That part nearly killed me 🤣🤣🤣

@@backbayproductions9508 same

​@@backbayproductions9508NASCAR HEAT 4 & 5 should've been ranked "CRAP".

I hope we can ditch Motorsport Games asap, but they bought 704 Games and their exclusive license which lasts until 2029, so I'm not sure if its even possible...

​@@the54car Now, motorsport games looks like they won't last the year

Hey the heat games were amazing until 200

@@drew_on_drums Glad you enjoy the Heat games. Evolution was a dumpster fire back in 2016, even compared to the ETX games that I actually kinda liked. Heat 2, 3, and 4 were all small improvements on the game with improving levels of polish. Heat 5 and NASCAR Rivals are minor reskins of Heat 4, but even at its best I don't enjoy the driving physics of the Heat games. The AI feels far too artificial (doesn't get loose correctly on contact is the largest issue for me). The crash physics are also so bland compared to early 2000's NASCAR games. I also find the presentation of the Heat games lacking. In many of the older games races started with a commentated intro for the event with overhead cameras, flybys, and a general race day vibe. They also had caution periods where you were driving and got to see what other drivers were diving into the pits so you could make a decision. This might seem minor, but in Heat when a caution comes out, pressing "pit" and finding you lost loads of places or not putting and finding you're in first just feels shallow. Speaking of feeling shallow: the pause menu. In most other games, when you press the pause button you have the ability to change your graphics settings, audio settings, gameplay options (at least view them), and usually keybinds (or at least look at them). Heat games have a pause menu that looks like a generic Unity asset rip shovelware game with (cancel, restart, and exit) being the only choices. I know console gamers aren't as used to messing with settings etc (especially on games that don't have PS5/Xbox Series "performance" and "quality" options), but as a PC gamer who usually has a controller, wheel, pedals, and/or HOTAS plugged in at any given time I somewhat frequently have to fix keybinds and loading into a race, testing, backing out, and repeating till everything works right is a pain. Same with changing graphics settings or gameplay options if something isn't set correctly. Tl;dr: I'm glad you enjoy the game. Personally I feel like NASCAR franchises peaked before just before the EA Exclusivity contract in 2004 and each subsequent franchise has been a bit worse than the last.

​@@UnHappyHarvickMotorsport Games cant even last 1 month due to how bad NASCAR 21 actually is.

It really is, his videos feel like something from a channel with well over 100k subs

Should've been 50000 subscribers.

Should've been 6000.

But he's not ranking it as he said he wouldn't rank handheld games like that or Bill Elliott's NASCAR Fast Tracks

​@@cubingclassroomfan4323 i was just pointing something out bro.

​@@cubingclassroomfan4323NASCAR 06 & 07 are for me the last good NASCAR games.

oof lol

Yep. Even Swapping Cars in 06 & 07.

Me too grew up with all PS1 NASCAR games from NASCAR RACING 1996 to Thunder 2004!

bro i can't cry in public come on

Means the world man, thanks! I'm really excited for my future on KZfaq and yours, good days ahead just you wait!

NASCAR HEAT 4 & 5 for me are ranked "Crap" along with many others.

really glad to hear it 👍 I'm trying to get a 3rd one made but the subject matter is uh... grim... so its hard to keep working on it lol

Hey all! Might be 👀

Yeeeeeah... I guess it comes down to the nature of sports games in general. Every new Sonic game can be a total departure from the last and still be a success in some way. And Sonic games LOVE being wildly different from each other! But with NASCAR we've only REALLY had a few games come out in the last decade or so because the majority of titles have just been upgrades to existing games :/ It's less likely to have some breakout success that can recharge a franchise when you really only get one shot at that every 5 to 6 years.

Thanks so much guy! Should have some more in the next couple weeks, I think we'll all get a bit of a kick out of the next one 👍

Setsuna Yuki, Ayumu Uehara and Shioriko Mifune also loved NASCAR 07. Also the last ever NASCAR game to have Dodge Challenges.

Me too man.

I hate how they pack race even at Watkins Glen...that's so unrealistic!

And Wreckfest specifically has SUPER fun driving physics, I honestly should own and play it yet here we are :/ But I HAVE played Flatout on PS2 which was a predecessor of Wreckfest, and really both of them hit the sweetspot for handling. Just gotta get that in a NASCAR game, we'll see!

@@the54car the Devs for those games should do a licensed NASCAR game

Yeah as far as the very first game from Motorsports Games, I'm sure they just don't have enough time to add that many features. All I'm gonna judge this first one on is straight up gameplay. Handling, AI, and being VERY STABLE (no caution glitches and all that). Man I felt pretty old making it lol, I didn't rank anything from the last 14 years above the very bottom of B-Tier. I put fuckin NASCAR Heat on PS1 above NASCAR '15, I have to be legit insane.

It sucks with arcade-only stuff because all it takes is the local place shutting down or selling the machine and you're S. O. L. . My Dave&Buster's had a corner with Daytona USA (all 8 players), a remote-controlled NASCAR racing game, and EA Sports NASCAR Arcade. In the span of a few months, ALL OF THEM WERE GONE!

Also do you know by chance how to get nascar racing 1994 by papyrus running on a newer windows computer because I’ve been trying to figure it out?

Dire Dire Docks from Super Mario 64 👍

It's gotta be Dirt to Daytona?

@@AboutThatTime420 Oh the one where the drivers are sitting infront of a green screen before it cuts to an on-board shot that's facing backwards? That's NASCAR Heat for the PS1, based on the 2000 season of the Cup Series. I talk about it in another video if youre interested lol, "The Rise of NASCAR Gaming"

@@the54car Oh shoot I meant to timestamp 21:16 my bad!

@@AboutThatTime420 OH no youre good youre good, those are "Whelen Modified" cars from NASCAR 2005 👍

@@the54car Awesome, I appreciate it!

Fair enough. The wiggle during turns is not good.

It was fuckin awesome

That's a great point, I didn't ever mention the driving aids and that does massively impact the experience. But I literally never use assists on NASCAR games, so I didn't wanna talk about them cause I'd sound like a dumb lol I'd imagine assists would help me appreciate some of these games a bit more

@@the54car when heat 4 and 5 featured driving aids, it was really cool, but it makes the car very lose and unable to drive at some tracks, mostly short tracks and road courses, driving with the expert settings on those games are impossible to save the car without turning a hard right or left and flipping your car. Inside line had the best driving aids in my opinion. It made the ultimate driving experience in driving a stockcar at intermediate tracks like Atlanta, the tire fall off is decent and it makes the car harder to find grip, the thing I like mostly about is how you turn the car, and have to turn the wheel all the way to the left to make a turn at Martinsville, which is really realistic in my opinion, but the 14 and 15 game are bad about the steering, you can slightly turn the wheel to turn into a corner (the same thing we deal with till this day) I mean, the steering in inside line makes it feel in a good type of lose, but with 14 and today, it makes it look up tight and not look realistic, I struggle to qualify good at the superspeedways even when I'm turning very smoothly and have the foot to the floor, I race in the cockpit most of the time in the heat series and thats why I am explaining it like I am.

i shit all over the place, a hardly controlled spray at times. no one is safe

That's the PS2 Version of NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona. A classic 🤌