I don’t mean to be ‘that guy’ but I believe that one contributing factor to there not being another console fzero was the lack of analog triggers on Nintendo’s home console controllers after the GameCube. Even though the original wii classic controller had analog triggers, they were barely utilised and phased out with the more popular classic controller pro.
@@spiritomb8I think nintendo won't make another fzero because a new fzero game would just be competition for the very accessible mario kart franchise. I believe a former nintendo employee also stated at much. In my humble yet blunt opinion, mario kart 8 deluxe was bad, really bad. The previous installments were way more enjoyable in every conceivable way. The main audience for fzero are teens and young adult college students who are familiar with video games. This audience expects a lot more from a video game than your average casual or child. Comparisons between nintendos 2 racing franchises would quickly ensue. So word would probably spread quickly that fzero is much finer tuned and competitive than mario kart 8 deluxe which feels factory produced, holds the players hand and has a very low skill ceiling. The most important thing about running a monoply is killing the competition because competition means that nintendo would actually have to put effort into the next mario kart game.
@@xtrwombat4876 Yet Nintendo make both Mario and Kirby games? Think of it like this: the Kirby platformers are the Mario kart games, they hold your hand and give you a wide variety of power ups to assist you if you are struggling. F-Zero is like the Mario platformers, you can only loose a finite number of times before you are forced to redo previously completed levels, the game lacks any form of tutorial and forces you to figure out things for your self, and the levels get increasingly more difficult as the game progresses, with a limited range of power ups compared to Kirby’s copy abilities. Furthermore, if you suck at the game, the game isn’t going to help you (there are some exceptions to this tho). But I do agree with you when you say that people will be comparing the two franchises. This has always been a problem with media in general though, critics comparing two similar ideas to one another and pointing out the things they don’t like about one rather that accepting it as a separate thing to the other. F-Zero and Mario kart are not the same thing, just as Final Fantasy 7 and Mario&Luigi aren’t the same thing. They may both be similar in that they are turn based rpgs, but they each have a little something that makes the game its own thing. If you wanna compare two racing franchises to one another: Forza and Need for Speed are sitting over there! Unfortunately, I can’t change the minds of these people, and I can’t force people to like F-Zero either. As much as I am a fan of F-Zero, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see another game from the series that won’t have some random gimmick that ruins the quality of the gameplay. Anyway, that’s my two cents.
Imma say it now... I wish the AX cup ran the races at their arcade race lengths respectively. Screw Drive- Lap 6 Meteor Stream- Lap 4 Cylinder Wave- Lap 3 Thunder Road- Lap 2 Spiral- Lap 2 Sonic Oval- Lap 8
Screw Drive and Sonic Oval with so many laps would have drastically changed the course. It would have been the F Zero equivalent to Mario Kart's baby park.
A proper game. Takes dedication and years of your life to master it and is so rewarding when you do so. Modern game developers / publishers are scared to make a game on this level of difficulty.
In defense of Drift Highway, the aspects you criticize it for are what I think make it interesting. It's shortness, lacking energy strips, and turns can make it difficult to maintain a lead, especially with some of the more cumbersome machines. Also, the turns are almost perfectly designed to go full acceleration and start sliding around turns at top speed, or MTS if you have the skill and machine to do that. It's short, sweet, surprisingly difficult, and a great track to go drifting.
I have to agree with the list... Until I learned how to properly drift... and it changes the list drastically in my head. Though I'm sure speedrunners will also have a different list of their own as that again changes everything? And that is an exceptional good thing about FzeroGX, that you can have such wildly different takes on each track based on how you wish to race the game. A friend once tried to do a " DeathRace " ranking on which track is most fun to retire every racer xD
Double Branches is my favourite for being absolutely impossible to replicate without the F-Zero mechanics. You essentially do the track twice, once on the 'inside' and once on the 'outside' of the track. I also like Loop Cross for the same reason. (Yes the pipe and cylinder tracks also are uniquely F-Zero, but those are annoying to play on.)
Sonic Oval is pretty much your standard NASCAR track. Edit: also Fun Fact, there is a 51 episode F-Zero anime called F-Zero Falcon Densetsu that actually did feature the Outer Space track and the Lightning track in 2 different episodes.
I love your ranking! My personal ranking for my top five favorite tracks in ascending order is Fire Field-Undulation, Big Blue-Ordeal, Lightning-Thunder Road, Green Plant-Spiral and finally, Aeropolis-Multiplex. Something about Multiplex is awesome to me. I love the design, how it’s challenging, but not overly difficult and has plenty of variety. Plus, the music for Aeropolis, ZEN, is my favorite track on the OST. Whenever I race on Multiplex, I almost never lose. I’m not a fantastic GX player by any stretch, I still can’t figure out snaking. But, even on master difficulty, I still leave the competition behind. F-Zero GX really is the greatest racing game ever made.
Completely agree with your number 1. It's a track I struggle with, but because it's such a marathon and because the atmosphere is top notch, it has always stuck with me. Cosmo Terminal is a close second place for me, and then I'd have to give it to Half Pipe with Double Branches as an honorable mention.
Nice to see Undulation so high up, it's just a really fun track. There's also a trick you can pull on that one massive jump about half-way through the track: you just drive off the side rail shortly after hitting the boost pads and you'll get to the lower cylinder a lot faster.
It’s a fairly neat track, albeit super challenging. What ruins it for me is always finishing around 25 on master no matter what lol. That aside, the track is kinda neat.
I'm just going to say this about Lateral Shifts: learn to shift-boost and you'll completely change your tone about this course. You can in theory reach 4000+ KMH on this track with relative ease once you do.
Lateral Shift is one of my favorites, since it’s the only one where I can do shift boosts and go over 2000 km/h on the ground. Agree with most of the ranking tho
I dont really agree with a lot of these rankings but really solid video, had a lot of fun and nostalgia watching it. I was never good enough as a kid to get the AX Cup, damn i missed some kickass tracks
Serial Gaps and Half Pipe stress the hell out of me since it's so dang easy to lose control and go off course. But otherwise I mostly agree. I prefer a bit more guard rails to reduce frustration on tough courses but nailing tracks like Ordeal, Intersection, Thunder Road etc. is so satisfying.
Phantom slits is the one course I also gave up on winning. I would just try to win the first 4, destroy rivals until winning became a mathematical certainty. Phenomenal final track lol
I’m honestly surprised at a few choices here, though let’s face it : most tracks in this game are really good. I would’ve put Serial Gaps probably below the 15th spot, while Ordeal would have taken half-pipe’s place. Gotta say though, conquering Trident felt good, especially with that fatty of a shark. He’s slippery, yes, after all he’s the big fish, but dear god he’s fast. It can actually be pretty fun with him! I also would have put Surface Slide a bit higher, I really like the layout of the track, despite the simplicity of it. There’s no feelings like abusing that boost on the second part of lap 3.
Its funny how the highest ranked GX map here is one designed for AX's controls; it is already fun even if a bit easy if you are used to GX's groovez but in AX it's more ridiculous due to the drift physics allowing you to get speeed when drifting- pair that with tthe long winding turns and rhat ice turn and you have FZX-tier drifting madness. And that's not even bringing up the AX exclusive T-Drift. Look up JOKER's T-drift run of Spiral and you'll get what I mean. Definitely one of the most gorgeous looking tracks though, and even a fitting final track to unlock as the last track of your prize for all Master Cups completed.
the tracks id put at the bottom are the ones where there is only one recharge section at the start / finish. aero dive, half pipe, cylinder knot, and the tunnel one. they feel pretty slow since you cant keep your speed up
I agree with most of the rankings here. I don't care for Undulation or Port Town Aero Drive. They would be very low on the list. I like your placing Serial Gaps very high simply because I hated it at first and it was very satisfying to overcome as I believe you mentioned here. It's also a track that when I watch people play even on master difficulty speed runs, they struggle and place low like 15th. But it's because they haven't learned how to race it right and that also makes me feel like I cracked a code that isn't so easy to crack and that is also satisfying. Good video
I still play this daily. I did my first test stream yesterday on youtube. I also have gotten 1st on Slim Line Slits on Master. You really have to stay ahead to have a chance and that last turn the bots have a much sharper ability to turn beyond what a player can. It's lame.
I know that Sonic Oval is frowned upon by your standards, but I actually love that track. Given my skills in F-Zero aren't that great, it's a great starting track for F-Zero AX.
I personally was not a huge fan of spiral. I get why others like it, however, it just doesn’t seem all that challenging for a 6 star course. However, Thunder Road right before it, it’s probably my favorite in the game. The amount of boosting available combined with the best soundtrack in the game, made this a thrilling experience. Overall, I enjoyed this review. Thank you.
I personally don’t care for Cosmo Terminal that much. Once you ignore the gimmick of no guard rails, it’s just kinda boring. My personal favorite course would be Ordeal. That course is a ton of fun to blaze through with your boosts and is immensely satisfying to nail!
Port Town: Aero Drive is my favourite, and it's exactly for the reasons stated: no gimmicks and perfecting the simple elements. That made it a track of sustained speed and racing on the edge. That was the quintessential element that made F-Zero X so good as just about every track contained this ethos. In contrast, GX was too often mired in its gimmicks like those stupid bumps, obstacles and disappearing sections - as seen in the two Sand Ocean entries and the Port Town entry low on this list. There's also that stupid turbine track. All that ruined the flow and made for a frustrating experience. Then there were the boring tracks like that Casino one and even the Trident course. If Nintendo decides to remake an F-Zero game, X is the one for its fiendish track design, and also it's the most deserving of an upgrade. GX only needs to be ported as it never lacked in presentation.
Call me crazy but I actually had a really easy time with Phantom Road on Master. For me, I hated trident because it was the first track, meaning if you failed, you might as well just go back to the menu and restart so you have your lives back. Given the fact that it had no guard rails, it really played with my emotions when my machine did a tiny little slip.
Surprised to see Trident so high. I can't stand it. The sounds of Don Genie/Black Shadow slowly creeping up from behind gives it a unique level of tension, but the vast amount of dead air really kills it for me. It's the only thing keeping me from replaying the Diamond Cup more.
I personally dislike cylinder wave, I find the fact that the cylinder being an oval extremely annoying and kills my speed constantly as I get found into the air by the game’s inertia physics. I also hate Half pipe with a seething passion because the sharp turns with steeply curved track causes the machine to slide way to often, leading to me falling of the track more often than loosing to a cpu.
Lateral shift is underrated. Getting speed boosts by clipping the edges of the track is not so hard and the speed is really fun. Trident is super overrated. It’s a snooze fest. Undulation as well. So many odd contact surfaces make it feel impossible to settle into a groove.
@@radladstudios yeah so it would be even better for new players have emerald cup replaced with ax cup and have emerald cup be unlocked after beating 3 novice or higher grand Prix and another new cup would be awesome as a switch exclusive
The in-game AX content unlocks are actually kind of a "backup" option. You're intended to use an actual AX arcade game to unlock the machines and AX cup, with the very late-game in-game unlock methods being just for if you don't have access to one. So if you wanted to unlock it early, all you had to do is locate an F-Zero AX arcade cabinet and play it once with each AX-"exclusive" machine.
@@FzeroVaporeon If we were to somehow get a Switch version, it's most likely going to be an emulated port of the game with no changes. But we're not likely to get that. 1. Miyamoto went on record saying he hated F-Zero GX, that it played "too fast and hard", according to an IGN podcast. For someone who retired from being the company president and CEO, he still has a ton of say in the company. 2. Nintendo doesn't even actually have the source code for the game, SEGA has it. So unless Nintendo swallows their pride and asks SEGA to work with them again (something SEGA's gone on record saying they'd gladly do, but something Nintendo definitely has no intention of doing), a Switch-native port isn't going to happen. 3. F-Zero GX is EXTREMELY difficult to get running in an emulator. It took well over a decade to get it working properly in Dolphin and even then there's noticeable stutter whenever the game has to load from disk or a memory card and at race start, which isn't acceptable for a commercial release. Nintendo doesn't have the best track record with their own emulated ports, so there's no way they're going to be able to pull that off with GX.
i won’t lie to you this list is really bad. trident doesn’t deserve to be that high considering it really offers nothing that makes f zero unique. it’s still a gx track, so it’s still miles above most other racing games best, but still. dragon slopes is amazing, ordeal is amazing, multiplex is amazing. much higher placings
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12:07 As many have pointed out, it should be Port Town Aero DIVE instead of Drive.
For some reason my mind always autocorrects it to drive lol.
You know, I’d personally put any of the aeropolis tracks much higher simply because of that kickass ost.
There needs to be more fzero gx rankings out there. This one was so high quality and I loved every second. Thank you!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Honestly, the main reason I made it was because nobody else had ranked them, and I wanted to correct that!
Pilot bonus videos and character themes ranked
We also need more track rank videos for other F-Zero titles too.
F-Zero GX was way, way ahead of its time. It's the only reason why there hasn't been another one of these, especially on the Switch.
I don’t mean to be ‘that guy’ but I believe that one contributing factor to there not being another console fzero was the lack of analog triggers on Nintendo’s home console controllers after the GameCube. Even though the original wii classic controller had analog triggers, they were barely utilised and phased out with the more popular classic controller pro.
@@spiritomb8I think nintendo won't make another fzero because a new fzero game would just be competition for the very accessible mario kart franchise. I believe a former nintendo employee also stated at much. In my humble yet blunt opinion, mario kart 8 deluxe was bad, really bad. The previous installments were way more enjoyable in every conceivable way.
The main audience for fzero are teens and young adult college students who are familiar with video games. This audience expects a lot more from a video game than your average casual or child. Comparisons between nintendos 2 racing franchises would quickly ensue. So word would probably spread quickly that fzero is much finer tuned and competitive than mario kart 8 deluxe which feels factory produced, holds the players hand and has a very low skill ceiling. The most important thing about running a monoply is killing the competition because competition means that nintendo would actually have to put effort into the next mario kart game.
@@xtrwombat4876 Yet Nintendo make both Mario and Kirby games?
Think of it like this: the Kirby platformers are the Mario kart games, they hold your hand and give you a wide variety of power ups to assist you if you are struggling.
F-Zero is like the Mario platformers, you can only loose a finite number of times before you are forced to redo previously completed levels, the game lacks any form of tutorial and forces you to figure out things for your self, and the levels get increasingly more difficult as the game progresses, with a limited range of power ups compared to Kirby’s copy abilities. Furthermore, if you suck at the game, the game isn’t going to help you (there are some exceptions to this tho).
But I do agree with you when you say that people will be comparing the two franchises. This has always been a problem with media in general though, critics comparing two similar ideas to one another and pointing out the things they don’t like about one rather that accepting it as a separate thing to the other. F-Zero and Mario kart are not the same thing, just as Final Fantasy 7 and Mario&Luigi aren’t the same thing. They may both be similar in that they are turn based rpgs, but they each have a little something that makes the game its own thing.
If you wanna compare two racing franchises to one another: Forza and Need for Speed are sitting over there!
Unfortunately, I can’t change the minds of these people, and I can’t force people to like F-Zero either. As much as I am a fan of F-Zero, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see another game from the series that won’t have some random gimmick that ruins the quality of the gameplay.
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
Best racing game ever
Imma say it now... I wish the AX cup ran the races at their arcade race lengths respectively.
Screw Drive- Lap 6
Meteor Stream- Lap 4
Cylinder Wave- Lap 3
Thunder Road- Lap 2
Spiral- Lap 2
Sonic Oval- Lap 8
Screw Drive and Sonic Oval with so many laps would have drastically changed the course.
It would have been the F Zero equivalent to Mario Kart's baby park.
Thunder Road and Spiral both had 3 laps
Casino Palace Split Oval is essentially the successor to Silence High Speed in F-Zero X
1:25 *"I challenge you to a race in the underworld!"*
Giving you the glimpse of what is like racing in type 3 civilization
A proper game. Takes dedication and years of your life to master it and is so rewarding when you do so. Modern game developers / publishers are scared to make a game on this level of difficulty.
In defense of Drift Highway, the aspects you criticize it for are what I think make it interesting. It's shortness, lacking energy strips, and turns can make it difficult to maintain a lead, especially with some of the more cumbersome machines. Also, the turns are almost perfectly designed to go full acceleration and start sliding around turns at top speed, or MTS if you have the skill and machine to do that. It's short, sweet, surprisingly difficult, and a great track to go drifting.
I don't know why this video showed up in my recommended, and I've never played F-Zero, but for some reason I watched the whole thing, lol
F zero is awesome
I have to agree with the list... Until I learned how to properly drift... and it changes the list drastically in my head. Though I'm sure speedrunners will also have a different list of their own as that again changes everything? And that is an exceptional good thing about FzeroGX, that you can have such wildly different takes on each track based on how you wish to race the game. A friend once tried to do a " DeathRace " ranking on which track is most fun to retire every racer xD
Double Branches is my favourite for being absolutely impossible to replicate without the F-Zero mechanics. You essentially do the track twice, once on the 'inside' and once on the 'outside' of the track. I also like Loop Cross for the same reason. (Yes the pipe and cylinder tracks also are uniquely F-Zero, but those are annoying to play on.)
The same thing happens in mobius ring.
Sonic Oval is pretty much your standard NASCAR track.
Edit: also Fun Fact, there is a 51 episode F-Zero anime called F-Zero Falcon Densetsu that actually did feature the Outer Space track and the Lightning track in 2 different episodes.
I love your ranking! My personal ranking for my top five favorite tracks in ascending order is Fire Field-Undulation, Big Blue-Ordeal, Lightning-Thunder Road, Green Plant-Spiral and finally, Aeropolis-Multiplex.
Something about Multiplex is awesome to me. I love the design, how it’s challenging, but not overly difficult and has plenty of variety. Plus, the music for Aeropolis, ZEN, is my favorite track on the OST.
Whenever I race on Multiplex, I almost never lose. I’m not a fantastic GX player by any stretch, I still can’t figure out snaking. But, even on master difficulty, I still leave the competition behind. F-Zero GX really is the greatest racing game ever made.
Guys will see Green Plant and just think "Hell Yeah!"
Completely agree with your number 1. It's a track I struggle with, but because it's such a marathon and because the atmosphere is top notch, it has always stuck with me. Cosmo Terminal is a close second place for me, and then I'd have to give it to Half Pipe with Double Branches as an honorable mention.
This was a really great video and fun watch. These types of videos don't come around to often so thank you.
Nice to see Undulation so high up, it's just a really fun track. There's also a trick you can pull on that one massive jump about half-way through the track: you just drive off the side rail shortly after hitting the boost pads and you'll get to the lower cylinder a lot faster.
serial gaps is the map i hate but love at the same type. its so hard, but once u master it, u feel like a god
My man put my all time favorite track at second to last. My depression. 😢
It's pretty love it or hate it
It’s a fairly neat track, albeit super challenging. What ruins it for me is always finishing around 25 on master no matter what lol. That aside, the track is kinda neat.
I'm just going to say this about Lateral Shifts: learn to shift-boost and you'll completely change your tone about this course. You can in theory reach 4000+ KMH on this track with relative ease once you do.
Bingo. The track is basically a tailor made tutorial to do it as well.
Earned yourself another subscriber, nailed down this game with utmost technicality it was my childhood. Great work👍👍👍
The trident rating didn't surprise me: it's a basic looking track but it's incredibly well designed, teaching you precise control and micro movements.
1:27 “Ive been waiting for you, did you bring the champions belt?”
*Holds up belt*
“Gooood.”
Lateral Shift is one of my favorites, since it’s the only one where I can do shift boosts and go over 2000 km/h on the ground. Agree with most of the ranking tho
I dont really agree with a lot of these rankings but really solid video, had a lot of fun and nostalgia watching it. I was never good enough as a kid to get the AX Cup, damn i missed some kickass tracks
Serial Gaps and Half Pipe stress the hell out of me since it's so dang easy to lose control and go off course. But otherwise I mostly agree. I prefer a bit more guard rails to reduce frustration on tough courses but nailing tracks like Ordeal, Intersection, Thunder Road etc. is so satisfying.
Phantom slits is the one course I also gave up on winning. I would just try to win the first 4, destroy rivals until winning became a mathematical certainty. Phenomenal final track lol
The blue square stuff is supposed to be ice? I thought it was like glass
I’m honestly surprised at a few choices here, though let’s face it : most tracks in this game are really good.
I would’ve put Serial Gaps probably below the 15th spot, while Ordeal would have taken half-pipe’s place. Gotta say though, conquering Trident felt good, especially with that fatty of a shark. He’s slippery, yes, after all he’s the big fish, but dear god he’s fast. It can actually be pretty fun with him!
I also would have put Surface Slide a bit higher, I really like the layout of the track, despite the simplicity of it. There’s no feelings like abusing that boost on the second part of lap 3.
Half pipe was a bold choice.
F-Zero GX.... so underated. So legendary.
12:07 This whole time, I've been calling that Aero DIVE because the stair step descent.
It's actually called Aero Dive. RadLad made a mistake
The trident is the bane of my existence
There’s no gaurd railing
Its funny how the highest ranked GX map here is one designed for AX's controls; it is already fun even if a bit easy if you are used to GX's groovez but in AX it's more ridiculous due to the drift physics allowing you to get speeed when drifting- pair that with tthe long winding turns and rhat ice turn and you have FZX-tier drifting madness.
And that's not even bringing up the AX exclusive T-Drift. Look up JOKER's T-drift run of Spiral and you'll get what I mean.
Definitely one of the most gorgeous looking tracks though, and even a fitting final track to unlock as the last track of your prize for all Master Cups completed.
Great video! I would also like to see a ranking video of all the characters as well, that would be interesting! :)
6:15 YES YES YESSS I'VE BEEN WANTING SOMEONE TO MAKE THAT JOKE FOREVER
What’s the best machine for the diamond cup on master mode?
I heavily dislike Serial gaps, the Green plant one that is almost entirely a tube and Phantom Road...
the tracks id put at the bottom are the ones where there is only one recharge section at the start / finish. aero dive, half pipe, cylinder knot, and the tunnel one. they feel pretty slow since you cant keep your speed up
Man! What I wouldn't give for a remastered version of this game on the Switch!
I agree with most of the rankings here. I don't care for Undulation or Port Town Aero Drive. They would be very low on the list. I like your placing Serial Gaps very high simply because I hated it at first and it was very satisfying to overcome as I believe you mentioned here. It's also a track that when I watch people play even on master difficulty speed runs, they struggle and place low like 15th. But it's because they haven't learned how to race it right and that also makes me feel like I cracked a code that isn't so easy to crack and that is also satisfying. Good video
This game is my absolute favorite of all time. Best racing game of all time for SURE
I didn't like spiral so much but I agree with parts of your list. Drift highway was always one of my least favourite.
Multiplex should be higher and I'm glad you like Trident because I hate that stage with a passion lol
Why is lightning half pipe 4x harder than big blue ordeal.... why
You gotta embrace your inner Tony Hawk
I still play this daily. I did my first test stream yesterday on youtube. I also have gotten 1st on Slim Line Slits on Master. You really have to stay ahead to have a chance and that last turn the bots have a much sharper ability to turn beyond what a player can. It's lame.
Kinda weird how endurance tracks vs tracks that give plenty of energy arent really touched upon
for some reason I thought you were gonna rank the songs and I got mad when you put aeropolis last
watching the way this guy races makes me feel like he hasnt completed all of the story mode on very hard, yikes driving skills.
I honestly place Port Town Aero drive way higher only because of the port town music. The music DEMANDS me to boost when the music really kicks in
the only thing that lets me like Surface Slice, I just look at the map and see Bold and Brash
Oooh cosmo terminal: Trident is My favorite, hoped to see it in 1st place
I know that Sonic Oval is frowned upon by your standards, but I actually love that track. Given my skills in F-Zero aren't that great, it's a great starting track for F-Zero AX.
My top 5 are Trident, Serial Gaps, Loop Cross, Lateral Shift & Multiplex
I personally was not a huge fan of spiral. I get why others like it, however, it just doesn’t seem all that challenging for a 6 star course. However, Thunder Road right before it, it’s probably my favorite in the game. The amount of boosting available combined with the best soundtrack in the game, made this a thrilling experience. Overall, I enjoyed this review. Thank you.
I personally don’t care for Cosmo Terminal that much. Once you ignore the gimmick of no guard rails, it’s just kinda boring. My personal favorite course would be Ordeal. That course is a ton of fun to blaze through with your boosts and is immensely satisfying to nail!
That's fair, tbh half the reason I like Cosmo Terminal is because I like how easy it is to take out other racers lol
I agree totally. Boring as hell. Its only value was a guaranteed win when trying to beat Diamond League on Master. 🤣
Port Town: Aero Drive is my favourite, and it's exactly for the reasons stated: no gimmicks and perfecting the simple elements. That made it a track of sustained speed and racing on the edge. That was the quintessential element that made F-Zero X so good as just about every track contained this ethos. In contrast, GX was too often mired in its gimmicks like those stupid bumps, obstacles and disappearing sections - as seen in the two Sand Ocean entries and the Port Town entry low on this list. There's also that stupid turbine track. All that ruined the flow and made for a frustrating experience. Then there were the boring tracks like that Casino one and even the Trident course. If Nintendo decides to remake an F-Zero game, X is the one for its fiendish track design, and also it's the most deserving of an upgrade. GX only needs to be ported as it never lacked in presentation.
Great video!!!
Call me crazy but I actually had a really easy time with Phantom Road on Master. For me, I hated trident because it was the first track, meaning if you failed, you might as well just go back to the menu and restart so you have your lives back. Given the fact that it had no guard rails, it really played with my emotions when my machine did a tiny little slip.
Surprised to see Trident so high. I can't stand it. The sounds of Don Genie/Black Shadow slowly creeping up from behind gives it a unique level of tension, but the vast amount of dead air really kills it for me. It's the only thing keeping me from replaying the Diamond Cup more.
It's funny how this F-Zero game was actually developed by SEGA
I personally dislike cylinder wave, I find the fact that the cylinder being an oval extremely annoying and kills my speed constantly as I get found into the air by the game’s inertia physics.
I also hate Half pipe with a seething passion because the sharp turns with steeply curved track causes the machine to slide way to often, leading to me falling of the track more often than loosing to a cpu.
Lateral shift is underrated. Getting speed boosts by clipping the edges of the track is not so hard and the speed is really fun.
Trident is super overrated. It’s a snooze fest. Undulation as well. So many odd contact surfaces make it feel impossible to settle into a groove.
Cosmo Terminal is my favorite
next to mkwii this is definitely my favorite racing game ever
you should really try running this game at 130% speed
Deep claw represent
i thot u meant ost tracks
Awesome game.
Gx remastered should have ax cup unlocked way earlier especially because I heard it was a easier cup
AX Cup is honestly easier than even the Sapphire Cup lmao
@@radladstudios yeah so it would be even better for new players have emerald cup replaced with ax cup and have emerald cup be unlocked after beating 3 novice or higher grand Prix and another new cup would be awesome as a switch exclusive
The in-game AX content unlocks are actually kind of a "backup" option. You're intended to use an actual AX arcade game to unlock the machines and AX cup, with the very late-game in-game unlock methods being just for if you don't have access to one. So if you wanted to unlock it early, all you had to do is locate an F-Zero AX arcade cabinet and play it once with each AX-"exclusive" machine.
@@VestedUTuber that makes sense for the original version but I'm talking about a switch version
@@FzeroVaporeon
If we were to somehow get a Switch version, it's most likely going to be an emulated port of the game with no changes. But we're not likely to get that.
1. Miyamoto went on record saying he hated F-Zero GX, that it played "too fast and hard", according to an IGN podcast. For someone who retired from being the company president and CEO, he still has a ton of say in the company.
2. Nintendo doesn't even actually have the source code for the game, SEGA has it. So unless Nintendo swallows their pride and asks SEGA to work with them again (something SEGA's gone on record saying they'd gladly do, but something Nintendo definitely has no intention of doing), a Switch-native port isn't going to happen.
3. F-Zero GX is EXTREMELY difficult to get running in an emulator. It took well over a decade to get it working properly in Dolphin and even then there's noticeable stutter whenever the game has to load from disk or a memory card and at race start, which isn't acceptable for a commercial release. Nintendo doesn't have the best track record with their own emulated ports, so there's no way they're going to be able to pull that off with GX.
It's Aero DIVE, not Aero DRIVE!
12:09 Tsk tsk tsk, Ya been playing for 20 years, and you still can't get the name right for shame my friend for shame.
I can't descirbe in words how much I hate Fire Field Undulation, literally harder than phantom road for me.
Cylinder Knot and Cylinder Wave coud eat shit for all I care. Is it due to a skill issue? Yes, but also fuck those tracks.
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Take this medal and wear it with honor
i won’t lie to you this list is really bad. trident doesn’t deserve to be that high considering it really offers nothing that makes f zero unique. it’s still a gx track, so it’s still miles above most other racing games best, but still. dragon slopes is amazing, ordeal is amazing, multiplex is amazing. much higher placings
Hot take they all S rank
godzilla earth WAY too low. unsubbed.