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If Nintendo only released one of these two games on Switch what game would you choose?
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That's a legit hard question. I've been itching for a new arcade snowboarding game, but Wave Race is dope...
Wave Race EASY. I always thought 1080 was boring. After SSX came out, it was a wrap for me. Wave Race on the other hand is one of my favorite pick up and play arcade games of all time.
Wave Race. That needs to come back, think of how good water rendering has become since the 90s hnnnnnnngggg.
Wave Race 64 is mechanically the best racing game ever made.
There is no contest for anyone who has mastered both of these.
There is no contest for anyone who has mastered both of these.
And yet to this day... Wave Race STILL has the best wave physics in a game.
Don't know any series much, but there's good jetski and such racers out there like Hydro Thunder Hurricane and Riptide GP playable on current-gen consoles, whereas there's nothing really worthy for snowboarding, so sign me up for 1080.
I assure you Wave Race destroys and current gen jetski racer
Avalanche was soooo good...
But waverace having some thunder storm course makes me wet too...
AHHH! THIS POST IS TEARING ME APPART!!!
But waverace having some thunder storm course makes me wet too...
AHHH! THIS POST IS TEARING ME APPART!!!
Quite possibly so. Was just wondering about what genre we need the most. There hasn't been a high quality arcade snowboarding game in a bit: Steep is awesome imho but more "boots to the ground" to borrow a Call Of Duty term, and even the SSX reboot, while fun, took a more realistic approach. We do have a couple quality water racing games though.
I don't know why, but I never cared for Wave Race 64 much. It was one of the only big N64 games I didn't love. That and Blast Corps. I tried, but it didn't do a lot for me, even though I like the genre to this day.
1080 Snowboarding was my cup of tea, though. I fell in love with that game, hard, and spent days playing it. So obviously 1080.
1080 Snowboarding was my cup of tea, though. I fell in love with that game, hard, and spent days playing it. So obviously 1080.
Guess I would say Wave Race. Played it a lot more than 1080, but I do want another 1080. Especially with no skateboarding games put, 1080 (or SSX) could kind of take THPS old spot and be the only game in town.
Wave Race though was one of my favorite N64 racing games. Really appreciated how much you could do with the jestskis and the water physics were really fucking good. You could feel them and learn to mitigate slow down and use them to your advantage.
Wave Race though was one of my favorite N64 racing games. Really appreciated how much you could do with the jestskis and the water physics were really fucking good. You could feel them and learn to mitigate slow down and use them to your advantage.
Wave Race, although after 20 years of waiting for a real sequel (come at me), you know also i'm kind of ok just leaving it be.
Wave Race 64 is virtually untouchable, i honestly doubt they have it in them to improve upon it. If they even did it themselves, instead of farming it out to someone. And i'm at the point where i literally don't want them to change a single thing about it, which you know they will. So i just keep playing 64 and it keeps on giving. Ran a whole bunch of time trials for www.speedrun.com/wr64 the past few months or so and had just as good a time as when it first came out. I encourage everyone who's a fan to submit a few times and pop in the WR64 Discord as well, a great bunch of guys there.
Wave Race 64 is virtually untouchable, i honestly doubt they have it in them to improve upon it. If they even did it themselves, instead of farming it out to someone. And i'm at the point where i literally don't want them to change a single thing about it, which you know they will. So i just keep playing 64 and it keeps on giving. Ran a whole bunch of time trials for www.speedrun.com/wr64 the past few months or so and had just as good a time as when it first came out. I encourage everyone who's a fan to submit a few times and pop in the WR64 Discord as well, a great bunch of guys there.
Agreed and I'll add one more thing.
While crude by today's standards, the game is still somehow one of the most timelessly beautiful in gaming history
Yeap. It's not just the visuals but the audio that makes the presentation beautiful too. It's like an arcade game with the way it seamlessly moves from attract sequence > menus > game > finish, time screen right through to the final results screen, that makes it feel like you're there and experiencing it like a true event. One of the benefits of no loading on cartridge back in the day.
We've been without new installments of both for way too long, but Wave Race wins out because its last entry is the furthest away (2001).
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