Funny thing about that, which is hard for me to link to a video of cause comments and links don’t mix for whatever reason.
If you look up footage of Daytona Championship USA, it becomes immediately clear that that game’s version of Daytona International Speedway is actually the old Pocono-esque Three Seven Speedway… Read more
Adam Ismail
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik. 2017 Fiesta ST. Wishes NASCAR was more like Daytona USA.
You’re pandering to me
And it’s working
It is! All the previous radio stations are there, including my fave, Hospital Records
You played Ridge Racer Full Scale!!! Read more
You can select any car in the game in the debug mode. The Mitsubishi is in the image at the top, but in the embedded video, the player chose a Corolla rally car.
*for racing games, on a console. Netlink Daytona CCE and Sega Rally might have let you do that, but it was really, really rare. Among all the DC’s racing games, Speed Devils and Daytona 2001 are the only ones I recall having that feature.
I had a thought about the 300 and Challenger, but they get a little bit of a pass because at least they’re pretty singular? Not that I’m a huge fan of either, but there’s nothing out there that really looks like them. They’re iconic at this point, for better or worse. The Q50, to me, could be confused with a range of… Read more
I support your fondness for it, I really do, but IMO the first Sega GT is Sega’s worst racer and it isn’t even close. That handling! It deserved so much better.
I had intended this to be a strictly non-factual slideshow Read more
You’re speaking my language!
You’re certainly not alone in that assessment, and I suspect the PS4 version will carry a lot of similarities to Sport. So will the PS5 one of course, but at least the PS5 version will hopefully take advantage of some of what that system can do. Read more
The always online element is frustrating, but unfortunately par for the course these days. As for the antique prices, I think the conversion between western and Japanese releases in credit amounts is 100x. So that Supra would be like 914,730 Cr., which isn’t horrible, but I get what you mean. That said, remember that… Read more
As a new sports franchise too, it can take a few years to get up to speed. The first games are never standout. I don’t think Codies’ F1 output really got kicking until F1 2013? Read more
I will tell you, people are raving about the pad handling this year. I didn’t mention it because it feels much the same to me as WRC 9 did, though I have no complaints.
Numbers, I’m bad at them. Thanks.
As a whole, the series has been very solid. I think the trouble is, especially with these annual franchises, once you hit a wall of not being able to improve, or adding gimmicks or modes rather than addressing the problems that are still there, it begins to feel like a step back. That was F1 for me this year too. Read more
Yup, the best part is I took note of the spelling and still found a way to fuck it up. I’m blaming my MacBook’s busted keyboard, even if it doesn’t deserve it. Because it still kind of does. It always does.
It was an awesome game, wasn’t? The original Sega GT I think was really poor, but 2002 and Online had such an inspired car roster, with vehicles you just don’t see in many games anymore.
So did some more digging after reading this, and glad you brought it to my attention. Japanese Nostalgic Car references WRC involvement, but you’re right — there’s no hard evidence to suggest that’s where Nissan’s head was at. Sincere apologies for getting that wrong, the story has been updated. I do wonder if there… Read more
Actually, it seems T10 expanded the Car Pass (that is also included with the Ultimate Edition) to cover all nine paid car packs released for the game, past the original six they had promised. Normally though, yeah, the Car Pass only covers some of the packs.