The NASCAR Thunder 2004 Career Mode Experience

The NASCAR Thunder 2004 Career Mode Experience | Season 1

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Жыл бұрын

I am officially back. We all know that NASCAR Thunder 2004 is one of the best NASCAR games of all time, but I personally have never done a full playthrough of the career mode in this game. In this video, I set out to change that fact. This game introduced the rival system into the EA Sports NASCAR games, and as I'm sure you can imagine that complicated my season quite a bit. Career modes in the EA Sports NASCAR games require tremendous patience. It takes multiple seasons, or in this case multiple videos to get up to championship contention. With that in mind, I massively underestimated how much time I'd sink into this video. Between recording gameplay, script writing, and editing, this took about 90 hours to make. I hope it was worth the wait. Also, my old headset broke so I'm using a new mic.
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Пікірлер: 109

@SebrystianVettel Жыл бұрын

we need a season 2 on this

@TanDawg58 5 ай бұрын

"Fittipaldi causing a caution for nothing" Him being Christian Fittipaldi was reason enough for the yellow

@nicholasbradshaw 5 ай бұрын

His car IS the yellow. Literally, too.

@SMPandanic 8 ай бұрын

2000's games "hey you can change your left or right tires or even all of them!" Nascar heat + Ultimate "right tires only or all tires we don't do left tires only here"

@kylegardner6272 3 ай бұрын

Weird in Nascar Heat 4 you can change just left

@youfillmylifewithjello6661 Жыл бұрын

I’m 24 minutes in. This is one of the most exciting career modes I’ve ever watched. Thank you so much! Please never stop doing these videos

@seekerblackout Жыл бұрын

Says he's gonna take a Matt Kenseth approach instead of Ross Chastain Has a Ross Chastain season anyway

@SekiroNSkidmarks 4 ай бұрын

I live 10 minutes away from Charlotte Motor Speedway and know next to nothing about NASCAR. This is top tier content, man.

@number1combo 4 ай бұрын

Your not missing much. Shits boring af.

@ryanhamilton8084 6 ай бұрын

"the rivals gained was worth the money earned" 🔥🔥🔥

@Hardeesworker1000 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully when season 2 or 3 comes out, you will get the pole in the daytona 500, win the 125, and get surprised by Troy Hayes on the front row

@thedigreguy Жыл бұрын

yyeah babyyy

@youfillmylifewithjello6661 Жыл бұрын

You have the voice to be an announcer

@johnrogan9729 Жыл бұрын

“No talenting around” at Bristol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@murilocatureba6975 Жыл бұрын

The amount of skill that you have in the early career is incredible! What was the funniest part though was the Fittipaldi pit road glitch, i've never seen that one before

@Goodstegosaurus Жыл бұрын

Hoooooly shit yes!

@iBeeLock 2 ай бұрын

oh fuck, memory unlocked I played this game 20 years ago was a 5 year child

@TiredOfNamesTaken Жыл бұрын

30:33 Nice one, Kyle Petty.

@Breffeik Жыл бұрын

This was thoroughly entertaining from start to finish, please do a bunch of these!

@nicogf99 Жыл бұрын

Finally, mark I hope you know I spend the whole month repeating almost every day your NASCAR 04 shannanigans video. Thanks for continuing your classic NASCAR videos!!! You have a true new fan over here in Colombia. Cheers mate 🙏

@ryanward2855 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been rewatching your videos for a while now and I was so happy I saw you uploaded a new one!

@brandenrounds2086 Жыл бұрын

Another awesome video man! Your videos have helped me get back into Nascar after about ten years of not watching! Keep the great videos coming

@insignificantother4194 Жыл бұрын

The Man. The Myth. The Legend.

@xyph2627 Жыл бұрын

really enjoyed this one, looking forward to season 2!

@talhadevyt 9 ай бұрын

i am so glad i found this channel this funny as hell

@nenoo008 Жыл бұрын

Another great video! Can't wait for the next one!!

@radienmayakovsky3 Жыл бұрын

Looking forward for 2nd Season. Subscribed to you 🎉

@lexj432hz6 10 ай бұрын

That pit stop at the final Phoenix race was hilarious! This whole video was hilarious btw 😂

@SMPandanic Ай бұрын

Just got Nascar Thunder 2003 and.. you make it look easy!

@johnrogan9729 Жыл бұрын

This was incredibly entertaining!

@haydenvaughn00 10 ай бұрын

I remember this and Thunder 2003 having the most fun crash physics and damage of any NASCAR game.

@garetkimmet729 Жыл бұрын

Dude I just recently discovered this channel after buying a gamecube and thunder 2003 and just watching random nonsense about it and I gotta say I catch myself laughing to tears every video like this you put up. Cant wait for Dirt to Daytona and Season 2 😂

@fliple48 4 ай бұрын

That's actually entertaining I like it

@narutosk3 Жыл бұрын

Leave it to Mark to deliver content we didn’t know we needed.

@KitsuneAmy Жыл бұрын

Love these videos and your sense of humor. I died of laughter around the 34 minute mark. Very entertaining to watch and held my attention through the whole video. Keep up the good work, Mark!

@nicholasbradshaw 8 ай бұрын

Oh hey, an NR2003 content creator. Love your tracks!

@fivewidesports Жыл бұрын

29:15 was hilarious. Great video man!

@Nickearl1 Жыл бұрын

Very good video man!

@Involting 24 күн бұрын

29:12 had me rolling😭😭

@Valcerv 6 ай бұрын

This comment is so late but after being on season 5 in my main save as well as like 15 abandoned dale reynolds rookie championship challenges, talladega is the most terrifying track in a NASCAR video game. On 25% races you will be dodging half the field running out of gas but the AI has no idea what to do so they just sit in the middle of the turn/run right into each other. Its 2-4 laps of genuine fear that you have to do 2+ times a race

@JYung94 3 ай бұрын

I know NOTHING about Nascar but this guy makes it so entertaining lmaoooo

@cxd1 4 ай бұрын

His unintentional fuel tactics at talladega made the a.i. also run out of gas 😂😂

@TheNewfieGamer 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for displaying the game in its proper aspect ratio. Most run it stretched and it looks weird.

@stewpiddewd Жыл бұрын

loved this video! just so you know though, there ends up being fantasy drivers in i think season 3 and barney hall drives number 121.

@alexandredaigle8479 11 ай бұрын

Love this format

@chefsquid8479 Жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

@FayeHunter 10 ай бұрын

I apparently didn't see this video I saw all the others. So I watched this, just as funny as always. Very good. I give it 5 crashing Jeff Gordons out of 5

@FlakMonky20k Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched all of the video. But could you imagine being a crew member on your team and having to fix your car every week? No one is going to see their families anymore.

@XRTRACING Жыл бұрын

I remember plying this years ago. I remember dale jr winning 20 something races that first season. Second season was more of the same. And the third season I took over. I could’ve won every race if I wanted.

@xbubelx13 Жыл бұрын

As a kid I never truly got to place this. I got so mad one day that I bit the game. Such a shame as this was the best nascar game.

@Bradshaw_Staudt Жыл бұрын

I cannot wait for season 2

@Hardeesworker1000 Жыл бұрын

Bro, I finished my first season for spin sport, and my drivers name is garb age, from New York born 9/11/74, with the number 83 Pontiac, and I finished in 31st

@StewDogR Жыл бұрын

The NASCAR game I spent the most time with as a kid. Excited for this!

@e93sports80 Жыл бұрын

Just subbed.

@BarrenWasteland 10 ай бұрын

Lets get the season 2!

@randallmiedzinski Жыл бұрын

Please never stop doing content like this lmfao

@wolverine9632 5 ай бұрын

36:20 Kurt Busch and the Curb Tush incident

@RubyBirds3444 29 күн бұрын

Oh!

@alexandredaigle8479 11 ай бұрын

Please do more of this

@HELLOEARTH1MILLION Жыл бұрын

We need a season 2,3,4,5,6 until He Lepages the entire field.and until he absolutely destroys Jeff Gordon.

@GloomsOath 4 ай бұрын

im absolutely loving this, how are you playing this man??

@MarkLeiffer 4 ай бұрын

I use PCSX2 version 1.6.0 to emulate this game so I can upscale it.

@paullocotosh5291 Жыл бұрын

You know I knee a dude from beangoose. No teeth if you could imagine.

@LifeintheHammerLane Жыл бұрын

Another great video intro as always, the music is perfect 🤣🤣 That's so sad you are only just experiencing Thunder 04 now, I've had it literally since it came out and that game made up about a quarter of my childhood. I'm talking I've fully finished more then one career mode, I think it's 20 seasons where it makes you stop. I'm glad you're enjoying it 🤣 I'm assuming you're emulating this with graphics like that, PCSX2?

@MarkLeiffer Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! This is being emulated using PCSX2 1.6.0.

@beastmodebrandon6963 Жыл бұрын

Steve Park paid you paid for his win by wiping out Kurt lmao

@AlexGarcia-nq8de 6 ай бұрын

How in the hell are you do good at this game, I’m doing my first career mode myself on the middle difficulty and struggled to not finish last almost every single race😭

@MarkLeiffer 6 ай бұрын

Working with custom setups helps performance a lot early in the career mode. I think the most important thing though is staying smooth since tire wear is really rough early on.

@FastGunner2040 3 ай бұрын

Why is this so funny?

@fuzzo4475 Жыл бұрын

Bro your content is amazing. Please keep it up, instantly subbed. What're your settings on PCSX2 by the way?

@MarkLeiffer Жыл бұрын

In PCSX2 1.6.0 I have the internal resolution set to 3x native, and I also enabled the HW Hack called alpha stencil to get rid of strange lines on the screen.

@fuzzo4475 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkLeiffer Thanks you so much. I think the latest versions of pcsx2 don't even have Alpha stencil, that was my issue. Thanks so much man. Keep up the good work.

@YaaBoyMel 5 ай бұрын

Bro you are fucking hilarious keep doing you bro

@thomasclavinjr.3817 Ай бұрын

This is fantastic! I just bought this at a second hand game store and dusted off my PS2. I was never a great gamer and just got into NASCAR but I find this game so difficult (on easy mode!) Any tips for the driving?

@MarkLeiffer 29 күн бұрын

The biggest things that I focus on are smooth inputs, and I know that's a difficult thing to really get the feel of especially with a controller. But with time you'll get the feeling down. Steering smoothly with an analog stick is what took me the longest time to really get.

@duskrem_ 11 ай бұрын

shoutout to christian fittipaldi for bringing out a caution by doing nothing

@Valcerv 11 ай бұрын

I love how you raced the exact same as my career season where you realize you literally cannot win no matter how dumb the ai is/how good you are so you proceed to fraud the outcome of races to determine who wins, then the second you get to a track you can win you immediately start racing like dale senior

@jeffjordan9921 Жыл бұрын

On the restrictor plates with low tier equipment it's faster to not share draft with the ai and instead try to bump draft. I say try because when you get real close to them they try to switch lanes for some reason. You'll find a sweet spot though that is faster than share draft, not by much but it helps.

@jeffjordan9921 Жыл бұрын

Also for martinsville downshift to 3rd as late as possible, basically when you're on the straight otherwise the back end gets really light. That advice works on the road courses well too with the floaty feeling. Downshifting on corner entry is nearly a death sentence in this game

@maston334roberts2 Жыл бұрын

Christian Fittapaldi keeps having mishaps on pit road 😭

@turbokart3776 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Your style of comedy makes me laugh so much. I know you probably won't see this, but I have a question: what exactly is your setup for Charlotte? In my career, I try to run one I found online and I can, at best, fall over a half second off of your time. I have no idea what to do for these races.

@MarkLeiffer Жыл бұрын

Tire Pressure: 24 psi Fender flare: 74 in Rear spoiler: 60 degrees Front springs: 60% Rear springs: 85% Wedge: -0.5 turns Gearing: Preset 7

@turbokart3776 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkLeiffer Oh wow, thank you so much. I'll try that one out.

@olunclesam8847 10 ай бұрын

Dude you were doing that good in season one?!? With Legend?!? Man I need to know what setups those were because I’m just starting to play and I’m on rookie and it’s being merciless to me lolol (4 DNFs don’t help either lol)

@MarkLeiffer 10 ай бұрын

I've noticed that it's good to keep the car updated setup wise. As the car rating increases the handling changes, as well as the gear ratios that you need to run track to track. Basically, I recommend doing a practice run each race to try to dial it in. You always want to be hitting 9,000 rpm coming into the corners, but you don't want to be going much farther than that. I also recommend running the car on the loose side but that's a little difficult early on because you have to balance if the tire wear is worth it or not.

@trppYgh0st 2 ай бұрын

I used to go backwards and crash into cars lol

@miiko0866 Жыл бұрын

What settings are you using? Like difficulty and length? Unsure if you mentioned it but I don't wanna go back in the video xd

@MarkLeiffer Жыл бұрын

Legend difficulty and 25% race lengths.

@tct2294 2 ай бұрын

Great video, I loved it, but I do want to know the name of the song that plays between 38:48 - 39:50

@MarkLeiffer 2 ай бұрын

That's actually a song my brother made that we never named. It's still filed under the name "New Jazz 1."

@tct2294 2 ай бұрын

Did he ever release the song?

@spencer_jones 11 ай бұрын

25:08-25:11 where did the car go???????

@themartimus1748 Жыл бұрын

How in the world did u get pole at Indy with a 53 car rating ? Lol

@Crocodile12569 5 ай бұрын

Nascar 2003 thunder nascar 2004 and 2005 chase the cup were the best racing nascar games I ever played I still have them on my gamecube I like the nascar games today too just not ignition 21 I didn’t like how that game played my comma button doesn’t work on my keyboard so I’m sorry

@batvette Ай бұрын

I have to say nascar dirt to daytona was more fun for me simply because of the silly cheat modes like snowball mortars and super draft. I didnt get a lot of use out of the "oh, my!" Code though. (One car becomes a 100ft tall crew member) Because of its unpredictable nature super draft was hard to win races with but sure was great to clear the field.

@pghchaos 5 ай бұрын

I suck at this game, I don't get how you did so well in the first race, my car can't do f all in the first race

@MarkLeiffer 5 ай бұрын

I think what's most important with all the EA Sports NASCAR games is being really smooth with the inputs. There's a certain feel to it that's hard to describe. But really you just need to finish races, because then you can save up and try to make the car better.

@the-gas-station Жыл бұрын

Dirt to Daytona was my favorite game to wreck in as a kid. Probably triple digit hours spent just slamming cars on every track surface known to man. I don't remember actually finishing a single race

@Lesposito25 4 ай бұрын

Is this on pc? If so how do you get it

@MarkLeiffer 4 ай бұрын

I'm playing this using the PCSX2 emulator, and I used a real copy of NASCAR Thunder 2004 to get the disc image.

@Lesposito25 4 ай бұрын

Alright thanks love your videos man keep it up

@youknowJP 11 ай бұрын

Season 2 pls

@MarkLeiffer 11 ай бұрын

Editing it as we speak.

@diesel10rules23 9 ай бұрын

Ok Jeff Gordon might suck in this game but Stewart is worse

@oficjalnysonicgamer_pl 4 ай бұрын

NUH UH, ITS NASCAR RACING 2003 SEASON game

@makermod 3 ай бұрын

No? There is more than one nascar game. This is Nascar Thunder 2004 for the PS2.

@RetroRogue. 6 ай бұрын

Damn I was about to binge watch these but it's not the whole game. it's just snippets if that. There's really nothing to watch just a summary video. I don't understand why people do this. Sorry but I gotta pass.

@MarkLeiffer 6 ай бұрын

it's extremely hard to get a viewer base from making a let's play type series. It goes on for way too long and it's just the same thing over and over. That's why videos like this get made, you get almost infinitely higher viewer retention and you're not boring your viewers by being stagnant. I did playthroughs of both Heat 5 and NTG:2013 with one video per race and I think the lack of views on both those series proves the point.