What is a shitty messaging system that site has. I attempted to respond with a long-ish post, but the site is telling me my message is considered spam. Umm...really GamesRadar??
REALLY????
Anyway fuck it. I am posting my original reply here: They can come here and read it if they want.
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Hello gentlemen at Gamesradar. I registered here only to discuss this wonderful article. I would like to offer a sincere thanks to Justin Towell for writing one of the best articles I've read in a long time.
As someone who considers himself a super hardcore arcade racing game fan. This question above...."Where have all the arcade racers gone?" pulled a heart string for me. It's incredibly sad to see what has happened to our beloved genre. I still cannot get over the shock at what Namco has done to their Ridge Racer franchise, and to add insult to injury, they don't even give us a new RR game for PS4's launch. That is tragic.
With that having been said, 90's Arcade Racer looks absolutely astonishing! I can't wait until Nicolas/Pelikan delivers this wonderful game to us in a few months. If it has good force feedback wheel support and a proper online mp mode, then 90's Arcade Racer is going to be heaven!
One last thing I would like to comment on....I notice a few of you mentioned GRID 2. I can honestly say after playing that game for hundreds of hours, it is without a doubt my favorite game of 2013...and I'll tell you why below in part II....
I am someone who grew up playing purely arcade racing games like OutRun, Daytona USA, Virtua Racing, etc(all the Sega classics). I am a COMPLETE drifting, powersliding arcade racing nutjob! GRID 2 has *INCREDIBLE* arcade drifting physics. It's that damn good!
The thing to remember people, is that this game is paying homage to the old Japanese arcade racers of the 90s like Daytona USA, where you *HAD* to drift in order to be fast around the track! Same thing in OutRun 2 and Ridge Racer. GRID 2 is Codemasters giving fans of those games a nod, and saying "Here guys, we too were fans of Daytona USA and Ridge Racer, so we wanted to give you our version of a good powersliding arcade game". And you know what? That's exactly what they did!
Those of you who've never experienced the glory days of Japanese racing games in arcades in the 90's cannot relate to this style of driving, so Grid 2 therefore feels foreign to you. If you are like me however, this game is right up your alley! I love love *looove* the fact that Codemasters made the game with this much emphasis on drifting! The more I drove the cars, the more I fell in love with the physics. It's 100% pure unadulterated arcade powersliding goodness.
CM did a good job with the handling. Take a corner perfectly and by shifting the weight of the car the proper way you'll find yourself sideways grinning ear to ear. it's a very satisfying experience.
There are a lot of haters of GRID 2 because they simply don't get it. People were even demanding a refund :lol: But for those of us with a keen eye for what makes an arcade racer special, and have a passion for that Japanese style Daytona/Sega Rally-esque drift mechanic, GRID 2 is right up our alley. Hell, you can even 4-1-4 shift to initiate a drift in this game just like Daytona USA!
As far as multiplayer goes, the more I played GRID 2 online the more fun I was having. Once I got to level 20 and bought some of the higher tier faster cars, that's when the excitement and fun really took off! The McLaren MP4 is a freakin' BEAST!! Seriously, have any of you played Super GT/Scud Race from Sega? You know how the McLaren in that game feels? How it's super fast and very slippery? How just a small lift off the gas starts to make the car slide? Well, that is exactly how the car feels in GRID 2! I mean like almost a carbon copy! I swear I feel like I'm playing Super GT 2/Scud Race 2 whenever I drive McLaren MP4 in Grid II. So hard to tame but so rewarding when you pull off that perfect drift.
The Tier 4 cars are soooo damn fast! I'm talking F-ZeroGX/OutRun 2 fast! Not kidding! The sense of speed in the game with the faster cars is out of this WORLD!!! So imagine trying to tame cars with that crazy amount of speed, *AND* racing online while doing it. It was bananas! I kept wondering to myself how I could even go back to something like say, iRacing after experiencing this kind of crazy speed.
Bottomline.....GRID 2 is THE love letter to old Sega arcade racing junkies like myself and I highly recommend it(on PC preferably). Of course, 90's Arcade Racer may have something to say about that once it comes out in a couple months.
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