Yeah but where are you going to drive a real car 150mph, crash into another car, and live to tell about it? That's like telling people who like sports games to play sports in real life instead. I'm never going to know what it's like to drift around a corner in a Skyline R32 in real life, so playing something like Kaido Battle is about 5 bajillion times better than Rad Racer (sorry Steve!) since I've never had the desire to race a blocky ferrari down a choppy scrolling road while avoiding sign posts and badly scaling cars in a genre that couldn't evolve past Pole Position until 3D became feasable.
Hahahaahhaaa! No, no, I was never saying that Rad Racer is gonna be able to deliver those thrills you were describing
. I was just saying that Rad Racer is still a blast to play (gets *my* blood pumpin'), but Rad Racer certainly isn't the same experience as a photo-realistic 3D game with an attention to physics.
Here's a question: what (if any) are the modern equivalents to the old-skool 2D rail shooters like Space Harrier? Besides Panzer Dragoon, of course
.
Not surprisingly, I still love the 2D rail shooters, but they suffer from all the problems that GUTS mentioned, and I was wondering if this was a dead genre now, or if they're were some contemporary games in the genre. I consider anything from Saturn onward to be "modern" and "contemporary" (this helps explain my perspective, doesn't it
?), so feel free to list any relevant game.
