Last week, a soapbox on this very site voiced the opinion that Ridge Racer V is the best game ever, a viewpoint that perhaps only a select few people would agree with. However, it's made us ponder the question: which Ridge Racer game is the absolute best the franchise has to offer?
Namco may have neglected its arcade racing series in recent years, but there's no denying that, once upon a time, Ridge Racer was the franchise which would herald the start of a new hardware generation. The PlayStation port of the original coin-op arguably sold the masses on the power of Sony's 32-bit system, while the aforementioned Ridge Racer V kicked off the PS2's period of dominance. Later, Ridge Racers would become the PSP's killer app, and Ridge Racer 3D would accompany the 3DS when it arrived on the scene.
So, which of these titles is your absolute favourite? Vote in the poll below and be sure to leave a comment, too.
Comments (13)
Tough choice. Difficult to choose between Rage Racer, Ridge Racer 6 and 7 or Ridge Racers 1 and 2 on the PSP.
That’s a tough choice as I prefer the original to others where different gameplay elements got added the original is just a pure arcade racer but ridge racers 1 and 2 for psp are like a best of from everything that came before I went for the original as I still play it quite often and with a negcon it’s superb
I can’t say I’ve played them all but of the ones I have played R4 is my favorite by far.
This is one series I can honestly say have never played.
Rage and R4 were both real good on the PS1. I still dabble occasionally on my RG351 but my fav is R7 on ps3. Heck I'll fire up the old girl and give it a whirl. Also had good fun with R:Racing Evolution on the Ayn Odin Pro.
@Gs69 Damn, forgot about these they are real good too although I tend to go outrun 2006 on psp.
And this perfectly illustrates why the site redesign (which must have been implemented years ago now) was a complete disaster that the admins of this whole group of sites simply will not acknowledge.
I complained about it loudly at the time and continue to do so to the extent that the admins threatened to ban me if I kept doing so.
But how can you defend a site design than means readers simply never see articles that they would be interested in?
I never even saw this article at the time - although I would have loved to read it.
You will defend yourselves and you will get annoyed. The irony is you produce such amazing content across all your sites but this terrible design hampers your work.
And yes i’m sure you’ll tell me that I can click on X and then set filter to Y and then set the drop down box to Z and finally bookmark A and then I can see what I want.
But why the hell should I?
Sorry - I gave up moaning about it but frankly it is still rubbish all these years later.
I’m referring to the Ridge Racer V soapbox article.
It's R4 but 3D and V are very close behind.
@Muriustar yeah outrun 2006 is great it’s a miracle they got it running on the psp I still play that as well but I use my vita nowadays think my disc drive gave up on psp
I still play 3d quite a bit... Such a good game. I actually went with Unbound though. I thought it was just so fantastic and a cool change for the series.
Ridge Racer Type 4 was very impressive for a PS1 game but Ridge Racer V is just a better game
I can't say whether it's the best, but 3D is my favorite and the one I played the most. However, a lot of that is because there weren't many 3DS games available for a while after launch, and it was the best racing game on the console until Mario Kart 7 came along.
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