Sony hates this game. A year of delays and Sony delisted the game and closed the studio.

​@kreepyguy8489 It was delisted years later and would have been had a Driveclub 2 or 3 come out regardless. But the closing of Evolution is one of PlayStation's biggest mistakes and this is WHEN they still had all those great execs. It was probably Jim Ryan who fought for them to be closed.

And it is still the best VR racing game.

This is just a great raceing game all around.

Imagine what else they could have done. Driveclub was with only ps4 they didn't even get to touch ps4 pro.

​@@pennywisethedancingclown7139the gameplay was average at best

Never mind the rain, what about the snow!

Right?! I love that DF highlighted this but it feels like a gigantic tease to watch this footage and not be able to run to the PS Store and buy it.

Same mate

But does it now run at 60fps or do you need to patch it somehow 🤔

@@viperx220racing3no

Exactly@@incredibilistic

The game didn't sell.

​@@vectoralphaSecMany games didn't sell, but studios are still around.

​@@patrickoae86I didn't find this difficult to understand. They already have a recognized IP in Gran Turismo. DC didn't sell well.

​@@vectoralphaSec That's not true. DriveClub sold nearly 5 Million copies. That was more than Forza at the time did on Xbox One. The real reason Sony closed the studio and wrecked Driveclub had two reasons: 1) The game was a buggy mess at it's time of launch and the online mode appeared also to be a pretty lackluster expierence, before it got fixed by a numberous patches. Giving the game and the Playstation brand bad press and harsh gamer critics. 2) According to some sources, Kaz Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo, was pretty upset about DriveClub looking better than Gran Tourismo 6, which came out the same year DrivClub was revealed. He hated the situation of beeing forced to compete with another driving game under sonys roof.

​@@kaivoss839comparing graphics from a 30fps racer with a 60fps racer makes no sense. Obviously GT6 was a lot more impressive.

Right!

Not sure it’s Bac Mono or some other car but regardless, there would be no wipers here since it’s open cockpit

Yeah they missed a trick not showing inside a car here for sure.

And resolution and higher anisotropic filtering and maybe also higher quality textures.

@@samza9622 Yeah, but I'm measuring my expectations.

Yep this was the reason upgrading gpu / cpus was so fun throughout the years. To go back and blast old Games at higher resolution and frame rates. This gives a little more hope

Someday Bloodborne... Someday...

A damn Shame 😢

Right! I mean even the car manufacturers themselves made use of some of the sounds that Driveclub team came up with. Their work really adds to the immersion.

@@perlichtman1562 they used the recordings, not the in-game compositions. the in-game sounds are overprocessed. They fit the game well, but they're aren't really very accurate. every car sounds like they're permanently going through a tunnel (which makes them sounds better, subjectively, but it's not accurate)

​@GraveUypo They literally made a point they didn't over process. The reason they sound like that is because every car was driven in a real environment not a static dyno like a lot of games do. Every car was driven under load during the recording process. It doesn't sound like they are permanently in a tunnel, it sounds like they are driving through areas with a lot of trees and hills/mountains.

​@@aaronsmith7143The dude just doesn't know the concept of "sound propagation through space"

Being able to tell what the car was coming up behind me from the sound was phenomenal. Glad to see others thought the sound work was incredible. EDIT Disclaimer, I could tell when particular Ferraris were coming up on me. Despite my name I'm not a savant 😂

Mesmirizing!

Sony dropped that game hard, should have been a franchise.

​@@petermulder7480Because humanity has taken a wrong turn

Evolution studios no longer exists. The remaining teams members ended up joining Codemasters which was bought by ea. Some games they worked on were OnRush and Dirt 5

@@nightstepparadise8844True - that was why I got Dirt 5 but it just isn’t at the same level of immersion and it’s been a long time without Dirt 6 or Dirt Rally 3.

@@perlichtman1562EA WRC is coming out soon, made by Codemasters

I love Driveclub but not really. The game is pixelated as mincraft with tons of screen haze and camera shake so you don't notice, Forza and GT looked much better at the time with post processing effects

​@@Skuntac It's pixelated simply due to the lower resolution 720p. That would be gone with a higher internal resolution.

​@@SkuntacBuy a normal monitor.

@@welunfes I play on a PC monitor lol

pretty sure forza motorsport 5 had internal windshield reflections (which i hate btw), if that's what you mean. For graphics, DC is up there, but i think fh5 has quite a bit on it despite being fully open world. DC it does look better than fm7 and gt7 though, so that's something. now for nfs2015, i have to disagree. i don't like that game's visuals. it only looks good on screenshots.

@@GraveUypo windshield reflections are a custom planar reflection that's put in by hand (driveclub does this too in it's own way). I'm talking about wingmirrors reflecting off the bodywork, or air intakes occluding the reflection of the sky, etc. Basically, the car reflects its own bodywork. Horizon 5 has more modern global illumination, higher res shadows, better draw distances and environment quality, etc. But the artistry and attention to detail put into the car models, paint shaders, weather effects, and everything else is unmatched. They simulate thin film refraction on headlights and windows, so you get that cool rainbow pattern. Raindrops slide over the car accurately, and move around the windscreen according to G Forces applied to them. They even used raytracing to see where the sky was visible in reflections in the cockpit, and then baked it into a texture for each car, so that shiny interior materials didn't reflect a bright cubemap when occluded by the rest of the interior. Its details like that which help it overcome its technical disadvantages of being so outdated.

Granted it didn't release how we know it to be now, it eventually became my favorite game on the PS4 and I still play it a lot. I've tried newer racers on both PS5 and Series X and it seems like every single one of them is missing something that Driveclub had. Even at 30fps, it's still the best looking racing game of all time. I haven't played the new Forza yet, so maybe minus that. Dirt 5 had me hooked for a while and I'm fairly certain it literally used elements from the Drive Club engine considering a lot of the same people worked on it. I wish all of the people from that studio would just form their own and continue where they left off. Their portfolio was outstanding and MotorStorm was literally the reason I bought a PS3.

Agree 100%

​@@henrycassidy1588disagree 100%

It's weird how woke Sony killed off the franchise almost immediately.

​@11ICE not really. It didn't really sell. And they have Gran Turismo (name recognition). (Regardless of how you feel about GT vs DC).

ohh boy youre reaching... 8 years ago sony was not "woke"? it was never a franchise... It was not killed immediately. And its a frkikin car game... Why would this immaginary "woke" company of yours kill a car game intentionally and at the same time hunting for exclusivity deals for games like final fantasy (or youll tell me Tifa's tits are woke too now?)? @@11ICE

You should play days gone that game has the most incredible weather effects I've seen on any game. Maybe even driveclub and gta5.

​@@NxtDoc1851In what world having more than 1 successful racing game on the same platform is considered a NO NO ?!

Yeah, the textures were extremely limited, both in resolution and filtering. I'd love to see this game get a proper sequel. Alas, it'll never happen.

Lmao you could say that about nearly every song game in most cases. Poor texture filtering and sometimes poor aa are holding them back. But also in most cases poor texture quality.

@@TB-BBBB And by what standards?🤡

​@@TB-BBBBxddd what looks better ? forza motorsport ? XDDD

Last racing game that I really loved

Yeah Evolution Studios and Studio Liverpool were two of the game studio closures that hit hardest for racing games that generation. Reminds me a little of what happened to the arcade racing game developers after Split/Second and Blur. Drive Club was a victim of unrealistic sales expectations, too. It sold over 2 million copies in less than 10 months, even though the PS4 had only been out for less than a year at the time of launch.

@@perlichtman1562 bizarre creations was great, but honestly what were they thinking with that blur thing? they would probably still be around if they made project gotham racing 5

Won't happen. The studio has been shutdown a while ago.

@@DeadPhoenix86DP Yes, we fans all know the story. A guy can dream though… * sighs *

@@ManCaveRo Yeah keep dreaming ;)

@@DeadPhoenix86DP don't assume the "studio" that made is has to remaster it...

@@trauma50disaster1 The game has been delisted. Its safe to say There's no remaster coming. Gran Turismo is their main racing franchise.

Thought I was the only one that caught that lol

same, I did start learing to do the emulators and motorstorm is good there, not perfect but close enough for me.

Motorstorm made me buy a PS3 and a big HD tv. That leap was incredible at the time

Sony is sitting on some amazing titles and does nothing with them... Motorstorm with the hardware of the ps5...its a match made in heaven...

@@pse2020 Due to a combination of circumstances and compatibility, most of the titles produced by first studios are multi-developed with the last generation PS4. It is foolish and a shame that they are dragging their feet on a 10 year old product when they are 4-5 years away from releasing their next title.

@@petermulder7480 I am Japanese and the sale of this title was banned due to a major earthquake in Japan around the time MotorStorm 3 was released. I bought and played the foreign version because my PS3 was region free.

Gran turismo was always better

@@andreasmoller9798I played GT since the first game on PS1 and own every mainline game plus Prologue - but no recent GT game gave me the feeling of immersion that Drive Club does and I can still play Drive Club without a server connection - unlike almost all the content in GT7. Drive Club had its share of issues (like the ridiculous objective system) but I would have happily taken a sequel to it over the recent GT games.

@@perlichtman1562 thats you but i would not.,becouse i think gt does so many stuff better than driveclub, you could not even tune or customize cars in driveclub

Even ps5 racing games looks like trash compared drive club

There's always physical games.

​@@samza9622that ain't gonna help much with need for speed (2015) or gran turismo 7

@@samza9622 Physical is great (and I have Drive Club physical) but it’s not a guarantee. Gran Turismo 7 locks you out of almost the entire game without an online connection even if you got physical - and Sony refused to issue refunds for people that wanted to return digital copies of the game, despite massive server issues after launch.

​@@samza9622physical games can benonlyne only too.

It’s ridiculous that it sold over 2 mullion copies in the first 10 months on a new console for a new IP and the studio still got closed down.

Agreed and the sound design is so good, too - especially in cockpit mode.

Blur was also a great racing game

​@@mustafahussain3972Agreed! Played that to death too

Right? And I mean the game sold over 2 million copies in the first 10 months - on a system that launched less than a year before the release for a brand new racing IP. Just ridiculous.

The issue is that todays games have way too many moving parts involved and therefore making games now is a logistical nightmare. We are far from the days where 20 people could reasonably make a big budget release. The demands now are too high.

@@pegasusactua2985 which is baffling. It’s hard to argue that the quality of the average game has grown along with the size of the average studio. Games are bigger and certain aspects have become “smoothed out” compared to older games but outside certain standouts they’re basically bigger, slightly prettier versions of old games.

Nah, AC with mods

Gt7 looks quite photorealistic, specially the cars looks so good

They don't care about actual games, only the cinematic movie BS.

@@deathtrooper2048 yep

Same. I’m glad that all the free updates stayed available for people that got a used copy of Drive Club, though.

Lol, Forza does not come even close to Driveclub graphics 😂

@@vyasrushi5177stop the cap 🧢

@@vyasrushi5177 bs statement, like rly u must be blind to make such points.

@@alrightylol You must not be smart enough to send such a comment

@@welunfesWell id better be stupid then blind, i like Driveclub graphics but in most regards it looking dated in comparison to latest forza.

You said it - and how is selling over 2 million copies on a console that was less than a year old at the time of launch not a hit for racing game that’s a brand new IP? The game absolutely deserved a sequel and no other racing game got more impressive free updates, especially the weather.

So true.

You can still buy a used physical copy. I played the game a bunch on PS4 Pro last year, including with a Thrustmaster T248 force feedback wheel. Other than having to ignore a bunch of text about not being able to connect online during gameplay, it even let me download the patches so I got the full weather and everything.

@@perlichtman1562 I plan on doing the same thing; however, I won't have access to the DLCs as I couldn't purchase them. It's better than nothing, I guess.