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hakunawazo ,

I get GTA flashbacks. This was definitely boss level.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1f023c4e-e02b-40f9-8aed-446601bce959.jpeg

RagingRobot ,

I remember trying to figure out what slalom meant for so long lol

gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I had no trouble with this as a kid, seeing people always complain about it is wild. I even picked up the game again last year on emulator to try it again and best it first try once I fixed input lag issues

You wanna talk impossible?

The actual last mission of this game on the hard difficulty might as well be RNG for now fucking hard dodging the NPCs that spawn are, as they’re faster than you

Nfamwap ,

Holy fuck, that last level! Dude, you have unlocked some deep seated trauma.

AgentGrimstone ,

Even though I could skip it, I couldn’t let a TUTORIAL beat me.

It beat me.

Mango ,

Bro, I played this for years not knowing what half the things were and had no goddamn idea there’s more game after this!

ego_death ,
@ego_death@lemmy.ml avatar

How old are ya’ll exactly?

Dkarma ,

Old enough to DRIVE, KID.

ego_death ,
@ego_death@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m going to tell my mommy on you

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

She told me to tell you to goto bed.

MJKee9 ,

Old enough to prefer Driver 2 to Driver 1 because it had better graphics.

ace_garp ,
@ace_garp@lemmy.world avatar

When you have rented the game for 24hrs and the tute takes 3 of them.

Croquette ,

I remember renting that game when I was 10 or something. We tried for hours to get through that tutorial without success.

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

What game is this?

Vivendi ,

DRIVER

PS1 game, the OG one, had a fucking impossible driving exam that gave you 0 tutorial

Dkarma ,

When U beat it and started the game tho uk why they made u do it. That shit was intense

Powerbomb ,

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.

Vivendi ,

Idk I was a kid when I played it maybe it wasn’t that impossible

FinalRemix ,

Taken directly (sounds, too) from The Driver (1978)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7crOA00hE

Dathknight ,
@Dathknight@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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)

Schmuppes ,

I can’t remember being able to skip it, maybe they patched that in?

Un4 ,

No patches in those days. Back then when you buy a game it’s in it’s final form.

Schmuppes ,

There absolutely were patches for games back in the late 90’s; you could download them or get them off CDs in the magazines.

Un4 ,

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.

Schmuppes ,

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.

XeroxCool ,

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

StaySquared ,

“patch”

You’re a newblood.

Schmuppes , (edited )

Gtf outta here, I played the game and beat that mission way back then!

Edit: On my Celeron 300 with a Riva TNT!

EherNicht ,

Based tutorial

abfarid ,
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

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.

TheMinions ,

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.

abfarid ,
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

It’s a possibility, if they really wanna play the game. Nowadays we are so spoiled for choice that we would just either switch to another game or pick up the phone.

Dyskolos ,

You make it sound bad. If a game doesn’t entertain me or does annoy me, i move on. Back then there was no “on”. Not many games around, might as well stick with what you have.

abfarid ,
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

I wasn’t making it sound bad. I’m just saying how it is. We wouldn’t tolerate game mechanics like those nowadays. That’s all I’m saying.

Dyskolos ,

oh okay. then i just mis-interpreted. Sorry.

Iapar ,

To this day I have not beaten that level.

dandi8 ,
@dandi8@fedia.io avatar

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:

  1. There's a dedicated button for burnout, which makes it super easy to do the 360
  2. the slalom only counts if you do the pillars on one side of the garage BOTH WAYS
  3. 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.

hushable ,

I managed to pass this as a kid and a friend invited me to his house so I could pass it for him. That was my peak and my life has gone downhill ever since.

Dkarma ,

Mad respect.

MrScottyTay ,

I’m sure the game does tell you. There’s a way for you to watch what a perfect run looks like iirc. Been a while since I’ve played though.

toxicbubble420 ,

never understood why a driving game needed a tutorial in the first place

dunz ,
@dunz@feddit.nu avatar

I had a shitty non FFB wheel. So much easier. The 180 was almost impossible with keyboard

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