Ridge Racer Type 4 - Retro Review
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Time for my favourite arcade racer of all time on the PS1 to get the Retro Review treatment!
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*OK, because of an absolute bullshit DMCA takedown claim on an older video of mine that's ongoing at the moment, I've had to cut short the ending of this Retro Review using RUclips's video editing function. This is because It used a bit of similar footage to the other video I’m having the DMCA hassles with. I've slightly re-edited the original RRT4 Retro Review ending and made it a separate short upload which you can see here:*
Part 2:
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*What Was So Great About Arcades in the 80's & 90's?*
Mini video documentary discussing the above
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This game has the best racing game soundtrack of all time. Really this is the most complete arcade racer ever made because it has a good story mode, great gameplay, great graphics, tons of unlockable cars and a great soundtrack...
and the fancy looking
menu design too😎👍
Dunno why they changed the formula after this.
The games is such a glorious for PS1 quality, neat reflection, amazing fictional cars, with some unique even with questioning physics just like Aracade used to be, As well some kick ass melody soundtrack (amazing as well because it isn't copyright) What a beauty this game is even after 20 years ahead
Especially, good to see legacy that lives in Ridge Racer PSP with remakes
This game was so special. I loved GTurismo with a passion, but R4 just had a presence to it. A style all its own. Love it to this day
I remember this one of a kind gem, i played this during my middle school days. The song in the intro made me fell in love with the game, i kinda wish they made a remake of this but hey...a man can dream
I was 22 years old when this game came out. One my off nights from work I'd stay up racing this game until the sun came up. This game was AMAZING!
They don't do remakes with a delicate touch anymore so maybe that isn't what you're looking for LOL. This game needs the super Mario All-Stars treatment where they improve little things here and there including the graphics but keep the overall feel of the game similar... These days they'll completely butcher a ridge racer type 4 remake because they butcher every remake...
@@bryantnonya8704 Sad but true...
still one of the best looking and playing racing games on the PS1
I just downloaded this game from the PS Plus Classics Catalog and I'm absolutely loving it. I played the PRC Grand Prix and wasn't expecting there to be a story at all, let alone one that evoked such an emotional response from me. RIP Giuliano
Cracking review, I also had that sliding problem on the bonus disc!
2005 moved into a new house I was 5 years old and I got a PS1 and I still play it on my Original ps1. This game is the best.
Brilliant review on a brilliant game I must say and I'm glad I'm not the only person that thought bugbears Ridge Racer Unbounded was a pile of shite.
Definitely need a brand new arcade Ridge Racer as you say.
You can feel the passion on this review
Thanks man! Yeah, absolutely loved this game back in the day.
I remember seeing fireworks on that final race, it was the first time I get festivity feeling on a video game.By the way, if you bought that 1up Ridge Racer, there's Ace Driver in the package, why the hell Namco never ported that one on PS1 days? It would be a perfect compliment to Ridge Racer series.
Fireworks only appears during the final lap in Shooting Hoops, which is the final Grand Prix race. For Time Attack, VS battle, and Extra Trial mode, fireworks did not appear during the race.
Reminded me of chrono trigger
OK lemme try this again...maybe YT doesn't like hyperlinks?
Anyway....once more....
Welp, pack it up guys, shows over! Mr Thunderwing has just won best RUclips video of 2021, and it's not even *CLOSE* All I can say is WOW, and absolute magnificent job mate! Out of all the videos you've put out so far, I have to say in all honesty this one is right up there with the best and probably my favorite! This one is a keeper, and I will download it to my hard drive for dozens of future viewings offline!!! So many great points you've made in the video. I can tell a lot of time and care went into making this!
It's absolutely criminal that this video doesn't have 1 million views.
Cheers mate, appreciate it!
@@MrThunderwing Mate, I literally posted the same comment a couple days ago and for some reason YT deleted it. Never seen that before but it pissed me off to end. Thankfully I has remembered(for the most part) what I originally wrote, but I am so pissed right now because I thought you saw the original one. I can't believe the comment got deleted . I think their algorithm is so screwed up nowadays, it's causing all kinds of BS to happen.
@@isamuu99 Yeah, I've seen it happen a lot. Quite often I'll get a notification of a comment and when I click on it to read it, the comment's disappeared from the video comment section. The YT AI bots are out of control.
I don't know if my previous comment was deleted or didn't upload correctly, but here goes again: great video, but the game looks a ton better on Duckstation. Give it a spin.
Consider one of my favorite PS1 game in the late 1990's decade, this game was released on May 1st, 1999 in the US. I always have Pac Man car after unlocking 321 cars in total in the game. R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 came with a bonus disc called 'Ridge Racer Turbo' which runs 60fps instead of 30.
I love you thanks for this video!
Drum and bass brought me to ridge racer when I was on RUclips and night stream my favorite theme from ridge racer series
The Hi-Spec demo disc was the nicest surprise i ever had in videogames, the First Ridge Racer being the first game I had on PS1 back in the day.
I remember the drifting and bumping issue being a thing in the first instalment, so we can say that it's a 1:1 recreation of the original in 60fps but now that I'm looking back at it, the rotating wheels was a thing from the 2nd Ridge Racer, the 1 one had simple fixed cardboard for wheels... 😆
Yeah, the Hi=Spec demo was an absolutely brilliant bonus.
My GF plays this on her Anbernic handheld. She just smacks into the wall and Armco at the sides of the tracks all the way around and that's with when using the analogue stick. Even Revs on the CBM 64 had better analogue support than most of these arcade racers. Such a shame there was never an RC car-type controller that because a standard for console racers. I dumped consoles for the PC and proper analogue wheels and handling in the mid 90's. My mate was a big Ridge Racer fan and I think he thought he could use his console driving 'skills' in his real first car because he was always hitting walls with it.
*love this game and my XBOX 360 one too!* ⭐️
used to emulate this on my android phone and play the day away, not listening to any of my classes in college lmao. gotta be my fave racing game of all time 🔥🔥
On the topic of controls, I’ve noticed that whenever I play any of the old school Ridge Racer games, I’ve always felt that I’ve had more control of my car if I’m in first person view. So far, the only exception is Ridge Racer Vita, but that’s mostly so I can see myself driving the Sega Hornet car. Otherwise, first person seems to be the go-to view mode for me when playing a Ridge Racer game.
I generally prefer 3rd person for Ridge Racer, first person feels too wide, if that makes sense, feels harder to overtake to me. I think I might've mentioned this before, but you should upload some Ridge Racer Vita Hornet videos, even if it's just you pointing a cell phone at the screen as you play. There's a real dearth of them out there, about the only guy who's uploaded several does them all 1st person so you can't actually see the car.
@@MrThunderwing I guess now that you mention it, I did only record the first track, so perhaps I should record some more.
Omg. I loved this game and the soundtrack
It amazing how realistic and stylish look 20-30 year game.+Menus and music still viable
dude!! you always cover all the games i play recently 😭 excited to watch this review!!
Cool! Hope you enjoy it!
For Ridge Racer 1, Ridge Racer Revolution, and even Rage Racer, you can't powerslide them the way you do in R4. R4's drift system is far more refined and became the base system all the sequels after it would be using. But for the earlier titles, when you release x and press x again while turning in to initiate the drift, I end up releasing x again while I'm counter-steering and only press x once the car is pointing in the right direction (but this whole action takes less than a second). Also, I only drift in the sharper turns where drifting is the only choice to make the turns. For many corners in the earlier Ridge Racer games, you can simply press square without removing your thumb from the x button. In that way, you can slow the car down without initiating a drift and without killing your momentum.
R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 deserved a Remaster/Remake 😎
It kind of got one in Ridge Racers 2 on the PSP. I mean, it's not the same as a proper remake, but at least now with PPSSPP Emulator you can play all the stages in HD at 60fps.
I never got a chance to obtain all 321 different types of vehicles, 40 at most. the tracks in this game, top tier, didnt get the chance to play the other ridge racers, if they make another one, I'm def getting it. Keep up the good work, you got a sub right here!
Thanks! Yeah, I didn't get anywhere close to unlocking all of them back in the day.
The absolute pinnacle of Ridge Racer!
I still hear the soundtrack till this day. Move me is the best
Lucid Rhythms is my favourite. Liquid dnb awesomeness.
I unlocked everything up to the Pac-Man car though i can't say noticed how much of a grind it was, maybe because it was a really good game with a great soundtrack and just visually pleasing to look at. I was using a NeGcon controller made by Namco to play with this game. You had to twist the controller in the middle to drive the cars, there were some games that worked exceptionally well with the controller and a lot that didn't but interesting none the less.
I think read that WipEout 2097 worked with the NeGcon controller (another one of my favourite PS1 racers)
@@MrThunderwing Yeah it worked pretty well too, the level of control it gave you was quite similar to using a wheel. I would have loved to try it on some modern drifting games.
Definitely a gorgeous game, I think it's the lighting that really does it. While the likes of Daytona 2 might have had better models I'm always surprised how weak the lighting was on those model 3 games
Have you tried any of them again recently in Supermodel? The specular lighting effects in Daytona USA 2, Scud Race and Sega Rally 2 are actually pretty amazing looking, especially if you've got the games' upscaled into HD.
@@MrThunderwing oh ok, I'll have to take a look. Oddly enough I actually play Ridge Racer Unbound on my PC fairly often and the lighting effects are actually pretty awesome!
But yeah it's really incredible what was possible with the Model 3 back in the day! Even modern racers don't have such outstanding models!
@@SamMcDonald83 Yeah dude, it was like technology from another planet!
@@SamMcDonald83 Here, check this out. Watch in 2K or 4K for the best result.
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@@MrThunderwing Sweet! I really wish Sega would release a compilation of these model 3 racers. If they were properly ported an optimised for modern hardware I'd easily pay 100 quid for that :D
I recall buying Ridge Racer Type 4 when it came out and it was instantly my favorite racer ever made. I sunk hundreds of hours into the game grinding the night away trying to unlock more cars. Only thing that got me to stop playing it was release of Dreamcast on 9/9/99 which is the only console I ever bought on launch day. Funny thing I bought the Bleemcast disc that let me play Grand Turismo 2 on Dreamcast with Hi-Res graphics. I had no idea we could play RRT4 with Hi Res graphics. I'm going to look into what's involved in doing this? Replaying that entire game with HD graphics sounds amazing.
Ridge Racer Type 4 was also Bleemcast-able, I burnt a CD-R myself to play it like that before I got the PS3 digital download. I was using ePSXe emulator here to upscale the graphics, but a few people in the comments have suggested some alternatives. Or you could just play the PSP version of Ridge Racer 2 for the lovely RRT4 tracks in it, although it plays a bit differently.
Damn you need way more views and likes on this video. We all need to step back into Ridge Racer.
Thanks bro, tell me about it.
Let me leave a random comment here. First of all, very nice video! Secondly, your voice/accent reminds me of Chris Broad from Abroad in Japan. It's really similar!
Not familiar with Chris Broad, but I like stuff about Japan, so I'll have to check him out.
@@MrThunderwing He's from Kent, perhaps you are as well. So that might explain. Anyway, it's a great channel if you like the typical sarcastic British humor.
@@luckysmokerings2 I live in Bristol which is right over the other side of the country from Kent (although I don't really have what you'd call a Bristolian accent). Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check his channel out!
I'm going to be honest here, ridge racer type 4 definitely has the best vehicle handling model across the four games on PlayStation, coupled with an awesome soundtrack, great vehicle designs, and visual style, but the lack of modes for the single player experience really bothers me, replay value is very important to me, but unfortunately type 4 falls short on that, and I know I ain't the only one with this. You only have Grand Prix and time attack mode, that's it, No single race mode, no custom event feature, nothing.
The Grand Prix feature is very cool, but it gets so repetitive, sure, you have four teams and four manufacturers to use, but it doesn't make any difference based on its linear race structure.
For time attack enthusiasts, this is definitely a dream for them, You get to choose any vehicle, any track, and go for the best time.
Even if you already beat the game and got all the vehicles that you needed, you still need more things to do afterward and keep playing it for years to come, I believe there is more to racing games than just campaign and time attack, even rage racer and rr2 on PSP have a lot more modes and replay value than this does. I really would love a feature to set up my own custom, multi-car races with any of the cars and tracks in the game and enjoy the games awesome racing and visuals that it offers without any restrictions of the Grand Prix mode, If R4 shipped back then with a variety of ways to enjoy the game however we wish, than this game would have much better replay value than it does to this day, this is not an attempt to knock on the game entirely, as this game has a lot of great production values going for it. I've seen that this was going to be reverse engineered for a PC port, and I really hope it fixes all the problems that I had with this game, it deserves it, fingers crossed!
Those are definitely valid points, but I can honestly say they didn't really bother me back then. I was coming into this game off the back of old skool arcade racers like Sega Rally and Daytona, which normally only had about 3-5 tracks, so Ridge Racer Type 4 felt like it had more than enough content to keep me going.
@@MrThunderwing well, I guess I'm different on expectations, I haven't much time on my hands nowadays to play through gp mode with different approaches, even though I did beat it a couple of times back then. The lack of a single race mode in r4 is pretty disappointing, I still play it every now and then, just not for hours, there just could have been more to it, you know? And don't get me wrong, the sega rally series is awesome, I yet to play 2006. I really hope that indie developers can indulge more into colorful race game projects that are very similar to the ones we enjoy on Playstation 1 and 2, that would have been so awesome.
You can brake slightly to go out of a slide in the original game.
Definitely this is the best of the series and the more memorable of them
More back catalogue done. Great review mate. Id intended on doing one for the entire series myself which thankfully wouldnt trwd on your toes as you covered more Monster Boy and not the first 2 wonderboy games (and Lair) and of course Monster World IV has now had a modern remake now as well
I've been in two minds about whether to get the MWIV remake. I'm not a huge fan of that 2.5D art style they've got for with it, plus I wasn't as much of a fan of it as I was the other games. I'd love to see Lizardcube do a remake of Wonderboy in Monster World on the Megadrive though. Bloody loved it!
@@MrThunderwing it makes it infinitely easier to play and it does look gorgeous during cutscenes. I REALLY enjoyed it. It has so many connections to Shions adventure as well with his animal helpers in it and they look even better in the new style
@@TheRetroMartin OK, might give it a try then!
@@MrThunderwingseems its put the comment on the wrong vid though 😂 obviously i was on the wonderboy one...not ridge racer type 4 😂
For some weird reason your latest reply ended up in the "held for review" bit of the comments section and I had to approve it - RUclips is so bizarre like this sometimes (I've had a few, totally normal, comments on my Le Mans video that have ended up like this too).
What a treat to wake up to ❤ my actual favorite game on the platform.
And that's Pronounced,
"Soul-Val-Vu" lol
"RIDGE RACER TYPE 4" I played this game on my dinner brakes at work..........WINNERRRRRRR Epic game good times !!
Please tell me where download the soundtrack, I can’t find it on iTunes.
You can find it on RUclips. I use a program to download the videos from RUclips then I can extract the audio using my video editing software.
@@MrThunderwing thanks for responding.
Awesome!
I missed almost whole generation of ps1 as a big Sega fan, just like you. The beginning of the end started with the existence of 32X...
Indeed. I reckon it actually started a bit before that with the Sega CD. It had a lot of potential that just seemed wasted. I'd have loved to have seen stuff like some conversions of Sega's super scaler games on it that took advantage of the sprite scaling hardware, like a port of Outrun.
@@MrThunderwing Yeah, agreed. The Mega CD had some great games, i really loved Final Fight CD - amazing port, better than the arcade in music and great graphics overall, Spider man, Sonic CD, Mikey Mania, WWF rage in the cage, etc. But they could do so much more with it... They had so many ips that they never used... Making cadilacs and dinosours motion video game instead of amazing arcade port with CD music... Just to name one miss... But you know what? I forgive that because the CD music and full motion videos was amazing back then so alright Sega, we get that, it was new and the Mega Drive was amazing to have already, but the 32X was the first true failure... Instead they should have spent another year on developing the Saturn to have better hardware for 3d games and make it easier to program to...
60 fps ridge racer is somehow way easier in first person btw
Great Video as always Alex! Love the way you edit them. Which software to do use for editing and the use of those wonderful overlays and images and transition effects. How do you accomplish them? Would like to know.
Thanks Abdul, I appreciate it! I use a program called Powerdirector 14. It's actually a bit on the old side now and has been superseded a few times, I think it's on version 18 or something now. It's OK, but I believe there are much better video editing programs out there, it can get a bit slow and laggy during editing, which can be a pain in the arse (although TBH my PC hardware's getting on a bit now). It's also prone to random crashes from time to time, which can be super infuriating. It does the trick mostly though.
@@MrThunderwing Thanks mate. Any other new editing apps I should be look into? I have just started a new YT channel and have been editing videos on my phone (filmora wondershare go), but the quality isn't anywhere near yours. Which camera do you use to film stuff? Which software do you use to record game videos (OBS I assume)? Most importantly which mic do you use to record? Your voice is clear without any crackle or distortion. Really impressed with your quality of work mate! Always have been a fan of your retrospective videos.
Last but not the least will post a comment from my YT channel account (arkcave). If that's okay with you please subscribe and support this YT "newbie".....
Thanks!
@@ark9515 Ha, believe it or not, the mic I use is a tiny little one that came with one of the old PlayStation Music games by Codemasters, I think it might've been for the PS2. I just tried randomly plugging it into the 3.5mm mic socket on my PC one day and it worked. I clip it onto a cocktail stirrer, which is my 'mic holder' and hold it just to the side of my mouth, so it doesn't pick up all the plosive sounds when I'm talking. I've actually just ordered a USB one off Amazon, as it's definitely time I upgraded. The camera I use is just the inbulit one in my phone. I use a combination of OBS and FRAPS (the paid for version) for my PC gaming capture. I paid for FRAPS years and years ago, it's very easy to use, but pretty system intensive and the video files it creates are huuuuge. OBS is pretty good and is free, but doesn't always work with everything I've tried it on. I use an Elgato HD for my external PS3/PS4/Xbox 360 capture. It's got it's own proprietary software, but OBS also works with it and seems better.
And sure, I'll check out your channel.
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Spot on, the controls in high spec are completely wank, it's simply not fun.
You really need to use the bumper camera to line the car properly, it's much easier that way
@@St_Rizla
I put your advice to the test and I really didn't notice any difference.
I think the problem with high spec is that it's expecting a force feedback device. If we were in the arcade playing on a force feedback wheel we wouldn't be able to counter steer in the extreme opposite direction, rather we'd only be able to counter steer a certain amount as the wheel fights back against us.
On the PlayStation D-pad, however, right and left are digital inputs, each time right or left is input the steering is going 100% to the right or left meaning that counter steering on high spec is just going to send you spinning in the opposite direction.
High Spec is just a proof of concept demo created to assess (wow, that word is so close to asses) if the sacrifices to get to 60fps on PS1 for Ridge Racer were worth it, no effort went into balancing it for a PS1 D-pad (and analogue steering isn't available in this demo, but even if it was you'd still need some force feedback).
If you'd just spent ten or twenty hours playing R4, a game designed for the PS1 D-pad, and jumped into high spec you'd be totally screwed because your muscle memory --- built around playing R4 --- would work against finishing a lap in high spec.
Luckily, I haven't played R4 in months, but I still couldn't finish three laps in high spec before the time ran out and it didn't matter whether I was using a grip or drift vehicle, both were squirly, and bumper view didn't help either, I raced just as poorly as in third person.
Great review
Yes this was my favorite RR game. I played this like a absolute ton but I didn't get the Pac car, but I remember how hard the last races were, I have memories of driving like a black or blue batmobile which was about 4 times faster than the first car in the game and the AI was a cheat! 😂
Absolutely amazing soundtrack though, still grooves to this day, and looking at RR7 it gives off a bit of a F-Zero GX vibe, I haven't played it and I really should, same with Rave Racer.
Man, RUclips's so weird sometimes, I just got a notification today about this comment, even though you left it a month ago. Edit - no you didn't, I just can't read.
F-Zero GX is another game I absolutely love. Great soundtrack too!
@@MrThunderwing yes, really smart move by Nintendo at the time to get Sega and Toshihiro Nagoshi's team to basically make a new F-Zero. I was still kinda coming to terms that Sega had went software only and as you know it would have been unthinkable just a few years before for Sega and Nintendo to work together.
Made on the Super Monkey Ball engine if memory serves, GX was and I bet still is awesome! I've been hoping for a proper sequel ever since, it's a great IP Nintendo are just doing nothing with, it's a shame.
Am I the only one person that can't control the cars well using the D-pad instead the stick??
Nope, it's definitely lot hard to play this with D-pad.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAACEEEERRRRRR
Namco messed up on the naming of Edge of the Earth and Brightest Nite --- it's Brightest that has the big jump you approach like you're leaving the edge of the earth; I'm certain this was all an unintentional naming snafu.
Interesting theory.
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I call this stage "Hell and Hell", but you did an excellent job on the hairpin turn here that I've always struggled with.
This game is legendary
Listen guys tomorrow this game cominho tô ps4
You need to do much much more of these
I enjoy making them, its just finding the time to fit them in around full time work and other life commitments. I've already got the next game in mind though...
Love your work, TW
Thanks dude!
it's pronounced soul-va-loo, named after the ship from the game xevious (zee-vee-us)
I'll just call it Saveloy (a UK delicacy - look it up if you've never heard of one).
El juego favorito de mi hijo
Sanodg the god.
Indeed!
you really cannot handle this game your all over the place also you need to play this in first person view there is no better way very detailed review though many thanks
What a weirdly backhanded compliment... I can 'handle' the game just fine, thanks - I'm not even sure how you can just jump to a judgement like that, from a compilation of clips of me using so many different easy, medium, hard and very hard vehicles across a load of tracks that equally are very variable in their difficulty. I completed the easy and medium GPs several times over to get the footage for this, without any problems and did parts of the hard and expert GPs too. I even completed a few of the trials for good measure. The only cars I struggled playing with were the top tier ones and the ones from the trials, pretty understandable really considering I hadn't played the game in many, many years and they are notoriously difficult to handle. Also, don't tell other people what view they 'should' play the game in, it's entirely up to the individual how they want to enjoy it. If you only ever play in 1st person view, you're probably not used to seeing how wide the arc of the drift is on the drift cars in 3rd person. If you want to complement someone on a game review, maybe you should lead with that, instead of an unnecessary and unwanted critique of the way the reviewer's playing it.
While I love almost everything about the game, I just hated the soundtrack. I'm in the minority here, but I don't care. I think the music was awful, cringy, and out-of-place in many of its songs. I enjoyed the previous game's music and music style far more than here. But, the game itself is the BESt in the series by far.
Dude... the soundtrack is literally one of the best things about the game.
Straight up just blasphemy.