Why the street racing genre died?

Why the street racing genre died?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    zoomers

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this
      zoomers dont have licenses or know how to drive
      or if they do they hate car culture

      Young people can't afford to buy cars, let alone the consequences of racing them in the streets.
      You just had to be there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you are painfully ignorant.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Forza Horizon took it over and the novelty of tuner culture wore off.

    NFS Payback and Heat wasnt bad though.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Which modern games are worth playing regarding tuner and street racing aspect?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Only really forza horison and NFS heat/payback.

        Forza horison stradles the line between sim and arcarde with more realistic, but bland level design and NFS is still pretty arcady, but have more interesting level design and more focus on customization and the wow factor. Still pretty solid though.

        Music in both is abysmal so rev up that burnout/underground/GT3 playlist.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    too much soul for the 2010s and onwards

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Young people can't afford to buy cars, let alone the consequences of racing them in the streets.
    You just had to be there.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      damn i wish i was cool

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    well it was only popular because of fast and furious movies and last time I checked they drive cars to space now or some shit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pimp my Ride was a thing too and Fast and Furious was not as successful as later on.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pimp my ride is the biggest example of a show being "in hindsight, that was terrible"
      heard almost all the cars never even been improved and in someway got fricked even more.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It was just for show, most of the cars could barely even move after getting 20 tv screens installed on them

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The cars usually have debilitating mechanical issues and I'm surprised I never noticed that they're never shown fixing the actual problems. I guess all the flash is distracting.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think the tuning and car culture died in general, zoomers nowdays really don't care about cars

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Car enthusiasm has been dieing since the 2000s. It peaked when young people could drive reasonably priced 80s and 90s cars that could be modded yourself. Now those days are long over and cars have been cucked for over two decades now

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was a fad with the fast and furious era, I kind of miss fads like that and how games followed them.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2008 financial crisis, And by the time it was over, people had moved on to cheaper hobbies.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty much this. Car building was dirt cheap in the 00s

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this
      it killed everything good about the 00's
      unironically been downhill ever since

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i feel like we've been on borrowed time since this event

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Kids prefer building computers now.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      well to be fair building a car is very expensive

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    have you tried to trick out modern cars? Fantasy is sometimes directly impacted by reality

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fast and Furious moved away from street culture and started becoming about heists and saving the world
    also Gas powered cars are now being looked down upon by normies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Meanwhile F1 is as popular as ever.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        F1 has gone hybrid and does whatever it can to limit fuel use. There's even talks about going all electric.
        Thank god for formula E having exclusivity on the concept until 2038.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    post your carfu, for me? it's the mitsubishi lancer evo

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      mah lancer homie

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For me its this sexy frick

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because the compact japanese sedan market died

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It followed Fast and Furious.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Car design died.
    I cant think of a single relevant sports car post 2010 that doesnt look like a rejected logitech gaming mouse.

    They're all just hideous and anonymous.

    Has there been a single car in the last decade worth mentioning in terms of looks?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      370z
      integra

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i drive a 370z. Nobody likes 370zs except for me.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        370 is a 350 with worse aesthetics.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          in no way does any part of the 350 look better than the 370, from the interior, to the flat sides vs the haunches, to the faux diffuser, to the rear wing, EVERY inch of the 370 is improved over the 350 aestetically. The 350Z is based on an early 2000's bargain CD player you'd find at the goodwill. the 370 is based on stingray.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            370 has a weird grill, worse proportions and those shitty pointy blob style lights that every 2010's Nissan and Toyota had.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fiata.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its all legislation.
      Between USDOT banning things like flip up lights, EPA guidlines on emissions, and the NTHSA having stricter safety ratings coupled with CAFE laws dictating MPG based on a tiered scale per a cars wheelbase, you get what we have now.

      Its a razor thin tightrope car companies are dealing with nowadays

      So it goes llike this
      The bigger your cars wheelbase, the less MPG it has to get, the less emission restrictions you have.
      These CAFE laws were put in way back in like 2007
      Sliding scale that gets more restrictive every year, coupled with stricter safety testing.

      Its all a domino effect
      Car companies had a few options
      >make car larger, make more efficient engines, make car more aerodynamic
      Rinse and repeat

      At a certain point you hit a wall.
      An engine can only be so efficient and emission friendly while powerful enough to move a car, a body can only be so aerodynamic, a car can only get so large

      Physics are physics, aerodynamics are aerodynamics.

      All cars are shaped the same, with similar size engines, with similar footprints for its class for a reason.
      They have to be.
      They are putting pathetic 3 cylinder turbo engines with CVT transmissions in compact SUVs with automatic engine start/stop features, not because they want to, but because they HAVE to.
      Those huge ultra light alloy rims are for weight savings, not looks. The automatic breaking system is mandated by the government by 2024, not just a cool perk.

      The emergence of electric cars isnt because automakers WANT to.
      Hybrids dont exist because automakers WANT them.
      And its not even because BUYERS want them.
      But 4-5 years ago is when things got real bad and car companies started with heavy compromises to new cars.

      Electric and Hybrids are going to take over the road a LOT quicker than people realize, because they have pretty much made things so strict there isnt much of a choice.

      With that said, its nice driving a car youll survive in a wreck so its not all bad

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's just as nice driving a car that you won't survive in a wreck. It's the wrecking that isn't nice.
        Tl;dr it's fine until it's not.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Motorcycles are the new fad.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Short sighted Namco execs proceed to kill off your game by placing an unrelated franchise in the name because a new IP "wouldn't sell well"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the unrelated franchise is also killed in the process
      YEAH I'M STILL FRICKING MAD.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did catering to brown people die?
    good riddance.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >brown people
      You mean the nips? Who traditionally buy video games?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        no, i mean beaners, dune coons, pavement apes and worst of all: Wiggers. Nips had their own street racing games, and you had to be good at driving to play them. There was no loud horn on your escalade that pushed traffic out of the way in Midtown madness 5 for Black folk, you had to get fricking good.

        Meanwhile F1 is as popular as ever.

        F1 is the absolute bottom dregs of motorsport because it's the epitome of what makes europe shit. You can meet all the nice, friendly people, see all the lovely sights, experience all the neckbeard-drool-inducing "cvltvre" from your gay little wop tourist traps, but at the end of the day you have to let 17 somolais run a train on your 3 year old daughter because some cuck homosexual in pariment made the "sexual emergency for refugees" bill which passed 100-1. Fricking ANYTHING cool, good, innovative, or would contribute to anything other than that silver spoon coon Scammilton getting away with cutting a corner tighter than his hairline is cutting to the back of his fricking neck.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >implying japs don't street race
          you are a zoomer moron who was raised by /misc/

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not anymore they dont, they cracked down hard in like 2010

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Random /misc/tard spergout completely unrelated to F1

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    jews

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think it has anything to do with culture. People like seeing things in games they don't in real life so it would be a good time if anything.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gas car bad, they want electrics or trains

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The market right now is full of kids and grown adults who are afraid of risk. They lack testosterone, so they avoid scary hobbies like speed racing.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lack of fathers who taught zoomers how to use and fix a car.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tuner/ricer culture died off because of the recession in the late 2000s made it too expensive for most people to participate.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Toyota killed it by not allowing their cars to be part of street racing games.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Still appeared in initial D and wangan midnight
      Not allowing their cars to be part of SHIT ea racing games*

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        new games? lmao based

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yep, Wangan midnight max tune 6, and initial D the arcade. Yes i know it's the whatever'th arcade game, their stupid asses named it "the arcade" because the japanese can be morons.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Wangan Midnight has Toyota cars since the first one though
            and they added Toyota GR Supra for 6R

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why the street racing genre died?

    It was too degenerate and tied to the era of the early Internet, alternative rock and everything else that was in the 00s and we don’t have it now.

    Rallycross has its own aesthetic and culture, not ricing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Rallycross is rally for people with ADHD

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Any Street Racing game nowadays don't truly embrace the core DNA of these games, which I believe to be unrivaled customization/tuning and unchained speed which fits the entire culture of street racing. Everyone is trying to outflash and outrace each other to be the top dog. NFS Heat had a nice groundwork of that feeling, but I don't think they fully committed to it, they could have pushed it just a bit more. Still a great game.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Street racing used to embody rebellion against social norms. What's that, Susan? You just want to take your family to dinner without being broadsided by a neon-green Eclipse with bolt-on fenders? Well BRABRABRABRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hahaha, take that you old b***h, you've never had fun in your life! Call the cops, let's see if we can outrun them!

    Now it's zoomed out to the meta scale, where car culture itself is the target of a generation's rebellious phase. It helps a lot that zoomers live virtualized lives where things like school, work, even shopping and eating restarant food can be accomplished without leaving the house, and they're generally correct that owning a vehicle IS an undersirable financial burden that would stress their entry-level pay.

    ...that said, 99 times out of 100, when someone is openly hostile to car culture and acts like they're one of a chosen few who sees through some massive conspiracy, they're also a massive homosexual using reddit talking points to post-hoc justify wiping their ass with something boomers liked.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tuning is such a pain in the ass. I just want to race. Less customization the better.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not dead in the arcade scene

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wow so hard to buy a used 1990s-2000s car and install one of the dozen easy mode kits

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It is when all the good ones cost more than a Ferrari these days.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fast and Furious over saturated the market and when it started going off the rails the games didnt follow because a lot of it involved not driving cars.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw will never be a japanese 20 something during the bubble era, being able to afford a somewhat decent sport car with my first salary

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