now THIS is pod racing
At least they finally showed more environments than “flat desert junkyard”, and some jumps.
Submitted 19 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBc-kbL-Ic
now THIS is pod racing
At least they finally showed more environments than “flat desert junkyard”, and some jumps.
I literally don’t care that it’s star wars.
I’m just happy to see AG racing still be alive.
WipEout and F-Zero are gone, seemingly never to return.
What is AG?
It stands for Anti-Gravity. In the late 90s and early 00s, it was somewhat of a niche genre. Basically it was a racing game where your ride didn’t have wheels.
Prequel movie interest or opinion doesn’t matter, the first game on N64/Dreamcast/PC was incredible regardless. I replayed recently and it’s still good. Love the damage model/repairing and being able to buy used parts from the junkyard, and maybe controversial but I vastly prefer Racer handling and course design to Wipeout.
I didn’t watch the Disney stuff at all and won’t, potentially this scratches the same itch. I hope so anyways. I couldn’t get into the PS2 sequel so it’s possible to disappoint.
Yes, the question is: it’s just another Wipeout ripoff or something new?
You should check out Redout then!
I have.
But Redout isn’t big enough to bring a lot new AG players in.
This, by virtue of having a budget behind it, and hence marketing, will.
And that’s the kind of thing that keeps the genre alive. BNG is fantastic, but it’s mostly being enjoyed by people who got into the genre through WipEout.
I just bought the restored wipeout on my ps5…felt like home
Wow. Burnout: Galactic Racer is looking kinda sick.
Ah, shades of Cyberspeed!
Graphics look okay, but the handling of the pods looks clunky.
That’s what I thought. Looks like something children will enjoy. I’m not ready to take it off my wishlist but I almost did.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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