Quick question to all: Is it the video essay aspect of this you like or do you want more RBR gameplay? Thank you all for watching, this is my first video to ever get more than 1,000 views!
One mistake Dirt rally and WRC players make when they try rbr is they play it like a game which rbr certantly isnt. Its a simulator and it needs to be driven like one
I don't get it, I tried RBR after getting obsessed with rally sim racing and it just rattled my wheel into oblivion on all surfaces with no option to even try to reduce it. It's got some great aspects but I was incredibly disappointed honestly.
Well this was a blast from the past. I remember how good the physics were for it's time in combination with realistically narrow roads made this game very challenging but rewarding when you got it right. But what you didn't touch on and what stood out to me most about this game was the surround sound implementation. Not a single game I have ever played before or since has come within a country mile of doing it as well as this game did!!!. I remember driving a stage one time and couldn't work out why I was suddenly getting so much engine/exhaust and wind noise from my right rear speaker. It wasn't until I'd finished the stage and was watching the replay that I realised that at one point I had clipped a tree and it had plucked my right rear door off and that was where all the noise was coming from! Also suspension squeaks and bumps coming from each individual corner of the car really made you feel like you where right there in the middle of it. Was absolutely epic sound design!!
Another cool thing about this is how controller friendly it is. Sure, it's at its best when you got a fancy sim rig, but it's got some simple yet very useful filters which make the game quite playable. Even if you only have a keyboard it has filters for that too, and on the Discord there's plugins for using the mouse to steer. The only real barrier for entry is the install size and the very high difficulty of learning the driving physics starting out.
I have been driving on keyboard for a few months now and can say it gets easier with time but driving with keyboard is always max attack so I cant last more then 5 stages without crashing
I also love RBR but "20 yrs still on top" is a misleading... This RBR has almost nothing related to the game which was relased 20 years ago. - FMOD replaced the original bad quality audio engine - NGP v7 is the phisics now - all the stages nade by nodders which based on real tracks and looks pretty realistic - all cars which used nowdays also added by talent modders - GUI, menu, FFB also modded - Graphics also tweaked, triple monitor, wide screen support etc.
Vanilla is still pretty amazing though. NGP may be more realistic, but vanilla physics are also a ton of fun and incredible for its time. The mods are just tweaks, adjusting numbers from the core physics engine developed back in the day. Also, imo the best looking gravel stages are still the vanilla England and Australia stages.
Pray tell… what had a better rally physics engine than this back in 2004? Or when the NGP was originally made? The title hits the nail on the head. Nothing has ever beaten this game
Last time I was playing this game in 2014, about 10 years ago, because there was Dirt, and Dirt 2 coming out and after countless of hours in Dirt game I decided to go back in old roots and install RBR... And oh man o man, I was speechless.. when we talking about car physics, it's like night and day comparing to Dirt rally, RBR is soooo much better, you can actually feel the car weight, feel the car when you slide in to corners, it's unbelievable, no modern game can't compete to RBR physics
I hade exactly the same experience, from loving Dirt, to loving Dirt 2 and then trying RBR. It ruined all other rally games for me. It just feels so damn pleasant to drive.
RBR is so good. It was really impressive back then from the physics side, and even to this date it holds to that. Rallysimfans made the sim even better. No rallygame compares to it. If they ever release a remake of RBR, i really hope it’s gonna have same mods support it has now and NGP integrated to it and more cars than just 8. RBR with modern day graphics with excellent optimizations would be a hooot banger.
You can play this game with a wheel and pedals for 30 mins, go outside to a massive snowstorm and slide your daily driver around in the snow and your brain will literally think its still in the game.
I used to be a rally enthusiast back in 2007-8 and did play RBR, and i remember thinking: this sim is so good, it'll be the best rally sim for many years. I was goddamn right, right?
It’s good with a wheel .. but with keyboard not that much … I don’t know if you can fine tune it .. but it took long to turn.. I don’t mean understeer or oversteer .. same if you had just 100dpi on your mouse … it takes long to get your mouse from left to right side , Or from middle to right … same here if I turned nearly nothing happend … it feeled like my driver turned the wheel in slow motion … it was hard enough to even run It on keyboard and making the even car turn because there was only X-axis and no left or right for steering, I really hope a newer game will someday get the rbr treatment,
The problem I have with RBR is that it takes a ton of tweaking to get it to be a great sim. It's not for the faint of heart thats for sure. You have to install several gigabytes worth of mods and mess with content managers etc to be a great game, the learning curve is massive, its not a install and go experience at all. I have gone through this process just to be still frustrated with lack of support for certain wheels and janky menus and non overall user friendliness. Sure it's great for a 20 year old game but I still prefer the newer games just for the overall experience, and I don't care what anyone says graphical experience adds to immersion factor. Potato graphics don't help with immersion at all sorry.
Yeah I was really looking forward to it and when I built my new pc for my 8020 SIM rig it was the first thing I tried. I thought the handling was good but not as realistic as I had been led to believe; having driven real cars. But ultimately I gave up trying to configure to its best because there's no way to control the surface vibration. It was so over the top I couldn't bear it. Agree it's not very user friendly either considering how many people are working on it.
Abandonware? do you know if the original developer files, source code, IP etc were found? That's the holy grail everyone is trying to get their hands on (original tyre modelling & physics engine).
I think its annoying 😂. I feel like i unlearn how to drive in this game. It feels fantastic at times then a completely different game day to day. I know dirt has less real physics but i prefer the consistency.
I actually prefer it as a community baby instead of on corporate storefronts. This sim doesn't need the backing of a large company to stand because it was revived by its dedicated fan base.
As much as I love RBR, it is the most overrated shit I've ever seen in my life, no shit a game that's over 2 decades old and has people working on content and fixing the game for free for over 2 decades is better than the shit we have now and we probably will have. Thinking like this, we can say that AC is the best racing game of all time, or Fallout NV is the best shooter of all time, even if its unmodified shooting mechanics are ass
Im not buying it... it great to talk about how good it was at the time. Like mike tyson. The best, but time will show even mike is old and missing a step. I'm staying with modern games
RBR is free... only if you have an ultimate sim wheel that only plays games that are more """realistic""" and puts """realism""" above anything else and be a complete snob cuz "that what real men play we don't play play games" seriously I really want to play this game but the community and sim elitists simply makes me stay way far from it.
I think you'll find the community far less hostile than what you think it is. Surprisingly, the title is fairly controller-friendly. Give it a shot, I'm certain you'll find your own fun.
@DiariesOfABadDriver what makes you assume that? No one told me that information until now. The constant demand of "you should get a sim rig" and using a controller or keyboard instead it's like a big taboo. And for a game like RBR is rather not compatible. Same with AC. I don't wanna be competitive. I just want to know how it feels and if it's true like many people say about it.
Quick question to all: Is it the video essay aspect of this you like or do you want more RBR gameplay?
Thank you all for watching, this is my first video to ever get more than 1,000 views!
I like the essay aspect mixed with game footage.
For me it was the video essay
Yeah, it's going to take much more than pretty graphics to dethrone RBR.
EA WRC and SLRE much better
@@markomarko3450 in realism not even close in amount of stages not even close
@@didrikz5585 seb is that you?😄 In realism kid,yes lol
@@markomarko3450 well not according to basically everyone else in the rally community
@@markomarko3450 do you honestly think ea wrc tarmac is realistic
One mistake Dirt rally and WRC players make when they try rbr is they play it like a game which rbr certantly isnt. Its a simulator and it needs to be driven like one
I just got into RBR and I definitely see why everyone spoke so highly of it all these years. Makes me feel silly for waiting this long to try
Me too! I only installed RBR last month, having spent my time in DiRT Rally/2.0 and EA SPORTS WRC. I had no idea the gold mine I was missing.
Where can we buy or download it?
@@gadirigadiri2763 go to rallysimfans.hu to get started!
Even better in VR!!
I don't get it, I tried RBR after getting obsessed with rally sim racing and it just rattled my wheel into oblivion on all surfaces with no option to even try to reduce it. It's got some great aspects but I was incredibly disappointed honestly.
I once asked mika-n from RSF if I can donate to RSF and he told me to just enjoy the game. These are the kind of people we need more in the world.
Well this was a blast from the past. I remember how good the physics were for it's time in combination with realistically narrow roads made this game very challenging but rewarding when you got it right. But what you didn't touch on and what stood out to me most about this game was the surround sound implementation. Not a single game I have ever played before or since has come within a country mile of doing it as well as this game did!!!. I remember driving a stage one time and couldn't work out why I was suddenly getting so much engine/exhaust and wind noise from my right rear speaker. It wasn't until I'd finished the stage and was watching the replay that I realised that at one point I had clipped a tree and it had plucked my right rear door off and that was where all the noise was coming from! Also suspension squeaks and bumps coming from each individual corner of the car really made you feel like you where right there in the middle of it. Was absolutely epic sound design!!
Another cool thing about this is how controller friendly it is. Sure, it's at its best when you got a fancy sim rig, but it's got some simple yet very useful filters which make the game quite playable. Even if you only have a keyboard it has filters for that too, and on the Discord there's plugins for using the mouse to steer. The only real barrier for entry is the install size and the very high difficulty of learning the driving physics starting out.
I have been driving on keyboard for a few months now and can say it gets easier with time but driving with keyboard is always max attack so I cant last more then 5 stages without crashing
Well, even the JP version has two physics options
@@ArnoldTriyudho really? 😮
10 more years, and the game will outlive Richard Burns himself rip. I like to think he would be happy how the game ended up.
I also love RBR but "20 yrs still on top" is a misleading...
This RBR has almost nothing related to the game which was relased 20 years ago.
- FMOD replaced the original bad quality audio engine
- NGP v7 is the phisics now
- all the stages nade by nodders which based on real tracks and looks pretty realistic
- all cars which used nowdays also added by talent modders
- GUI, menu, FFB also modded
- Graphics also tweaked, triple monitor, wide screen support etc.
Vanilla is still pretty amazing though. NGP may be more realistic, but vanilla physics are also a ton of fun and incredible for its time. The mods are just tweaks, adjusting numbers from the core physics engine developed back in the day. Also, imo the best looking gravel stages are still the vanilla England and Australia stages.
Pray tell… what had a better rally physics engine than this back in 2004? Or when the NGP was originally made? The title hits the nail on the head. Nothing has ever beaten this game
Last time I was playing this game in 2014, about 10 years ago, because there was Dirt, and Dirt 2 coming out and after countless of hours in Dirt game I decided to go back in old roots and install RBR... And oh man o man, I was speechless.. when we talking about car physics, it's like night and day comparing to Dirt rally, RBR is soooo much better, you can actually feel the car weight, feel the car when you slide in to corners, it's unbelievable, no modern game can't compete to RBR physics
I hade exactly the same experience, from loving Dirt, to loving Dirt 2 and then trying RBR. It ruined all other rally games for me. It just feels so damn pleasant to drive.
I remember playing this and taking months to achieve gold on every rally race.
The tutorial alone was a daunting challenge.
When i have my sim rig built I'm definitely trying this out
RBR is so good. It was really impressive back then from the physics side, and even to this date it holds to that. Rallysimfans made the sim even better. No rallygame compares to it.
If they ever release a remake of RBR, i really hope it’s gonna have same mods support it has now and NGP integrated to it and more cars than just 8.
RBR with modern day graphics with excellent optimizations would be a hooot banger.
i love this game because of the soundtrack and because as a simracer you can drive ANY CAR ANY STAGE WHENEVERTIME but i hate it because i suck at it🤣
I still have the hard copy (CD-ROM) for this game on my shelf lol
It runs amazing even on my Celeron N4000 laptop.
Imagine if wrc or dirt rally has this level of mods it will be the best rally game ever
I guess in WRC you dont need more content
Just better physics
Not more, not less
You can play this game with a wheel and pedals for 30 mins, go outside to a massive snowstorm and slide your daily driver around in the snow and your brain will literally think its still in the game.
Is there any other open source racing or rally games like this one?
I used to be a rally enthusiast back in 2007-8 and did play RBR, and i remember thinking: this sim is so good, it'll be the best rally sim for many years. I was goddamn right, right?
RBR rules!!!
it is the best
guys which is the most realistic rally game?
yes
It’s good with a wheel .. but with keyboard not that much … I don’t know if you can fine tune it .. but it took long to turn.. I don’t mean understeer or oversteer .. same if you had just 100dpi on your mouse … it takes long to get your mouse from left to right side ,
Or from middle to right … same here if I turned nearly nothing happend … it feeled like my driver turned the wheel in slow motion … it was hard enough to even run It on keyboard and making the even car turn because there was only X-axis and no left or right for steering,
I really hope a newer game will someday get the rbr treatment,
The problem I have with RBR is that it takes a ton of tweaking to get it to be a great sim. It's not for the faint of heart thats for sure. You have to install several gigabytes worth of mods and mess with content managers etc to be a great game, the learning curve is massive, its not a install and go experience at all. I have gone through this process just to be still frustrated with lack of support for certain wheels and janky menus and non overall user friendliness. Sure it's great for a 20 year old game but I still prefer the newer games just for the overall experience, and I don't care what anyone says graphical experience adds to immersion factor. Potato graphics don't help with immersion at all sorry.
Verdade, eu instalei RBR e no minuto seguinte estava a desinstalar, graficos horriveis e as mods são muito dificeis e complicadas de meter a funcionar
Yeah I was really looking forward to it and when I built my new pc for my 8020 SIM rig it was the first thing I tried. I thought the handling was good but not as realistic as I had been led to believe; having driven real cars. But ultimately I gave up trying to configure to its best because there's no way to control the surface vibration. It was so over the top I couldn't bear it. Agree it's not very user friendly either considering how many people are working on it.
Rbr is amazing
Abandonware? do you know if the original developer files, source code, IP etc were found? That's the holy grail everyone is trying to get their hands on (original tyre modelling & physics engine).
I think its annoying 😂. I feel like i unlearn how to drive in this game. It feels fantastic at times then a completely different game day to day. I know dirt has less real physics but i prefer the consistency.
you pronounce eero piutiainen EE RO PIUTI AI NEN
Should be on Steam though
I actually prefer it as a community baby instead of on corporate storefronts. This sim doesn't need the backing of a large company to stand because it was revived by its dedicated fan base.
@@skybuprofen9834 also true
This game, no, *sim* just keeps getting better and better.
I still like Sega Rally better.
As much as I love RBR, it is the most overrated shit I've ever seen in my life, no shit a game that's over 2 decades old and has people working on content and fixing the game for free for over 2 decades is better than the shit we have now and we probably will have. Thinking like this, we can say that AC is the best racing game of all time, or Fallout NV is the best shooter of all time, even if its unmodified shooting mechanics are ass
Sorry man but I just couldn’t help but cringe watching this and hearing 5cyl sound coming out of a 4cyl car 😂
Im not buying it... it great to talk about how good it was at the time. Like mike tyson. The best, but time will show even mike is old and missing a step. I'm staying with modern games
RBR is free... only if you have an ultimate sim wheel that only plays games that are more """realistic""" and puts """realism""" above anything else and be a complete snob cuz "that what real men play we don't play play games"
seriously I really want to play this game but the community and sim elitists simply makes me stay way far from it.
I think you'll find the community far less hostile than what you think it is. Surprisingly, the title is fairly controller-friendly. Give it a shot, I'm certain you'll find your own fun.
@@skybuprofen9834 last time I asked if it's controller friendly I was shunned into oblivion
@@b.1570 You're in the wrong place then. I have people in my championship playing with keyboard and no one bats an eye.
@@b.1570 if you set up the filters properly it is very controller friendly.
Seems like you're reaching for excuses not to play it?
@DiariesOfABadDriver what makes you assume that? No one told me that information until now. The constant demand of "you should get a sim rig" and using a controller or keyboard instead it's like a big taboo. And for a game like RBR is rather not compatible. Same with AC.
I don't wanna be competitive. I just want to know how it feels and if it's true like many people say about it.