Were Racing Games Good Before the PS2 Era?

[qw90700]

Again, not alot of people played the game back in the day because it wasn't released outside of Japan. My god what even is this essay?

Okay. I'll just write "you are so wrong" and call it a day lol.

I guess people who know Japanese are not people and there are not many Japanese-speaking people as if Japanese is so rare it's like some random African village's language not many people knows. Yeah, only like 7 people played Racing Lagoon in Japanese. If it had released in English it would be popular, not because it's a great rich street racing RPG shaked the gamer world so people made it popular but just because people can understand it as if everyone knows English and they absolutely doesn't ignore playing games when it's not translated to their native language and people absolutely doesn't learn English and Japanese to play games.

We also didn't play Tsubasa in Japanese too on our NES because there is no way we would. We also didn't bother learning English to play games too. If games had to be translated to our native language video game industry couldn't exist. Imagine people doesn't even learn English just to play games and I can assure you due to my native language learning Japanese was way easier for me and people in my country would at least prefer to play the game in Japanese, not English due to way how different our native language is compared to English and this is why translating games important so you cannot just translate games to English and expect people to play it.

But yeah you are right. You are like Einstein wow. You bend space-time with your wisdom lol. We should clone you so you will be our eternal prophet solving world problems wow wow wow. Carry on lol.

I hope this 1,60 KB text that's way less than what 2nd grade kids has to read in 5 minutes of their class is "low" enough for your mind to comprehend because 1 minute to read text shouldn't be too much for you lol. Blame your beloved English if concepts takes too long to write, and blame yourself it's too much for you because it's a "you problem" lol.

 

[Tortuga]

Again, not alot of people played the game back in the day because it wasn't released outside of Japan. My god what even is this essay?

Again it has nothing to do with the quality of the game

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Again it has nothing to do with the quality of the game.

I don't get the whole "it's Japan exclusive therefore its intrinsic qualities are null" argument honestly.

Yes the game that never released outside of Japan was "peak".

Again, not alot of people played the game back in the day because it wasn't released outside of Japan. My god what even is this essay?

I'll tell you something:

Regardless if it hasn't released outside of Japan nor that many played the game if a game is good it's good.

It's not popularity that defines quality per se. You get great gems that never released overseas that get a peak of interest when a youtuber talks about it or when you get to see it re-released for good in the west.

I remember how good Back to the Future Part 2 on the Super Famicom is compared to the mediocrity we got on the NES and Master System.

I also know how F-zero Climax may be the quintessential "2.5D style" F-zero game next to the SNES game.

We cannot ignore the actual quality of a product even if most haven't experienced it.

 

[PlayerJuan]

"Let's go Mr Driver!" - which is a nice segue into...

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

I would say that yeah, we had a glut of good racing games before the PS2 came out. You can have your opinions though, not everyone is gonna have this kind of knowledge for every aspect of retro gaming. But people tend to overlook a lot of the classics, shit like micro machines and the sort