All bizarre but each captivating!
There is a new surf video game being released later this month for X-Box and Playstation called Surf World Series. It is described as:
An arcade-style representation of surfing, featuring monster waves to take on at a range of iconic locations.
These include places like Bell’s Beach, Australia and Waimea Bay, Hawaii, where you can tackle extreme waves, pulling off increasingly challenging tricks like kickflips, cutbacks and massive aerials, all while navigating towering tubes. Surf World Series features 44 solo challenges to complete, as well as online competition for up to 16 players in three different modes.
And looks like this:
Doesn’t the way the digital surfer slides around the wave seem so… typically odd? So… weirdly completely off? Like, the angle is all strange. Moving forward and sideways at the same time or something. How, in 2017, have video game makers not been able to capture even 3% of what surfing looks like?
Strange.
But it did make me wonder, what is the best surfing video game of all time? I offer the following for your consideration:
T&C’s Wood & Water Rage:
Transworld Surf:
Championship Surfer (for Dreamcast):
Which wins? Which is surfing’s best video game? And when BeachGrit releases BeachGrit Pro Shred Man! what features/waves/worlds/moves do you think it should include?
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Jbay is a left! Just played the demo and discovered that gem. All us kooks always looking at the right!
rip curl game was the worst i can recall
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California games
Sunny Garcia easy.
The best was MC Board. Came on a floppy disk. The better you surfed the more chicks in g-bangers turned up on the beach.
Now that’s 99% of what surfing is like.
may be showing my age here but california games on commodore 64
California games surfing part was fun. you would never get a 10 though. the highest score you get was 9.9. wsl judges take note..
What’s that one called that’s full of long haired doobie smokers? I know surfing isn’t all like that and is totally more sophisticated…
TransWorld SURF game is the best. This is fact.
The transworld game was so fun. The sound effects made it. “Can I wax your board”!
Ahhh, the timelessly function tail grab and kickflip are being featured. Spot on
KSPS still the best surf game out there easily
With a name like Climax Studios I would have expected something a little more, um, entertaining.
Any other options besides being Toledo or Zoltan?
Youriding kills it though…
I am very intrigued by this BGPSM. An overview of the game…
Playable characters:
Chas Smith
Derek Rielly
Negs
Cameron Diaz
Longtom
Filipe Toledo
Rory’s wife
Richie Collins
Rip Current Rory
KVF (being the mad ripper that I am, I will be the final character unlock and all my attributes will be maxed out)
Also, there will be a “Create a Player” so that all of the people I left out can create a game version of themselves..
Key features:
Limited actual surfing, more characters bitching about surfing and saying how much they surf (complete with lame travel stories)
Sharks trying to knock you off your board to eat you (especially when on your period)
Fred Pawle’s running commentary about said shark attacks
Characters having to do advertorials
Cocaine
Internet abuse
Grom abuse
Waves:
D-Street
Bondi
Mexico (leave it vague… don’t want to sell out!)
Mozambique
New Smyrna
Pipeline
Yemen
Kelly Slater’s Wave Ranch
D-bah
Somewhere in Cornwall
Moves:
Passive aggressive comments on CPU generated stories about your career
Upvote
Bleaching your hair
Going straight
Not washing your hair
Dick pic taking
Super special “Gang up on The Inertia” move
Cutback
Christ Air
Possibly the best thing to never get an upvote.
I would but like everyone else who didn’t I didn’t get a call up.
I’d surf way better in 8bit too.
“New Smyrna- leprechaun “shaper” calls you out, do an air reverse to move on to the next round!”
Take the game Leisure Suit Larry, insert Taj Burrow, add World Tour Stop apres surf settings/open wprld … voila! The real surfing game!
I like the one where Jimbo Pellegrine climbs that tower and rains down barrels at you while you are trying to rescue the princess.
What about YR – The Journey?
I think it captures at least 15%
Let’s make a surfing video game like Grand Theft Auto.
I totally thought about this! I even spoke with some German vid game manufacturer folk and told them the best surf video game ever would be Riot at the US Open where you spray paint rude slogans on young girls and throw stop signs through windows etc.
Haole goes to the North Shore mode would also be fantastic.
Bonus Level Hawaiian Legend moves to the mountains and will take on all booger bearded slope-style snowboarder challengers. If you lose, you get sacrificed to the volcano.
Dammit! Gerry just one-up’d my idea. Hand-planing!
Fucking Legend Jedi shit right here.
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Coincidentally, G-Lo is my rap name and I sign in to hotels as G Lopez.
“Low on weed” return to spawn for bonghit to continue’
That’s more of a book.
Might just be the WQS in a few years. Like, literally. You make it to the world tour cause you’re the best gamer.
Hold your fucking horses.
The only good surfing game is a shit one. If you even think about making a popular video game with successful film franchise spin off, etc. you’re going to get lots of blood feud.
PS: My favourite surf video game is Snake.