/vr/ - Retro Games

>car selection
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>customization
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>track selection
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>driving physics
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>graphics
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>sound
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For me it's Gran Turismo 2. No matter how many times I boot it up, I can always find a car I wanna race for a bit.

Is it my favorite PS1 racer? Yes. Is it my favorite PS1 game? Yes. Is it my favorite racer? Yes. Is it my favorite game? Quite possibly so!

First of all because it just plays well, and also because it's a time capsule of 90s car culture. The -vast- niche JDM car selection, the race mods, the menu design and comfy menu themes, the detailed car settings, the cool tracks, the cool big beat and drum n bass music SPECIFICALLY IN THE PAL VERSION. Granted it's not perfect, the AI is pretty easy to beat actually, but that's nothing you can't fix by imposing additional limits on yourself, and a few other features feel unfinished but it's still fantastic.

Episode 1 Racer is another retro racing favorite of mine though, alongside gems like CMR2.0, V-Rally 2 and TOCA/TOCA 2 (can't recall which of the two was better).

Gran Turismo 2. I don't feel confident in naming favorite things in categories often, but if you asked me for my favorite video game of all time I think bringing this up would actually be fair.

It became noticably duller on the PS2. On the PS1 it's still burnout and powerslide central. GT4 driving assists sucked most of the excitement out of driving, plus the menus are so god awfully slow I can't even play it at native speed anymore, I have to emulate it at go through the menus at double speed. GT2 is peak.