Ridge Racer Is Taking A Left Turn With ‘Unbounded’

16 responses to “Ridge Racer Is Taking A Left Turn With ‘Unbounded’”

1. 

   Azoshi

   February 5, 2011 at 11:51 am

   Another great game series wrecked.
   Typical.

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   1. 

      roxahris

      February 5, 2011 at 5:50 pm

      Considering the content of the video, I’d say that is a HORRIBLE pun.

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   2. 

      Taylor

      February 5, 2011 at 8:34 pm

      For me this is the first time I’ve ever been interested in a Ridge Racer title. I’ve always found them to be pretty boring.

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      1. 

         oggob

         February 6, 2011 at 11:59 am

         This is not an attack on you, but your response is the perfect reason why this looks shit.

         Some people find Ridge Racer boring, while others find it one of the best Arcade racers around and it just shows that the direction they are taking with the game, certainly looks to be alienating those fans who have got them to 7 console games and many portable games in the first place.

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2. 

   Keyser

   February 5, 2011 at 1:14 pm

   Never mind the terrible-looking trailer… UNBOUNDED?
   Surely this trailer and the name are a joke, and not a gut reaction to EA’s Shift 2: Unleashed. They could have at least called it Ridge Racer: Unleashededer, or Ridge Racer: Redemptioned, maybe even Ridge Racer: Unchartened.All those options would have sounded better than Unbounded.

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3. 

   Mr Waffle

   February 5, 2011 at 3:25 pm

   Before release:

   Namco executive: “the Japanese market is stagnant, we need to inject foreign blood into our development if we want to capture the western market!”

   Release:

   (half-assed game sells poorly, company shares take a dive)

   After release:

   Namco executive: “damn foreigners! Foreign and Japanese development culture doesn’t mix (or some other excuse that puts the blame on foreigners and excuses the Japanese side of the deal)!”

   Replace “Namco” with “Square-Enix”, “Capcom”, “Bandai-Namco”, etc…

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4. 

   Michael Barnes

   February 5, 2011 at 4:05 pm

   No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOO!

   Its gone all “gangster” and “underground” style!

   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

   I loved the arcade Japanese circuits with all their scenery and electro music.

   Need for Speed moved OUT of the cruddy “gangster” thing for a reason!

   BugBear, what have you done!?

   Thank god we can ignore this monstrosity, as the real developers are working on Ridge Racer 3DS which looks pretty great so far.

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5. 

   Grandmaster B-Funk

   February 5, 2011 at 5:25 pm

   it seems that most racing games are going the more arcadey route, which i like, i mean, normal racing games are fun and all, but stuff like destruction is what is gonna hook me, not realistic handling or some shit, still to this day burnout 3 is my favorite racing game ever made

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   1. 

      Random

      February 6, 2011 at 5:45 pm

      err… Ridge Racer is probably the single most UNrealistic racing series there is – you can’t get any more arcadey – if anything, this is arguably the most realistic the series has ever been :-/

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6. 

   Vapor

   February 5, 2011 at 8:40 pm

   I won’t lie. I’m just happy to see Reiko again, even if she has been massively tarted up.

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7. 

   Dominic Bui

   February 5, 2011 at 11:50 pm

   honey, i cant help it notice but theres a bear in my ridge racer…

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8. 

   Jeff Kartono

   February 6, 2011 at 3:55 am

   The taxi driver didn’t survive.

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9. 

   Kerber

   February 6, 2011 at 7:29 am

   No thanks. If your going to add “destruction” to an old franchise then reviving destruction derby would have been my first choice.

   What happened to the bright color, happy racers, disco music & blue sky.
   Sorry Bugbear, adding brown, new york “street”, hip hop music, and a badly animated woman has been done before. It seams less like “whole new direction” and more like “cloning”.

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10. 

    Zico

    February 6, 2011 at 9:11 am

    Lol. Western developer + Japanese content= add more explosions and dodgy hiphop/rap soundtrack (pretty sure it started off with final fight on ps2)

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11. 

    Random

    February 6, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    looks like just another western developer completely misunderstanding what makes a japanese franchise popular in the first place…

    Final Fight, Bionic Commando, Silent Hill, Front Mission, now this… western development is where Japanese franchises go to die.

    Am I the only one who finds it ironic that its exactly the same lack of understanding and respect for the source material that results in all those shitty game movies coming out of hollywood?

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12. 

    thedragoness

    April 13, 2011 at 8:48 am

    That ain’t Reiko, the hair’s all wrong. If it’s not her then what’s the story? Could it be something like a racer causing destruction on the underground racing scene and Reiko enters to put a stop to it?

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