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Ridge Racer Fans Show Hatred For Series Reboot

Recently Namco have released trailer for the all-new Ridge Racer game, Ridge Racer: Unbounded.
What do long time fans of the series think about it?, You only need to check out the facebook page to find out.

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Surfaced4821d ago

wait... there are RR fans in 2011?

killcycle4821d ago

Get your head out your mediocre ass.
Ridge Racer is unique

evrfighter4821d ago

that's great and all but ridge racer fans didn't keep it from fading into obscurity.

They have no right to whine and moan.

ComboBreaker4820d ago (Edited 4820d ago )

Every the Ridge Racer after Type 4 failed to capture the Ridge Racer essence and ended up being a typical racer.

The essense of Ridge Racer Type 4...

It was about adrenaline-pumping racing through beautiful zen-like sceneries with god-like control over your car through the mastery of the game's drifting and griping techniques while beautiful music plays in the background.

For example, getting up very early in the morning to race on that misty track while listening to beautfil background music. Or racing deep into the night, on a track surrounded by beautiful street lights wtih fireworks shooting in the distance.

Ridge Racer Type 4 wasn't just a racing game. It was an experience, something that other Ridge Racer failed to reproduced.

And now, Ridge Racer Reboot is just going to be another typical cliche Burn Out racer.

And what did they do to Reiko Nagase? They have turned her into some Chinese tramp who walks like there's something stuck up her ass. What happen to the beautiful Japanese goddes in Ridge Racer Type 4?

Namco have fallen so far.

killcycle4820d ago

@ Combobreaker

I could not agree more. Well said man.. well said

They're are rebooting Ace Combat too.. changing the aspects of the game.

I think Namco are starting to care a little less about the originality of their games and are instead caring about their pockets.

toaster4821d ago (Edited 4821d ago )

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII DGE RACER!!

Gen0ne4821d ago (Edited 4821d ago )

I'll jump on the hate train as well. Not feelin' it. At all.

McMee4821d ago

im no die hard RR fan but this just doesn't seem right to me, wrong move imo

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 – DSR Enabled

FanBolt writes: "I recently got my hands on the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and have immediately fallen in love with the quality of this card. But the feature I’ve enjoyed playing around with the most is the new DSR setting."

2pacalypsenow3462d ago (Edited 3462d ago )

Is dSr only on the 900 series gpu?

Vegamyster3462d ago

I believe it's availible for the either the 400 or 500 series onward.

2pacalypsenow3462d ago

I have a 780 how do I enable it?

Vegamyster3462d ago

@2pacalypsenow

It should be a setting in your GeForce Experience panel.

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starchild3462d ago (Edited 3462d ago )

Go into the Nvidia control panel under Manage 3D Settings and on the global settings tab a little ways down you will find the "DSR-Factors" and "DSR-Smoothness" settings. These settings dictate the rendering resolution that is downsampled from and the sharpness/blurriness of the gaussian filter that is applied during the downsampling.

I think it is a really amazing feature. It's easy to use and it works very well. It's like having SSAA as an option in basically every game, even DirectX 11 and deferred rendering-based games. It's not exactly the same thing, but it really helps to clean up the image quality.

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Magicite3462d ago (Edited 3462d ago )

cool feature

NovusTerminus3462d ago (Edited 3462d ago )

DSR was just added to the 6xx and 7xx cards through drivers.

In the GeForce Experience click the game, then below the options showing what you have vs optimized, there is a wrench, click it.

Then on the top left is a resolution option, click that and on the drop down menu, scroll up to the the top to see DSR scaling.

r1sh123462d ago

The only issue with it is when used in some games the HUD doesnt move.
But Im sure game updates might solve that :)

Cant wait to use it on assassins creed in a few weeks

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1nsomniac3462d ago (Edited 3462d ago )

I've tried it on my 760 & in all honesty it's not making any noticeable difference so I've switched it off & not bothering with it any more.

I game at 1080p as its the highest my monitor will go. I Used this DSR to play a few games at 4k but all it really did was decrease input sensitivity. After a good few retries & several close up inspections it does improve it but the difference is minute going on microscopic. At least on a 22" screen anyway, I would image it would be more noticeable on a bigger screen.

Pandamobile3462d ago

The biggest area of improvement will be in the edge-quality and filtering textures and alpha'd models. Look at the Crysis screenshots and pay attention to the foliage.

DougLord3462d ago

I see very little difference between the 1080p and the downsampled 4k. Frankly I can't tell much of a difference between my 1080p and my 1280p monitor, except for one being given 21" and the other being 30". Resolution past 1080p is the least important part of graphics. I think it's really about HDR, high def textures, number of polygons in a model, number of objects on screen, physics ..... We need to start putting increased horsepower to use improving gameplay. More enemies on screen, fully destructible environments, massive open world's, human like AI. The good news is a lot of this can be done server side. AI, massive persistent world's a and per the Crackdown demo, massive destructible environments. Wonder when we will get a mmo that looks like Crysis 3, has human fee liking AI like for a 5, destructible environments like Battlefield and particle/object physics like Crackdown. Also need to get rid of the redundant fetch quests and kill 20 spiders and replace with a great plot/story like BORDERLANDS or Balders Gate.

FanboltGaming3462d ago

I should have done more examples putting them side by side like this: http://www.fanbolt.com/?att...

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Steam Weeklong Deals Announced For the Week of August 11-18

Hardcore Gamer: The must-haves here are Super Hexagon, Rush Bros., VVVVVV, Guns of Icarus Online and Ridge Racer Unbounded.

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This Week’s Xbox Live Store Deals

Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through 24 February 2014. These are in addition to the Xbox 360 Ultimate Game Sale, which is going on now.

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SteamPowered3711d ago

Nice. I was waiting for Ryse to drop in price before I snagged it.

DeathOfTheFanBoy3711d ago

It's EPIC man, enjoy! Just make sure you try approach each fight differently or it will become very much a game of deja-vu...

The story though... wow!