The jump from Rage Racer to Type 4 is insane. Crazy how one sequel on the same platform can just make such a huge leap in fidelity and art direction. The menus in Type 4 still look modern to this day.
Too bad it's pretty much stopped there. Just finished replaying Type 4 again and I can say it was a peak, it's all downhill from there except graphics. Unbounded was kinda cool step in different direction, but honestly nobody care about that game on release, Namco completely missed their "big mainstream racing game" train. The only thing they can do now is reboot it with some kind of mid-2000s NFS or Burnout 100% arcadey style, too many karting and "serious" racing games out there.
Graphism GAO was insane however rage racer had a tuning and customization part that no other game in this series will ever have. Plus rage racer was the last game we're you could adopt different type of driving. After rage racer, you HAD to drift in almost every single curve. My favorite is stole ridge racer revolution. I'm looking forward to play it again.
@@J0rdan912 The market is ripe. Fusion and City Pop is on an upswing to a point that it has some mainstream appeal. They need to lean hard back into R4 and go in on more Y2K/Jazz aesthetic. People would eat that shit up. Even a remake of R4R would be better than nothing. It happened with Klonoa.
@@TofuTehSurvivor Basically just something that will not attempt to compete with very serious and realistic racing games. Something with pure fun, arcade gameplay, boatload of nitro boosting and drifting, without falling to some kinda mobile trash. Genre is stuck at mediocre rally, NFS/Burnout and Forza/Gran Turismo games. I tried some small indie racing games recently like Horizon Turbo and Hotshot Racing (highly recommend btw), and it was amazing, if new Ridge Racer or Rage Racer was something like that, but bigger and better, that's totally fine.
Gran Turismo was my first PS1 car racing game and played it a lot with my cousins, but it was Ridge Race Type4 that made me really appreciate racing games. That game was fresh af.
By far the best in the series were the PSP versions, specifically Ridge Racer 2. Oh how I remember struggling against the Kamata Angelus special car boss race... But once you win that car, it was such a satisfying feeling. And fun fact, Reiko Nagase the animated girl who appears in most RRs has a sister named Kei Nagase who features in the Ace Combat series.
RR peaked on psp those games were amazing for a handheld at that time. I've loved this series since day one. But the older titles are difficult to revisit with the dodgy collision physics. If you collide even if a car swipes you they shot forwards and you stop nearly dead. And all Nintendo releases feel like a different game. Good but not the same for me anyway Namco 100% needs to bring this series back to consoles. Mobile not so much
That ending is very sad, when you realize how phones destroyed the fun of the games. even though its way more powerful than old consoles but the gameplay became so childish.
I've been playing RR2 on my G Cloud and it is glorious. Took my PS3 out of storage and started playing RR7 again. I will never get tired/bored of this series.
I thought Ridge Racert Type 4 was really beautiful when it was released and the songs were great too! We had never seen anything like it before and having lived through that time was great! To this day, I sometimes play Ridge Ricer from the PSP, but on my cell phone via an emulator.
I'm great FaN of ridge racer, games,, before,, initial D,, & Wangan midnight maximum tune,, arcade games,, & I love that game so much, on pC gameS,,,😆😀😄
For easy gameplay - music & story (dot at the end of sentence) You're missing out if you didn't try Ridge Racer 2 (PSP), Ridge Racer 6 & Ridge Racer 7.
One thing that I learned from the video is that you suck at ridge racer lol brought me back to the arcades and wasting quarters away with the same driving skills.
![Evolution of Front Mission Games [1995-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B5d48eoSqBg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Evolution of Mega Man Games [1987-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/f7NkehVJp8I/mqdefault.jpg)
Man this series always had the best music. Namco needs to bring it back!
The jump from Rage Racer to Type 4 is insane. Crazy how one sequel on the same platform can just make such a huge leap in fidelity and art direction.
The menus in Type 4 still look modern to this day.
Too bad it's pretty much stopped there. Just finished replaying Type 4 again and I can say it was a peak, it's all downhill from there except graphics. Unbounded was kinda cool step in different direction, but honestly nobody care about that game on release, Namco completely missed their "big mainstream racing game" train. The only thing they can do now is reboot it with some kind of mid-2000s NFS or Burnout 100% arcadey style, too many karting and "serious" racing games out there.
Graphism GAO was insane however rage racer had a tuning and customization part that no other game in this series will ever have.
Plus rage racer was the last game we're you could adopt different type of driving. After rage racer, you HAD to drift in almost every single curve.
My favorite is stole ridge racer revolution.
I'm looking forward to play it again.
I thought the same
@@J0rdan912 The market is ripe. Fusion and City Pop is on an upswing to a point that it has some mainstream appeal. They need to lean hard back into R4 and go in on more Y2K/Jazz aesthetic. People would eat that shit up. Even a remake of R4R would be better than nothing. It happened with Klonoa.
@@TofuTehSurvivor Basically just something that will not attempt to compete with very serious and realistic racing games. Something with pure fun, arcade gameplay, boatload of nitro boosting and drifting, without falling to some kinda mobile trash. Genre is stuck at mediocre rally, NFS/Burnout and Forza/Gran Turismo games. I tried some small indie racing games recently like Horizon Turbo and Hotshot Racing (highly recommend btw), and it was amazing, if new Ridge Racer or Rage Racer was something like that, but bigger and better, that's totally fine.
Ridge Racer 6 and the 2 PSP games were amazing!! Bring this series back!
Gran Turismo was my first PS1 car racing game and played it a lot with my cousins, but it was Ridge Race Type4 that made me really appreciate racing games. That game was fresh af.
Almost cried watching this reminds me of my late father
Damn bro
I miss Ridge Racer. Namco needs to bring it back
i really want a ridge racer unbounded remaster
None is better than Ridge Racer Type 4
RRV gives it a run for its money in my opinion
less content sure, but god damn I’ve squeezed a lot more time into that content then type 4
Ridge racer 4,5,6 and 7 is better
Overrated
Music-wise, I’d have to agree with Type 4
None is better than ps2 and ps3 games
Ridge racer 64 always my favorite
Sad ending with the mobile platform versions.
Ridge Racer slipstream with so much fucking phone on the phone I'm so sad there is just no way to play them anymore
Ridge Racer slipstream was fucking good to be a mobile game nngl
Happy birthday for Ridge Racer series! 30th anniversary
i used to play this legendary game on 360 and PSP good old times :D
By far the best in the series were the PSP versions, specifically Ridge Racer 2. Oh how I remember struggling against the Kamata Angelus special car boss race... But once you win that car, it was such a satisfying feeling.
And fun fact, Reiko Nagase the animated girl who appears in most RRs has a sister named Kei Nagase who features in the Ace Combat series.
They should bring back Ridge Racer but with the R4 vibe
Know any devs? Let's just make a new R4.
RR peaked on psp those games were amazing for a handheld at that time.
I've loved this series since day one. But the older titles are difficult to revisit with the dodgy collision physics. If you collide even if a car swipes you they shot forwards and you stop nearly dead.
And all Nintendo releases feel like a different game. Good but not the same for me anyway
Namco 100% needs to bring this series back to consoles. Mobile not so much
I miss the ridge Racer slipstream for android 😢
The graphics for all the ridge racers games are honestly insane like the graphics look amazing on the psp and ps vita
That ending is very sad, when you realize how phones destroyed the fun of the games. even though its way more powerful than old consoles but the gameplay became so childish.
I've been playing RR2 on my G Cloud and it is glorious. Took my PS3 out of storage and started playing RR7 again. I will never get tired/bored of this series.
Ridge Racer Vita was such disappointing garbage. Locked at 30FPS and only had three tracks in the base game. All the extra content was paid DLC.
Its a shame Namco decided to send this series to the iOS realm, after rage racer, every game was a blockbuster imho, until unbounded...
We need the Pc version of R4.
Ridge Racer 6 was impressive for a 2006 game . Way ahead of it's time
Series died after unbounded lol
No, the series started dying after unbounded, it died in RR 2016
The series at its peak was R4
My favorite is rr64
Queria saber pq falam tão bem dos jogos ridge racer pra ps1 se nenhum presta
Need 4, GT2 e VP são muito melhores
they don't make good arcade racer anymore in 2024 unless we got gran turismo 7 which is boring as hell
Such a shame that the PS4 and PS5 have been released and there have been no launch titles with them. Would have loved RR8
I thought Ridge Racert Type 4 was really beautiful when it was released and the songs were great too!
We had never seen anything like it before and having lived through that time was great!
To this day, I sometimes play Ridge Ricer from the PSP, but on my cell phone via an emulator.
The more they put in graphics the more they remove from gameplay... don’t get it...
Wow...nice. some I never try yet.
RR Type 4 is my absolute favourite in the series. Pushed the PS1 to its limit and it had *that soundtrack
this is game reture to come back make up
ridge racer 2 psp version is on Ps4 and ps5 store for 10 bucks and plays without psp.
i will download ridge racer 2011 on my ps vita
Let play
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
リッジレーサーレボリューション
第10回
リッジレーサー2
第5回
Namco without Ridge Racer = Team Sacred Treasures without Chizuru
Ridge Racer 2 is the best
リッジレーサー
第6回
This is awesome man, thank you.
Unbonded foi de longe o melhor da franquia pra mim.
Its so mad than R4 is theorically the sixth game, the most knowed and than the series end in iOS ):
This is over time
Man the graphics are all over the place hahaha
why psp ridge racer cars are so low poly💀 this handheld beast could do much better
Because they were targeting 60 fps
i missed the slipstream one. and never had a chance to play ridge racer 6 n 7
Jogo da Namco é jogo de boa qualidade!
レイブレーサー
第24回
Fun fact Ridge racer is on Java too
Thank you. It’s featured in this video.
didnt knew this series lasted all the way to 2016.. Thought it died in the PS1 era.
PSP one is great (best game of this console imo). 7 on PS3 was nice to play too
I'm great FaN of ridge racer, games,, before,, initial D,, & Wangan midnight maximum tune,, arcade games,, & I love that game so much, on pC gameS,,,😆😀😄
I only like type 4
For easy gameplay - music & story (dot at the end of sentence)
You're missing out if you didn't try Ridge Racer 2 (PSP), Ridge Racer 6 & Ridge Racer 7.
I don’t know which Bandai Namco game franchise is overused and keeps on making now that Ridge Racer is dead.
Evolution Of Manny Pacquiao In Games Video Pls.
good games, bad driving but good editing
Maybe these games should have a crossover with Mario Kart...!
why
@@FuraFaolox Because Nintendo has other crossovers with third-party series!
@@mosessin okay but why
that question hasn't been answered
@@FuraFaolox Because third-party karts would be fun!
This is a racing series that seen some sh*t
Stop
One thing that I learned from the video is that you suck at ridge racer lol brought me back to the arcades and wasting quarters away with the same driving skills.
Rr2 on psp & Rr7 >>>>>> Everything