'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

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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

markyb · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:24

Quake 3 Arena.

manoz · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:28

markyb said:
Quake 3 Arena.

think he meant racing games

other one Ilike but not on PC is F-Zero series, and yeah paying sim games after playing fast ones is just mundane. DiRT feels nice and fast when hugging corners and scraping trees. Can't remember if POD was a fast game or not.

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!

raz0rr · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:33

F-Zero GX.

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

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?

Azagoth · 29 Aug 2007 at 22:48

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

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?

HangTime · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:05

Quakeworld is pretty quick as far as FPS go, but if we are talking racers then I seem to remember Rollcage being pretty crazy. Played it on a LAN back in '99 and it was one of those games that actually gave me butterflies due to the feeling of speed and not feeling in control before stacking it into a wall.

About 8 years old now so not sure how it would run under XP/Vista. There's also a sequel, Rollcage II.

As a general note, I reckon one of the reasons why many racing games feel 'slow' is the typical camera angle from above+behind the car. You may find that switching to a cockpit/bumper view makes many games feel faster.

Darkwave · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:07

As HangTime said, Rollcage was an awesome racer and seemed extremely fast. Not to mention that it also had weapons!

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

manoz · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:13

geeza said:
Is it on PC or are there any videos for it?

It's nintendo property so not available on PC :[

Gamecubes are as cheap as chips though....

edit: Plus Burnout 2 on GC
(whole Burout series really)

markyb · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:16

manoz said:
think he meant racing games other one Ilike but not on PC is F-Zero series, and yeah paying sim games after playing fast ones is just mundane. DiRT feels nice and fast when hugging corners and scraping trees. Can't remember if POD was a fast game or not.

lol

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

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

HangTime · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:37

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

I may be wrong as it is many years since I played the demo, but I seem to remember SW Ep1 Racer had a shallower camera angle than standard road racers, because your craft is in the air. Or in other words, your view is (relatively) close on a vertical level to where the craft is, compared to when you have a car on the road and the camera is up above it.

Try playing a standard racer with a bumper cam and you (might) see what I mean

Chris [BEANS] · 29 Aug 2007 at 23:50

How is the thread this long with nobody mentioning Wipeout??

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

Kreeeee · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:05

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

oddjob62 · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:06

geeza said:
Ballistics

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

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)