/vr/ - Retro Games

no arguments here bro, but it's because nobody gives a shit

>>6383394
I love this game, although I prefer Mario Kart, that is simply my personal tastes. Wave Race is awesome.

Top three:
>Wave Race
>San Francisco Rush
>Mario Kart 64
I can't say which is best, really depends on my mood

Cause snowboard kids 2 exists.

>>6383394
Who else here has the widescreen version?

N64 has a Hydro Thunder game, so there's that.

>>6383394
A couple of days ago I've played Excitebike 64, at first I thought that it was a motocross skin over the name of the franchise but the thing is very very good.
You really have to take care of your engine energy (just like in the original) but its's very challenging, it has a nice use of the analog and also it looks very good on the system.
Underrated game for sure, it might be as good as wave race but less comfy.

>>6383461
I love hydro thunder but fuuuuuuuuck that was a shit port.

>>6383421
Rush 2 > SF Rush > Rush 2049 prove me wrong

>>6383394
it's good but

>4 racers only

I thought the blue-red guy was probably the most balanced but the white-orange guy was faster. the fat fuck can't stir his pot for shit but at least he goes the fastest. the girl is easiest to drift with.

its not mario kart 64

It's not Extreme G.

>>6383394
Wait, it’s not?

>>6383394
I find it amazing that even with the limited number of circuits and the not so stellar AI, I still played the fuck out of this. Also the small things like, renaming the racers and the Dolphin Park training were pretty fun too.

>>6383546
Blue-red, M.Jeter, had the best turning. The fat fuck D.Mariner was the fastest though. Had a lot of fun using him to run over other racers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVyIG0hoPY
Shame the soundtrack to this game is so underrated. I never see it brought up on any best OST threads.

boring shit for vroomers.

>>6383985
Absolutely 10/10. There’s even a recurring main theme that shows up in a few of the tracks.

>>6384007
>vroomers
is that somebody who likes racing games

because the cars go VROOM VROOM

>>6383394
Loved to rent it from time to time because the game was so chill.
Honorable mention to Powerboat Racing on the PSX.

>>6383449
came here to say this

Why has nobody mentioned F Zero X yet in this thread?

>>6383394
Podracing and F-Zero X exist.

>>6383394
snowboard kids 2, f zero, diddy kong racing

>>6383985
Kazumi Totaka is probably one of my favorite composers. Wave Race, Animal Crossing, VB Wario Land, Luigi's Mansion, Wii Sports. It's all great.

The best, huh?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrbNIapsP4

F-Zero X sorry nig.

>>6383478
True this. Best played on Dreamcast.
>>6383483
Based. Came here to race not collect trinkets.

>>6384007
god, now I want to see a wojak edit with descriptions of that term.

I liked the announcer voice.

>MAXIMUM POWER!!!!!
>WATCH OUT!!!!

>>6383394
It's not Diddy Kong Racing

>>6384859
>EVERYBODYS BEHIND YOU!

>>6383394
It's so fucking weird and time-capsule-esque when you think about the things that were popular in certain decades. Nowdays nobody would give a fuck about motocross. dinosaurs, water jet ski, cartoony mascots or aliens.
You end up with a weird catalog of games instead of the current and constant re-imagine of the same popular genres with tiny changes.

As a kid I got very sick. So sick I was out of school for something like 2 months. During that time I played waverace until I blistered my thumb. I played waverace all the time. If I wasn't at the Doctor, I was trying to improve my times and do tricks. I loved Waverace and it got me through a very hard time in my life.

My memory with Wave Race 64 was the summer of 97, going to the pool every single day, and then when I cameback home in the afternoon, I'd play Wave Race 64.
Great memories, and great game. I agree it might be my favorite racer on N64. The thing with WR64 is that it's unique, by far the best of its kind, other jetski/water racing games (even arcade games) didn't get to be as polished as WR64, not only the water effects graphically but the way these waves actually imapcted on the gameplay.

>>6383449
>snowboard kids 2
>>6383465
>Excitebike 64
>>6384572
>F Zero X
Some shockingly patrician opinions ITT. I'm gonna toss my hat in for Beetle Adventure Racing.

>>6384859
I liked the girl screams.

>AEEUGH

>>6384859
>WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!

>>6383394
The N64 library is 60% racing games
I refuse to say Wave Race is the best

>>6383985
Also the JP-exclusive rumble pak version redid some of the themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZDSe-Wds0

>>6383394
Beatle adventure racing my dude

>>6385873
I love to read such stories because it's sweet.
me playing my N64 as a kid was a much simpler and better time in my life.

>>6385873
The n64 stick was interesting because all the games I liked the most tended to inflict actual bodily harm on me.

>>6386568
>>6386573
>play the grill
>get maximum power
>do handstand while driving
>run over some ramp
>watch her fly belly-forward towards the camera

always fun, good times.

>>6383394

There are so many N64 racing games that it’s hard to choose.

>>6383546
Lol the fat fuck is actually the best character you just have to tweak the settings

>>6388086
he's such a meme character with his silly ass duck helmet. I guess every group needs somebody like that.

>>6388107
It's cool how everyone loved to hate him though, he was probably the biggest heat magnet in racing games up to that point. Even people who played him hated his smarmy ass.

Was there anyone who ever actually picked the chock or Hayami?

>>6383394
Rush 2 exists.

>>6385873
Based.
Wave Race also has a place in my childhood memories. It was the first videogame I ever owned, and I had no idea how to play, so my father would play it with me/teach me all the time.

Needs a remaster, keep the gameplay exactly as is but improve the graphics, specially the textures and water, Nintendo once they learned about shaders during the GameCube they've always rendered great looking water. Maybe add extra tracks. The GameCube version is a massive downgrade in every aspect, talk about missing the point.

>>6383394
Because Diddy Kong Racing exists

>>6384772
Fax, Dreamcast version is the best.

>>6388257
I liked the variable weather in Blue Storm

>>6388417
Iirc 64 had it too.

>>6388463
Nope. The layouts of the tracks change with the difficulty but the weather is always the same

>>6388257
IIRC, Blue Storm was developed in the west, not by EAD in Japan, which explains why it isn't quite the same.

>>6383421
One of those games does not belong here

Real top 3:
Wave Race
F-Zero
1080

Runner up:
Mario Kart 64

Overrated garbage:
SF Rush
Beetle Adventure
Cruis'n

>>6389104
Swap 1080 for Diddy Kong Racing and you would be spot on

>>6389104
delete wave race and 1080 and add star wars pod racer and extreme-g

>>6388182
His AI is the most annoying. Been replaying the game recently and he's always the one on your tail when approaching 3rd lap and during that unless you play him yourself.

>>6386573
>YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL!
>WHOA THE FINAL LAP!
>DON'T SWEAT IT!
>KEEP THE PACE!
>YOUVE BEEN OVERTAKEN!!

he sounds like a coked-up showman, probably from Miami, but that's why I love that announcer.

>>6388874
A big appeal of WR64 is with the time-trials, having different wave patterns at random would break the times.

>>6384057
It refers to N64fags.

Reminder that 1/5 (77.6) of the entire N64 library (388) is nothing but throwaway racing games.

>>6389621
The AI is pretty good, they are actually challenging in the Expert difficulty, without resorting to rubber banding.

>>6389859
that's actually based.

>>6384007
the vroomer memes are pretty good

>>6389967
Made an N64 variant.

>>6389804
I actually never knew that. Still the weather remained the same no matter what on all the tracks right?

>>6383394
This might be a controversial opinion but if it wasn't for the framerate, I actually Hotwheels Turbo Racing would be the best racing game on the N64. Definitely a subjective opinion but there's something about it that just feels great.

>>6390148
I wanted to make this image but with moviebob, as he's the essential nintendo fanboy.

This game was way more beautiful than it had any right being on the 64.

>>6391368
dithering is giving me a boner

I played the shit out of Wave Race 64, 100%ed it and the reverse mode or whatever although I don't remember what that entailed exactly because it left almost no impression.
I know it has a glowing reputation but I didn't appreciate it at all at the time.

My N64 was a preorder, and immediately after release there was a massive price drop, mothers got mad, so Nintendo apologised by mailing out free games to preorder customers.
My free cart was Wave Race.

So I had it but didn't care about it at all because I never wanted it and didn't buy it intentionally. Which is relevant because at one point it was one of probably only 2 or 3 games I owned, so I played it to death but only grudgingly.

>>6391368
My jaw is on the floor.

>>6390148
Based seether.

>>6391280
Thanks for telling everyone what your favorite random Internet faggots like, sperg.

>>6390439
Depends on the track, the lake track starts wild then get calm. In my opinion the wave interaction was better done in WR64, I think the gameplay in BS is too twitchy for its own good.

>>6383394
Still the best racer ever made. pisses me off that the ps1 version has a bonus map exclusive to only the ps1. even the arcade and GCN/ps2 ports dont have it. the ps1 transition voice clips are also great

>>6391419
You make me sick

>>6391368
That fucking track maaaan.

>>6392337
Take an antacid and maybe stop having strong feelings about the way other people play videogames.

>>6383394
Because Blue Storm exist.

>>6392908
... on the 64?

>>6389128
>frame rate racing

>>6383449
1080 is better

>>6394842
>not knowing Snobow Kids Plus on the PS1

>>6383394
F-Zero X > Waverace > Diddy Kong Racing > MK64 > Everything else

>>6389804
Didn't Blue Storm have separate scoreboards for each weather setting?

>>6392717
You make me sick

>>6392908
Blue Storm sucks. What a pointless disappointment of a game
>>6394842
1080's better than any snowboarding game in existence

>>6396194
Agreed on both counts. It's sad because the sequels were well intentioned, but Blue Storm and 1080 Avalanche both ended up killing their respective series.

We can all agree Glacier Coast is the best track and the worst is Sunny Beach right?

>>6396194
Blue Storm was great, though. Didn't have the exciting feel of 64, though, true.

>>6396284
>Glacier Coast
Dolphin park all the way, still get the tingles everytime I listen to it.

>>6396284
Southern Island is my favorite. That being said, I don't think WR64 has a bad track.

>>6396284
Big fan of Drake Lake, with the fog in the beginning it creates a nice atmosphere.

>>6396734
I like Drake Lake too. mostly because D. Mariner wrecks his duck machine at the stumps sticking out in the water and he's too fat to circumvent them.

>>6396267
NST was always shit, one of the worse Nintendo teams.

>>6396348
>Welcome to... Dolphin Park!
>Follow that dolphin!

>>6396267
Well GX killed F-Zero, and it was actually good. I'm not Nintendo's audience anymore...

Is there a better water racing game than WR64, even now?

>>6389859
now add in the obsolete FPSes... not a pretty picture

>>6383985
It's called j-fusion if you want more of that kind of music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaa5OVHK5ws

>>6397320
That's some cool shit thanks anon

>>6397320
he fucks

best wave mechanics. WR64 was just an idyllic cosy bright beach game. the outrun of its era/

>>6383394
>In November 2016, Nintendo applied to renew the Wave Race copyright through EUIPO, hinting that the series may continue in the near future. During an interview with Fandom in April 2018, Wave Race producer Shinya Takahashi suggested that the series may see a revival on the Nintendo Switch
Would you want a new game, /vr/?

>>6397364
If it's going to be anything like BlueStorm no thanks

N64 had god tier racing games.

Wave Race 64
F-Zero X
Beetle Adventure Racing
Snowboard Kids
Excitebike 64
San Francisco Rush
And of course Mario Kart 64's Battle Mode

It's definitely the most chill racer, I can't get anybody to play dkr with me after I unlocked TT... the muscle memory is too brutal on everyone else.

>>6396734
Fuck those posts in the water though.

>>6397364
>past 90s aesthetics

no.

>>6397364
I would love it
They've dropped all of their B tier franchises, they need to expand somehow

>>6397364
Wasn't this rumored to be just a remaster of Blue Storm?

>>6391280
Who?

>>6397245
GX was mostly a case of sunk costs. The game was superb but they came to the conclusion that intermittent prestige releases were not worth cannibalizing a system-selling franchise like MK (unlike Metroid which never sold like crazy, but was a guaranteed critical hit). Bad reasoning, but it explains why Nintendo introduced F-Zero elements to Mario Kart starting with 8.

>>6397364
If that happened I would buy a Sw*tch.

>>6383394
OP did you write the IGN review of Beetle Adventure Racing
>Aside from Wave Race, this is definitely the best racer on N64 yet. I love this game -- and I have yet to meet anyone who didn't enjoy taking BAR's Bugs for a spin. Beetle Adventure Racing arrives as a breath of fresh air in a genre that hasn't moved forward in years.

i usually fucking hate racing games but there are so fucking many good racers on the n64. honestly the best console ever for racing games. no stupid boring simulation shit. just pure fun and creativity.
f-zero x and 1080 are the best of the best
>>6389104
based
beetle adventure is so fuckin overrated
>>6390951
great taste. finding the hidden stuff in that game was a blast and i liked the goofy freedom of control. me and an old friend both had n64s with different games, so at his house we'd play that hot wheels game, star fox 64 and ocarina of time, and at mine we'd play banjo kazooie, mario party 2, pokemon stadium, and super mario 64. then another kid moved into the neighborhood with an n64 and he had diddy kong racing, rampage, wwf mercy, and paper mario
great thing is that we all got different 6th gen consoles (i got gamecube, oot kid got ps2, diddy kong racing kid got an xbox) so the 6th gen was absolute kino for us
>>6384582
episode 1 racer shouldnt be as good as it is

Anyone else who has played this piece of shit would agree with me in saying this is the worst racing game on the N64

>>6399482
>no stupid boring simulation shit. just pure fun and creativity.
Fuck, this really does explain exactly why I liked racing on the N64 so much.

A lot of people around me preferred realistic sim racers, which never held much interest for me.

>>6399564
They're called arcade racers. Check out sega racers from the 90's/00's too. They were very good at that. The genre died today though since Sony is controlling the japanese industry with an iron fist.

>>6399564
I can see why there was interest in sim autism when the technology was getting better but it's surprising how much it has seemingly fallen off now that the future is pretty much here. Maybe because many people don't care nearly as much about cars/vehicles as they used to. Shame that more arcadey games are now only seen as worth the bare minimum of shovelware production values now, they used to be a notable part of any console library.

>>6399506
>titus
well of course it's dogshit. i dont even need to see gameplay to tell.

>>6383394
i could never beat it on expert cause i always choked on the last race, the last lap and at the last turn everytime.

>>6389104
>Overrated garbage:
>SF Rush
>Beetle Adventure
>Cruis'n
>

>>6402483
On Southern Island? How?

>>6399506
Oh fuck, really? I either rented this a long time ago or saw it somewhere, but I always thought it was supposed to be really cool. I also forgot that this game even existed until your post, so it might have something to do with that.

>>6389104
>Overrated garbage:
>SF Rush
>Beetle Adventure
>Cruis'n

Try Diddy Kong Racing, scudnuts.

>>6402561
i always choke at the last turn. idk why but i always choke in racing games