That was fantastic to watch! I never had a console when growing up and with emulation I was able to try these games out and I can see why these games impacted a lot of people, the gameplay, music, atmosphere, so many things just made these games such a joy to play, thank you for having me in this video aswell ❤

If I can't play single player while being offline.......the game is trash

I think the main thing I miss about older Gran Turismo games (in addition to the 'loose' chase cam from GT1-GT3) is the lack of 'regular' consumer cars. My greatest joys playing GT, came from taking a severely underpowered car, like a front wheel drive Celica, and tuning it to max, and trying to win some supercar cup with it. Stuff like that. Or taking ordinary cars and Racing Modifying them, that was always super fun. And that's all gone now.

The original GT was what had made me into a car enthusiast. It introduced me to the car I ended up buying. WRX.

Dude, you brought me back to the days where me and my brothers didn't have a ps2 memory card, and we'd keep our ps2 on for like 2 weeks straight with all of our hard work put into GT 4, just to have it taken away by my aunt who thought we accidentally left it on. Man, it was so fun. I now play GT sport with VR occasionally. Thank you for this.

Gran Turismo 1 was actually the first GT to feature the iconic jazzy soundtrack. The Japan version feature the jazzy music, but not the western version because of region preference

That DustinEden guy sure got some nerve talking smack about GT5

GT7 with the PSVR2, a direct drive wheel and sim cockpit is one of the greatest experiences to ever be had. It is so awesome in VR.

I remember like yesterday. I walked into Blockbuster to rent a game. I saw the game cover of Gran Turismo for the very first time. My curiosity peaked. I reached for the box art & flipped the box. The art, the graphics, the detailed cars; now I was intrigued. I rented the game, popped it into my PSOne and the best description of how it all felt playing the game? Magic. Literally, magic!

I played the original Gran Turismo demo disc on a 13in TV for hours and probably watched the race replays for twice as long. It was such an insane experience looking back.

GT 1 was mind blowing when released. to watch a camera perspective replay after the race was so far above any other game. the licenses were brutal, but the special cars were worth the suffering and that made it fun to try and try and try again.

Man that GT4 intro.... still makes me tear up for some reason. One of the best video game intros ever made imo. I remember when it came out, I was a big fan of the series already and when I watched that intro I got shivers and was so happy to have this new GT game ahead of me.

I played GT4 religiously through college. Beat it to the 100th percentile. A proud moment. I saved the video of the final Nurburgring test with the Mercedes SLR McLaren. Took months of playing to perfect it.

Its amazing how GT always seem to push graphics and content wise for generations. It's amazing how impressive GT3 and 4 hold up to this day- they still are gorgeous looking games on top of their gameplay that still is so much fun to play with.

I have to point out a small thing about the gt sport "sport mode" The races had a daily rotation at launch but this was changed to a weekly rotation at the update 1.23 (I looked on google to give the exact date) on July 2018 and it remained that way until the release of GT7 in 2022, where the weekly races where changed to be monthly this time

I've been playing GT since the very first one on the PS1 and then GT4, GT5, and GT6. GT is what inspired me to be a serious racing gamer, GT4 is what humbled me as a serious racing gamer, GT5's online community is what led me to be a veteran racing gamer, and GT6 was just a love letter DLC to GT5. I started playing Gran Turismo 5 recently on my dusty old ps3 and I checked my garage of all my cars. Some are still stuck online for sharing which they were the cars that I competed at the time and I just smiled at the cars I used in those years. Each favorited car had history of just drifting in the servers, penalty racing in Nurburgring, and flexing my Sebas Redbull Race Car for completing the Red Bull Challenge. The Gran Turismo games from 4 to 6 were the best games I ever played throughout my time playing them. Thank you so much for sharing this video. It does bring a lot of great memories.

GT4 and FM3 where the prime of each series, doesn’t mean that the newer games suck but they aren’t impressive for the time like those where back then

GT5 i was still in school at 13, the 458 italia just came out and the SLS too.....BMW put a V10 in the M5 and a V8 in the M3.....and top gear was still on top........good times🥲

played countless hours of this as a kid, I remember it feeling like I had actually purchased a NSX when I could finally afford it in game great video

Thank you! 27:50 That damn stuck camera, ruining any sense of movement the car has. How people don't notice this game-breaking issue is beyond me, and is one reason I yawn while playing or watching any GT after 5. GT4 still has some movement, though, which prevented it from being immersion ruining.

I really appreciate the fact that you actually criticized GT4 unlike most other people (including me). Also the part about the GT community being a lot more chill than others is pretty true in my experience, good video man

I feel you missed one aspect of GT experience. The movies. Be it the opening movie, or a ending movie, GT always paid amazing tributes to motorsports and cars with a passionate video paired with sometimes a bold musical choice. (Like the GT4 transition from Opera to Van Halen's Panama)

GT4 intro gives me chills still

GT3 is my favorite racing game of all time. Even though I've become more of a Forza guy over the years, GT3 will always be #1 due to how it shaped my view of racing sims.

The main problem is that racing games has become less and less popular over time in favor of first person shooter games, , nobody even talks about racing games where im from, just always fortnight or apex ect

Ah man, that video hits right in the feels. Seeing the memories visualized of Gt3 and Gt4, being a kid sometimes allowed to use my dads Playstation it feels so sentimental. Also coming into GT5 and 6, but especially 5, the soundtrack and the overall feel just teleports me back in time where i was happy and life was so simple. Thanks for that beautiful video mate🤍

i played gt1 at the time. I was a teen. That stuff at the time was the freaking future. It was hard to wrap your mind around. We were children in the 80s so we knew games as first nintendo, amigas and so on. The first ps and GT1 was miles ahead anything. was all any kid liking cars desired to play with

I believe NFS MW came out in 2005, probably best year for racing games. Also a very well made video

I grew up on Gran Turismo 6. I will always love that game, it is cool to see one of my favorite creators making a video about the series.

I still remember the 1st time me and my brother saw GT1. I was like 5 y/o. Was late 1998. My brother was 7 y/o. We were shocked. We couldn't believe a game like this could exist with so much content. So many cars, so many races, so many tracks. I was never into cars, but as a kid i lost my mind like my brother and were looking at each other screaming with every thing we discovered. I watched my brother play for hours and hours and hours and never turning off the PS1. Watching him play at 4am non stop before going to school. We were talking non stop about GT and what we would do and how we switched places for endurance races. He begging me to take his places. Now GT2 what was changed us. We bonded with GT2 and we are 2 different person. We are brother, but our personality are like north and south, but GT2 brought us together into a following a single goal. We went even more ham and crazy when we got Gran Turismo 2 and saw that was GT1, BUT BETTER LOOKING WITH MORE CONTENT?!. OMG we destroyed our CD from playing it so much

Great retrospective, I've been playing Gran Turismo since the original. One note on GT6, I thought the lighting/shadows were a vast improvement over 5.

I started with GT Sport after all the important updates and it was an amazing experience . Using a wheel and the graphics/attention to detail is something Ill never forget. Now Im casually playing GT7 and with all the negative details its already a great racing and funny experience. Great franchise coming from a Rally fan (a racing genre with not much love in videogames)

Great video! I have to say that, although some of the main titles (especially the later ones) aren't being held in such high regard as the older ones, I do still think that they managed to push the envelope in some way (for example, Gran Turismo 7's Scapes, customization and car detail are incredible, especially since it can run on both a PS4 and PS5). That will be something that the series will probably be forever known for and is IMO what makes both the games themselves and the community around it so good!

I think Gran Turismo had an impact on the genre from it's inception, even on established racers before it. Before Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer was an arcade racer with very arcadey controls. After GT's release, in 1998, Namco made Ridge Racer Type 4. The key difference to the other Ridge Racer games was how similar Type 4 was to Gran Turismo it was in terms of content and gameplay. Type 4 had 8 tracks, 8 arcade exclusive cars, 80 distinct cars, each with 4 variants depending on the team you choose, and 1 secret car after unlocking every variant of the 80 cars, adding up to 329 cars with different mechanics!

Really appreciated you put the soundtrack 8va Curve as the intro for Gran Turismo 5, really obscure track. For me, that track encapsulates the franchise.. This was wonderful to watch, thank you.

Been playing GT since the first one on Playstation and have played most of them. I didn't get the PSP one and I stayed away from Sport when I heard it was more online focused. For me GT2 will always be the best. I had a blast with the PS2 versions as well as the first, but GT2 just hit the right spot in terms of the cars, physics, progression, tuning, and the music. Fast forward to 7 and I have a love/hate relationship with it. It is a great game when you're on the track. It was obviously made with the PS5 controller in mind. The only other racing game that comes close in terms of feel is F1 23. The graphics scream next Gen as well. But other than that it's tough to keep playing. That constant push to the Café is really annoying. The roulette wheel always lands on the worst prize and gets me maybe $5k credits each time. I can't sell my cars. This push to collect all the cars is dumb too. For me I just want a small handful of cars that I can max out in tuning and win all the championships with them. That's what is fun for me which is not what GT7 wants you to do. You can tell it wants you to spend real cash to get more cars and that just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. After watching this I fired up GT2 again and I have to say I'll be playing that for a while in place of GT7. Grand Turismo sort of lost its way in the PS3 era as you started to see this push towards online events opposed to the single player experience. The greatest GT games are from the PS1 and PS2 era hands down.

IMO, We peaked as a society in 1999-2004. I'm completely convinced. Movies, Music, Cars, and Car games alike.

My first game in the series was GT2 and I'd happily replay any of them up to and including GT6. After that they kinda lost me. I hoped GT7 would be something other than what it became and I'm now at a point where a GT8 would not be pre-ordered. My introduction to the community was also with GT6 and yeah, really chill group of people. The one time I encountered a corner cutter, the entire field ganged up on them in response, forcing them to be, I think it was second to last. Also, GT6 cruise lobbies, especially the ones I hosted pretty much daily at Sierra were fucking awesome. Seeing the variety of cars driven by countless different people, group cruises around the lake and some impromptu sprint races was definitely a highlight of that game for me

For nearly 6 months after getting a PS2 for Christmas in 2001, Gran Turismo 3 was the only game I owned. It holds a special place in my collection but GT4 will always be my favorite.

GT2 was the first game i had on the PlayStation. The sounds played here are a level of nostaligia I've never had.

Paul Mccartney quote was the best part

This video resonated with me in almost every aspect, having followed the GT series since it's PS1 beginnings. The only point I'd want to add about GT7 is it's fully implemented VR gameplay which is seamless between flat and VR. Switching modes is as simple as putting on and taking off the headset, even in the middle of a race. This seamless implementation and the general quality of the VR experience with a wheel sets the gold standard for console VR. The stereoscopic mode and head tracking (with the camera) on GT5&6 were a great novelty for the 5 people on the planet that had 3DTV's, as it helped with judging distances to corners, and the limited VR experience in GT Sport was a taste of what was to come, however, GT7 is a fully realised immersive racing experience. I miss many aspects of GT3/4's gameplay and many of the classic tracks, but going back to those just isn't the same now VR gameplay is a thing. I admire Polyphony for trying new things and experimenting with the latest technologies. The steering wheel support and stereoscopic rendering for example paving the way for the later VR capabilities and the fact these technologies weren't just a gimmick, they actually improved the experience for those with the appropriate equipment.

Damn GT4's opening! I was listening to the video and after the iconic menu sound at 19:57 the OPera got me... the mixture between the music and nostalgia just shivers me. Nice video BTW!!

Well, what a gem of a channel this is! I haven't even finished watching this one yet and must to say a fab sincere hello from QLD Australia. Perfect video here guys and thank you! i will save to donate when i can as this channel went straight to my subscribed favourites.. until then its a very happy watching from me and thx to all the creators you mentioned 🇦🇺👍🏁

I'm yet to get into the Gran Turismo series. The funny thing is, I used to own both a Playstation 1 and 2. But I never owned any of the GT games. Even if I did, I'll end up starting from the beginning multiple times because I've never owned a memory card in my childhood.

Regarding the comunity , i dont play online that much but i remember one race i had on an open loby with a random dude who was super nice , the race was at monza and i spun at the exit of the first chicane and the guy waited for me to get back on the track . And the race itself was very exiting we kept massibg eachother at the end he got the win but that was a realy fun race

I was shocked how bland and passionless GT7 is. I don't want a woman patronising me about cars (my lifelong hobby) or how to play a game's seventh main installment, I don't want to sit drinking coffee or collect shitty cars I'll never use, I don't want a succession of random faces without voice acting, I just want it to be Gran Turismo: you and the car with no distractions. But they gave us a forced classical music minigame...

I still have an original copy of GT1, which was my first racing game. I passed on 2 and 3, but 4 was the first videogame I bought with my own money. I got the XL Edition of 5, 6, Sport, and 7. I found a copy of 3 at a retro games store near me a few months ago. Now I'm just trying to track down 2 to complete my Gran Turismo collection.

This was a great watch. I really appreciate the amount of work you put in. Awesome job!

One great thing that made GT4 stand out from previous entries, for me, was how PD used their car list really well and the game became a little more global and diverse. Just like GT2, almost every brand had a model-specific championship, but now used cars could also be european or even american, not only japanese. Brands other than the Japanese ones were very present, but they took a greater part of the stage and were given much more deserved attention. And this goes for the courses, too. They could've pretty much focused only on original tracks and the japanese ones, but they gave us a beautiful tour around the world, with special events or either the Nurburging (with all of its BMW adds and everything). It was the first GT that did the global history and presence of the automobile with class and loads of style.

I was fortunate enough to have a plasma tv back in the day while most ppl still had their CRTs When I first played GT4 at 1080i. It gave me such a shock at the time. It was best looking game I ever seen at the time

I fried my PS2 slim leaving Gran Turismo 4 running on 24hr race in bspec mode. Poured in so many hours in so many different parts of the game. I can't forget this game it was so ahead of its time.

Your videos are fantastic. Your one of the first KZfaqrs that makes video essays in a more fun way with more personality! Keep it up!

Gran Turismo is an incredible racing game franchise. It also made me love many underappreciated cars I‘ve never heard of before (one of my favorites is the TVR Griffith 500 which was in every GT game until GT6) My absolute go-to game would also be GT4. There is an incredible amount of how you can play the game (not doing license tests - only b-spec instead, not using Japanese cars, only using used cars, only using street legal cars…) and each time you get a new experience. There are flaws in it, but which game doesn‘t? Gran Turismo 4 is in my opinion as close to perfection as you can get.

I have this distant fading memory of me playing gt4 back in the day and thinking i got my hands on some premium expensive game, this was so long ago, its insane.

What I will say for Gran Turismo 5 and 6 for that matter is I had a 3dtv at the time and it was such a novelty to be able to play a 3d game the tech has been phased out again as it didn't take off but i really enjoyed it

This video almost made me cry bro. Even though all the GT games weren't always great you can see and tell the passion behind the game from the creators. Yes there were too many license test and yes some things was just too long but that's just because the passion and the build up was there and you had too appreciate it, the love that went into GT was impeccable! The other thing that almost brought me too tears is the memory of the first GT which brought back the many memories of the better and pleasant days, my childhood. All kinds of memories came rushing back too me, those days are so much better than these days where today you can hardly go outside without some type of violence, or disaster, disease, or mass shooting being reported. I'd give just about anything to return to those days. This is why instead of complaining which is your right, but you should appreciate what you have when you have it and take advantage of it because when gone it will never be the same.

Thanks for the video! Personally I think the main reason is due to the drop in popularity of racing games in general. When I was a kid I would say that the genre of game that I tended to play were RPGs and racing games however whilst I still do play RPGs (last was Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3), I haven't touched a racing game serious in over 10 years and that feeling is reciprocated by a lot of people I know and elsewhere. Racing games just don't have the allure anymore unfortunately.

I watched a few of your Videos by now and I have to say together with Whitelight you really climbed my personal ranks in the Video Essay league. Your style is enjoyable, easy to follow and relaxing to watch while staying actually informative. Immensely good stuff. Thanks for all your work with this massive Project. As an Editor I really salute the amount of Hours you pushed into editing this.

The quality of these is unmatched.

I wonder if you asked older people than those youtubers what the best GT game was, if the answers would still be GT4 or not. For me, GT2 was the best but that's probably because when it came out I was 11 so I played it a lot, and when GT4 came out I already had my driver's license and busy with chasing other stuff, so I didn't really play video games a lot. GT4 was the last game in the series I played until I got back into it during Covid.

Really great video man. Thorough, informative and most importantly… Nostalgic asf!!!

I’m 2 minutes in and I’m in memory lane hard… this looks very well made so I’ll book mark it seeing it’s 4am for a more conducive time… looking forward to a great watch

Exceptional video as always. I was always a Forza Kid, but I loved seeing history of GT regardless.

As a diehard gt fan I fell off after 5. I was so excited for a return to form in GT7 and have never been more disappointed. Heart breaking.

I still remember RENTING a Playstation1 from Blockbuster for a weekend JUST to get a chance to play Gran Turismo 1 for a few days!

I was blessed to have an older brother who got a PS1 a year or so roughly after it’s release & had received Gran Turismo with it as a Christmas gift. I still appreciate him sitting me down in front of the shittiest tv we had at the time & teaching me the basics at 8 years old. To the point he’d explain the gauges on the screen to me & even let me try to help with the “license” tests. I can still remember loving the music tracks & just falling in love with the Dodge Viper at the time. That is until he introduced to me later how special the Subaru WRX & how it fit my style of sliding around corners to really get the best time on the tracks. Which I won’t lie, the games of Gran Turismo definitely influence cars I pick for other racing games to the point even in GTA V I used to build cars to really get that good slide in & try to get at least 5 car lengths ahead in first place. I can say Gran Turismo is what brought me to my love of cars & people are shocked when I say yeah I grew up with a dad & brother that loved to tinker on cars but it wasn’t until a game I tried really brought that love to me. Grab Turismo really brought the importance & speciality of any car scene. And I would go so far to say it definitely influenced the start of the Fast & Furious series, specifically Tokyo Drift.

Great video, Gran Turismo even at its lowest is still a good game even if flawed and always pushes the current generation PlayStation hardware to it's absolute limits as for GT7 it could've been the best game in the series if they didn't fumble the bag with the single player progression and made the AI actually good, cause from my play time the core gameplay dare I say is the best in the series, the handling is fantastic and we have a decent enough choice of cars too in extraordinary detail

Such a great video, would love you to continue it as a series for other racing games :)

Grew up playing gt3 w my dad, just got my first copy of gt4! Stoked! Thx for the great content! 🚗

I enjoyed the year transitions between the games with the menu sounds from the respective game in the video, that was a neat small detail.

Hands down, Gran Turismo 2 is not only the best Gran Turismo, but it's the best racing game of all time imo. Yeah, it's outdated in technical terms like graphics and physics, but damn, i've never had so much fun and spent so many hours on another racing game. The atmosphere is unique... It was the right game for the right time. The only racing game that came closer to it was Gran Turismo 4. And today i'm so happy to see fans modding Gran Turismo 2 with cut content, fixes and even new cars, this is really nice!

I see a lot of people comparing iRacing, Asseto Corsa, and other real sims to GT but GT isn't competing with those games. They are balancing their unique vision of the racing spirit, casual, and professional play into one product. No other game comes close to doing the same.

I only played GT and GT2 when I was a kid. I remember that GT2 had one very particular thing : once you bought the Escudo, every race in this category become so fun and so easy. This car was such the final boss...

A big overlooked feature of GT5&6 was the stereoscopic 3D support that made the whole experience so much more immersive. It’s a great game in 2D but 3D with actual depth perception was a game changer. I could be so much more accurate with my car placement and improve my times on the tracks. If you haven’t yet tried it, you should

Unreal production mate. What a class video.

12:40 GT1 : 'i have a whopping 140 cars. does anyone can beat mine ?' his lil bro GT2 : 'hold my beer'

I started on GT1, racing the 427 Stingray for hours at a time. GT2 was my favorite though. GT3 was a favorite of my friends in college, but I skipped it. I had a Xbox 360 around then, and played a lot of Halo 2 and Forza 2. After my experience with the red ring of death, I went back to PS2 and played GT4. Nürburgring stole my heart and I probably played that more than any other game in my lifetime. I also played Tourist Trophy while enduring the never ending wait for GT5... then I bought a PS3 when GT5 came out and was immediately disappointed. Played it for a bout 10-20hrs, and then never played it again. After that, all I ever did with the PS3 was play Battlefield 3 and watch BluRays. That was the end of my console experience and the very beginning of my admission into the PC Master Race.

Loved the intro music in the original GT. A version of “Everything Must Go” by the Manic Street Preachers, that really should have been released!

Really great overview, i have been playing GT4 on ps2 and later emulator since it came out, i love it the most and as i have a great cheatengine table to do hybrids i can swap engines and adjust the cars to built all sorts of cool stuff, which keeps me coming back. Only just started playing GT5 and i am enjoying it but seems too easy but love the handling and still enjoying it. Always wish they released these for PC would have been so much better.

Gran Turismo a game that defined a Generation, for me i never played any Gran Turismo, until i decide to play the Goat Gran Turismo 4 this year, and i have to say is my favorite racing game of all time.

GT7's biggest issue is the online only "feature", I'm surprised it didn't even get brought up.

Gran turismo 4 is still to this day my favourite racing game,i loved it,every part of it.

In GT6 the Sierra Time Rally was my favorite. It had an arcade feel to it. Trying to get to the finish line without crashing and avoiding sunday drivers was kind of annoying but still fun.😂 Also the Mission on the Moon was weird but charming. All other GT Games that came before are all classics. GT4 was my first, then i checked out where everything started on the ps1, later in the 2010's GT5 and GT6. No matter wich system, they are all great.

When I think of the greatest racing game of all time, I think of Test Drive Unlimited. It's not even a fair contest, that game was on another level in 2006. The vibe of actually driving down to dealers, buying houses and garages, is just unbeaten to this day.

The first Gran Turismo was a holy grail at it's time If you had lived race car games before it. A lot of cars, a lot of settings that could be changed, for any car, and for so many parts. I can remember my bloc note and pencil next to me, trying to ajust as best as i can each setting for a specific car. That was simulation at it's pinnacle for it's time. Even if the escudo pikes peak was already the cheat code of the game (thanks 0 coliision damage) :D

As someone who grew up on arcade racers like Mario Kart 64, Burnout, and NFS: MW it’s been a real pleasure getting into GT for the first time with GT7. There aren’t nearly enough explosions, but I can endure that by appreciating how well the physics engine works and driving some of my favorite cars. Great video!! Given that I started with GT7, it really puts it in perspective for me.

46:58 A viewer was like hey, did you know you were in this video? I go nope. Dude ripped my video, posted my face, and muted me. its only 15 seconds but damn no shout-out? Got 4 others tagged but went to my channel, recorded what you needed and then no credit. It's just the Hagerty dealer and a race playlist... Odd to just record someone else's content versus turning on the game to get it.

Great video! Basically pointed out exactly how we feel about the franchise. I think the current Gran Turismo community is divided into 2 “different” type of bubble. The laid back “old school” gran turismo fans who wants more everyday cars and real life circuits, and the “E Sports” community who only wants race cars and hardcore racing to make it to GT League.

My relationship with GT started on the very first game. I played a demo from the Official Playstation Magazine and, alongside Colin McRae Rally, it was on my "to buy" list because of the Subaru Impreza. Being a kid in a stable but not rich household, I could get 1 game a year, maybe 2 if I was lucky. On the summer of 1998, I was given the choice between the platinum version of GT, or the platinum version of FFVII. I chose GT because even though I could understand English quite easily, my older brother didn't, so I went with the car game. I was more into motorcycles than cars due to my brother's influence, but from the moment I saw that intro with Manic Street Preachers/Chemical brothers soundtrack ripping through my ears, I was hooked. The car selection, the visuals, the sound effects, the soundtrack and the gameplay were the new yardstick for me to compare all other games to. Not only was I hooked on GT, I was hooked on cars. When I got my hands on GT2, it was better, but not as impressive as the first game, but I still played it a lot, and introduced me to the GT40 in that iconic Gulf livery. Fast forward to the PS2, and GT3 was gorgeous. That Seatle track in the sunset was just perfect, but for some reason, that game never clicked with me. It looked great, but it was a bit too dull, and it still holds the distinction of being the only racing game I ever fell asleep while playing (those ovals were so boring). The racing game landscape had evolved, and arcade games like Burnout, MSR, PRG and NFS were faster and more fun, albeit a different type of game. By the time GT4 came out, I had lost interest on the GT franchise, and even though I played it for sometime, it was never as captivating as the original iterations. The one game I did enjoy was the Tokyo-Geneva spinoff. I bought all GTs since, and they all suffer the same fate: after a couple of hours, they end up on the shelf, forever. I even replayed GT1 just to make sure it was not a case of pink colored glasses, and I did again have a blast completing the game with different cars to the ones I used previously. Eventually I found an alternative in Forza (3 and 4 were the peak), but even those games eventually faltered (from the 5th game onwards, it is meh). More recently I played GT7, and I liked the visuals and gameplay (appart from the rally stages), but after completing all the café menus, there was nothing pulling me in anymore.

What a great Video man. Thanks for remember me on so much things i forgot 😅 this early 2000 was so great with 3 and 4 ❤

top notch video once again! don't know if i've ever felt the emplemon influence as hard as i did before, i also like you continuing the thumbnail tradition that you started with NFS. despite my racing game obsession, ive only played GT3 on my old ps2 many years ago. the editing style continues to get exponentially better and better, and the fact you got to talk to multiple large creators about their experiences of the GT series is impressive! youtube didnt notify me about this one, but its another great video, not a single miss in your catalogue, and i can't wait to see your content grow and get even better from here.

4:52 Absolute legends.

You know, the Café Mode in GT7 has potential. Not as the main mode of the game, but as an aspect of it. Like the driving missions in GT4 for instance. Have around 15 of these menus where you can earn some cars by doing some races. Maybe with some special conditions added to it like: a rally menu, hillclimb menu, racing in the wet, oval race, snow race, endurance race menu, etc. It would be a really nice addition to the main classic Gran Turismo progression and would fit in with the idea of a café menu theme. Offering all the flavours motorsport has to offer. So, yeah I wouldn't throw that idea away necessarily. But the way it seems to be implemented in GT7 is rather unfortunate imo.

Good KZfaq video. Thank you for taking the time to create it. GT games are some of my favorite video games. I still have some of the games. They still look good enough to make it into the current good-looking games.

Great video about Gran Turismo’s history. GT5 is the one i started and i liked it even though it has its moments its still enjoyable to play.

My main grind with gt7 is not the money. Not even the lack of single player content, although that’s a solid runner up. It’s that the AI still aren’t up there. You start at the back, the antagonist starts on pole, and you have to have an OP car to win. They don’t even fight back when you get up there. A procession. The only challenge is to find the lowest underdog that’ll still win. Sometimes that’s a car that is truly an underdog, sometimes you can only take the true OP. After that, just ignore all other cars. With all the modern CPU’s, I’d expect better. But it hasn’t really changed much since when we raced using the cursor buttons.

The variety of cars in GT6 was unparalleled, and I preferred buying whatever car I wanted in GT6 over the randomly available cars in the used dealership in GT5. It was frustrating to see a car you wanted or needed become available in the used dealership but not have enough credits. You just knew that after you won enough races to earn the credits you needed, it would be gone. Want easy credits in GT6? Win the '89 Toyota Minolta and race it at Indy in the "Like the Wind" series. If you tune it right, you can win without even trying and just mine the event for credits (about 70,000 every three minutes or so if I remember correctly).

All that praise for the first Forza, with bo mention of it's unofficial predecessor; Metropolis Street Racer for Dreamcast. An effective online multiplayer years ahead, with great physics and graphics as well as adding very unique gameplay design

13:08 made me relive my childhood by re-watching the (US) intro to this game, with ''My Favorite Game'' by the Cardigans as the song. I grew up playing the FM series as I grew older, but that intro... left an impression on me for life, hands down one of my favorite intros ever