I miss the arcade-y feel of older racing games. Everything these days tries too hard to be a simulator, that they end up stripping the fun out of it. I want sparks to fly out of my tires when I drift even though they're rubber and wouldn't actually do that, I want wacky announcers with color commentary, I don't want to shift gears.

I want games like Ridge Racer and Need for Speed to make a comeback.

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit or Burnout: Paradise might be the closest to what you're looking for. They're both open-world games, but I don't think they really have that open-world filler that you see a lot of. They both got remastered releases in the last few years.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Hot pursuit is barely an open world game. There's never a point to find around in the open world, in fact most people might even miss that you can do that.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I loved Project Gotham Racing because it rode the line between arcade game and simulator quite nicely. I haven't seen anything like it since.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Mario kart is still a thing. I absolutely hate the not actually random item drops, though. Getting punished for being in the lead is lame.