Which type of racing game do you prefer?

[Owl Birb]

Which type of racing game do you prefer, and what is your go to example?

Recently I've noted a trend in racing games. There are two types- Event, and Criminal.
One, you race for a racing event and everything's specifically above the law, other games, not so much.

Forza/Forza Horizon- Event
Nightrunners- Criminal
The Crew- Criminal
The Crew 2- Event
Rally 2.0- Event
Wreckfest- Event
NFS MW- Criminal

All the newer racing games are almost exclusively events, and it kinda sucks because sometimes you do wanna race the streets and feel the thrill of a classic police chase. So are you an Event racer or a Criminal racer, and what's your go-to racing game?

[ᶻ𝗓𐰁]

Forza Horizon 5

[Charisma]

Need for Speed, I like the police chases.

[EliteEndermanzz]

I prefer chaotic racing games like mario kart

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

NFS Heat is both

[ℭycaleo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5jfULfPcvM

[Fosty]

Rally games

[Masque]

I want new Midtown Madness.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Owl Birb:

So are you an Event racer or a Criminal racer

Neither, I am..... the RIDGE Racer!

[Masque]

...and I want new RIdge Racer.

While we're at it, I want new Wipeout, and new San Francisco Rush 2049.

New Outrun would be okay, too.

I *don't* want new Turbo, Pole Position, or Pit Stop. I have nostalgia limits.

[Beardface31]

Mario Kart

[miakisfan]

Originally posted by Owl Birb:

Which type of racing game do you prefer, and what is your go to example?

Recently I've noted a trend in racing games. There are two types- Event, and Criminal.
One, you race for a racing event and everything's specifically above the law, other games, not so much.

Forza/Forza Horizon- Event
Nightrunners- Criminal
The Crew- Criminal
The Crew 2- Event
Rally 2.0- Event
Wreckfest- Event
NFS MW- Criminal

All the newer racing games are almost exclusively events, and it kinda sucks because sometimes you do wanna race the streets and feel the thrill of a classic police chase. So are you an Event racer or a Criminal racer, and what's your go-to racing game?

Gran Turismo when I owned them on the PS1 and PS2.

Otherwise I was a huge fan of the Tokyo Drift games.

I don't remember them all because I've played so many over the decades.

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NFS and The crew 2. Ubisoft stole the crew 1 off me and many others.

[Masque]

I also loved a lot of the Kart-style games, including Super Mario Kart (SNES), Crash Team Racing, and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed, and quite a few others I've forgotten.

I never played the Garfield one, but I've heard it's also a good one. Life-changing, if you can believe the reviews.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

My favorite type of racer is a sub-genre or design sensibility that sadly seems all but dead, and basically died with Ridge Racer 7. That is:

Non-kart, non-open-world (so not Horizons,) non-retro-stylized (I love those games too, i.e. Slipstream, Hot Shot, New Star GP, etc. but they're not what I'm talking about,) non-sim (so, not mainline Forza or GT,) non-rally, (so not DiRT etc.,) non semi-sim (so not GRID and the like,) non-weapon-based, non-antigrav (so, not Wipeout or F-Zero like.) non-Burnout-like, non-NFS-like, discrete track based (track begins, track ends, there's fanfare etc.,) arcade style racers with a fully arcade mentality (complete with announcer, ideally.) So, games like Ridge Racer (before Unbounded.)

Which are all but dead now, sadly. The closest contemporary examples of this I've found are things like Xenon Racer or maybe Cruisin' Blast on Switch, both of which I loved. Outside of that you have to look to various F2P games that I'm not big on. But it's basically a dead design sensibility today. Don't get me wrong, I love all the other racer varieties, too. But those are my favorite and it bums me out no one makes them now, practically.

We used to have games like SF Rush, Ridge Racer, etc. all the time. It was just a normal staple of racing games. Now it seems like most everything is a kart racer, a throwback retro homage, a sim, a simcade, an open world racer, NFS, a physics-based rally game, or a Wipeout or F-Zero clone.

[Masque]

Pez, the Ridge Racer genre, then. You could probably put SF Rush, Rush 2049, and the Cruisin' series in that category, too. Rush 2049 was a gem. Someday I'd like to play the arcade or Dreamcast version, because those have two tracks that are missing form the N64 version.

I think the design strategy for this genre is coin-op arcade based. Put in coins, get to play a single race.