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futuristic racing games are usually either "pointy rockets go very fast" or "literally just Mad Max" but what I want is something that envisions a sci-fi street racing/tuning subculture and really goes the extra mile to fill out the setting
if Wipeout is the slick high-tech international racing event, show me what bored teens in that universe get up to with modded hoversleds and several miles of disused canal network
This is sort of the direction Ridge Racer was leaning in, and there's a game on Steam called Xenon Racer that's more of a "grounded" future-racer. Not quite as gritty as I think you're describing, though.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/899390/Xenon_Racer/
(I also did not find the controls in Xenon Racer to be to my liking.)
Oof... yeah, sounds like a lot of people were having similar problems. Shame.
Inertial Drift is basically Initial D but.. slightly into da future. I like the controls a lot—you steer with the left stick and drift with the right stick, and every car handles pretty differently.
I thought the cars having no collision was weird at first (it's explained in-story as a car safety feature from da future. you can still bump into walls though), but the game leans more towards Leaderboards than anything else
i have had a lot of similar thoughts and in my head it looks like pod racers or sparrows from destiny and i’ve been dying to make that game haha
yeah! ever since I ran across the N64 pod racing game I’ve wanted to do something in that vein with a modern engine—you could make it look so good. main obstacle to this is that I don’t play racing games and don’t know the first thing about the mechanics, so I guess what I really want to do is the graphics for somebody else’s racing game.
Surprised Episode 1 Pod Racer didn't get a modern remake because the main character is a bored teen with modded hoversleds
