Starved Arcade Racer Fans Might Want to See Fatal Run 2089, Coming to PS5, PS4 This Fall

I'm loving the look of this and love these types of games in general.

Cruis'n Blast on Switch was the last game like this I really enjoyed.

Doesn't look to bad, but all that story crap in an arcade game breaks the flow. Arcade racing is all about the racing.

@SMJ "Cruuuuuuiisin" loved that on Switch, ive wishlisted this Fatal Run 2089, hope its good 👍

The title reminded me vaguely of Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 on PS1

My god, do I miss games like this.

Shows part roads, part sci-fi, fair amount of dialogue, not a lot to go on here. It is too unclear and it's probably a boring arcade racer.

Inspiration does not equal enough of what those had of content, event variety, charm, control, etc. Something I find MANY racing games or platformers that are 'inspired' lack. Onrush as a successor had more depth in event type variety then most racing games 1-2 and being barely different of rules at all. Multiplayer first it was the singleplayer I found fun, awkward at times sure but still, most others are just eh low effort or 'other priorities' design and I don't care for them.

Inertial Drift/Distance are great but everything else I've seen is rather boring, have style sure but substance, no.

I'll stick to old era ones or Crusi'n Blast (don't have yet) or anti grav racers, or any decent kart racers that aren't bland or something.

To be honest, Project Car Racing was so pathetic I was just disappointed. Is it good in ways yes, the progression/region system focus is great, like Ride 4 but different. But it's still REALISM and esports focused so to me the racing genre is bland and boring.

Even Wreckfest 2 will be 'look we did more with the physics and barely anything to the core of the game being racing/derbies and vehicle types for 1 event, for 20 hours, and change nothing but make a bland racing game with the safest game design we third parties of any budget can make because who wants more modes/event variety or creativity just blandness. Wrecreation better be good, for a creative title, player made or otherwise, it needs a lot or else a creative project like that just makes the racing genre look even more like a joke. It'd be like going we made Dreams but made it the most uncreative project ever, it would make me laugh so hard at the wasted potential.

Behaviour's concept art real cars, scifi worlds or anything else mechanically interesting that doesn't offer 6th gen levels of creativity are just non existent in the racing space it's just whatever Indies do that's on occasion arcade good, motorsport fanatics Indies without the licensing but you can tell they'd want it to or sims but take too seriously games and it's just a boring genre.

100% exactly my kind of dumb.

@SuntannedDuck2 no licensing used to be a good thing, because car manufacturers were so scared to let their vehicles take visible damage. I don't care if my games are indie or not, so I don't get that complaint.
But yeah most of the time I'm playing 6th gen racers on my Retroid. For me, "festival" atmosphere and hello fellow teens energy of EA etc trying to capture racing culture is the worst part of big racers these days.

@LikelySatan Well yeah, but to me it made sense not just for licensing out or damage models (and how companies would be particular with license agreements of damage model impressions/reputation which I get why, or street culture or all sorts of things they are particular about these days then the past not just because of hundreds of models to do damage models for either as doing 200 to 800 is a lot and probably not enough disk space either) but also more focus on gameplay. You had Burnout (yes EA games shown), Flatout, Supercar Street Challenge and more doing great with their gameplay ideas.

Forza Motorsport 1 has fair wall paint markings if the player or opponents do so, not later games for I assume yeah licensing or doing it for every car is a lot of work too.

Sure you had GT, Forza, Sega GT, Enthusia, and more doing great too but of course licensed cars, sponsors, etc.

I never cared for festival culture stuff in these open world games either. That or the missions or progression never appealed to me either. I played 2/3 of Carbon months ago and was impressed, understood Undercover's issues and so on. So I am making my way through IPs I missed out on of open worlds and arcade racers or sims from the era of consoles (PC ones maybe later).

I don't mind anti grav or kart racers if they are good too.

I am fine with motorsport it's just how they present them just are so eh these days compared to older ones, I can enjoy the motorsports aspects, progression and the gameplay mechanics or differences. Not oh it's insert car here.

@SuntannedDuck2 I'm playing Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2, OFC), and man, just focusing on the basics w a manual transmission and pro steering feels great and refreshing. It's a map w a bunch of events, and it's not cloying. Hard as nails at points, and those top speed vehicles go real fast, lol.
I definitely feel like we lost a lot after gen 6.

I don't really get what you mean when you say "in the absence of games like Burnout and Ridge Racer" when there are Burnout games available for PS4 and PS5, and every single Ridge Racer game available on both of them too including the handheld ones. Even the best one, Ridge Racer Type 4