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
I remember trying to figure out what slalom meant for so long lol
I just beat this level yesterday!
It becomes easy… Once you know what the tricks are supposed to be, which the game doesn’t tell you at all.
For me, these were the tips I needed:
- There’s a dedicated button for burnout, which makes it super easy to do the 360
- the slalom only counts if you do the pillars on one side of the garage BOTH WAYS
- To do a backwards 180, drive backwards, then push one direction, then halfway through push the other direction.
Supposedly the PSX version also has a video in the options menu which shows you a dev completing the course, with button prompts on screen.
Oh, and there’s a cheat code in-game to skip this level entirely.
I get GTA flashbacks. This was definitely boss level.
Even though I could skip it, I couldn’t let a TUTORIAL beat me.
It beat me.
How old are ya’ll exactly?
Old enough to DRIVE, KID.
My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a “slalom”?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day’s work, bada-bing bada-boom.
People definitely would’ve given up nowadays.
Completely untrue. They would watch some loud obnoxious guy on YouTube teach you how to do it in a clickbait video that’s 10 minutes and 5 seconds long with a sponsor.
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.
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.
