/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8130934]

>Game about some motorsport named after some guy
>Somehow everyone in europe with a ps1 had it
How did that happen?

[Anonymous No.8130952]

This series went on to be called Dirt.

[Anonymous No.8130974]

It's SEGA Rally's realistic counterpart, genuinely good.
The sequel sucked ass though.

[Anonymous No.8131054]

>>8130934
because it was a good game, simple as that really

[Anonymous No.8131086]

>>8130934
>some guy
He and and his son got Kobe Bryant'd.

[Anonymous No.8131160]

>>8130934
Rally racing was huge in Europe in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.8131171]

>>8131160
Rally racing has been huge in Europe since the end of WWII. Rich people with cars and nothing to do in a ruined post-war rubble of a continent started racing each other from one place to another and the rest is history.

[Anonymous No.8131205]

>>8130934
Euros love racing games.
>>8130974
Come on now, CMR 2.0 was great. In fact the first four games in the series are fantastic. 2005 was a tad too hard IMO (terrible copilot commentary made it unnecessarily difficult) and then it became totally different with the DIRT games.

[Anonymous No.8131217]

>>8130934
There's slightly more to European motor racing than a bunch of rednecks going round in circles all day, so it has a larger audience.

[Anonymous No.8131224]

>>8131086
They should be put in a memorial helicopter level

[Anonymous No.8131237]

>>8131086
Actually he Kobe Bryant'd himself along with his son and his friend's kid whom did not have permission to go on the helicopter since he was piloting it too low for shits and giggles.

[Anonymous No.8131257]

[Anonymous No.8131267]

>>8130934
This and 2.0 are two of my favourite racing games of all time. So satisfying when you nail a stage near perfectly in the Peugeot 205

[Anonymous No.8131276]

>>8131257
>Snow stage on CMR 2
I'm sure he shpun and got sick of the game. Back to F1

[Anonymous No.8131293]

>>8131257
>ignores analog and plays with digital
what did gimi mean by this

[Anonymous No.8131306]

>>8131257
GIMI

[Anonymous No.8131321]

>>8130934
This was one of the first games I ever owned, but I've never beaten it, just because I'm bad at it. I've beaten the Oxide Time Trials in Crash Team Racing though.

[Anonymous No.8131440]

>>8131293
To be fair a lot of PSX racers play nicely with digital.

[Anonymous No.8131590]

Damn OP you made me pull out my copy. With the silkysmooth code and widescreen enabled from the graphics options this game looks really nice.

[Anonymous No.8131591]

>>8131160
Such a shame we never got a good Group B rally game.

[Anonymous No.8132143]

>>8130974
>The sequel sucked ass though.

What...all Colins are great until the first dirt came out.

[Anonymous No.8132225]

>be automaker
>want to partake in a rally
>take the smallest shitbox you have, strap an ebay turbo on it, and frankenstein an awd system pilfered by your top selling crossovers
>rules state that this must be a production car to qualify for the race
>sell it for double the MSRP of the fully optioned out trim while having none of the features and even less utility

Why do they do this? Wouldn't it make more sense to sell as many of these as possible to make an even larger profit versus upping the costs so that it breaks even with 200 cars?

[Anonymous No.8132234]

>>8132225
WRC died with the 90's, anon, don't bother.

[Anonymous No.8132454]

>>8131257
overscans

[Anonymous No.8134145]

>>8132234
>this
Now half of the gc8s are slammed or 'stanced' and rolling on shitty chinese reps. Oh and most probably pic rel is the driver.

Were did we go wrong rallybros?

[Anonymous No.8134176]

>>8134145
It's a multi-fold problem, boomers and white women are at the core of it. Boomers have been conditioned to either destroy or hoard things, driving up the costs for what is essentially a 30 year old shitbox. Women suffer from a severe case of penis envy so they are instinctively attracted to the biggest cars available, bonus points if it's black and is closely associated with rappers. Any gc8 that could've been sold was instead yet another exploder or excursion or tahoe in a sea of these things, and for some reason they drive particularly aggressively inside a vehicle where they can barely see over the steering wheel. I only specified white because they pussy whipped their husbands to buy these cars, all the others buy clapped out pieces of shit with gubment gibs.

[Anonymous No.8134375]

>>8131237
fucking this, mcrae was a scumbag thrill seeker who killed himself, his son and his sons friend doing stupid fucking maneuvers in a helicopter he couldnt pilot.

stupid cunt.

[Anonymous No.8134383]

>>8131591
>Such a shame we never got a good Group B rally game.

rallisport challenge 1/2 are close, both have tons of group b cars and hill courses.

[Anonymous No.8134406]

>>8130934
In Southamerica rally games were played a lot also. It's obvious it started with Sega Rally absolute domination at every arcade, but the trend followed to consoles because 32bits tech and the rally experience brought the best from each other. Every dude I met back then had either Collin McRae 1/2 or V-Rally.

[Anonymous No.8134412]

>>8134145
WRC killed Group B despite it being the fault of stupid fucking fans who wanted to be so close to the tracks they might as well have been the goddamn guardrails.
Then they killed Group A because of "cheating" when in fact they just wanted the sport to be more boring.
Now every manufacturer has to build 6 million homologation cars before being allowed to modify that specific model for rallying, and every car on the track is now a shitty grocery-getter hatchback with ugly fucking mods all over it, shitty paintjobs, 20 thousand sponsors per team and engines that sound like dog toys.

[Anonymous No.8134521]

>>8134412

[Anonymous No.8134906]

>>8131591
art of rally

[Anonymous No.8134914]

>>8134906
It's gay shit with bad handling

[Anonymous No.8134924]

>>8134914
ok, go back to dirt rally

[Anonymous No.8134943]

>>8134924
It's gay shit for simtards

[Anonymous No.8134945]

>>8131293
Because a lot of PS1 racing games were designed for the dpad by using speed sensitive steering. It wasn't until the PS2 launched that devs erroneously believed that because the analog stick had a range of motion, they could do away with speed sensetive steering, ignoring that the range was about half and inch and that the average player would push the stick all the way to the left or right by default, leading to an era of mostly forgotten racing games where you can only full lock left and right without reliably hitting anything in-between. And that's why there are dozens of highly acclaimed PS1 racing games and very few PS2 ones.

[Anonymous No.8134958]

>>8130934
>some motorsport
its called rally and its fucking great. actually exciting stuff, unlike running in circles in a bowl-shaped track.

[Anonymous No.8136397]

>>8134412
>Then they killed Group A because of "cheating" when in fact they just wanted the sport to be more boring.
No, the ST205 turbo stuff and WRCar regulation change in 1997 was just coincidental.

[Anonymous No.8136439]

>>8131086
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.8136442]

>>8132143
Not true. They were average until Dirt, then Dirt was average. Then they finally made Dirt a great game that nothing else can replicate so far if you have a motion setup.

[Anonymous No.8136447]

>>8134945
You wrote all that and literally no one will agree. I can name loads of 6th gen racing games people would play today. I can name only a handful from 5th gen.

[Anonymous No.8136510]

>>8130934
Rallying was incredibly popular in the UK in the 90s and Colin McRae was a national hero. If he knew anything about driving at less than 110% he'd have been WRC Champ many times over rather than the once he actually achieved. This thrill-seeking spirit is was would eventually kill him at the controls of his own helicopter.

[Anonymous No.8136616]

>>8134945
You can use the dpad effectively in most ps2 games. In GT3 and 4 it feels almost exactly like it does in the psx games.

[Anonymous No.8136698]

>>8136510
>This thrill-seeking spirit is was would eventually kill him

And his five year old son.

And a friend's six year old kid.

Bleak.

[Anonymous No.8137806]

>>8136442
Isn't Dirt Rally a spinoff, bssically?

[Anonymous No.8138049]

>>8130934
It was a good game. I prefer V Rally though.

[Anonymous No.8138391]

>>8134375
To be fair, being reckless with his own and others lives is exactly why he got as famous as he did. His entire rally technique was to not give a single fuck and he had a codriver with him at all times who he was also risking.

[Anonymous No.8138747]

Much better rally game

[Anonymous No.8139594]

>>8138747
>playstation version
no

[Anonymous No.8139772]

>>8138391
mate are you seriously comparing his fearless driving with a WILLING co driver to that of 2 children in the back seat of a vehicle you dont know how to fly? no not to be fair, guy was a scumbag.

[Anonymous No.8140486]

>>8138747
I played this as a kid. Only found it again this year, and after playing Colin Mcrae 1 for the first time and then this game, I can safely say that Mobil 1 is pretty shit.

[Anonymous No.8141626]

>>8130934
>Game about some sport named after some guy
>Somehow everyone in america with a ps1 had it
How did that happen?

[Anonymous No.8141669]

>>8130934
>get a game series with your name on it
>die and get buried
>game is renamed to DIRT
based codemasters

[Anonymous No.8143792]

>>8131171
Britain had no speed limits until several years after the war when bored veterans were having mad road races and crashing in spectacular accidents.

[Anonymous No.8143815]

>>8143792
Most euro countries didn't afaik. At least mine didn't.

[Anonymous No.8143889]

>>8139594
this

[Anonymous No.8144079]

>>8139772
I'm not justifying anything. I'm stating that this was entirely in character for him and shouldn't be viewed as shocking at all. The guy was a daredevil mentalist.