This and the facility+archives cheat in goldeneye both gave me a chance to show off by unlocking things for friends at school.. This isn't nearly as hard as the other ones lol but it is a damn hard first level if you don't know the physics. Almost no room to learn them.
A lot of old games were hard to sell you something though. Not directly, but a lot of games were designed to be too hard to beat in a single weekend, to force you to rent it longer.
@@Krossfyre yeah, I actually think that I didn’t beat it the weekend we had printed it from blockbuster, that it wasn’t until I got it later for my birthday, that I finally was able to retry the final mission like over 100 or more times, and was finally able to beat the game? I just remember how awesome of a game driver was when it first came out and nothing else had been like it?! The music for the setting and the way the cars handled and everything was all very fitting, I was disappointed to discover once I did beat it, that that mission was the last… it made sense I guess, because it was way harder than all the other missions combined-
The fact I beat this game below the age of 10, multiple times, baffles me to this day. I think I'd rather go to fucking work than do some of these missions now.
@@jauwn Oh yeah it's practically RNG at points. If you have enough patience you can at least suffer through some of the worst of it. Great game though, nice to see it looked at again. I'd mostly entertain myself breaking it as a kid. If you flip cars on their side and drive into the roof/underbody of them, at least in the PS1 version, it will launch you outside of the map bounds.
I was a kid that actually loved the replay editor. I played enough to try and keep body damage to a minimum for a perfect replay on many missions. This is the game series (as well as Stuntman), that got me really into driving games. I loved 60's-80's era of vehicle chases too, loose suspensions and heavy rear ends sliding around corners, and of course seeing those hubcaps flying off and rolling down the streets too. As far as games that were hard and never completed from back then, Aero Fighters Assault for the N64. Far from a driving game, of course. But thinking about Driver brought back some more memories from deep storage. I could never get past the first level (I think) with a submersible aircraft carrier.
Driver 2 and 3 were some of my favorite games. Wasnt long ago I was telling a friend that I missed these games. Glad to see people still remember how good, and brutal, they were. Good times.
I beat driver 1 but never 2 a remember a mission chasing a train that was so hard. Never went back to it. Driv3r has not aged well. However I will never forget finding the shot at gta vice city with the Tommy Vercetti spoof who had on water wings cause he couldn't swim in the Miami level lol
The graphics and gameplay can't be understated, this game out 2 years and a whole system generation before GTA3, which defined this genre Their prior gane, Destruction Derby was also a favorite
woah this is so unexpected. This is the first game I ever played, was really young and remember playing it with my dad. So many memories. And no, we did not get past the tutorial level
Well, its a good thing i missed the original upload, I'm here now. While I didn't have this game growing up, I picked it up at a local retro game store after beating Driver San Francisco. Never made it past the test, put the game back on the shelf.
As a kid i just allways drove around in the 2 "open wordls" you can access that was like the game for me xD I miss how easy it was to have fun as a kid. I love to learn that I wasnt the only one driving carefully and all and pretending i was a normal citizen ^^
Most people were limited to that and there's no excuse for devs. The issue I had with free roam was no way to fix the car or reset wanted levels, which made everyone just crash into everything, or try to follow road rules until a cop decided you went 1 km/h overboard and decides to ram you to death, which I assume is traffic penalty for minor speeding in USA because of this game.
it took me 20 years to beat this game in 2019!! i beat the game just barely and even then i thought the last mission was unfair. the presidents run is the hardest final level i think i ever have had the "pleasure" of playing through.
I remember being excited for Driver 3 to come out when I was a little kid...I was only 4 when the first Driver came out but i played Driver 2 and 3 so much...Driver just reminds me of the 2000s in the best way
Ah memories. I played it at a cousin's party for the first time and I was laughing so much while ramming into cars that my parents bought it for me. It took me a few hours to beat the tutorial, and I didn't know a ghost existed to help you. My favorite thing was just doing free driving on any map and take all the roads on the borders, this way I would make a perfect loop, all this while not enraging the cops. Also trying to damage a car so badly stuck in a corner that it would flip over and if you touch the bottom part of that car, your own car would start flying and spining in the air at incredible speed and get stuck in buildings, cop cars would also meet this fate, as I used a flipped car as a shield. And finally, running into a corner at full speed would put you out of the road, and you can drive outside of the map, on the sea, anywhere, but the game would crash if you go too far away. You would suddenly notice cops in the middle of nowhere and if you drive to where the cop car was supposed to be, a full traffic and weird roads would suddenly appear, that was crazy.
I enjoyed Driver quite a bit on PS1. I will not specify how long it took me to realize how there were other options besides "Start New Game", but it was much longer than you might expect. So satisfying to drift around a corner hard enough to see a hubcap go flying off your car though.
That last mission took so long to complete as a kid. So many rage quits, but I beat it after 20 something attempts. Once I completed the game, cheats were unlocked. Shame you didn't explore those guys. The unlimited speed and freight train cheats were amazing, wheelies for days in the E-type lookalike while skill shotting traffic lol.
What a pleasant surprise seeing you review Driver. It isn't a crypto scam but the police RNG can be as painful as bagholding. One of my all-time go-to games. Glad you had fun with it. Thank you for bringing attention of this series to a larger audience. My "white whale" game is Streets of SimCity; I don't believe anyone on Earth has actually completed every mission in that game.
@@jauwn It's a fever dream and I don't really know if it's worth recommending. Maybe for a very specific kind of person but definitely not for everyone. Thanks for responding and keep up with roasting NFT games, you're helping people with solid consumer advice.
This game blew me away when I saw it on PC, I played Gran Turismo when it came out too, but this game actually surpassed that with what a lasting impression it left on me! The proof being that I remembered all these missions from 23 years ago after only playing through the game a single time! This game was the real deal cats pyjamas!!
Ive never played this game, or even heard of it, but this was a great vid! The NFT game vids are good, but i have a soft spot for these old game retrospectives and just game essays in general. NFT slop is so universally rotten that it is hard to have a unique experience every video, but these old games are charming. Thanks for the entertainment, Jauwn :)
Attaining the "Score Medal" for all 32 levels in the Challenge mode of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for Gameboy Color was my video game white whale in grade school. I finally completed this challenge several years later as a teenager. Hundreds of hours I probably spent on that game.
My favorite thing to do in this game back in the day was to start playing and see how long it took for my car to start losing hubcaps. Watching police cars fling themselves out of bounds at one specific corner with a slope on one of the free drive maps was also good shenanigans.
My bro and I played through this game about 2 years ago. Like you, we only ever played the interview and free drive. President's run took an entire evening. No joke...
Jauwn, since you asked it, my favorite very hard game that I can't beat for a long time is the La Mulana Remake. People complain that the game is difficult due to its cryptic puzzles but for me the part of it that made me quit the game was one of the boss fights. It is the 4th boss, specifically. The puzzles up until the 4th boss was hard but I still managed to solve most of them without looking up a guide. I've even heard from a guy that beat it without a guide that he spends hours and hours on the game without making any progress on any of the puzzles. Also, if you want to play La Mulana remake, prepare to hit a lot of walls so you can find that one of them is breakable.
Funny that you mention that game; I just got it last week and started playing it! Haven’t had a lot of time so I’m very early in the game but it’s already extremely hard and the puzzles are crazy
This was back when games had fun built in cheat codes. Try playing in freight train mode, where your vehicle in the physics engine has its mass set to max. I remember plowing into a line of traffic and sending them organically into the background.
Loved this game. Perfect gameplay. This would have been stellar without free drive and the director mode but that added worlds. Feeling that proud for beating a tutorial too? Gosh what a game. I think I got stuck on a map where you're supposed to follow a train above the street. Or maybe that's just an early level.
I did complete the first level when I was a kid but it took a while and the help of an older friend that was really good at driving games/Gran Turismo. The PC version looks so much better than how I remember it looking on the Playstation.
To this day, even after revisiting it as an adult, i never beat the Shinobi game for the ps2. Forced inverted controls, awful camera, awful platforming, and the high difficulty alone made it a nightmare. Its also one of my favorite games of all time.
Great retrospective, I think ive had a similair nostalgia trip with it's sequel: I remember playing Driver 2 as a kid and sticking to freeroaming Havana for the most part. It was fun but I envied the idea of being able to play Vegas and Rio because the missions to unlock them were just absurdly difficult. Then a friend showed me GTA Vice City which was pretty much an allround upgrade, and I gave up and forgot all about Driver 2. But just recently i noticed and played the unofficial REDriver 2 PC port, pretty much beat the game in just a few days and im so glad I did as I finally witnessed the other cities and got to experience this nostalgic game again! Its a flawed but amazing game and im glad someone went through the effort to make it shine on PC hardware, well recommended!
It's amazing that we get fanmade ports of PS1 games in 2020s... Crash Team Racing has a WiP one, people reverse engineered the code. SO many games would benefit from getting rid of PS1 limitations (the thing had 2mb RAM plus 1mb video memory).
I didn't know that there was a garage mission because my father copied the game and the save file from someone's PC from his work. The save file was right after the garage, but before the first mission. I slowly grinded the game, initially with my father's help, but then alone, up to Los Angeles. The two available missions in Los Angeles were absolutely impossible for me at that time. But I continued to play various driving challenges until I discovered that if to play carnage, save a replay, watch the replay, then the infinite mass of the car would be preserved to the story mode. Since I didn't understand why did this happen, I convinced my parents that there is a unique opportunity to complete the game, and that I must complete it today. I have no idea how long did I play, but I began to fall asleep half the way through New York. But the next day I found the way how to reproduce the bug. So, I completed the game, but was absolutely convinced that Driver is an impossible game without exploiting the bug. Decade later I completed the game without too much issues, and the last mission was the most difficult and took just around ten attempts. P.S. One of the most memorable missions is the one where it is necessary to deliver a box with explosives in pickup truck. The box satisfyingly slides in the cargo bed, but its damage meter unsatisfyingly grows every time the box touches walls of the cargo bed. And the huge explosion was frightening :D
My memories of this game are pretty strange. I do remember driving the free roam maps and enjoying them a lot, but my defining memory is of inputting an insanely long game shark code that let me press one button to levitate my car, and another button to levitate everyone else's cars. This turned every police chase into an absolute clusterf***, because with the Press of a single button, I could jump over their blockades, or send them careening through the air into an out of bound Zone from which they could never return. Basically a telekinetic criminal simulator. Good times, good times...
Used to go over to a buddy's house as a kid to whip ditties on Wrigley Field in Driver 2 all the time. I don't know if we even played a mission in that game tbh. Just reenacting the final chase in Blues Brothers for hours on end.
I literally have never forgot this game and you literally said what I did I did free roam and acted like I was a real driver stopping at red lights and all lol I was to young to try and play the missions
The President Run is the hardest mission I ever played in a racing game or any kinda of game, took me years to beat it, idk about pc version, but ps1 counterpart is really unfair. I beat it in a miracle run I did while I was just chilling in my friends house and decide to boot up the game just to have a background something in the background, I managed to get in the final level and after I said to him: ''I will play it, but we know I cant beat it'' and just did it in the first time in front of him. He hugged eachother and that was one of my proudest moment as a gamer!
I beat this game when I rented it from Blockbuster one weekend as a 14-year-old kid!! But I also grew up on a junkyard, and have been driving since I was three .. With that said, the game was still hard, AF !!!!! Especially the last mission where you were being chased by undercover, corrupt government agents- you had to make it all the way across across the city from one side of the map to the entire other side, the longest mission in the game, and it was sprinkling rain, and these undercover agents were coming from everywhere, not to mention, their cars were twice as fast as yours, and all that would take was them hitting you a couple times, and your car was totaled!! You literally had to juke and jive and bust a left, then bust a right, then bust another right then bust a left and pretty much zigzag your way all the way to the mission END & it still took you a good amount of tries to finally beat it, especially back then on the original graphics on a 19 inch picture tube television where you didn’t have the benefit of it being upscaled and graphically enhanced like you do today!! Masterpiece!
If I'm not mistaken there is a small amount of felony you can have without the cops perusing the player. You can also get felony from honking the horn at them.
only three attempts to beat the final level? i was screaming in anger when I first beat the game after god knows how many tries. and i had the same infuriating experience when i played the game again on an emulator years ago. great game though
I loved this on the PS1, after completing the game all I did was jumping over the bridge at Bal Harbour back and forth and seeing what shenanigans I can cause to police and other vehicles as that physics engines was insane back in the day :D
childhood memory unlocked. I used to love this game. I distinctly remember trying to jump the draw bridge. I bet this game is really playable using an old version of Wine on Linux since they have preserved all the old Win32 API calls and graphics libs at the time. Probably like version 2 or 3 or so
The physics in this vgame were insane. I remember playing with a friend in the Sam Francisco hills screen, challenging each other to make the cop cars on thebrear go flying and land on the cop cars that were creating a barricade in the front. I think our top score was 5 (it was no easy feat tho)
i didn't know this was related to Driver: San Fransico! i remember seeing the video Nick Robinson made on it a while back. Seemed like it was ahead of its time.
Love to see Jauwn doing so well! I remember finding this channel during the early crypto video days when it had 1000 subscribers, love to see a glowup.
I beat this game when I was 14 when it first came out! Being I was a huge fan of Destruction Derby and it was one of the games I got with my PlayStation at 11 for Xmas, Driver was something I absolutely could not wait for!! I Loved the Tough, but manageable Difficulty and being as I grew up on a Junkyard and have been Driving since I was 3, ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE REALISTIC HANDLING PHYSICS!! One of my favorite games of all time, and the Hollywood style chasing you could make were amazing Beck then! Great video !!!
YEARS later, of course I tried to complete the hardest level in videogame history: Driver's forced tutorial. It's WEIRD in that the difficulty isn't in skill level, but in obscurity: they don't let you practice, there's a time limit and a HUGE list of tasks you have to do within a minute with no rhyme or reason. But the worst thing wasn't even that, but how it doesn't explain the controls. As you said, there's an in-game movie that DOES show which button is pressed, and that hints you that for some moves you use circle or triangle, but I STILL couldn't figure out how exactly the reverse 180 turn works. Low res in PS1 didn't help matters. Crazy Taxi, a game from around the same era, has obscure driving mechanics that require you to shift to reverse gear THEN back to powerslide or something, I could never manage that either. But that game didn't require mastering it before starting at least. Oh there's an actual game after Driver's tutorial that 99% didn't even see. The test isn't even that hard if you FIGURE OUT what the game wants from you, it's still HORRIBLE design to start with a goddamn exam, Gran Turismo had license tests but those weren't all mushed into one minute at least (tho having to do a clean lap on time limit before starting the most basic tournament was ridiculous, so were starting and stopping exercises that have you drive in a line for 40 seconds each time and then GUESS the braking point). Anyway, late 90s games were real weird with how they wanted to gate the main game behind tests, and even GT later made those optional, thing with these things is that if you figure ho to cheese them they aren't as much of a challenge, just annoyances. So it's the bad/fake difficulty either way.
Oh yeah Driver... It was a good game and it was hard, but I was probably a bit older so did manage to complete it back in the day. Keep up the good work Jauwn. You make interesting videos,
I actually STILL HAVE my original copy of Driver You Are The Wheelman on PC!! Better yet, does anyone remember that iconic car crashing sound in this game (the one with the distinctive glass shatter heard immediately after impact)? Well, the sound file for that sound ("CRASH1.WAV") was actually recorded from the parking garage scene in the 1978 movie "The Driver"! But there's MORE to this sound effect than that! It was actually used in numerous movies dating from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The following is all the titles that I found it in: 1. The Pink Panther (1963) 2. Batman (1966)(Heard in the Season 1 episode "Batman Makes The Scenes"). 3. Lady in Cement (1968) 4. The French Connection (1971). 5. Vanishing Point (1971) 6. A Reflection of Fear (1972)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie or not) 7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) 8. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1985) 9. M*A*S*H (1972-1983) 10. Shaft's Big Score (1972)(high pitched variant)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the final movie or not). 11. The Mechanic (1972)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie itself or not) 12. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) 13. The Last American Hero (1973) 14. The Seven-Ups (1973) 15. 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie itself or not) 16. The Towering Inferno (1974) 17. Race With The Devil (1975) 18. The Devil's Rain (1975) 19. The French Connection II (1975) 20. The Kansas City Massacre (1975) 21. Cannonball (1976) 22. Gator (1976) 23. Silver Streak (1976) 24. Damnation Alley (1977) 25. Smokey & the Bandit (1977)(original mono soundtrack only) 26. Wizards (1977) 27. The Driver (1978) 28. Hooper (1978) 29. The Hunter (1980)(heard in trailer at least) 30. The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980)(heard at the beginning of the episode "Get Along, Little Jerry"). 31. Eyewitness (1981)(heard in trailer but NOT the final film) 32. The Fall Guy (1981-1986)(heard in the Season 3 episodes "Dirty Laundry" and "The Last Drive"). 33. Cagney and Lacey (1982-1988)(variant/possible alternate take)(heard in the Season 3 episode "Unusual Occurrence") 34. The Soldier (1982). 35. Hunter (1984-1991)(Heard in the episode "Hard Contract") 36. Impulse (1984)(heard in trailer but NOT in the film) 37. The Terminator (1984)(ONLY in the original mono mix) 38. Commando (1985) 39. Mischief (1985) 40. The Man With One Red Shoe (1985) 41. Stingray (1985-1987)(heard in the Season 2 episode "One Way Ticket to the end of the line") 42. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)(heard in trailer but not in the final film) 43. Maximum Overdrive (1986)(heard in trailer, but NOT the film itself) 44. Death Before Dishonor (1987)(used in a heavily fragmented form) 45. Killer Clowns from Outer Space (1988)
Holy crap, Hearing that Angry Asian man on the voice machine dug up deep, deeeep and long forgotten childhood memories of me absolutely breaking with laughter hearing that for the very first time as a kid, and just listening to it over and over again
@@jauwn I guesssssssss that is something haha - though the fact I remember this so vividly now suggests that as a 12 year old I DID complete the intro carpark mission, and at least got to this point, but I must have not got much further as I cant recollect anything of the game, especially anything about the president etc after this point :P
What a hard game to beat! For some reason, I never played the second, but I played the third. Driv3r was awesome; it wasn't perfect, but it was fun to play and also very hard. I still remember a mission about chasing a lady in a white convertible car. I didn't have enough ability, so I tried it over and over for days, and one day I did it.
Yo this game was the bomb lol. The boys and I used to play it all the time, but not for the story. Not sure what game mode it is, but we used to play the one where you would get swarmed by an infinite amount of cop cars until they eventually stopped you. It was single player, but we'd take turns for hours and hours, seeing who could last the longest, and it never got old.
I remember myself and the group of friends collectively working on beating the tutorial, which not only was hard for us kids as is but we also didn't know english too well and had to figure out most bullet points by trial and error pretty much We also had to do it every time due to not having memory cards
The last time I played this game is about 20 years ago, the main title theme pops up in my head from time to time in my head. I loved the film maker function. I think I will search for my copy and fire up my good old PS1.
I passed the first level after only 7 tries back then at my friends PC, but I also watched the training video in the main menu beforehand. "The president run" was partly a luck based mission, since the spawning of the police cars appear to be random. You should check out Driver San Francisco if you can, it is great. I was one of the lucky ones who bought it shortly before delisting.
Burnout key became normal throttle after set speed Also 'throttle' isn't really correct, nothing was throttled as the digital controller only registered on or off
Am I crazy for thinking Driver's number one flaw is that goddamn crash sound that you praise? EVERY SINGLE CRASH plays that sound, every crash, with anything in the game. You hear it 2000 times per play session, it's maddening.
I have just played an original Driver yesterday and I had to complete the whole list during the interview instead of all but the 3 like you did. I believe the port you've been playing is some watered down version or the default difficulty can be somewhere set to easier by default
Was a 2004 baby so I never played this, but it does sort of remind me of Metal Slug, and how often I played those. I had about 5 versions of it on pc given by my mom, but only ever beat one of them fully. :')
Just to let ya know, the PS1 version is actually a port of the PC version - it was originally a made for PC game. They had a separate team dedicated to shrinking down the game to fit onto PSX, but they were both developed around the same time.
I didn’t even get a notification the first time you uploaded. CZcams’s notifications are so awful lately. My inbox is crammed with “recommended” content rather than creators of specifically turned on notifs for. Often I’ll get a notification only to see nothing I’d expect in there. Just recommended stuff from people I watch, but didn’t turn on alerts for. It’s basically useless now.
Yeah, Take a Ride is pretty much the only mode I played for most of my time with this game. I think at some point I had a friend or cousin beat the Interview for me and I played a few levels, but I mostly remember Take a Ride.
16:14 They aren't technically AI - they are replays of the developers driving! Hence they cannot be knocked off-course. It's very clever, and it meant they had to program the traffic to be deterministic so the same cars would spawn in the same places each time the replay was used.
The first Ratchet & Clank. I first played that game when I was 14. I still haven’t beaten the final boss 13 years later. Partially because my PS2 isn’t with me. Mostly because…. Skill Issue. Every other game in the franchise I’ve beaten 17x minimum. That’s one that pops into my head everytime I play Rift Apart.
Rented it and spent about 2-3 hours failing the tutorial before I returned it the same day. I told them the game didn't work and they let me take out something else. I wasn't really lying when you think about it.
16:36 I would expect such a cool dude sitting in a chair backwards with his legs crossed, facing away from the table, to not give a shit about a car busting through a huge window. And I was right.
now talk about nostalgia! I loved the original driver way back then! The game initially was pretty hard for me, I didn't know much english yet, wich is funny, at the same time I was playing final fantasy 7 and that went fine lmao
I was a bit older so maybe that factored in, like 12 or so but I finished the interview after a few tries. It's really all about getting used to the controls and how the car handles.
Many years ago my older brother gave me and my younger brother his PC games and we used to take turns playing Driver on a laptop my granddad had bought used just to play solitaire on. I’m glad to hear other people struggled with this game, I thought we were just really bad at it lol. I also would just drive around San Francisco trying to follow traffic laws, but I remember that I would end up hitting the sidewalk a lot
Oddly enough the first ratchet and clank game was the only game I got stuck on and it was black water citys....water mission. Sadder still if the fact I still unlocked the RYNO by doing hoverboard races and got good enough to the point I could jump over most of the race! I would return about 16 year's later aftering beating all of the other Ratchet and Clank games and find myself beating it first try and ever having to WAIT for the water to catch up! Still I'm happy to have returned to the game and finally put it to rest
8:50 Something you need to understand using the Director Mode. It isn't recording your driving. What it does it replay the mission using the same inputs that you used and spawning cars and enemies in the same places. This is important to know because here is a chance for something to go very wrong. If something turns the wrong way or random debris hits you then the playback will fail. That also means the mission can fail even though you completed it.
Oh, you're a wheelman? Name every wheel.
Ferris Wheel. Wagon Wheel. Tire. Steering Wheel. Water Wheel. Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round. Wheelchair Wheels. That's all I can name.
@@bored.random Alloy Wheel, Mag wheel, cheese wheel. We need to keep this going 😂
Pinwheel, spinning wheel@@Tigermoto
@@bored.randomComposite wheels, Pneumatic wheels, Wire Wheels, Spoked Wheels, Cast Wheels, Divided Rims Wheel
Left front wheel right front wheel left rear wheel right rear wheel
My cousin and I actually got pretty good at the tutorial for a while since we didn't have a memory card for a bit as kids
Bro playing this game without a memory card would actually be impossible. At least with some games it was doable, but certainly not DRIVER!
Dam, I remember not having a memo when I first got my ps2. How many nights without sleep to beat some games.
This and the facility+archives cheat in goldeneye both gave me a chance to show off by unlocking things for friends at school.. This isn't nearly as hard as the other ones lol but it is a damn hard first level if you don't know the physics. Almost no room to learn them.
Lol, me too got me while to convince my parents to buy one 😂😂😂😂
lol the struggle was real, bro 😂😪🙏🏻
It's somehow refreshing to see a game that is hard because it is supposed to be hard, and not because it's poorly made or to sell something more.
That was how it used to be, how the times have changed. But there are still plenty of games like that nowadays, like Dark Souls
@@jauwn though then there were fairly hard ("it was my fault that I lost") and punishingly hard ("how was I supposed to know/react to that?!").
Amen to that!!!
This was one of the hardest PlayStation 1 games I ever beat at age 14 -
A lot of old games were hard to sell you something though. Not directly, but a lot of games were designed to be too hard to beat in a single weekend, to force you to rent it longer.
@@Krossfyre yeah, I actually think that I didn’t beat it the weekend we had printed it from blockbuster, that it wasn’t until I got it later for my birthday, that I finally was able to retry the final mission like over 100 or more times, and was finally able to beat the game?
I just remember how awesome of a game driver was when it first came out and nothing else had been like it?! The music for the setting and the way the cars handled and everything was all very fitting, I was disappointed to discover once I did beat it, that that mission was the last… it made sense I guess, because it was way harder than all the other missions combined-
Alright, well, here it is again, with the "Dangerous and Harmful Content" removed.
Thanks, CZcams.
jeez dude this sucks
CZcams showed me an ad for sex toys earlier today while I was listening to Lofi music…
The idea that they could demonetize your content is absurd.
@@sgtsodium6472 I didn't get demonetized, it got straight up removed for violating terms of service.
What exactly was the "Dangerous and Harmful Content?"
@@jauwnI was literally halfway through watching the first video when they killed it. Pretty odd experience. Glad it's back!
The fact I beat this game below the age of 10, multiple times, baffles me to this day.
I think I'd rather go to fucking work than do some of these missions now.
It’s honestly hilarious just how brutally difficult this game gets at some points
@@jauwn Oh yeah it's practically RNG at points. If you have enough patience you can at least suffer through some of the worst of it. Great game though, nice to see it looked at again.
I'd mostly entertain myself breaking it as a kid. If you flip cars on their side and drive into the roof/underbody of them, at least in the PS1 version, it will launch you outside of the map bounds.
It's not that hard of a game. My 2-year-old has beat it
You are superhuman, I still feel frustration from playing this game. Despite loving it.
@@everythingponyMy dog beat it too. This game is mad easy, don't know what everyone's talking about
I was a kid that actually loved the replay editor. I played enough to try and keep body damage to a minimum for a perfect replay on many missions. This is the game series (as well as Stuntman), that got me really into driving games. I loved 60's-80's era of vehicle chases too, loose suspensions and heavy rear ends sliding around corners, and of course seeing those hubcaps flying off and rolling down the streets too.
As far as games that were hard and never completed from back then, Aero Fighters Assault for the N64. Far from a driving game, of course. But thinking about Driver brought back some more memories from deep storage. I could never get past the first level (I think) with a submersible aircraft carrier.
this game's graphics are ao good that CZcams thought Jauwn was showing homemade car stunts
I Guess so
This whole interaction was sad to look at, this comment is neither funny nor interesting
@@PFCMittens thanks for the engagement
@@PFCMittenswhy did that crack me up so much
Driver 2 and 3 were some of my favorite games. Wasnt long ago I was telling a friend that I missed these games. Glad to see people still remember how good, and brutal, they were. Good times.
I beat driver 1 but never 2 a remember a mission chasing a train that was so hard. Never went back to it. Driv3r has not aged well. However I will never forget finding the shot at gta vice city with the Tommy Vercetti spoof who had on water wings cause he couldn't swim in the Miami level lol
@@BouncingZeus That's very early on in Driver 2, like second or third mission, it was that game's own Interview in it's ability of filtering people.
As an adult, I've beaten them all, they're really fun! I definitely prefer 1 and 2. I like 1's difficulty and I like the ways 2 expanded the world.
The graphics and gameplay can't be understated, this game out 2 years and a whole system generation before GTA3, which defined this genre
Their prior gane, Destruction Derby was also a favorite
woah this is so unexpected. This is the first game I ever played, was really young and remember playing it with my dad. So many memories. And no, we did not get past the tutorial level
A game from 1999 having such an in-depth replay feature is _insane_
the voiceline "youve wrecked the damn car man" lives rentfree in my head
Awesome video. Always been interested in what lies beyond the impossible tutorial.
im loving these videos on older games. by far my favourite videos from you!!
Well, its a good thing i missed the original upload, I'm here now.
While I didn't have this game growing up, I picked it up at a local retro game store after beating Driver San Francisco. Never made it past the test, put the game back on the shelf.
As a kid i just allways drove around in the 2 "open wordls" you can access that was like the game for me xD I miss how easy it was to have fun as a kid. I love to learn that I wasnt the only one driving carefully and all and pretending i was a normal citizen ^^
Yeah I had absolutely no idea what was behind the Undercover mode, just free roam in San Francisco
Most people were limited to that and there's no excuse for devs. The issue I had with free roam was no way to fix the car or reset wanted levels, which made everyone just crash into everything, or try to follow road rules until a cop decided you went 1 km/h overboard and decides to ram you to death, which I assume is traffic penalty for minor speeding in USA because of this game.
it took me 20 years to beat this game in 2019!! i beat the game just barely and even then i thought the last mission was unfair. the presidents run is the hardest final level i think i ever have had the "pleasure" of playing through.
I remember being excited for Driver 3 to come out when I was a little kid...I was only 4 when the first Driver came out but i played Driver 2 and 3 so much...Driver just reminds me of the 2000s in the best way
It really does. Driver was everywhere, it was THE racing game for us who weren’t old enough to play GTA
@@jauwn to be fair, back on the ps1 GTA was laughable in comparison to driver 1 and 2.
Oh WOW...did this bring back some mega nostalgia for me. Thank you for covering it. One of my most favorite games of all time.
Ah memories. I played it at a cousin's party for the first time and I was laughing so much while ramming into cars that my parents bought it for me.
It took me a few hours to beat the tutorial, and I didn't know a ghost existed to help you.
My favorite thing was just doing free driving on any map and take all the roads on the borders, this way I would make a perfect loop, all this while not enraging the cops.
Also trying to damage a car so badly stuck in a corner that it would flip over and if you touch the bottom part of that car, your own car would start flying and spining in the air at incredible speed and get stuck in buildings, cop cars would also meet this fate, as I used a flipped car as a shield.
And finally, running into a corner at full speed would put you out of the road, and you can drive outside of the map, on the sea, anywhere, but the game would crash if you go too far away. You would suddenly notice cops in the middle of nowhere and if you drive to where the cop car was supposed to be, a full traffic and weird roads would suddenly appear, that was crazy.
Was this on the PS1 version? I don't remember these glitches on the PC version
@@jauwn I didn't say it but I played the PS1 version, I never played the PC version but it seems more stable!
I enjoyed Driver quite a bit on PS1. I will not specify how long it took me to realize how there were other options besides "Start New Game", but it was much longer than you might expect.
So satisfying to drift around a corner hard enough to see a hubcap go flying off your car though.
I remember playing it on PC on 2003-2004. Played it a lot. It looked like IRL graphic in that time :D
That last mission took so long to complete as a kid. So many rage quits, but I beat it after 20 something attempts. Once I completed the game, cheats were unlocked. Shame you didn't explore those guys. The unlimited speed and freight train cheats were amazing, wheelies for days in the E-type lookalike while skill shotting traffic lol.
What a pleasant surprise seeing you review Driver. It isn't a crypto scam but the police RNG can be as painful as bagholding.
One of my all-time go-to games. Glad you had fun with it. Thank you for bringing attention of this series to a larger audience.
My "white whale" game is Streets of SimCity; I don't believe anyone on Earth has actually completed every mission in that game.
Streets of SimCity... never played that one before. Looks insane though
@@jauwn It's a fever dream and I don't really know if it's worth recommending. Maybe for a very specific kind of person but definitely not for everyone.
Thanks for responding and keep up with roasting NFT games, you're helping people with solid consumer advice.
Wonderful memories of Driver: You Are the Wheelman.
This game blew me away when I saw it on PC, I played Gran Turismo when it came out too, but this game actually surpassed that with what a lasting impression it left on me! The proof being that I remembered all these missions from 23 years ago after only playing through the game a single time! This game was the real deal cats pyjamas!!
Ive never played this game, or even heard of it, but this was a great vid! The NFT game vids are good, but i have a soft spot for these old game retrospectives and just game essays in general.
NFT slop is so universally rotten that it is hard to have a unique experience every video, but these old games are charming.
Thanks for the entertainment, Jauwn :)
Yup! Always happy to make these videos as they are a nice break from the NFT content, even though they don't perform quite as well
Attaining the "Score Medal" for all 32 levels in the Challenge mode of Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for Gameboy Color was my video game white whale in grade school. I finally completed this challenge several years later as a teenager. Hundreds of hours I probably spent on that game.
For me it was NFS MW05, especially beating the milestone requirements for blacklist 8
My favorite thing to do in this game back in the day was to start playing and see how long it took for my car to start losing hubcaps.
Watching police cars fling themselves out of bounds at one specific corner with a slope on one of the free drive maps was also good shenanigans.
My bro and I played through this game about 2 years ago. Like you, we only ever played the interview and free drive. President's run took an entire evening. No joke...
I like seeing jauwn enjoy talking about games he actually likes, this should have more views!
Jauwn, since you asked it, my favorite very hard game that I can't beat for a long time is the La Mulana Remake. People complain that the game is difficult due to its cryptic puzzles but for me the part of it that made me quit the game was one of the boss fights. It is the 4th boss, specifically. The puzzles up until the 4th boss was hard but I still managed to solve most of them without looking up a guide. I've even heard from a guy that beat it without a guide that he spends hours and hours on the game without making any progress on any of the puzzles. Also, if you want to play La Mulana remake, prepare to hit a lot of walls so you can find that one of them is breakable.
Funny that you mention that game; I just got it last week and started playing it! Haven’t had a lot of time so I’m very early in the game but it’s already extremely hard and the puzzles are crazy
@@jauwn the original free to play version is even harder
This was back when games had fun built in cheat codes. Try playing in freight train mode, where your vehicle in the physics engine has its mass set to max. I remember plowing into a line of traffic and sending them organically into the background.
Loved this game. Perfect gameplay. This would have been stellar without free drive and the director mode but that added worlds. Feeling that proud for beating a tutorial too? Gosh what a game. I think I got stuck on a map where you're supposed to follow a train above the street. Or maybe that's just an early level.
I did complete the first level when I was a kid but it took a while and the help of an older friend that was really good at driving games/Gran Turismo. The PC version looks so much better than how I remember it looking on the Playstation.
To this day, even after revisiting it as an adult, i never beat the Shinobi game for the ps2. Forced inverted controls, awful camera, awful platforming, and the high difficulty alone made it a nightmare. Its also one of my favorite games of all time.
Great retrospective, I think ive had a similair nostalgia trip with it's sequel: I remember playing Driver 2 as a kid and sticking to freeroaming Havana for the most part. It was fun but I envied the idea of being able to play Vegas and Rio because the missions to unlock them were just absurdly difficult. Then a friend showed me GTA Vice City which was pretty much an allround upgrade, and I gave up and forgot all about Driver 2.
But just recently i noticed and played the unofficial REDriver 2 PC port, pretty much beat the game in just a few days and im so glad I did as I finally witnessed the other cities and got to experience this nostalgic game again! Its a flawed but amazing game and im glad someone went through the effort to make it shine on PC hardware, well recommended!
I'll have to try the PC port, because I heard the PS1 version is kinda bad since the hardware couldn't handle it
It's amazing that we get fanmade ports of PS1 games in 2020s... Crash Team Racing has a WiP one, people reverse engineered the code. SO many games would benefit from getting rid of PS1 limitations (the thing had 2mb RAM plus 1mb video memory).
I didn't know that there was a garage mission because my father copied the game and the save file from someone's PC from his work. The save file was right after the garage, but before the first mission. I slowly grinded the game, initially with my father's help, but then alone, up to Los Angeles. The two available missions in Los Angeles were absolutely impossible for me at that time.
But I continued to play various driving challenges until I discovered that if to play carnage, save a replay, watch the replay, then the infinite mass of the car would be preserved to the story mode. Since I didn't understand why did this happen, I convinced my parents that there is a unique opportunity to complete the game, and that I must complete it today. I have no idea how long did I play, but I began to fall asleep half the way through New York. But the next day I found the way how to reproduce the bug. So, I completed the game, but was absolutely convinced that Driver is an impossible game without exploiting the bug.
Decade later I completed the game without too much issues, and the last mission was the most difficult and took just around ten attempts.
P.S. One of the most memorable missions is the one where it is necessary to deliver a box with explosives in pickup truck. The box satisfyingly slides in the cargo bed, but its damage meter unsatisfyingly grows every time the box touches walls of the cargo bed. And the huge explosion was frightening :D
dang glad I got a physical copy of Driver San Francisco. One of my favorite driving games of the PS3 era
I got the pc version :D
My memories of this game are pretty strange. I do remember driving the free roam maps and enjoying them a lot, but my defining memory is of inputting an insanely long game shark code that let me press one button to levitate my car, and another button to levitate everyone else's cars. This turned every police chase into an absolute clusterf***, because with the Press of a single button, I could jump over their blockades, or send them careening through the air into an out of bound Zone from which they could never return. Basically a telekinetic criminal simulator. Good times, good times...
Used to go over to a buddy's house as a kid to whip ditties on Wrigley Field in Driver 2 all the time. I don't know if we even played a mission in that game tbh. Just reenacting the final chase in Blues Brothers for hours on end.
I have very fond childhood memories of Driver 2. Amazing game
Was one of the first games I remember picking up with my dad at Woolworths, the dev studio was only about 20 mins away as well
I hope you cover the entire Driver franchise. It's had its... ups and downs.
This deserves just as many views as your other content, this is such a good review of a game a lot of people didn't get to play
I literally have never forgot this game and you literally said what I did I did free roam and acted like I was a real driver stopping at red lights and all lol I was to young to try and play the missions
The President Run is the hardest mission I ever played in a racing game or any kinda of game, took me years to beat it, idk about pc version, but ps1 counterpart is really unfair. I beat it in a miracle run I did while I was just chilling in my friends house and decide to boot up the game just to have a background something in the background, I managed to get in the final level and after I said to him: ''I will play it, but we know I cant beat it'' and just did it in the first time in front of him. He hugged eachother and that was one of my proudest moment as a gamer!
I beat this game when I rented it from Blockbuster one weekend as a 14-year-old kid!!
But I also grew up on a junkyard, and have been driving since I was three ..
With that said, the game was still hard, AF !!!!!
Especially the last mission where you were being chased by undercover, corrupt government agents- you had to make it all the way across across the city from one side of the map to the entire other side, the longest mission in the game, and it was sprinkling rain, and these undercover agents were coming from everywhere, not to mention, their cars were twice as fast as yours, and all that would take was them hitting you a couple times, and your car was totaled!! You literally had to juke and jive and bust a left, then bust a right, then bust another right then bust a left and pretty much zigzag your way all the way to the mission END & it still took you a good amount of tries to finally beat it, especially back then on the original graphics on a 19 inch picture tube television where you didn’t have the benefit of it being upscaled and graphically enhanced like you do today!!
Masterpiece!
Personally I prefer 2 because of the more tropical cities and even featuring my own Rio, but it's amazing how the gameplay was already perfected in 1.
I beat it. Screw you Secret Service. My boy Pablo was there. He'll testify for me. Now give me a gold star or something.
This is so underrated, nice video man!
Its refreshing seeing a different driver game, while inivative, driver San Francisco is over reviewed compared to the rest of the series.
If I'm not mistaken there is a small amount of felony you can have without the cops perusing the player. You can also get felony from honking the horn at them.
Rewatching to give my view to the new vid, great video btw for a game I have never heard of.
Thanks a ton! Glad you enjoyed it
only three attempts to beat the final level? i was screaming in anger when I first beat the game after god knows how many tries. and i had the same infuriating experience when i played the game again on an emulator years ago.
great game though
I loved this on the PS1, after completing the game all I did was jumping over the bridge at Bal Harbour back and forth and seeing what shenanigans I can cause to police and other vehicles as that physics engines was insane back in the day :D
childhood memory unlocked. I used to love this game. I distinctly remember trying to jump the draw bridge. I bet this game is really playable using an old version of Wine on Linux since they have preserved all the old Win32 API calls and graphics libs at the time. Probably like version 2 or 3 or so
This game to this day haunts my dream I am currently cowering in fear from this game
We could never stomach games on the ps1 or 2 but man Driver on pc was insane back then, so much fun.
The physics in this vgame were insane. I remember playing with a friend in the Sam Francisco hills screen, challenging each other to make the cop cars on thebrear go flying and land on the cop cars that were creating a barricade in the front. I think our top score was 5 (it was no easy feat tho)
i didn't know this was related to Driver: San Fransico!
i remember seeing the video Nick Robinson made on it a while back. Seemed like it was ahead of its time.
18:35 the completely random reveal of what the license plate said fucking FLOORED ME, holy shit 😭
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Love to see Jauwn doing so well! I remember finding this channel during the early crypto video days when it had 1000 subscribers, love to see a glowup.
I beat this game when I was 14 when it first came out! Being I was a huge fan of Destruction Derby and it was one of the games I got with my PlayStation at 11 for Xmas, Driver was something I absolutely could not wait for!!
I Loved the Tough, but manageable Difficulty and being as I grew up on a Junkyard and have been Driving since I was 3, ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE REALISTIC HANDLING PHYSICS!!
One of my favorite games of all time, and the Hollywood style chasing you could make were amazing Beck then!
Great video !!!
Glad you enjoyed!
I couldn't even figure out what half of the things on the tutorial meant. I just gave up and did free driving.
3:20 i audibly'd "goddamned!!" at that professional car drivin
YEARS later, of course I tried to complete the hardest level in videogame history: Driver's forced tutorial. It's WEIRD in that the difficulty isn't in skill level, but in obscurity: they don't let you practice, there's a time limit and a HUGE list of tasks you have to do within a minute with no rhyme or reason. But the worst thing wasn't even that, but how it doesn't explain the controls.
As you said, there's an in-game movie that DOES show which button is pressed, and that hints you that for some moves you use circle or triangle, but I STILL couldn't figure out how exactly the reverse 180 turn works. Low res in PS1 didn't help matters.
Crazy Taxi, a game from around the same era, has obscure driving mechanics that require you to shift to reverse gear THEN back to powerslide or something, I could never manage that either. But that game didn't require mastering it before starting at least.
Oh there's an actual game after Driver's tutorial that 99% didn't even see. The test isn't even that hard if you FIGURE OUT what the game wants from you, it's still HORRIBLE design to start with a goddamn exam, Gran Turismo had license tests but those weren't all mushed into one minute at least (tho having to do a clean lap on time limit before starting the most basic tournament was ridiculous, so were starting and stopping exercises that have you drive in a line for 40 seconds each time and then GUESS the braking point). Anyway, late 90s games were real weird with how they wanted to gate the main game behind tests, and even GT later made those optional, thing with these things is that if you figure ho to cheese them they aren't as much of a challenge, just annoyances. So it's the bad/fake difficulty either way.
Oh yeah Driver... It was a good game and it was hard, but I was probably a bit older so did manage to complete it back in the day.
Keep up the good work Jauwn. You make interesting videos,
I actually STILL HAVE my original copy of Driver You Are The Wheelman on PC!!
Better yet, does anyone remember that iconic car crashing sound in this game (the one with the distinctive glass shatter heard immediately after impact)? Well, the sound file for that sound ("CRASH1.WAV") was actually recorded from the parking garage scene in the 1978 movie "The Driver"! But there's MORE to this sound effect than that! It was actually used in numerous movies dating from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The following is all the titles that I found it in:
1. The Pink Panther (1963)
2. Batman (1966)(Heard in the Season 1 episode "Batman Makes The Scenes").
3. Lady in Cement (1968)
4. The French Connection (1971).
5. Vanishing Point (1971)
6. A Reflection of Fear (1972)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie or not)
7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
8. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1985)
9. M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
10. Shaft's Big Score (1972)(high pitched variant)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the final movie or not).
11. The Mechanic (1972)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie itself or not)
12. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
13. The Last American Hero (1973)
14. The Seven-Ups (1973)
15. 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)(heard in trailer at least, I don't know if it's in the movie itself or not)
16. The Towering Inferno (1974)
17. Race With The Devil (1975)
18. The Devil's Rain (1975)
19. The French Connection II (1975)
20. The Kansas City Massacre (1975)
21. Cannonball (1976)
22. Gator (1976)
23. Silver Streak (1976)
24. Damnation Alley (1977)
25. Smokey & the Bandit (1977)(original mono soundtrack only)
26. Wizards (1977)
27. The Driver (1978)
28. Hooper (1978)
29. The Hunter (1980)(heard in trailer at least)
30. The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980)(heard at the beginning of the episode "Get Along, Little Jerry").
31. Eyewitness (1981)(heard in trailer but NOT the final film)
32. The Fall Guy (1981-1986)(heard in the Season 3 episodes "Dirty Laundry" and "The Last Drive").
33. Cagney and Lacey (1982-1988)(variant/possible alternate take)(heard in the Season 3 episode "Unusual Occurrence")
34. The Soldier (1982).
35. Hunter (1984-1991)(Heard in the episode "Hard Contract")
36. Impulse (1984)(heard in trailer but NOT in the film)
37. The Terminator (1984)(ONLY in the original mono mix)
38. Commando (1985)
39. Mischief (1985)
40. The Man With One Red Shoe (1985)
41. Stingray (1985-1987)(heard in the Season 2 episode "One Way Ticket to the end of the line")
42. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)(heard in trailer but not in the final film)
43. Maximum Overdrive (1986)(heard in trailer, but NOT the film itself)
44. Death Before Dishonor (1987)(used in a heavily fragmented form)
45. Killer Clowns from Outer Space (1988)
Holy crap, Hearing that Angry Asian man on the voice machine dug up deep, deeeep and long forgotten childhood memories of me absolutely breaking with laughter hearing that for the very first time as a kid, and just listening to it over and over again
Yeah I didn't mention it cause it was pretty obvious but this game is also slightly racist, although at least their racism is evenly distributed?
@@jauwn I guesssssssss that is something haha - though the fact I remember this so vividly now suggests that as a 12 year old I DID complete the intro carpark mission, and at least got to this point, but I must have not got much further as I cant recollect anything of the game, especially anything about the president etc after this point :P
What a hard game to beat! For some reason, I never played the second, but I played the third. Driv3r was awesome; it wasn't perfect, but it was fun to play and also very hard. I still remember a mission about chasing a lady in a white convertible car. I didn't have enough ability, so I tried it over and over for days, and one day I did it.
Yo this game was the bomb lol. The boys and I used to play it all the time, but not for the story. Not sure what game mode it is, but we used to play the one where you would get swarmed by an infinite amount of cop cars until they eventually stopped you. It was single player, but we'd take turns for hours and hours, seeing who could last the longest, and it never got old.
driver and driver 2 are games i miss would love to see remasters of them
I remember myself and the group of friends collectively working on beating the tutorial, which not only was hard for us kids as is but we also didn't know english too well and had to figure out most bullet points by trial and error pretty much
We also had to do it every time due to not having memory cards
The last time I played this game is about 20 years ago, the main title theme pops up in my head from time to time in my head. I loved the film maker function.
I think I will search for my copy and fire up my good old PS1.
"TANNER! Come back and pick up your badge or I'll have your badge for this!"
The garage is so damn dark in the PC version. And Jean-Paul is in a regular cop car in the PS1 version (the armored car looks dope in the PC btw).
Yay its back! I was so dissapointed clicking the first notification, i got a snack and everything just to be met by the yt takedown msg :(
Dr. Disrespect put a target on me
I passed the first level after only 7 tries back then at my friends PC, but I also watched the training video in the main menu beforehand.
"The president run" was partly a luck based mission, since the spawning of the police cars appear to be random.
You should check out Driver San Francisco if you can, it is great. I was one of the lucky ones who bought it shortly before delisting.
Umm your review is actually so detailed and accurate my drunken as* had to stop for a sec to realize this man is talking the truth whoooow
I wish more games had drivers control scheme with a burnout key aside of normal throttle.
Burnout key became normal throttle after set speed
Also 'throttle' isn't really correct, nothing was throttled as the digital controller only registered on or off
Am I crazy for thinking Driver's number one flaw is that goddamn crash sound that you praise? EVERY SINGLE CRASH plays that sound, every crash, with anything in the game. You hear it 2000 times per play session, it's maddening.
I have just played an original Driver yesterday and I had to complete the whole list during the interview instead of all but the 3 like you did. I believe the port you've been playing is some watered down version or the default difficulty can be somewhere set to easier by default
I had to do all of them as well; the strike through lines are off centered because I’m playing on 16:9 instead of 4:3
Was a 2004 baby so I never played this, but it does sort of remind me of Metal Slug, and how often I played those. I had about 5 versions of it on pc given by my mom, but only ever beat one of them fully. :')
Just to let ya know, the PS1 version is actually a port of the PC version - it was originally a made for PC game. They had a separate team dedicated to shrinking down the game to fit onto PSX, but they were both developed around the same time.
I didn’t even get a notification the first time you uploaded. CZcams’s notifications are so awful lately. My inbox is crammed with “recommended” content rather than creators of specifically turned on notifs for. Often I’ll get a notification only to see nothing I’d expect in there. Just recommended stuff from people I watch, but didn’t turn on alerts for. It’s basically useless now.
CZcams has been making consistently bad decisions for 3 years straight. I can’t wait until a real competitor shows up
Yeah, Take a Ride is pretty much the only mode I played for most of my time with this game. I think at some point I had a friend or cousin beat the Interview for me and I played a few levels, but I mostly remember Take a Ride.
16:14
They aren't technically AI - they are replays of the developers driving! Hence they cannot be knocked off-course. It's very clever, and it meant they had to program the traffic to be deterministic so the same cars would spawn in the same places each time the replay was used.
Interesting! I know the traffic is always the same at the start of a mission as well.
The first Ratchet & Clank. I first played that game when I was 14. I still haven’t beaten the final boss 13 years later. Partially because my PS2 isn’t with me. Mostly because…. Skill Issue. Every other game in the franchise I’ve beaten 17x minimum. That’s one that pops into my head everytime I play Rift Apart.
Rented it and spent about 2-3 hours failing the tutorial before I returned it the same day. I told them the game didn't work and they let me take out something else. I wasn't really lying when you think about it.
16:36 I would expect such a cool dude sitting in a chair backwards with his legs crossed, facing away from the table, to not give a shit about a car busting through a huge window. And I was right.
I played the first game as a kid, and could not beat the "tutorial" no matter how many times I tried. That was the entire game, as far as I knew.
now talk about nostalgia! I loved the original driver way back then! The game initially was pretty hard for me, I didn't know much english yet, wich is funny, at the same time I was playing final fantasy 7 and that went fine lmao
Great video, brings back good memories and I'm happy to see others bringing up this gem in such a neat way. Like!
I was a bit older so maybe that factored in, like 12 or so but I finished the interview after a few tries. It's really all about getting used to the controls and how the car handles.
Many years ago my older brother gave me and my younger brother his PC games and we used to take turns playing Driver on a laptop my granddad had bought used just to play solitaire on. I’m glad to hear other people struggled with this game, I thought we were just really bad at it lol. I also would just drive around San Francisco trying to follow traffic laws, but I remember that I would end up hitting the sidewalk a lot
Oddly enough the first ratchet and clank game was the only game I got stuck on and it was black water citys....water mission. Sadder still if the fact I still unlocked the RYNO by doing hoverboard races and got good enough to the point I could jump over most of the race!
I would return about 16 year's later aftering beating all of the other Ratchet and Clank games and find myself beating it first try and ever having to WAIT for the water to catch up!
Still I'm happy to have returned to the game and finally put it to rest
8:50 Something you need to understand using the Director Mode. It isn't recording your driving. What it does it replay the mission using the same inputs that you used and spawning cars and enemies in the same places. This is important to know because here is a chance for something to go very wrong. If something turns the wrong way or random debris hits you then the playback will fail. That also means the mission can fail even though you completed it.
I remember I did not succeed with that tutorial for years and once I beat the satorial I got into the game proper I was like a King.