed down" and "arcadey" than the previous ones.

 

[Lord Xenu]

F-Zero GX is my favourite racing game, but Gas Guzzlers Extreme was a close second. I got Wreckfest on sale recently, and that's really good.


Which one? There's been a few games with the GRID name. Same tracks, but differ in quality. The Xbox 360 game Race Driver: GRID was the best one. You manage your racing teammate, get sponsors, and work your way through 3 different racing trees.

I had no idea that there was more than one game in this series. I haven't played it for a few months, so I had to go and check what exactly it was called. It is GRID Autosport and I have it for the Switch, but it is multiplatform. One thing the Switch version could seriously benefit from is analog triggers (wtf were they thinking leaving analog off the Pro controller?). That was what made me stop playing the game, the drifting cars are hard to control with digital input.

I'm not very far in the career mode so when I get the itch to start playing it again I will start a new career and either try to map the right analog stick to gas & brake like Gran Turismo 2. Or I might just try to use the Sys-Con plug-in for hacked Switch's and use a PS4 controller (or any wireless controller). I don't care enough about car games now to buy a wheel, Let me rephrase. I do care enough about car games to buy a wheel set, I just don't play them enough right now. and if I did I wouldn't invest in one for the Switch.

 

[Judge Dredd]

It is GRID Autosport and I have it for the Switch, but it is multiplatform.

I have both (I bought GRID Autosport thinking it was a PC port of Race Driver GRID). It's basically the same game, but the campaign in Autosport was simplified.

Has anyone bought Project Cars 3? Most of the reviews are fairly negative and say it is much more "dumbed down" and "arcadey" than the previous ones.

I've been avoiding the Project Cars games. I have other racing games to play, and I'm saving Project Cars 2 for when I get VR next year.

 

[Tubby Custard]

Not a car racing game, but if you have a joy/flightstick Star Wars: Episode I Podracer for PC is pretty good. You get a decent map variety and all the podracers feel different in regards to handling, although some are just garbage. Otherwise it's a bit janky on kb+m as you have to pitch the nose of the engines down to boost on a separate key, for whatever reason

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which took my dumb kid self far too long to figure out.

 

[Fools Idol]

Ridge Racer V is one of the best racing games ever made. It's often over looked for it's excellent predecessor, Type 4 but RRV is still a brilliant entry to the franchise and to the genre. RRV has some of the best drifting mechanics ever, it can be tricky to pull off but when you do it feels amazing. The tracks, soundtrack, graphics and of course driving are all top-notch.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Road Rash (1996) ofc. Why reinvent the wheel?

Carmaggedon 1 & 2, you fucking reprobate.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Despite not following the sport since the days of Damon Hill, I find the F1 series very addictive and have been playing them since 2016. I tend to play on semi-sim settings, and there's something oddly compelling about having to have an actual race strategy rather than just barge your way into 1st, or picking one of the lower teams and trying to make them competitive. Also put loads of time into Forza Horizon, still logging on to try and collect cars that I never actually use.

I don't play online though, any racing game turns into a first corner demolition derby that removes all the fun.

 

[Balr0g]

Despite not following the sport since the days of Damon Hill, I find the F1 series very addictive and have been playing them since 2016. I tend to play on semi-sim settings, and there's something oddly compelling about having to have an actual race strategy rather than just barge your way into 1st, or picking one of the lower teams and trying to make them competitive. Also put loads of time into Forza Horizon, still logging on to try and collect cars that I never actually use.

I don't play online though, any racing game turns into a first corner demolition derby that removes all the fun.

If you play F1 2020 I would recommend the public events. those are usually tamer then the other Online races at least that is my impression. Of course some events are simple singleplayer events but the last was fun: driving in Monza with older cars. Driving in Schumacher's 2004 Ferrari was very fun

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Ridge Racer V is one of the best racing games ever made. It's often over looked for it's excellent predecessor, Type 4 but RRV is still a brilliant entry to the franchise and to the genre. RRV has some of the best drifting mechanics ever, it can be tricky to pull off but when you do it feels amazing. The tracks, soundtrack, graphics and of course driving are all top-notch.

V was good, it got shit for being "just" a Ridge Racer game when every game should be not only itself but also Gran Turismo. Still very enjoyable to grind.

Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 3 had the roundest wheels.