cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36568364

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58981190

Backstory

Before this game, I had not finished any racing games. I had not played any other Burnout games, and the only Need for Speed game I had played is Underground 2, which I got very close to finishing but ended up soft locked (due to trying to have a separate performance car and "decorative" car, and not allocating my money correctly to the point that I ran out).

That being said, I have finished many open-world, "movement"-based games as I will call them--games like Super Mario 64, Super Mario Odyssey, and even games like Batman: Arkham City and Sony's Spider-Man. I consider these games "movement"-based because unlike games like the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (which I am also a big fan of, and have finished many times), these games make moving around the open world itself feel good, satisfying, and a game within itself, if not the core gameplay.

I consider Burnout Paradise one of the best of these open-world, "movement"-based games. In my opinion, it should be up there with

This is likely the best open source port of a racing game. Plus, you can play it in your browser!

Anyone else out there (still) playing NFS ProStreet?

It's sort of my ultimate backup game - when I finish one playthrough, I just start another, so I always have one going, and if nothing else really grabs my attention or I'm just looking to kill a bit of time, that's what I play.

Hello, for context I have 76 hours in Burnout Paradise currently. I have achieved 100% on the main island, 100% on the bike DLC, and about 50% on the Big Surf Island. I learned today that to get 100% for Big Surf Island I need to do the multiplayer challenges, which I am not interested in and have no one to do them with. Should I give up on the 100% everything dream?

I’m considering getting these games. I’m more of a Need for Speed fan most of the time, but I’m looking for a game that is DRM free and that feels great to play and can run on most modern computers.

Thoughts?

I finally managed to nab some OEM controllers for my old Gamecube and to be honest, I only ever played arcade racers on the PS2 back in the day so this is some unexplored territory for me. I’ve heard the Gamecube framerate was uncapped so apparently game performance was better?

Any recommendations are welcome! I’m ganna indoctrinate my friends kiddos into racing games this way :P They’re like 3 and 4 so we’ll see how that goes.

This developer has created a great open source cross-platform wrapper for Need for Speed II SE, that allows it to run on modern x86 and amd64 hardware. Here is a short guide on how to play this amazing game using this wrapper.

Mount the NFSIISE CD-ROM

Note: I do not want to promote piracy in this community, as I feel this community is not a good place for that discussion.

My legal backup of my Need for Speed II SE CD-ROM was for some reason in bin/cue format, so here is how I managed to extract its contents:

On Windows, I used this open-source software called WinCDEmu. It allowed me to mount the bin/cue files and extract the contents.

On Linux, I extracted the contents in two steps. First, I ran this command to convert from bin/cue to ISO (bchunk is in my distribution's repositories):

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bchunk nfs2se.bin nfs2se.cue nfs2se.iso

  

Then, I opened my file manager (in my case, dolphin), and right clicked the ISO file to mount it.

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Mine was Formula 1 Simulator on the C16. I may have played others before then but this is the first I remember, and I played it loads.

An arcade racing game done well is simple: you are in a vehicle, and you want to go fast. The first hour of the game, or even the first ten minutes of the game, you get it--you move quickly through a handcrafted environment, with great movement and consequences for failure. It is the quintessential game when it comes to easy to learn, hard to master. And yet, there is nothing violent about it, or scary, or all that stressful (unless it's one of the more competitive or difficult ones, like Trackmania). It just feels good.

Open world arcade racing games especially feel like one of the only types of games where you can turn it on and just relax. Listen to music, enjoy the scenery, drive a fast car through a busy city, and zone out. There are a few other single-player games with a similar zone out feeling, but not many, and certainly not many as pure and fun as arcade racers.

For me: the Out Run OST. Everyone listens to and praises Nintendo OSTs or Square Enix, but Out Run is something else. I have rarely listened to video game music that catchy.