/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5783794
The gameplay is purer, more focused on fun drifting and slipstreaming mechanics. Daytona 2 tried to go the "realistic" way with the drifting and failed miserably with the fans. This is mostly why Power Edition exists: to add the classic Hornet back in a desperate attempt to recover dissatisfied fans of the original game. Daytona USA is as you say a historical milestone, but have you really tried to play it while observing how tight its gameplay mechanics are put together? This is why it is a milestone. Sure the graphics were amazing for '94 but that's just one side of the story. Daytona USA is also a curse for Sega, because they knew they caught lightning in a bottle and tried dearly to recreate it, but they failed every time. Daytona 2 is the closest they ever got, and they ended up adding back the Hornet. Have you tried the recent 2017 game, "Daytona 3 Championship USA"? it is a notable disappointment, yes, but more interesting is the fact that the (pic related) game is a wrapper for the original 1994 game. It acts like a single game emulator, with the original romset at its heart, and it replaces all graphical and audio assets with new ones and adds some new UI elements on top. All gameplay mechanics, collision and physics are the originals from 1994. That's how much Sega has admitted defeat here. They know they can't beat their own creation.

Oh, I love Scud Race. Amazing game as well.