Gran Turismo Retrospective: From Humble Beginnings
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2020
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Gran Turismo is a landmark in the history of racing games, PlayStation and car culture in general. Over the last nearly thirty years, Kazunori Yamauchi's Polyphony Digital has continually pushed the medium further and further towards photorealism, and created uncompromising racing game experiences. But after all this time, is Gran Turismo's maiden voyage worth revisiting? In this retrospective review, I set out to see for myself.
All game footage in this review is from my own gameplay, captured on real PS2 hardware. Most footage was captured through an XRGB Mini Framemeister upscaler. - Ігри
Gran Turismo was responsible to saving multiple exotic car companies because of brand recognition alone.
TVR Cerbera Speed Six is still my second favorite car of all times
If I'm not wrong, Mitsubishi even talked about how Gran Turismo is reason Lancer Evolution is getting more and more popular in the US
@@ziqqerlad Yep, it was one of the reasons the Evo VII made it to the States.
@@Kaceydotme I thought VIII is the first
Two Words:
y e l l o w. e v o.
Gran Turismo 2 had major role for our family in the early 00's. My father used the in game used car model to search/as a reference point for his next family car at that time, and he finally bought a '95 Levin AE111 BZ-G after saw it the first time at the game 😂
Damn son, A BZ-G is pretty good, and your dad has great taste in cars too
@@doabarrellroll69 (this is quite long story) Well, to be precise he was already offered by someone from a used car dealer from a rural area (far far away from our home) that BZ-G, but he was not sure what that car looks like (internet was not widely available back then) and he asked my older brother whether he knew that car or what was it looks like. So, he turned up GT2 and coincidentally he did found out the exact car and my father love the model 😂
GT2 is pretty much universally accepted by car nuts as the greatest racing game ever made.
@@chrisallot66 nah bro. gt4 takes it
Lol that's dope
You thought I wasn't gonna notice the "quirks and features" drop at 10:01?
LOL
THIS is the comment i was looking for.
Jean Eustache THIS is a good comment thread
I didn't get it?
@@AchiragChiragg THIS is from Doug Demuro in case THIS quirks and features is not familiar with you
Boy, i can't wait for you to review Gran Turismo 2 and 4, those two are my favorites
5 and 6 is kinda good tho
I think I can speak for everybody else when I say that Gran Turismo is responsible for my passion for 80's and 90's JDM cars. I particularly like the Mitsubishi GTO (3000GT), Mazda RX-7 FD and the Toyota Supra A70.
Well, my 2nd car in the game was the '96 Corvette. Now I own an '86 Corvette. Those jdm cars are cool though.
Yeah i think GT is responsible for your passion for classic JDM cars.
Jokes aside, it kinda makes us see Japanense cars as the best, starting with the fact that we can easily get it by used car dealer
Oh hai Jamie uwu
@@SonicBoone56 Fancy seeing you here!
FC over FD anytime (for me)
My dad bought Gran Turismo 2 when i was three years old and even though i was into cars, this game formed my life in many different ways beyond childhood and video games.
Thanks for doing a video on Gran Turismo 1 and the games beyond - you really did it justice and you reminded me of why I love the GT games, and cars in general!
I grew up on Gran Turismo, I have been able to easily adapt to any racer because of the skills I picked up in Gran Turismo. Every Playstation I bought was because I wanted to play the latest Gran Turismo game on it, except Sport but that a whole different thing, please do more videos on the following Gran Turismo games as I find your videos very insightful and would love to hear your opinion on the rest of the Gran Turismo games.
I hope you like GT7 when it releases because it looks like a ripper of a game.
Exactly this❤️ thanks for sharing our youth with me haha
@G G I don't consider sport a proper GT game because it has no campaign, it's a PVP spinoff and no hate against it, it is probably a good game but I don't mind skipping it, I am sure all the PVP mechanics will be added to the GT7 online multiplayer
@G G @G G Fully agrree, Sport is super underrated, it's a baseline for GT7. The physics of the cars feel good, while it was never intended to be an offline game, it birthed something much bigger: the competitive online racing system. From battling in the Nations cup to representing your favorite car brand in the Manufacturers cup, the whole feeling is amazing. Not even to mention the events Polyphony put up, World Tours all over the world, regional championships that boil down to the Finals in Monaco with the best players battling it down. I hope all of this makes way in to GT7 with even more manufacturers and racing cars, a massive market for Gran Turismo. Anyone reading this and dislikes Sport, watch the Nations cup final race at the 2020 World Tour in Sydney. If GT7 becomes great, GT Sport has to be thanked for that.
Gran Turismo is the best races for me. I have a series of videos on the YT channel from races on ps5
Imagine Gt2 car selection, Gt4 styled content, Gt6 track selection and Gt Sport handling, that’s a game I would play until I die
And GT4 or GT5 soundtrack
I grew up with the original Gran Turismo and 'till this day, i'm still a GT fan. So much so that i actually own every main GT title ever released including a rare GT2000 Demo for the PS2 and GT HD, imported from Japan of course. I was pretty young at the time and sucked at it but i had lots of fond memories of playing it with my older siblings and even my uncle's & Aunt. From buying a Toyota, fully modify it and race it in Sunday Cup just to win a Mazda Demio lol to racing my aunt in a C2 Corvette around Grand Valley East or maybe that time in GT4, where my brother took a Castrol Toms Supra and forced me to use a Daihatsu Midget 2 around Nurburgring but it's all in good fun. Despite all of the flaws GT games might have, I still think it's one of the biggest reasons why i became a car enthusiast and why i learned about a lot of cars existences that otherwise i wouldn't have known about.
Sorry for the long comment but i'm happy to see another of your videos, a video that talks about my childhood.
Gran Turismo, where a lot of people got their starts in various places. RynoGT4's UA-cam/Twitch journey started wirh Gran Turismo, and seeing him re-LP the game after so many years is awesome.
Or Jimmy Broadbent
Finally, another furry
I agree. I’d love to see him re-lp gt2.
@@SparksX18 there are a shocking amount of them in the car community. It's crazy how much overlap there is.
@@VeraTheTabbynx Really? I never realized
Love this. You have paid a visit to every 1990s and 2000s kids like me.
Gran Turismo 1, the game where a Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 has worse grip than a Dodge Viper GTS. That detail still confuses me.
I'm guessing that's because of the games tire model, where cars with thicker tires had more grip for the most part. The Viper has very thick tires, which obviously helps with grip in real life, but in GT1 the effect was over exaggerated
@@Gojira_uz and probably was a bit heavier, I guess
Just play the japanese release. It is objectively better.
Nice timing, I just 100% completed GT this week
GT4 was my introduction to the series and I have been playing GT2 recently. It's an incredible experience, thanks to the franchise's unique presentation.
I was introduced to Gran Turismo series early in the childhood when my elder brother owned ps2 along with some racing titles, including Gran Turismo 4. I remember absolutely loving the game, in fact, it was pretty much the only game I played on his console, with the exception of Burnout Dominator of course. After a decade, I managed to buy two Gran Turismo games with my own money: GT PSP version and Gran Turismo 3. Currently playing the latter :)`
I have a special place in my heart for Gran Turismo series. The series had helped me when I struggled to make friends in school, and when I wasn't in a good mood. I have yet to play the latest GT games, looking forward to doing that!
I started with GT3 and GT4. didn't get far in both but in 2011 my dad got us GT5 and we both fell in love with it. I would try my best to progress in GT mode while my dad would play the online events. i still remember one day my dad was playing the 4 hour Mazda roaster endurance race and 2 hours in he asked me to take over because he had to go do something and I ended up winning the race for him. then in 2014 we got GT6. I don't think I've made as many memories as i did on those two games. Then I finally got GT2 last Christmas.
Gran Turismo 1, 2, and 4 introduced my love for motorsports. Spent more than a thousand hours on these games.
Gran Turismo was the main reason why I got hooked into cars and eventually into starting my racing career in karting in 2012.
Games like this are the reason why I really hope the PS5 eventually offers PS1 emulation with advanced settings. While I would honestly just like an easy way to play these games on modern hardware (my PS3 is getting a bit... old at this point, lol), I would also like to do things like ratchet up the internal resolution and such, without doing it on bespoke emulation hardware or a PC. I know the warping and such means they don't exactly transition to higher resolutions well, but it's still something I think would be fun to play around with. Great video!
I do this on a tablet/phone. Works perfectly fine. Use Duckstation! Easy to use. 👍
@@CLOYO They don't want to use unofficial emulation
The only I actually grew up with is Gran Turismo. I started playing it way back in 2003, just a year after I was born, and was the first thing I did before even reading a book or writing with a pen. It's crazy how much the game has come. I'm currently chilling in GTSport with Transmission playlist and I can't wait for GT7!
who have ps 1 and play only fifa 98 and Gran Turismo such a good times
I'll always thank my copy of Gran Turismo 2 when I was a kid for my unending interest in racing games from that point onward.
this is a great video! Well done and well edited! I love Gran Turismo and still play it to this day, so it is great to see other fans of vintage Gran Turismo!
One of the my favorite reviewers next to colourshed, keep it up Kacey
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy a Colourshed fan
@@KEVINDMASTAH Very nice
The song you used for the outro will forever remind me of the smiling 4th gen Camaro peeking out of a garage.
The idea of buying, tuning and upgrading a collection of increasingly high-end cars in a racing game was already years old when Gran Turismo came out. Street Rod had used basically the same formula back in 1990. In fact, when I played Gran Turismo for the first time I basically considered it to be a modernized update of Street Rod, albeit with organized circuit races in the then-modern day instead of illegal street races in the 1960s.
Also Choro Q trilogy do this, with 2 and 3 being also open world. Impressive games for their time.
That game franchise taught me many tracks like suzuka twin ring motegi etc it even showed me how the audi Q3 concept looked like and how the newest TT looked like in the concepts in the early 2000s
I've only played GT PSP on my friend's borrowed PSP, it was still a great experience for me!
If you liked the PSP Gran Turismo, I can't recommend enough playing the other games. The PSP was the first version I played and when I played GT5 I had so much fun along with the rest of the series.
never play the gt psp tho. but im having fun on colin mcrae rally 2005
Ur videos are just top notch man!!! Keep up the good work!!!
Even though I love racing games, I've never been the most interested with realistic racing. No matter what game you make a video on, I still come on in and watch it. That in my eyes proves that a UA-camr is good. Keep up the good work man!
Oh , can't wait to see the video
This video is dear to my heart. Love it. Can't wait for 2-Sport and spin offs like the Prologues, PSP, and Tourist Trophy. ;)
Watching this footage reminded me that the only way I could play PS1 as a kid was when my father would rent one from the video store. It didn't happen often, but when it did, I almost always asked to have him rent Gran Turismo with it.
Your comments about difficulty were spot on. This is going to sound weird, but, two years ago, I started playing Gran Turismo 2 on a Playstation emulator on my Blackberry Classic. It's surprisingly playable on the Qwerty keyboard. Coming from modern racing simulators, I really felt like it took longer to progress, and that the AI were merciless. It was properly old-school difficult.
I actually prefer GT1 over GT2. I like the driving physics, framerate, viewdistance, and soundtrack more than I ever did in 2. But maybe it was because it was like my first game as a kid.
I rarely comment on videos but your videos are so good. Keep up the great work!
1:28 S.S route 5. Not route 11, route 11 used the TVR griffith in the I-A license.
Good job in explaining. In the Gran turismo 1 Beta were also diffirent car noises or they were cut in the final version in the game. Gran turismo 1 was my dad's childhood game when he was a little kid :)
I started with the first game way back..
This game is such nostalgia
Same ❤️ I was 5 years old..
@@CLOYO I was 7 or 8. Can't remember exactly
I'm a fan of GT4 since I own my first PS2, and I enjoy it a lot.
Some funny story: after playing Gran Turismo for some time, I played RR3 and get better on it. Later, when I played Gran Turismo again, somehow I forgot how to drive in that game lol. So I have to go back learn things all over again. I don't have that kind of problem when playing F1 2013 tho.
I used to play this game religiously as a kid, and I still play it to this day for nostalgia. So take it easy on it.
I'm an Arcade racing fan and Simulation games like GT doesn't really do much for me, but GT1 remains as my favorite in the series because it's Arcade Mode and the way the cars and tracks were handled in that mode was very entertaining and it makes me feel disappointed that the wackiness of that didn't make it to the later games. GT1's Arcade Mode plays like what I expected from that mode. I do wish this came back, but I'm 99% sure it won't ever be. :(
I can agree with you. Is also the least padded in the series, with the enough events to play through in few sittings and not abuse of 1 or 2 hours (or more) races.
The opening video in GT was epic. I think it wasn’t until GT4 that the opening came close, but that was done very intentionally with the opera music lol. Really liked the car selection in GT2. Unfortunately I haven’t played past GT5
I only recently got into Gran Turismo last year. I spent some time trying to figure out which to start with. It seems I made the right choice with GT2 rather than the 1st game (tho I almost went with that one). After beating 2 I went into 3 and grabbed a Logitech GT Pro for GT4 and had a blast. Great retrospective.
Looooove GT1. I didn't get to grow up with it properly, but it came with a demo disc I had. It was basically arcade mode set in Clubman Stage Route 5, and you could only pick between a Corvette, an NSX and a racing version of a Subaru Impreza. Used to replay it all the time, and eventually I got into GT3 once I got a PS2. Definitely one of my favorite series of racing games!
Side note: Am I crazy for preferring the way GT1 looks over GT2? The addition of reflections on the cars in GT2 was no doubt impressive from a technological standpoint, but I feel like it was just too advanced for that generation, and I think it makes the overall presentation look more dated than GT1.
Honestly I agree, I subjectively prefer the way GT1 looks. So sharp.
@@Kaceydotme Insomnia gang haha. Seriously though, glad I'm not alone on that, I've just always preferred the visuals in GT1. Both are awesome games either way though.
Excellent video btw, always love hearing your thoughts on classic racing games!
Terrific video mate
My best memory of Gran Turismo is getting an autographed poster of GT Sport from Yamauchi at a PlayStation event when the game was being previewed there
Question for the Q&A : when did you start making videos in youtube and what motivated you in doing it?
5:55 Maybe this is why I hate brake to drift so much
I just began playing sega gt again and man... I gotta agree, handling in it is unpredictable, but dang I love that game
The first Gran Turismo I got was Gran Turismo 2 the game had a lot to offer Gran Turismo 4 was my favorite haven't played 5 or 6 yet
I love Gran Turismo on the PlayStation 1 growing up. I remember the last time I played It years after It does show It's age but I enjoyed It. As a long time Gran Turismo fan I can say for gamers who never played It going in It can be hard. Cool video. ^_^
Gran Turismo is easily the Dark Souls of racing games.
Especially the licence tests.
Don't Forget Mission 34 in GT4, i still haven't managed to beat that 300 SL.
In GT Sport, you have Lewis Hamilton challenge, possibly one of the hardest mission mode ever in GT Series (at least to me)
@@Bahraini_Carguy the secret is, drive like a beast, abuse wallriding and ram him off the track when you have the chance. Now if you care about doing it clean, I'm just sorry.
F zero takes that mantle
Two things if you know you know. GT’s detailed game manual and GT2’s scratch and sniff disc (arcade disc I think)
my manuals are missing 😭
The scratch and sniff disk was only in PAL territories
Q&A: from those three categories, which car you consider you favorite from the civilian, mid-range sports and supercar tiers?
Have you tried Enthusia? it was Konami´s idea of a Gran Turismo in the PS2 era, and it was very fun.
7:17 That alone gave me nightmares...All of the I-A license tests in GT1 were brutal...
love the video, and I agree on pretty much everything. This is amazing game, although my least favourite from the main games in the series (apart from ps3 titles that i never owned, but I played to death every other one). It's funny how close they were to almost perfection, and my all time favourite game to this day is Gran Turismo 2. Overall it's amazing series, games are different enough to justify owning every one of them, and whem you know them well they seem so different. Probably the only one that I don't really like is the one for psp, and i'm not too crazy about GT Sport missing amazing original gt tracks.
Motor toon GP looks like one of those weirdly scary psychedelic head fuck games. I want it
10:01 holy shit Doug moment
Dont forget that Gran Turismo Soudtrack is just right
I became T Square fan because of that
I'm dying to know what capture card you use to get such clear footage from your PS2. I've tried so many different capture cards, but the footage is always so muddy and blurry despite looking great when displayed on my TV (component cables)
GT3 is the only GT I played and I still truely love it!
Try GT4!
Here it is, my most fav thing in the world.
fucking loved the first 3 gt games. i first played the demo on the demo disc that came with my ps1 and you only had one track and 3 cars to choose from. i always picked the 67 corvette because it drifted so easy. i also loved the intro cinematic from gt1 with the build up to the logo and then the burn out together with the song kicking in
i always had a xbox growing up but played this game on my friejds ps2 in middle school
!!BRAVO!!!
Aw heck yeah!
It still baffles me why you don’t have more subscribers
She's too underrated for her own good
Can't wait for Gran Turismo 7 tho. It has the menu hub from Gran Turismo 4 except it's modernized
I was about to buy a PS1 copy of GT1 as my first game in the series but this video has convinced me to buy GT2 instead.
Q&A: Why your nickname in the games is "Kaxey" and not "Kacey" like the channel name?
GT2,4,5 is the best Granturismo for me... Maybe also 6 for its track selection
I finished gt1 recently. Drifting and wallriding is the fastest.
Can you review split second on the Xbox 360 and ps3
For some reason they changed the physics in GT1 in subsequent releases for the worse. NTSC-J original release has a handling almost equal to GT2. All of the cars seems to handle like if they were rear wheel and the true RWD cars are unusable without proper tuning. The licenses were also way more harder in NTSC and PAL due to time being less forgiving. Also i entirely disagree with Gran Turismo 1 rewarding clean driving. It actually punish you since AI is rubberbanded and to do fastest times is better to just sticking to the wall in a good angle to prevent breaking. NFS High Stakes by putting car damage and a reward at the end of the race for doing a clean race did this correctly.
I have USA and Japan copies of the first GT game and I'm convinced the physics aren't the same. The JPN GT feels a bit more like GT2, IMO. Maybe I'm just insane but the grip, brake efficacy, and ease of getting the car airborne in sim mode seems way exaggerated in the USA version, leading to faster play but a lot of odd, fidgety driving dynamics.
Between that and the music, I usually play the Japan version these days.
I feel the developers made these changes to the US market as at the time they felt that they’d be bored with a completely grounded racing sim.
Yeah. And its called the real driving simulator. More like arcade simulator.
@@strikerecho2592 Its funny since the USA version still "tries" to be a simulator. The handling isnt arcadey like NFS. But they didnt knew how to find a good balance. The RWD cars are pretty much undrivable and the USA handling wasnt made for these type of tracks. Even a cheap Subaru Wagon car can outperform a completely tunned Skyline or Viper.
I had similar issues later on in GT1, especially when it came to the stock car challenge. I basically bought the same NSX that kept beating me (type S?) and eventually i got it. if you can manage to deal with that event consistently, its a godlike moneymaker. Sadly I never completed the game due to playing on an emulator and not being able to make the game look more visible. Which made the Special Stage routes almost impossible to do for me.
Just listen to the music! Oh my God it's so fcking good.
good bro
This was the first game I've ever played I was 3
i think GT1 was a baseline for car games, and the next after that was GT4, GT2/GT3 was not ground breaking, just upgrade of the former, but GT4 was a good game on its own.
Gran turismo should make a game like Tokyo Xtreme racer, with realistic handling, beautiful graphics, perfect game versions of the shutokou, Osaka, mountain passes like haruna, car body kit tuning, licensed cars like veilside rx7 or abr s130z and online that would be my perfect game
GT 1 and 2 are still amazing, i come back to them from time to time
Couple of questions, what version of nfs was that at 3:49 since I don't recognise that car in the original version unless it's a cheat and what game was at 6:33?
Also great video btw
The better Russian bootleg version of first Gran Turismo had a problem - it crashed when you try to buy tires. I still managed to compete the game. Tuned Cup was the toughest.
Granturismo was my childhood
Have you ever had the chance to play Soul Sacrifice for the PS Vita? Would love to hear your input about that game, I was so attached to the story and lore pages of that game, gameplay was pretty repetitive once you got the hang of the game but the comprehension of that game was amazing
11:10 oh god it's the Miku car
"This was a passion project"
Now, if only we could say the same thing for Forza...
i onced owned gt2 for my origional playstaion system
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee new video 👌
I know its a dumb question but is there any way for me to get the modern gt games with 100% of the cars in it available to use
Now we wait for the bladed angel comment.
Ah yes. GT1's license is a mishmash of IA-15 and Mission 34
Gran Turismo 1 was the reason I bought my 1st car. A 1989 Toyota Supra
That was actually my first car too!
@@Kaceydotme that’s awesome! Makes sense why it came up in your video so often haha
Hey Kacey I have a video idea, since this is about Gran Turismo changing simulation games, why not do TDU2 or TDU1 about changing arcade racing games?
How do you like the PocketStation?
Great video, you earned a sub!
But I'll take it away if you do a video on GT 2000 and not bass-boost the music while driving a yellow evo V ;).
I still like the original the best tbh. Yes I get your points but I feel it moves better than GT2. 2 feels somewhat sluggish in comparison to the original.
Nice video. Enjoyed it.
Yea the framerate in 2 does suffer quite a bit. Glad you liked the video!
Huh. This and 2 were my first gran turismo games and I’m only 18.