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Let's talk about the WipEout series

Thread of the forever. Quality effort... and such an amazing game series.

Wipeout 3 SE used to be my clear favourite. More recently I think it's position has been toppled by Wipeout Pure (+ US track packs). I initially disliked the addition of 'gravity' to the ship control of the PS1 era but now everything about that game is utter perfection to me. Great soundtrack too.

Bring on 2048.

What's everyone's favourite ship design from the various era's of games?
 
jump_button said:
I never feel like Im doing anything, and any bang on the wall you may as well restart dont think it as much fun as it should be/ could be and from what i played its the same game and not change
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Wipeout takes practice, patience, and concentration. You can't just pick up the game and win a bunch of races. It's arguably one of the most skill-based racers ever made. If you stick with it, it is HIGHLY rewarding, but you've got to put in some time.
 
Haven't played the series (ever, I think, unless I'm forgetting), but if I ever pick up PS3 or Vita, I'll be sure to check it out. One of the few racing games that has ever intrigued me.
 
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Funny as it is, i set my wallpaper to that image today :)

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Little known fact: WipEout Pulse was ported to PS2, and only released in Europe.
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I bought it and have never loaded it lol - it was more a Wipeout thing. PSP version is so so epic.
 
btw, did the put the download offline? when i wanted to re download wipeout hd some weeks ago off my purchase list it said "download is not available". and im not talking about expired because of downloading it 5 times. it really said "not available".
 
Does the angle of your nose affect your speed in any way?

I was trying to get into this the other day... but I realized it's almost impossible for me to keep the nose down throughout the race.

If this is negatively affecting my times, I'd be kind of disappointed. I even tried setting pitch to the motion controls, but I can't seem to get used to it.


also... am I weird for playing with the d-pad? it seems a lot easier to control than with the analog.
 
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My favourite. First Wipeout game was HD, loved it so much. Will probably get a Vita just for Wipeout 2048.

I just love the futuristic atmosphere of the series. And the music. There is a lot of backstory of the teams out there, I guess it must be from the older games.
 
Evolved1 said:
Does the angle of your nose affect your speed in any way?

I was trying to get into this the other day... but I realized it's almost impossible for me to keep the nose down throughout the race.

If this is negatively affecting my times, I'd be kind of disappointed. I even tried setting pitch to the motion controls, but I can't seem to get used to it.


also... am I weird for playing with the d-pad? it seems a lot easier to control than with the analog.
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The pitch does have effects but I do not use it much myself, it just doesn't fit the controls well. Nose down increases speed but lowers turning ability. Nose up does the opposite. The only time I use pitch is to balance out in mid air and sometimes nose down on long straights.

I use the d pad and I think it is the most popular choice. I am not so sure about analog air brakes or not. I go pure digital but I am not good at Phantom speed and above anyways.
 
Veins said:
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My favourite. First Wipeout game was HD, loved it so much. Will probably get a Vita just for Wipeout 2048.

I just love the futuristic atmosphere of the series. And the music. There is a lot of backstory of the teams out there, I guess it must be from the older games.
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Piranha is my favorite as well. Love the way she says it as well.

Fantastic game. Got it because Gaf was recommending it at the time and i had a great time. Most of the time was spend with my brother going against each other.

Zone was totally making me feel i was in tron.
 
first experience w/ the series was Pure just cause I was desperate for a good PSP racer. straight up brilliance. i dont think i've ever taken to a racing game so quickly.

i was a Playstation kid from the PS1 but I'd honestly never heard of the series until then. surprised to see it had such a rich history.



i went back and bought Fusion one summer but I didn't like the feel of the game at all.
 
I'm not a huge fan of the racing genre but the combination of the music, audio and graphic design have kept my interest in the series.

I much prefer the pure Designers Republic stark, industrial influences on the environment from Wipeout 3 to the garish, neon-heavy PS2/PSP efforts, but I think they found a sweet spot between the two in Wipeout HD... Damn that game is pretty. It was also my first ever PSN purchase - 1080p and 60 fps, quite the achievement.
 
I've played countless hours of Wipeout Pure on the PSP, and absolutely loved it. Zone mode is especially fun to challenge!

Wipeout HD is easily the highlight of the series, I think. The HD graphics are STUNNING in motion and the art is incredible. It's a damn shame that in Fury elite races are damn near impossible to get gold. >_>

Favorite ship is Assegai.
 
Man, good memories. Used to System Link the shit out of the original and 2097 back in the day but it wasn't all a bed of roses getting to that happy place.

Played the demo when I bought the console at launch, liked it, rented the game, hated it.

A few months later during the PSOnes dry spell on the release front I decided I would give it an honest go. Bought it, hated it, sold it.

Then one day at my local gaming store one of the salesmen whom I used to chat to frequently was proud to say he had finally completed WipEout on Rapier (There were only two speeds in the original, Fast and Blisteringly Fast!). He then loaded up the last track and showed me. I walked out with a copy in hand and a month or so later I was proud to say I finished the game.


WipEout Fusion is the only one I've never played.

I've enjoyed the PSP and HD versions of the game but I long for a career structure of the original trilogy or like 2097. I don't want to be forced to do a series of time trials or Zones within a career.
 
Brobzoid said:
+1

Like Icarus/Feisar too, but Assegai is king.

Also, I can't play worth shit in third person. gotta have my nose to the track!
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The opposite for me, I can't handle the tilt when in first person, although everything seems faster which is cool.
 
wipEout is my favourite game ever. The best way to play it is using a neGcon (I have a Japanese black one, which is more comfortable). There is nothing like entering a completely dark, bending tunnel, keeping the steering locked perfectly right and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel confirming you somehow took this bend perfectly.

Actually the last wipEout on the PS1 is wip3out SE, which has the wip3out tracks plus a selection of classic tracks with updated graphic. It is THE version to get for the PS1.

wipEout Pulse on the PS2 has a saving bug, which apparently only happens on Sony memory cards and renders the game pretty much useless.

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Loved XG3, the Rollcage series and F-Zero GX as well. Looking forward to WO 2048.
 
The thing I did like about fusion were the cosmetic changes to vehicles through upgrades, even most of the vehicles were pretty ugly.

I would love that in a new Wipeout game, done better of course.
 
Also a huge F-Zero fan who never developed the same love for this series.
Tried my upmost best at liking Wipeout HD but I just got tired of it after a few days. Racing feels a bit shallow when coming from an F-Zero game which usually has all sorts of advanced tricks. I did dig the great sense of speed, slick visuals and techno soundtrack.
 
I bought a psp for the wipEouts and was not dissapointed. I normally hate racers but I love both Mario Kart and wipEout ...weird as they both feel like opposite ends of the spectrum.

Disappointed that 2048 is going 30fps... 60 would have given it that buttery arcade feel and would have shifted a few more units :-(
 
Veins said:
The opposite for me, I can't handle the tilt when in first person, although everything seems faster which is cool.
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yeah it's the tilt that does it for me too. in third person I feel like I'm going sideways/over-steering every time I turn because of how the ship tilts on the screen. I fail to dealwithit.gif
 
Wipeout died to me when they booted Designers Republic. Their aesthetic was absolutely essential to the franchise and making it feel like a piece from the furture. The current shit graphic design feels like a KIRF Wipeout. No style, no vision.
 
Vitten said:
Also a huge F-Zero fan who never developed the same love for this series.
Tried my upmost best at liking Wipeout HD but I just got tired of it after a few days. Racing feels a bit shallow when coming from an F-Zero game which usually has all sorts of advanced tricks. I did dig the great sense of speed, slick visuals and techno soundtrack.
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It's actually pretty complex. Watch this video if you want to learn.

Wipeout HD beginners guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxzYkTralIA
 
Chittagong said:
Wipeout died to me when they booted Designers Republic. Their aesthetic was absolutely essential to the franchise and making it feel like a piece from the furture. The current shit graphic design feels like a KIRF Wipeout. No style, no vision.
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TDR was ace, yes, but I can't fathom how someone could play Wipeout HD and say "this has no style". What the games lost in graphic design, they've gained a hundredfold in environmental design. The design of the tracks and the architecture surrounding them in HD makes the world design of pretty much any other sci-fi gaming series look positively boring and unimaginatively bankrupt in comparison.
 
Wipeout was one of the things that sold me on a PS1, but in the end i only hired it and never bought it - the wall banging wasn't so forgiving, and news of 2097 made me wait...

Soon after, i got a demo disc in the mail with 2097 - just the Gare de Europa track alone on that disc made the PS1 purchase worthwhile! But i got the full game and it was of course, even better... a time when every single course was meticulously crafted for awesome racing. Me and a mate were stuck time trialling the game for years!

But... i sold my PS1 at some point so only played 3 much later; liked it of course, but wasn't motivated to buy a machine. Announcer wasn't as cool anymore!

Got a PSP for Pure, loved it. Got Pulse... i must say i don't like Pulse as much, i really dislike the repeat play-through that is the grids. I feel like i'll never beat all the hexagons entirely and it's just tiresome after a while. The courses aren't challenging and share to many visual similarities.

Don't have a PS3 but wish i did for HD!
This year i rebought 2097 to play with BC on PS2.. and found a Negcon in a pawn shop.
Its hard in the heat of a CPU battle... and my time trials might never be as good until a lot more practice... but just the feeling of getting/holding a turn spot on is exceptional; feels so good and is my preferred way to just have fun racing.

2048 is the only reason i want a Vita, but i'm not sold yet...
The game looks gorgeous of course, but the tracks seem tame with not many challenging sections.

I feel like as the series has progressed it's become more about how the stage looks than how it drives, but i'm hoping for the best once more is known about 2048.
 
I have been playing Wipeouts since day 1 and I love them. I didn't get HD until the free games of shame Sony campaign but it's jawdroppingly awesome.
 
Amazing games and very important series in the video games history.

It played a great role in ps1's image and probably marked the denerdification of gaming.

Also they are some of the extremely few games that eveyone likes more or less. I don't think I've ever heared or read anywhere anything negative about it.
 
HD was my first WipEout and man was it awesome, I've easily spent around 200 hours in it. Made quite a lot of psn friends from the wipeout community too.
Never really got amazing at it or anything but getting into top 100 or 200 on almost every track was enough for me.

Had high hopes for 2048 but it's 30fps and split screen in HD was just unplayable for me so I'll have to see it with my own eyes before buying it. Are the psp ones also 30fps?
 
I'm a Wipeout veteran and I still think 3 Special Edition has the best gameplay in the series, but HD Fury is the best game overall.

I want another Wipeout for PS3 D:
 
I am, at least from HD/Fury, an EG-X man.

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Prior to that, Assegai. Such a stunning series on all levels.

I think where a lot of the F-Zero lads and lasses' problems stem from when it comes to making the jump to WipEout is realising the craft in this fine series should, at least on a basic level, be considered the anti-gravity equivalent of power boats. There's a decent depth to the physics and air-braking - like jamming a paddle into the proverbial stream to help turn your machine is a fundamental and ultimately rewarding achievement.
 
Wipeout HD (Fury) might just be the best game on PlayStation 3; not only is it amazing in itself, you can also unlock the wip3out HUD and it is stunning at 1080p 60fps.

Made me not regret buying a PS3 in hindsight.

As far as ships go, in my opinion, Feisar is as close as Sony has ever gotten to an actual Mascot.

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gtfo crash bandicoot.
 
I have a habit of buying wipEout before I have the machine to play it on. Also my wife gave me this as a present:
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I prefer the way the airbrakes work in 2097/XL; they turn the craft without steering, you have to use it before entering a turn, it is a neat skill to learn. The current way the airbrakes work is that they make you ship steer sharper, which feels a bit like cheating.

I didn't like Fusion because you could get stuck on a track.

PS2 pulse is indeed 60FPS IIRC, haven't played it in a while.
 
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