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[Afro Republican]

(not to be confused with kart racers)

Now while both Need for Speed and Ridge Racer have been kind of down in output due to very odd and in many cases dumb decisions with their latest entries, they are the two biggest arcade racing franchises on the market over all with years of some fantastic games.

So out of these two behemoths in the arcade racer scene, which do you prefer more? Each comes with very good looking fast-paced racing to get your heart going to slap your grandma. The two titans that will likely never be topped.


Examples of popular Need for Speed games:

• Need For Speed
• Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
• Need For Speed High Stakes
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2
• Need for Speed UnderGround
• Need for Speed UnderGround 2
• Need for Speed Most Wanted
• Need for Speed Carbon
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2010)

Examples of popular Ridge Racer games:

• Ridge Racer
• Rage Racer
• Ridge Racer Type-4-R4: Ridge Racer 4th Project (or just R4: Ridge Racer Type-4)
• Ridge Racer 6
• Ridge Racer 7
• Rave Racer
• Ride Racer (PSP)
• R: Racing Evolution

 

[Afro Republican]

Fixed poll.

 

[AngularSaxophone]

Need for speed is an entirely different kind of racing game.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Hot Pursuit holds a special place in my heart (the original)

 

[Vawn]

I get you like seeing your name flooding the front page of the boards at all times, but your polls are getting lazier. These two aren't really very comparable.

Each comes with very good looking fast-paced racing to get your heart going to slap your grandma. The two titans that will likely never be topped.

Ok, then...

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

No Need for Speed 2 OP?

When talking about content and evolution, NFS by far. But for the dope factor, RR. It's immediate fun in your veins. So RR for me.

 

[888]

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Afro Republican Makes too Many Polls
Afro Republican Needs to make more polls
Thor: The Dark World.

 

[Mr Nash]

While RR holds a special place in my heart, the series fell off hard later in life. NFS has had its fair share of duds as well, but I still find it to be an overall more consistent series.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Project Gotham Racing.
Extend it out to all Bizarre Creations Racers (Formula 1 (1996) through to Blur), and the case is even stronger.

 

[ReBurn]

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Afro Republican Makes too Many Polls
Afro Republican Needs to make more polls
Thor: The Dark World.

It was better back when randos couldn't create polls.

 

[Danjin44]

Motorstorm Apocalypse

 

[pr0cs]

I liked the burnout series but I won't lie, I didn't really enjoy the genre. I just couldn't get into racing the same tracks over and over. I like for a forza for example but I found the difficulty and my ability to relate to the cars. Arcade racers didn't really have relatable vehicles or felt like cars.

 

[flashfire926]

Bad comparison. Burnout is better than both.

 

[Fnord]

 

[AngularSaxophone]

Is that wipeout?

 

[Blood Borne]

Nah. It’s between Burnout or Outrun.

 

[AngularSaxophone]

Burnout was a good evolution of outrun but it’s still no outrun. Cop the PC version on the cheap if you can I just picked up all 3 versions of Sega rally too but one and two are a pain to get running apparently.

 

[Daniel Thomas MacInnes]

Here are a few worthy contenders to the throne:

Daytona USA
F-Zero
Ferrari F355 Challenge
Hydro Thunder
Metropolis Street Racer/Project Gotham
Micro Machines
Outrun
Pole Position
Roadblasters (not sure if this qualifies, but what the heck)
San Francisco Rush 2049
Sega Rally Championship
Super Monaco GP
Test Drive Le Mans
Virtua Racing
Wipeout

 

[AngularSaxophone]

Rush 2049 would be awesome online today with a few graphical flourishes.

 

[Acidizer]

NFS.

RR's handling/physics is especially shallow, even for an arcade game... could never get into that, and Sega Rally smashes it anyway

We need a remaster of Hot Pursuit (PS3) that was way better than Burnout Paradise!

 

[Mattyp]

No PGR, No Burnout, No Horizon. You straight up high.

 

[Afro Republican]

NFS.

RR's handling/physics is especially shallow, even for an arcade game... could never get into that, and Sega Rally smashes it anyway

We need a remaster of Hot Pursuit (PS3) that was way better than Burnout Paradise!

Ehh, Burnout Paradise was alright, I don't get the flack it got.

 

[Yoshi]

Do you count arcady future racers? Then F-Zero. Otherwise Burnout (pre-Paradise of course). Definitely neither of the mentioned. Too slow.

 

[EightBit Man]

Ridge Racer. Metropolis Street Racer may be my favorite, individual racing game of all-time. But nothing comes close to Ridge Racer outside of Daytona USA.

 

[zcaa0g]

Midnight Club. 2 and 3 had the most intense races in arcade racing history with some serious jumps.

 

[Skyfox]

Xenon Racer

 

[stranno]

Motorstorm Apocalypse

Not to mention Split/Second, it was badass even on Playstation Portable.

Not a series, unfortunately, not even a remastered version with proper 60FPS mode (the PC hack is a bit broken).

BTW: The Steam key is pretty cheap in gamesplanet UK now, only ~4$.

 

[Birdo]

Outrun 2.

 

[Enzo88]

It doesn't have as many episodes, but F-Zero GX alone>>>>>>>>anything

 

[GrayFoxPL]

No mention of the greatest Ridge Racer ever made - Ridge Racer V ?!

 

[yurinka]

Ridge Racer, for sure

 

[flashfire926]

Burnout is vastly better than both.

 

[Shifty]

Seven months later, the omission of Outrun 2 from this list is STILL staggering.

 

[radewagon]

You misspelled Gran Turismo & Burnout.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Daytona USA 1994.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Badass Game

And fuck you Disney for cancel a second part

 

[Labolas]

Ridge Racer. I have more fond memories of that than NFS. The music is next level as well.

 

[Tiamat2san]

Riiiiidge racer!
Fun arcade gameplay and 60fps.