Daytona USA: CE OR Sega Rally OR Sega Touring Car?

[sych]

Now we all know which is perciecved to be the better game but which do you enjoy playing more: Will it be Sega Rally, Daytona Series (USA,CE,CCE-Explain which one below) or Sega Touring Car Championship? Pick one and list your reasons why below?

SEGA TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP



DAYTONA USA: CIRCUIT EDITION



SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

[thewhitefalcon]

I still need to play Circuit Edition, but this is a very hard question for me. I love Sega Rally (and SR Plus), but I might love Touring Car a little more.

I bought Circuit Edition but I haven't played it yet, I'll do that before I make my final decision.

[darkman01]

damn thats a hard choice, I don't have Touring Car ( I really should get a copy) , but both Sega Rally and Daytona (USA or CE) are great racers.
if I had to choose it would probably be Sega Rally , but its very close, Daytona loses in large part because of its technical issues (Im talking about the frame rate of course)

Daytona CE is on paper the better game, but something about the controls isn't as good, still a top notch game though.

[marc]

Sega rally for the win! Love this game... still.

Daytona could have been better, I still like it and play it almost as often as sega rally, one after another.

Touring car is a solid game and obviously benefits control-wise from the 3D controller, this is s common opinion. A peripheral I have never owned. Recently been thinking of getting one... in white

[sych]

As much as I love Sega Rally it's Daytona CE for me. The controls are fantastic and the handling is perfect. What gave it the edge over Sega Rally for me is the Arcade Steering Wheel. I'm such a fan of the steering wheel these days and Daytona CE is an absolute dream with it. For Sega Rally it's terrible. As for Touring Car, I never stayed on the track long enough with a normal model 2 pad so I imagine the Arcade steering wheel would have been alot worse for Touring Cars.

[barryburton]

I like Daytona, any of them, for a quick nostalgic blast. But Sega Rally, I can play that for hours. The handling is simply perfect.

Touring Car feels like trying to hold onto a rocket that inevitably crashes into the sides repeatedly. Not a big fan.

[dtss]

If were talking arcade with friends - Daytona all the way.
but on the Saturn its Sega Rally hands down.
The original Daytona wasn't even 2 player. Whats with that?!
And personally didn't like the style changes of circuit edition.

[davyk]

Didn't vote as I only own Sega Rally. Have only briefly played Sega Touring car. Seemed OK but it was only a very brief try.

Same as dtss - Daytona in the arcade wins. Probably my favourite arcade racer. Love the DC version and the XBL version is great too. The pop up in the Saturn version put me off and after getting the DC version and a wheel I didnt see the point in getting the Saturn version.

From what I see, Sega Rally wins as a Saturn game - but haven't voted.

[Sidney]

The Daytona series just edges it for me, Sega Rally is fantastic, I have Touring Cars and I just can't get on with it.

[Nick1984]

Sega Rally is the only one of these to have received a decent Saturn port.

If you want to play Daytona go for the PS3/360 version.

[punx2511]

Yeah easy one for me sega rally all the way,I'm not a fan of the style and music changes on cce personally and prefer the original over that. Touring car ive really tried to like have put some time into it but just can't get into it

[tempest]

I brought STCC despite SSM's negative review and enjoyed back in 1997 and 98, but I had to work hard to master the cars' handling, which was a reward in itself. I love the huge amount of content in the game. Still, these days it's a real chore to play, so it's by far the worst of these games.

Saturn owners are spoiled for choice when it comes to Daytona. I'd love to see a three way poll between each version. Still, arcade purists have the brilliantly playing but technically poor USA version, and those who want a more refined but different experience have CCE and the even better CE. All good games in their own way, with CCE being the worst of the lot. I love them all for different reasons. CCE was my favourite version for a long time until I played the others.

It doesn't come as a surprise that SEGA Rally is going to top this poll. It's sheer perfection when it comes to arcade racing and even over 20 years after its release, it's still my favourite racing game. There is just something so sublime about the racing experience and the whole package. And for once, PAL gamers got the superior version.

As others have said, if we were talking about the coin-op versions, it would definitely be Daytona. But on Saturn, Rally is by far the superior experience.

[sych]

Aug 14, 2017 8:32:05 GMT tempest said:

I brought STCC despite SSM's negative review and enjoyed back in 1997 and 98, but I had to work hard to master the cars' handling, which was a reward in itself. I love the huge amount of content in the game. Still, these days it's a real chore to play, so it's by far the worst of these games.

Saturn owners are spoiled for choice when it comes to Daytona. I'd love to see a three way poll between each version. Still, arcade purists have the brilliantly playing but technically poor USA version, and those who want a more refined but different experience have CCE and the even better CE. All good games in their own way, with CCE being the worst of the lot. I love them all for different reasons. CCE was my favourite version for a long time until I played the others.

It doesn't come as a surprise that SEGA Rally is going to top this poll. It's sheer perfection when it comes to arcade racing and even over 20 years after its release, it's still my favourite racing game. There is just something so sublime about the racing experience and the whole package. And for once, PAL gamers got the superior version.

As others have said, if we were talking about the coin-op versions, it would definitely be Daytona. But on Saturn, Rally is by far the superior experience.

That's an interesting idea. I thought about doing that but I thought the percentage of people that had played all 3 Daytona's would be incredibly low. Maybe I was wrong.

As for Sega Rally, I thought all versions were the same. Why is the PAL version better than the JPN and US version?

[darkman01]

Aug 14, 2017 18:03:28 GMT sych said:

Aug 14, 2017 8:32:05 GMT tempest said:

I brought STCC despite SSM's negative review and enjoyed back in 1997 and 98, but I had to work hard to master the cars' handling, which was a reward in itself. I love the huge amount of content in the game. Still, these days it's a real chore to play, so it's by far the worst of these games.

Saturn owners are spoiled for choice when it comes to Daytona. I'd love to see a three way poll between each version. Still, arcade purists have the brilliantly playing but technically poor USA version, and those who want a more refined but different experience have CCE and the even better CE. All good games in their own way, with CCE being the worst of the lot. I love them all for different reasons. CCE was my favourite version for a long time until I played the others.

It doesn't come as a surprise that SEGA Rally is going to top this poll. It's sheer perfection when it comes to arcade racing and even over 20 years after its release, it's still my favourite racing game. There is just something so sublime about the racing experience and the whole package. And for once, PAL gamers got the superior version.

As others have said, if we were talking about the coin-op versions, it would definitely be Daytona. But on Saturn, Rally is by far the superior experience.

That's an interesting idea. I thought about doing that but I thought the percentage of people that had played all 3 Daytona's would be incredibly low. Maybe I was wrong.

As for Sega Rally, I thought all versions were the same. Why is the PAL version better than the JPN and US version?

Im not sure about the JPN version , but the US version is missing some background/track details and such , which makes the game look a little more bland.
also the PAL version is a good PAL optimization.

[captainkael]

Touring Car! Followed closely by Daytona.

Sega Rally is such a good game, but I am so bad at it. So never really get to enjoy it.

Touring Car on the other hand, I can win at that game.