It's a shame most every GT4 challenge dies in the cradle simply because of the funny Truck Race.

Just got to your poor experience with the special events and yeah, TCS and ASM will actively make you understeer, hard. ASM is modeled as though your brakes are being dragged to assist stability, and it really affects the balance of the car, and TCS is super aggressive. I play exclusively with ASM off, and TCS at a max of 1 or 2, and it feels way better. Give it a try if you ever come back to 4!

I remember playing Gran Turismo 4 when I was 15-16 years old. It had the subtitle of "The real driving simulator". And I got really confused when I braked way early in one of the tracks and got rammed by a car that was like 3 seconds behind me. So, I went to my Dad and showed him the replay and effectively asked "That's what real driving looks like? If there is someone parked on your street lane for no visible reason you just keep driving at the speed limit and ram into them?"

Citta di aria is a tough track to race on a fast car, but once you master it its really satisfying going full send between those buildings

Bruh, that Skyline draft challenge just brought back loads of bad memories 🤣🤣

12:30 the proper way to do this stage is Givin slipstream, and stop accel to get in back of pack and let another one catch the leading of pack,

Nice to see you using the Ginetta. It's a real classic. In England there are several Ginetta racing championships because it is so light and skilful/fun to drive.

Excellent video! This really got me into GT 4 again, as well as the other GT4 content I've been binging, and I've played it for hours nonstop.

I am really enjoying your content, I think your pacing is great! love the creativity of these challenges

I have so many memories of starting a fresh save of GT4 and immediately gunning for the Cadillac, so good! Loving the videos! :)

I remember tinkering with the aero on my cars to see just how airborne i could get on jumps

Nope. The reason is as usual: Sports Truck event.

Literally watched through your GT 2/3/4 videos in their entirety in one sitting. Love the content, cant wait for more. Just subscribed... cheers

These videos have been great to watch! I'll get a few spurts of remembering the minute details of each track as you were on them. This would've been the last GT game I played before going Xbox 360.

The confirmation bias with the truck was great 👌 Could you do the driving missions? And the rally events? I don't see many videos on those, and would be interesting to see the cars and which ones are the more challenging from your perspective.

Ah, the Camaro LM...that along with the Toyota RSC, was my bread n' butter when it came to selling prize cars early game 😂😂😂😂

Sick run! Currently on my journey to 100% GT4. Something ill let you know for an alternate strategy is that if you can manage to beat mission 30 - 34 you'll get the Nissan R89C Group C car thats also more than fast enough to beat the GTWC and is a bit better on tires than the Minolta too, the only real hard one is mission 34 but with a fast, almost perfect run it's definitely beatable cleanly and have a video up on my channel cleanly beating it on NTSC it in case you needed a reference 😁

Awesome video. A challenge i would love to see is how far can u go in gran turismo 4 without buying a vehicle, so extending the challenge by doing the extreme events, along with the one make races, etc...:)

Bro I'm so glad I found the first video in this series. Over the last 2 days I've literally binge watched all 4 of these. They're great videos. You don't even realise the length of the video because you become so immersed in them😂 Totally deserve all the credit and views/likes. I hope this is the beginning of your channel taking off!

It’s a crime that you only have 1k subs, you truly did the most in these challenges, I’m proud of your accomplishments I’m curious to see your djing too

Obligatory “Fuck sports trucks, all my homies hate sports trucks” remark considering they almost always ruin GT4 challenge runs lmao. EDIT: Yeah, I definitely think this challenge run is legitimate. The Sports Truck series is almost always a challenge killer unless you explicitly leave them out, so I say #SportsTruckLivesDontMatter.

Winning over that Mitsubishi in the narrow city is a torture. Touch the AI car - you get punished. Breath to close to a wall - you get punished. AI car bumps you - you get punished. I sat a whole night trying that mission. When I got all bonus rally cars - I quit. (got around 22% complete and have sweated for every decimal point.)

I have scoured the internet for the "best racing game with a sense of meaningful progression" and it always comes down to 1 real answer, Gran Turismo 4. Almost 20 years later 4 remains the best balance of gameplay and slowly upgrading from golf cart to a garage full of supercars. everything feeling earned as the markets kinda make sense and the prize cars aren't simply overtuned without investment. It's just so perfect, hope they remaster 4 someday soon, it's about time. LOVE the channel btw sorry you got me nerd ranting about this amazing game haha. Looking forward so much to the rest of this series it's a trip down memory lane.

Ah... Good ol' GT4 with their SportsTruck shenanigans. SUVs like Range Rover should have been includes in that list honestly. Look forward to GT5 and GT6 though.

Youre indeed right Trucks are not cars theyre in fact trucks more in line with semi Trucks. On the other hand a ute is a car or a Family Sedan with a flatbed

You probably know this by now, you didn't need to do the endurance race. If you finish mission 30-34 you get the Nissan '89 Le mans race car which is almost equal to the Minolta. However amazing video, I'm hyped for GT5 and 6 attempt.

In my humble (and objectively correct) opinion, if it's unibody it's a car, if it's body-on-frame it's a truck. That goes for SUV's as well. Jeep Wrangler? Truck. Ford Maverick? Car.

love these series. gt4 is my fav gt. spent 1 million hours playing it as a kid.

32:25 Game: Hitting the Walls won't be disqualified *few seconds later, when he about to...* You disqualified shorty 🎵 XD

Excellent series! Love the long form content. I’d definitely rather see you drive like a forza multiplayer lobby than spend credits on a car if you can. The AI in gt4 is especially terrible, I never felt bad bullying them any chance I had

For a low buy challenge getting silver licenses is worth it, all the prizes have a use, A and I-A gold prize do have a use as well. Tandem drafting does work for driving mission 24, in all versions (PAL moreso) Throttle and brake on a stick axis does give finer control however you lose time transitioning from one to the other and this is slower in some places (130R in Suzuka being one example that comes to mind) having throttle on the stick but braking on a trigger is a decent compromise. If you were afraid using a credit limit instead would have made the challenge too easy you could've set that limit to 25k credits (a Tacoma + 9 oil changes), it's not even hard even if you're unwilling to drive dirty (unlike say a lowest amount of credit spent to 100% which would basically require driving so insanely dirty it would make a Forza player recoil in horror) The Pontiac Sunfire is a trashfire of a car, it's why you want the B silver license because the Mazda Kusabi is actually good for the FF challenge

Loving these series!

GT4 video YEASSSSSSSS im gonna try this after on my own i love long form GT stuff especially your challenges

Any chance of doing runs in Tourist Trophy? (Which is just Gran Turismo with motorcycles. Like.... same devs and same tracks even.)

I love your videos. Amazing work, you’re awsome!

@18:40 no problem

According to the US tax code, SUVs fall into the "light truck" category of vehicle and are thus taxed at a lower rate. Furthermore, the NHTSA recognizes those same categories and subjects them to different safety standards than "car" class vehicles. So, at least according to their definitions, they are not the same thing.

was rly fun - subbed you :)

You should turn all driving aids off, if you're car is struggling you can tune it so it doesn't struggle anymore

Love seeing you go through these best of luck if you go for GT 5

25:00 i cannot believe it... When i played this game, for some reason instead of "Esprit" i always read it as "Espirit". I've been calling that car wrong for 20 years...

As soon as the vedeo starts, I was about to go to the comment section, then your lesson strikes. you got me hahaha

I stumbled on your channel earlier today from random youtube recommendation, these challenges turned out pretty entertaining to watch, I really like this style of commentary/rambling voice-over, so you earned a new subscriber! Question, I know you mentioned the capture card issues, but I wonder how did you record the previous 3 GT games? They all looked crispy clean and high resolution, were they running from an emulator, or maybe a different setup? Just curious because I came from the GT3 video and the video quality downgrade was brutal, to say the least, hahaha!

31:47 YEET CORNER I did it so much that watching you do it right gave me twitches 😂😂😂 love it

The Impreza rally car with sports tires can knock out Boxer Spirit on stock power, and the Super Touring Car can beat the event with the road tires that you don't need to pay for. They're both much harder but I've done both. Great video though, as usual.

Fantastic video, loved this challenge! I wonder if it's possible to do it without any upgrades. By the way, some Italian pronunciation: Città di Aria = tcheeTTa (the first "t" is silent) dee arya (like Arya Stark) Lancia = Lantcha (the "t" is silent) Hope this helps!

Suggestion for dealing with the capture card if it has issues if you do this for GT5 and GT6 on the PS3. Record your saved replay instead of live gameplay. You can also choose to save replays of failed attempts that you wish to show. Another important thing to note is that GT5 and GT6 save replay files to the game data, not the save data. I also had issues with my Elgato, but I think it wasn't the capture card's fault or overheating but rather signal loss due to not streaming every data packet due to having to use a splitter to get around the PS3's encryption. GT5 and GT6 had some interesting updates to note. For GT5, after updates, Skid Recovery Force is forced on in some events. This actually made the NASCAR events much more difficult as SRF would slow you down because of the banking at Daytona. When I found out about that, I downgraded my GT5 to version 1.0 by uninstalling it and not connecting to PSN when I reinstalled it. GT6 had a bug that wasn't fixed for a year where if you made a pit stop, your suspension settings would change slightly and your transmission would get shortened a little bit. I noticed in online play. I am not sure about offline play as the only single player races in GT6 that needed pit stops were the 24 minute races in the Super license. There was also a 24 minute Daytona seasonal race and a 10 lap seasonal race at a course maker track where the race would take over 30 minutes. Updates for GT6 also add events to do, so I do recommend updating GT6 to the latest version. I'd recommend GT5 version 1.0 however. GT5 and GT6 have a pretty good modding community that have restored lost content and hacked the course maker to remove restrictions such as the 10km course length and allowing crossovers with bridges and intersections.

Loving these challenge runs and the classic GT games in general, though I do raise an eyebrow at speedrunning's seemingly arbitrary definition of "beating" the game. Quick tip if you suspect overheating may be the issue with your capture setup, try pointing a fan at it (even a cheap plastic box fan will work). I have recovered data from multiple marginally failing HDDs this way, and it used to be a go to trick for crappy NAT routers at LAN parties :)

Don't worry, I don't think anyone even raises an eyebrow when a gt4 challenge needs to make an exception to buy a truck.

I know what tires got recomended for the Minolta, since its clear what is the issue with that car right at the begin: "It chew the back tires like nothing" I also had to do that test and is always comes to Read: Super Hard and Front: Medium/Soft/ Super Soft. Depending on the race. You pit less most of the time and stay at certain speed if you can sacrifice speed over grip and consistency. At the end yo will probably had to do less pit stop in some of the hardest racing and endurance with this car. Also that is the way you can do 24 hours of La Sarte in B-spec and not die trying.

50:56 you're crazy? Gt4 is probably one of the best racing games controller experience

That merc on the green hell is a absolute horror show to get gold. I got it to 8:57 ,i was so happy especially after many attempts. Even heatsinked my ps2 slim 😂

Bro, about the controller, I told the emulator that my controller was actually a wheel, so I told it the left analog was the wheel and the l2 and r2 triggers were the brake and gas, then I set up to change gears on the right analog and it's been pretty fun 😂

I'd love a PC mod (so I can use a wheel) with randomized prizes that scale somewhat with difficulty I played the first two GT games a lot as a kid but had made the transition to PC by the time 4 came out. Bought the game a few years ago anyway and used it to test a PS2 console I was restoring, ended up playing through the game because I couldn't stop myself :D These videos and challenges look really fun.

I ever beaten GRAN TURISMO 4 once without buying cars EVEN ONCE! Umi Sonoda's Nissan R89C easily demolished the Professional and Extreme events using it!

Hey brohawk! There are HDMI splitters that can strip HDCP, or you could use component out and then a component to HDMI adapter. Personally I’d go for the splitter. I dig the content as a car and gaming guy!

Funny that you hated the citta de aria track so much cause it's my favorite in the game lol. Good video I liked your commentary.

Citta di Aria is a very fun track to drive on once you learn its layout

can you beat every event using the prize car you earn from it? (use modding to get the cars, and if necessary to get cars like the triathlon into the 4wd challenge, and also using upgrades if stock fails)

"Città" is pronounced kinda like "cheetah" but with an emphasis on the final a :) It's the Italian word for "city". Anyway, I was looking forward to this!

Would using the practice session to set a time and potentially start in the front have helped with the bad driving from the AI?

There are a number of splitters that will perform the HDCP handshake but not encode the output video with HDCP (essentially stripping it). MLiG recently mentioned an avedio links splitter that works for this purpose.

That drafting 3 challenge was the only one I never finished :(

The RUF is crazy fast but you need a setup for the car ore it will kill you in every corner ^^

You only have to buy a truck and sports tyres for Subaru. You can use the NSX Le Mans Road Car from a endurance race in Supercars Festival. And you can win with stock Corvette C1 in Spider & Roadster.

Having a high driver points helps aswell

The way the game works out a spec points is (every car has a point value encoded into the game, a 300zx is about 1000 points ish) the average opponents points - your cars points +60

5:53 Do you use an HDMI splitter to strip the HDCP from the capture footage?

That signal loss you have is from the PS3 itself im playing GT4 on my Slim rn and its doing the same thing in License tests without a capture card

That kimi velocini reference was immaculate :DD

This Lancia Integrale is much more as you think of it. This mean machine won a whole bunch of races and championships. The Lancia Stratos too. This was the time of Lancias. Bella machinas, Cuore sportivo. I think the Audi Quatro came afterwards. I'm not sure though, it's been a while 😉 Hm jummy Lotus Esprit. What I like most is not that it can dive (J Bond ;-) but the shape of the cockpit that is kinda bent around the driver. BTW Umbria is on Sardinia. The ancient NUR fell there.There is an Italien born under the shadows of Umbria ( a mountain there) living now in argentina. Are you into metal? Listen to: Umbras de Barbagia , Downfall of NUR, 2015. If you're a little into the hard stuff you gonna like this. It's a concept album wich will surprise you

Couldn't you try the Nissan R89C '89 for GTWC? You win it from missions 30 to 34. Probably faster than unlocking endurance and winning the Minolta. Also, another trick for GTWC is to go aggressive with soft tires and pit more. You'll recoup the time loss during the pits with an easier and faster car to drive. Also, get super soft to qualify (you can qualify by setting up a time during practice before a race).

The Ram is fun to use hehe

What are your keybinds to upshift/downshift on a right stick?

Hi little tipp if you do another challenge on gt4, you can change the throttle and brake to R2 and L2 , so you can use the triggers to modulate your braking/throttle. if you use an emulator and a modern controller (xbox 360/one, or ps4/5) that will work too

yo dude how do you only have 1.8K subs? great quality and voiceover! more! NOW! btw its "braked" not "broke" :D broke comes from break braked comes from brake

5:38 if its getting old.... like 4 to 6 years..... the thermal paste might need to be re-done i have a car stereo from like 2005 that overheats like CRAZY...... get 1 or 2 songs, then it goes into thermal runaway (gets so hot, you can burn yourself) . just need to take it apart, remove old thermal paste.... put new on.... maybe find a little fan

With RR cars, you need to start turns on the outside, tap the handbrake, dive your nose to the inside, and throw your tail into a throttle-controlled drift. You should never even touch the regular brake.

I am curious, does the AI get a penalty if you brake early and they slam into you?

So you deliberately apply confirmation bias on your own run but its ok because I'd probably do it too Nice run again

It's funny how many challenges the truck championship ruins by default, lol. I have no idea why they didn't make that a manufacturer event or something sane. It's one thing to have trucks in the game (why), but even more bizarre there's a mandatory event with them lol

It's underatted channel, But I wish you would be playing on an enhanced mode, video quality wise using an emulator.

For the truck event I always get the Toyota because it's cheaper and lighter

What car for Spider & Roadster?

Ngl that nike one car is pretty close to how concept cars look nowadays

You should try this again in the future using the randomised prize car mod

Past tense of 'to brake' is 'braked' Have a nice day

Yeah, man, the Yellowbird is a piece of crap, I always ditch away this car immediately

@14:05 in guessing 15! (i was wrong) x) @17:46 you're going to complain a lot about this track, it's a hard track if you're going in blind, even harder with the wrong type of car.

Reminds me of the nascar challenge in 5 it was so infuriating I spent like an hour restarting until the cars would get a lucky lineup so it was even doable. Rng gameplay in gran turismo like bruh.

did you already do this with the randomizer mod?

Or as many events as u can before having to buy another vehicle, etc

I quit playing this game when trying to do the skyline drafting mission because i have never been able to do it

Here I was, thinking you were going to use the trade function to get around the truck issue...

The prize vehicle for an American event should’ve been a truck (Stars & Stripes). Same for Mercedes in GT3 (DTM Championship). Hopefully future installments aren’t too favorable towards Asian markets right? Right!? 😳 #represent

Thanks

I just say vehicles to group cars, trucks, SUVs, buggies, etc. Besides, I think I saw something similar to this where the gamer tried to not spend money to beat this and wound up having to buy a 93k Cr Mercedes because they never got one as a prize.

Trucks are like oxygen - rad

Bro, ASM always 0 and TSC max 1

Been on a kick watch and playing gt4. Why is it that all the ppl use asm and tcs? First thing I do is turn those off