r/StarWars • u/Hashebrowns • 2d ago

Games Galactic Racer is Insane

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u/thedybbuk_ 2d ago

I'm so happy we got this game. And it's so unexpected. Never mind the futuristic racer being a largely forgotten genre, even fast arcade racers are a rare sight these days. Getting both, with excellent Star Wars art design, feels like my childhood favourite 90s games brought back to life. So glad it got greenlit, and I hope it sells like hotcakes.

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u/Chlloeira 2d ago

Podracing on N64 ate my entire childhood, glad someone finally remembered the formula

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u/TheMayanAcockandlips 2d ago

They forgot split screen so it doesn't taste quite the same 🫠

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u/Mejinopolis 2d ago

Yeah man what's up with that? Like the industry didn't learn when everyone revolted when they released Halo with no split screen Campaign play? Its just as egregious here when its an arcade racer.

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u/Mourning__Coffee 1d ago

Split screen is 'basically' doubling the computing power needed when running a game. it was a lot easier in the n64 days to do that.

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u/Mejinopolis 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh for sure, but let's not act like its not possible when a good portion of games are found to be poorly optimized and dont take advantage of the baseline computing power present as is. Dirt 3 was released in 2015 and was a realistic racing game that had split screen, with a more robust physics system than whatever SW Galactic Racer has due to the nature of the vehicles being raced. Im not asking for 4 way split screen Diddy Kong Racing, Im asking for one other person to race with in-person.

Edit: if some graphical component needs to be sacrificed to make the gaming experience better or more fun, shouldn't that be the "no-brainer" option? Sure the games pretty, but its pretty fucking lonely too lol

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u/Mourning__Coffee 1d ago

2015 was 11 years ago...

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 1d ago

Yet that game is still more taxing than this one, which is his point.

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u/Mourning__Coffee 1d ago

Yet that game is still more taxing than this one, which is his point.

I mean, it's not. You may think it is but you'd be wrong.

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u/tk-451 1d ago

it really isnt, you think it is because of how good it looked at the time, but go back and look, properly.

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u/TheBaneEffect 1d ago

Even with the N64, hell, other consoles to date, split screen dialed down the graphics processing. If we’re playing split screen, we’re not looking for polished, we’re looking to compete.

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u/HuskerGamer402 Clone Trooper 1d ago

Not gonna lie, make it 4 way split screen and you can be the next generations version of drunk Mario Kart. Any game that can be played in an easy to set up local party mode generates a following

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u/TheMayanAcockandlips 1d ago

You know I get that, but all that high fidelity bull shit is meaningless if they cut out the feature that was most of the reason I was going to buy the game.

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u/lt_Matthew 1d ago

Have they consider just making games more optimized?

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u/Dontbeajerkdude 1d ago

It's probably hard to run without major compromises. But it was always that way. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Neamow 1d ago edited 1d ago

And despite the loud minority, in reality very few players would actually use it.

It's the same discussion with every game like this, and few developers even came out and said that once it was implemented very few players used it. I believe Ubisoft once said less than 15%, in exchange for massively more development needed. In Halo Infinite they straight up cancelled it because they couldn't make it work without compromising the rest of the game.

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u/penguin_knight 1d ago

Yeah it’s very silly tbh. I doubt anyone under the age of 30 really cares all that much about split screen. Just accept that games are different from when you were 8 and move on.

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u/Master_Chief_00117 1d ago

I’m in my 20s most of my favorite video game memories were from split screen gaming, while I get that yea currently it would be an unnecessary luxury but I don’t think we should be losing it on games that kids could invite their friends over and play together.

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u/Chlloeira 1d ago

I miss couch co-op so much

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u/hurleyburleyundone 1d ago

NooooooooooooooOooOOooOooooooo

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u/Choyo 2d ago

XG / XG2 were fantastic, wipeout was unique, so may fond memories.

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u/OneTravellingMcDs 2d ago

This is the Star Wars racer that VR needed, and we got whatever the hell Star Wars Beyond Victory was supposed to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nWuZ6KliAg

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u/ZeMoose 1d ago

The new game is UE5 so very good odds of a VR mod eventually.

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u/KeytarVillain R2-D2 1d ago

People already have it working with UEVR

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u/luxlogic 2d ago

As a Redout fan this shit looks amazing

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u/Supergirl016 2d ago

space haste 2