@@Theottselmaster lol, that intro! something to do with a girl's racing driver father dying in a crash, then she grows up to be a person who photographs motor racing as a job, then she sees another crash and is horrendously retraumatised by it? i dunno
The music was good as any other NAMCO Racing game. I think the game is great, but the physics engine felt similar to RR. I kind of felt the Career Mode was lackluster, but I believe it would've been great if they polished the games story imo.
@@FabioGnecco if you want to experience the story for a few hours, collect a few race/rally cars, use money to buy cars and purchase extra challenges (yea you buy challenges before you start them to get more money. I'd recimmend the story for collevting some early cars and getting tons of money as you don't start out with much to do the challenges and the story does a good job showing you how many tracks there are and how each car feels, there is also some tweaking but no tuning) and do MotoGP 3 (besides being in that engine) style challenges (time trial, drag, rallycross, overtaking and other things the main game adds but in bite sized challenges) then go for it. If that doesn't sound interesting to you then yeah. I found it fun and.the physics not too bad. I'd recommend seeing other reviews or gameplay though. I have only played it via the Dolphin GameCube emulator though so can't confirm how it plays on a real PS2/GameCube or Xbox.
When I looked at Driving Emotion S’s car list, I was impressed an old Japanese raceing game managed to have a Porsche license, and wondered why. The I remember that Square and EA used to be partners.
@Budgie Cat they used to be merely tuned Porsches, but nowadays they produce plenty of completely original vehicles that share nothing in common with Porsches.
@@Kaceydotme That Rad Racer reference is more of a jab because Square copied Sega's Outrun arcade and home games but as a first party effort on the Nintendo FamiCom NES aka people who feel one game is better often do not realize how derivative or a copy of another game it was... same can apply with Sony's Gran Turismo since that game takes elements from other games, especially Sega.
I played R: Racing Evolution for the first time somewhat recently. I noticed about the extremely close camera too, but I realised it's because of how the game deals with widescreen. It's not real widescreen, it just crops the top and bottom of the screen off. If you go back to 4:3 it looks more natural and way less claustrophobic. Sucks they force you to make that choice though.
I just thought of it now, But Gadget Racers / Penny Racers/ Choro Q HG is a Gran Turismo clone. Sure, the series was always about customization, but the first HG was similiar in structure. License tests, car type regulted races, even washing your car. It’s like Gran Turismo for kids.
Oooh boy i remember having 13 years old and playing Enthusia, in Nordschleife with the Makkinen Evo over and over again...just enjoying the physics. The music was top notch tho
@@Blueflag04 reddit link in my reply has a basic guide on how to install the script, then you just go to any game page on emuparadise and click "download using the workaround script" their servers are a bit slow so its not super fast downloads, but hey its a clean rom so
I was actually noticed the trend of GT clones among less known racing games and this video got made about a month later! I wish you'd have given TOCA series more spotlight, for having different disciplines of racing in a single game similar to GT.
13:05 Yeah, I remember a video from Gustingorriz (that's in Spanish) where he comes to that conclusion. People in general would be talking about Enthusia instead of Gran Turismo 4 if it just released earlier.
Depends for me with instant restarts of a race even in a championship (or a save before the next race) and more so rewinds. If the AI are dumb/harsh or the physics take a bit of getting used to I do use the feature (was yesterday with Grid 1 a few times) whenever I can but otherwise when it comes to clean driving or meeting time trial goals it depends. Some games you really need it and others are so good its easy to go without it
3:04 Driving Emotion Type-S 8:45 Entusia Professional Racing 15:54 Forza Motorsport 18:05 GT Advance Championship Racing (20:30 GT Cube, 20:35 GT Pro series) 21:35 Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix 25:57 Racing Revolution
In like 2004 my brother got an obscure pc only clone of Gran Turismo called Grand Touring (or it could just be a similar name idk) and it's still here on a living room shelf after all these years. I dont think I've ever seen this game brought up anywhere ever.
I've never heard anyone acknowledge Racing Lagoon's or Enthusia's existences, much less speak about them in-depth. And the Shutoku series? Tokyo Highway Battle is the reason that I'm a JDM Stan now... Outstanding video, bro.
Man, you HAVE to do a video on Genki racers someday! I know TXR games have their fans, but I've very rarely heard what happened to the series later on.
Genki now continues to develop the Wangan Midnight arcade series. This latest game was Shutokou Battle on mobile but that got discontinued a few years ago.
Love this! As a kid, I made a point to rent every racing game I could, so I've played pretty much all of these. I remember playing Driving Emotion for like an hour, then begging my mom to return it and rent Gran Turismo 3 again for the millionth time
28:03 This "stress" mechanic reminds me a lot of Juiced. You could also trigger a similar effect there, but you didn't have a 100% chance of it, just for a short time the opponent had a higher chance of making a mistake. Sometimes they didn't manage to brake before the corner, sometimes they braked too much and too early, which left them behind, sometimes they spin, sometimes they drove into another car, and sometimes they regained control and nothing happened.
Damn, what a great episode. Love your coverage of racers and shooters since you generally tackle a lot of the more niche and under-the-radar games throughout the years. Also kudos for including the song names, hardly anybody does that on YT for some reason. +1 for Sneaker Pimps!
R: Racing Evolution looks like something I could really enjoy. I'm a big fan of story and I do like the character designs. And while I would probably never play it, please inject Racing Battle's graphic design into my veins it is so slick
@@Housesider After listening to it for around a split second, it sounds like rock mixed in with electronica although I could be completely wrong. The ost: ua-cam.com/video/lWSa-PIQImg/v-deo.html
Such a shame. The whole concept is interesting, the cars also have a cockpit view, which is amazing for its era. Great music, the car roster is interesting aswell, but the physics are just a pile of garbage
im so happy you mentioned racing lagoon because after playing it the game immediately went into my top 20 favorite games of all time list just from its uniqueness
Anyone who says that Forza Motorsport 1 wasn't a Gran Turismo clone is delusional, it is as clear as water that it was made to have the Gran Turismo experience on the Xbox. The only thing with Forza is, that it worked really well, so it became a massive series to properly rival Gran Turismo and not just stay as a clone like the rest of these games. Then they went to revolutionize open world racing games with the Horizon series and now the Forza brand is far more recognizable to the general public than Gran Turismo, albeit pretty much entirely due to Horizon. I love Forza, I like more than Gran Turismo, but we can't lie to ourselves, Forza only exists because Gran Turismo existed before. Do not deny it, it's the truth.
Dan Greenawalt has stated in interviews the GT influence. Much like anybody else he was a GT fan, if you were a car lover in the mid 90's it was pretty much the go-to game.
If I might offer a bonus… Enthusia is OUTSTANDING with a steering wheel. I got it when it first released… despite already having (and spending SO much time in) GT4, this game was STILL awesome, in its own right.
Came for R Racing Evolution, I love that game I have so many good memories of that game and even as I kid I understood that dirt drives different than pavement and they did a good job with how they got that across….
Racing lagoon is one of it's kind i guess. No racing/rpg games like that. The cgi is weird, i know. But can you imagine toyota mr2 with 800hp 2jz engine? Racing lagoon can do that.
C1 Racing Battle was one of my all-time favorite racing games, even to this day I still have a very fond memories of it and I would even say it heavily influenced my way of viewing racing games.
As a matter of fact, R:Racing Evolution was made in part by the guys that did the 500GP arcade machine and the subsequent port/expansions that were MotoGp 1, 2, 3, 4 & PSP for Sony consoles. The most obvious common points between 2 are the soundtrack and the "psyche out" mechanic, which appears in the MotoGp games but WITHOUT a health bar.
I'm so fucking happy to see Racing Lagoon being mentioned here. Childhood game, didn't understand a lick of Japanese. And In so glad to see an English translation patch being worked on. I remember asking the forums if there's an English patch for this game over 5 years ago.
Final Lap Twin was a racing RPG made for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 in 1989. Also, Square was making racing games since before they started making RPGs, with one of their first games being Rad Racer for the Famicom/NES.
In the end R:Racing was the only GranTurismo like game the GameCube had to offer. I played the story mode and completed every challenge there was aftere the story. It took a long time to master but it was worth it. You unlocked new cars and some cars had upgraded variants to unlock. The same with streets of la/ny. Having at least a alternative for the GC of Ps2 games it did not get was all i needed to enjoy my squared console untill the Ps3 arrived
TXR ZERO for PS2 is the racing game still burnt in my head even though I played 100 times more GT. It felt unique even compared to games that came out after. Tracking down and racing different car club members till you eventually beat their leader.. every member even had a detailed back story. The car tuning and selection ( like 4 door integras to minivans and all expected tuners and everything in between. Man if they made a modern version with more highways/bigger map, being able to start your own race club slightly rpgish maybe with the way you could upgrade your team or something. They were even before the fast and furious (I only know that cause the movies trailer is in the game) also the mini documentary included about the illegal late night Japanese highway racers is sick and I watch it every few years.
Stellar video Kacey! The only UA-camr who gets car racing games like I do. I remember wanting to get Enthusia so bad after seeing it teased in a gaming magazine. Glad to hear it was one of the better clones.
R Racing Evolution was the only other racing game I had aside from GT4 on the PS2, so you don't know how quickly I clicked on this video from the thumbnail. While everything you've said about the game is sadly very true, hearing that intro theme song play again sends me back in time. Great video.
You said Racing Lagoon was squared first racing game, but I have Rad Racer for NES. Not sure what other racing games they might have had. It’s an arcade racing game in the style of Out Run
I have such fond memories of playing FM 2 on my 360, since it came with the console when I got it. I played it so much the disc got destroyed (that and I was 5 and didn’t take care of my games 😅). I really need to get the game at some point just to relive some good childhood memories.
Advan Racing (PSX) is probably BETTER than Gran Turismo when it comes to core mechanics and content: · It uses a calendar (mainly filled with races for the Sprint and Endurance Championships) and there are scheduling conflicts · The tyres are based after real tyres made by Advan and you can even change the dimensions · Each car is divided into 3 classes · Each car can be modified into the 3 tuner classes · It includes most of the JTCC grid · It includes most of the JGTC grid · It has all big tracks in Japan (plus Suzuka East, the only shortened version) There's a guy here on UA-cam that has a great LP series of Advan Racing's year 1 including the bonus cars you get after winning the points championships (from a McLaren F1 to a Lancia Stratos)
Loving these long videos where you go over multiple games, I don't see a lot of stuff that tackles such specific genres/subgenres. Also I really dig the little annotations for the music, they remind me of EA Trax
I'm very happy you mentioned GT Cube/Pro Series as it's definitely one of my top favorite racing games ever just for it's arcade gameplay. I always love discussing this to other people as I keep saying, "This is my Gran Turismo." and show them this! Haha.
I absolutely loved R: Racing Evolution even though I was horrible at racing games, It’s one of the main reasons that I fell in love with the dodge viper. Such a shame that the series never went anywhere as I thought that it was really interesting but I’m glad that I’m not the only one who knows of it’s existence, I still have it somewhere in my collection so I may revisit it now that I can actually drive properly lol.
Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo/Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano and Evolution GT were both made by Milestone, creators of Superbikes Riding Challenge and the subsequent RIDE games (Gran Turismo with motorbikes). SCAR is also the 1st racing game to have flashbacks, a mechanic taken straight from Prince of Persia on the PS2. I'm really disappointed you didn't mention how a stupid game by some Italian dudes gave us maybe the most-present mechanic in modern racing games.
I grew up with GT Advance 1,2 and 3, They're my favorite games for the GBA, yeah, it can be frustrating, with the track layout (imagine playing this on the Micro like I do) and the ai bumping you constantly, my favorite entry is the 2nd one, cause when you got in a rhythm, you flew through those stages, it really made you feel like a proper rally driver now that the drift physics made a bit more sense logically. Once I got used to the first game's problems, my only issue with it was the passcode system, that's why the third game really is very special to me, it's really replayable, there's even a harder mode once you win every single race!
This video actually inspired me to try out Enthusia as a GT4 player. Actually ended up having 2 cars I consider "OP": a Range Rover Vogue that can somewhat whip multiple 300hp-500hp cars' asses despite how chonky it is and a Legacy B4 RSK that... well, takes corners well thanks to points farming, Enthusia is like Pokémon except only the components evolve LOL Good video about the GT clones, you deserve a like and a sub!
Thanks for the music. 🙂 I get always stuck with the music of the racing games from the past. (Ridge Racer & GT Series) I will hear the whole soundtrack of Enthusia now.
I had ZERO clue about Racing Lagoon...I can't believe I didn't know about it...I adore all racing, especially obscure ones, and same with Square's RPGs...thank you thank you thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Jokes on you, they've literally just announced the new entry in the Grid franchise (titled Legends) which is going to have a story mode again with throwbacks to the original TRD story mode. From the traile, the story looks kind of cringe, if I'm honest, but it who knows. Long gone are the days of TRD, so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.
R-Racing Evolution is just Ace Combat with cars
Race Combat 5: Unsung Turismo
@@CoolPsyco everything is fun and happiness until the GT40 start singin in Latin with a spanish guitar at the background
Why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave?
@@SpikerDragon95
...welp, I guess I need to play this game ASAP.
R: Racing Evolution is what happens when you let Project ACES handle a racing game.
Melodramatic and somehow stinking of war crimes.
Match fixing is one of war crime.
Oh, and women with heavy lesbian vibes.
R: Racing Evolution holds such a special, special place in my heart & childhood. Such an overlooked game and I’m so glad to see it covered in depth.
Same here, had it on Gamecube back in the day and it's nice to see it get reviewed. Also i oddly really liked the rallycross event's back in the day.
Same here man, I had alot of PS2 games, mainly racing and Toca, GT and R:Racing are the top 3 out of circuit racers I binge played for years
yo, same, pulled out my old xbox over the last 2 years and went on a nostalgia trip with it and a bunch of other games
It was the GameCube that forced me to buy the game. No regrets.
I absolutely love Enthusia. When I picked it up a couple of years ago I couldn't believe everyone slept on that gem.
The most over the top intro XD
@@Theottselmaster lol, that intro! something to do with a girl's racing driver father dying in a crash, then she grows up to be a person who photographs motor racing as a job, then she sees another crash and is horrendously retraumatised by it? i dunno
Everyone slept on it because it was unfortunately released only a few months after Gran Turismo 4.
@@KingC-way425 Damn shame.. aside from no 16:9 its still great.
@@KingC-way425 Yeah, that was some really bad timing. I kinda prefer it to GT4 these days tho.
"The Daihatsu Microaggression" 💀
The pic of Lance Stroll when you said racing point made me laugh more than it probably should have
"WHAT HAS HAPPENED?!? WE NEED TO KNOW!"
When was that?
@@Tuna_Tanu 23:07
R Racing Evolution is an underrated classic.
The music was good as any other NAMCO Racing game. I think the game is great, but the physics engine felt similar to RR. I kind of felt the Career Mode was lackluster, but I believe it would've been great if they polished the games story imo.
This.
One of my favorite ps2 games. Such a gem
Really good game for any fan of the genre.
feels more like R4 sequel for how the story plays out
R:Racing Evolution is the perfect mix of RR and Ace Combat and I absolutely love it!
23:07 damn you really had to Lance stroll us like that
Lance Troll
Strolling
a stroll roll
Racing Points
The fact that the selector _can_ land on nothing is absolute horseshit.
Thanks for the shoutout! I hope you enjoy the finished patch when it's complete.
R: Racing Revolution is a combination of Ridge Racer and Ace Combat (notice their chatter has "" and AWACS voices)
I disagree with kacey here I like the overacted chatter
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Is It worth buying today ?
Running off the MotoGP 3 engine
@@FabioGnecco if you want to experience the story for a few hours, collect a few race/rally cars, use money to buy cars and purchase extra challenges (yea you buy challenges before you start them to get more money. I'd recimmend the story for collevting some early cars and getting tons of money as you don't start out with much to do the challenges and the story does a good job showing you how many tracks there are and how each car feels, there is also some tweaking but no tuning) and do MotoGP 3 (besides being in that engine) style challenges (time trial, drag, rallycross, overtaking and other things the main game adds but in bite sized challenges) then go for it. If that doesn't sound interesting to you then yeah. I found it fun and.the physics not too bad.
I'd recommend seeing other reviews or gameplay though. I have only played it via the Dolphin GameCube emulator though so can't confirm how it plays on a real PS2/GameCube or Xbox.
It was almost giving me ptsd from SAM of Ace Combat 4.
When I looked at Driving Emotion S’s car list, I was impressed an old Japanese raceing game managed to have a Porsche license, and wondered why.
The I remember that Square and EA used to be partners.
@Budgie Cat wangan midnight had RUF
@Budgie Cat different license.
@Budgie Cat They actually built them with a different vin numbers.
@Budgie Cat they used to be merely tuned Porsches, but nowadays they produce plenty of completely original vehicles that share nothing in common with Porsches.
"Daihatsu Micro aggresion" 😂😂 wasn't expecting that one lol good work as always Kacey 👍
Kacey, Square's first racing game was Rad Racer on the NES.
Right, I purposely excluded 80s arcade games and NES games and the like. I was specifically looking for 3D driving games.
@@Kaceydotme aah, i did wonder if it was how you phrased it.
did anyone tell you that you sound like Slope Game Room?
you are everywhere
@@Kaceydotme That Rad Racer reference is more of a jab because Square copied Sega's Outrun arcade and home games but as a first party effort on the Nintendo FamiCom NES aka people who feel one game is better often do not realize how derivative or a copy of another game it was... same can apply with Sony's Gran Turismo since that game takes elements from other games, especially Sega.
I played R: Racing Evolution for the first time somewhat recently. I noticed about the extremely close camera too, but I realised it's because of how the game deals with widescreen. It's not real widescreen, it just crops the top and bottom of the screen off. If you go back to 4:3 it looks more natural and way less claustrophobic. Sucks they force you to make that choice though.
Yeah, I noticed that recently when I replayed it on Dolphin. I searched for a real widescreen cheat, but it doesn't exist either.
I just thought of it now,
But Gadget Racers / Penny Racers/ Choro Q HG is a Gran Turismo clone. Sure, the series was always about customization, but the first HG was similiar in structure. License tests, car type regulted races, even washing your car. It’s like Gran Turismo for kids.
The Choro Q series started before Gran Turismo! So is it a clone?
@@volkte37 tamsoft were the tru pioneers all along
@@beat-man5167 Incredible!!!! 😆
Is Road Trip Adventure really good? i heard lots of good thing about it
@@Blueflag04 I love road trip Adventure. Its janky but charming and unique.
I can’t be the only one who keeps reading enthusia racing as euthanasia racing
i'd preorder that in a heartbeat
lmao
Haha same
Lmao. That's a brilliant name for a game dude, doubt if a game with that can be published today tho...
I am not a native speaker, and YES I always read "euthanasia"
Oooh boy i remember having 13 years old and playing Enthusia, in Nordschleife with the Makkinen Evo over and over again...just enjoying the physics.
The music was top notch tho
"Convinced you to pick them up and try them out"
Me: **starts typing PS2 ROMs for PCSX2**
*iso (image)
You won't find any "" ROMs""...
@@asianinashed grab the workaround script for emuparadise and use that
@@fxckrio how do you do that?
@@Blueflag04 reddit link in my reply has a basic guide on how to install the script, then you just go to any game page on emuparadise and click "download using the workaround script"
their servers are a bit slow so its not super fast downloads, but hey its a clean rom so
Convinced you don't know how to spell convinced the proper way.
I was actually noticed the trend of GT clones among less known racing games and this video got made about a month later!
I wish you'd have given TOCA series more spotlight, for having different disciplines of racing in a single game similar to GT.
It's a shame Namco completely forgot about their racing games after RR7.
And no, Unbounded doesn't count.
A deep shame indeed :(
Feels like they ran out of ideas after R4
I LOVE choro Q SO MUCH. That game is such an important part of my childhood, PLEASE do a video abt it!!!
13:05 Yeah, I remember a video from Gustingorriz (that's in Spanish) where he comes to that conclusion. People in general would be talking about Enthusia instead of Gran Turismo 4 if it just released earlier.
Ah man, games without a restart feature is a big pet peeve of mine. Especially when you’re a perfectionist.
Depends for me with instant restarts of a race even in a championship (or a save before the next race) and more so rewinds. If the AI are dumb/harsh or the physics take a bit of getting used to I do use the feature (was yesterday with Grid 1 a few times) whenever I can but otherwise when it comes to clean driving or meeting time trial goals it depends. Some games you really need it and others are so good its easy to go without it
That’s what I hated the most about Gran Turismo 1
3:04 Driving Emotion Type-S
8:45 Entusia Professional Racing
15:54 Forza Motorsport
18:05 GT Advance Championship Racing (20:30 GT Cube, 20:35 GT Pro series)
21:35 Racing Battle C1 Grand Prix
25:57 Racing Revolution
I didn't expect Forza to make the list
Tf is racing revolution
@@thedirectorscut4848 R: Racing Evolution
what about the ones shown in the intro
>daihatsu microaggression
I really didn't expect that lol
In like 2004 my brother got an obscure pc only clone of Gran Turismo called Grand Touring (or it could just be a similar name idk) and it's still here on a living room shelf after all these years. I dont think I've ever seen this game brought up anywhere ever.
do a video about it!
I've never heard anyone acknowledge Racing Lagoon's or Enthusia's existences, much less speak about them in-depth. And the Shutoku series? Tokyo Highway Battle is the reason that I'm a JDM Stan now... Outstanding video, bro.
One big problem. The TXR series are far from being Gt clones.
@@Hinshu85 indeed,they more like wangan midnight inspired while kaido its more like gt but intial d
I only heard about it from ThorHighHeels a few years ago, who's so in tune with very obscure games like these.
Man, you HAVE to do a video on Genki racers someday!
I know TXR games have their fans, but I've very rarely heard what happened to the series later on.
Genki now continues to develop the Wangan Midnight arcade series. This latest game was Shutokou Battle on mobile but that got discontinued a few years ago.
Well, I expect more than Kaido. How about Option tuning series ? Of course Shutouku battle series as mentioned here in comments, too.
Love this! As a kid, I made a point to rent every racing game I could, so I've played pretty much all of these. I remember playing Driving Emotion for like an hour, then begging my mom to return it and rent Gran Turismo 3 again for the millionth time
Wish Enthusia had gotten a hd remaster...
Every single video I see from you gets better and better. Easily my favorite channel on UA-cam
Excellent documentary. I feel like this deserves a part 2.
Look at all that Ace Combat 5 in the ridge racer spin-off
28:03 This "stress" mechanic reminds me a lot of Juiced. You could also trigger a similar effect there, but you didn't have a 100% chance of it, just for a short time the opponent had a higher chance of making a mistake. Sometimes they didn't manage to brake before the corner, sometimes they braked too much and too early, which left them behind, sometimes they spin, sometimes they drove into another car, and sometimes they regained control and nothing happened.
29:42 fuck lol
Edit: YO THEY JUST ANNOUNCED CHOCOBO RACING 2 WHAT THE FUCK
You should review race driver grid 2008
There you go, a quote that just been destroyed in a short time.
RIP that one lmao.
I really hope Grid Legends will be good
Mandatory r/whoosh
"Daihatsu Microaggresion" absolutely killed me. Love getting looks at "obscure" Japan-only racing games I know next to nothing about
Seeing that intro to R: Racing Evolution was pretty nostalgic, this was also what introduced me to the Ridge Racer franchise in a strange way.
After you showed some footage from the Braking Point career mode, how about a review of F1 2021 ?
-Pronto Kacey..
-Yes Boss?
-sBinalla
He should talk about that
@@hugosdrawing2871 POV: You signed with Ferrari and Charles is behind you
Damn, what a great episode. Love your coverage of racers and shooters since you generally tackle a lot of the more niche and under-the-radar games throughout the years. Also kudos for including the song names, hardly anybody does that on YT for some reason. +1 for Sneaker Pimps!
R: Racing Evolution looks like something I could really enjoy. I'm a big fan of story and I do like the character designs.
And while I would probably never play it, please inject Racing Battle's graphic design into my veins it is so slick
It has a very good car roster and endgame content aswell
No shit you like the character designs.
the char designs look very modern and ample for todays market
23:36 aaand also known as Kaido Racer 2 (in Europe)
I loved GT Advanced. At the time it blew my mind as a kid for a handheld
Driving Emotion Type-S may be an AWFUL GAME THAT I SPENT 1 WEEK OF MY LIFE ON BEATING FOR NOTHING, but it's got one hell of a banging soundtrack.
What genre(s) of music does it have?
@@Housesider After listening to it for around a split second, it sounds like rock mixed in with electronica although I could be completely wrong.
The ost:
ua-cam.com/video/lWSa-PIQImg/v-deo.html
@@Housesider Some good ass jazz fusion.
It's pretty much the only good thing about it lol
Such a shame. The whole concept is interesting, the cars also have a cockpit view, which is amazing for its era. Great music, the car roster is interesting aswell, but the physics are just a pile of garbage
If a racing game, is made by a Japanese developer, then the Tsukuba Circuit is a must-have
im so happy you mentioned racing lagoon because after playing it the game immediately went into my top 20 favorite games of all time list just from its uniqueness
"Who also doesn't wear a shirt under her racing overalls." That sounds really uncomfortable.
Or at least some kind of underwear.
@@mahiru20ten I hope so. The absolute disaster that could be going on if not.
Isn't GT Advance that game which had proper battery backed saves in the JP version but password system in the western version?
Yep, I actually cut a sizable portion of the video where I talked about that.
2:13 okay this is something I would actually be really interested in.
Racing lagoons is a poem game that no one ever knew they wanted it
Anyone who says that Forza Motorsport 1 wasn't a Gran Turismo clone is delusional, it is as clear as water that it was made to have the Gran Turismo experience on the Xbox. The only thing with Forza is, that it worked really well, so it became a massive series to properly rival Gran Turismo and not just stay as a clone like the rest of these games. Then they went to revolutionize open world racing games with the Horizon series and now the Forza brand is far more recognizable to the general public than Gran Turismo, albeit pretty much entirely due to Horizon.
I love Forza, I like more than Gran Turismo, but we can't lie to ourselves, Forza only exists because Gran Turismo existed before. Do not deny it, it's the truth.
Dan Greenawalt has stated in interviews the GT influence. Much like anybody else he was a GT fan, if you were a car lover in the mid 90's it was pretty much the go-to game.
They weren't hiding that fact lol. They REALLY started copying Gran Turismo with Forza 3 and 4 right down to similar soundtracks and visual design.
If I might offer a bonus… Enthusia is OUTSTANDING with a steering wheel. I got it when it first released… despite already having (and spending SO much time in) GT4, this game was STILL awesome, in its own right.
Came for R Racing Evolution, I love that game I have so many good memories of that game and even as I kid I understood that dirt drives different than pavement and they did a good job with how they got that across….
Racing lagoon is one of it's kind i guess.
No racing/rpg games like that.
The cgi is weird, i know.
But can you imagine toyota mr2 with 800hp 2jz engine?
Racing lagoon can do that.
C1 Racing Battle was one of my all-time favorite racing games, even to this day I still have a very fond memories of it and I would even say it heavily influenced my way of viewing racing games.
As a matter of fact, R:Racing Evolution was made in part by the guys that did the 500GP arcade machine and the subsequent port/expansions that were MotoGp 1, 2, 3, 4 & PSP for Sony consoles. The most obvious common points between 2 are the soundtrack and the "psyche out" mechanic, which appears in the MotoGp games but WITHOUT a health bar.
Namco literally went for the Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V strategy with Rena and Asuka Kazama from Tekken... Pro gamer move😂
Enthusia was fun, R Racing was interesting. As someone who enjoys the 2000s, R racing was peak 2000s with the soundtracks and graphics.
I'm so fucking happy to see Racing Lagoon being mentioned here. Childhood game, didn't understand a lick of Japanese.
And In so glad to see an English translation patch being worked on. I remember asking the forums if there's an English patch for this game over 5 years ago.
sega gt 2002 is still one of my faves
Final Lap Twin was a racing RPG made for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 in 1989. Also, Square was making racing games since before they started making RPGs, with one of their first games being Rad Racer for the Famicom/NES.
Type-S really feel like Racing Lagoon, but they set that are sim racing game. So, result? Boom.
In the end R:Racing was the only GranTurismo like game the GameCube had to offer. I played the story mode and completed every challenge there was aftere the story. It took a long time to master but it was worth it. You unlocked new cars and some cars had upgraded variants to unlock. The same with streets of la/ny. Having at least a alternative for the GC of Ps2 games it did not get was all i needed to enjoy my squared console untill the Ps3 arrived
TXR ZERO for PS2 is the racing game still burnt in my head even though I played 100 times more GT. It felt unique even compared to games that came out after. Tracking down and racing different car club members till you eventually beat their leader.. every member even had a detailed back story. The car tuning and selection ( like 4 door integras to minivans and all expected tuners and everything in between. Man if they made a modern version with more highways/bigger map, being able to start your own race club slightly rpgish maybe with the way you could upgrade your team or something. They were even before the fast and furious (I only know that cause the movies trailer is in the game) also the mini documentary included about the illegal late night Japanese highway racers is sick and I watch it every few years.
4:20 omg racing lagoon, I remember it, loved it even though I don't understand it!
Small correction, Rad Racer was actually Square's fire driving game.
I don’t know if it can be considered a “GT clone”, but I feel like it when I play 4x4 Evolution, imo, the GT of 4x4 Vehicles
The UI and customization are definitely heavily inspired by GT
I knew driving emotion Type S was gonna come up lol
And Evolution GT. That’s a full on knockoff!
the Evolution Corvette is hideous
Stellar video Kacey! The only UA-camr who gets car racing games like I do. I remember wanting to get Enthusia so bad after seeing it teased in a gaming magazine. Glad to hear it was one of the better clones.
R:Racing Evolution tried to combine Ridge Racer Type 4 and Gran Turismo, it was fine really
R Racing Evolution was the only other racing game I had aside from GT4 on the PS2, so you don't know how quickly I clicked on this video from the thumbnail. While everything you've said about the game is sadly very true, hearing that intro theme song play again sends me back in time. Great video.
You said Racing Lagoon was squared first racing game, but I have Rad Racer for NES. Not sure what other racing games they might have had. It’s an arcade racing game in the style of Out Run
Driving Emotion Type-S, I found out about literally about a week ago! And now here you are doing a review on it.
I have such fond memories of playing FM 2 on my 360, since it came with the console when I got it. I played it so much the disc got destroyed (that and I was 5 and didn’t take care of my games 😅). I really need to get the game at some point just to relive some good childhood memories.
I can't wait for you to review GRID: Legends when it drops next year.
Advan Racing (PSX) is probably BETTER than Gran Turismo when it comes to core mechanics and content:
· It uses a calendar (mainly filled with races for the Sprint and Endurance Championships) and there are scheduling conflicts
· The tyres are based after real tyres made by Advan and you can even change the dimensions
· Each car is divided into 3 classes
· Each car can be modified into the 3 tuner classes
· It includes most of the JTCC grid
· It includes most of the JGTC grid
· It has all big tracks in Japan (plus Suzuka East, the only shortened version)
There's a guy here on UA-cam that has a great LP series of Advan Racing's year 1 including the bonus cars you get after winning the points championships (from a McLaren F1 to a Lancia Stratos)
Loving these long videos where you go over multiple games, I don't see a lot of stuff that tackles such specific genres/subgenres. Also I really dig the little annotations for the music, they remind me of EA Trax
Can't wait for your Chocobo Racing review 😝
Oh, as a big fan of Enthusia at the time, it fills my heart with joy to hear someone complimenting it now.
I'm very happy you mentioned GT Cube/Pro Series as it's definitely one of my top favorite racing games ever just for it's arcade gameplay. I always love discussing this to other people as I keep saying, "This is my Gran Turismo." and show them this! Haha.
I absolutely loved R: Racing Evolution even though I was horrible at racing games, It’s one of the main reasons that I fell in love with the dodge viper. Such a shame that the series never went anywhere as I thought that it was really interesting but I’m glad that I’m not the only one who knows of it’s existence, I still have it somewhere in my collection so I may revisit it now that I can actually drive properly lol.
you are extremely cool for using sa1 music in the background
Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo/Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano and Evolution GT were both made by Milestone, creators of Superbikes Riding Challenge and the subsequent RIDE games (Gran Turismo with motorbikes). SCAR is also the 1st racing game to have flashbacks, a mechanic taken straight from Prince of Persia on the PS2. I'm really disappointed you didn't mention how a stupid game by some Italian dudes gave us maybe the most-present mechanic in modern racing games.
they also made Motogp games
We need more racing games with an actual story like R: Racing it just adds that something to the game that is missing a lot of the time.
Roadtrip and the other Choro Q Series is my Favorite Racing JRPGs
Looking forward to that eventual Sega GT retrospective! 🚘🏁
I own Racing Battle C1GP
Such a cool game. I wish it were translated. but its still fairly playable in japanese.
I grew up with GT Advance 1,2 and 3, They're my favorite games for the GBA, yeah, it can be frustrating, with the track layout (imagine playing this on the Micro like I do) and the ai bumping you constantly, my favorite entry is the 2nd one, cause when you got in a rhythm, you flew through those stages, it really made you feel like a proper rally driver now that the drift physics made a bit more sense logically. Once I got used to the first game's problems, my only issue with it was the passcode system, that's why the third game really is very special to me, it's really replayable, there's even a harder mode once you win every single race!
I didn't play Enthusia until 2017 on my PC and god damn, I loved that game. I just kept going back to it.
This video actually inspired me to try out Enthusia as a GT4 player. Actually ended up having 2 cars I consider "OP": a Range Rover Vogue that can somewhat whip multiple 300hp-500hp cars' asses despite how chonky it is and a Legacy B4 RSK that... well, takes corners well thanks to points farming, Enthusia is like Pokémon except only the components evolve LOL
Good video about the GT clones, you deserve a like and a sub!
I had GT Advance, GT2 Advance, and GT3 Advance and I loved them. But they were DEFINITELY Gran Turismo clones. The rallying one was really fun though!
*Kacey:* You probably haven't heard of Racing Lagoon before this video.
*ThorHighHeels:* And I took that personally.
I absolutely LOVED r racing on the GameCube. Speed, story, awesome cars and rally sections, and the replays were bangers
Thanks for the music. 🙂
I get always stuck with the music of the racing games from the past. (Ridge Racer & GT Series)
I will hear the whole soundtrack of Enthusia now.
I had ZERO clue about Racing Lagoon...I can't believe I didn't know about it...I adore all racing, especially obscure ones, and same with Square's RPGs...thank you thank you thank you for bringing it to my attention!
You most definitely convinced me about Enthusia, looks pretty awesome
_R: Racing Evolution's_ storytelling did seem to live on in the _Ace Combat_ series starting with _5: The Unsung War_ which came out a year later.
I want to play those games really bad, i'm probs starting with 4.
Man seeing R Racing Evolution was a nostalgia TRIP!
Jokes on you, they've literally just announced the new entry in the Grid franchise (titled Legends) which is going to have a story mode again with throwbacks to the original TRD story mode. From the traile, the story looks kind of cringe, if I'm honest, but it who knows. Long gone are the days of TRD, so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.
If the racing is good, I would reconsider, their past titles in that game to be accounted.
i just want a new Toca Race Driver
@@Blueflag04 I just want an actual sequel to Race Driver Grid 1, with pit lanes, flags, safety cars and weather. Grid 2 etc. don't count.