So i woke up....and then it was evening..

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:17

Because i got ridge racer 6 in the mail! In my quest for climbing the points barrier (1100 and climing baby!) i immediately started on the world thingy mode. After an initial settling in period i adapted from PGR3 mastery mode to what can only be described as 'using joypad commands to complete challenges based on on-screen prompts' because RR6 is about as close to driving as slipping over on a cheese sandwich is to composing a symphony.

RR6 is fun tho, very fun infact. So i start winning races, every race, i move from point to point on the career board trying to fill each section completely before moving along to the next. By the time i have about 30% of it full i realise that i havent moved for 6 hours!

Gotta love gaming

Soulja · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:19

i never really played it much, i like it but i just wish they did a new rage racer instead

~J~ · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:25

I may buy/swap this after I've completed Full Auto. At first I was gonna get it, then changed my mind for COD2 (glad I did!), but I'm hearing lots of good things about RR6.

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:37

~J~ i should have it nailed in the near future, drop me a mail about a poss swap.

~J~ · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:48

OK mate, will do cheers for the heads up.

Ultra_Extreme · 22 Feb 2006 at 23:34

my god this games big, put in a solid 11hrs and probably had a 9:1 win ratio and stil didnt get that far, maybe 50% of the game.

McManicMan · 22 Feb 2006 at 23:49

i've just completed all basics (what you see when you 1st see the world map) and unlocked all the other tracks routes, taken 11 hours so far. So far finding it abit to easy and only had to redo 2 tracks attempts out of the 100odd so far and not using nitro charge boost option either. I know it'll get harder but yes its a very under-rated game and runs fantastic . The pacman car is a riot, lol

~J~ · 22 Feb 2006 at 23:54

Swinehog said:
The pacman car is a riot, lol

LOL! What PacMan car???

McManicMan · 23 Feb 2006 at 00:03

well its a spaceship, when you unlock the pacman game towards the end of the basic routes you have to play pacman game and get 15000 points (about 4 levels and very easy to achieve), once thats done you have to race against pacman on a cicuit in a duel race. Win and the car/spaceship is yours. Did it 1st attempt, just follow him round and use nitro's to keep up and on last lap try and build up your nitro to max level and blast past him on final bend/striaght before finish line.

Ultra_Extreme · 23 Feb 2006 at 00:06

hehe i geuss thats imminent for me, ive almost explored/raced all of basic, be a few more days before i can crack on with it again tho unless i wanna find myself single.

~J~ · 23 Feb 2006 at 00:11

Swinehog said:
well its a spaceship, when you unlock the pacman game towards the end of the basic routes you have to play pacman game and get 15000 points (about 4 levels and very easy to achieve), once thats done you have to race against pacman on a cicuit in a duel race. Win and the car/spaceship is yours. Did it 1st attempt, just follow him round and use nitro's to keep up and on last lap try and build up your nitro to max level and blast past him on final bend/striaght before finish line.

O cool! Sounds manic.

Ultra_Extreme · 23 Feb 2006 at 00:16

its not much like a racing game at all, this is so arcade that it makes full auto look like a hardcore sim. seriously it is THAT unrealistic, infact the only similarity it has to motorsport of any kind is that the vehicles raced (well except the spaceships) look similar tou real cars, but are not to be confused with anything that remotely obeys newtons laws.

Thats not to say it isnt great fun tho.

McManicMan · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:06

Ultra_Extreme said:
its not much like a racing game at all, this is so arcade that it makes full auto look like a hardcore sim. seriously it is THAT unrealistic, infact the only similarity it has to motorsport of any kind is that the vehicles raced (well except the spaceships) look similar tou real cars, but are not to be confused with anything that remotely obeys newtons laws.

Thats not to say it isnt great fun tho.

and thats what Ridge Racer has been all about except for the last RR on PS2 and xbox where they tried to make it more of a sim and failed. Its good to see them continue what they are best at and good to see its not just a Sony exclusive anymore. Just wish the wipeout series would follow namco's lead and release a wipeout game for xbox360.

Wyrdo · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:11

Swinehog said:
well its a spaceship, when you unlock the pacman game towards the end of the basic routes you have to play pacman game and get 15000 points (about 4 levels and very easy to achieve), once thats done you have to race against pacman on a cicuit in a duel race. Win and the car/spaceship is yours. Did it 1st attempt, just follow him round and use nitro's to keep up and on last lap try and build up your nitro to max level and blast past him on final bend/striaght before finish line.

Odd, I've unlocked a pacman car and didn't have to do that or is there another?

Smit · 23 Feb 2006 at 08:55

Still haven't got round to opening RR6

had it since the day it was released aswell

McManicMan · 23 Feb 2006 at 09:39

wyrdo said:
Odd, I've unlocked a pacman car and didn't have to do that or is there another?

if its a car its not the right one, if its a spaceship with pacman sitting in middle then thats the right one and its on one of the special routes, if you have that then there most be some other way of winning him just by doing career, i unlocked him straight after i unlocked pacman mini game and got the score required at end of basic routes

geordie10 · 23 Feb 2006 at 19:53

get on line with ridge racer6,its a great game when playing against other people.
you will have a lot of fun and make some great friends.
i have been on line with it nearly every night for the last two weeks.
its pure arcade and brilliant.
cheers ian.

Ultra_Extreme · 24 Feb 2006 at 00:14

i went online and it was really odd, all went about 4fps (literally) and everyone had disappeared after about 1/2 a second, was completely wierd and something i never wanna try again.

McManicMan · 24 Feb 2006 at 09:51

thats probably because of the bug and windows media connect with this game. If enabled you will get that slowdown. Goto the blade in the dashboard and disconnect the option for sharing with your PC. then try again. This worked for me and did a search and saw others with the same problem and it fixs it