'fast' games

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:20

Ive recently started playing star wars pod racer again and I love games that are nice and fast and also fast to play. I hate racing games that it says you are going 100mph but in fact it feels like your driving along at 20mph through a big fat oil slick!

Games that Id count as being fast are the following

Hi-Octane (fantastic game, doesnt work on XP

)
Star Wars Pod Racer
Ballistics
Rallisport Challenge
Trackmania & Trackmania sunrise

Who else loves these types of games and are there any more you would recommend?

edit - forgot a couple

Flatout 2
Destruction Derby 1 & 2

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:29

manoz said:
Can't remember if POD was a fast game or not.

are yeh. I remember POD. My mate could run it with mmx and i couldnt. Was a great game from what i remember.

So was Megarace and megarace 2 if anyone remembers them. There was a crazy guy in the videos i think!

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:37

raz0rr said:
F-Zero GX.

So fast it'll make your eyes melt.
It's a damn good game too. Rock solid on Master difficulty too :/

Is it on PC or are there any videos for it?

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:50

Azagoth said:
Setting up a Reno style Air Race on FS9 used to be great fun.

sorry. i have no idea what that means. Whats a reno style air race and whats FS9?

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:07

nah, play ballistics or star wars racer and you'll see what i mean. Doesnt matter about camera angle at all.

Im trying to find my hi-octane cd but am having no luck at all, bet its long lost at home. No where i can even find a demo of it either to see if it works ok in dosbox

geeza · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:27

markyb said:
lol

I found Pod quite slow compaired with most other games. Screamer was a quick game, loads of fun. Ahhhh, they were the days.

are the days. Ive just found and installed rollcage demo and had a couple of games. Old games are way better than all this new rubbish like CM dirt, bioshock and WOW.

Just give me decent, easy to use internet play for old games such as star wars racer, blood and GTA and ill be more than happy. Starcraft is still one of the most popular online games and its years old

geeza · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:04

Chris [BEANS];9996714 said:
How is the thread this long with nobody mentioning Wipeout??

Are yeh crap, forgot about wipeout. I had it on pc but never got on with it and it seemed quite slow :confused:

Wasnt it suppose to be the fastest game ever or something, or Wipeout XL was on PS1

geeza · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:20

Kreeeee said:
StarCraft, it's the pace and balance that set it aside from any other dull RTS game in existence!

yeh ure right, all other RTS just seem slow really. Hard to explain but people know once they have played it a few times

oddjob62 said:
Damn that was a fast game, when you hit top speed... WOAH!!

When I first hovered and got the yellow boost thing it neally sent me into an epileptic fit. Almost as good as the 2012 olympic games video! (but not quite)

geeza · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:23

give me more games like this

(me on it a few minutes ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgq_Hk8Ihyc

geeza · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:32

Steedie said:
OMG HI-OCTANE!!!

Forgot all about that game, that must be coming on 10 years old now surely?

Immense game that was, absolutley loved it. So so so fun

1995 i think! Still got the box, cd and receipt somewhere at home. Looked really hard earlier for an image of it on the net but couldt find one (as i bought it in the first place)

Loked playing with that big round heavy ship

geeza · 30 Aug 2007 at 09:35

^ is that from a game? Those trees look like real

When i played flight simulator X demo it looked like crap

geeza · 31 Aug 2007 at 10:15

Moredhel said:
Lance Boyle!

I had Megarace on my 486, great game, and the cut scenes were very good for the time.

Wipeout 2097 is still the best racing game ever made though. Psygnosis published the fastest time they'd ever heard of as 18.1 seconds on the first track using the piranha sled. I hit 18.3 seconds using the same, so so close to their record.

Ths guy does it in 14.9 i think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1WSxNN4aU

Ive had a go and the keyboard control feel all clunky. You press a key and it does a massive sweep either left or right, do you know how to make it not do this?

geeza · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:21

How do you get the music to work on the PC version of Wipeout 2097? There seems to be no music and the cd isnt detected as an audio cd either.

Just completed the first track and came second, took me about 6 go's though

geeza · 2 Sep 2007 at 08:08

Ascendancy said:

Aparently it does. Download and install dosbox and insert these lines into the dosbox.conf file.

Code:

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=true
fullresolution=800x600
windowresolution=original
output=ddraw
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
usescancodes=false

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal3x

[cpu]
core=auto
cycles=max
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer] 

nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=50

[midi]

mpu401=intelligent
device=win32
config=

I've not tested it though.

Thanks. Im having difficulty finding the game though