Trials, Paperboy, Excite Bike, Super Hang On, No Second Prize, Manx TT Super bike, Radikal Bikers, Bikes Of TRON…
The recent situation is like jets where the more arcady takes mostly only exist in open world and mass multiplayer games.
Road cycling is a rich persons sport, gaming is circuses for us poors.
No one wants to play ‘tour de riche’
A /decent/ Downhill game could be good (Descenders wasn’t it., super wide mariokart-esque tracks - give me some goat tracks that need berms on the corners)
How has no one mentioned Happy Wheels yet?
Also, Riders Republic is a thing that people slept on.
Well, bikes are usually a lot slower…
There is Paperboy for the NES. I have that game amd it still very playable. But they are right not many of those types of games.
The excitement of F1 racing is unattainable to most people, which is why it makes sense as a game, but bikes are pretty tame. However, one thing that makes bikes interesting is their smallness, ease and simplicity. The Yakuza series has started picking up on giving protagonists such small vehicles, including a skateboard and a segway, and they make much more sense within those worlds than full vehicles.
I feel like this could be envisioned as part of a larger open-world game, not as the vehicle itself as a means to fun. Something like: You have an open world game, and it has cars, and they are faster than your bike. But they are far more nimble, can go in tighter areas, and can be stored in larger vehicles used to get around. So, something like picking the Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2, they’re a tool that’s fantastic for making use of the environment for better results, but not a “first-order strategy for movement”. This is even sometimes how they work out in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
I think there is an upcoming one, but I forget the name. It looked like Pacific Drive with a bike.
Anyone else thought the title was referencing to the book of George Orwell, Animal Farm?
“Four legs good, two legs bad” - Snowball, Animal Farm.
We have Road Rash. What more could you want?
Ctrl+F for “Descenders” came up empty. I think that’s the author’s issue.
Just tried this out recently. It’s good fun. I do wish it explained itself a little better at the start - I had no idea that it was essentially a roguelite for about the first hour I played - but it gets that feeling of momentum at the edge of wiping out just right
Excitebike, too! The built-in level editor was really amazing.
I was so excited when this came out on Wii! I need to set my Wii up again play it more.
I never had an NES as a kid, but my best friend did, and we spent hours playing excite bike. It was such a great game.
I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks ago and came across my old Commodore 64 Paperboy floppy.
Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time.
I saw something within the past year or so that looked like a new version of Paperboy and I got excited but then it turned out it wasn’t and I was disappointed.
look i’m not a ICE apologist or antyhing (these apply to EVs as well) but it’s not hard to figure out why car games are more popular. Also I’m not saying these are universal rules, i’m sure some disagree. But I think it’s safe to say these apply to most in the gamer market.
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more power and speed = more fun.
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Games are as close as most people will come to driving an expensive car like a BMW, let alone a Ferrari, or even actual racing cars.
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Even if you argue people are just not culturally conditioned to aesthetically enjoy bicycles, could you even really appreciate them in the same way in a video game? you’d barely see them.
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Cars are much more complex machines and that leads to each having a more unique character than bicycles, and that allows a greater variety of gameplay. For example, mid/front engine, ICE/EV, NA/turbo/super, FWD/RWD/AWD, etc. And usually in games there’s a progression from lower performance cars to higher performance cars.
Instead of leveling up your vehicle, you level up the infrastructure as you progress the game. By the end, you’re just taking the public transit system to the finish line.
Doesn’t this touch on the premise of Death Stranding?
There’s the kernel of a pretty good 3 minute YouTube skit in here.
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Uhhhh Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX is/was a thing you know?
Don’t forget BMX XXX!
Downhill Domination
that soundtrack slaaaaaaappped
came here to say just this
Trials Evolution would like a word
Zwift is very popular. But you have to do the cycling yourself
Just looked at their website. Is this “game” solely populated by rich people?
All competitive cycling is
I’ll give you that.
Road Redemption (motorcycle combat game)
7 Days to Die (zombie scavenging survival craft with mostly 2-wheeled vehicles)
Don’t forget Days Gone. Purely a motorcycle during a zombie apocalypse. Sooooo damn good!
beat me to it. That one was a lot of fun. It’s almost halloween, I should play it again.
