Early Access for this is only at the 15 dollars tier right?

@@weskerend507 Yes, it's the DF Retro tier.

John is the only reason I'm still subscribed. Maybe Richard at times. But John's insights and knowledge of gaming tech is unmatched. Alex not so much, especially after his strange excuses for Halo Infinite's bland and empty visuals.

@@ionseven I agree. Alex has this "superior PC master race" attitude I'm a bit allergic to. John and Richard are the mvps.

@@ionseven wait, what excuses about halo? He pointed out how the e3 demo looked bland and then commented on the upgrades in the final product, is all I know.

This comment was posted 10 minutes after the video dropped. You haven't watched it lol

@@micsunday14 maybe he's a patreon supporter and has watched it already

@@micsunday14 People love to seek attention.

"Wait he's been editing this for quite some time. Only 43min?...Oh the PS1 era" :o ty

Yes the PS2 era is gonna be lit!

LCD just kills all the work they had to put on pixel art and dithering.

Modern emulators help smooth out the jagged models and even have option to (mostly) fix the famout warping.

It looks so freaking stunning on a CRT I love GT and GT2

Motor Toon Grand Prix? That was also legendary.

But aren't they from Sweden?!

@@koobert yes, but I'm not from Sweden 😂 I never heard of them before playing the game

best racing soundtrack IMO

@@koobert even Emma Verde also love songs from GRAN TURISMO 2. Especially the intro movie.

Certainly, however before the PS1 most games were 2D

I was so hyped for GT3, especially after the massive EGM issue on it. But once I got my hands on the game, it was disappointing. Handling didn't feel all that great for some cars and it used a lot of crappy meshes from GT2 (something the series has done a lot of). But most of all, it was great, but kinda meh. To be fair to GT3, I didn't get it until after I had gotten Forza 1 (I was behind the curve), but GT3 felt like stepping back in time. I played through GT2 a second time before finally clearing all the stages in GT3. But to the point, GT3 was futuristic compared to those first racing games. It's almost a decade older!

@@caodesignworks2407 what a rollercoaster of a comment. It's great and dissapointing and meh and you've played it at least 5 years after release

​@@amirrazic8141 You misunderstand. I never said I didn't play it, I said I didn't get it. I played it a lot at my girlfriend's house. Her brothers and I spent the most of September / october ripping through the license challenges and going for gold. I picked up PGR 1 when it launched in November and in almost every way, it looked better than GT3. After I broke up with my GF that December, I didn't bother getting my own copy of GT3 until it hit the discount bin years later. It's always good to look at games objectively and place them in the time they were made. GT3 looked great when it launched. The heat haze was a neat effect, but it was quickly outshined by several other racers pretty quickly. On top of that, it's short roster of cars (~180) compared to GT2 (~600), with a big chunk of them just being Miata variations, and the loss of some upgrades/ mods made the game kind of lame. I still go back to GT2 and sometimes 4. But almost never feel the urge to pick up 3. I completed it, but it's like a step child. 2 was more fun and 4 was just all around better. 3 was a rush job and should have been held for another year.

The first time I popped that disc in when I FINALLY got a PS2 as a kid, I was floored. I may have cried an actual tear of joy

Thank you!!

You are my hero!!!

Thanks dude!

@@Fimosin Glad to help! Everyone should spread the word and help others!

That entire album is gold. Been a huge fan of it since I first came across it back in the early 2000's.

I was impressed by the reflections. Whicy by today's standards are kinda terrible but still

Some of which haven't been in any other game before or since, e.g. Renault Espace F1.

It’s crazy to say that at one time and then see graphics evolve so much over the coming years. It was an exciting time to be a gamer.

I wouldn’t be surprised if copies of Omega Boost got a tremendous Price Boost with this video. The power of John.

it’s crazy to think that with Unreal Engine 5 we can use real-life assets in video games with realistic dynamic lighting, games are gonna literally look like movies

GT3 still looks really good today to be honest. It approximately looks more "realistic" than even more modern racing games due to the art direction the game has.

It really does look remarkably realistic, for how primitive everything in this game actually is. I think it's still fairly convincing, if you squint a bit.

Those games you mentioned are classic. The graphics were really good to boot. They even had car damage.

I agree that TOCA and Colin McRae Rally deserve a special mention. TOCA 1 even came out in EU before GT, with 15 AI cars, damage and weather effects.

TOCA was brilliant. CMR too altough I think the later version (PS1/PS2) made big leaps over the first one.

V-Rally and 2

True.

Real men play driving games

I'm the same. There's two racing games I absolutely loved - Burnout Paradise & Motorstorm Apocalypse. Need for Speed Shift & V8 got nay from me, because I wasn't good at handling the car in them.

Deculture

57.745 for me with the skyline GT-R ‘91 !

@@marc-laurentbonmartin9643 ha ha excellent 😁. I was using the cerbera LM edition! One thing for sure is that I would be incapable of doing such a time now lmao

I used to do the endurance races with friends, we did 5 laps each or something.

@Brandon Smythe It's been so long now, I just know I used to have fun as a kid playing with friends.

@Brandon Smythe Yep, was so much fun back then playing games as a kid.

And the new game looks like ass.

Totally agree on the Chemical Brothers remix of the Manics song for this intro, it was brilliant... Just awesome thinking about it and brings back so many amazing memories! What an intro and what a game!

@@jammy_rex3038 if I had time and the means I'd recreate the original footage but with gt7 replays and slap that amazing track over the top and dump it on yt. Woot.

@@CSTBFO_jad now that would be awesome! Spine tingling hearing that tune and against the modern iteration would be very cool! Mind you I've not got around to buying GT7 yet, I'm still on PS4, but I will get a copy before too long 👍

Because the elite PC master race doesn't take criticism too kindly. How dare anyone suggest a lowly console game would be the equal of their hyper expensive money box! 😅

PC at the time was better for genre variety more than technical props. There were pretty good looking PC games, but near exclusively FPSs based on idTech or prerendered games like Riven. Nothing that looked nearly as real as GT. Perhaps it was more art style than engine performance, but it really was standout at the time.

because PC graphics scale up better and early console polygon graphics in other games typically aged poorly.

Agree. Far above even F1 22.

Einhander retrospective when?!

Those were great games on the original Xbox.

I’m a Psx guy and I know that some companies might have pulled off something nice on the Saturn but to be honest, not even the mighty N64 had anything like this ….

Same. GT1 was THE game that I played when I eventually got a PlayStation begrudgingly, being a massive salty Sega fan at the time. From the first seconds of the opening intro I became a huge PlayStation fan and I was so glad I had this console. (Halo was the same for Xbox 1).

@@DavidHunter Agreed. I wanted the Xbox so bad when it launched, but they were sold out,so I got a GameCube, but once I found one available I scooped one up. Now i loved my GameCube, with games like Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Rogue Squadron, etc , it was a blast, but once Xbox Live dropped that was a game changer! Ghost Recon and Rainbow 6 were so fun with my friends on Xbox Live!

Yes! Would love the track list for this video. Some A grade 90s deep cuts here

Yeah I didn’t even know that was a thing, or I’ve long since forgotten about it. I thought it looked pretty damn good to be honest!

Well it was like a PlayStation 1.5

@@danielgomez7236 Ouch. Dreamcast had several GPU advantages over PS2, despite having less raw power.

@@bombjack1984 I call it the PS 1.5 because it was able to play a bunch of PS1 games with slightly better graphics and also because the DC was quickly forgotten after the PS2 launch.

Forza is not retro yet, but Forza Motorsport was one of the games that fully utilized the classic Xbox hardware. I think it had effects that were impossible on the PS2.

@@nightdriver7216 what in the world are you talking about? Forza is a 17-year-old franchise with the first game launching on the OG Xbox. That was 4 generations ago. It's not retro yet? Freaking LOL

@@fabio78 3 generations ago, no? Still retro imo.

@@fabio78 do you have an idea what retro means? Xbox was released in 2001, and it's barely found in any list named "retro consoles" let alone a game that was first released in 2005.

I've heard more people prefer the way Motorsport feels than Granturismo 🤷‍♂️

@@lordxboss5700 kids these days purfer easier games and that rewind feture is a god send if your extremely poo at driving ✌️

@@lordxboss5700 This is not really true. Forza could never compete in sales until Forza Horizon came out. It depends on the game really. FM5, 6 and 7 each feel a little different, same with GTS and GT7.

There must have been an internal version for PC, too. Look at the intros - they are definitely a version of the game running in real time, but they have reflections and texture filtering.

I don't get the like for moon over the castle either, I'll take manic street preacher chemical bros mix anyday, don't like motc in gt7

infact gt7 soundtrack sucks full stop

Agreed. So many of the details that are muddied at low-res would suddenly pop. "Oh, that's what that was!"

Original resolution on a Trinitron CRT display can not be beaten.

underrated comment

One can easily purchase old Forza games on Ebay and the sort.

@@OriginalChrizum Yeah, but with this method, you will miss out on all DLC Cars and expansions. + Discs unfortunately don't last forever...