Do you know if it is possible to play that modded version on an emulator for PC? Don't own a Playstation and wont own one. It doesnt make sense to own a PS5 only to play gran turismo.
14:00 ... isn't the "automatic" setting supposed to work that it would enable TC and ABS to cars that Realistically have them, and not put them in cars that do not ? That would be my understanding as to why the Corvette didn't have it.
Another cool little fact with Enthusia is that automatic gearboxes shift earlier into high gears if you're light on the throttle, and shift down again when you floor it. No racing game i know has this detail, even modern day games.
That's a nice touch! Can't remember if it has this or not, but does Enthusia have the option for clutch control? Would be nice to be able to do heel and toe and other rev-matching tricks. I know Forza has had clutch pedal for a while, also Assetto Corsa (even on gamepad). I also recall Gran Turismo Sport supports clutch on racing wheels (on actual cars that would have had a clutch pedal)
Mafia 3 actually has this feature in their cars, if you press the throttle lightly the car will shift gear as if how an automatic transmission does in real life and if you press the throttle fully the downshifts and acceleration is so realistic.
Enthusia on a wheel is a treat. I really miss the days when Video Game Publishers weren’t afraid to try something new. Especially Konami. Nowadays it’s all corporate and restrictive. Another thing Enthusia nailed with this game is the simulation of the automatic transmission and have a mode with vehicles to simulate their traction and stability control system. This game is seriously ahead of its time. Not many devs do what Konami did. They even had period correct logos for the vehicles.
The industry new things until they figured out what generates the easiest and best profits and now that's all they do, like every other industry. When money is the only reward then this is always going to be the end result of anything.
@@hawken796 i like it... still have it, can't play because i don't have a ps2.... i had auto modellitsa as well until my little brother stole/destroyed it....
it's the current "underrated game" hot topic just like Auto Modellista was not too long ago, not really surprised it'll be back to irrelevancy soon and another "underrated old game" will be the hot topic
It's amazing how many ideas they've had with this title , like the way you upgrade the cars, the fantasy tracks they made, I wonder how it would have been had it released at a different time instead of being forgotten next to gran turismo
You complain about the amount of meme cars but being able to drive boring cars is what I love about this game, it's the only game that lets you drive the Chevy Astro van I think.
Enthusia. One of only two games with an officially licensed Smart Fortwo. The only other one was Forza Motorsport 4, and that was now delisted DLC. I need this one
The models look impressive in their fidelity. A lot of games from this era had.. cars that didn't exactly have the same proportions as their real life counterpart.
5:02 "it looks like a Yaris van" because it is a Yaris van (called in Japan Toyota FunCargo, in Europe (and possibly rest of the world, except for Phillipines and Hong Kong) sold as Toyota Yaris Verso)
Quick describe of starter meme cars by a Japanese March→Japanese version of Micra FunCargo→Yes, it IS yaris van(a.k.a. Yaris verso) Estima Hybrid→Later gen of Previa ek Wagon→Kei car of "poor or old people" meme(so durable and cheap)
I have, in fact, played this. A long time ago, my family went on a long camping trip from Mass to North Dakota, stopping to camp at least once in every state. We had an '06 Pilot which came with a screen in the ceiling, so naturally I hooked up the PS2, this and GT3 were basically all I played the whole month. I wouldn't reccommend playing a disc-based game console on a long, bumpy car trip though. The two things I like about it over Gran Turismo is the inclusion of a performance rating system (so you can't race an f1 car against cars from the '80s just because it's RWD) and the seemingly larger vehicle roster. There's a lot of Japan-exclusive vehicles that prepared me well for identifying them when I lived there 11 years later 😁 Also, there's a color for the Nissan Cube called "beans." So that's awesome.
For a hidden gem, you should try Racing Lagoon, it is a Japan only racing game by Square (Yes, Square Enix of Final Fantasy) for the PS1 and it got an English fan patch last year. It's a racing RPG with a crazy storyline.
I think you misunderstood the recommended assist a bit. They're based on whether the actual car comes with it or not, not on how hard it is to drive which I find pretty cool. I blame the localisation for dodgy word choice there. Anyhow thanks for covering, the more videos about Enthusia the better!
No need because Forza Motorsport capitalized that market. Gran Turismo 7 is absolutely terrible. It's a glorified visual upgrade for GT5, which was also terrible. Hardly any changes have been made to the car physics dating back to GT4. It was acceptable on the PS2, but now I don't even believe that to be true, because games like this existed and the cars had more realistic physics. Actual suspension physics. Polyphony literally just gave up on actually making innovative changes. To this day, cars in GT still handle like they are on rails. It feels way too static.
people say assetto corsa[pc] but i don't count that because it's all mods. you have poor c.a.r.s. 3, grid/legends, rfactor2, automobilista 2, [never gonna be released] GTR 3, ACC and we have FM....
@@tacticalmattress really... doesn't feel like that to me... but i don't know what real cars feel like because they don't handle like any of these 'games' do... people complain GT too much grip... Forza too much slip... but really i have never had a flat spot, or lost control at 100+ mph, i've locked my brakes up once[no abs]... the cars and trucks i have driven are way to unrealistic... real life needs to catch up with these sims man, i'm tellin' ya
@@caliginousmoira8565 Forza Motorsport is by far one of the most realistic when you per say, over correct and end up understeering into oblivion. Or flat spinning. But also being able to possibly regain control. Flat spinning in GT7 is like a beyblade. Also throttle managing through apexs tends to end up in flat spins. GT has a downforce problem. I've lost control doing 110MPH and completely flat spun in my merc, literally left an X on the road. Didn't hit anything though luckily, just was a bitch cleaning out all the grass. I had my windows down too so it also flew all through the car, literally in my mouth. Was pushing it a little too hard on a pretty large bank/bend that I'm very familiar with but during dry conditions, and it was just a tad wet. All it takes. I only did one full rotation though.
you really missed out on an Experience by not playing more of the driving revolution mode, the later challenges get BRUTAL also i thought the "recommended" assist setting sets the assist based on whether the real car would have them, so for instance modern cars would tend to have tcs, abs, etc. while classic cars generally would not? i could be remembering wrong though but it would make sense considering what happened with the corvette
Enthusia probably was probably one of the most accurate console sims of its time. Even Gran Turismo didn’t have FF lift off oversteer and the differential simulation that Enthusia had. Weight transfer actually did something in Enthusia
granturismo was only a sim in name. it did so many absurd things that i refuse to classify it even as a simcade. you can't turn when your front wheels locked in a simcade (as it should be, unlike gt4), and donuts are you know, a thing that exists (outside of granturismo)
@@GraveUypo gran turismo 4's driving is weird but satisfying because it feels like your car is being sucked to the ground like a vacuum while at the same time your trying to fight what feels like the gravity of the sun. i dont know what i would call it because its not really a sim and its not really arcade but at this point i think that has more to do with age than anything else.
@@theBrid-gv8je I tried it again a few days ago and the physics are just straight up bad, I don't get why it gets so much praise nowadays. It was amazing for its time but its physics have aged like milk
@@theBrid-gv8jeSame. Coming from 3 and finally trying out 4 like four or five years ago, it's just not a very fun game. Coming from Assetto Corsa to 4, it's not a good racing simulation. It has a lot of cars, whoop dee fucking doo
One of those weird forgotten gems that somehow I owned. I think an uncle gave it to me as a gift without knowing what it was, just because he saw a car on the cover. But holy crap what a good game. Fun, nice physics, decent amount of cars and tracks, graphics were very polished for the era. A really great game
One of the small and petty things that turned me off of GT4 was having Laguna Seca take place at noon. The sunset setting really sold me on the difficulty as a kid for some reason and it just felt wrong in 4, like seeing Midgar in the daylight in FVIIR
I never played that game indeed. Another thing to add to the giant backlog. Interesting that it has some Japanese cars that even Gran Turismo never had like the Estima and the Yaris van. And a lot of really interesting and awesome tracks there! In terms of other hidden gems I really enjoyed Le Mans 24 Hours for the PS2 as a kid (called Test Drive Le Mans in the US). The PS2 version is completely different from the PS1 version (which is interesting in its own way). It has a few cars that don't appear in any other racing game at all, like the Nissan R391 and the Audi R8C. I am not sure how well the handling has aged but I think it's certainly worth checking out one day. It has a bunch of different modes and a nice progress overview that shows you all the things that you can unlock everywhere.
This Game was a Christmas Present during my early teen years. I wasn't too invested in it at first, but after playing for a while I grown to like and appreciate It.
I'm happy to report the car reflections issues have been solved!! At least on PCSX2 nightly, japanese version of the game, Vulkan renderer, the cars now reflect the environnement beautifully. I'm using the Enthusia graphical mod you recommended too. The game now looks amaaaaaaaazing, like an early PS3 game especally with 4x upscaling (or more).
Enthusia was ahead of it's time, way too ahead, so ahead that people didn't like It, It was a hard Simulator, so hard that It was more frustrating than fun yet, I still want to play It, with a steering wheel, just to make things funnier
"Recommended" assists aren't game recommendations, they try to mimick what assists the particular cars had in real life - that means, old cars have no assists at all.
I used to have this game. I enjoyed it back then. Nice looking car models nice physics. The game is somewhere in my parents storage shed i may go look for it one day
I played enthusia more than any other sim until assetto corsa came out. Additionally, I drifted professionally and enthusia was the biggest help I ever got to get there. The first day on the track, people thought I was a professional 🤣
Yupl I used to go to the airport parking lot and drift around and do donuts for hours in different cars. I liked that it had normal random cars like the Chevy ASTRO and stuff too. I loved the sounds of the muscle cars on that game man they sounded so good. But it was fun popping the clutch and doing donuts and going in reverse as fast as you can and putting it in first and dropping the clutch with no stability control or anything like that on.
For some interesting hidden gems to check out I'd strongly recommend ChoroQ games, particularly the HG games on PS2 that are the ones I'm familiar with. They're based on Japanese toy cars and the naming scheme in the west is a hot mess, but they're full of personality and interesting gimmicks. HG1 is very much just chibi Gran Turismo with wacky track design and upgrades, but HG2 (widely considered the best) is a full blown open world adventure full of sidequests and minigames along with the racing, and HG4 has a story that's way better than it has any right to be (given the game it's in I mean, it's no masterpiece).
What really got me interested in this game was that although it had way fewer cars than Gran Turismo 4, it had more variety in many aspects. I feel there is a greater balance between the amount of JDM Sports cars and Ecoboxes, British and German Sport cars, European hot hatches, Classic Sports, and American Muscle Cars. Sure the majority of cars are Japanese but it wasn’t oversaturated by having 10 trims of a single model unlike GT4. Also it was the only game I know that lets me drive a Chevy Astro and the Ford “New Edge” Mustang Mach 1.
I actually have this game. Some of the matchups are hilarious. My favorite one was a Daihatsu Storia X4 (me, level 10) against a Ford GT on Victoria Road.
I played the game on PCSX2 with Dustins " Remastered"- kit for a few hours now: game runs and looks good, the cars are quirky and from around the world, handling is OK but some " license" tests are very hard with a keyboard, cars just slide around and theres no grip or chance to rescue it, tracks are mostly fantasy tracks only licensed track I found is Tsukuba, iam suprised there arent options to adjust steering sensitivity or the camera. You can see that they wanted something different but its definately there first ( and last) racing game :)
I used to play this so much back in the days. I had my Logitech driving force gt at the time. It blew my mind! It taught me so much about car handling. I even use some of those techniques to this day
you might think the weight shifting is exaggerated but I think of it as a genius skill barrier I didn't find it too intrusive when I played the game and it actually made most of the cars playful and fun (especially fwd cars, which I'm not usually a huge fan of). I mean you weren't even supporting your argument when you went on to show how you effortlessly balanced the car on throttle through a long sweeping corner without a brake to drift mechanic holding your hand (which I think its a much more authentic way to handle drifting than what the NFS games are doing now). and not to mention the type of cars that was happening in were softly sprung cars with allot of body movement, trust me I own a near stock nb miata and the general feeling of the car moving around you is not that far off as the promo vid showed. also there are ways to tune that out of the car so you don't get that lift-off oversteer as aggressively, although I still think its kinda fun and in some cases even useful as it teaches you manipulating weight transfer.
Fun Fact: The Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 will play a beep sound when you get near the redline when you’re in bumper cam, simulating the upshift beep that the RX-7 and RX-8 have in real life.
This game is so good. I'd say the most realistic on PS2. Yeah GT4 has more content and sharper graphics, but I think Enthusia is more accurate to real life. There are actually separate manual and automatic cars, the shifts on the automatic cars are smooth. The halogen lights in taillights and turn signals fade in and out, the only other games I've seen do that are GT7 and Assetto Corsa. Each car has it's own separate electronic assists. Wide variety of cars including very ordinary cars. I also love the atmosphere, each track has it's own personality and soundtrack.
Welcome to Enthusia Professional Racing where it's possible to see vans smoke the faster cars in the game :) Joke aside, Enthusia is definitely a hidden gem worth playing.
I didn't even know this existed because GT and Forza overshadowed it, but clearly it has better physics. I'd even argue that the car models have higher polygon counts. *Than GT, not Forza, Forza had everything beat in terms of polygon counts and physics. Objectively.
Muscle cars take skill to drive. I drive Muscle cars in games because I prefer their look, feel and sound. I'm biased, because I'm American, but if you can drive a muscle car, you can drive anything
The most fun tests in the Driving Revolution (imo), were the last 4. I just love the added challenged that is, for example, trying to lap a track with the throttle forced to 100% and no handbrakes while acheiving a good time.
I see they didn’t convert to European names for the European version! Nissan March (Micra) and the Toyota FunCargo was sold in the UK at least as the Yaris Verso (Verso was Toyota’s line of MPV’s based on their hatchbacks in the mid 2000’s)
Here's a fun, unfortunate fact that some may know: savestates cannot save you from the raffle's car choice. I think you need to save from before you even pick the event to have a chance at rerolling for another car
You can tap X (or was it circle? Whatever button you use to confirm your choices on the menus) during the "raffle" and try to aim for the car you want :-b No need to wait for the game to choose for you.
@@ManRT it does give you the illusion of being able to do that, but i found even savescumming will always make you get the same car no matter what, so when you see something you think you should've got on the raffle because of how slow it went, it's kind of agonizing
@@hondafknciviv3818 I'd swear I were able to chose when I originally played it :-/ It even makes a sound when you press the button. I spent countless hours playing it, I lV10'd a ton of models, buts it's been a long time since I won the last car. Last years I've been playing just for fun after unlocking all the cars. Always in my PAL (Spain) PS2!
@@ManRT yeah, thankfully when you play it on original hardware, you don't get to breaj the illusion so it's super exciting. i still love the game though
My favourite 6th gen racing game (although GT3, GT4 and Forza are close), and VERY near my racing top - and this is my favourite niche of my favourite genre. 6th gen is generally speaking my favoutie period in racing games, even if Gran Turismo 2 - my all time favourite game, was from previous. WRC games on ps2 (especialy 4th), Need For Speed at it's best, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero, and 3rd, and it's spin offs, flatout, midnight club, toca series, colin mcrae and many others
The challenge is my fellow German that you have very little control what cars you win in the raffle in order to progress. The Nürburgring gets slippery towards the finale and if you end up with a class A competitor your chances of winning are very slim, unless you drive a class A car yourself. Another problem might be that you hit the jackpot so to speak and maxed out a Nismo Nissan Skyline 34 GTR and you did not acquire enough points to be eligible to the final. @9:42 You have a rear view mirror if you drive from the drivers perspective.
As someone who has in fact played Enthusia myself, I really enjoyed this game on the PS2 as it was a great alternative to the GT games. I miss playing this hidden gem tbh lol
Wanna see more? I'll be replaying Enthusia with the Remastered Mod, a much better looking version of the game: ua-cam.com/video/OZF37Bk1u7s/v-deo.html
Do you know if it is possible to play that modded version on an emulator for PC?
Don't own a Playstation and wont own one.
It doesnt make sense to own a PS5 only to play gran turismo.
Remastered Mod author here... Thank you for have used it!
14:00 ... isn't the "automatic" setting supposed to work that it would enable TC and ABS to cars that Realistically have them, and not put them in cars that do not ? That would be my understanding as to why the Corvette didn't have it.
Another cool little fact with Enthusia is that automatic gearboxes shift earlier into high gears if you're light on the throttle, and shift down again when you floor it.
No racing game i know has this detail, even modern day games.
Beamng?
@@boss9mustang404 I guess that would count too
That's a nice touch! Can't remember if it has this or not, but does Enthusia have the option for clutch control? Would be nice to be able to do heel and toe and other rev-matching tricks.
I know Forza has had clutch pedal for a while, also Assetto Corsa (even on gamepad). I also recall Gran Turismo Sport supports clutch on racing wheels (on actual cars that would have had a clutch pedal)
Yuh I remember that, so realistic!
Mafia 3 actually has this feature in their cars, if you press the throttle lightly the car will shift gear as if how an automatic transmission does in real life and if you press the throttle fully the downshifts and acceleration is so realistic.
Enthusia on a wheel is a treat. I really miss the days when Video Game Publishers weren’t afraid to try something new. Especially Konami. Nowadays it’s all corporate and restrictive.
Another thing Enthusia nailed with this game is the simulation of the automatic transmission and have a mode with vehicles to simulate their traction and stability control system. This game is seriously ahead of its time. Not many devs do what Konami did.
They even had period correct logos for the vehicles.
Enthusia’s force feedback is really good for a console game of its time
@@Flowermouth could you compare it to gt4 ff
The industry new things until they figured out what generates the easiest and best profits and now that's all they do, like every other industry. When money is the only reward then this is always going to be the end result of anything.
I mean the game did bomb horribly
@@hawken796 i like it... still have it, can't play because i don't have a ps2....
i had auto modellitsa as well until my little brother stole/destroyed it....
It seemed like more and more people are talking about this game nowadays which is nice to see.
Yes!
Yeah man
Enthusia has a lot of potencial, and is an amazing game despite it's weak points
it's the current "underrated game" hot topic just like Auto Modellista was not too long ago, not really surprised
it'll be back to irrelevancy soon and another "underrated old game" will be the hot topic
shows how racing games have degenerated nowadays
Who?
It's amazing how many ideas they've had with this title , like the way you upgrade the cars, the fantasy tracks they made, I wonder how it would have been had it released at a different time instead of being forgotten next to gran turismo
Yep, if it was released on PS3 and if it had some advertizement
the cars leveling up is a unique system for sure but ultimately a bad one. not all different ideas are good.
You complain about the amount of meme cars but being able to drive boring cars is what I love about this game, it's the only game that lets you drive the Chevy Astro van I think.
Guy literally said the Renaultsport Clio and Elan were bad cars, his opinion is invalid.
You can tell he has no clue about cars .
@@Ivan_LFC just because he doesn’t want to drive obscure road cars means he doesn’t know anything about cars?? impeccable logic
@@taner873 he really doesnt have any idea about cars
@@Coxy002605 or maybe he just doesn’t like them???
For me Enthusia was like "we have Gran Turismo at home" situation, only it's actually good
Enthusia. One of only two games with an officially licensed Smart Fortwo. The only other one was Forza Motorsport 4, and that was now delisted DLC. I need this one
Enthusia is definitely one of the best racing games of PS2
I agree I played it and still have it in working condition and it is indeed a really good game
And Supercar Street Challenge
The models look impressive in their fidelity. A lot of games from this era had.. cars that didn't exactly have the same proportions as their real life counterpart.
5:02 "it looks like a Yaris van"
because it is a Yaris van (called in Japan Toyota FunCargo, in Europe (and possibly rest of the world, except for Phillipines and Hong Kong) sold as Toyota Yaris Verso)
2:00 fun fact, this is the only model of corolla that appears in the wangan midnight maximum tune series
Quick describe of starter meme cars by a Japanese
March→Japanese version of Micra
FunCargo→Yes, it IS yaris van(a.k.a. Yaris verso)
Estima Hybrid→Later gen of Previa
ek Wagon→Kei car of "poor or old people" meme(so durable and cheap)
I have, in fact, played this. A long time ago, my family went on a long camping trip from Mass to North Dakota, stopping to camp at least once in every state. We had an '06 Pilot which came with a screen in the ceiling, so naturally I hooked up the PS2, this and GT3 were basically all I played the whole month.
I wouldn't reccommend playing a disc-based game console on a long, bumpy car trip though.
The two things I like about it over Gran Turismo is the inclusion of a performance rating system (so you can't race an f1 car against cars from the '80s just because it's RWD) and the seemingly larger vehicle roster. There's a lot of Japan-exclusive vehicles that prepared me well for identifying them when I lived there 11 years later 😁
Also, there's a color for the Nissan Cube called "beans." So that's awesome.
For a hidden gem, you should try Racing Lagoon, it is a Japan only racing game by Square (Yes, Square Enix of Final Fantasy) for the PS1 and it got an English fan patch last year. It's a racing RPG with a crazy storyline.
The customization system on that game is great.
I support this 100%. The game really makes an racing game out of the RPG aspects and not vice versa.
nothing beats slapping a 2JZ in a city bus
@@y.bowcat7782 What about a V12 in a Mini?
@@miragespl Or a W16 in a Miata
I think you misunderstood the recommended assist a bit. They're based on whether the actual car comes with it or not, not on how hard it is to drive which I find pretty cool.
I blame the localisation for dodgy word choice there.
Anyhow thanks for covering, the more videos about Enthusia the better!
the only thing i genuinely remember of Enthusia... the Nurburgring theme which is HOT DAMN!
I really wish there are more Gran Turismo competitors in 2022
No need because Forza Motorsport capitalized that market. Gran Turismo 7 is absolutely terrible. It's a glorified visual upgrade for GT5, which was also terrible. Hardly any changes have been made to the car physics dating back to GT4. It was acceptable on the PS2, but now I don't even believe that to be true, because games like this existed and the cars had more realistic physics. Actual suspension physics. Polyphony literally just gave up on actually making innovative changes.
To this day, cars in GT still handle like they are on rails. It feels way too static.
Also, Assetto Corsa exists. It's infinitely better than both GT and Forza as a Sim.
people say assetto corsa[pc] but i don't count that because it's all mods. you have poor c.a.r.s. 3, grid/legends, rfactor2, automobilista 2, [never gonna be released] GTR 3, ACC and we have FM....
@@tacticalmattress really... doesn't feel like that to me... but i don't know what real cars feel like because they don't handle like any of these 'games' do... people complain GT too much grip... Forza too much slip...
but really i have never had a flat spot, or lost control at 100+ mph, i've locked my brakes up once[no abs]... the cars and trucks i have driven are way to unrealistic... real life needs to catch up with these sims man, i'm tellin' ya
@@caliginousmoira8565 Forza Motorsport is by far one of the most realistic when you per say, over correct and end up understeering into oblivion. Or flat spinning. But also being able to possibly regain control.
Flat spinning in GT7 is like a beyblade.
Also throttle managing through apexs tends to end up in flat spins. GT has a downforce problem.
I've lost control doing 110MPH and completely flat spun in my merc, literally left an X on the road. Didn't hit anything though luckily, just was a bitch cleaning out all the grass. I had my windows down too so it also flew all through the car, literally in my mouth.
Was pushing it a little too hard on a pretty large bank/bend that I'm very familiar with but during dry conditions, and it was just a tad wet. All it takes.
I only did one full rotation though.
Gran Turismo 7 was the next time I seen Tsukuba at night.
And the American Muscle cars are for the challenge lol
you really missed out on an Experience by not playing more of the driving revolution mode, the later challenges get BRUTAL
also i thought the "recommended" assist setting sets the assist based on whether the real car would have them, so for instance modern cars would tend to have tcs, abs, etc. while classic cars generally would not? i could be remembering wrong though but it would make sense considering what happened with the corvette
Enthusia probably was probably one of the most accurate console sims of its time.
Even Gran Turismo didn’t have FF lift off oversteer and the differential simulation that Enthusia had. Weight transfer actually did something in Enthusia
granturismo was only a sim in name. it did so many absurd things that i refuse to classify it even as a simcade. you can't turn when your front wheels locked in a simcade (as it should be, unlike gt4), and donuts are you know, a thing that exists (outside of granturismo)
@@GraveUypo gran turismo 4's driving is weird but satisfying because it feels like your car is being sucked to the ground like a vacuum while at the same time your trying to fight what feels like the gravity of the sun. i dont know what i would call it because its not really a sim and its not really arcade but at this point i think that has more to do with age than anything else.
@@steem6703 Essentially everything understeers, I could never get into GT4 because I'm not into the physics engine at all
@@theBrid-gv8je I tried it again a few days ago and the physics are just straight up bad, I don't get why it gets so much praise nowadays.
It was amazing for its time but its physics have aged like milk
@@theBrid-gv8jeSame. Coming from 3 and finally trying out 4 like four or five years ago, it's just not a very fun game. Coming from Assetto Corsa to 4, it's not a good racing simulation. It has a lot of cars, whoop dee fucking doo
One of those weird forgotten gems that somehow I owned. I think an uncle gave it to me as a gift without knowing what it was, just because he saw a car on the cover. But holy crap what a good game. Fun, nice physics, decent amount of cars and tracks, graphics were very polished for the era. A really great game
around 20:30 GT3 had different day time settings. For example, Grand Valley forwards was at ~noon while it was at sunset in reverse
One of the small and petty things that turned me off of GT4 was having Laguna Seca take place at noon. The sunset setting really sold me on the difficulty as a kid for some reason and it just felt wrong in 4, like seeing Midgar in the daylight in FVIIR
I never played that game indeed. Another thing to add to the giant backlog. Interesting that it has some Japanese cars that even Gran Turismo never had like the Estima and the Yaris van. And a lot of really interesting and awesome tracks there!
In terms of other hidden gems I really enjoyed Le Mans 24 Hours for the PS2 as a kid (called Test Drive Le Mans in the US). The PS2 version is completely different from the PS1 version (which is interesting in its own way). It has a few cars that don't appear in any other racing game at all, like the Nissan R391 and the Audi R8C. I am not sure how well the handling has aged but I think it's certainly worth checking out one day. It has a bunch of different modes and a nice progress overview that shows you all the things that you can unlock everywhere.
Might have to check out Le Mans for PS2 as I had the PS1 version
This Game was a Christmas Present during my early teen years. I wasn't too invested in it at first, but after playing for a while I grown to like and appreciate It.
I'm happy to report the car reflections issues have been solved!!
At least on PCSX2 nightly, japanese version of the game, Vulkan renderer, the cars now reflect the environnement beautifully.
I'm using the Enthusia graphical mod you recommended too. The game now looks amaaaaaaaazing, like an early PS3 game especally with 4x upscaling (or more).
my dad actually owned that type of old rx-7. dude who bought it off him converted it to a prostreet car for drag racing
The rallying in this game makes me think of WRC3 back in the day. Eden, we need some WRC coverage!
You should try R-Racing Evolution. Basically "What if Ridge Racer was like Gran Turismo"?
Gran Turismo but horny
That legit looks like an early Xbox 360 game, wicked graphics for the ps2
I hated that i used to rock a maxed out chevy astro cause i didnt know what it was as a kid
Enthusia was ahead of it's time, way too ahead, so ahead that people didn't like It, It was a hard Simulator, so hard that It was more frustrating than fun
yet, I still want to play It, with a steering wheel, just to make things funnier
Actually recommended assists simulates how the car would drive and what driving aids they would use in real life.
"Recommended" assists aren't game recommendations, they try to mimick what assists the particular cars had in real life - that means, old cars have no assists at all.
I used to have this game. I enjoyed it back then. Nice looking car models nice physics. The game is somewhere in my parents storage shed i may go look for it one day
I played enthusia more than any other sim until assetto corsa came out. Additionally, I drifted professionally and enthusia was the biggest help I ever got to get there. The first day on the track, people thought I was a professional 🤣
I thought the recommended settings was for what driving aids a car would realistically have.
"Why would the game decide to turn off TCS with cars like these?"
Because TCS didn't exist yet so those cars never came with it.
What I found odd is that in manual transmission mode it actually had a functional clutch.
Yupl I used to go to the airport parking lot and drift around and do donuts for hours in different cars. I liked that it had normal random cars like the Chevy ASTRO and stuff too. I loved the sounds of the muscle cars on that game man they sounded so good. But it was fun popping the clutch and doing donuts and going in reverse as fast as you can and putting it in first and dropping the clutch with no stability control or anything like that on.
For some interesting hidden gems to check out I'd strongly recommend ChoroQ games, particularly the HG games on PS2 that are the ones I'm familiar with. They're based on Japanese toy cars and the naming scheme in the west is a hot mess, but they're full of personality and interesting gimmicks. HG1 is very much just chibi Gran Turismo with wacky track design and upgrades, but HG2 (widely considered the best) is a full blown open world adventure full of sidequests and minigames along with the racing, and HG4 has a story that's way better than it has any right to be (given the game it's in I mean, it's no masterpiece).
One ChoroQ game made it to the USA as "Penny Racers" for the N64.
HG2 was also called "Road Trip Adventure." Pretty cool game.
There's probably a ton of unnoticed attention to detail in this game. I just went and grabbed it.
This game stood toe to toe with Gran Turismo. The physics were actually better than GT4 in my opinion. Criminally underrated simcade masterpiece.
I STILL wish this got a remaster :(
What really got me interested in this game was that although it had way fewer cars than Gran Turismo 4, it had more variety in many aspects. I feel there is a greater balance between the amount of JDM Sports cars and Ecoboxes, British and German Sport cars, European hot hatches, Classic Sports, and American Muscle Cars. Sure the majority of cars are Japanese but it wasn’t oversaturated by having 10 trims of a single model unlike GT4. Also it was the only game I know that lets me drive a Chevy Astro and the Ford “New Edge” Mustang Mach 1.
I actually have this game. Some of the matchups are hilarious. My favorite one was a Daihatsu Storia X4 (me, level 10) against a Ford GT on Victoria Road.
I loved enthusia as a kid and am surprised its making a minor resurgance now
This game was pretty good. Had fun playing it. The neat thing that it did was the automatics actually worked like an auto.
I know this game is Identical of grand trusimo but this is one of the best my childhood game I ever play in ps2 back in day 😄👍
The Candy Crush as Bejeweled clone was very accurate.
So crazy to see an Infiniti Q45 /Nissan Cima/ President in a game
Very Konami to lock cars behind a roulette
I played the game on PCSX2 with Dustins " Remastered"- kit for a few hours now: game runs and looks good, the cars are quirky and from around the world, handling is OK but some " license" tests are very hard with a keyboard, cars just slide around and theres no grip or chance to rescue it, tracks are mostly fantasy tracks only licensed track I found is Tsukuba, iam suprised there arent options to adjust steering sensitivity or the camera. You can see that they wanted something different but its definately there first ( and last) racing game :)
I used to play this so much back in the days. I had my Logitech driving force gt at the time. It blew my mind! It taught me so much about car handling. I even use some of those techniques to this day
you might think the weight shifting is exaggerated but I think of it as a genius skill barrier I didn't find it too intrusive when I played the game and it actually made most of the cars playful and fun (especially fwd cars, which I'm not usually a huge fan of). I mean you weren't even supporting your argument when you went on to show how you effortlessly balanced the car on throttle through a long sweeping corner without a brake to drift mechanic holding your hand (which I think its a much more authentic way to handle drifting than what the NFS games are doing now). and not to mention the type of cars that was happening in were softly sprung cars with allot of body movement, trust me I own a near stock nb miata and the general feeling of the car moving around you is not that far off as the promo vid showed.
also there are ways to tune that out of the car so you don't get that lift-off oversteer as aggressively, although I still think its kinda fun and in some cases even useful as it teaches you manipulating weight transfer.
Fun Fact: The Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 will play a beep sound when you get near the redline when you’re in bumper cam, simulating the upshift beep that the RX-7 and RX-8 have in real life.
The editing is just getting better and better. I can’t wait for this channel to blow up
Played the hell outta this, now one nobody barely played was driving emotion type S
An odd disaster by Square. Without doubt, the worst handling of any racing game ever.
i had this, was a decent racing game, had alot of little quirks that helped it stand out
This game is so good. I'd say the most realistic on PS2. Yeah GT4 has more content and sharper graphics, but I think Enthusia is more accurate to real life. There are actually separate manual and automatic cars, the shifts on the automatic cars are smooth. The halogen lights in taillights and turn signals fade in and out, the only other games I've seen do that are GT7 and Assetto Corsa. Each car has it's own separate electronic assists. Wide variety of cars including very ordinary cars. I also love the atmosphere, each track has it's own personality and soundtrack.
Have you tried Sega GT 2002 and Sega GT Online? It is similar to Forza/Gran Turismo and only for OG Xbox too
Your content is always such high quality. Keep up the good work!!
Welcome to Enthusia Professional Racing where it's possible to see vans smoke the faster cars in the game :)
Joke aside, Enthusia is definitely a hidden gem worth playing.
I love being able to drive slow road going cars
Nice, Honda City Turbo. Some of them included a gas powered scooter in the trunk.
I didn't even know this existed because GT and Forza overshadowed it, but clearly it has better physics. I'd even argue that the car models have higher polygon counts. *Than GT, not Forza, Forza had everything beat in terms of polygon counts and physics. Objectively.
Muscle cars take skill to drive. I drive Muscle cars in games because I prefer their look, feel and sound. I'm biased, because I'm American, but if you can drive a muscle car, you can drive anything
5:00 well indeed it's a Yaris and it sold in Europe as the Yaris Verso (Echo Verso in my country)
The most fun tests in the Driving Revolution (imo), were the last 4. I just love the added challenged that is, for example, trying to lap a track with the throttle forced to 100% and no handbrakes while acheiving a good time.
I tried this game. I felt like i forgot how to drive in general playing it the very first time.
Need more modern Car -PGs . My favorite us tokyo extreme racer zero. A mix of txr0 and enthusia would be 🔥🔥
I see they didn’t convert to European names for the European version! Nissan March (Micra) and the Toyota FunCargo was sold in the UK at least as the Yaris Verso (Verso was Toyota’s line of MPV’s based on their hatchbacks in the mid 2000’s)
the estima hybrid should be the Cover car.
Also you may know the car as the Previa as it is the Euro name
you won because the toyota estima is actually a toyota previa and theyre supercharged
Im so glad to see a video about this. I initially played this game when i was a kid, its severely underrated
1:59 My family had one of those, great car ❤
Here's a fun, unfortunate fact that some may know: savestates cannot save you from the raffle's car choice. I think you need to save from before you even pick the event to have a chance at rerolling for another car
You can tap X (or was it circle? Whatever button you use to confirm your choices on the menus) during the "raffle" and try to aim for the car you want :-b No need to wait for the game to choose for you.
@@ManRT it does give you the illusion of being able to do that, but i found even savescumming will always make you get the same car no matter what, so when you see something you think you should've got on the raffle because of how slow it went, it's kind of agonizing
@@hondafknciviv3818 I'd swear I were able to chose when I originally played it :-/ It even makes a sound when you press the button. I spent countless hours playing it, I lV10'd a ton of models, buts it's been a long time since I won the last car. Last years I've been playing just for fun after unlocking all the cars. Always in my PAL (Spain) PS2!
@@ManRT yeah, thankfully when you play it on original hardware, you don't get to breaj the illusion so it's super exciting. i still love the game though
I never heard of this game before, but now I want to play it.
One of the games I'm really looking forward to playing once I get my PC back up and running
I have many fond memories with this game and many other GT clones/ JArcade racers
This game is supposed to have a story mode
But they cut it before release
Put it simple.
Enthusia: Better physics, driving AI and races in general.
GT: Better career, menus, and general design of the game.
My favourite 6th gen racing game (although GT3, GT4 and Forza are close), and VERY near my racing top - and this is my favourite niche of my favourite genre.
6th gen is generally speaking my favoutie period in racing games, even if Gran Turismo 2 - my all time favourite game, was from previous. WRC games on ps2 (especialy 4th), Need For Speed at it's best, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero, and 3rd, and it's spin offs, flatout, midnight club, toca series, colin mcrae and many others
honestly these videos are great "need something to watch while i eat" content
28:57 wow another awsome track with the jdm cars!
Touge at Night & the other Rain at Night track blow my mind on a 2004 game!!
15:18 This reminds me a lot of "Ford Racing Off Road" :)
Great video of a racing game I've never heard of! Was really interesting to see.
27:45 "I ain't losin. This fool's runnin' a Honda 2000."
I'm glad at the intro u mentioned rock band
The challenge is my fellow German that you have very little control what cars you win in the raffle in order to progress. The Nürburgring gets slippery towards the finale and if you end up with a class A competitor your chances of winning are very slim, unless you drive a class A car yourself. Another problem might be that you hit the jackpot so to speak and maxed out a Nismo Nissan Skyline 34 GTR and you did not acquire enough points to be eligible to the final.
@9:42 You have a rear view mirror if you drive from the drivers perspective.
Still have my copy. Bought it on launch day, and still play it occasionally. I love the GT games, but this was a great secondary game in its day.
I completed GT Pro Series as a kid, but no one seems to know anything about it. I'm glad to see it cameo here (even though it was kinda terrible)
thank you for showcasing this game
As someone who has in fact played Enthusia myself, I really enjoyed this game on the PS2 as it was a great alternative to the GT games. I miss playing this hidden gem tbh lol
*Me watching these while eating Al Donald's Mac and Cheese and playing Candy Crush*
We need a mashup between enthusia time trial menu theme and pebble beach golf nes theme
I truly recommned this, i bougth It last Christmas and its beautifl
"Enthu points" was goofy though. 😂
Hey Dustin maybe someday you can bring us gameplay of Race Pro, a Xbox 360 exclusive title, it's a misture of grid with forza
You should play more of this!
Estima is a questionable but somehow great starter car here