Favorite Racing Game

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Yeah, that blue shell is annoying, but the series is really great.

Yes! Imagine F-Zero on 3DS


Those two were also great fun. Excitebike was my first racing game. It was for NES, but I lost it when I let a moron borrow it. Never got it back. I got hold of a copy when it was released for Gameboy Advance, and it's never going anywhere.

my faves recently are Mario Kart 7 and 8, really nice games and they are pretty fun. Wipeout is also amazing and Sony really needs to get this going on PS4, Wipeout HD was great and imo should've got Evolution to make that instead of another real-car racer.

Mario Kart
Motorstorm
Wipeout

My favorite racing game is, by far, Stunts. They never made a sequel to this game though, and thus it does not qualify as a game series.

I would go with Road Rash as my favorite racing game (if its count but it's more like a combat racing game). I also like Excite Bike, F-Zero, and Motocross Mania.

Maybe Nintendo thinks the online-racing(which would probably be mandatory) would be too competitive and/or wouldn't run very smoothly since it's arguably the fastest racing series ever along with having 30 characters on the track at the same time.

Maybe...

For those of us who never use the online option at all, it's a real pity it counts for so much, if that's the reason.

For me its the grand turismo series.Ive had most of them and still have 1 and 2.Ive tried a lot of others but you cant beat the realism of gt,i just dont like what they did with some of the things in gt6 but its still good.

For me it is the Gran Turismo and Need for Speed series. I have GT 1-5 and enjoy them all. Hoping that I'll get GT6 sometime. I also really enjoy the Need For Speed series, though I tend to enjoy the Hot Pursuit games the most.

Favorite series is probably Mario Kart, or Road Rash, or OutRun...hard to decide. I'm not really into racing games much, and I'm not very good at them, but I like those ones.

I also really like Carmageddon, but I don't like the sequels (haven't tried the brand new one yet), although the actual racing itself is a little bland, and the AI is pretty terrible.

Well Nintendo have been quoted as saying (I'm paraphrasing here) that they don't like to include characters in Smash Bros. who aren't expecting new games, and they keep including F-Zero...also, they've shown up in Mario Kart recently, and I think also Nintendo Land?

^ Guess there's still hope then!

I do not play racing games, but I loved playing the N64 version of Mario Kart. One of the stages had ice for the track and if you skid on it, you went into the freezing water.

The Battle Mode is ace. You have to burst all of your opponent's balloons using fake item pick-ups, banana skins, red shells and green shells. It reminds me of a retro classic on the NES called Balloon Fight where you have to pop your opponent's balloons and the stages get increasingly more difficult. There was a big fish in the water and other obstacles, so you had to be careful.

As far as Smash Bros goes, Sakurai has explicitly stated that the original Smash Dozen will ALWAYS be on the roster and F-Zero's Captain Falcon is one of the 12 ( unfortunately so is Jigglypuff.... ). I do hope the F-Zero
attraction in Nintendo Land and the Mute City course in Mario Kart 8 ( not to mention the Blue Falcon kart and Captain Falcon Mii outfit from the Amiibo ) mean they're at least considering a new F-Zero. Last I heard they didn't want to do one unless they can incorporate something completely new ( IE lame gimmick that could ruin the series... ), which could be solved if they can figure out how to get a full 30 racer grid to work in online multiplayer ( I'm not a multiplayer guy, but it would be an awesome feature )

Does anyone find as they play a racing game that they're sort of thinking of the car's momentum and how the weight transfers? It seems like as I'm playing rFactor I'm very conscious of this, I don't experience it in a real way, but somehow I'm as aware of it as I am when driving a real car.

^i do all the time when playing gt6.I feel that it is an key aspect of keeping control of the car.I try to transfer the weight right before the turn to give me the right angle to go into the apex.Its a key component of navigating multiple corners.
Just talking about it makes me want to play