By Jim Rossignol on April 28th, 2011 at 8:49 am.
Unbounded? Really? Is that even a word? I suppose language matters not a jot to muscle cars. What they care about is getting somewhere quickly. They hate to be late. Me too, frankly. One of my pet peeves.
Anyway, Ridge Racer “Unbounded” will be arriving on PC some time in 2012. In the meantime you can look at the latest teaser trailer, below. It shows a car driving through a wall which suggests… destructible scenery? Could this be the BFBC2 of racing games?
28/04/2011 at 08:58 FCA says:
Unbounded is certainly a word, I use it all the time! Quoting from some stuff I wrote not too long ago:
“An unbounded self-adjoint operator D”, “This means the spectrum is unbounded”.
Very appropriate when doing things in functional analysis. Hopefully the game will be a bit easier to understand than that though…
28/04/2011 at 14:21 Urthman says:
“Unbounded? Really? Is that even a word?” — Somebody didn’t get very far in maths.
28/04/2011 at 15:22 MrHairyLives says:
Also: “a positive feeling which is very great and seems to have no limits”
(http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/unbounded)
Which probably means that I don’t feel not nearly unbounded enough none of the time. Fear my ununboundedness!
28/04/2011 at 08:58 Wedge says:
The Namco property? On PC? Trying to be crashy street racing? Oh wait they outsourced this to Bugbear (Flatout series), everything makes sense now.
28/04/2011 at 09:01 wcaypahwat says:
I dunno, but that logo just looks like the need for speed ones they were using a few years back.
28/04/2011 at 09:01 GreatUncleBaal says:
If that’s going to be a game with hidden short-cuts in the form of destructible scenery, it’s a nice idea – but they’d better design that bloody well, or there will be a lot of teeth-grindingly annoying collisions with indestructible walls by players trying to shave a few more seconds.
28/04/2011 at 09:05 BloodPukeSalvation says:
how awesome will this trailer be should the game have no destructible scenery upon release.
28/04/2011 at 11:17 BAReFOOt says:
I think it’s one of the lamest trailers I have ever seen. Like some 8th class school project that got a medium to bad grade.
Washed-out graphics, weird shading, and why is the music so muted that I can barely hear it… while the first few drum hits were loud. And the “kicker”… cars can go trough walls? How? They don’t look armoured…
All in all it’s not even worth a yawn…
28/04/2011 at 09:09 Taverius says:
My interest is not unbounded, but present nonetheless.
28/04/2011 at 09:10 Sami H says:
Even more worrying is that unboundedly and unboundedness are words too. I now live in fear of future RR:U press releases…
28/04/2011 at 09:12 Jim Rossignol says:
Haha.
28/04/2011 at 09:13 Pie21 says:
It’s Ridge Racer!
28/04/2011 at 09:54 stahlwerk says:
Riiiidge…
28/04/2011 at 10:33 Dinger says:
It’s terrible that some memes just take over the associated artifacts. I can’t see the words “Ridge Racer” without having the same reaction.
And Skyrim? Isn’t that the fantasy game where the player is threatened by a giant, flying kitten?
28/04/2011 at 15:36 Nick says:
Whoops.
28/04/2011 at 09:15 Mo says:
Unbounded is totally a word, but it’s mostly used by math and computer science nerds, like myself. :)
28/04/2011 at 09:26 Oozo says:
CARS DON’T TALK. CARS RACE!
28/04/2011 at 09:27 TonyB says:
As it’s being made by Bugbear it’d be a surprise if it didn’t have destructible scenery in some form.
Since I’ve been waiting for a new Flatout game since the last Flatout, the only way I could be more excited about this is if they got rid of that silly name from an old game series of little importance and replaced it with its True Name.
28/04/2011 at 09:28 AndrewC says:
Some of the corners those cars are taking seem awfully unlikely you know.
28/04/2011 at 10:17 CaspianRoach says:
Yep, almost looks like they’re driving on rails… wait…
28/04/2011 at 11:28 JohnnyMaverik says:
I don’t think the Ridge Racer series have ever really aimed for realism, quite the opposite in fact.
28/04/2011 at 11:48 AndrewC says:
No, no, the original was a good recreation of how physics worked in Asia at the time.
28/04/2011 at 12:00 godgoo says:
hahaha
28/04/2011 at 09:29 Xercies says:
I wish someone would make a proper sequel to Ridge Racer Type 4, or remake Ridge Racer Type 4.
28/04/2011 at 09:37 Radiant says:
Ridge Racer on the PSP was the first game I bought for the handheld and it’s pretty much been resident in the UMD slot since then.
Ridge Racer on the PSP is fucking GLORIOUS.
Is Flatout any good?
Should I be worried?
Will there be techno?
28/04/2011 at 10:38 jon_hill987 says:
The 3DS version is even better.
28/04/2011 at 12:01 godgoo says:
i really enjoyed flatout 2, but I have a strong bias towards driving games.
28/04/2011 at 13:16 Radiant says:
The 3DS?
What’s the difference between the two?
The only issue I had with RR on the PSP was that the racing was ridiculously easy.
The challenge came from beating your own lap times.
28/04/2011 at 19:14 RogB says:
ridge racer on the 3ds is utterly appalling.
28/04/2011 at 10:17 Heliocentric says:
Could this be the BFBC2 of racing games.
You mean living in the long shadow of the true sequel?
28/04/2011 at 11:19 MD says:
I really hope they make a Ridge Racer game for PC, rather than some other kind of racing game with the Ridge Racer name slapped over the top. The trailer actually looks fairly promising; though it obviously doesn’t tell us much, it does seem to show a nice RR-style unrealistic driving model.
28/04/2011 at 12:47 ArtyFishal says:
Unbounded is definitely a word. It is also a very common mathematics term. You will find it in any basic calculus book. I’m a math student and I use it all the time. Its meaning is pretty self-evident.
28/04/2011 at 12:56 Matt says:
I prefer Ridge Racer: Unbuttoned. Where’s that Japanese girl with the starting cards? Yowza!
28/04/2011 at 13:12 DeanLearner says:
I liked the bit where the man dun saided peggy!
28/04/2011 at 13:33 Derpentine says:
Came expecting ; still think it would be better if they were included.
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03/05/2011 at 11:02 rocketman71 says:
“Could this be the BFBC2 of racing games?”
Please, no. I don’t want the battlefield of ANYTHING.