Star Wars Racer Remaster coming out later this year

RAIDEN1 said:
Remaster of what game exactly? The 1999 release?
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Are there any other Star Wars racing games? I'm only aware of the N64/DC podracing title which I assume they are referring to. It got put on Switch and probably elsewhere too so not a big surprise it's in the running for a remake/remaster.
 
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Racer was already re-released on ps4.
This better be a remake.

Basically this should look like the movie at this point.
 
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Majormaxxx said:
Racer was already re-released on ps4.
This better be a remake.

Basically this should look like the movie at this point.
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It's probably worth to note that industry itself often struggles with differentiating "remaster" and "remakes", using one that has better buzzwords. This rumor is using Destroy All Humans and Spongebob game as an examples and both of them were remakes.
 
I remember sitting in the theater thinking to myself "Why the fuck is this pod race more than one lap? It is eating screen time and kinda boring, move on."
 
They already re-released Star Wars Racer for modern platforms a couple of years ago. Does this mean they're gonna do some sort of graphical update? Or maybe they're gonna re-release this next:

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If it's the latter then it's a big "meh" from me because you can already play both of these games on PS5, so these news are most likely about releasing a version of Racer Revenge for Xbox and Switch.

Although I'm gonna quietly hope that they're actually remaking the original Racer with modern graphics. That would be so dope...
 
Rumor could use a bit more detail. LOL

Star Wars has some imaginative worlds, a good race with the pods or the little hover scooter things could be fun if done right. Maybe someday.
 
Why not make a new one? Seems like a good concept to me, make and build your own Pod Racer, give it 12-15 tracks from all over the SW universe, pretty easy sell, even make it VR
 
Drizzlehell said:
They already re-released Star Wars Racer for modern platforms a couple of years ago. Does this mean they're gonna do some sort of graphical update? Or maybe they're gonna re-release this next:

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If it's the latter then it's a big "meh" from me because you can already play both of these games on PS5, so these news are most likely about releasing a version of Racer Revenge for Xbox and Switch.

Although I'm gonna quietly hope that they're actually remaking the original Racer with modern graphics. That would be so dope...
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They should also update the audio to the full movie level in both quality and nuance.
 
xClout said:
Its the best part of the whole movie. Fuck is wrong witchu
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That is like picking corn out of your own shit. The only good part of the whole movie (the lightsaber battle) came almost immediately after they dragged out 3 laps of some dumb race that wasn't very interesting from a visual or plot perspective. Had it been shorter I would have been totally fine with it.
 
So, there was a very obscure Star Wars Racer arcade game made for the beefy and barely used Sega Hikaru board. The Hikaru was the last of Sega's powerful custom arcade boards, if memory serves me right.

 
Star Wars racing is uncharacteristically Star Wars when you think of Star Wars games it's battlefront, rogue squadron, old republic etc.
 
BlackTron said:
Are there any other Star Wars racing games? I'm only aware of the N64/DC podracing title which I assume they are referring to. It got put on Switch and probably elsewhere too so not a big surprise it's in the running for a remake/remaster.
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There was the arcade game, which I'm not sure how much it shares in common with what was on Console
 
Ecotic said:
So, there was a very obscure Star Wars Racer arcade game made for the beefy and barely used Sega Hikaru board. The Hikaru was the last of Sega's powerful custom arcade boards, if memory serves me right.

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I thought the last one was the Model 3.

Was the Hikaru that powerful in 1999? Was it better than Naomi 2?
 
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93xfan said:
There was the arcade game, which I'm not sure how much it shares in common with what was on Console
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Good point. I remember seeing the arcade game and assuming it ran on the same hardware as SW Trilogy Arcade but never tried it.

I'd assume this is the console game we are getting. It was a good racer and SW is synonymous with extreme, bombastic visuals so I think this is a good idea. There are few details to mess up like story.
 
nkarafo said:
I thought the last one was the Model 3.

Was the Hikaru that powerful in 1999? Was it better than Naomi 2?
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I'm pretty sure it was better than the Naomi 2 since Sega Retro says the Hikaru was cost-prohibitive and this led to its discontinuation in favor of the cheaper Naomi 2.
 
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Ecotic said:
So, there was a very obscure Star Wars Racer arcade game made for the beefy and barely used Sega Hikaru board. The Hikaru was the last of Sega's powerful custom arcade boards, if memory serves me right.

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This game was incredible, you had actual pod race controls. used to play it at Disney Quest all the time. I miss Sega's arcade output.
 
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I remember when they announced that Sega arcade Episode 1: Racer game. I thought that was what they'd be porting to Dreamcast. Was bummed when it turned out to be a hi-res port of the N64 game, even though it was a decent title.
 
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