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Did this series ever have a good game?

>> No.9729737

>>9729736
You already posted it.

>> No.9729738

>>9729736
the first 3 are all good

>> No.9729770

>game is literally impossible to master because absolutely everything depends on luck
Any other examples?

>> No.9729771

>>9729738
>driver 3
>good
Lel

>> No.9729773
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9729773

>>9729736
f-f-f-f-filtered
many such cases

>> No.9729809

>>9729736
Best tutorial level
Welcome to the real world son

>> No.9729823

>>9729736
Its not retro but Driver San Francisco is excellent.

>> No.9729840

>>9729809
A single word filtered millions

>> No.9729847

stuntman.

>> No.9729852

>>9729736
no it didn't which is a shame. The driving mechanics were so perfect but everything surrounding them was trash.

>> No.9729880

>>9729823
Yep, this.
Fucking phenomenal game. Still the most fun I've ever had playing something online.

>> No.9729908

>>9729736
better than gta

>> No.9729913

They went full corny Hollywood 80s buddy cop movie with San Francisco and it worked fucking great

>> No.9730173

this series never had a bad game. mainline at least, i haven't played the gbc port or the fucking iphone speedboat game.

>> No.9730180

>>9729840
>A single word filtered millions
which one? "slalom"? it was the word that filtered my friend at least.
c:pxgay

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9730206

>>9729736
No but it did have false advertising.

>> No.9730246

>>9730173
The gta clones were really bad

>> No.9730251

>>9730246
parallel lines still retained driv3r physics and lots of driving minigames and missions, even if handling was simplified a bit

>> No.9730260

>>9730206
>No but it did have false advertising.
it didn't, you can drive that car in a mission

>> No.9730264

>>9730246
you mean driver clones?

>> No.9730306

>>9730264
like gta 3?

>> No.9730340

>>9729847
Based.

>> No.9730352

>>9730264
GTA and body harvest both predate driver

>> No.9730359

>>9730306
Spicy take, Anon.

>> No.9730380

>>9730306
>>9730352
gta was in top view, body harvest has nothing to do with driver and driver predates gta3, try harder
the onlye gta clone is driver on the gbc

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>>9730352
also it sucks ballz

>> No.9730410

Any try out the decompilation/PC port of Driver 2? I've been on a decompilation/PC port of console exclusives kick lately

>> No.9730561

>>9730410
>Any try out the decompilation/PC port of Driver 2?

Yes, but it only vindicated my decision to have not bothered with the game after playing the demo back in the day (And I LOVED the original game). It's just grotesquely difficult, full of meanspirited highly scripted maze-like levels where you have zero chance of picking the right route/spotting the scripted trap on your first go. The ability to get out of your car is also not only pointless but actively makes the game much worse as it's so poorly implemented.

>> No.9731212

>>9729809
figuring this shit out with my brother was more fun than the actual game.

>> No.9733150

San Francisco is good but not retro, GTA3 basically alone basically made the series irrelevant

>> No.9733164

>>9733150
>GTA3 basically alone basically made the series irrelevant
gta has the worst driving physics of all time

>> No.9733165

>>9729771
the actual driving parts are

>> No.9733175

>>9729771
why yes its a good driving game, better than gayta

>> No.9733181

>>9729736
2 is the only good one.
There no such thing as GTA clone.
GTA 3 is pure clone of Driver 2.
Just to show how good 2 are.

>> No.9733185

>>9729847
stuntman is even better than driver

>> No.9733223

I went back and played 2 which I had fond memories of playing (dat hidden Mini) and was shocked how bad the graphics were. Unplayable

>> No.9733241

>>9729737
fpbp
/thread

>> No.9733415

>>9733223
I think the graphics are good and you came from v

>> No.9733420

>>9733223
driver 2 is pushing the ps1 to the limit

>> No.9733449

>>9733181
GTA is a Hunter and Turbo Esprit clone. It's very obvious because DMA Design was an Amiga developer. Both Driver and GTA 3 are in fact Turbo Esprit clones.

>> No.9733719

>>9729840
>>9730180
My guess was initially, "okay" as in,
>"OKAY OKAY OKAY!!"

>> No.9733973

>>9729770
It doesn't rely on luck, it relies on being patient. You aren't supposed to floor it like a maniac all the time.

>>9729738
3 is pretty garbage.

>> No.9733984

>>9733973
driv3r has some of the best driving physics in any game ever, even if the game is an unifished mess

>> No.9734037

>>9733984
The shooting is also pretty fun. Looks like shit, but it's actually a lot more challenging than GTA's.

>> No.9734039

>>9733984
There's no game to be played. It's almost a tech demo.

>> No.9734054

>>9734037
I hated the on foot shit. The driving parts were fantastic though

>> No.9734103

>>9729736
Never beat the demo, never needed to buy it.

>> No.9734132

Driver 2 is the only one I liked personally

>> No.9734547

Unironically Parallel Lines. It has soulful artstyle and soundtrack, great crime movie atmosphere, good driving, the best wanted/police system I've seen in any game, and it's probably the only game that makes 180 degree turn in its esthetic mid game.

>> No.9734572

>>9729736
Watch the film with O'Neill and Adjani that these games are based on. You get to see the Driver 1 tutorial play out and it's actually cool. As for the series, I never cared about it beyond the film trivia aspect so I can't say. Never really met a hardcore fan either, everybody played Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer or CTR instead. Watch Vanishing Point too, it's the best road flick bar none.

>> No.9735057

It was fun glitching out of bounds in 1 and 2. In 1 if you flip an npc car on its side and then tap its underbelly with your car you both get launched into the air.

>> No.9735327

>>9729736
>YOU ARE THE WHEELMAN
what the fuck is this tagline

>> No.9735659

>>9729823
This.
One of the last truly innovative arcade driving games. Shame that the subgenre is as good as dead now.

>> No.9735702

>>9729736
Beat the tutorial, OP, there's actually a good game hidden behind it.

>> No.9735803

>>9733415
No I came from Ridge Racer
>>9733420
True

>> No.9735808

>>9733973
>It doesn't rely on luck, it relies on being patient
I thought this for about 20 minutes when I first started playing the game, oh cool it'll be like the scene from Drive I'll have to sneak around cop cars and keep low profile, but its an illusion. time limits and random incoming cop cars you have no chance of adjusting to necessitate the path of least resistance is always going balls to the wall and just brute-forcing it as copcars relentlessly try to slam into you head on.

>> No.9735809

>>9729736
This is one of the games which I genuinely couldn't beat without abusing save states, it's brutally hard, the cops spawn randomly, your car is hard to control and the time limits are tighter than a child's asshole
And don't get me started on the last mission, what the fuck were they thinking?

>> No.9735928

>>9735809
>your car is hard to control
It's hard to believe but the driving in Driver is actually really fucking good
it's the perfect balance between arcade and sim

>> No.9736917

>>9734547
Driver 76 was a decent prequel on the PSP even though it was pretty short