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8314736 No.8314736 [Reply] [Original]

This is still the best arcade racing game. I knew it the day it came out it was one of the best games ever, and it was underrated from the start. It's grown in apprentice, but not where it should be. The control is perfect, and the graphics are still amazing.

>> No.8314743

>>8314736
>best
>20frames per second

>> No.8314754

>>8314743
for n64 standards that's top tier framerate

>> No.8314757
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8314757

The greatest summertime game ever made.

>> No.8314759

no. its not even the best water arcade racer

>> No.8314762

>>8314759
>no it's not even the-
yes it is

>> No.8314792
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8314792

Fuck yea. I made a thread about Wave Race 64 a couple weeks back when I discovered it for the first time, I’m obsessed with it. Few other racing games can run at 20fps and still feel so fast and good to control.

I’m still trying to beat the expert mode - it’s killing me. Got Blue Storm too and it’s not bad, has an early-2000s charm to it, but the controls are too different from 64’s for me to really love it. I know I’ll be coming back to 64 for the rest of my life - it’s one of those games that just absolutely absorbed me and made an indelible mark. The music! Those sun-bleached summer vibes that seem to only live in mid-90s Nintendo games, some sort of magic that is perfectly embodied by early 3D graphics and shiny SGI renders. It just straight up rules, can’t get enough of it.

>>8314759
yes it is

>> No.8314805

>>8314792

Yep. I was so stoked for Blue Storm on Gamecube. I didn't know they were going to fuck it up so bad. The control is just so bad. If they fixed that it would have been better, maybe. It did have silky smooth framrate, higher res and four players, but the original had better stormy weather and waves, I think...

>> No.8314950

>>8314736
>best arcade racing game
Laughable.It's good, but don't kid yourself, kid.

>> No.8314964

>>8314762
Even hydro thunder is better than WR64

>> No.8315197

>>8314964
I like hydro thunder but the racing lines feel alot more restrictive. I also think wr have more varied music and just feels alot comfier. But I've only played the Dreamcast hydro thunder so maybe things are somewhat different and maybe the jumping controls are alot better in the n64 port too?

>> No.8315202

>>8314805
Yeah I'm still mad how they fucked up the game with the sequel, at least 1080s wasn't so bad

>> No.8315206

>>8315202
But even all that here is my watercraft racer rankings
1.Wave race 64
2. Hydro thunder on dreamcast
3. Jet moto 2
After that they are all kinda too janky but H20 overdrive is a good spiritual successor to hydro thunder

>> No.8315714

>>8314964
>Even hydro thunder
>even
wtf? Hydro Thuder is absolute GOAT

>> No.8316435

>>8315714
THIS
"even"
Someone slap this motherfucker.
I love both games by the way.

>> No.8316437

>>8315197
>But I've only played the Dreamcast hydro thunder so maybe things are somewhat different and maybe the jumping controls are alot better in the n64 port too?
What the fucking hell am I reading

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8316468

>>8314964
>implying Hydro Thunder isn't one of the best racing games ever
It's up there along with OutRun 2 and Ridge Racer Type 4

>> No.8316473

>>8314964
>even
Your presence sickens me.

>> No.8317376

>>8314736
I dont think this is the game where you're racing through ancient temples and other interesting shit is it? What game is that?

>> No.8317383

>>8314736
>This is still the best arcade racing
No.
Aqua Jet is better.

>> No.8317397

>>8317383
Way too simplistic and gimmicky. Like all those full body machines.

>> No.8317421

>>8314743
Stop playing the pal version
https://youtu.be/3QqPtdA0wpw

>> No.8317430
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8317430

What went so wrong?

>> No.8317457

>>8317430
Outsourcing to western developers. Strange because the game team did a good job of recreating Ridge Racer's gameplay in RR64. Clearly they were given more freedom with this game and 1080's sequel and that was a mistake.

>> No.8317485

>>8314754
F-Zero X is 60 fps on the 64.

>> No.8317486

>>8317430

The control. In WR64 you could pivot down left or right on the control stick along with the shoulder buttons to turn fast. They took that away in BS.

>> No.8317494

>>8317457
RR64 sucks big time. Of course nintendrones who are't familiar with Ridge Racer series would claim otherwise, but once it's their precious Wave Race that gets westernized, they cry "look how they massacred my boy" about it.

>> No.8317495

>>8317494
Go seethe somewhere else please.

>> No.8317519

>>8314736
Imagine a 20 fps arcade game lmao

>> No.8317547
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8317547

>>8317430
it’s really not a bad game - but compared to the original, the controls are wildly different. you can certainly get used to them and get good, but it’s nowhere near as enjoyable if you love the control of the original.

>> No.8317556

>>8317397
No more simplistic than a fucking N64 game.

>> No.8317580

>>8316437
Hydro thunder has way more than one port.

>> No.8317981

>>8317494
I was actually just playing it I thought it was a solid port, what's wrong with it?

>> No.8318013

>>8314736
it was trash when it was released and was a common cart to find in second hand stores for many years after its release.

>> No.8318014

>>8317494
simps and retards think the n64 was close to being equivelent to arcade hardware. these people are beyond retarded.

>> No.8318056

>>8317981
It's a 2000 game that plays comparably to a 1995 game (Ridge Racer Revolution) but lacks trademark Namco art direction and soundtrack - RR64 is has a very uninspired, knock off look which is further aggravated by toy-like car model proportions. Furthermore, Ridge Racer V was released around the same time.

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8318435

>>8314736
oh fuck yeah another Wave Race Thread
>>8314792
HOLY SHIT it's Wave Race Anon from a few weeks ago, I'm the guy who wrote that long ass paragraph on your old thread, glad to see you're still enjoying this godlike game. I agree about Blue Storm, charming somewhat but not as fun to play as 64.

>> No.8318480

>>8317486
>along with the shoulder buttons
Wait holy shit is that why I’ve sucked at tight turns for a quarter century? I knew about pivoting the stick but had no idea about the shoulder buttons

>> No.8318487

>>8314792
Why can't they remaster N64 games to look like this?
They have the source code but insist on dodgy emulation.

>> No.8318705

>>8314736
best arcade racing game? where's the eurobeat and the mountain passes?

>> No.8319154

>>8317376
Hydro Thunder.

>> No.8319225

>>8317580
No shit, and DC is the only one that gets it right minus the one-trick quirks of the other ports. The fact anyone would consider the 64 or PS1 port, my god ...

>> No.8319229

>>8318705
Those games actually suck, man. Tokyo Xtreme Drift and Wangan Midnight do a better job.