When you have rented the game for 24hrs and the tute takes 3 of them.
What game is this?
DRIVER
PS1 game, the OG one, had a fucking impossible driving exam that gave you 0 tutorial
When U beat it and started the game tho uk why they made u do it. That shit was intense
That’s not true. There was a tutorial movie in the game. It even displays am input overlay. That’s how I learned to beat it all those years ago.
Idk I was a kid when I played it maybe it wasn’t that impossible
I remember renting that game when I was 10 or something. We tried for hours to get through that tutorial without success.
I still can hear this picture!
Luckily you could skip it, so I was able to play the rest of the game.
Later a gaming magazine had a guide with an optimal route, that helped me to finally beat it. (after hours of practice)
I can’t remember being able to skip it, maybe they patched that in?
“patch”
You’re a newblood.
Gtf outta here, I played the game and beat that mission way back then!
Edit: On my Celeron 300 with a Riva TNT!
No patches in those days. Back then when you buy a game it’s in it’s final form.
There absolutely were patches for games back in the late 90’s; you could download them or get them off CDs in the magazines.
They could also just change the game they sold. I had an early print of Need for Speed Carbon for PS2. I couldn’t unlock most of the cop cars due to a bug, iirc. Later burns fixed it
Interesting! Back then I had a playstation and a pc. Never have i ever had a patch for any of the games i owned. The magazine mostly had demo versions of games, freeware or sometimes even a full version of a game. However never seen a path! Perhaps i was an ignorant kid not aware of such features.
In the magazines I bought, they had demos and maybe a crude review video. And when they had some spare space on the CD or DVD, they’d add a folder with patches.
I remember trying to figure out what slalom meant for so long lol
If you can dodge a wrench, you dodge the pillars while slaloming.
What a memory this unlocked!! The physics of this game made you feel like you were 100% driving a real car. I almost want to play it again now, but honestly I bet that not being able to actually drive as a kid was half of what made it so mesmerizing.
Now it might just be like driving to work :(
I love my emulators and I have to say that whilst the game has obviously aged, there’s still something a little satisfying about throwing the car around in these games.
That said, the map - which looks like it was designed on graph paper - leaves a bit to be desired nowadays. It does get a little boring.
Driv3r really should have been the pinnacle of the series, but it just stands as a testament to why you should never rush your game out. San Andreas was quite possibly the most hotly anticipated game of all time; they were never going to beat that.
Driver San Francisco is the pinnacle in my opinion
I dont really remember much about the first game besides the mission in the post, but i do remember driver 2 being really difficult game.
That one mission where you have to hijack the truck or something like that, and the car that is pursuing you will just kill you 5seconds into the mission if you slowed down for a turn lol
After 50 resets of the mission i just desided that i will not even try to follow the truck if it takes 2/3 possible paths, just reset and hope for easy route and then T-bone the truck hoping to complete the mission in the first 10seconds.
Or the mission that asks you to take out like 3 cars across the map, with a really strict timelimit, and sometimes the car you hit takes 50% damage per hit, sometimes 5%.
I was definitely going insane at some point in the playthrough.
Also ReDriver 2 PC port of driver 2 exists and is fully playable.
It really did have an incredible driving model
How old are ya’ll exactly?
Old enough to DRIVE, KID.
I’m going to tell my mommy on you
She told me to tell you to goto bed.
Old enough to prefer Driver 2 to Driver 1 because it had better graphics.
I get GTA flashbacks. This was definitely boss level.
That was easy. Knocking down pedestrians. Even harder.
Couldn’t believe the intro.
I loved the driver movie as a kid.
Taken directly (sounds, too) from The Driver (1978)
To this day I have not beaten that level.
Was there more to the game than this?
Based tutorial
I cut my teeth on Interstate 76.
Bro, I played this for years not knowing what half the things were and had no goddamn idea there’s more game after this!
