Online does still work , my mistake on that part thanks for correcting me in the comments 👍

I'm extremely surprised Namco hasn't tried to chash in on the Ridge Racer again. Especially since Tekken 7 did so good, as well as Ace Combat. I really hope this franchise comes back at some point.

Its a shame RR got abandoned but when you trying to compete in a dimishing market in arcade racing against NFS, GT , Forza, and Burnout, its hard to stick out

1:11 Legend says Dustin is still screaming to this day.

The first Ridge Racer game i've played was R4 and it was not bad but the soundtracks of that game was phenomenal.

ill watch as many "what happened to ridge racer" video essays as it takes to get RIDGE RACER 8!

A technique I find helpful in Ridge Racer is to always keep to the centre of the road, even during the corners. Drifting in this game works with no loss of momentum and speed, so un-learning the racing line is essential.

R4 is still a gem to this day. The series was my go-to arcade racer in my elementary days and it's been too long since the last title. I miss it. It almost feels like I'm mourning someone who died.

FYI, online battle still raging in Japan. You need some friends from Japan because the room is locked, preventing rammers entering sessions.
Fatalita, Totoofficial, those two are streaming RR7 online battles.

My first introduction to the series was Ridge Racer PSP. Played a bit of 6 and 7.

Shame the series got abandoned.

1:22 sighs and checks the comments.

I'm mad that Ridge Racer is consider an abandoned series. First introduced to the series thanks to RR6's demo on the Xbox 360 racing on Harbor line 765. RR7 built upon that with good customization.
Also what sucks is that even the director of Tekken, Harada-san is also upset too cause Bandai dismantled the team awhile ago.

Ridge Racer also popular because Namco pushed the graphics and framerate into max for this franchise in every console. For distance, Ridge Racer 7 released as launch title on PS3 and it runs 1080P at 60FPS! At that time, none of the launch titles on the PS3 ran on resolution and framerate like RR7.

I love how good the music was implemented into the game. Such an awesome arcadey feel for how brutal the games were on the extreme battles.

The soundtrack, the drifting, the cars , the courses and scenery and the action movie driving physics. This game was peak arcade racing and I miss it something awful. It was a different kind of fun that no other racing series has brought me. Namco would have my  whole wallet in a chokehold if they release Ridge Racer 8

What would I give for a proper RR sequel...

Ridge Racer was such underrated arcade racing genre
The amazing environment of tracks, really crazy looking machine with special sponsor based from Namco games, and ofc a lot amount of amazing soundtrack from many amazing composer from Namco Sound Team, one of my fav composer is Kohta Takahashi

Such sad this game series was ended with "Slipstream", at least I still can enjoy in game call "Drift Spirits", that actually made by same developer, Namco itself!

I always trust japanese games with the soundtrack they are undefeated in that field

I swear I’ll eventually make a retrospective on the series and dive headfirst into everything each game in the series has to offer. This series is criminally underrated.

I never heard on Ridge racer until now . This game has been lost forgotten by many. Very rare 💎🙂