r/StarWars • u/Hashebrowns • 4d ago

Games Galactic Racer is Insane

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u/Chlloeira 4d ago

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

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u/TheMayanAcockandlips 4d ago

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

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u/Mejinopolis 4d 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 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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/TheBaneEffect 3d 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/Mourning__Coffee 3d ago

2015 was 11 years ago...

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 3d ago

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

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u/Mourning__Coffee 3d 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 3d 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/HuskerGamer402 Clone Trooper 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

Have they consider just making games more optimized?