/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7201018
>Is this the purest game ever made?
I would say it's up there among other 10/10s.

Lets start with the aesthetics. Ridge Racer and especially Ridge Racer Type 4 are technical marvels on the PS1. The PSP remake is even more stellar. We’re talking a solid 60fps at all times, great track geometry and all the shiny cars your eyeballs could ever possibly take in. The colour palettes are cool, understated and muted, but that’s not a negative. Each course has its own identity, and where there is bold colour, it’s implemented masterfully. Round a corner and that coloured sky just hits you. The neon accents in the city courses come in at just the right time as to take your breath away. Add in the different times of day for all the courses, and you’ve got an assault on the eyeballs. Ridge Racer looks like it’s definitely punching above the PSP’s graphical weight. On PPSSPP, it looks about as good as it possibly can when scaling up to higher resolutions.The lighting, baked in as it may be, looks amazing. Some clever effects kick in at various bits of the track to simulate sunlight, cloud cover and more.

>>7201439
Ridge Racers is all about the gameplay. One of the few games that felt OK with an analogue nub on original hardware, playing these games in PPSSPP or PS1 emulators with your gamepad of choice takes that golden gameplay nugget and polishes it up to such a degree you’ll need sunglasses just to look in its direction.