Ridge Racer 8

[Dimahoo]

I hope Bugbear get paid.

[Mr. Pickle]

While it may be a splinter series now; it is obvious that if this makes a lorry load of dosh, this spin off version will become the de facto Ridge formula.

[Paulando]

You know what, I think Unbounded looks fucking brilliant. Not 40-quid brilliant, but £17.99-in-a-few-weeks brilliant. It looks fucking mental, and should never have been made, but that's kind of what is attracting me to it.

[Dimahoo]

I think it'll be as good a split second. I do have an issue with the fact all its tracks are from an inclusive editor though.

[Marlowe]

Never did like the direction Burnout went in after 2 with all the 'takedown' stuff, so I can't see myself liking this. If it's open world as well then that's another mark against it -- it just doesn't work for racing games.

[Dimahoo]

Its not open world. All tracks are made with an editor thats included with the game.

A racing game with an editor is almost instant win for me (esp. as its by Bugbear). But i'll only take it if i can elevate the roads properly (and not with ramps).

[Paulando]

I went to the cinema the other night and saw loads of incredibly over-the-top arcade racing games that we don't see enough of in the home. They looked brilliant.

We're up to our shitting eyeballs in sims and arcade sims, and while we do have Burnout (which has been a bit 'feh' of late) and Split/Second, there's plenty of room for another batshit mental racer. Bring it on, I say.

[Dimahoo]

Thing is, many arcade racers have no hook.

You've had powersliding, crashing, police chases, Spaceships, car chases, off road and Destrcution Derby. Oh and rally.

What we now need is Bike destruction and... people destruction.

And theres only two franchises that do those. Sadly one of them invovles EA.

PGR is meant to make its comeback soon though.

[MDY]

The advanced editor looks pretty damn comprehensive actually... Trackmania + Flatout madness pretty much..

[Dimahoo]

Woah. Edge really sold that short.

Even at worst it'll be as good as trackmania and we ain't got TM on the console. So thats a win.

I had faith in you Bugbear. I held your flag aloft thought thick and thin!

Screw Ridge Racer...this has fun written all over it.

[The Mighty Ash]

That video has sold this to me!

[MDY]

Perhaps it might have been an idea for them to show some of this footage earlier.. the game is out next week and there's no hype for it at all..

Will probably buy it based off this video now though...

[The Mighty Ash]

Stolen from Neogaf:

[joffocakes]

Woah. Best game ever.

[Dimahoo]

You'd think Bandai would have loaned them some money for an advert.

[MDY]

@ NeoGaf response to 'Why does this have to be a RR title?'

Exactly.

There is way too much new content in this game for it to be called Ridge Racer.

[Qazimod]

My opinion of this game keeps swinging back and forth between apathy and admiration. I'm kind of disappointed that it's more about explosions and destruction rather than classic circuit races and silly drifts, but then I see something like DAT EDITOR and I go all wibbly with excitement.

[The Mighty Ash]

At this point I have way more faith in Bugbear than Namco to deliver a racer I will enjoy.

[Dimahoo]

To be fair, RR aside Namco didn't half choose some poor devs to work with so its about time they chose someone good.

[Dimahoo]

Someone change the title to say "THE NEXT TRACKMANIA" or something...

[Gotters]

I've had this in opre-order for ages because of Bugbear, not it being ridge racer which I gave up on a long time ago.

Read in the past the editor is just a big jigsaw basically where you slide blocks into a pre defined grid, looks very easy to use and I think all courses in the game are designed using it, could result in UGC being a little generic but as long as the core game is fun its a cherry on the cake.

looking forward to this next week

[Dimahoo]

Theres two editors IIRC. A simples one and an advanced one. Plus 1 for the RR comment though - i am kinda in agreement about that one.

*edit*

ooh and its got trains.

[df0]

This is back on my to-watch list.

[Yewone]

This is back on my to-watch list.

Yep same here.. after the disappointment of NFS:The Run I'm in serious need of some quality arcade racing. Hopefully this will do the job.

[Yobo Ahoy]

Having seen the track editor video I'm certainly not as against it as I was a few months ago. Probably a cheapo pickup in a few months. I know I should ignore the RR tag, but it's just so hard... I want RR8 proper .

[SPE]

You all know that Ridge Racer Vita is, against all odds, really fucking awesome, yeah?

If you want a good Ridge, there's one available right now.

[mr_woo]

Ridge Racer on the Vita is ok but I can't say I'm as impressed with it as you are. So much so I haven't gone back to it since the Vita launch. I'm interested in this purely because of Bugbear who are a fucking awesome racing dev. If it had been developed by Namco I wouldn't have been as keen.

[Yewone]

Ive got it on Vita, but it just hasn't clicked (yet).. I think its the lack of an actual career mode thats put me off it, plus I cant tear myself away from Motorstorm RC.

[MDY]

Launch trailer:

[djbhammer]

Liking the look of this, quality trailer.