Driveclub remains one of the best looking games ever made. It's weather effects are still arguably the best there is. It's such a shame it didn't get an official 60fps patch and it's even more of a shame that the studio that developed it no longer exists so we'll never get a sequel.
@kreepyguy8489 It was delisted years later and would have been had a Driveclub 2 or 3 come out regardless. But the closing of Evolution is one of PlayStation's biggest mistakes and this is WHEN they still had all those great execs. It was probably Jim Ryan who fought for them to be closed.
The best part of driveclub's visuals is the cockpit view where you can see the rain moving around on the windshield and the wipers pushing it around but there's only chase cam footage :(
Yep this was the reason upgrading gpu / cpus was so fun throughout the years. To go back and blast old Games at higher resolution and frame rates. This gives a little more hope
@@vectoralphaSec That's not true. DriveClub sold nearly 5 Million copies. That was more than Forza at the time did on Xbox One. The real reason Sony closed the studio and wrecked Driveclub had two reasons: 1) The game was a buggy mess at it's time of launch and the online mode appeared also to be a pretty lackluster expierence, before it got fixed by a numberous patches. Giving the game and the Playstation brand bad press and harsh gamer critics. 2) According to some sources, Kaz Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo, was pretty upset about DriveClub looking better than Gran Tourismo 6, which came out the same year DrivClub was revealed. He hated the situation of beeing forced to compete with another driving game under sonys roof.
Right! I mean even the car manufacturers themselves made use of some of the sounds that Driveclub team came up with. Their work really adds to the immersion.
@@perlichtman1562 they used the recordings, not the in-game compositions. the in-game sounds are overprocessed. They fit the game well, but they're aren't really very accurate. every car sounds like they're permanently going through a tunnel (which makes them sounds better, subjectively, but it's not accurate)
@GraveUypo They literally made a point they didn't over process. The reason they sound like that is because every car was driven in a real environment not a static dyno like a lot of games do. Every car was driven under load during the recording process. It doesn't sound like they are permanently in a tunnel, it sounds like they are driving through areas with a lot of trees and hills/mountains.
Being able to tell what the car was coming up behind me from the sound was phenomenal. Glad to see others thought the sound work was incredible. EDIT Disclaimer, I could tell when particular Ferraris were coming up on me. Despite my name I'm not a savant 😂
Driveclub and Need For Speed 2015 are easily the best looking racing games to date. Driveclub is still the only game to properly use SSR to emulate internal reflections on cars, something that only forza does now with RT The amount of detail they put into the shaders, particle effects, and the sound design! It's still got some of the best car sounds in any racer. It's quality over quantity at its finest
pretty sure forza motorsport 5 had internal windshield reflections (which i hate btw), if that's what you mean. For graphics, DC is up there, but i think fh5 has quite a bit on it despite being fully open world. DC it does look better than fm7 and gt7 though, so that's something. now for nfs2015, i have to disagree. i don't like that game's visuals. it only looks good on screenshots.
@@GraveUypo windshield reflections are a custom planar reflection that's put in by hand (driveclub does this too in it's own way). I'm talking about wingmirrors reflecting off the bodywork, or air intakes occluding the reflection of the sky, etc. Basically, the car reflects its own bodywork. Horizon 5 has more modern global illumination, higher res shadows, better draw distances and environment quality, etc. But the artistry and attention to detail put into the car models, paint shaders, weather effects, and everything else is unmatched. They simulate thin film refraction on headlights and windows, so you get that cool rainbow pattern. Raindrops slide over the car accurately, and move around the windscreen according to G Forces applied to them. They even used raytracing to see where the sky was visible in reflections in the cockpit, and then baked it into a texture for each car, so that shiny interior materials didn't reflect a bright cubemap when occluded by the rest of the interior. Its details like that which help it overcome its technical disadvantages of being so outdated.
Granted it didn't release how we know it to be now, it eventually became my favorite game on the PS4 and I still play it a lot. I've tried newer racers on both PS5 and Series X and it seems like every single one of them is missing something that Driveclub had. Even at 30fps, it's still the best looking racing game of all time. I haven't played the new Forza yet, so maybe minus that. Dirt 5 had me hooked for a while and I'm fairly certain it literally used elements from the Drive Club engine considering a lot of the same people worked on it. I wish all of the people from that studio would just form their own and continue where they left off. Their portfolio was outstanding and MotorStorm was literally the reason I bought a PS3.
You know how I've dreamed of this!!! If only this got like a PS4 Pro resolution patch back in the day for 1440p or even 4k checkerboard we would have been golden with the 60 FPS patch on the PS5 now. This is amazing!! Driveclub graphics was wayyyy ahead of its time.
I love Driveclub but not really. The game is pixelated as mincraft with tons of screen haze and camera shake so you don't notice, Forza and GT looked much better at the time with post processing effects
ohh boy youre reaching... 8 years ago sony was not "woke"? it was never a franchise... It was not killed immediately. And its a frkikin car game... Why would this immaginary "woke" company of yours kill a car game intentionally and at the same time hunting for exclusivity deals for games like final fantasy (or youll tell me Tifa's tits are woke too now?)? @@11ICE
Evolution studios no longer exists. The remaining teams members ended up joining Codemasters which was bought by ea. Some games they worked on were OnRush and Dirt 5
@@nightstepparadise8844True - that was why I got Dirt 5 but it just isn’t at the same level of immersion and it’s been a long time without Dirt 6 or Dirt Rally 3.
I played this game always in the cockpit camera. It was so incredibly immersive. The only racing game I can remember being close was Need for Speed: Shift with its amazing camera moves, FOV changes, and great use of blur to actually convey speed. The game dev area is full of absolutely unfair studio closures, but this one definitely ranks up there at the top of the list. So undeserved and a consequence of mostly outside and publisher pressure.
I'm not sure why a lot of people seem to care more about the "rain weather" visual only, the game honestly still looks amazing on virtually every weather and lighting condition, such as this dry weather footage at 3:16 The only thing that holds itself back is the poor anisotropic filtering and the dated AA solution because otherwise, it's gonna be yet another MotorStorm "emulation magic" all over again😆
Lmao you could say that about nearly every song game in most cases. Poor texture filtering and sometimes poor aa are holding them back. But also in most cases poor texture quality.
Driveclub features self-reflections! This is a feature only available through ray tracing in fm8, but driveclub achieved it way back in 2014 without ray trace tech!
IMO this is still one of the best looking racing games I’ve seen. The weather effects on this are unmatched. It’s a shame it didn’t do well and Sony dissolved the studio.
Yeah Evolution Studios and Studio Liverpool were two of the game studio closures that hit hardest for racing games that generation. Reminds me a little of what happened to the arcade racing game developers after Split/Second and Blur. Drive Club was a victim of unrealistic sales expectations, too. It sold over 2 million copies in less than 10 months, even though the PS4 had only been out for less than a year at the time of launch.
@@perlichtman1562 bizarre creations was great, but honestly what were they thinking with that blur thing? they would probably still be around if they made project gotham racing 5
After remembering how great Ryse Son of Rome, Driveclub, and The Order 1886 looked and how they still look better than most AAA games today if not would be looking better at 1080p makes me want to have a conversation with the developers now of days and Publishers on why they are not able to make games pushing consoles to their limits
I have tried immediately drive club on ps5 in 2019 but still 30fps It’s a shame Sony shutdown Evolution studios - they got us amazing Motorstorm trilogy! I would love to play pacific rift on ps5 in 4K & 60fps
Sony should be charged for their criminal behavior in shuttering Evolution Studios. That game is STILL my favorite racing game to date. There is an amazing simplicity in just selecting a car and racing, enjoying the audio / visual splendor while having amazingly fast load times on an HDD. It's no wonder you look at Forza Horizon and see the folks that were previously at Evo put in so much technical work into making FH into what it is today. It's an absolute shame that the game launched the way it did, but Sony should have done more to make sure the infrastructure and backend were supported.
This is why we need modern games to come out with options for higher fidelity and/ or fully unlocked frame rates. This way we don’t need to hack consoles and install unofficial patches onto older games. Consoles are different from PCs and they should have strongly optimised default settings but there needs to be more scalability and customisability.
Still looks amazing. Evolution Studios were so ahead of their time. What they accomplished in Motorstorm for the PS3 was already mind-blowing, and they surpassed that with Driveclub. If they didn't shut down, I'm pretty sure we would've had a 60fps patch for Driveclub on the PS5 a long time ago.
I have been dreaming of a PS5 version of Motorstorm. Because I think that a stage that changes every time you go around would be a great match with fast loading. I can't find a replacement for this title.
@@pse2020 Due to a combination of circumstances and compatibility, most of the titles produced by first studios are multi-developed with the last generation PS4. It is foolish and a shame that they are dragging their feet on a 10 year old product when they are 4-5 years away from releasing their next title.
@@petermulder7480 I am Japanese and the sale of this title was banned due to a major earthquake in Japan around the time MotorStorm 3 was released. I bought and played the foreign version because my PS3 was region free.
Damn, I thought this was an official 60 fps patch coming. I'm definitely not a fan of getting price gouged being sold the same content repeatedly, but this is one of the rare cases I'd pay full price again for 60 fps/ VR support.
MY GOD!!! It still looks fantastically good. How does this PS4 game looks more realistic and better than PS5 racing games? Shame people never gave this game a chance when it originally launched leading Sony to close down the studio.
This looks like a PS6 launch title! Driveclub still delivering. Seriously I think they shut this down simply because it was truly ahead of the times. The smoothness of the photo mode; those glorious weather effects; the realtime reflections just as good if not better than gt7. They could easily bring this back with updated environments, and it would sell as a great arcade racer.
I so wish they would patch in an official 60fps patch for Drive Club. It still looks amazing, and I still play it to this day. The rain effects are still the best in any driving game to date.
@@samza9622 Physical is great (and I have Drive Club physical) but it’s not a guarantee. Gran Turismo 7 locks you out of almost the entire game without an online connection even if you got physical - and Sony refused to issue refunds for people that wanted to return digital copies of the game, despite massive server issues after launch.
It's a damn shame what happened to Evolution, shame on Sony for not supporting this game. They could've easily given us a PS5 re-release or at least a PS4 Pro boost mode, I bet they got scared it was competing too much with Gran Turismo.
@@andreasmoller9798I played GT since the first game on PS1 and own every mainline game plus Prologue - but no recent GT game gave me the feeling of immersion that Drive Club does and I can still play Drive Club without a server connection - unlike almost all the content in GT7. Drive Club had its share of issues (like the ridiculous objective system) but I would have happily taken a sequel to it over the recent GT games.
@@perlichtman1562 thats you but i would not.,becouse i think gt does so many stuff better than driveclub, you could not even tune or customize cars in driveclub
So Richard. I spoke to one of the devs regarding this game and he told me it wasn't GPU bottlenecked. He said the CPU held it back and had the PS4 had more cpu it would have been a locked 60. Regardless it would be nice all PS4 games unlocked to 60dps. Regarding old games. Where are the PS5 remakes of Motorstorm, resistance fall of man, Killzone 2, Infamous. Rich get onto Sony :)
The tone mapping in this game is still top notch. It’s very telling of the game industry how a handful of games from early in the last generation still hold up so well. Things really stagnated and I still don’t quite understand why. I saw a clip of a guy working on the outer worlds 2 having a a dispute with one of his ai guys about a bit of code that should take 45 minutes taking 4 weeks. I don’t know the whole story but it seems to encapsulate where game development is at. There are a lot of people in game development that have no idea what they’re doing. They have degrees but they’re basically learning how to design games while designing games.
The issue is that todays games have way too many moving parts involved and therefore making games now is a logistical nightmare. We are far from the days where 20 people could reasonably make a big budget release. The demands now are too high.
@@pegasusactua2985 which is baffling. It’s hard to argue that the quality of the average game has grown along with the size of the average studio. Games are bigger and certain aspects have become “smoothed out” compared to older games but outside certain standouts they’re basically bigger, slightly prettier versions of old games.
The graphics of this 9 year old game is still better than most of recently released racing games. Too bad it was shut down, I would have wanted to experience the multiplayer part of the game.
Bloodborne needs 60fps but I’ll gladly take Driveclub as well. One of the most beautiful racing games. I loved their Motorstorm games, they were ahead of their time.
@DF Clips Guys, maybe you can officially address to Sony, to add those patches in their firmware updates, because it's so sad that there are hundreds of games that were on PS4, and can run stable 60fps on PS5, and also this could bring some potential buyers, who would go for PC, because of this unfair lock of framerate. I got PC too, but it makes me sad to see games locked in 30fps on a capable machine.
I am playing Driveclub in 2024 and have been playing it over the years. It NEVER gets olds. Now i play on My Ps5 and on Steamdeck over remote play, both amazing and fun !
Thanks Richard, looking forward to the next vid. I still play DC regularly and it's the perfect game to show off graphical upgrades (pick a class s to show real speed, and variety in weather, sunny, rain, snow, thunder/lightning at night, etc).
the fact that so many years later and this game surpasses many graphic aspects of games even like gran turismo 7, i just can't comprehend sony's way of thinking
Right? And I mean the game sold over 2 million copies in the first 10 months - on a system that launched less than a year before the release for a brand new racing IP. Just ridiculous.
I can't believe Sony doesn't enable all PS4 games to work like this, via a toggle option in the system advanced settings menu. Even if they put a warning up which says "here be dragons, the game may break"
I hope people like me, who never had the chance to purchase games like Driveclub and Forza Horizon 2, can someday play these awesome delisted games. Seeing the potential that the modding community brings to the table truly makes me happy and I know that one day I'll be able to freely play whatever I want. Long live physical game preservation.
You can still buy a used physical copy. I played the game a bunch on PS4 Pro last year, including with a Thrustmaster T248 force feedback wheel. Other than having to ignore a bunch of text about not being able to connect online during gameplay, it even let me download the patches so I got the full weather and everything.
@@perlichtman1562 I plan on doing the same thing; however, I won't have access to the DLCs as I couldn't purchase them. It's better than nothing, I guess.
I still hope one day Sony will announce a PS5 version or patch to unlock the frame rate and at least get this to 1440p. I’d rebuy it (I have the PS4 disc) in an instant for PS5!
Driveclub looks so good, if no one ever saw it before and it was shown off (@60fps) right this moment as Forza Motorsport Series S footage, it would be believable.
It's a shame that we are almost three years into current generation and we are still excited to see a game that was released on October 7th 2014.... Making it almost ten years old. Where are the actual "current generation" wow game's because honestly at this point I'd wish I wouldn't of bothered with ps5 and series X. This game still looks amazing on ps4 and here we are gushing over a 10.3 terraflop machine running a game from almost a decade ago. Poor this generation, totally lacklustre and underwhelming. If there is a mid generation refresh coming or hinted at, why bother at this point. I honestly haven't seen a game yet that screams "current generation" is here. Is it just me or does anyone else think this generation as a whole as been lacklustre!?
I wish the background music was the old DF music, talking about the ones that plays during COD Blackops 2 videos from back in the day. love those tracks
This doesnt make anybody mad? I mean here you have it, some guy was able to do software upgrade and unlock a frame cap... why cant that be a legitimate thing oficially?
I never had the full game, but I did get the standalone DriveClub Bikes. It's a shame that it's so all-or-nothing in the racing genre that if a game is not a hit, the studio gets shut down.
You said it - and how is selling over 2 million copies on a console that was less than a year old at the time of launch not a hit for racing game that’s a brand new IP? The game absolutely deserved a sequel and no other racing game got more impressive free updates, especially the weather.
Driveclub remains one of the best looking games ever made. It's weather effects are still arguably the best there is. It's such a shame it didn't get an official 60fps patch and it's even more of a shame that the studio that developed it no longer exists so we'll never get a sequel.
Sony hates this game. A year of delays and Sony delisted the game and closed the studio.
@kreepyguy8489 It was delisted years later and would have been had a Driveclub 2 or 3 come out regardless.
But the closing of Evolution is one of PlayStation's biggest mistakes and this is WHEN they still had all those great execs. It was probably Jim Ryan who fought for them to be closed.
Just play dirt 5 it's from the same developers(mostly) and feels kinda similar
This rain technology was ahead of its time and a shame the studio got shut down.
And it is still the best VR racing game.
This is just a great raceing game all around.
Imagine what else they could have done. Driveclub was with only ps4 they didn't even get to touch ps4 pro.
@@pennywisethedancingclown7139the gameplay was average at best
Never mind the rain, what about the snow!
I would honestly buy this if Driveclub would get official PS5 support. Just beautiful.
Right?! I love that DF highlighted this but it feels like a gigantic tease to watch this footage and not be able to run to the PS Store and buy it.
Same mate
But does it now run at 60fps or do you need to patch it somehow 🤔
@@viperx220racing3no
Exactly@@incredibilistic
The best part of driveclub's visuals is the cockpit view where you can see the rain moving around on the windshield and the wipers pushing it around but there's only chase cam footage :(
Right!
Not sure it’s Bac Mono or some other car but regardless, there would be no wipers here since it’s open cockpit
Yeah they missed a trick not showing inside a car here for sure.
It's a shame how many PS4 games don't have a supported frame rate boost on PS5
And resolution and higher anisotropic filtering and maybe also higher quality textures.
@@samza9622 Yeah, but I'm measuring my expectations.
Yep this was the reason upgrading gpu / cpus was so fun throughout the years. To go back and blast old Games at higher resolution and frame rates. This gives a little more hope
Someday Bloodborne... Someday...
A damn Shame 😢
Drive Club was such a good game, closing the studio was such a blunder.
The game didn't sell.
@@vectoralphaSecMany games didn't sell, but studios are still around.
@@patrickoae86I didn't find this difficult to understand. They already have a recognized IP in Gran Turismo. DC didn't sell well.
@@vectoralphaSec
That's not true. DriveClub sold nearly 5 Million copies. That was more than Forza at the time did on Xbox One.
The real reason Sony closed the studio and wrecked Driveclub had two reasons: 1) The game was a buggy mess at it's time of launch and the online mode appeared also to be a pretty lackluster expierence, before it got fixed by a numberous patches. Giving the game and the Playstation brand bad press and harsh gamer critics.
2) According to some sources, Kaz Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo, was pretty upset about DriveClub looking better than Gran Tourismo 6, which came out the same year DrivClub was revealed. He hated the situation of beeing forced to compete with another driving game under sonys roof.
@@kaivoss839comparing graphics from a 30fps racer with a 60fps racer makes no sense. Obviously GT6 was a lot more impressive.
Not only does Driveclub look phenomenal for its graphics but also the SOUND design of the cars was top notch 👌🏻
Right! I mean even the car manufacturers themselves made use of some of the sounds that Driveclub team came up with. Their work really adds to the immersion.
@@perlichtman1562 they used the recordings, not the in-game compositions. the in-game sounds are overprocessed. They fit the game well, but they're aren't really very accurate. every car sounds like they're permanently going through a tunnel (which makes them sounds better, subjectively, but it's not accurate)
@GraveUypo
They literally made a point they didn't over process. The reason they sound like that is because every car was driven in a real environment not a static dyno like a lot of games do. Every car was driven under load during the recording process. It doesn't sound like they are permanently in a tunnel, it sounds like they are driving through areas with a lot of trees and hills/mountains.
@@aaronsmith7143The dude just doesn't know the concept of "sound propagation through space"
Being able to tell what the car was coming up behind me from the sound was phenomenal. Glad to see others thought the sound work was incredible.
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Disclaimer, I could tell when particular Ferraris were coming up on me. Despite my name I'm not a savant 😂
Driveclub and Need For Speed 2015 are easily the best looking racing games to date. Driveclub is still the only game to properly use SSR to emulate internal reflections on cars, something that only forza does now with RT
The amount of detail they put into the shaders, particle effects, and the sound design! It's still got some of the best car sounds in any racer. It's quality over quantity at its finest
pretty sure forza motorsport 5 had internal windshield reflections (which i hate btw), if that's what you mean.
For graphics, DC is up there, but i think fh5 has quite a bit on it despite being fully open world. DC it does look better than fm7 and gt7 though, so that's something.
now for nfs2015, i have to disagree. i don't like that game's visuals. it only looks good on screenshots.
@@GraveUypo windshield reflections are a custom planar reflection that's put in by hand (driveclub does this too in it's own way). I'm talking about wingmirrors reflecting off the bodywork, or air intakes occluding the reflection of the sky, etc. Basically, the car reflects its own bodywork.
Horizon 5 has more modern global illumination, higher res shadows, better draw distances and environment quality, etc. But the artistry and attention to detail put into the car models, paint shaders, weather effects, and everything else is unmatched.
They simulate thin film refraction on headlights and windows, so you get that cool rainbow pattern. Raindrops slide over the car accurately, and move around the windscreen according to G Forces applied to them. They even used raytracing to see where the sky was visible in reflections in the cockpit, and then baked it into a texture for each car, so that shiny interior materials didn't reflect a bright cubemap when occluded by the rest of the interior.
Its details like that which help it overcome its technical disadvantages of being so outdated.
Granted it didn't release how we know it to be now, it eventually became my favorite game on the PS4 and I still play it a lot. I've tried newer racers on both PS5 and Series X and it seems like every single one of them is missing something that Driveclub had. Even at 30fps, it's still the best looking racing game of all time. I haven't played the new Forza yet, so maybe minus that. Dirt 5 had me hooked for a while and I'm fairly certain it literally used elements from the Drive Club engine considering a lot of the same people worked on it. I wish all of the people from that studio would just form their own and continue where they left off. Their portfolio was outstanding and MotorStorm was literally the reason I bought a PS3.
Agree 100%
@@henrycassidy1588disagree 100%
Graphically this game looks so SOO stunning
Mesmirizing!
You know how I've dreamed of this!!! If only this got like a PS4 Pro resolution patch back in the day for 1440p or even 4k checkerboard we would have been golden with the 60 FPS patch on the PS5 now. This is amazing!! Driveclub graphics was wayyyy ahead of its time.
I love Driveclub but not really. The game is pixelated as mincraft with tons of screen haze and camera shake so you don't notice, Forza and GT looked much better at the time with post processing effects
@@Skuntac
It's pixelated simply due to the lower resolution 720p. That would be gone with a higher internal resolution.
@@SkuntacBuy a normal monitor.
@@welunfes I play on a PC monitor lol
It's really weird how current racing games still haven't matched Driveclub's rain effects.
It's weird how woke Sony killed off the franchise almost immediately.
@11ICE not really. It didn't really sell. And they have Gran Turismo (name recognition). (Regardless of how you feel about GT vs DC).
ohh boy youre reaching... 8 years ago sony was not "woke"? it was never a franchise... It was not killed immediately. And its a frkikin car game... Why would this immaginary "woke" company of yours kill a car game intentionally and at the same time hunting for exclusivity deals for games like final fantasy (or youll tell me Tifa's tits are woke too now?)? @@11ICE
You should play days gone that game has the most incredible weather effects I've seen on any game. Maybe even driveclub and gta5.
@@NxtDoc1851In what world having more than 1 successful racing game on the same platform is considered a NO NO ?!
Just imagine how would Driveclub 2 look like on PS5.
Sony dropped that game hard, should have been a franchise.
@@petermulder7480Because humanity has taken a wrong turn
Evolution studios no longer exists. The remaining teams members ended up joining Codemasters which was bought by ea. Some games they worked on were OnRush and Dirt 5
@@nightstepparadise8844True - that was why I got Dirt 5 but it just isn’t at the same level of immersion and it’s been a long time without Dirt 6 or Dirt Rally 3.
@@perlichtman1562EA WRC is coming out soon, made by Codemasters
This is a gem of a racing game. Sony should capitalize by making more of it
I played this game always in the cockpit camera. It was so incredibly immersive. The only racing game I can remember being close was Need for Speed: Shift with its amazing camera moves, FOV changes, and great use of blur to actually convey speed.
The game dev area is full of absolutely unfair studio closures, but this one definitely ranks up there at the top of the list. So undeserved and a consequence of mostly outside and publisher pressure.
I still return to this game even in 2024 as it just looks and plays great. A classic racing game ❤
I'm not sure why a lot of people seem to care more about the "rain weather" visual only, the game honestly still looks amazing on virtually every weather and lighting condition, such as this dry weather footage at 3:16
The only thing that holds itself back is the poor anisotropic filtering and the dated AA solution because otherwise, it's gonna be yet another MotorStorm "emulation magic" all over again😆
Yeah, the textures were extremely limited, both in resolution and filtering. I'd love to see this game get a proper sequel. Alas, it'll never happen.
Lmao you could say that about nearly every song game in most cases. Poor texture filtering and sometimes poor aa are holding them back. But also in most cases poor texture quality.
@@TB-BBBB And by what standards?🤡
@@TB-BBBBxddd what looks better ? forza motorsport ? XDDD
Driveclub features self-reflections! This is a feature only available through ray tracing in fm8, but driveclub achieved it way back in 2014 without ray trace tech!
It's insane how good this game looks as an early PS4 game. I absolutely loved this game back then and it's so sad we won't get a Driveclub 2
IMO this is still one of the best looking racing games I’ve seen. The weather effects on this are unmatched. It’s a shame it didn’t do well and Sony dissolved the studio.
Yeah Evolution Studios and Studio Liverpool were two of the game studio closures that hit hardest for racing games that generation. Reminds me a little of what happened to the arcade racing game developers after Split/Second and Blur.
Drive Club was a victim of unrealistic sales expectations, too. It sold over 2 million copies in less than 10 months, even though the PS4 had only been out for less than a year at the time of launch.
@@perlichtman1562 bizarre creations was great, but honestly what were they thinking with that blur thing? they would probably still be around if they made project gotham racing 5
After remembering how great Ryse Son of Rome, Driveclub, and The Order 1886 looked and how they still look better than most AAA games today if not would be looking better at 1080p makes me want to have a conversation with the developers now of days and Publishers on why they are not able to make games pushing consoles to their limits
Still blasting Driveclub OST from time to time irl ! such goodness. 🏁
I would love to see more 60 FPS patches, but especially in this case I don't see Sony patching it as you can't even buy it anymore in the store.
Hearing Rich say "PS5 is showing 69% more performance than PS4..... nice" had me laughing a LOT that was unexpected!! Thanks Rich!
Thought I was the only one that caught that lol
Still one of the best looking racers of all time
I have tried immediately drive club on ps5 in 2019 but still 30fps
It’s a shame Sony shutdown Evolution studios - they got us amazing Motorstorm trilogy!
I would love to play pacific rift on ps5 in 4K & 60fps
Sony should be charged for their criminal behavior in shuttering Evolution Studios. That game is STILL my favorite racing game to date. There is an amazing simplicity in just selecting a car and racing, enjoying the audio / visual splendor while having amazingly fast load times on an HDD. It's no wonder you look at Forza Horizon and see the folks that were previously at Evo put in so much technical work into making FH into what it is today.
It's an absolute shame that the game launched the way it did, but Sony should have done more to make sure the infrastructure and backend were supported.
Last racing game that I really loved
Driveclub is one of the games why I still love the PS4.
What's super impressive about drive club is the first person camera. Seeing the water run off the windshield. Shame they didn't show it in the video
This is why we need modern games to come out with options for higher fidelity and/ or fully unlocked frame rates. This way we don’t need to hack consoles and install unofficial patches onto older games. Consoles are different from PCs and they should have strongly optimised default settings but there needs to be more scalability and customisability.
Wish you guys showed the inside of the car in the rain! The way the water simulation works when you move from right to left is amazing!
Still looks amazing. Evolution Studios were so ahead of their time. What they accomplished in Motorstorm for the PS3 was already mind-blowing, and they surpassed that with Driveclub. If they didn't shut down, I'm pretty sure we would've had a 60fps patch for Driveclub on the PS5 a long time ago.
I have been dreaming of a PS5 version of Motorstorm. Because I think that a stage that changes every time you go around would be a great match with fast loading. I can't find a replacement for this title.
same, I did start learing to do the emulators and motorstorm is good there, not perfect but close enough for me.
Motorstorm made me buy a PS3 and a big HD tv.
That leap was incredible at the time
Sony is sitting on some amazing titles and does nothing with them... Motorstorm with the hardware of the ps5...its a match made in heaven...
@@pse2020 Due to a combination of circumstances and compatibility, most of the titles produced by first studios are multi-developed with the last generation PS4. It is foolish and a shame that they are dragging their feet on a 10 year old product when they are 4-5 years away from releasing their next title.
@@petermulder7480 I am Japanese and the sale of this title was banned due to a major earthquake in Japan around the time MotorStorm 3 was released. I bought and played the foreign version because my PS3 was region free.
It's insane how in 2023 Driveclub still looks so good, at points even better than many other racing games that released later.
Even ps5 racing games looks like trash compared drive club
Man I forgot how good drive club looked for it's time. Still holds up!
Damn, I thought this was an official 60 fps patch coming. I'm definitely not a fan of getting price gouged being sold the same content repeatedly, but this is one of the rare cases I'd pay full price again for 60 fps/ VR support.
Its depressing that its still by far most good looking racer
30$ Remaster on PC and PS5 with 4K resolution 60fps. It will sell at least 1 million units...
Won't happen. The studio has been shutdown a while ago.
@@DeadPhoenix86DP Yes, we fans all know the story. A guy can dream though… * sighs *
@@ManCaveRo Yeah keep dreaming ;)
@@DeadPhoenix86DP don't assume the "studio" that made is has to remaster it...
@@trauma50disaster1 The game has been delisted. Its safe to say There's no remaster coming. Gran Turismo is their main racing franchise.
The weather effects and driving feel were amazing in this game.
In-game rain physics still amazed me until this day.
Drive club was so underrated. Still better than some games today
Wow this game looks awesome for 2014, even looks better than most current racing games
MY GOD!!! It still looks fantastically good. How does this PS4 game looks more realistic and better than PS5 racing games? Shame people never gave this game a chance when it originally launched leading Sony to close down the studio.
It’s ridiculous that it sold over 2 mullion copies in the first 10 months on a new console for a new IP and the studio still got closed down.
Wow! That looks absolutely stunning! I enjoyed playing this game back in the day, would definitely play it on PS5 at 60.
My goodness. Driveclub putting all other driving games to shame. Unbelievable.
This looks like a PS6 launch title! Driveclub still delivering. Seriously I think they shut this down simply because it was truly ahead of the times. The smoothness of the photo mode; those glorious weather effects; the realtime reflections just as good if not better than gt7. They could easily bring this back with updated environments, and it would sell as a great arcade racer.
Looks better than most racing game's these day's, including Forza 😆
THE FACT THAT WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS GAME A DECADE LATER SHOULD TELL SONY SOMETHING! FFS WE WANT MORE DRIVECLUB!
I so wish they would patch in an official 60fps patch for Drive Club. It still looks amazing, and I still play it to this day. The rain effects are still the best in any driving game to date.
Agreed and the sound design is so good, too - especially in cockpit mode.
This is why it’s important to have an offline option in games. If it was an online only we wouldn’t be able to play it anymore
There's always physical games.
@@samza9622that ain't gonna help much with need for speed (2015) or gran turismo 7
@@samza9622 Physical is great (and I have Drive Club physical) but it’s not a guarantee. Gran Turismo 7 locks you out of almost the entire game without an online connection even if you got physical - and Sony refused to issue refunds for people that wanted to return digital copies of the game, despite massive server issues after launch.
@@samza9622physical games can benonlyne only too.
It's a damn shame what happened to Evolution, shame on Sony for not supporting this game. They could've easily given us a PS5 re-release or at least a PS4 Pro boost mode, I bet they got scared it was competing too much with Gran Turismo.
Gran turismo was always better
@@andreasmoller9798I played GT since the first game on PS1 and own every mainline game plus Prologue - but no recent GT game gave me the feeling of immersion that Drive Club does and I can still play Drive Club without a server connection - unlike almost all the content in GT7.
Drive Club had its share of issues (like the ridiculous objective system) but I would have happily taken a sequel to it over the recent GT games.
@@perlichtman1562 thats you but i would not.,becouse i think gt does so many stuff better than driveclub, you could not even tune or customize cars in driveclub
So Richard. I spoke to one of the devs regarding this game and he told me it wasn't GPU bottlenecked. He said the CPU held it back and had the PS4 had more cpu it would have been a locked 60.
Regardless it would be nice all PS4 games unlocked to 60dps.
Regarding old games. Where are the PS5 remakes of Motorstorm, resistance fall of man, Killzone 2, Infamous. Rich get onto Sony :)
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the music is insane
Man I miss this game, I don’t understand why games in 2023 don’t allow you to send challenges to friends, or post them publicly
Still looks next gen today! This was something else man! This is still the best looking race game.
10 years on and still a looker, even by today's standards!
The tone mapping in this game is still top notch. It’s very telling of the game industry how a handful of games from early in the last generation still hold up so well. Things really stagnated and I still don’t quite understand why. I saw a clip of a guy working on the outer worlds 2 having a a dispute with one of his ai guys about a bit of code that should take 45 minutes taking 4 weeks. I don’t know the whole story but it seems to encapsulate where game development is at. There are a lot of people in game development that have no idea what they’re doing. They have degrees but they’re basically learning how to design games while designing games.
The issue is that todays games have way too many moving parts involved and therefore making games now is a logistical nightmare. We are far from the days where 20 people could reasonably make a big budget release. The demands now are too high.
@@pegasusactua2985 which is baffling. It’s hard to argue that the quality of the average game has grown along with the size of the average studio. Games are bigger and certain aspects have become “smoothed out” compared to older games but outside certain standouts they’re basically bigger, slightly prettier versions of old games.
lol even today Driveclub visuals aren't match , is a shame there is no inside car viewing footage, the best part of Driveclub
The graphics of this 9 year old game is still better than most of recently released racing games. Too bad it was shut down, I would have wanted to experience the multiplayer part of the game.
I have logged more hours drifting the dodge challenger in this game than any other Racer I ever played. Best drift handling ever.
I wish Split Second would get a resolution and 60fps patch on consoles too. Nobody seems to make fun racers any more :(
Blur was also a great racing game
@@mustafahussain3972Agreed! Played that to death too
Loved this game so much. I think it’s still the best looking racing game at times.
It’s such a shame PlayStation doesn’t care for its own games 😢
They don't care about actual games, only the cinematic movie BS.
@@deathtrooper2048 yep
driveclub was the first ps4 game i owned, still looks better than most racing games
Game still looks insane to this day
Bloodborne needs 60fps but I’ll gladly take Driveclub as well. One of the most beautiful racing games. I loved their Motorstorm games, they were ahead of their time.
Still got my copy on my PS5 all dlc ! A gem in the PlayStation collection
@DF Clips Guys, maybe you can officially address to Sony, to add those patches in their firmware updates, because it's so sad that there are hundreds of games that were on PS4, and can run stable 60fps on PS5, and also this could bring some potential buyers, who would go for PC, because of this unfair lock of framerate. I got PC too, but it makes me sad to see games locked in 30fps on a capable machine.
I am playing Driveclub in 2024 and have been playing it over the years. It NEVER gets olds. Now i play on My Ps5 and on Steamdeck over remote play, both amazing and fun !
that windshield rain still makes me drool.
9 year old game still looking better than 75 % of new racing games ...
😵💫
I loved this game, I dont think Sony will ever do anything about it so its only for hacked PS5s 😢
I've always enjoyed this game. Too bad I missed getting all the DLCs and the Bikes DLC.
Wish they made a drive club 2 I still play it from time to time. Loved how the wheel turned 360 degrees
Thanks Richard, looking forward to the next vid. I still play DC regularly and it's the perfect game to show off graphical upgrades (pick a class s to show real speed, and variety in weather, sunny, rain, snow, thunder/lightning at night, etc).
This is even better than the latest assetto corsa mods. And lightyears ahead of GT and Forza. Man i'm sad.
I fired this game up again for the first time in years a few months ago. I was amazed on how well it did hold up considering the age.
I wouldn't honestly mind just watching content from Richard. Maybe its the 43 year old man in me. This was the kind of content I love.
how is this game ten years old. god i miss Evolution 😢
the fact that so many years later and this game surpasses many graphic aspects of games even like gran turismo 7, i just can't comprehend sony's way of thinking
Right? And I mean the game sold over 2 million copies in the first 10 months - on a system that launched less than a year before the release for a brand new racing IP. Just ridiculous.
Excited for the upcoming video. Would love to see some early PS4 games get tested like this
Always loved this game. It was a very solid racing game with great visuals. I might just have to see for my self and download it to my PS5.
I can't believe Sony doesn't enable all PS4 games to work like this, via a toggle option in the system advanced settings menu.
Even if they put a warning up which says "here be dragons, the game may break"
I hope people like me, who never had the chance to purchase games like Driveclub and Forza Horizon 2, can someday play these awesome delisted games. Seeing the potential that the modding community brings to the table truly makes me happy and I know that one day I'll be able to freely play whatever I want. Long live physical game preservation.
You can still buy a used physical copy. I played the game a bunch on PS4 Pro last year, including with a Thrustmaster T248 force feedback wheel. Other than having to ignore a bunch of text about not being able to connect online during gameplay, it even let me download the patches so I got the full weather and everything.
@@perlichtman1562 I plan on doing the same thing; however, I won't have access to the DLCs as I couldn't purchase them. It's better than nothing, I guess.
I still hope one day Sony will announce a PS5 version or patch to unlock the frame rate and at least get this to 1440p. I’d rebuy it (I have the PS4 disc) in an instant for PS5!
Still can’t believe Sony closed this team down.
Man, I wish they completely redo the VR mode for this game now that PSVR2 can handle it, what a classic
Driveclub looks so good, if no one ever saw it before and it was shown off (@60fps) right this moment as Forza Motorsport Series S footage, it would be believable.
Lol, Forza does not come even close to Driveclub graphics 😂
@@vyasrushi5177stop the cap 🧢
@@vyasrushi5177 bs statement, like rly u must be blind to make such points.
@@alrightylol You must not be smart enough to send such a comment
@@welunfesWell id better be stupid then blind, i like Driveclub graphics but in most regards it looking dated in comparison to latest forza.
Rip evolution studios...
It's a shame that we are almost three years into current generation and we are still excited to see a game that was released on October 7th 2014.... Making it almost ten years old. Where are the actual "current generation" wow game's because honestly at this point I'd wish I wouldn't of bothered with ps5 and series X. This game still looks amazing on ps4 and here we are gushing over a 10.3 terraflop machine running a game from almost a decade ago. Poor this generation, totally lacklustre and underwhelming. If there is a mid generation refresh coming or hinted at, why bother at this point. I honestly haven't seen a game yet that screams "current generation" is here. Is it just me or does anyone else think this generation as a whole as been lacklustre!?
Best racing game ever :). I still go once in a while and beat challenges.
Would love to see how RDR2 works with unlocked frame rate
I wish the background music was the old DF music, talking about the ones that plays during COD Blackops 2 videos from back in the day. love those tracks
Amazing how gorgeous it looks even after 9 years!
I still play this game, and it still looks completely unreal for a game that released in 2014.
Drive Club looks crazy in the rain.
This doesnt make anybody mad? I mean here you have it, some guy was able to do software upgrade and unlock a frame cap... why cant that be a legitimate thing oficially?
Me: Is it possible to learn this power?
Digital Foundry: Not from Sony…
Was NOT expecting Richard to make a 69 joke
Still, to this day
Game has the best rain on windshield effects that i've seen in any racing games.
At that time it was mind boggling.
So true.
Loved this game, the soundtrack was awesome too
I never had the full game, but I did get the standalone DriveClub Bikes. It's a shame that it's so all-or-nothing in the racing genre that if a game is not a hit, the studio gets shut down.
You said it - and how is selling over 2 million copies on a console that was less than a year old at the time of launch not a hit for racing game that’s a brand new IP? The game absolutely deserved a sequel and no other racing game got more impressive free updates, especially the weather.