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COKTOE said:
bunchanumbers said:

But it wasn't just that. N64 really did well with arcade racers. Hydro Thunder, Cruis'n USA, Cruis'n World and San Francisco Rush were all great on N64. Hydro Thunder in particular was well done with the expansion pak.

Ok. I will grant you Hydro Thunder and SF Rush. But those Cruis'n games? Your list just fell off a cliff, and it was a short trip. They were, objectively, technical garbage. And just not good on N64. At all. Widely panned, and deservedly so. I liked the arcade Cruis'n USA a fair amount. And although they were better on N64, PS1 had Hydro Thunder and SF Rush as well. I'll also raise you 2 Ridge Racer games, 2 stellar Wipeout games, 2 Destruction Derby games, whatever the excellent Namco Rally game was called, Need For Speed.....I could go on. It's lockdown territory for the PS1 in this genre. Besides I was only talking about technical prowess. My mind boggles that Gran Turismo is not a hands down winner in that capacity. It's weird to argue this, because N64 was a slight fav for me, but I always see "N64 was the most powerful, bleep-blorp" in some capacity, and nobody says boo. Should have made it a thread. Oh well. 

Oh come on. I'm just saying that the N64 racer library wasn't that bad. And it wasn't. Excite Bike, Mario Kart 64, Wave Race 64, 1080 Snowboarding along with Diddy Kong Racing show that the N64 wasn't a slouch in the racing department. I'm not saying that it was the definitive place for racing but it certainly wasn't a slouch. Although I am fine with saying that GT 2 was the best racer of that gen. I don't think it got topped until Forza came.