It's really sad that Split Second was a commercial failure, because as a game it was such an inventive idea for a game, and it was so well done too, a real shame indeed
Indeed. I actually love Split Second, so it 'hurts' a little that it didn't have success. Is stil enjoy it to this dat. I'm actually trying to create a spiritual successor to Split Second, hopefully with some Motorstorm influence, if possible. Which I'm working on and off again, since sometimes life takes over. Got videos on my other channel of it.
The only true mobile arcade racer experience was the Asphalt games, from Urban GT1 from 2004 to the classic Asphalt 8 from 2014 (not the pay to win 2020 version)
YES, i miss the glory days of Asphalt 8. They made too many changes to the progression of the game to the point where its practically unplayable. If you didnt unlock some of the cars before they made all of the changes that they did, you're basically sh*t out of luck lol. The only thing that still stands in the game to this day is the actual gameplay itself, which makes sense as thats the only thing in the game that they haven't touched. I've unlocked at least half of the cars in the game so i have the ability to enjoy the gameplay whenever i wish just for nostalgia sake.
I think another issue is people are now focused on the amount of skill something takes, rather than how much fun you have. I wish there were more arcade racers because I don’t have the time, patience, money, or interest in simulation racers to do anything with them. I just feel overall everything is too based on realism now.
sim racers are also just boring as batshit to me like sure some of them have a good sense of speed but theres just not much going on as opposed to games like burnout where there was more to do than just race you had to keep track of your nitro and where you were next to other cars so you could smash them against the wall and it was awesome!
Thumbs up for ncluding the game titles in the footages, helped me discover arcade racers I haven't heard of before. I'm a big fan of Split Second, never seen anything like it before, and since. It's sad that it got discontinued. I hope arcade racers will rise again someday. There's the new Hotwheels game, that one looks decent!
It doesn't help that the Racing Game Community is now seemingly addicted to sim racing in the exact same car on the exact same track without ever questioning it. It's as if the loss of big-time arcade racing games led to a lot of complecancy, where there isn't enough outcry for beloved franchises to come back, but that's how I view it.
Burnout 3:Takedown Split/Second Burnout:Revenge Need for Speed:Hot Pursuit Midnight Club 3 Need for Speed:Hot Pursuit 2 2002 Underground 1 & 2 Forza:Horizon 1 Blur Project Gotham Racing R.I.P :(
While I do agree that mobile gaming definitely is a significant factor in why arcade racers are basically dead, the bigger issue is far more obvious - there simply isn't a big enough audience willing to pay for them. While we can look at the failure of something like Onrush and just say it's because of mobile games being popular now, the fact of the matter is A LOT of arcade racers have been categorical financial failures or didn't make anywhere near enough to warrant continued investment for over a decade now. Blur, Split/Second, ModNation Racers, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Ridge Racer Unbounded, Onrush, and FlatOut 4 are all examples of this. I mean Onrush literally sold 1000 physical copies during the UK launch period, how tf does any company other than a tiny indie studio warrant continued investment in such a thing? There's a reason why AAA racing games have almost entirely been relegated to rally, simulation and open world, with the later being basically comprised exclusively of two franchises - Forza Horizon and Need for Speed. The kart racing genre is even worse, MarioKart literally doesn't have any competition and has VASTLY outsold every other kart racing series combined. Only indie studios can afford to try anything remotely experimental, but they simply don't have the budget to create something like the titles listed beforehand. People can claim that games like Burnout Paradise Remastered, WipeOut: Omega Collection and CTR Nitro-Fuelled were successes, and they were. But you also have to look at what kind of projects they are - remasters/remakes of games that already existed and have significant nostalgia associated with them. This means that they cost significantly less, and primarily targeted people who had already played these games back in the day. They were ultimately LOW RISK because it generally takes far less time to remaster or even remake something that already exists instead of building something new from scratch. Burnout Paradise probably sold perfectly fine for a barebones remaster, but for a brand new AAA racing game in 2018? Fuck no. Same with Omega Collection, is it any wonder that WipeOut: Rush is a (presumably) free to play mobile game with microtransactions? Most of the studios that made these classic arcade racers simply don't exist anymore. Bizarre Creations, Black Rock, Evolution, Bigbig, Sony Liverpool, United Front, Eat Sleep Play and Pseudo Interactive are just some that have all been buried for many years now. Even Ghost Games that made the recent NFS titles were shut down by EA last year. I simply don't see this ever returning to how it used to, the market has changed and the audience that still has the passion just simply isn't there anymore.
While I agree with what you say. I could see making a little comeback bc people are starting to get tired of games like Forza Horizon. Be nice for indies to do Rush, Daytona USA or Crusi'n type games.
Thank you very much! Being a French gamer and being extremely fan of arcade racing games, I am extremely happy to come across a video that talks about this subject. I'm even very happy to see in this video most of the sadly unknown titles that I still play today with so much passion. I hope one day like you that this fashion of simulation games will stop and that many arcade games come back! I'm thinking of subscribing and following you closely x) see you soon :D
While we're at it, let's hope that this simulation/realism obsession stops in other genres as well. Make first person shooters like Quake again. Make third person shooters like Max Payne again. Make driving games like Twisted Metal again. Heal gaming. Let video games be video games again.
Anybody who says arcade racing games take no skill has never played Motorstorm. The last third of that game almost gave me an aneurism. Sure, part of it was rubberbanding, but all racing games have that. The thing about Motorstorm is all about boost control, mastering the physics, knowing where each and every pebble on the tracks are, and learning when you should fight or back off from the bigger cars. Also, there are 7 vehicle classes that take advantage of different terrain types. Mudpluggers and big rigs zoom through mud whereas buggies and rally cars slip and slide. There is a lot more to this game than putting the pedal to the metal until you win. And just to be clear, a lot of what I said applies to many other arcade racing games too. They’re not mindless, they all have their learning curves, and they just look and play a lot more fun than sims.
I'm an adult and I couldn't be more bored with realistic simulation racing games. They're all so generic and lifeless. Of course I got into and played some simulation racing games throughout the 2010s. But during the second half of the 2010s, I started giving up on them fast. Flatout Ultimate Carnage is the only racing game I play these days. It's so good. I also tried Wreckfest and had some hopes for it. But it's trying to be like Forza too much. Just sad.
@@not_kjb it wasn't that much of a deal in the beginning,but as time went on,the mobile market got saturated with extreme micro transactions,and barebones gameplay.
I love arcade racing. Spent major part of my teens playing games like NFS: Most Wanted, and midnight 3 and the sequel to it los angeles. miss the rush i used to get when i won a difficult race. looking forward to arcade racing rise again.
i dont really like simcade i want things to stay arcade. nfs needs tripple a competiton again it feels like nfs may die soon and i really dont want it to
The big reason is the companys don't wanted a risk more, i mean looks the company if todays looks one each other and try yo copy what they works and the companys are looking for the maximum profit so they don't want este money in little franshise or niche franshise. I am pretty sad about today with arcade racing games, only wreckfest filled my emptiness
But by doing this (copying what others do) the inevitably end up saturating the genre and creating more and more boring titles every time. I speak for myself but all the last need for speed games feel bland and uninspired.
The industry monopolized. Publishers bought many developers, had them work on franchises that became sim-based, sim-cade based, changed, etc. Fewer arcade games thanks to the popularity of sim-based games and greed instead of a focus on fun.
An interesting perspective on the topic. I fondly remember playing TEST DRIVE on the Apple II, OUT RUN and HARD DRIVIN' in the arcades, and ROAD RASH II on the Sega Genesis. I remember enjoying BLUR and GAS GUZZLERS EXTREME, too. I have noticed that some newer "simcade" flight games are less forgiving and less fun than their 1990s counterparts. Have you noticed the same?
Arcade is now on mobile, and mobile has lower quality standards, plus the exploitative money grabbing methods. It’s a sad situation. Because these exploitative methods now are starting to affect console games as well, games shouldn’t in general seen as a service, but as a product instead… it’s just degrading it’s value. The example to follow would be psp games, they could be possible on mobile, if there wasn’t a push for freemium games. Since I’ve tried real racing 3 back in the day I just wished it had a paid version (and better physics). I sincerely just hope stuff gets better: Game Demos instead of freemium games. And better store selection, not a bunch of crappy clones everywhere, I swear where is the standards with mobile gaming!?
thanks for helping me find some more awesome games it sucks that nfs is the only alive arcade racing game franchise anymore and i really wish there was some competition from tripple a companies
So I wasn't crazy, arcade racing games start to disappear from PC. I get into the genre thanks to NFS U2 and later on I discovered gems like MotorStorm Pacific Rift and I really miss games like those.
I recommend giving Dirt 5 a look if you haven’t. The game is such an amazing Arcade racer and it plays very Arcade-y compared to the other games! It feels more like Dirt Showdown, which I also loved!
I do actually. I have a whole five part video series on it. Though, I have been thinking of cleaning it up, and releasing it as one video in the near future.
@@GamerAlexVideos that's right. I even commented under one of those video! Dumb me. Together with burnout and carmageddon that series is one of my favourite!
our generations now day are become adult and serious.. and the generations below us are playing with their smartphone games.. im miss arcade racing games
As a guy who has no computer as of writing of this comment, I see where you're going from.Although there are some good and fun arcade racers on mobile like Horizon Chase,most of these games are either extremely monetized, boring,weird,and just all around not special,which is why I quit the Play Store to get into PSP emulation.Great video. Edit:I now have a laptop
my only gripe is that Super Street was nothing but an complete mockery of arcade racers, like it was developed by the exact same guys behind Flatout 3 of all games (y'know the worst rated game on Steam that has Arabic song ting an), but yeah I'm gonna miss games like TXR/Shutoku Battle series where you'll have to adjust your car to your liking to winning races I'd also missed Burnout too, but not even gonna bother with the latest installment knowing EA's lust for money and current song trends, I think I'd just bother with something weird shit like Gal Gun over playing any racing game published by EA and I sincerely hope CarX Street, Night Runners, and even this SLRR-esque game called "Apex Point" would eventually brought back balance to racing landscape because I'm actually not gonna expect anything at this point
I think a lot of this has to do with the simple fact that the Kids from back then are now all adults. As we get older our tastes change, sure not everyone gravitates away from the simpler pick up and play style games, moving on to more sim-like titles but, a LOT do just that.. Piss poor decisions on the part of many developers also pushed many players away from the genre too. Take the Grid series for example, a series with a major identity crisis every title. The original was utterly PACKED from day 1 till Codies killed the online servers, even then diehards found ways around that with the likes of Gameranger, Hamachi and Tunngle. The fans of Grid 1 were greatly disappointed with Grid 2 with it's drift to win physics in racing (even the fwd cars were faster sideways through the turns) and the tea-tray on ice drift physics. Paradoxically a whole raft of people LOVED Grid 2 and it sold around 20 million copies iirc. When Grid Autosport arrived and returned to a more grip racing style many of those who'd abandoned Grid 2 stayed away as did many of those who loved Grid 2, resulting in sales of around half that of Grid 2, this "failure" resulted in 60% of the dev team being canned. GRID 2019 did little to alleviate this, with less content than Grid 1, no drift, no derby plus a PLETHORA of problems that Codies flat out refused to fix, plus the decision to put it on sale less than 1 month after launch just ended up pissing players off who paid full price for it. Net result sales of between 300,000 to 2,300,000 depending on where you look. Then we end up with GRID Legends... Unable to draw even 500 players online at launch (Grid 2 had over 7,500 on launch day, Grid Autosport had 3,500, GRID 1,000 seeing the pattern here?). Each game drew successively less players because Codies continually ignored their fans each game. Net result? Codies desperately bought studios left and right, Evolution Studios (Driveclub), SMS (Pcars) who produced the bombs Onrush and PC3 respectively after their acquisitions and we ALL know how well THAT went! The situation at Codies got SO bad they dumped their forums not once but TWICE to bury the bad press... Their current forums are a desert in comparison to the 2000's... Net result? Codies put themselves up for sale, Tencent bid $750,000,000 only to be outbid by EA to the tune of $1,200,000,000 (makes a change for EA to be ripped off instead of ripping off it's customers lol). Oh how the mighty have fallen!
I'm an adult and I couldn't be more bored with realistic racing sims. I've gotten into sim racers and used to spend quite a lot of time with them. But my preference for aggressive arcade style driving has steadily remained ever since I started playing games. I enjoyed sim racers for quite a while but even in them I always played dirty and aggressive. It was always no holds barred for me because I still saw it as just a game. Needless to say, I didn't make many friends, haha. I was even annoyed by the overly clean driving of some people. Anyway, after a while, I started seeing how generic and lifeless sim racers are. They feel like a waste of time and so unfulfilling. These days, I really want some energy and badass fun in my games more than ever. Everything is so overly realistic and boring. And this problem is not just limited to racing games.
@@Amadeus_Eisenberg you are free to express your own opinion but it's just an objective fact that sim titles provide more variety in driving than arcade ones. Yes, arcade can be more thrilling with more violence on track. But the 'each' race feeling different feel needs proper physics. This is why the simcade genre became so popular, it has realistic physics, but unrealistically good cars that don't exist in real life
Recently, I am really getting tired from playing all those sim racers and now I am playing more arcade games instead. And those two games from 1:40 to 1:45. Ah such good times :)
Ridge Racer Night 2024 was pretty much a teaser, so I’m hopeful for a new one Ridge State in 7 is pretty much ripe for worldbuilding, think 8 should make players immerse more in its’ world and the brand new racing competition like RSGP to celebrate 30th anniversary Plus Ridge Racer 8 needs to innovate unlike previous games. And no, I’m not talking about Unbounded.
i like the recent nfs games and don't really care as long as its not simcade but the lack of arcade racers is present and i do have to consistently look to the past for new racing games to play as i hate simulation racers and want to get as far away from anything related to sim as possible
Before watching the video, normies. It's because there are more normies always like things that are realistic and less creative or fantastical. Especially if there is a realife equivalent like guns or cars. It's why you don't have aaa racing arcade games anymore. It's always about the money
PSA "Ridge Racer Unbounded" despite having the Bandai Namco logo was NOT and NEVER made by Bandai or Namco or Bandai Namco, it was made by Bugbear who approached BN with their idea of their game with the BN IP name slapped on it... they, as in Bugbear got away with it, and it turned out none of us Ridge Racer fans ever believed RRU was a true Ridge Racer game and that means that you should never list that game as some type of entry... that game does not exist. Also smartphone games eroded most portable and console games in general... they are not the root cause however online forced on racing games has turned most racing games into some type of online service racing game that like the On Rush game become useless as single player or local competitive racer games.
ever since I moved into simracing the allure of arcade died out for me. Now I prefer arcadey games to still have realistic physics, but just unreal stats on their tyre compounds and other parts instead of just not following a realistic physics model in the first place
My favorite arcade racers have been track racers with multiple classes and disciplines and focus on real world race cars and real world race tracks, and Grid is literally the only one left with rumors of EA shelfing the last arcade track racing series with multiple disciplines and classes, guess ill move on to simcades where only Gran Turismo still exists since EA cancelled Project Cars 4, Codemasters biggest mistake was selling to EA, EA is trying to monopolize arcade racing, there should be laws and regulations to prevent these kinds of things
Tbh mobile gaming has died in like 2015 when almost everything switched to f2p. It kinda shoveled it's own grave there. And some arcade franchises like Burnout and Midnight Club were merged into other franchises
@@GamerAlexVideos Love your videos man. Trail Out started my whole journey to play arcade racers again really. Discovered Burnout Dominator and are halfway through. Just bought Split/second today (afraid it was gonna be removed from steam randomly sometimes soon as I heard so much good about it. I never get tired of these kind of games. Loved NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 so much. And I grew up with NFS and Burnout. I found out about Flat Out and played them 1 year before Trail Out, I felt heaven sent me a sign ^^
Without arcade racing game racing genre itself is nothing but a empty husk town with nothing fun now this will be death of racing forever until arcade racing game comes back the genre will be dead soon.
Dead to you, but in terms of financial success and player engagement, it's still going incredibly strong. Fact of the matter is that arcade racing games were always niche outside of the biggest series, and the audience for them never grew with the constantly expanding development costs and expectations of AAA games.
I mean, there is other reasons that can be argued, but yea, I do believe mobile gaming 'killed' arcade racers. Though, I put 'killer' in quotes because the genre isn't really dead, but just a shell of its former self.
@@naoisediver6541 That would have to be NFS Carbon. I always loved its artstyle, the physics feel the best they ever have, they replaced drag events with drift events, and who can forget those canyon races.
I literally had 2 find an illegal version of blur on pc cause people Want an arm and leg for it never had so much fun in my life I played the balls off split second they need to bring g arcade racers back to consoles and pc
Both need for speed and the crew 2 are open world arcade racers, its so boring, there are literally zero real world race tracks in these games, Grid Legends is the only current gen arcade track racer, i love Grid Legends but that is so sad, Need for Speed Shift was so good, would love to see a Shift 3 since Slightly Mad Studios is now back with EA
I guess it's not really a sim/arcade racing thing, but one problem I have with especially racing games today is they're thematically so interchangeable. You're driving a bunch of cars that to people who aren't "car guys" simply look indistinguishable, racing on some generic track or through some generic city. Even the more "realistic" style racing games tended to have a more interesting style and more of a personality.
You can say the market and demographics have changed all you like but the truth is that arcade racers just aren't good anymore. Modern arcade racing games aren't coming even close to their ancestors.
currently developing an arcade action racer for roblox it will be called DREAD - MELTDOWN, hopefully the birth of a franchise, after i develop dread wasteland and meltdown on roblox im planning to visit unity or unreal engine or other proper engines
idk... i think what killed arcade racers was the open world racing. open world games werent possible until more powerful machines came and they dont go well with arcades. players prefer open world arcade sims today. burnout paradise was a semi flop due to that imo. also arcade racers today became kart racers like sonic racing and hot wheels unleashed. i do believe though that theyll be back!
Burnout paradise was a flop because the structure of the game was complete fucking dog ass. No lap races killed any tension. You just get in a car and delete records, basically. The neck and neck fuckery of the burnout 3 era just wasn't possible with the sprint style street races of paradise. Plus the online fucking sucked.
Mobile games - especially in the likes of ASSphalt, which they shit a new one out every other week, looking like another "parody" of any Burnout game every time - was and is the REAL curse to the arcade racing genre. Fucken wiped out an entire genre faster than a holocaust, and for what? Licensed cars? Shitty mobile controls? Loot boxes and paywalls? Sorry I get emotional when it comes to arcade racing.
@@MetalArrow yep, sometimes i had to filter such types of comment because my comment gets auto deleted the second i wrote anything related to "national socialism"
@@TheSultan1470 Asphalt really isn't that bad per say. But compared to the source of where they got 95% of all their ideas, it's an insult and a sad evolution of gaming in and of itself, with free games, accompanied with loads of gambling.. I mean lootboxes. Give any Burnout, (1,2,3,revenge,paradise) a try and it'll hit you differently.
EA, bad car physics, & more time spent on customization than making the game fun to play! Remaster BLUR already, doesn't Microsoft own Activision now!?!?
95% of Mobile games suck, most are full of ads and don't offer any replay value, Mario Kart on mobile is a good example, you will finish first with out even touching the phone, the game plays it self, my 3 year kid will finish first and collect 4 to 5 stars by running the car in walls and not using power ups, then he tops charts because of the low player count. i would gladly pay for a AAA game, most phones can handle large games and good graphics..
It's simple isn't it,, the sim racing is real life racing , and that realism is what killed acade racing ,, because it makes people to feel like they actually driving a real car in sim,,, so in otherwords, why would they play acade racing if people can have the option to play the REAL life-like cars in sim racing games,,,, sim is what is all about and the future of racing
Because not everybody wants to play sim racing, not everybody likes realism, if i wanna feel like driving a car then i’ll just go do it in real life, driving like a maniac in arcade racing is what makes it fun, not realism
This has nothing to do with mobile gaming. People don't take these mobile games that seriously. Racing games simply lost their steam. They had their time.
That's the point. If people don't take mobile games seriously, and see that arcade racers are 'like' mobile game, then they aren't going to take arcade racers seriously.
@@GamerAlexVideos Again, it has nothing to do with mobile games at all. Your brain is so fixed on hating mobile gaming that you see this boogey man in everything but consoles and mobile are two completely different platforms. Racing games just aren't important anymore. Their time has passed. Someone who is into console racers isn't going to just abandon them simply because racers also exist in the mobile market. Mobile games are not generally respected among console gamers as those are seen as only being for people who don't game on a regular basis and most likely don't really care about video games in general.
@@kingofdust9725 Racing games aren't important anymore? EA recently bought Codemasters, Forza Horizon 5 is doing extremely well, Hot Wheels Unleashed also is doing just fine, and we are getting a new Test Drive Unlimited game. Sure, we may had some really flops recently in the genre, but to say racing games aren't important anymore is literally ignoring everything.
Not really. I'm convinced that we can have closed track arcade racers that are successful. See the new Hot Wheels Unleashed game for example, which I hope it does well so we can see a resurgence in this genre. Not everything is just solved by 'going open world'.
@@GamerAlexVideos I'm definitely not going to say that Mobile gaming killed arcade racers that's just fucking stupid I've been playing arcade racers since the 1980s everything in this generation is disposable if it's 5 minutes old y'all fuckin trash it
as a massive fan of the burnout series as well as ridge racers and blur, this hurts me a lot.
It's really sad that Split Second was a commercial failure, because as a game it was such an inventive idea for a game, and it was so well done too, a real shame indeed
Indeed. I actually love Split Second, so it 'hurts' a little that it didn't have success. Is stil enjoy it to this dat.
I'm actually trying to create a spiritual successor to Split Second, hopefully with some Motorstorm influence, if possible. Which I'm working on and off again, since sometimes life takes over. Got videos on my other channel of it.
and blur, both games did not deserve their fate and i play both to this day
@@Sharky_0456 Indeed, I only played Blur this year, hence why I didn't include it in my original comment
The only true mobile arcade racer experience was the Asphalt games, from Urban GT1 from 2004 to the classic Asphalt 8 from 2014 (not the pay to win 2020 version)
Honestly only asphalt 9 is realy realy bad and p2w the other games are realy good!
YES, i miss the glory days of Asphalt 8. They made too many changes to the progression of the game to the point where its practically unplayable. If you didnt unlock some of the cars before they made all of the changes that they did, you're basically sh*t out of luck lol. The only thing that still stands in the game to this day is the actual gameplay itself, which makes sense as thats the only thing in the game that they haven't touched. I've unlocked at least half of the cars in the game so i have the ability to enjoy the gameplay whenever i wish just for nostalgia sake.
@@ArcticWolfOfficial i can teach you how to get old versions of Asphalt 8 on android :)
@@ShuAsphalt That would be dope lol. How do you do it?
Try asphalt on ds. When I say it's more fun then the psp version, I'm not kidding
I think another issue is people are now focused on the amount of skill something takes, rather than how much fun you have. I wish there were more arcade racers because I don’t have the time, patience, money, or interest in simulation racers to do anything with them. I just feel overall everything is too based on realism now.
sim racers are also just boring as batshit to me
like sure some of them have a good sense of speed but theres just not much going on as opposed to games like burnout where there was more to do than just race
you had to keep track of your nitro and where you were next to other cars so you could smash them against the wall and it was awesome!
Arcade racers take skill as well, the management of the unusual mechanics made way for optimal racing times
Thumbs up for ncluding the game titles in the footages, helped me discover arcade racers I haven't heard of before.
I'm a big fan of Split Second, never seen anything like it before, and since. It's sad that it got discontinued. I hope arcade racers will rise again someday. There's the new Hotwheels game, that one looks decent!
If you have a switch, I could recommend cruisn' blast.
@@atomickid
The hell? Cruisn' is still alive???
its not the hotwheels game unfortunately sucks
@@eliel1815shadow yep
@@atomickidtotally agree, that one's really decent
It doesn't help that the Racing Game Community is now seemingly addicted to sim racing in the exact same car on the exact same track without ever questioning it. It's as if the loss of big-time arcade racing games led to a lot of complecancy, where there isn't enough outcry for beloved franchises to come back, but that's how I view it.
Burnout 3:Takedown
Split/Second
Burnout:Revenge
Need for Speed:Hot Pursuit
Midnight Club 3
Need for Speed:Hot Pursuit 2 2002
Underground 1 & 2
Forza:Horizon 1
Blur
Project Gotham Racing
R.I.P :(
lemme slip motorstorm abd FlatOut games in there
Hah wangan midnight maximum tune is laughing their ass off
While I do agree that mobile gaming definitely is a significant factor in why arcade racers are basically dead, the bigger issue is far more obvious - there simply isn't a big enough audience willing to pay for them. While we can look at the failure of something like Onrush and just say it's because of mobile games being popular now, the fact of the matter is A LOT of arcade racers have been categorical financial failures or didn't make anywhere near enough to warrant continued investment for over a decade now. Blur, Split/Second, ModNation Racers, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Ridge Racer Unbounded, Onrush, and FlatOut 4 are all examples of this. I mean Onrush literally sold 1000 physical copies during the UK launch period, how tf does any company other than a tiny indie studio warrant continued investment in such a thing? There's a reason why AAA racing games have almost entirely been relegated to rally, simulation and open world, with the later being basically comprised exclusively of two franchises - Forza Horizon and Need for Speed. The kart racing genre is even worse, MarioKart literally doesn't have any competition and has VASTLY outsold every other kart racing series combined. Only indie studios can afford to try anything remotely experimental, but they simply don't have the budget to create something like the titles listed beforehand.
People can claim that games like Burnout Paradise Remastered, WipeOut: Omega Collection and CTR Nitro-Fuelled were successes, and they were. But you also have to look at what kind of projects they are - remasters/remakes of games that already existed and have significant nostalgia associated with them. This means that they cost significantly less, and primarily targeted people who had already played these games back in the day. They were ultimately LOW RISK because it generally takes far less time to remaster or even remake something that already exists instead of building something new from scratch. Burnout Paradise probably sold perfectly fine for a barebones remaster, but for a brand new AAA racing game in 2018? Fuck no. Same with Omega Collection, is it any wonder that WipeOut: Rush is a (presumably) free to play mobile game with microtransactions? Most of the studios that made these classic arcade racers simply don't exist anymore. Bizarre Creations, Black Rock, Evolution, Bigbig, Sony Liverpool, United Front, Eat Sleep Play and Pseudo Interactive are just some that have all been buried for many years now. Even Ghost Games that made the recent NFS titles were shut down by EA last year.
I simply don't see this ever returning to how it used to, the market has changed and the audience that still has the passion just simply isn't there anymore.
Black Box?
@@ralcolfwolfcoon8207 True, forgot to mention them but yes, EA shut them down in 2013 with their last title being NFS: The Run.
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Black Box was my absolute favorite. My interest in Need for Speed died with them.
I hope it'll be the same as 2d fighting games. They too had a rough period before coming back.
While I agree with what you say. I could see making a little comeback bc people are starting to get tired of games like Forza Horizon. Be nice for indies to do Rush, Daytona USA or Crusi'n type games.
Thank you very much!
Being a French gamer and being extremely fan of arcade racing games, I am extremely happy to come across a video that talks about this subject. I'm even very happy to see in this video most of the sadly unknown titles that I still play today with so much passion. I hope one day like you that this fashion of simulation games will stop and that many arcade games come back! I'm thinking of subscribing and following you closely x)
see you soon :D
While we're at it, let's hope that this simulation/realism obsession stops in other genres as well. Make first person shooters like Quake again. Make third person shooters like Max Payne again. Make driving games like Twisted Metal again. Heal gaming. Let video games be video games again.
Anybody who says arcade racing games take no skill has never played Motorstorm. The last third of that game almost gave me an aneurism. Sure, part of it was rubberbanding, but all racing games have that. The thing about Motorstorm is all about boost control, mastering the physics, knowing where each and every pebble on the tracks are, and learning when you should fight or back off from the bigger cars. Also, there are 7 vehicle classes that take advantage of different terrain types. Mudpluggers and big rigs zoom through mud whereas buggies and rally cars slip and slide. There is a lot more to this game than putting the pedal to the metal until you win.
And just to be clear, a lot of what I said applies to many other arcade racing games too. They’re not mindless, they all have their learning curves, and they just look and play a lot more fun than sims.
Also Midnight Club 2 and 3
Midnight club is so hard too.
I'm still butthurt about Blur's demise. It had such a good gameplay with unique artstyle and presentation.
Well made analysis! It really makes you appreciate the current arcade racers available, as there aren't as many!
to me, its due to popularity of sim racing, and racing sets as well...
I'm an adult and I couldn't be more bored with realistic simulation racing games. They're all so generic and lifeless. Of course I got into and played some simulation racing games throughout the 2010s. But during the second half of the 2010s, I started giving up on them fast. Flatout Ultimate Carnage is the only racing game I play these days. It's so good. I also tried Wreckfest and had some hopes for it. But it's trying to be like Forza too much. Just sad.
Weeckfest is trying to be like Forza? What are you talking about? There is nothing similar
@@volan777 its way more sim like and it makes the destruction feel more lackluster even though it has good weight to it
agreed, test drive unlimited and forza are so boring they dont feel like videogames they feel like glorified tech demos
We should've stop the gaming developers from putting the arcade racing games in phones.
Why? That's the only way to play the game for some people
@@not_kjb it wasn't that much of a deal in the beginning,but as time went on,the mobile market got saturated with extreme micro transactions,and barebones gameplay.
I love arcade racing. Spent major part of my teens playing games like NFS: Most Wanted, and midnight 3 and the sequel to it los angeles. miss the rush i used to get when i won a difficult race. looking forward to arcade racing rise again.
Totally agree with what you said. Luckily Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune survived in the arcade and is popular everywhere
Indeed the last tournament was like 1 month ago its amazing!
most enjoyable arcade racing game for me sadly the playing fee and tuning process is keeping me and probably many people from it
Simcade racing games desperately need a revival man. These days its either Forza or Need for Speed. It's a real bummer
Professional Racing endorsement money talks. When the head dev of Gran Turismo can do well on the real life track there is gold on the hilla
Nfs is an arcade racer, not a simcade
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Unless it’s Shift and Shift 2
i dont really like simcade i want things to stay arcade. nfs needs tripple a competiton again
it feels like nfs may die soon and i really dont want it to
The big reason is the companys don't wanted a risk more, i mean looks the company if todays looks one each other and try yo copy what they works and the companys are looking for the maximum profit so they don't want este money in little franshise or niche franshise. I am pretty sad about today with arcade racing games, only wreckfest filled my emptiness
But by doing this (copying what others do) the inevitably end up saturating the genre and creating more and more boring titles every time. I speak for myself but all the last need for speed games feel bland and uninspired.
@@atomickid
The first gaming crash was caused by lack of quality. Hmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder what's going to cause the much needed next one...
The industry monopolized. Publishers bought many developers, had them work on franchises that became sim-based, sim-cade based, changed, etc. Fewer arcade games thanks to the popularity of sim-based games and greed instead of a focus on fun.
Racing sims are boring AF. Arcade racers are just a ton of fun. Bring back Motorstorm, Burnout, Ridge Racer etc. Also car combat like Twisted Metal.
An interesting perspective on the topic. I fondly remember playing TEST DRIVE on the Apple II, OUT RUN and HARD DRIVIN' in the arcades, and ROAD RASH II on the Sega Genesis. I remember enjoying BLUR and GAS GUZZLERS EXTREME, too. I have noticed that some newer "simcade" flight games are less forgiving and less fun than their 1990s counterparts. Have you noticed the same?
Arcade is now on mobile, and mobile has lower quality standards, plus the exploitative money grabbing methods. It’s a sad situation. Because these exploitative methods now are starting to affect console games as well, games shouldn’t in general seen as a service, but as a product instead… it’s just degrading it’s value.
The example to follow would be psp games, they could be possible on mobile, if there wasn’t a push for freemium games. Since I’ve tried real racing 3 back in the day I just wished it had a paid version (and better physics).
I sincerely just hope stuff gets better: Game Demos instead of freemium games. And better store selection, not a bunch of crappy clones everywhere, I swear where is the standards with mobile gaming!?
thanks for helping me find some more awesome games
it sucks that nfs is the only alive arcade racing game franchise anymore and i really wish there was some competition from tripple a companies
So I wasn't crazy, arcade racing games start to disappear from PC.
I get into the genre thanks to NFS U2 and later on I discovered gems like MotorStorm Pacific Rift and I really miss games like those.
I recommend giving Dirt 5 a look if you haven’t. The game is such an amazing Arcade racer and it plays very Arcade-y compared to the other games! It feels more like Dirt Showdown, which I also loved!
DiRT 5 was piss boring imo. Showdown was really fun though.
@@NotSponsoredByEA agreed
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I bought it and we enjoyed splitscreen alot with friends . Great game
I just saw this today and my conclusion that
This gives me depression for seeing one of my fav genres like this
Do you know Full Auto series? Especially the second title for ps3 and x360. Literally no one mention that game E V E R pretty sad :(
I do actually. I have a whole five part video series on it. Though, I have been thinking of cleaning it up, and releasing it as one video in the near future.
@@GamerAlexVideos that's right. I even commented under one of those video! Dumb me.
Together with burnout and carmageddon that series is one of my favourite!
Man this stinks, cause split/second and pure were some of my favorite games
our generations now day are become adult and serious.. and the generations below us are playing with their smartphone games.. im miss arcade racing games
As a guy who has no computer as of writing of this comment, I see where you're going from.Although there are some good and fun arcade racers on mobile like Horizon Chase,most of these games are either extremely monetized, boring,weird,and just all around not special,which is why I quit the Play Store to get into PSP emulation.Great video.
Edit:I now have a laptop
my only gripe is that Super Street was nothing but an complete mockery of arcade racers, like it was developed by the exact same guys behind Flatout 3 of all games (y'know the worst rated game on Steam that has Arabic song ting an), but yeah I'm gonna miss games like TXR/Shutoku Battle series where you'll have to adjust your car to your liking to winning races
I'd also missed Burnout too, but not even gonna bother with the latest installment knowing EA's lust for money and current song trends, I think I'd just bother with something weird shit like Gal Gun over playing any racing game published by EA
and I sincerely hope CarX Street, Night Runners, and even this SLRR-esque game called "Apex Point" would eventually brought back balance to racing landscape because I'm actually not gonna expect anything at this point
Ew you Play Gal Gun
@@darknova1552 better than having my money wasted on EA's surprise mechanics on their racing game catalouges for all I give 2 shits about
flatout 3 is not the lowest rated steam game and the arabic ringtone from shinyodds video came from his music folder
@@thereallystoopidguy1449 don't you realize you're replying to this comment this old at the time I was writing that?
Split/Second is my best
I find it funny how even modern Anti-Grav racers are sim-esque, such as Redout and Redout 2
there’s this called wangan maximum tune, and when an arcade has it, every player of that game pretty much just spend their life savings
I still miss Outrun to this day.
I think a lot of this has to do with the simple fact that the Kids from back then are now all adults.
As we get older our tastes change, sure not everyone gravitates away from the simpler pick up and play style games, moving on to more sim-like titles but, a LOT do just that..
Piss poor decisions on the part of many developers also pushed many players away from the genre too.
Take the Grid series for example, a series with a major identity crisis every title.
The original was utterly PACKED from day 1 till Codies killed the online servers, even then diehards found ways around that with the likes of Gameranger, Hamachi and Tunngle.
The fans of Grid 1 were greatly disappointed with Grid 2 with it's drift to win physics in racing (even the fwd cars were faster sideways through the turns) and the tea-tray on ice drift physics.
Paradoxically a whole raft of people LOVED Grid 2 and it sold around 20 million copies iirc.
When Grid Autosport arrived and returned to a more grip racing style many of those who'd abandoned Grid 2 stayed away as did many of those who loved Grid 2, resulting in sales of around half that of Grid 2, this "failure" resulted in 60% of the dev team being canned.
GRID 2019 did little to alleviate this, with less content than Grid 1, no drift, no derby plus a PLETHORA of problems that Codies flat out refused to fix, plus the decision to put it on sale less than 1 month after launch just ended up pissing players off who paid full price for it. Net result sales of between 300,000 to 2,300,000 depending on where you look.
Then we end up with GRID Legends... Unable to draw even 500 players online at launch (Grid 2 had over 7,500 on launch day, Grid Autosport had 3,500, GRID 1,000 seeing the pattern here?).
Each game drew successively less players because Codies continually ignored their fans each game.
Net result? Codies desperately bought studios left and right, Evolution Studios (Driveclub), SMS (Pcars) who produced the bombs Onrush and PC3 respectively after their acquisitions and we ALL know how well THAT went!
The situation at Codies got SO bad they dumped their forums not once but TWICE to bury the bad press... Their current forums are a desert in comparison to the 2000's...
Net result? Codies put themselves up for sale, Tencent bid $750,000,000 only to be outbid by EA to the tune of $1,200,000,000 (makes a change for EA to be ripped off instead of ripping off it's customers lol).
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
I'm an adult and I couldn't be more bored with realistic racing sims. I've gotten into sim racers and used to spend quite a lot of time with them. But my preference for aggressive arcade style driving has steadily remained ever since I started playing games. I enjoyed sim racers for quite a while but even in them I always played dirty and aggressive. It was always no holds barred for me because I still saw it as just a game. Needless to say, I didn't make many friends, haha. I was even annoyed by the overly clean driving of some people. Anyway, after a while, I started seeing how generic and lifeless sim racers are. They feel like a waste of time and so unfulfilling. These days, I really want some energy and badass fun in my games more than ever. Everything is so overly realistic and boring. And this problem is not just limited to racing games.
Grid Legends is a decent game overall that need the attention it's deserves. Not to mention they have a 10 year exclusive plan for WRC game.
@@Amadeus_Eisenberg you are free to express your own opinion but it's just an objective fact that sim titles provide more variety in driving than arcade ones. Yes, arcade can be more thrilling with more violence on track. But the 'each' race feeling different feel needs proper physics. This is why the simcade genre became so popular, it has realistic physics, but unrealistically good cars that don't exist in real life
Recently, I am really getting tired from playing all those sim racers and now I am playing more arcade games instead.
And those two games from 1:40 to 1:45. Ah such good times :)
I want a ridge racer 8.
Ridge Racer Night 2024 was pretty much a teaser, so I’m hopeful for a new one
Ridge State in 7 is pretty much ripe for worldbuilding, think 8 should make players immerse more in its’ world and the brand new racing competition like RSGP to celebrate 30th anniversary
Plus Ridge Racer 8 needs to innovate unlike previous games. And no, I’m not talking about Unbounded.
imo, it's the Open world that killed the Arcade spirit in arcade games.
The burnout paradise theme in the background had me in the feels for a moment.
i like the recent nfs games and don't really care as long as its not simcade
but the lack of arcade racers is present and i do have to consistently look to the past for new racing games to play
as i hate simulation racers and want to get as far away from anything related to sim as possible
Nice video, good work.
Before watching the video, normies.
It's because there are more normies always like things that are realistic and less creative or fantastical.
Especially if there is a realife equivalent like guns or cars.
It's why you don't have aaa racing arcade games anymore.
It's always about the money
PSA "Ridge Racer Unbounded" despite having the Bandai Namco logo was NOT and NEVER made by Bandai or Namco or Bandai Namco, it was made by Bugbear who approached BN with their idea of their game with the BN IP name slapped on it... they, as in Bugbear got away with it, and it turned out none of us Ridge Racer fans ever believed RRU was a true Ridge Racer game and that means that you should never list that game as some type of entry... that game does not exist.
Also smartphone games eroded most portable and console games in general... they are not the root cause however online forced on racing games has turned most racing games into some type of online service racing game that like the On Rush game become useless as single player or local competitive racer games.
I always hated mobile games, now i got one more reason to do so
ever since I moved into simracing the allure of arcade died out for me. Now I prefer arcadey games to still have realistic physics, but just unreal stats on their tyre compounds and other parts instead of just not following a realistic physics model in the first place
mmm my best racing is Project Ghotam Racing, mix arcade and simulation.
I miss the arena vehicular combat genre sooo much.
My favorite arcade racers have been track racers with multiple classes and disciplines and focus on real world race cars and real world race tracks, and Grid is literally the only one left with rumors of EA shelfing the last arcade track racing series with multiple disciplines and classes, guess ill move on to simcades where only Gran Turismo still exists since EA cancelled Project Cars 4, Codemasters biggest mistake was selling to EA, EA is trying to monopolize arcade racing, there should be laws and regulations to prevent these kinds of things
But arcade racers still don’t have a high fidelity game on mobile 🙄
Tbh mobile gaming has died in like 2015 when almost everything switched to f2p. It kinda shoveled it's own grave there.
And some arcade franchises like Burnout and Midnight Club were merged into other franchises
Midnight Club wasn't merged with anything. It's simply dead. Rockstar is done with that franchise.
@@kingofdust9725 Ist was kinda merged into gta 5
@@dornsmichel_1364 No, it was not. Midnight Club and GTA have nothing to do with each other.
Open worlds and fantasy vehicles and tracks are what has killed arcade racing
1:30 or,if you play on pc,keyboard too
not the reason that I expected but god damn it you're so right and it pisses me off lmao
GOOD WORK BRO
Trail Out is crazy good. No mobile game for sure. It's just like Flat Out
TRAIL OUT started as a mobile game and then became a PC game. I like the game a lot.
@@GamerAlexVideos Oh shit:P ^^ It seems kinda heavy for a Mobile game
@@GamerAlexVideos Love your videos man. Trail Out started my whole journey to play arcade racers again really. Discovered Burnout Dominator and are halfway through. Just bought Split/second today (afraid it was gonna be removed from steam randomly sometimes soon as I heard so much good about it. I never get tired of these kind of games.
Loved NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 so much. And I grew up with NFS and Burnout. I found out about Flat Out and played them 1 year before Trail Out, I felt heaven sent me a sign ^^
i found almost all of the mobile games to be not fun at all. I rather play on my emulator or old console
Because mobile games are trash
You cAn talking about of mobile arcade racer
Without arcade racing game racing genre itself is nothing but a empty husk town with nothing fun now this will be death of racing forever until arcade racing game comes back the genre will be dead soon.
Dead to you, but in terms of financial success and player engagement, it's still going incredibly strong. Fact of the matter is that arcade racing games were always niche outside of the biggest series, and the audience for them never grew with the constantly expanding development costs and expectations of AAA games.
Blur Was insane
Technological progress killed it.. Id rather have something that is better rather than something that is worse.
Because everyone goes hurr durr assetto corsa now, sorry but not everyone has a $10000+ gaming wheel set to play sim racers.
your statement contradicts itself
Wait DID MOBILE GAMING KILL ARCADE RACERS!?
I mean, there is other reasons that can be argued, but yea, I do believe mobile gaming 'killed' arcade racers. Though, I put 'killer' in quotes because the genre isn't really dead, but just a shell of its former self.
Gamer Alex (AlexKVideos1) what is your favourite need for speed game
@@naoisediver6541 That would have to be NFS Carbon. I always loved its artstyle, the physics feel the best they ever have, they replaced drag events with drift events, and who can forget those canyon races.
@@GamerAlexVideos KING! Carbon truly is the best.
I literally had 2 find an illegal version of blur on pc cause people
Want an arm and leg for it never had so much fun in my life I played the balls off split second they need to bring g arcade racers back to consoles and pc
Both need for speed and the crew 2 are open world arcade racers, its so boring, there are literally zero real world race tracks in these games, Grid Legends is the only current gen arcade track racer, i love Grid Legends but that is so sad, Need for Speed Shift was so good, would love to see a Shift 3 since Slightly Mad Studios is now back with EA
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I guess it's not really a sim/arcade racing thing, but one problem I have with especially racing games today is they're thematically so interchangeable. You're driving a bunch of cars that to people who aren't "car guys" simply look indistinguishable, racing on some generic track or through some generic city. Even the more "realistic" style racing games tended to have a more interesting style and more of a personality.
I miss Burnout so much.
You can say the market and demographics have changed all you like but the truth is that arcade racers just aren't good anymore. Modern arcade racing games aren't coming even close to their ancestors.
currently developing an arcade action racer for roblox it will be called DREAD - MELTDOWN, hopefully the birth of a franchise, after i develop dread wasteland and meltdown on roblox im planning to visit unity or unreal engine or other proper engines
Hyperrealism is what killed arcade racers and other genres as well.
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Let's go away to Daytona
idk... i think what killed arcade racers was the open world racing. open world games werent possible until more powerful machines came and they dont go well with arcades. players prefer open world arcade sims today. burnout paradise was a semi flop due to that imo. also arcade racers today became kart racers like sonic racing and hot wheels unleashed. i do believe though that theyll be back!
Burnout paradise was a flop because the structure of the game was complete fucking dog ass. No lap races killed any tension. You just get in a car and delete records, basically. The neck and neck fuckery of the burnout 3 era just wasn't possible with the sprint style street races of paradise. Plus the online fucking sucked.
Midnight Club would be an exception then
Why tf would open world kill arcade racing games, you’re delusional
Mobile games - especially in the likes of ASSphalt, which they shit a new one out every other week, looking like another "parody" of any Burnout game every time - was and is the REAL curse to the arcade racing genre. Fucken wiped out an entire genre faster than a holocaust, and for what? Licensed cars? Shitty mobile controls? Loot boxes and paywalls? Sorry I get emotional when it comes to arcade racing.
bold of you sayin' Holocaust in post dislike button era OurTube
@@adlibbed2138 Well now that you mention it, I can see the point. But someone had to do it. 😆
@@MetalArrow yep, sometimes i had to filter such types of comment because my comment gets auto deleted the second i wrote anything related to "national socialism"
@@TheSultan1470 Asphalt really isn't that bad per say. But compared to the source of where they got 95% of all their ideas, it's an insult and a sad evolution of gaming in and of itself, with free games, accompanied with loads of gambling.. I mean lootboxes. Give any Burnout, (1,2,3,revenge,paradise) a try and it'll hit you differently.
As for my experience Pc games have proper gameplay mechanics and game design
killed by story heavy online only type racing games. Hotshot racing is awesome.
I think online racing games arent good enough
EA, bad car physics, & more time spent on customization than making the game fun to play! Remaster BLUR already, doesn't Microsoft own Activision now!?!?
This is so sad
nice
I hate mobile gaming , only asian countries( India, China, Indonesia , Singapore , etc) play these shitty ( energy system) games .
95% of Mobile games suck, most are full of ads and don't offer any replay value, Mario Kart on mobile is a good example, you will finish first with out even touching the phone, the game plays it self, my 3 year kid will finish first and collect 4 to 5 stars by running the car in walls and not using power ups, then he tops charts because of the low player count. i would gladly pay for a AAA game, most phones can handle large games and good graphics..
It's simple isn't it,, the sim racing is real life racing , and that realism is what killed acade racing ,, because it makes people to feel like they actually driving a real car in sim,,, so in otherwords, why would they play acade racing if people can have the option to play the REAL life-like cars in sim racing games,,,, sim is what is all about and the future of racing
Because not everybody wants to play sim racing, not everybody likes realism, if i wanna feel like driving a car then i’ll just go do it in real life, driving like a maniac in arcade racing is what makes it fun, not realism
But the majority of players do though,, sim racing is the future of racing
There are plenty of arcade racing fans so no it's not a 'majority' of people who want sim racing.
Sorry but I disagree
@@GamerAlexVideos he’s just stupid, dont even bother
There's an awesome simcade on steam called Project Torque
Mobile gaming is only good for games like temple run and subway surfers etc maybe clash of clans .
Dirt Rally is arcade idc what anyone says
Need for speed most wanted 2002 was the best game ever !
NO
Is Not
This has nothing to do with mobile gaming. People don't take these mobile games that seriously. Racing games simply lost their steam. They had their time.
That's the point. If people don't take mobile games seriously, and see that arcade racers are 'like' mobile game, then they aren't going to take arcade racers seriously.
@@GamerAlexVideos Again, it has nothing to do with mobile games at all. Your brain is so fixed on hating mobile gaming that you see this boogey man in everything but consoles and mobile are two completely different platforms. Racing games just aren't important anymore. Their time has passed. Someone who is into console racers isn't going to just abandon them simply because racers also exist in the mobile market. Mobile games are not generally respected among console gamers as those are seen as only being for people who don't game on a regular basis and most likely don't really care about video games in general.
@@kingofdust9725 Racing games aren't important anymore? EA recently bought Codemasters, Forza Horizon 5 is doing extremely well, Hot Wheels Unleashed also is doing just fine, and we are getting a new Test Drive Unlimited game. Sure, we may had some really flops recently in the genre, but to say racing games aren't important anymore is literally ignoring everything.
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Basically they need free roam
Not really. I'm convinced that we can have closed track arcade racers that are successful. See the new Hot Wheels Unleashed game for example, which I hope it does well so we can see a resurgence in this genre. Not everything is just solved by 'going open world'.
I disagree and I call bullshit
So, what is your take on it then?
@@GamerAlexVideos I'm definitely not going to say that Mobile gaming killed arcade racers that's just fucking stupid I've been playing arcade racers since the 1980s everything in this generation is disposable if it's 5 minutes old y'all fuckin trash it
Wroooooooooooooooong!!!!!!! Bulllshite wrong.
What is wrong about my video?