Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games

Re:Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout ... by dusted on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:54AM (#28218336)

Still my #1 game of all time, the design, sound, mechanics, it's the ultimate racing game.

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Re:Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout ... by libertine on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:58AM (#28219623)

I wonder why this genre kind of faded away.

Most likely sales of course, but I always thought Wipeout had a cult like following.

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Re:Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout ... by rchaud on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:17AM (#28222325)

It was a Playstation exclusive and probably enjoyed peak popularity on the PS1 and PSP. I think Wipeout HD for PS3 is the best one, but it was almost definitely a fan service title.

Fast and Furious movies in the early 2000s made street racing and crash-based racing games more popular. So cross-platform games like the Burnout series succeeded, as did NFS:Most Wanted, where you had to outrun patrol cars in officially licensed supercars from Ferrari, McLaren etc.

On the underground side, NFS:Underground and the Midnight Club series were king.

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Re:Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout ... by atatatat on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:02AM (#28220455)

Things moving too fast to sell DLC skins for them.

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Re:Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout ... by seanicus on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:46AM (#28234481)

You joke but this is undoubtedly some exec's internal calculus when the topic of another Wipeout game is broached

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