[Chuplayer]

Seriously. I don't get it. It's so damn awkward.

I'm playing the 60fps version from the RRtype4 pack, and I'm not enjoying it at all. The drifting is FUBAR'd. Somebody explain to me how you can recover from drifts without ending up some 20 degrees off from being straight, thereby killing your speed and sending you careening into a wall. Also, when you're turning in curves that don't require drifting, you careen into the walls anyway.

Drifting in RRtype4 and RR6 is so much more natural, and yet I hear that RRtype4 strays from its roots as if it's a bad thing. If it fixes the drifting physics, that's a good thing! RR6 takes the best of both worlds, IMO.

Am I the only one who's fed up with this game? It just isn't any fun. I don't see why I should play this game when I can just play the recreated tracks on RR6.

[ajutla]

man i didn't think anyone saw anything in ridge racer 1 except that important japanese guy from sony, the one whose name temporarily escapes me, the one indirectly responsible for that dumb internet meme

[firenze]

OK, remember that the real competition at the time was the home version of Daytona for Saturn. Which was a rather horiffic port. So Ridge Racer was THE 3D racer, and that was a big deal in the mid-90s. RR1 had good 3D graphics for the time, and anything 3D was all the rage. That's the big reason. The soundtrack was also new and CD Redbook audio was pretty impressive coming off the cartridge based music everyone was used to, not to mention the electronica dance music thing was really a bit different.

Drifting was an interesting concept too, and honestly you can learn to do Ridge Racer/RR Revolution/Rage Racer drifting. It's just a knack that comes with practice. I'll wholeheartedly agree that R4 onward makes the drifting control fantastic, but RR was a fresh way to do a racing game. Remember too - control on early PSX games was d-pad only, there was no analog. Digital movements make RR drifts easier to get under control, and even today I prefer using d-pad to analog on the old RR games.

I was always a Sega guy. I preferred Daytona arcade and Saturn Sega Rally to Ridge Racer. I was VF>Tekken. But when I finally decided to get a PSX in '97, I picked up a copy of Ridge Racer Revolution and after getting over the extremely awkward learning curve I grew to love it alllmost as much as my Sega favorites. It wasn't until R4 that I had true love for the series, but I grew up a bit and admitted to myself that RRR entertained the hell out of me.

[Gin]

Ridge Racer was made during the time before 3D was taken for granted and became boring. Before every game started to feel like lonely game. Before that magic disappeared.

It has this feeling of love and dreams in it that bleeds out of the colors and the sounds. Blue skies is what it was.

[Maztorre]

[negativedge]

Why can't Ridge Racer be blue sky? It did Daytona better than Daytona did.
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[SplashBeats]

ridge racer is a series that's consistently provided me with games i don't want to play and soundtracks that i spin for months
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[Kappuru]

you two should just make out already.


Ridge Racer was great for the time - the tunnel sections in particular really stuck out in my mind as having "lighting", compared to the flat colored world of Daytona.

Also, the course design was pretty damn good too, although I have juuussst a little bit more love for the Advanced course from daytona (that final turn!)
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[Schwere Viper]

I just always loved the presentation of the Ridge Racer series. I must say that the newer games in the series have been losing the plot somewhat, but the soul is still in there when it comes down to the racing.

I wish they'd get the guy who did Ridge Racer Revolution's race calling again.
"DON'T LET HIM GET AWAAAAAAY~!!"

I'll love to finish first in a Ridge Racer game again, only to hear...

"INCREDIBLE! NOBODY CAN CATCH YOU! YOU'RE THE REAL RIDGE RACER!"
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[The Drunken Samurai]

[Chuplayer]

[Greng]

Yeah! Alley-Oop Drifts were funny.
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[Maztorre]

[Texican Rude]

Sega should have absorbed Namco when they had the chance.

God Damn I love R4.
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[wasted potential]

sometimes I'd go to R4's sound test and just play the music while doing my homework

I really am disappointed that every RR after it has failed to capture what made 4 so amazing...

also, I have the limited edition with the jogcon nyah nyah
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[DonMarco]

Ridge Racer had two things going for it:

1. It was one of the first PSX games, which was a big deal as there were maybe 15 games released in the first 6 months.

2. It was a decent competitor to the Daytona games. Unlike Daytona, hitting walls or opponents was forgivable. It played faster and even if you had no idea what you were doing, you wouldn't time-out or place dead last out of 40.

Then again, Daytona was intentionally made more difficult to play compared to Outrun.
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"Toups, can I ask you? Do you think love can bloom even in the Forum Axe?"

[SplashBeats]

man wasted potential have you heard RR6's soundtrack, it's full of winners!
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[extrabastardformula]

Also it was a port of an arcade game at the time, and said arcade game had a very imressive attract sequence so it was very familiar to lots of people.
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[Chuplayer]

So here I am trying to finish the last part of RR60fps that I was never able to finish since I got it, and I submit that I'm never going to do it. The seventh race is shit. This fucking white car runs this perfect line around the race track and owns my shit like it isn't even trying. There's no way to beat it. I don't get it. I've even resorted to using first person mode which helps a little in straightening up after drifts, but it's a bitch to see where you're going while you're drifting. It's a shitsucker and a half is what it is.

[Screwtape]

[wasted potential]

[Texican Rude]

I tried 5 once and returned it within 30 minutes of playing.
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[Toptube]

man i never got to try the jog-con! I've never even seen one! R4 was really awesome, and besides burnout 3, is the only post Gran Turismo car racing game that I've really enjoyed.
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[smartblue]

5 had one or two good songs on it and 6 and Ridge Racers on the PSP have been pleasant even sitting next to R4. The soundtracks as Joe said both have really excelent work done in them. Do check them out or download the rips out there!
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[Schwere Viper]

[Chuplayer]

[Schwere Viper]

Ridge Racer needs a proper in-car camera with a little Pac-Man or Galaga keychain hanging from the rear view mirror, ala Rad Mobile.
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[kiken]

[The Drunken Samurai]

[firenze]

[Axelay 2]

To really appreciate RR1, it probably helped if you played it in the arcade. Getting the hang of, and nailing a powerslide with a steering wheel and gas and brake pedals, was a blast. Something that was lost and felt floaty and awkward when attempting on a digital PS1 pad. At least until you got a feel for it.

Also, you really have to look at the state of driving games at on home consoles. With the exception of spending $100 for Virtua Racer, or getting a waterdowned version of Daytona on Saturn, there was nothing that even came close to bringing home a 3d racer until RR1.

On top of that, racing games in general really sucked always outside of the arcade before that. Few exceptions being made for F-Zero, Mario Kart, and maybe a handful of others that were fun, but never approached anything that looked, sounded, or felt like real cars. Not that I'm implying RR is anything even close to a simulation.

[firenze]

[Chuplayer]

[Lestrade]

I used to always play RR4 to the same album; the "Things Falling Apart" remix album by NIN. I don't know why, it just fit perfectly. I can't play it to anything else now.
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[Koji]

I haven't played Ridge Racers, so I don't know how the music works in context, but I downloaded the soundtrack and thought that it had too many tracks that were too 'dancey.' I don't know, I'm not an expert in electronica or anything, but yeah, bouncy dancefloor stuff. It still has awesome stuff, but R4's OST is just so much more enjoyable, at least to me.
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[Schwere Viper]

...metal?

There are quite a few things that are Fucking Metal(tm). Ridge Racer is most definitely not one of them.
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[Chuplayer]

[Red_venom]

For me RR series is just fun to play. They sort of lost sight of what made R4 magical though after that game, some of the other ones have some of the good shit but R4 had it all: Music, looks, style and gameplayl.

The worst though is the music. Ridge Racers were both excellent for some reason but RR7 is lol in how bad and bland it is. RR6 had like 2 good tracks(Floodlight and Galactic Life).

Ridge Racer 1 was also popular though just because there was fuckin nothing on the PS1 at the time. The fuckin GAMES to get were RR1 and Toshinden. Then Tekken, Twisted Metal and Warhawk came out. Sony had huge RR1 ads running for months though and it was easily one of the most hyped games back before hype meant a 4 month TV campaign on all 18-24 demographic networks and ads all over mens magazines.

[The Blueberry Hill]

The PSX version of Ridge Racer came with a track. Racing games before that didn't have tracks, you had to make your own.
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[Chuplayer]

[Schwere Viper]