Road Rash 2 is the best to me, for the feel of attacks (they have more impact), for the simplicity, for the music, and for the tracks. Playing it on a Mega SG with the scan lines dialed-in on a 4k Samsung TV is perfection!
Clearly their tendencies were starting to show though. Back before they were pulling egregious microtransactions, loot boxes ect they were doing stuff like this by squandering an opportunity by making a not even half-assed port. It starts with laziness and ends with pure greed.
From Commodore 64 games like Mail Order Monsters to Genesis 1991 killer titles, I always saw the “ECA” logo at the start of the game as the sign of the best quality around. Little did I know then but when ECA became EA is was just the beginning of a long road of diminishing quality.
@@Hektols I didn't realize until years after the end of the Genesis/mega drive days just how important sports games were to the console's success, they were crazy important. The SNES was notoriously crap when it came to sports games (not all of them just the majority) SEGA had a default Monopoly that would hold until the PlayStation era.
Wow, I wouldnt have believed this was on the Sega CD. This looks like a vanilla Genesis game. If anything, I would have expected some smoother framerates and more animations.
@@johnjay6370 Yeah. And not just that, it had more audio channels and an additional CPU. Sega CD was really a beast. Its a shame they didnt make use of it.
Adding proper scaling and rotation from the Sega CD would have meant completely changing the core engine. Would have taken some work not to lose that good road rash feel, and there was no way to make it like the 3DO.. So they took the easy route. Is kinda how I see it
@@Lightblue2222 I agree. I also think the game could have had a cartoon look like the batman games that use the scaling and rotation chip during the road driving parts. It might have been amazing and also kept that road rage feel. It was the easy play it safe approach EA did..
Thats the sega cd for you if they weren't going for Fmv then they didn't care. So many great arcade classics cpuld have made a home on the sega cd especially shootem ups but they took what they had and ..... well they missed a lot of great opportunities. I love sega, but once i saved my pennys to afford the sega cd, i was happy at first but definitely regreted it when i got the 32 x two Christmas's later. Honestly made me jump ship and run to sony for i felt scamed. Sold my sega cd my 32x and super Nintendo for the playstation. Very regrettable for i sold snatcher as well. Wtf was i thinking. But at the time got street fighter alpha, Wing commander 3 and tekkan 2. Those 3 games were better then 90% of the 32x library even with the sega cd pushing it to it's limite. Shortly after ps1 came out wirh there own road rash. It wasn't bad. But i still perfer 1 and 2 of the series over any other.
I've been watching your channel's vids in the midst of Sega's 60th anniversary & having a blast doing so. Have learned so many new things about Sega I didn't know before & about games I've never seen before, as a younger Nintendo (& PC) guy. Motivated me to import an NTSC-JP Model 2 Sega Saturn & a couple compatible games.
Visually, I can't see a difference between this and Road Rash 3. They just tacked on red book audio and the interface from the 32-bit version, complete with fisheye-lens caricatures of all the characters.
This isn't even road rash 3 quality. I have road rash 2 and it's much more akin to those graphics, I can barely tell the difference. It looks smoother when only the players Sprite is on screen amd that's it. The difference is the u.i, these are really bad for a cedar based game.
*kearsCH*hello-hello, earth to space cadet. come in space cadet!*kearsCH* . . . *kearsCH*what’s that? you broke your big-rimmed, 1,000 millimeter thick glasses and are stuck up in the void?*kearsCH* . . . *kearsCH*what!!? I don’t care if that is equal to one meter! what an anane, stupid, stupid thing to say when we are trying to deal with such wonders! how about I come up there and break them myself you boring schmuck! or better yet, I will leave you up there without sight in the void, those of us back down to earth will appreciate the stars without the sentimental flagellations about anecdotes from your childhood you constantly fill us with, you half-witted nostalgia harlot!!*kearsCH*!!!!!!! And thus it is in this fashion that we leave you behind to save our minds from the overpowering sickness you produce. You: the nintendo undead, afraid of aging and of your inevitable death. Us: the alive and generative men for SEGA, who let go of mortality and sprint towards death gladly. Yes! We throw our lives into the BLAST-PROCESSOR = hydraulic-compressor trash-compactor meat-grinder. An overblown analysis, yes, but ah! -this is your sin not ours! For you are the ones flooding forums, comment sections, not to mention video and streaming services with unending, neutering analysis. Yours serves this purpose: to look back and laugh, to fill your middle-aged body with intellectual candy and soda-pop, to chain the world perpetually to the nap-time of your childhood (the 80s, the 90s), to assert yourselves against cardboard cut-outs of us (SEGA fans: the grouping of people from which your middle school bullies formerly came) by screaming into the void you inhabit and receiving back tucks-in-bed from your fellow mummies. You thought the fight was over? That you had won? You simply locked yourself in your room and declared yourself the winner! But now we bust down the door. Big brother wins again, weenie! What we mean by our own previous overblown analysis is this: that the men of SEGA are men who are men and are nothing less. We do not pile up retrospectives because we are focused on our present lives. We appreciate and talk about the past, naturally, and of course there are some more fervent historians among us too, but the veracity with which you clap your hands and jump in the air over the countless whole-hour long videos about retro gaming which you produce we tiredly reject with an agitated, athletic back hand. Yes, it is our athleticism that creates the chasm of character between us and leads to our disgust with you -or at least it is our understanding and appreciation of athleticism. Men of SEGA are well-rounded, socially adjusted individuals. You can find us at times in gyms, out in the garden, or on a simple hike. We have flat disdain for those types who, with unkempt beards or with oily foreheads, devote doubly their time to the very subject of gaming with which we identify. It being for us not “our thing” but merely a thing that we integrate into our lives, allowing as any appreciation for art does a sharper discernment in whatever we come into contact with in our day-to-day. We are fine with letting go of things with age. We are men of SEGA but we are no longer childishly obsessed with those times which we remember fondly; they do not define us. But as you build up your mountainous collections about you, creating for yourselves proverbial pillow forts from which to hide from life behind, we come charging in with football helmets and hockey pads to destroy your babyish creation, us adults being finally tired of your incessant noise. And how your fighting makes us laugh! You wait to take turns, you put on some classical music, and you can only handle two or three adversaries at a time. We make easy work of you. Eight or nine at a time without slowing down. And swiftly, the afterburner is engaged-|||MAXIMUM||||POWER||| And now keeping to our ever fervent devotion to speed, we will briefly list our points: 1. Blast processing is real and the crown of SEGA’s superiority. Would-be fast paced nintendo games experience slow down that is inexcusable. 2. An abundance of action games is better than an abundance of RPGs and methodical games. The proliferation of hardcore and overly complex games has created a generation of “bug-men” while the concise and robust mechanics experienced in games with one hour play sessions provide a healthy maximum to leisure time and also foster sharper discernment in its player base. Content heavy games are only a positive in moderation. 3. Sports games are awesome and particularly SEGA ones. That they are even separated out is merely categorical. They can be judged by their unique mechanics and executions of gameplay just as any other game. That they are taken from games in the real world is wholly irrelevant. For us there is no reason to separate reality and fantasy in gaming as the purpose of the medium is to transcend those separations. nintendo fans going out of their way to dislike sports games reaffirms their lack of character to us. We have admiration for the incredible acrobatics of the basketball court just as we have admiration for the incredible acrobatics of the platforming game. 4. SEGA’s embrace of synthesizer limitations makes its music superior. nintendo seeks mainly to imitate already existing timbres, i.e. mainly tries to mimic orchestras in its more renowned sound tracks. This results in degrading onomatopoeia. The music found in SEGA games usually embraces the electronic genre generally and the specific synth capabilities themselves particularly. This results in music that is iconic and timeless. While nintendo’s music now sounds outdated, SEGA music remains its own animal. Put it this way: classic nintendo tracks are constantly being re-composed with better hardware and with live instruments to finally achieve their “true sound” but SEGA tracks are seen as already complete because they were made with the synthesizer in mind. 5. Having the console that is two years older matters. It’s laughable to boast about hardware superiority when the consoles aren’t even truly competitors. SEGA was ahead of its time. It was the “genesis” of a whole generation of gaming and nintendo only followed in its footsteps. Perhaps any argument between SEGA and nintendo fans should have a two year period of unanswered shots dealt from the SEGA side. Our case being made, I encourage my fellow men of SEGA to spread these points and this manifesto wherever the nintendo children raise their screeching voices. It is my hope that we may thus finally bully them back into submission as we always have before.
I felt the exact same way you did. While I can't deny that I enjoyed the game (it was a 16-bit Road Rash, of course I did), I thought immediately that EA phoned it in here. For over 20 years I've taken to imagine what this game could have been... some sort of mythical upgrade to those classics I loved so well.
@@LorenHelgeson that’s about the time I first played it as a really little kid. We had both the first and second game and I liked them both. The 2 player added in RR2 was awesome. What bothered me was that in RRCD they completely got rid of the 2 player mode. Like if you’re going to make a genesis look alike don’t lose functionality. I’m sure most people didn’t care but I liked beating my little brother and sister as we got older 😂
@@kathrynradonich3982 multiplayer was huge. No one likes to take turns. Playing together was bomb. RR2 and Sonic 2 were the 1st Genesis games I played, and it was at my neighbors so lots of that time was multiplayer for both games. Both great 2 player racing games. Edit: I never really thought of sonic 2 as a racer but the 2 player vs was split screen racing
@@SegaLordX the music was better in RR1 I will give you that and probably a big part of why that’s my preferred single player experience. But the multiplayer in 2 was a pretty important feature as well.
Man, I think that the Sega CD itself has to be filed into "What could have been". Hell, most of Sega's post-Genesis hardware should go to the same folder. What makes it worse is the fact that, from time to time, you get these amazing games like Soulstar for the Sega CD or Virtua Fighter for the 32X that show the real power of the hardware. Anyway, a great review, as usual. It is nice to see that you are back uploading content regularly. Thanks for your work.
@@brunor.1127 The situation with the Master System was slightly different. The console did not receive more games due to Nintendo choke-hold on third party developers, but it was somewhat successful in Europe and South America. All of the other consoles failed hard everywhere because of Sega horrible handling. The Saturn did achieve some popularity in Japan, though.
@DejaVoodooDoll You are right. SoulStar is nothing special in the gameplay department, but is not bad either. And man, it sure looks great. And is not only the scaling and rotation, the use of color is, also, pretty smart during most of the game. Core Design really knew how to harness the power of the Sega CD.
I am such a huge fan of Road Rash so much that when social media came out I found Carrie Akre, lead singer of Hammerbox one of the bands that ended up on the soundtrack, and asked her questions about it. She says that her manager called her and said that their record label were asked for Grunge music and various bands. So the record label just gave EA some of their tracks. She said she doesn’t even remember them asking permission or her signing anything. I think she teaches acting or music in Washington now.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I played it in a rental place in a tiny town, twice. It was burned in my memory. No one paid attention to the single 3DO they had, but me.
Owning both 3DO and Sega Cd version i actually played Sega Cd version more often than 32-bit 3DO. I actually liked it more not because of the graphics but music that played during the gameplay. Instead of sound of engine and generic music on 3DO i had blast playing it to licensed music i really got to love it. I think Sega CD could do better but its still my favorite version because of soundtrack.
The engine in Road Rash 1 is actually superior to 2 or 3. The sprite physics are actually calculated as 3D objects, which allows for all kinds of crazy tricks and jumps while racing. In 2 and 3 all objects were reduced to flat, 2D objects that only detect collision. It was the price to pay for making the game split screen on a 16-bit system.
I didn’t know that. That’s pretty impressive considering it wasn’t a first party Sega title. While doing some research for a Sega Yu Suzuki video for my channel, it’s something that he began doing with his first Sega Super Scaler games like Outrun, long before the release of the Genesis. Interestingly enough, some of the early Super Scaler games that calculated physics in 3D used dual versions of the Genesis/Mega Drive’s Motorola CPU. By the time the Mega Drive released in 1988 in Japan, it became cheaper to add at least 1 of the Motorola CPUs at a slightly lower clock speed. After reading your very informative comment, my guess is that this is the reason why it was possible to pull that off in Road Rash 1, and with the lack of 2 CPUs, most likely why the 3D calculations were missing in Road Rash 2.
Although I personally enjoyed this game back in the day and it did have the full soundtrack from the menu, I still prefer the genesis road rash games much more.
I remember playing the originals when they came out, still do occasionally. Every time I see the 3D0 version I think it's the Playstation which I own, they look so similar if not identical. The Sega CD looks like a mutt between those and Road Rash 3.
I do love me some good'ol Road Rash regardless of which console it may be on, even the N64 and PS1 versions were enjoyable in their own right. I have, however, been pretty spoiled in the Road Rash department since procuring my Panasonic 3DO. Despite the console itself failing pretty hard overall, Road Rash on the 3DO has absolutely no equal. Its nice to see a few games here and there that still play better on 3DO than other consoles that may have gotten the same game and Road Rash is one of those games. I still play my copies on Genesis often since I can grab a buddy and play versus with them, but other than that the 3DO Road Rash is my go-to for my Road Rash fix.
Even without using hardware scaling you'd think that with the Mega-CD's much faster CPU they would have at least managed to improve the framerate. Nope...
faster CPU? is it the same as the CPU in the Genesis. However with 2 of them you might think this would be better, but nope EA didn't care. I agree with you completely though. The very least they could have done was improved the framerate and animation. It ends up being Road Rash 1, with Road Rash 3's visual quality and Road Rash 3DO's soundtrack and cutscenes. It deserved so much better than that.
I agree. When you see some of the amazing games on Sega CD, like Earthworm Jim Special Edition, Sonic CD, Afterbuner 3, The Terminator, Mickey Mania, Lords of Thunder, Snatcher, etc then you know the hardware could have done better.
I found the Playstation 1 version of Road Rash at a thrift store for like 3 bucks, and the PS3 is backwards compatible with PS1 games. That version is dirt cheap and it's an awesome 32-bit Road Rash. Just sayin', if people want a cheaper, more attainable option.
I had a Sega CD growing up and I have to say quite a few titles were just ports with fmv. I wish they tried to add something more to the games so it didn't feel like a waste of money. Awesome video SLX!
Great video @Sega Lord X! I hope that in the future you could do an Episode covering in detail the spiritual successor to the Road Rash franchise... Road Redemption!!
I’ve been playing road rash 2 MSU-MD+ cd audio mod and holy shit. Major pain in the ass to buy the soundtrack and then patch the rom but it is so worth it.
I played this game not that long ago being just as clueless. I was stunned when it loaded up, I didn't expect 3DO graphics at all but I sure expected a better frame rate.
I remember picking this game up at a game store for $8.99 before I ever got a Sega CD & before the game shot up in price. I knew I wanted a Sega CD & was going to eventually buy one & road rash was the first game I got for the console. Looking at what it's going for now. I'm glad I bought it.
Ah I didn't know that the Mega CD version allowed you to play the licensed music during racers which is indeed cool. I played the Saturn version to death and it's easily my favourite Road Rash followed by Road Rash 2 and the Road Rash 1 on the Megadrive. Great video.
I used to love this Road Rash game,it looks better than I remember.Also I loved the PGA GOLF ,NHL hockey on the Sega ,where me and friends played for 20 bucks a hole on golf and 60 bucks a game on NHL in the late 80's early 90's.
I played the shit outta this on the 3DO. In the years following I knew it got a Sega Saturn port, but not the Sega CD. Your review sums things up nicely. Big drop besides getting licensed music to play along to as an exclusive.
The soundtrack on this game made all it's flaws seem unimportant. I still listen to Paw. The lead singer is in a new band named Godzillionaire that's really good too.
I got this new back around 96 or so on clearance at a Montgomery Ward. I too was disappointed about the graphics, as I felt RR3 was actually a better looking game. The experience was unique and still fun however. I didn’t have a 32-bit system yet, so I didn’t even know it was a sort of remix of that game. I didn’t realize the videos and still were ripped and downsampled, so I was impressed with how it looked as it was. Fun times. I do prefer the hud of the 16-bit games over the future releases, so that’s a plus for this one too IMO.
This game is weird it's based on the 3DO/PC/PS1 ver, yet it looks like the Sega Genesis versions. Looks like RR3 in particular. The sounds are all out of place. It looks like it's identity got lost in transition.
When the Road Rash for the Sega CD was released, I though that something like the 3DO version would be presented....Sweet dreams, despite being a nice game released for the system :-)
One amazing thing about emulation is that you can play these Road Rash games with a higher framerate. 150% cpu speed makes a pretty big difference in fluidity. Unfortunately, this comes at small cost of rider/bike animation bugs, but it's worth it imo. The animation bugs worsen as you raise the cpu speed, so I find that 150% is the sweet spot.
These smaller episodes are a lot easier to make. I don’t have the 10-20 hours of video capture a normal episode has. It allows me to knock out a vid every two days or so.
I was going to see Soundgarden live back in 2017 at a music festival, just a couple of days before Cornell died, but passed it up so I could beat the crowds outta there. Boy, do I regret that.
In terms of sheer timing and persona (or open defiance of public persona) I can totally see why Vedder and Cobain get all the love, but Cornell was the most talented musician from the grunge era.
I very fondly remember the 3DO game from my childhood and was pleasantly surprised to find that it can be emulated more or less perfectly. I never played the Mega CD version or any of the other prior games. I also enjoyed Road Rash 64.
Hey Sega Lord X, hacker Ti released a bunch of Road Rash game improvements ROM hacks for the Genesis and the Sega CD. Primarily they are FPS performance boosting hacks by optimizing code, plus 6 button support, and some bug fixes.
Just a quick idea, you should cover all of the Road Rash games from all consoles. IT would pretty cool to see some sort of compilation of them all and to hear your thoughts on each. ;)
I played Road Rash 1&2 and the Saturn version a lot. Never played this one. Is it me or does Road Rash 3 on the Genesis look better with animations and colors?
I loveeee the Road Rash series. The best are part 2 and the 3DO reboot for me. This Sega cd version of that is such a strange hybrid. It wasn't even released in Europe, nor does it work on my PAL console with US boot up trick. I can only play it on my US CDX. It still is good and plays more like the Mega Drive games, but the presentation is like the 3DO game. No 2 player and bad graphics are really a shame.
Similar to this game is Beyond the Limit on sega cd, it could have been Super Monaco GP on steroids, but the gameplay killed it dead compared to cart versions of Super Monaco gp 1, and 2
1. Road Rash 3D is vastly underrated. 2. Road Rash CD 💿 does not look pretty but having the awesome OST being played during the game play instead of just on the menu screen rocks
I mean, I liked it. Then. It’s ok for a quick blast now but I can never be arsed going through the whole buying new bikes to beat whichever tool challenges you next 😂
This was the problem in 1995 and onward, the companies where only looking to the new 5th gen machines and almost ignore the 4th gen. Today they respect the install base of the previous generation and keeps releasing new games for at least 2 years or more, but in previous times it was launching a new generation that the previous one ceased to exist.
its like they stole some of the stills and cut scenes from the 3DO version except the gameplay is just straight Genesis...3DO definitely had the best port overall
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu as much as it pains me to say it, i havta agree with you on that, there were plenty of games I really enjoyed on the 3DO but let's be honest, it was far from the best console...I mean, Need for Speed was great and so was Road Rash, Twisted, John Madden Football, Hell, all were good but the multiport games like John Madden football were superior on other consoles
It was standard that once genesis games get swapped over to the mega CD , that they only added FMV and CD audio to it, they rarely added extra options to it, If they had redone everything from scratch, that would,ve costed them waaay too much time & money to do so, Sega was no exception among others, so am not that all surprised ,no.
has anyone ever knocked the cop of his bike? I remember trying to do it and it was so hard to get em to appear and or not F up and get knocked off. I think i remember cracking him once with a billy club but other than that.
You could save your progress. The problem with that is, if you're like most Sega CD owners who didn't buy the CD Backup RAM cartridge, that would be using one of the three whopping save slots the console gave you one of which I think I used for Sonic CD and my brothers used the other two for JRPGs.
I never played this but I remember playing the Genesis games and owned both Playstation games plus the EA PSP collection. I always wondered why the series was Sega exclusive in the 16 bit era. I could understand not porting them to the SNES in the pre-Mortal Kombat II era but by the time 3 was out I see no logical reason it wasn't on both platforms.
My guess is this game had an incredibly short production time. Seeing as it came out in 1995, it's probably a miracle this even came out at all. Had this come out in say 1992, or 1993, we probably would've seen a scaling race engine. However, was it worth the development time in 19995 for the Sega CD with the add-on pretty much already finished? Sadly, probably not.
I love this series and i love music rock on all sides, but the soundtrack here is not worth the gameplay and drop of quality, in my honest opinion Road rash 1 and 2 are the best bet to love this series!!! The soundtrack did not push this bad port to a must play. But the other two's simplistic dynamics make it almost a system seller. Love those games.
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Road Rash 2 is the best to me, for the feel of attacks (they have more impact), for the simplicity, for the music, and for the tracks. Playing it on a Mega SG with the scan lines dialed-in on a 4k Samsung TV is perfection!
Back when you wouldn’t look upon the EA logo with disgust.
Clearly their tendencies were starting to show though.
Back before they were pulling egregious microtransactions, loot boxes ect they were doing stuff like this by squandering an opportunity by making a not even half-assed port. It starts with laziness and ends with pure greed.
From Commodore 64 games like Mail Order Monsters to Genesis 1991 killer titles, I always saw the “ECA” logo at the start of the game as the sign of the best quality around. Little did I know then but when ECA became EA is was just the beginning of a long road of diminishing quality.
Yes, EA was one of the main reasons of the Megadrive/Genesis success.
@@Hektols
I didn't realize until years after the end of the Genesis/mega drive days just how important sports games were to the console's success, they were crazy important.
The SNES was notoriously crap when it came to sports games (not all of them just the majority) SEGA had a default Monopoly that would hold until the PlayStation era.
Wow, I wouldnt have believed this was on the Sega CD. This looks like a vanilla Genesis game. If anything, I would have expected some smoother framerates and more animations.
Agree.. if they used the rotation and scaling chip in the sega cd it could have been amazing..it was a cash grab from ea
@@johnjay6370 Yeah. And not just that, it had more audio channels and an additional CPU. Sega CD was really a beast. Its a shame they didnt make use of it.
Adding proper scaling and rotation from the Sega CD would have meant completely changing the core engine. Would have taken some work not to lose that good road rash feel, and there was no way to make it like the 3DO.. So they took the easy route. Is kinda how I see it
@@Lightblue2222 I agree. I also think the game could have had a cartoon look like the batman games that use the scaling and rotation chip during the road driving parts. It might have been amazing and also kept that road rage feel. It was the easy play it safe approach EA did..
Thats the sega cd for you if they weren't going for Fmv then they didn't care. So many great arcade classics cpuld have made a home on the sega cd especially shootem ups but they took what they had and ..... well they missed a lot of great opportunities.
I love sega, but once i saved my pennys to afford the sega cd, i was happy at first but definitely regreted it when i got the 32 x two Christmas's later.
Honestly made me jump ship and run to sony for i felt scamed.
Sold my sega cd my 32x and super Nintendo for the playstation.
Very regrettable for i sold snatcher as well. Wtf was i thinking. But at the time got street fighter alpha, Wing commander 3 and tekkan 2.
Those 3 games were better then 90% of the 32x library even with the sega cd pushing it to it's limite.
Shortly after ps1 came out wirh there own road rash.
It wasn't bad. But i still perfer 1 and 2 of the series over any other.
I've been watching your channel's vids in the midst of Sega's 60th anniversary & having a blast doing so. Have learned so many new things about Sega I didn't know before & about games I've never seen before, as a younger Nintendo (& PC) guy. Motivated me to import an NTSC-JP Model 2 Sega Saturn & a couple compatible games.
Visually, I can't see a difference between this and Road Rash 3. They just tacked on red book audio and the interface from the 32-bit version, complete with fisheye-lens caricatures of all the characters.
This isn't even road rash 3 quality. I have road rash 2 and it's much more akin to those graphics, I can barely tell the difference. It looks smoother when only the players Sprite is on screen amd that's it. The difference is the u.i, these are really bad for a cedar based game.
@@Fanuc_Operator1990 Nah it's Road Rash 3 style. With digitized graphics, 1 and 2 used drawn graphics.
My favourite song from that game is “Last Train to Satanville”.
Any possibility of covering Skitchin' sometime? The spin off of Road Rash? :)
Completed that awhile back, great game! Even better soundtrack 🎶
I loved that game as a kid
Grab a car and go ! I used to wear that out.
*kearsCH*hello-hello, earth to space cadet. come in space cadet!*kearsCH* . . . *kearsCH*what’s that? you broke your big-rimmed, 1,000 millimeter thick glasses and are stuck up in the void?*kearsCH* . . . *kearsCH*what!!? I don’t care if that is equal to one meter! what an anane, stupid, stupid thing to say when we are trying to deal with such wonders! how about I come up there and break them myself you boring schmuck! or better yet, I will leave you up there without sight in the void, those of us back down to earth will appreciate the stars without the sentimental flagellations about anecdotes from your childhood you constantly fill us with, you half-witted nostalgia harlot!!*kearsCH*!!!!!!!
And thus it is in this fashion that we leave you behind to save our minds from the overpowering sickness you produce. You: the nintendo undead, afraid of aging and of your inevitable death. Us: the alive and generative men for SEGA, who let go of mortality and sprint towards death gladly. Yes! We throw our lives into the BLAST-PROCESSOR = hydraulic-compressor trash-compactor meat-grinder.
An overblown analysis, yes, but ah! -this is your sin not ours! For you are the ones flooding forums, comment sections, not to mention video and streaming services with unending, neutering analysis.
Yours serves this purpose: to look back and laugh, to fill your middle-aged body with intellectual candy and soda-pop, to chain the world perpetually to the nap-time of your childhood (the 80s, the 90s), to assert yourselves against cardboard cut-outs of us (SEGA fans: the grouping of people from which your middle school bullies formerly came) by screaming into the void you inhabit and receiving back tucks-in-bed from your fellow mummies. You thought the fight was over? That you had won? You simply locked yourself in your room and declared yourself the winner! But now we bust down the door. Big brother wins again, weenie!
What we mean by our own previous overblown analysis is this: that the men of SEGA are men who are men and are nothing less. We do not pile up retrospectives because we are focused on our present lives. We appreciate and talk about the past, naturally, and of course there are some more fervent historians among us too, but the veracity with which you clap your hands and jump in the air over the countless whole-hour long videos about retro gaming which you produce we tiredly reject with an agitated, athletic back hand. Yes, it is our athleticism that creates the chasm of character between us and leads to our disgust with you -or at least it is our understanding and appreciation of athleticism. Men of SEGA are well-rounded, socially adjusted individuals. You can find us at times in gyms, out in the garden, or on a simple hike. We have flat disdain for those types who, with unkempt beards or with oily foreheads, devote doubly their time to the very subject of gaming with which we identify. It being for us not “our thing” but merely a thing that we integrate into our lives, allowing as any appreciation for art does a sharper discernment in whatever we come into contact with in our day-to-day. We are fine with letting go of things with age. We are men of SEGA but we are no longer childishly obsessed with those times which we remember fondly; they do not define us. But as you build up your mountainous collections about you, creating for yourselves proverbial pillow forts from which to hide from life behind, we come charging in with football helmets and hockey pads to destroy your babyish creation, us adults being finally tired of your incessant noise.
And how your fighting makes us laugh! You wait to take turns, you put on some classical music, and you can only handle two or three adversaries at a time. We make easy work of you. Eight or nine at a time without slowing down. And swiftly, the afterburner is engaged-|||MAXIMUM||||POWER|||
And now keeping to our ever fervent devotion to speed, we will briefly list our points:
1. Blast processing is real and the crown of SEGA’s superiority. Would-be fast paced nintendo games experience slow down that is inexcusable.
2. An abundance of action games is better than an abundance of RPGs and methodical games. The proliferation of hardcore and overly complex games has created a generation of “bug-men” while the concise and robust mechanics experienced in games with one hour play sessions provide a healthy maximum to leisure time and also foster sharper discernment in its player base. Content heavy games are only a positive in moderation.
3. Sports games are awesome and particularly SEGA ones. That they are even separated out is merely categorical. They can be judged by their unique mechanics and executions of gameplay just as any other game. That they are taken from games in the real world is wholly irrelevant. For us there is no reason to separate reality and fantasy in gaming as the purpose of the medium is to transcend those separations. nintendo fans going out of their way to dislike sports games reaffirms their lack of character to us. We have admiration for the incredible acrobatics of the basketball court just as we have admiration for the incredible acrobatics of the platforming game.
4. SEGA’s embrace of synthesizer limitations makes its music superior. nintendo seeks mainly to imitate already existing timbres, i.e. mainly tries to mimic orchestras in its more renowned sound tracks. This results in degrading onomatopoeia. The music found in SEGA games usually embraces the electronic genre generally and the specific synth capabilities themselves particularly. This results in music that is iconic and timeless. While nintendo’s music now sounds outdated, SEGA music remains its own animal. Put it this way: classic nintendo tracks are constantly being re-composed with better hardware and with live instruments to finally achieve their “true sound” but SEGA tracks are seen as already complete because they were made with the synthesizer in mind.
5. Having the console that is two years older matters. It’s laughable to boast about hardware superiority when the consoles aren’t even truly competitors. SEGA was ahead of its time. It was the “genesis” of a whole generation of gaming and nintendo only followed in its footsteps. Perhaps any argument between SEGA and nintendo fans should have a two year period of unanswered shots dealt from the SEGA side.
Our case being made, I encourage my fellow men of SEGA to spread these points and this manifesto wherever the nintendo children raise their screeching voices. It is my hope that we may thus finally bully them back into submission as we always have before.
I felt the exact same way you did. While I can't deny that I enjoyed the game (it was a 16-bit Road Rash, of course I did), I thought immediately that EA phoned it in here. For over 20 years I've taken to imagine what this game could have been... some sort of mythical upgrade to those classics I loved so well.
Before I even watch this just want to say I liked road rash on Sega CD but road rash 2 on the mega drive/genesis was the best release imo
2 was my intro to the series, back in 93. Still my favorite of the series, and I still play it to this day.
@@LorenHelgeson that’s about the time I first played it as a really little kid. We had both the first and second game and I liked them both. The 2 player added in RR2 was awesome. What bothered me was that in RRCD they completely got rid of the 2 player mode. Like if you’re going to make a genesis look alike don’t lose functionality. I’m sure most people didn’t care but I liked beating my little brother and sister as we got older 😂
I am partial to the first Road Rash because of the music. I like em all, though.
@@kathrynradonich3982 multiplayer was huge. No one likes to take turns. Playing together was bomb. RR2 and Sonic 2 were the 1st Genesis games I played, and it was at my neighbors so lots of that time was multiplayer for both games. Both great 2 player racing games.
Edit: I never really thought of sonic 2 as a racer but the 2 player vs was split screen racing
@@SegaLordX the music was better in RR1 I will give you that and probably a big part of why that’s my preferred single player experience. But the multiplayer in 2 was a pretty important feature as well.
Man, I think that the Sega CD itself has to be filed into "What could have been". Hell, most of Sega's post-Genesis hardware should go to the same folder. What makes it worse is the fact that, from time to time, you get these amazing games like Soulstar for the Sega CD or Virtua Fighter for the 32X that show the real power of the hardware. Anyway, a great review, as usual. It is nice to see that you are back uploading content regularly. Thanks for your work.
And thank you for watching. Always appreciate the kindness.
The Sega genesis and game gear are the only ones who don't fit the "what could've been" man the master system was done dirty by life
@@brunor.1127 The situation with the Master System was slightly different. The console did not receive more games due to Nintendo choke-hold on third party developers, but it was somewhat successful in Europe and South America. All of the other consoles failed hard everywhere because of Sega horrible handling. The Saturn did achieve some popularity in Japan, though.
@DejaVoodooDoll You are right. SoulStar is nothing special in the gameplay department, but is not bad either. And man, it sure looks great. And is not only the scaling and rotation, the use of color is, also, pretty smart during most of the game. Core Design really knew how to harness the power of the Sega CD.
I love beating on Biff, who is actually Electronic Arts' Bing Gordon. 😂
Dude Lord X you are a video making machine! Love the content man, found you about 2 weeks ago and loving watching through the backlog!
I am such a huge fan of Road Rash so much that when social media came out I found Carrie Akre, lead singer of Hammerbox one of the bands that ended up on the soundtrack, and asked her questions about it. She says that her manager called her and said that their record label were asked for Grunge music and various bands. So the record label just gave EA some of their tracks. She said she doesn’t even remember them asking permission or her signing anything. I think she teaches acting or music in Washington now.
Also really enjoying these reviews and it's great that you're doing so many. Always enjoyable and I look forward to seeing each one.
I want this version so bad. I LOVE this series and...this is the last one.
I used to play this all the time when I was a kid on Sega Genesis. Great game!👍🏾
The 3DO version is my favorite.
It's funny to this day it's my favorite version but the only place I ever played it was at the demo kiosk at an EB games.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I played it in a rental place in a tiny town, twice.
It was burned in my memory. No one paid attention to the single 3DO they had, but me.
You had to be a rich kid to had a 3do
I got that long box on PlayStation 1 , favourite single player racer ever
Owning both 3DO and Sega Cd version i actually played Sega Cd version more often than 32-bit 3DO. I actually liked it more not because of the graphics but music that played during the gameplay. Instead of sound of engine and generic music on 3DO i had blast playing it to licensed music i really got to love it. I think Sega CD could do better but its still my favorite version because of soundtrack.
The engine in Road Rash 1 is actually superior to 2 or 3. The sprite physics are actually calculated as 3D objects, which allows for all kinds of crazy tricks and jumps while racing. In 2 and 3 all objects were reduced to flat, 2D objects that only detect collision. It was the price to pay for making the game split screen on a 16-bit system.
I didn’t know that. That’s pretty impressive considering it wasn’t a first party Sega title. While doing some research for a Sega Yu Suzuki video for my channel, it’s something that he began doing with his first Sega Super Scaler games like Outrun, long before the release of the Genesis. Interestingly enough, some of the early Super Scaler games that calculated physics in 3D used dual versions of the Genesis/Mega Drive’s Motorola CPU. By the time the Mega Drive released in 1988 in Japan, it became cheaper to add at least 1 of the Motorola CPUs at a slightly lower clock speed. After reading your very informative comment, my guess is that this is the reason why it was possible to pull that off in Road Rash 1, and with the lack of 2 CPUs, most likely why the 3D calculations were missing in Road Rash 2.
Although I personally enjoyed this game back in the day and it did have the full soundtrack from the menu, I still prefer the genesis road rash games much more.
I remember playing the originals when they came out, still do occasionally. Every time I see the 3D0 version I think it's the Playstation which I own, they look so similar if not identical. The Sega CD looks like a mutt between those and Road Rash 3.
For the hardware, there should’ve been more in the sound effect department...just that bike buzzing? A bit grating, honestly
I do love me some good'ol Road Rash regardless of which console it may be on, even the N64 and PS1 versions were enjoyable in their own right. I have, however, been pretty spoiled in the Road Rash department since procuring my Panasonic 3DO. Despite the console itself failing pretty hard overall, Road Rash on the 3DO has absolutely no equal. Its nice to see a few games here and there that still play better on 3DO than other consoles that may have gotten the same game and Road Rash is one of those games. I still play my copies on Genesis often since I can grab a buddy and play versus with them, but other than that the 3DO Road Rash is my go-to for my Road Rash fix.
Even without using hardware scaling you'd think that with the Mega-CD's much faster CPU they would have at least managed to improve the framerate. Nope...
faster CPU? is it the same as the CPU in the Genesis. However with 2 of them you might think this would be better, but nope EA didn't care. I agree with you completely though. The very least they could have done was improved the framerate and animation. It ends up being Road Rash 1, with Road Rash 3's visual quality and Road Rash 3DO's soundtrack and cutscenes.
It deserved so much better than that.
@@Kos4Evr They don't run at the same speed. The Genesis M68000 is 7.6Mhz and the Mega CD is 12.5 Mhz, so yeah it's much faster.
The focus on fmv and superior sound was the big seller here and it does enhance it but it’s a above avg mega drive game by it’s quality
This is my jam growing up. Still own today 😎
Road rash for the sega cd was a cash grab. Could have been amazing...
EA pulling what's now known as a classic EA move.
I agree. When you see some of the amazing games on Sega CD, like Earthworm Jim Special Edition, Sonic CD, Afterbuner 3, The Terminator, Mickey Mania, Lords of Thunder, Snatcher, etc then you know the hardware could have done better.
I was a fan of this game on the c64, played a lot
Love this game for my sega cd
I found the Playstation 1 version of Road Rash at a thrift store for like 3 bucks, and the PS3 is backwards compatible with PS1 games. That version is dirt cheap and it's an awesome 32-bit Road Rash. Just sayin', if people want a cheaper, more attainable option.
I think ps1 version is the best 👌
Love this console, the mega CD in Europe was my machine growing up with the megadrive.
I had a Sega CD growing up and I have to say quite a few titles were just ports with fmv. I wish they tried to add something more to the games so it didn't feel like a waste of money. Awesome video SLX!
Ah. I remember when you first got it. You were in such denial, that I felt bad for you.
I recall your condescending smirks as I played. I really disliked you sometimes.
I can picture the scene : D
@@SegaLordX 🤣🤣🤣👍
Great video @Sega Lord X! I hope that in the future you could do an Episode covering in detail the spiritual successor to the Road Rash franchise... Road Redemption!!
Man that is a rough looking game. Back in the 90s there a lot of expensive systems that did not end well.
Back in the day this was good quality
It’s better than your average 16 bit game that’s a fact it’s not bad at all by any means I’ve played far worse
Great review as always, too bad the Sega CD wasn't boosted by enough developers who cared to make games that showed off what it was capable of.
I don't care. The soundtrack does this one for me. Road Rash 2 and Road Rash CD are my favorites.
I see you're a man of culture as well!
I always loved this game. I still miss it.
I really liked Road Rash on the Sega CD. It would be a hard choice between the Genesis and CD versions.
I’ve been playing road rash 2 MSU-MD+ cd audio mod and holy shit. Major pain in the ass to buy the soundtrack and then patch the rom but it is so worth it.
I played this game not that long ago being just as clueless. I was stunned when it loaded up, I didn't expect 3DO graphics at all but I sure expected a better frame rate.
Old school asymmetric headlines S1000 rr in the thumbnail. Nice.
I remember picking this game up at a game store for $8.99 before I ever got a Sega CD & before the game shot up in price. I knew I wanted a Sega CD & was going to eventually buy one & road rash was the first game I got for the console. Looking at what it's going for now. I'm glad I bought it.
I really like the new focus on single games. Keep it up 👍
Thanks. I was hoping you guys would like this format.
Ah I didn't know that the Mega CD version allowed you to play the licensed music during racers which is indeed cool. I played the Saturn version to death and it's easily my favourite Road Rash followed by Road Rash 2 and the Road Rash 1 on the Megadrive. Great video.
Great video as always.
The Sega CD version is amazing. 😀👍🎮
I used to love this Road Rash game,it looks better than I remember.Also I loved the PGA GOLF ,NHL hockey on the Sega ,where me and friends played for 20 bucks a hole on golf and 60 bucks a game on NHL in the late 80's early 90's.
I still have the 3do version
I played the shit outta this on the 3DO. In the years following I knew it got a Sega Saturn port, but not the Sega CD.
Your review sums things up nicely. Big drop besides getting licensed music to play along to as an exclusive.
I always wanted to try the 3DO Road Rash because I remember seeing a trick in a magazine about making cows pose for you.
The soundtrack was the best thing about this game, it’s how I got into Swervedriver and Paw. Great bands back in the day 🤘
The soundtrack on this game made all it's flaws seem unimportant. I still listen to Paw. The lead singer is in a new band named Godzillionaire that's really good too.
@@holdenmcneil3529 awesome thanks I’ll check them out. Dragline is a brilliant album!
I own the sega cd version along with the other 3 released for the genesis
Such a great soundtrack. not too bad of a game but was expecting more. great video
Dreamcast Mini may take more time than a SEGA CD, with some games coming from SEGA Genesis.
I think you under-emphasized the engine volume slider in the sound options.
I got this new back around 96 or so on clearance at a Montgomery Ward. I too was disappointed about the graphics, as I felt RR3 was actually a better looking game. The experience was unique and still fun however. I didn’t have a 32-bit system yet, so I didn’t even know it was a sort of remix of that game. I didn’t realize the videos and still were ripped and downsampled, so I was impressed with how it looked as it was. Fun times. I do prefer the hud of the 16-bit games over the future releases, so that’s a plus for this one too IMO.
This is one Franchise that I was sad to see disappear...RR is one of my all time Favorite Games Ever...
didnt tripwire release a sort of RR game last year on PC?
This game is weird it's based on the 3DO/PC/PS1 ver, yet it looks like the Sega Genesis versions. Looks like RR3 in particular. The sounds are all out of place. It looks like it's identity got lost in transition.
Loved this game on the 3DO. Had more videos than PS1
That's a pretty bad ass soundtrack
It looks much worse, than Road Rash 3 on Genesis.
What could have been is the best way to describe this game! It's a good game but it could have been so much more!
When the Road Rash for the Sega CD was released, I though that something like the 3DO version would be presented....Sweet dreams, despite being a nice game released for the system :-)
Being a Sega guy, Road Rash should have been my jam. Esp when you consider I live driving/racing games.
Unfortunately I could never get on with it.
TEFFLON MIKE RULES!!
I preferred the Playstation, and 3DO version of Road Rash better, but it's okay for what it is.
Great video I'm a huge Road Rash fan I have it for the Sega Master System 1 2 and 3 for the Sega Genesis I have it for the Panasonic 3DO
One amazing thing about emulation is that you can play these Road Rash games with a higher framerate. 150% cpu speed makes a pretty big difference in fluidity. Unfortunately, this comes at small cost of rider/bike animation bugs, but it's worth it imo. The animation bugs worsen as you raise the cpu speed, so I find that 150% is the sweet spot.
How do you pump these out so fast?? It’s amazing
These smaller episodes are a lot easier to make. I don’t have the 10-20 hours of video capture a normal episode has. It allows me to knock out a vid every two days or so.
Have you reviewed the Genesis game Haunting: Starring Polterguy? Would be a perfect review for Halloween month.
I was going to see Soundgarden live back in 2017 at a music festival, just a couple of days before Cornell died, but passed it up so I could beat the crowds outta there.
Boy, do I regret that.
In terms of sheer timing and persona (or open defiance of public persona) I can totally see why Vedder and Cobain get all the love, but Cornell was the most talented musician from the grunge era.
The soundtrack is amazing. You guys gotta give Paw a listen
I very fondly remember the 3DO game from my childhood and was pleasantly surprised to find that it can be emulated more or less perfectly. I never played the Mega CD version or any of the other prior games. I also enjoyed Road Rash 64.
@@neilpirelli9240 I’m playing the PS1 version on my GPDX XD. Runs great!
Neil Pirelli
You can find one called 4do.
@@neilpirelli9240 The one Vote4waifu mentioned. It's available as a RetroArch core.
@@sloppynyuszi Ah, cool, I have a GPD XD as well. Great device.
its great game I have rented it on saga. I have psp version I am looking for Sega version
That game was so hard. If you hit anything stationary you might as well start over because you going to fly like half a mile lol.
Hey Sega Lord X, hacker Ti released a bunch of Road Rash game improvements ROM hacks for the Genesis and the Sega CD. Primarily they are FPS performance boosting hacks by optimizing code, plus 6 button support, and some bug fixes.
Sega-CD, the system of the missing chances.
Just a quick idea, you should cover all of the Road Rash games from all consoles. IT would pretty cool to see some sort of compilation of them all and to hear your thoughts on each. ;)
I played Road Rash 1&2 and the Saturn version a lot. Never played this one. Is it me or does Road Rash 3 on the Genesis look better with animations and colors?
I loveeee the Road Rash series. The best are part 2 and the 3DO reboot for me. This Sega cd version of that is such a strange hybrid. It wasn't even released in Europe, nor does it work on my PAL console with US boot up trick. I can only play it on my US CDX. It still is good and plays more like the Mega Drive games, but the presentation is like the 3DO game. No 2 player and bad graphics are really a shame.
Similar to this game is Beyond the Limit on sega cd, it could have been Super Monaco GP on steroids, but the gameplay killed it dead compared to cart versions of Super Monaco gp 1, and 2
Even the cart version of road rash 3.
Always wondered what this was like. Very curious to see that it's a Frankenstein's monster of the 16-bit and 32-bit games.
Road Rash CD could've been the 2nd best ever Road Rash. Yet we got... this.
1. Road Rash 3D is vastly underrated. 2. Road Rash CD 💿 does not look pretty but having the awesome OST being played during the game play instead of just on the menu screen rocks
I mean, I liked it. Then.
It’s ok for a quick blast now but I can never be arsed going through the whole buying new bikes to beat whichever tool challenges you next 😂
This was the problem in 1995 and onward, the companies where only looking to the new 5th gen machines and almost ignore the 4th gen. Today they respect the install base of the previous generation and keeps releasing new games for at least 2 years or more, but in previous times it was launching a new generation that the previous one ceased to exist.
its like they stole some of the stills and cut scenes from the 3DO version except the gameplay is just straight Genesis...3DO definitely had the best port overall
A sentence very rarely if ever spoken. The 3DO had plenty of ports but rarely if ever the best one.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu as much as it pains me to say it, i havta agree with you on that, there were plenty of games I really enjoyed on the 3DO but let's be honest, it was far from the best console...I mean, Need for Speed was great and so was Road Rash, Twisted, John Madden Football, Hell, all were good but the multiport games like John Madden football were superior on other consoles
It was standard that once genesis games get swapped over to the mega CD , that they only added FMV and CD audio to it, they rarely added extra options to it,
If they had redone everything from scratch, that would,ve costed them waaay too much time & money to do so,
Sega was no exception among others, so am not that all surprised ,no.
has anyone ever knocked the cop of his bike? I remember trying to do it and it was so hard to get em to appear and or not F up and get knocked off. I think i remember cracking him once with a billy club but other than that.
You could save your progress. The problem with that is, if you're like most Sega CD owners who didn't buy the CD Backup RAM cartridge, that would be using one of the three whopping save slots the console gave you one of which I think I used for Sonic CD and my brothers used the other two for JRPGs.
Those digitized sprites make it look like Road Rash 3.
I never played this but I remember playing the Genesis games and owned both Playstation games plus the EA PSP collection. I always wondered why the series was Sega exclusive in the 16 bit era. I could understand not porting them to the SNES in the pre-Mortal Kombat II era but by the time 3 was out I see no logical reason it wasn't on both platforms.
racings kids don't know what difficulty is until they reach stage 5 in any road rash
you're not racing to win, you're racing to survive
My guess is this game had an incredibly short production time. Seeing as it came out in 1995, it's probably a miracle this even came out at all. Had this come out in say 1992, or 1993, we probably would've seen a scaling race engine. However, was it worth the development time in 19995 for the Sega CD with the add-on pretty much already finished? Sadly, probably not.
I feel like i missed out not being able to afford a Sega CD
What's the Road Rash music you used during the intro? like the bit at 1:45 is it from Road Rash 1?
Yes. Redwood Forest.
@@SegaLordX thanks it was a great choice! Good video as always 🙂👍
I love this series and i love music rock on all sides, but the soundtrack here is not worth the gameplay and drop of quality, in my honest opinion Road rash 1 and 2 are the best bet to love this series!!! The soundtrack did not push this bad port to a must play.
But the other two's simplistic dynamics make it almost a system seller. Love those games.
Road rash always kicked my a$$
Wait, this is a 1995 release?! Maybe they released this to throw Trip a bone, by advertising how nice the 3DO version looks in comparison.
'' EA WOULD NOT LET ME DOWN'' ................ funniest statement ever :)
In those days, it wasn’t unreasonable.
Ah yes, when EA actually rocked....