/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8883902
GT easily. I never even liked racing games but the "RPG" style progression of GT hooked me in and it got me to try a lot of other games.

R4. It's a master class in arcade racing.
Colin Mcrae is also great. Wipeout too.

Crash Team Racing for me. For a kart racer, it had a lot of depth with the drift mechanics & Boost Reserves. Time Trials were difficult, but fair; it forced you to get good. It blows Mario Kart, and Diddy Kong Racing out of the water.

>>8883902
NFS High Stakes
The music and tracks are pure soul

>>8883902
Porsche Challenge

>>8883934
forgot my pic

>>8883907
fpbp

GT was never outdone, there was such good content for a ps1 game, and a lot of it too. Could keep you in front of the screens for hours.

AKA there are new big console released GT games all of the time and only iOS Ridge Racer games from like 2016 kek

But I do remember there being a Ridge Racer 7 at some point

gt2 was really peak console racing, perhaps it was the peak of the racing genre

>>8883917
God fucking damn wipeout makes me coom bros

>>8883902
I played thru the US motortoon recently, I really enjoyed it. Great visuals, weighty feel to the cars that the toon animations help make it easier to read and solid mechanics make it a really fun game.

The only one who gives me what I need

>>8884193
Cute Negcon anon. How many do you have?

Original Ridge Racer because I'm not a car autist

>>8883902
The only one I've really played is NFS III and a little bit of CTR. I did buy a copy of Motor Toon 2 at a thrift store a month or two ago but still haven't actually played it yet. I really want to get into Ridge Racer at some point too

>>8883902
RR4. It's just perfect for me. I tried liking GT2 but it just doesn't do it for me in 2022, I find it extremely unappealing.

Riiiiiidge Racer of course

>>8883902
R4 was my first race game that was not in the arcades. Got my PS1 modded and my uncle gave me a bunch of games he had downloaded. It was a good time.

>>8883902
Need for Speed III.

>>8883902
Why do American box arts look so crappy? R4 has excellent art direction, who thought putting two car renders side by side would be an improvement?

For me, it's Gran Turismo 1.

>>8883902
I like many racing games but the greatest one is need for speed III to me.

Love the feel in Colin McRae when you string together a perfect stage in the delta integrale or 205

>>8883902
I also played a lot of motor toon grand prix 2 as a kid even with friends playing each one a race track not being able to use the link cable our big dream was that it had the classic 2player by sharing the screen and even now I gladly replay it at least once a year.

I also bought all the various releases I just miss the (Ntsc / U) for now.

But not knowing Japanese I never understood why in the first Japanese edition it has 2 discs and what the 2 disc is for

>>8884948
Anon I played so much of Command and Conquer on PS1, you have no idea. As well as Hogs of war and Sheep dog n wolf. Kino collection

>>8884948
>G Police
>Wild 9
Oh man, those were the days.

>>8883902
I've been playing a ton of PS1 racers recently.
R4 - Always the king
GT - Really nostalgic going back to this. The licence tests are still a pain in the bellend
Porsche Challenge - Remember having a demo of this back in the day and was interested in giving it another sho. It holds up seriously well, excellent game.
Test Drive (series) - Completely ignored these when I was a kid but they're actually quite decent.
V Rally - Another nostalgic one, hard as balls
Colin McRae - Has some of the best handling of any racing game old or modern.
What else should I try, lads?

>>8885127
NFS Porsche Unleashed, given how different ps1 and pc versions are. It's pretty soul even if its mechanically just a re-skin of test drive. You buy cars and move from oldtimer era towards the modern era, there is also a driving school of sorts, plus cars take damage, and you have to repair them inbetween races. PS1 port is pretty underrated.

Sled Storm even though its not cars but snowmobiles. Excellent track design with plenty of shortcuts, you buy and upgrade your ride, there is also a trick system and all the numetal you could wish to match.

4x4 World Trophy - off road racing in jeeps with a good campaign mode, again you purchase vehicles and move up. I think there is a sequel on ps2 but can't vouch for quality.

Toca 1/2. 1 is more soulful, 2 has shitton of more content.

And in case you meant you only played the original CMR, then you absolutely must play CMR 2.0

>>8883902
either TOCA 2, wipeout 3 or GT2 for me

>>8885143
Toca's a good shout, never played them as a kid but they were always hyped up.
I actually had Sled Storm, back then, completely forgot about it, brilliant game.
I'll give 4x4 a shot, love offroad racing in general.
Another one I forgot to mention was Rapid Racer, a speedboat racing game. I remember being amazed by it as a kid but it's one that hasn't really stood the test of time. Wave Race shits all over it.

>>8885151
When I got my PSone, for about a month the only two games I had were the original Gran Turismo and Toca 1. Gran Turismo obviously blew it out of the water but Toca's dynamic weather and so many more cars on screen at the same time blew my mind. Plus cockpit camera all with the functional wipers.
I also remember spending a lot of time with one of the F1 games but for the life of me I can't remember which one because they all look the same now looking back.

Regarding Gran Turismo, 1 is my favorite still but 2 got some mods/patches for the emulators. Fixed physics, restored content, true 60fps, true widescreen etc. Its phenomenal.

>>8885143
>>8885148
ToCA 2's bonus tracks were great. Also the E-Z Rollers soundtrack.

It's like choosing a favourite son. So many good racers for completely different reasons.

>>8885239
Based and junglepilled

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!

>>8885667
I hate this game, I'm trying to get gold trophies in all license tests and it's fucking impossible.

>>8883902
Colin mcrae rally (1)

>>8885681
That's what I thought especially with the PAL version making some of the license tests even more unforgiving until I actually got all gold trophies about a month ago. Persistence is key. I felt that at some point there wasn't more skill to learn, I just had to try over and over until I got just the right timing and therefore just the right line in corners.

I did "cheat" in one test though. The rally license tests have such generous times that they don't really teach you anything about rallying and the rallying physics in GT2 are weird anyway, except that then the S license Tahiti Maze goes and ramps up the difficulty to impossible in the PAL version, and after trying it dozens of times and getting what would've been a gold time in either NTSC version on five occasions but still being seconds off the PAL gold time I simply reran it with the frozen timer cheat for a few seconds so I could finally get it over with. If I would've gotten gold five times over in the NTSC version I didn't see why I didn't deserve gold in the PAL version.

>>8883902
Ridge Racer or Revolution. R4 sucks

bait

>>8885667
Are you losing it?

>>8885826
As a matter of fact so far I'm winning, dad, and I'm set on 100.91% completion. But this comes after over 20 years of never fully completing the game and only ever starting new saves part of the way through.

K I N O

Tokyo Extreme Racer on dreamcast was the first time I actually gave a shit playing a car sim/racer

The street racing was just so much fun and the graphics were great

>>8885849
Also sorry I missed the part about PS1 only

>>8885859
I don't give a fuck. TXR is one of the best racing game series ever made.

>>8884708
Don't look up the pal cover

>>8885863
Why didn't I listen to you?

>>8885861
Speaking of PS1 and TXR, isn't there games just like TXR on ps1? with different name?

I forgot I wanted to try those out.
They are called like "battle highway something"

>>8883902
R4. Oozes style. Even little tiny shit like the interstitial before the portraits pop up that little X animation or the dot grid that follows the track in the screen before the race. Every other racer is dry as dirt in comparison, save stuff like wipeout.

>>8885879
Tokyo Highway Battle?

>>8885849
I got it when it came out and tried to play it again recently. Not as great the second time around when you notice the ice rink physics, samey progression, and the fact that some areas of the highway are easier to beat the ai in than others, leading to a lot of waiting for the stars to line up in the hard races.

>>8885892
Do they have the same battle system?
that looks like just a racer in a highway...
Unfortunate

>>8885907
Never played it or heard of it before you mentioned it, so I have no idea.

>>8885906
Ya you can cheese the AI a bit in places, but the race mechanic is pretty unique and I love it. I havent played it in years but I had great times with it and with friends.

We would each claim a part of the highway and if something challenged us/ was challengeable on our strip, we got to do the race.

>>8883902
GT. It kept some aspects of tunning scene and combined it with a experience of somewhat actual racing. Also good old "realism".
>>8883907
>RPG" style progression of GT hooked me in and it got me to try a lot of other games.
Try Racing Lagoon. If you can tolerate late 90s edgy storytelling that is. It's one of the greatest "what ifs" in racing genre's history in my opinion.

>>8885887
>R4. Oozes style.
Sure but I was extremely disappointed after the eight race novice series I completed turned out to be the entire career and that I was expected to repeat it another 79 times with every possible combination of car and team to unlock all cars. Super repetitive, also the handling of the drift cars was beyond my comprehension.

Rage Racer has some great tracks but R4 is better.

>>8885954
Ever played Ridge Racer 64/DS?

>>8885949
>Try Racing Lagoon
Looks pretty nice, thanks for the rec!

>>8885973
No, what about them?

>>8886006
It's even worse in that game.

>>8885846
Okay but they didn't make a song named "I'm Winning My Favorite Game" so be a good boy and play along.

>>8885848
One of the best intros ever.

>>8883902
Gran Turismo was the best, but Ridge RacerType 4 and Colin MacRae 2.0 came close. And of course CTR for kart racers.

>>8885949
>Racing Lagoon
Perfectly nails the 90's Tokyo street racing aesthetic and the RPG elements are really cool but unfortunately the driving itself is not quite up to par with other PS1 racers.

>>8885848
The true KINO is knowing Solvalou always wins.

>>8886480
I would wager NFS III has the best racing game intro ever, through RR4, demolition racer and wipeout 2048 are close contenders.

>>8885907
The closest you can actually get to TXR on PSX is Racing Lagoon, even if it's not the exact same type of game. TXR even has a few tiny homages to it.

>>8885848

>>8884193
are you playing on hardware?
I want to get a CRT / negcon setup like this for my pc but am concerned about compatability

>>8883902
R4 or Rage Racer

>>8883935
this one is quite good too

>>8886812
Looks interesting

>>8887087
Looks like a MiSTer

>>8888049
It's lovely, but it's slower and less straighforward than TXR.

>V-Rally 2

For some reason my fav PS1 racing game. Hell, it was my shit back then, until the disc became too scratchy to work properly. The day I played the game again through emulation, I cried.

>>8883902
Type 4 is so fucking good man

>>8886992
Something tells me the first part of the video is inspired by a certain junction in Tokyo's circular expressway.

>>8883902
Rage Racer.
No other racing game since had the speed or mechanics.

>>8884708
I think the American box looks better.

>>8885667
Is 2 even that much better than the first one? I played 1 but some people suggest that it’s essentially the same game.

>>8885863
>"What's a racing game?"
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea for the cover?

>>8885795
you're actually retarded.

>>8889752
2 is essentially 1 but with more of everything.

>>8883902
Does Jet Moto count? If not does, Need For Speed count?

I think me and maybe 4 other people ever played the NA release of this.
>Remember it being absurdly difficult but I was young at the time, never made it past level 2
>Good graphics and beautiful skyboxes that transition across the evening and into night
>Still have those tire squeal(?) sound effects etched into my brain from whenever you encountered a boss car
>Remember being hellbent trying to reach that upper freeway deck on the first level countless times, don't think it was ever accessible however

>>8889752
2 has a lot more content but it introduces German cars so it loses the JDM vibe a tad bit. Also the atmosphere is not as good as in 1 and framerate dips down a lot more often.

>>8885127
Side by Side Special 2000

>>8885127
>What else should I try, lads?
May I interest you in violence?

>>8885954
Grip cars just required you releasing the accelerator in order to turn. Only the DRT grip trials require proper braking.
Drift cars require you to tap the brake to initiate the drift. If you don't tap the brake, and try to just release the accelerator, the car is more likely to over rev and fishtail on exit.

>>8891564
The skybox in that webm alone has sold me on trying that.

>>8891585
The skyboxes look arid and industrial, like an uncomfortable summer day with stuffy air and smoke.

>>8891603
Even better for me. It's nostalgic. Reminds me of my time in China which had a very similar feel. The damage indicator on the bottom left makes me think this might be a Destruction Derby game. Is this the third one? The only one I never tried.

>>8891606
It's the spiritual sequel to that series, called Demolition Racer. Very nostalgic indeed.

>>8891612
Who developed it though?

>>8891612
>>8891615
Looked it up. It's not a spiritual successor, it was other people trying their hand at the same kind of game. Still worth a shot but the Reflections crew had nothing to do with it.

>>8891603
I just bumped into it the other day, it caught my eye and was cheap. I'll have to try it.

>>8891616
You can call it that by similarity in theme and gameplay, really. What else would it be if its the onle one of four games based on demolition derby racing on the PSX.

>>8891624
Spiritual successor is normally used for a game by the same team who lost the license required for the original series or something of the like. Like how Perfect Dark and Timesplitters are the spiritual successors to Goldeneye. It needs to be at least some of the same people involved to meet the requirements for the term.

>>8883902
GT 3 A - spec hands down best game too bad that the earlier entries had slightly better car roster (which is saying a lot cuz gt3 had insane amounts of cars..)

close second is Tokyo Extreme Racer zero. me and my brothers favorite game of the 2000s highway japanese style racing perfection, huge roster of exclusive cars (even real ones from street racing scenes!), story was A+ for being a race game, music was awesome, and unlocking cars felt like a real accomplishment. for example when the game was released the 350Z wasnt even out yet and normies probably never even seen the car at all. but if you beat a rare spawned inependent racer who just so happens to be driving a test model you are able to obtain it yourself if you can beat him...

Need for speed Underground 2 was the last good racing game in my opinion.. Grid 1 + 2 were fun and ok but no where near the 500 -900 hour games like before. Racing games lost that edge/ fun that made them fun to play. Its all about " muh racing sims" but - psssst! guess what... even those games suck at capturing what real racing is like.. so maybe just maybe they should emulate the feeling racing gives rather than emulating true racing.

think about if Abzu was a " diving sim" it would be fucking lame as fuck

>>8891628
Nobody cared that much even back then, anon.

>>8891658
That's just what the term has always meant.

>>8890694
What game?

>>8891802
Ray Tracers

>>8883902
Nothing will beat R4 for me. Fun racer like gameplay that is also deep and varied with each car? BOMB music? Great comfy courses? It's the definition of a feel-good game.
Trying out some PSOne racers to find something similar. You guys got good shit in here. Thanks for the names

>>8883902
>the one you love the most
The one where I can race a giant eagle on the best track.

I love R4 the most. It just absolutely oozes chic Japanese style from the intro to the menu design to the music to the story mode and the drift-centric racing is great fun with great courses.

>>8891920
>>8891939
great minds think alike

I can't stand Gran Turismo.

>>8891612
>>8891603
>>8891564
I can never decide if I like the OG release or no exit more. No exit has more vehicles, more tracks and in general looks better but it lacks the kart track, a couple songs from tommy tallarico (moving violation and meltdown) and loses some of the grimey, industrial styling.

Oh and regardless of version the game has the most metal intro of any racing game ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-sFbOk3FE

>>8891612
I wouldn't say Demolition Racer was a spiritual sequel/successor as such. You had DR and Destruction Derby Raw released in the same year.

Strangely enough both Reflections (DD) and Pitbull Syndicate (DR) were from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North East of England.

>>8892137
The intro is fucking legendary.

>ENJOY DRIVING
>ENJOY DRIVING
>ENJOY DRIVING

>>8892137
The original looks industrial with muted colors and perfectly fitting metal + techno soundtrack. Engine fires and explosions look like they'll seep smoke through your speakers and clog your lungs. Meanwhile, No Exit looks like a bunch of shiny cars racing in colorful forests and dirt tracks like it's a friendly shitbox rally rather than a brutal demolition derby.