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Favourite Arcade Driving/Racing Game series
| Need For Speed | 39% [13] |
| Burnout | 18% [6] |
| Ridge Racer | 6% [2] |
| Flat Out | 6% [2] |
| Other ( please specify in a post below ) | 30% [10] |
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I'll start the ball rolling and say I'd have to go with Ridge Racer
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- Apr 2, 2012 11:39 am GMT
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I like Modnation Racers, you can speed-race, drift, sideswipe and shoot weapons at people. :D- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Apr 2, 2012 6:49 pm GMT
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- Apr 3, 2012 8:53 am GMT
It's a close one between Need for Speed and Mario Kart. But since Mario Kart is not an option, I voted for Need for Speed.
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- Apr 3, 2012 10:52 am GMT
Have to go with Ridge Racer Unbounded (future) series. I love the new game! My favorite arcade racer of all time. Burnout was always one of my favorites, but the whole premise has been upped with Unbounded!
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- Apr 3, 2012 3:55 pm GMT
Midtown Madness or Need for Speed.
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- Apr 6, 2012 6:54 pm GMT
Gran Turismo 5
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- Apr 8, 2012 8:30 am GMT
Phht, you damned kids and your Need for Speeds and your Gran Turismos!.. but in all seriousness, the lack of titles actually stemming from arcades is kind of sad.
I am stupidly fond of Virtua Racing, favoring the 32x version most of all. Technically the Saturn version has more stuff but the menus are awful and the added tracks have some bizarre collision problems. Crash on the left side of a divided tunnel and it'll drag you through the wall and reset you onto the right-hand lane. Also, blue mystery cubes. Do not reason why they are there.
Also, I like Hard Drivin'. The full cabinets were awesome. Sure, the controls bit any misstep resulted in the car bursting into flames, but it had three-dee cows and the stunt-track loop. Usually the car'd drop off the apex and explode but that's realism for you.
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- Apr 15, 2012 3:16 pm GMT
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 and FUEL. Both were judged pretty harshly by critics, but I think they're both fine examples of sandbox racing, much more so than Burnout Paradise. The driving model of TDU2 is really sweet, as well.
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- Hydro Thunder, definitely.
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- Apr 30, 2012 5:44 pm GMTI voted for Need For Speed, but I also like Burnout, ModNation Racers and Mario Kart. Also I want to give Ridge Racer a try. Honorble mention for Race Driver: GRID.
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- May 8, 2012 4:09 am GMT
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I would agree in its day Midtown Madness had to be one of the best. I pretty much agree with all your posts about the Need for Speed series as I feel the one I have logged the most hours in has to be Need for Speed Most Wanted Black Edition. This game has found it's way back onto my PC several times. A couple of more titles, that deserve recognition:
- Grid
- Flatout 1,2 (the last one is absolute crap)
- Dirt (1,2,3 all great games)
- Midnight Club 2 (This game was so fast!)
- Split Second (Eye candy)
- Burnout Paradise (Destructive goodness!)
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- May 14, 2012 12:17 pm GMTF-Zero is my favorite racing series of any type by far.
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- May 15, 2012 1:16 pm GMTi prefer Need for Speed. I've been playing them and I do enjoy a lot.
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- May 30, 2012 3:50 am GMT
i like NFS , burnout takedown & paradise both
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About the only arcade racer I've played is Motorstorm Pacific Rift and I had a ton of fun with that.
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- Jun 7, 2012 5:13 pm GMTHands down, the Formula 1 franchise from Codemaster. Best racing game ever. Also GRID and FORZA 4 are in there too.
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- Jun 15, 2012 12:49 pm GMTNeed for speed and Ridge racer
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- Jul 27, 2012 3:34 pm GMT
I would go with Flatout (lots and lots of fun) and of course Need for Speed series.
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