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Top 5 racing games that changed your life.
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July 04, 2011, 11:42:16 PM »
5. As stupid as this may sound, Mario kart. Of course mario kart changed my view on racing games. All I've ever played before mario kart were those boring racers where everything depended on how correctly you pulled your brakes or took a curve. Mario kart offered an arsenal of weapons and boosts. It made this great racer be more than perfect timing. I still love the series although the rate of blue shells seem to have increased.
4. Gran Turismo (The ps2 game). I mentioned that I kinda loathe these kinds of racers these days. But the truth is that this game was so well done that it was fun to play. Of course, most of the time I played this "100 lap" or "1 hour race" thingy in a round course 'cuz my brother asked me to do it for him. But still. It was a fun game with tons of vehicles to pick from. Today I can't stand this game because the looks and diversity isn't special anymore.
3. Need for speed hot pursuit. A game in which you pretty much just raced along long stretches of countryside while avoiding the police and making sure that your buddy got some heat. It was also fun to have a racer which was a lot more about speed and competition against others. Especially those police missions where you hunted down a car. Small things that made a difference.
2. Need for speed... carbon or something. The only big thing here was the fact that you could customize your car. Don't know where this game got to, but I remember that there were some rappers doing the Riders of the Storm in the background. There was some sort of story mode which also made the game a bit more fun. It wasn't just picking a race from a menu. You drove around and unlocked new races and challenges. Oh, and most races were done in the street. It was part of the charm. It was pretty well done with nitro and some kind of drifting challenges. Once again, small things that made a difference.
1. F zero N64. This game, rocked my world. I was used to the N64 version of Mario kart and watching my brother playing his boring realistic racers. Then I came upon F zero. We're talking speed here and rollercoasterlike tracks. Energy, speed boosts, tackles, deathraces. This game had everything. There were a lot of modes to play, difficult even on the lowest of possible settings. I remember struggling with the controls and most of the time I was more focused on getting through a track than getting first place. Recently got F zero GX (late , I know) and this game just brings all of it back to me. Jeysis christ. I just love to travel at high speed and risking falling off course in every turn. Rock music in the background, the track just passing you by in a blur and your car flashing red since all energy is depleted - just those few meters away from the goal as you try to pass that arse who boosted past you. It's just such a great game, hard. But great.
Have any of you guys played a lot of racing games? If so, what did you like the most about them and what made them stand out from the rest? Or did you simply play racing games for the multiplayer?
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Re: Top 5 racing games that changed your life.
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July 04, 2011, 11:49:20 PM »
The Need for Speed game with the smexy customization and Riders on the Storm is one of the Need for Speed Underground games.
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July 05, 2011, 12:05:51 AM »
In no particular order:
Super Mario Kart
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (2, especially)
Ridge Racer
Trackmania
Mother-****ing Hydrothunder
Ok, Hydrothunder gets the number one spot, but the rest are in no particular order.
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July 05, 2011, 12:09:22 AM »
I forget what it's called but back when I got my Super Nintendo, there was this racing game that came with it, bundled. X was to accelerate. X was to accelerate!
Anyway it's probably the game that changed my life most because I traded it in ASAP for Super Mario All-Stars. Also, it stands as the only video game I have ever or will ever trade in.
I'm not really a fan of the racing genre. But to come into a thread all "I hate racing vidya" when I could have no posted at all would be stupid, so actually here are some more racing vidya that I did love.
Wipeout 2047 or whatever that PS1 title was called. That **** was bananas awesome. Every single part of that was awesome. Except the track selection? I remember it having not very many tracks for some reason. It had a great soundtrack, too.
You are reading my timetravel.
Diddy Kong Racing. Holy ****, game of the year all years. I can't even begin to say how great this game is. I managed to unlock TT because of how good I am. A lot of blood, sweat and tears right there. Also, **** YOUR SILVER COIN CHALLENGE, TAJ. Game had a lot of quotable lines, too. Also, the soundtrack was sweet. I need to go back and edit the Wipeout line now.
MarioKart on the SNES: I never beat that bastard. THEY JUST KEEP CHEATING. ALL OF THEM. This was the game that introduced me to cheating AI.
The other Mario Karts are cool too.
I can't think of many other racing games I played.
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July 05, 2011, 12:34:28 AM »
You never beat Super Mario Kart?! Shame!
But yeah, they cheated a fair bit.
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July 05, 2011, 12:55:01 AM »
They made racing games other than Mario Kart? Why bother. Driving around in circles and hoping that you're faster than other people... and all this WITHOUT homing projectile weapons? I'd rather watch Golf!
Diddy Kong Racing gets honorable mention for 1) being pretty much Mario Kart and 2) ****ing SILVER COINS **** AGG
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July 05, 2011, 02:38:39 AM »
I really liked Mario Kart but I'd hardly say it changed my life. Like how would that even happen
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July 05, 2011, 03:44:21 AM »
No racing game has ever changed my life, and I doubt one ever will. Still doing the top five thing, though. So relieving not having to do something RPG-related. What is even is WITH this place and it's RPG'S even with. Gog DAAAAAAAAMNNNNNNNN
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July 05, 2011, 11:12:25 AM »
Frankly I find it appauling that this RPG maker forum is so RPG centric
what is EVEN its deal
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July 05, 2011, 06:44:35 PM »
I can't believe I forgot Lego racers. The main fun of this was to build your driver and the car you drove. The rest of the game was rather easy. Pretty fun that you had 4 levels for weapons. First green was turbo, second green got you a super boost, 3 green gave you a super turbo which made you fly and the fourth one teleported you further ahead.
Great game but, yeah. Customization made it rule.
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July 05, 2011, 09:48:31 PM »
I loved Lego Racers growing up, but I never made a nice looking car. Always just some strange sloped thing with wheels. For me, my favorite racing game was a Hot Wheels game where you could make your own track. Stunt Driver or something, it was called.
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July 06, 2011, 12:08:24 AM »
I'm so mad the build-your-own track expansion for F-Zero 64 was never released in America. **** you nintendo america, **** you.
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July 06, 2011, 01:17:57 AM »
Pod Racers was a pretty cool guy.
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July 06, 2011, 07:57:33 AM »
In no order:
Burnout series
F-Zero series
Lego Racers
Wipeout series
Pod Racer
I say series because I can't pick just one of them. F-Zero X made me competitive, but GX made me a god damn machine. Burnout made me learn to use brake, e-brake, and accelerate simultaneously. Wipeout granted me with twitchy trigger fingers. Pod Racers and Lego Racers got me to spread out into more games.
Also, played a **** ton Mario Kart. F-Zero and F-1 Roc 1/2 on SNES. As well as two relatively unknown ones called Top Gear anf Lamborghini: American Challenge. **** Lamborghini was awesome. I think I'm gonna go play it right now.
Damn it Prpl :/
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July 06, 2011, 05:43:57 PM »
I can't believe I forgot about Burnout. Go ahead and drop one of my non-Hydrothunder picks in favor of Burnout.
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