Ridge Racer Has Been Unbounded

whaaat

ridge racer? are you okay? are you still there!?

if you could drive through walls and shit when you feel like it, this game and i could get along

All these racing coming out are complete copies of Burnout Paradise. Please someone have an original idea.

@AjayRaz said:

if you could drive through walls and shit when you feel like it, this game and i could get along

I think it's power-up based, but there should be a lot of that kind of stuff going on.

@X19 said:

All these racing coming out are complete copies of Burnout Paradise. Please someone have an original idea.

I'm perfectly okay with there being more Burnout Paradise.

Wasn't interested at all until I hear the Flatout guys are working on it.

Hope is high for more Dummy Sports

needs more wobble bass!

Wow... that's some cheap looking tat right there. Which also appears to have fuck all to do with the trailer they released months ago?

@AjayRaz said:

@Zaccheus: power-up based seems fine, but if you can drive through any wall, and not just specific, designated walls on a track, that would be pretty cool.

That would also be game breaking. I guess the amount of possible walls could be high but any wall is obviously not possible.

Didn't Flatout come before Burnout Revenge? If so it's not really fair calling it  Burnout Revenge  since you know the devs making this made that. But I have only played 2 and don't know if the destruction is on the same scale as the original... :/

@pyromaster222 said:

ridge racer? are you okay? are you still there!?

Please, call me Flatout.

As someone who has been an avid player of every Burnout game, I'm very skeptical that this will work. First of all, I literally can't imagine playing Burnout Revenge (which is basically what that trailer showed us) with cars that handle like that. That being said...

Unlike Burnout, these cars must have weight to them. The player needs to have precise control over them, and heavier cars will help with that. Otherwise, every time another car gets into you you're forced into doing a 180. Heck, they only showed someone getting taken down when going into the same turn twice. What happens when I bumping with someone down a straight? Or... not that turn?

@Abendlaender said:

Wasn't interested at all until I hear the Flatout guys are working on it.

Same here, I would have never thought Id be exited for a Ridge Racer game. Until now.

I thought the rule is that Ridge Racer is only allowed to be a launch title and has to be abandoned when a real racing game comes out.

To me this looks way more fun than Ridge Racer ever was, then again, I loved Flatout 2. People I've talked to haven't liked the recent Ridge Racer games anyway, saying the series was getting stagnant. I think it's better to do something crazy like this than let the series fade into oblivion.

okay. now i'm interested.

"What happens when Ridge Racer is Unbound? Apparently, it becomes Burnout Revenge."
 
Well, technically, with the shortcuts through all the buildings, it's Burnout Revenge meets San Francisco Rush. AKA; the GREATEST RACING GAME EVER:) It's nice to get excited for a Ridge Racer again. I'm tired of it being relegated to "that racing game that shows up for hardware launches, but then is promptly forgotten". I'm also glad all racing games are gunning for Burnout's throne, because Paradise ruined the franchise. Open Worlds=weaker racing games. Split/Second was the best racing game of last year, easily. I have a feeling Ridge Racer Unbounded could be that game this year...I just hope Bugbear doesn't skimp on the style and controls. If it doesn't look more like Ridge Racer (stylized, colorful, clean cities and streaky tail lights) and play more like it (Flatout had sh** controls; stupid "realistic", heavy, phsyics-y controls), this won't be the game it should be.

All these racing coming out are complete copies of Burnout Paradise. Please someone have an original idea.

@X19 said:

All these racing coming out are complete copies of Burnout Paradise. Please someone have an original idea.

More like copies of Carmageddon and Stunts, but without the fun parts. But I suppose that's what they used to call copy degradation.

This doesn't look so hot.

Bugbear makes great Arcade Racers. The whole angle with destructible environments...
 
LOVE IT!

Game looks terrible... Nothing will unseat Burnout Paradise at this point in the generation

Wow, unlicensed cars, cities loosely based on real-world locations, crazy crashes... I guess if you're gonna copy a game, you might as well copy one of the best.

I never thought the day would come when Ridge Racer would look nothing like Ridge Racer. It was starting to become the racing version of Dynasty Warriors.

I'm definitely anxious to see what becomes of this.

Im sorry I dont know what to think of this trailer. and seeing unbounded at the end of the trailer just reminds me of what a god awful name this game is called.

Remember San Francisco RUSH? I do.

Burnout Revenge is a friend of mine. This sir is no Burnout Revenge. 
 
At least the one on 360.  Revenge was on PS2 as well, right? Because Revenge 360's car models , wrecks, and explosions all looked better than this game. With a smoother framerate by far. I realize RRU isnt out until 2012, but lord, why even release a trailer this bad so soon if the visuals are to be improved?
 
Makes me sad too because I have considered Burnout to be a AAA franchise since part 2 was an awesome surprise, then Takedown floored me. Revenge was awesome but Paradise was pretty lame. (No real crash mode, and the open map were not good IMO.) Since Burnout Crash Arcade looks like garbage, and no new Burnout game coming anytime soon, I would totally be willing  to buy a fucking RR game  (a series I have had ZERO interest towards after the original on PSOne) if they could ripoff Burnout successfully.

This looks a lot more like Flatout than it does Burnout, which isn't surprising considering the developer.

Ridge Racer was great because it was bat shit insane power sliding in bumper cars. These cars blow up which is the equivalent of adding tampon commercials to the middle of an MMA fight.

This trailer makes it look like a cross between Burnout, Micro Machines & Inception.

Three things I really like, but don't want to see together.

Bugbear makes great Arcade Racers. The whole angle with destructible environments...  LOVE IT!

Did this remind anyone of 'Inception' in one way or another with all the building-flipping going on?

Apparently the JPMorgan Chase commercial people are getting work in game trailers...

English isn't my native language, but the word "unbounded" sounds wrong in my head. 
Shouldn't it be Ridge Racer: Unbound or something like that? 
 
Anyway, game looks pretty fun, but a tad on the generic side, it feels like a game I have played a few times before. 
The Flatout guys always make decent games though, so i'll keep this one on my radar.

BurnoutXFlatOutXTrackmania? The more kings they come at, the bigger the chance they'll miss.

Did this remind anyone of 'Inception' in one way or another with all the building-flipping going on?

As a Ridge Racer and Burnout fan i am not at all excited about this game. Its trying to hard to be like everyone else, Ridge Racer was always its own thing and thats what made it Ridge Racer. What sort of name is Unbounded anyway? Did they just use a random word generator to come up with it?

Marginally interested.

Love Burnout series. But Ridge Racer as Burnout? Well, we'll see about that

Yep, that's Burnout alright.

Either the cities they showed weren't made with the creation tools, or I fear for the download times. Very intricate looking.

                Burnout Revenge is a friend of mine. This sir is no Burnout Revenge.   At least the one on 360.  Revenge was on PS2 as well, right? Because Revenge 360's car models , wrecks, and explosions all looked better than this game. With a smoother framerate by far. I realize RRU isnt out until 2012, but lord, why even release a trailer this bad so soon if the visuals are to be improved?  Makes me sad too because I have considered Burnout to be a AAA franchise since part 2 was an awesome surprise, then Takedown floored me. Revenge was awesome but Paradise was pretty lame. (No real crash mode, and the open map were not good IMO.) Since Burnout Crash Arcade looks like garbage, and no new Burnout game coming anytime soon, I would totally be willing  to buy a fucking RR game  (a series I have had ZERO interest towards after the original on PSOne) if they could ripoff Burnout successfully.
           

@sparks50 said:

@pyromaster222 said:

ridge racer? are you okay? are you still there!?

Please, call me Flatout.

THE POWER OF CHRIST OF COMPELS YOU!

They must have used really low quality materials when constructing those buildings.

So it's basically Burnout. That's totally OK with me. Hell, this is actually the first time I've been even remotely interested in a RR title since the PS2 days. I can only hope they don't do something silly like make it Burnout Paradise-style open world, though. That was the real low point of the series for me.

Namco... you need to go.. deeper.