The madness begins: IGN hands on with Final Ridge Racers (PSP)
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being a nintendo commercial you can be sure they're gonna spin it the right waydrohne said:
thing is the psp got itself another weakness, but knowing nintendo marketing they are probably not gonna exploit it, they lack the SONY marketing agressiveness. of course the DS got enough weaknesses itself, so maybe they shouldn't get down in the mud with SONY mumu said:PSP damage control is strong in this thread. Some PSP friends would even find a way to defend 5 minute load times (and believe it!)Loading times is also the reason why the N64 did outsell the PSX after all ... wait a second.
Truth is it's a problem, but Joe Average won't care at all. Unless they are really frequent and interrupt the experience severly. From the Gamespot impressions i'm not sure if they do.
Yep. Frequent and lengthy Loading times have not prevented people from proclaiming Half-Life 2 as Game of the Year.
Lord Error
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Why do some people complain about nitros? Nitros are actually one thing I'm really looking forward to in a racing game. They almost always equal more fun, ever since the days of Hang On (no nitros) and Super Hang ON (which had nitros, and was much better)
Best excuse to troll ever. Must remember that oneSpeevy said:
Not a chance. Nintendo is always too peevish to address the competition directly in the mainstream media. With Sony being as dead serious as they are, I fully expect them to have their heads in the sand and not wanting to call attention to a competitor's product.mumu said:
You said yourself that most people really don't care about load times, so it's probably not worth doing a mudslinging advert over.
yeah, suddenly speevy has turned into Ralph Nader. Hey Speevy, if you want to help the consumer, why not fight something important like crash test improvements in cars?
I've bought a Virtual Boy, Sega CD, 32x, Saturn, Game Gear, Nomad, Master System and a Dreamcast. A bad console choice has never killed anyone... you should work on something that matters.
I've bought a Virtual Boy, Sega CD, 32x, Saturn, Game Gear, Nomad, Master System and a Dreamcast. A bad console choice has never killed anyone... you should work on something that matters.
captmcblack
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Loading? Like, PS2-style loading? Ugh. 
Other than that, RR looks like it's gonna be awesome - par for the course.
Finally, RR on PSP seems to be this board's favorite game to obsess over - for better or worse. Why is that?
Other than that, RR looks like it's gonna be awesome - par for the course.
Finally, RR on PSP seems to be this board's favorite game to obsess over - for better or worse. Why is that?
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acklame said:
eh? where is that from? i dont see it in the ign article.
captmcblack said:Loading? Like, PS2-style loading? Ugh.
Other than that, RR looks like it's gonna be awesome - par for the course.
Finally, RR on PSP seems to be this board's favorite game to obsess over - for better or worse. Why is that?
How long have you been around here? The game of the moment changes constantly...
As for RR, a lot of us really love the franchise and we haven't seen a new installment since 2000!
quadriplegicjon said:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/570/570963p1.html
it appears that ridge racers does support game shares. sweet
Spiritreaver
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nm.. looking at the wrong article.
Spiritreaver
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Are you looking at the article: Hands ON: PSP? I see it there clearly.
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DarthWufei said:
nope. wrong one.
Gek54 said:
No, I don't believe you.
I know for a fact that there are challenges in Burnout 3 that can't be completed without near constant boosting. Some of the time trials, for instance. They give you a specific car and require you to beat a certain time. It isn't possible to beat that time without boosting.
Again, The boosting fucking sucks. How can you welcome something that you can get pretty much anywhere else? If you want to play fucking Burnout, play that. When I want to play Ridge Racer I expect an experience that is unmarred by this "XTREME SPEED OMG!" bullshit. One thing that's always been possible in Ridge Racer is to choose a car that has outstanding grip, meaning you hardly ever drift. I like to play both styles, and I sure as hell don't appreciate being forced to drift longer than necessary just so I can get an ULTRA COOL SUPER SPEED XTREME BOOST YAY DIE DIE DIE. FUCK. They better not put this shit in the next console games, but I bet they will because this game will sell a lot of copies, which is why I'm so up in arms about it.
dark10x said:No, I don't believe you.
I know for a fact that there are challenges in Burnout 3 that can't be completed without near constant boosting. Some of the time trials, for instance. They give you a specific car and require you to beat a certain time. It isn't possible to beat that time without boosting.
As long as you dont hit anything and get off good drifts then you are gold with out nitros.
Gek54 said:
No, I still don't believe you. Some of those trials required PERFECTION even with boost. If you hit ANYTHING at all, you weren't getting the gold. You needed to navigate the course flawlessly WHILE boosting. Have you done this on several of the later indy car trials? I will never believe it until I see someone do it, because I don't believe it's possible. I could navigate those later courses without touching anything and took every single curve with extreme perfection...but without boost, you just weren't fast enough. During the indy car trials, you would essentially NEVER let off the boost. This wasn't something like NFSU where you only use it to a limited degree. You would start boosting right away and never let go until you crossed the finish (and some runs lasted upwards of 5 minutes!).
I found those challenges fun, as it required you to navigate those courses at an incredibly high speed...
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Gek54 said:
Heh, you haven't played much of the game if you really stand by this comment.
I love how everyone's already decided that the boosts suck without even touching the game.
Frankly, seeing as it's tied directly into the main game play feature (drifting) I have a feeling it'll add a pretty interesting strategic aspect to the core racing game.
Then again, I haven't played the final version so I'll reserve judgement. Carry on whiners.
Frankly, seeing as it's tied directly into the main game play feature (drifting) I have a feeling it'll add a pretty interesting strategic aspect to the core racing game.
Then again, I haven't played the final version so I'll reserve judgement. Carry on whiners.
seismologist
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Part of the appeal of the RR series that even though it's not a sim it's one of the only "pure" racing games left where doing well is all about your driving skill.
It sucks that they're adding fantasy elements like "boosting" I just hope they remove it before the next Ridge Racer on PS3.
Not to say boosting in itself makes the game suck but it definitely puts the game in a different category.
It sucks that they're adding fantasy elements like "boosting" I just hope they remove it before the next Ridge Racer on PS3.
Not to say boosting in itself makes the game suck but it definitely puts the game in a different category.
Vibri said:
That's a big part of why I have a problem with it. This boost strategy isn't something I'm interested in when I think of a new Ridge Racer. If I want that I'll play one of the myriad games that has this type of gameplay. If I want to be reviewed on how long my drifts are, I'll play Kaido Battle 2. If I want to boost my way to hell and back, I'll play Burnout, but for a more "clean" arcade racing experience, I've always turned to Ridge Racer (and Battle Gear 3, lately), and I'll be sad if this puts an end to that.
Gek54 said:
You're going to make me cry.
Think the fuss about nitros is a bit much, and Ridge Racer hasn't always been about drifting.
The RR series was originally about an adrenelin rush more than anything else. Drifting in the original games wasn't as beneficial as in the later ones, and in some of the games actually hindered you. And with Rage Racer for example, the speed was ramped up to 'nitro' style levels anyway. The adrenelin rush came from the fear of making even the slightest mistake at those speeds, and in the early games you were punished severely for those mistakes.
I'm reserving judgement till I've played it of course, but it sounds to me like Ridge Racers could be a blend of the styles of both the early and late games in the series. You have the drifting, but combined with the adrenelin rush and fear of mistakes that comes from the nitros. With the added strategy of being able to choose when you use that speed - which could work very well in multiplayer.
To me so far, it's easily the most promising RR game in years. Can't wait to play it.
The RR series was originally about an adrenelin rush more than anything else. Drifting in the original games wasn't as beneficial as in the later ones, and in some of the games actually hindered you. And with Rage Racer for example, the speed was ramped up to 'nitro' style levels anyway. The adrenelin rush came from the fear of making even the slightest mistake at those speeds, and in the early games you were punished severely for those mistakes.
I'm reserving judgement till I've played it of course, but it sounds to me like Ridge Racers could be a blend of the styles of both the early and late games in the series. You have the drifting, but combined with the adrenelin rush and fear of mistakes that comes from the nitros. With the added strategy of being able to choose when you use that speed - which could work very well in multiplayer.
To me so far, it's easily the most promising RR game in years. Can't wait to play it.
Oh yeah I loved the speeds in Rage Racer at the end...when you got that Pink Pantherish car that blazed along.....burning around the track...sweat pouring down....gingerly monitoring the approaching cars in the rear view mirror.......snaking through the curves of the track when DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you graze the corner for 1 millisecond!
TheGreenGiant
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in case you guys missed it in the other thread. RRPSP has no multishare option.
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And even i am moderately surprised
People are hitting the panic button too soon.
As long as that load time occurs once and not for everytime you replay a level, i don't see the problem.
However, this made me raise an eyebrow :
"with the loading being faster than Sony Computer Entertainment's own Minna no Golf Portable,"
... the fuck???
As said before - as long as that a one shot load burden, then that's okay - if it's got big load times between courses, it's gonna be a right pain in the arse.
6 more days to go....
As long as that load time occurs once and not for everytime you replay a level, i don't see the problem.
However, this made me raise an eyebrow :
"with the loading being faster than Sony Computer Entertainment's own Minna no Golf Portable,"
... the fuck???
As said before - as long as that a one shot load burden, then that's okay - if it's got big load times between courses, it's gonna be a right pain in the arse.
6 more days to go....
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TheGreenGiant said:in case you guys missed it in the other thread. RRPSP has no multishare option.
Care to wager a ban on that? Because in the PSP options it says 'game share' - and it's yet to be confirmed either way in-game.
Plus, is that really something to smile about? Or are you just feeling a bit threatened? Weird.