It's nothing new - even back when EA was making their Thunder games people at the time thought they were shit, especially compared to Papyrus' then-new offerings; it wasn't until years later when people saw them for how good they were. Hell, it's not even limited to NASCAR, EA or sports games in general - there's a reason the "people don't like a game until it's _not_ the newest one in the series" attitude is (was?) named the *Zelda Cycle.*
I’ve have had the most fun on NTG:IL and 14/15. Met most of my game friends on those games. It was those series of games I started taking racing games seriously.
If NASCAR 15 still supported online gaming, which it might, idk. I bet a lot of people would dust off their 360 or ps3 and put some laps in. I too have so many good memories racing.. Especially the ones where pit strategy came into play. Conserve to much fuel, you lose, don't conserve enough you lose. You know the deal 😄
I remember 12 year old me would have such a good time playing Inside Line. I would turn off cautions, go to Bristol, and turn the track into a parking lot. The best way to spend an afternoon.
Eutechnyx starting making the games right when I started getting into NASCAR. I had NTG11 for the Wii, which (at least in my experience) really wasn't as buggy as everyone says it was. Then I played Inside Line, 14, and 15 religiously. I know they had flaws, but I'll always love them.
Yeah I played 2011 and inside line on the wii. I liked playing 2011, but the steering for inside line was impossibly sensitive and make it barley playable for me nowadays.
I loved NASCAR 2011 so much the burn out feature was great and the different camera views were cool and the replay on the cautions were IMO was hella great 👍
My favorite eutechnyx game was actually nascar the game 2011 because I loved how easy it was to flip at any track if you caused a big enough pileup, or with superspeedways, you spin out with enough speed that it propelled you upwards.
Your upload made me play Nascar 15 last night, did a long race at Bristol and wow, I'd forgotten how good it can be as you say when the problems don't flare up.
My favorite was either Inside Line or 14' mostly cause online racing with my buds and all our cars. My buddy Austin made snd raced a Snuggle Softener car and I ran all sorts of schemes
Great point on having multi groove racing with this series. Between that and the paint booth, ill take these over the heat series. There will probably never be another nascar 03-06 but these weren't bad at all.
ive played nr2003, nascar 2011, nascar 15, and heat 4 & 5. I love all of them. Honestly, the only complaint I have about Heat thats not about other players is that it doesnt have a real paint booth like NASCAR 15 or multiple setups you can save
There are two target audience segments. The first is the casual gamer that likes racing and is waiting for the next release of the EA, Eutechnyx, and Heat game series. The second is the serious gamer that is looking for realism and more a simulator feeling. I played NASCAR Racing 3 on PC as my first racing game and had a blast. I went to NASCAR 08 (EA), and then the Eutechnyx series and had fun there, but it was not really what I was looking for. I ended up getting iRacing on PC Christmas of 2014 and never looked at console racing games or any other racing game since. It is more expensive and will not appeal to someone who wants to pickup race, so people on there are more serious (past the rookie and Class D series).
My favorite series due to nostalgia. I unfortunately wasn't really able to play the EA series games, but the Eutechnyx series was something I wish to go back to. I'm very aware of its flaws and issues, but to me, I think that's what made the many memories I have with my brother and cousin. Nascar 14 and Inside Line especially were great games to me and would do almost anything to somehow play those games again because of how fun they were. Besides online/glitches, single player content was pretty fun to me. But no matter what others think, I feel that we can all agree that this was better than the current Heat series.
I remember getting this game in 2013. It was the first NASCAR game I ever had. Did I do career mode? No, instead me and my brother went into quick race, drove the opposite way, and smashed everybody. I also remember refusing to slow down, and wall-riding all the time. The only race I ever won was at Martinsville, and it was only like 10 laps and I smash through everyone to the front lol.
I loved inside line and 13. I spent hours setting up setups i got off the internet. Then spent hours late at night racing with some good players. We would have great racing for hours.
when it was not glitchy and AI was not bad, Eutechnyx was great. The reason people remember it so fondly is because they haven't played it as much right now so they are not being bombarded with these two issues. Back when any game is "new" it is being played a lot so people are going to notice all of these glitches and it will make it not fun for them. Hopping back into the game years later for a fun lighthearted series will not reveal those deep issues again
I will always love the Eutechnyx series flaws and all. I made so many friends during that time and helped me get through some tough times in my life. I don't really keep in touch with any of them anymore as we all moved on in our lives but that's ok I'll always have the memories
I mean, there is a reason I'm working on my 6th season on NASCAR 15. The way the cars drove were very rewarding. The way you drove, determined how the car lasted during a run. I ran 100% length races, multiple times at Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas and Britol. Talladega is to much work. 50 laps into the 188 lap race, my eyes hurt and I was exhausted. Constantly looking on the mirror and throwing blocks, sometimes to 3 different rows of aggressive racers..lol But, Atlanta, if you make tire and fuel X1, on a 100% difficulty and length, you are in for a battle. Twice, I was in second, gaining on first by .5 secs a run on a leader with a major lead. Passing them on the last run with 30 or so laps to go. Working hard, getting the car right and making sure I got the most out of the car, every lap, while not heating the tires up and ruining the handling, etc.. I'm about to bust the 360 out and aim for my tenth title in a row and that 200+ win mark. The game will let you know of milestones you hit and that makes it even better. It told me I tied Jimmie Johnson for most consecutive cups, and I cant wait to hear what it says when I get six, tie the most for the 7th, and then 8th. I've kept track of all my wins, for each season and career. As you can tell by this long ass comment, I am a huge fan. I've played almost ever console NASCAR game and I only wish it had the in-depth career mode like NASCAR Thunder 2003. EA sports, it's in the game..lol couldn't help myself with the ending there. 😄 Take care everyone.
I remember I used to watch my bigger brother play Nascar: Inside Line on our wii. I loved to watch him drive backwards into the pack of cars at Daytona or something. I kept begging him to do it because it was funny.
I think a lot of people liked it cause it was their childhood. My personal favorite was NASCAR '14/'15 cause I played it so much as a little kid. It had so much, like custom paint schemes, an actual point system for online leagues, online racing, and the consistent bugs at certain tracks. Like the Pocono barrel glitch which was fun to play around with all the time. I also liked the Career mode.
Wanna do something for shits and giggles on Inside Line? Run Bristol without cautions and try to wreck the AI, you’ll easily get either a 42 car road block or cars continuing to crash into each other.
During ETX's reign, you also had NASCAR in GT5 and GT6 (the latter allowing Gen 5 vs Gen 6 races) and NASCAR Unleashed, an attempt to be another NASCAR Rumble. Perhaps NASCAR in GT (and Forza) can be a topic for another video?
I think the reason we love the Eutechnyx games so much nowadays is of course because the Heat series is the stuff of Satan’s Nightmares. Obviously, unlike Eutechnyx, Monster added stuff every year to Heat and improved it slowly. But Eutechnyx didn’t change their formula because we thought the dumb AI were funny, the glitches were weird and random, the paint booth was incredible, and the multi-groove racing was king. We liked the game, flaws and all. So they stuck to copy-paste after Inside Line, and we for the most part didn’t mind. But Heat started as a flaming turd. Now after 5 years it is still just a turd. Heat 2 and 3 improved the game by adding the Xfinity and Trucks and later the Dirt series. Heat 4 expanded on Career mode and improved the AI drastically. But the games are still shit. For all it’s improvements it’s still based off the same game from 2002. And Heat 5 literally added nothing. These games are copy-paste, but followed by adding a fancy WordArt outline. They don’t add the things we truly want, like a paint booth, multi-groove racing, and a fun experience. Look to the F1 games. After Codemasters took over from Liverpool Studios, they made a crap game, F1 09. This is the equivalent to NASCAR 2011. From there, they made some good games, F1 2010, 11, and 12, like Inside Line. Then we saw a stagnation and downward slump from 13 through 14 to F1 2015, the equivalent for the NASCAR games of the same years. Unlike Heat, who for all their talk still make the same game every year, by 2016 Codemasters got their act together. They made great games since, including expanded career mode in 2017, driver transfers and F2 in 2019, and the ability to make your own team and sign drivers in 2020. Meanwhile, for 2020, Heat added a time trial. Fuck Monster Games, go Eutechnyx. We want good racing back.
NASCAR: The Inside Line was an absolute blast to play. It's a shame they had to stop making them. The biggest flaw was that that it was virtually impossible to get an opponent to DNF...and Kansas. Good lord, Kansas AI was a mess.
I play NASCAR 15 victory Edition all the time and one glitch I get is that sometimes a wreck happens and the cars that crash are still crashed on the track. Immediate caution which is annoying
I... Get ready for a long comment. I knew this would be the Eutechnyx games just from the title and thumbnail. Every one of their games were great. My brother and I would run our own season, every Sunday we would do a 50% length race at the day's track, using our own custom cars and made up driver names. We would stay up late playing races all night until our parents basically had to come shut off the console. We laughed at the jumps at Sonoma, we raged when there would be a late caution or we raced dirty. We smiled and had good close races to the line. Their games were definitely my favorite NASCAR games I have ever played for so many reasons. The memories. The graphics. The physics. The tuning. The customization. Yeah, NASCAR Heat players, you could build your own paint scheme to be whatever you wanted. We even made custom decals to make the cup cars have stickers like Xfinity cars - which was the only downside to those games imo, no lower series. When I heard some people that were high up at Eutechnyx made 704 Games and were taking over the games, I was stoked, but then was sadly disappointed by them throwing out literally everything Eu had worked toward and started from scratch. Inside Line and NASCAR '15 were definitely the best games to come out of there. I'm sad they're gone, but I'm also still hopeful each year that 704 will make a great improvement on the last one, even though it seems all they can do is reskin cars each year. But yeah, my thoughts? Perfect.
I enjoyed nascar 14 for the main purpose of it focusing on the cup series and the paint booth I actually made a Mtn Dew paint scheme that looked like the actual design for the cans.
I played 2011 and it was fun but online was really a shit storm but funny at times. I love the detail in NASCAR 15 you can look left right and down and use the mirror in the car like your really inside the car also I love when your engine overheats water spews out of the overflow on to the windshield like a geyser wich really impressed me. I often spend hours playing in the paint booth I love it but it could be better. I think a new game should have some features like Grand Turrismo were you can hire other drivers and have them drive for a team you own and you can play as a crew chief type role. I would also like to see a race gear shop like you can purchase helmets gloves suits and shoes when you unlock helmets say you buy Austin Dillions Maverick Top Gun helmet you run into Dillion in a cut scene and he gives you the Top Gun helmet you can wear it in any race or you can place into your helmet collection when not using it.
Thats how it is. People complained a lot about Eutechnyx when they were making games and now Nascar Heat as well. People will look more fondly back at the heat series after it is gone. Don't think that Eutechnyx was much better than Heat because I expect a video several years later remembering fondly back to Heat 4 and maybe even 3 and 5
Nascar Heat games can't even let you change left sides only Eutechynx and EA can automatically gets a 5/10 for that. 5 games in and you still can't that's stupid.
The last NASCAR game that I played that I really enjoyed was 2003 on the gamecube. EA started getting way to technical on the car setups (which is fine for hardcore enthusiasts, not so good for those who aren't car engineers). Imagine if iRacing could be scaled down for console.
So, what I'm hearing, is that the only reason that people like the 11-15 games better is because they had a paint booth? And not the actual racing experience?
@@sleepdeep305 The physics were also a helluva lot better. You could actually feel the car getting loose, and you had to control the throttle more. In the Heat games tho, you just hold it wide open, maybe get off the gas a little, but its nowhere near the feeling you get from the Eutechnyx games. Also, the graphics in the Eu games actually looked more realistic. In the heat games, they look like a the devs just made a huge lego set for the tracks and threw some gloss on it to try and make it look realistic. So yeah, the Eutechnyx games were just all-around better.
NTG 2011 was and is my favorite nascar game ever. maybe its because I'm biased and remember it through the lens of a younger me, but I just have so many fond memories with it. the racing was fun, the wrecks were awesome (I always used to do backwards big ones and my mom would tell me to play the game correctly lol) and it was just a great experience overall for me. i had it on the xbox 360 and the wii, played them both to death
I still have a soft spot for '15 and play it every now and again. Legitimately enjoy it quite a bit, even though all the Eutechnyx games had their problems - I also remember seeing the '11 trailer and being incredibly excited and then let down months later lol
I liked the ETXD games to be honest. The one thing that I remember was somehow starting 43rd in the All-Star Race, which meant I could get a giant run on everyone. That being said I loved whipping out a special paint scheme for that, or the 500, or just because. Yes it had glitches and bugs, but the career mode was actually very, very in depth and fun, talking bout NASCAR 15 here. Plus it had Brad's Miller Lite scheme, so... Also, I never had an issue with the multi groove racing, I had a fantastically good high line Atlanta/Charlotte/cookie cutter setup that if I hooked it up right, could run the high line all day and be majorly fast
I only had a Wii. When NASCAR 2011 came out, I was incensed that the ‘custom car’ feature was just picking a preset paint job, while the Xbox and PlayStation games got the paint booth. Even the EA games for the GameCube had a more robust custom car mode than 2011 did. Did it stay this way on the Wii version of Inside Line?
A part of me hopes that they never fix the “screen to screen” issue in online NASCAR modes. Something is just so hilarious about seeing someone veer off to the left at darlington only for their car to just yeet itself back into existence.
A truly weird and interesting Nascar video game was Nascar Rumble on the ps1. A power up based circuit racing game with crazy physics, bad jokes, and nascar trucks, cars, and old school superbirds. Look up some gameplay if youre bored.
The paint booth was the best. Everyone loves it. That’s all the Heat series had to do to be a phenomenal game. I personally play NASCAR 06. That’s the best in my mind.
I own every console nascar game ever made and I really enjoy nascar Inside Line, the driver lineup and dlc paint jobs were awesome. I only wish they had at least included the nationwide series roster. I still play it every once in a while
I grew up with Nascar thunder 2002 and Nascar 07 on ps2. I loved 07. I eventually got Nascar 15 for Xbox 360, and it was an alright game. If the AI was smart, and there wasn't as many glitches, it could have been one hella good Nascar game.
The inside line at the glen on the wii would often crash the console. If you got stuck on the barrier when entering the pit road it would throw a caution and would never stop loading
My cousin used to have an xbox 360 and we used to play either Nascar 2011 the game or Nascar inside line ( Most likely nascar 2011). We would only play the game because my cousin found out that if you turn cautions off, and run at bristol, and if you just send it into the first corner and gain like 15-20 spots and wreck half the field, it would create a road block, and it was the funniest shit to a 7 year old and a 10 year old at the time. It was amazing. The plate racing was amazing, although we never got to do it cause we always did bristol or just fucked around. Either way it was amazing. The dumb AI was the only reason we liked it. I wish there was a way that you could make the ai the same today as it was back then. The racing was awesome and it was overall fun. I also had inside line for the Wii and I did a 500 lap race at martinsville, I was leading the race on the last lap when I was dumped by jimmy johnson on the last lap and I finished 38th, driving in reverse. Those were the good ole days. Edit: it might've been Nascar 15. They all look similar honestly. I remember those three all. Edit two: I'm watching drive through's video and now that I see the trivia I think that it was nascar 15 that my cousin had.
NASCAR Inside Line is my favorite non arcadiy NASCAR game, I love NASCAR Unleashed (which is also by activision) for its silliness. I also love the "redo" button in Inside Line and the paint booth. I do not have the console for the Heat series...but watching game play videos... eehh...I would still play 'em...it is the game of the greatest sport after all
What do you think of going waaaay back in time and talking about the NASCAR sims from Papyrus? I had NASCAR Racing 2 (along with CART Racing before it, and Grand Prix Legends some time after) and put in a lot of seat time on that one. It might not have been as flashy as the EA or Eutechnyx games, but Papyrus had a well-deserved reputation for realistic physics in their driving sims. BTW, most of the team from Papyrus went on to design iRacing.
As a teenager I LOVED NTG 2011 and NTG Inside Line! The graphics were so damn good and I actually kinda liked the damage model. I never really played career mode, just did season mode with Jeff Gordon at 100% race length on the hardest difficulty. AI was way too easy though.
I loved the Eutechnyx series. I will admit it had issues. But, for me, I only played career mode on these games. I didnt league race or play online, unlike now. The career mode did lack, but what it lacked it was made up in the gameplay. Cars in the Eutechnyx engine had weight to them. They drove really well and the fact different racing lines were viable made for great replayability. The AI, although lacking, were incredible to race against; it didnt matter what track you were at either. They raced good anywhere. I have alot of good memories from these games. If you asked me, the perfect NASCAR game would a fusion of Thunder 2004's and CftC 2005's Career mode and the Eutechnyx handling model and, of course, the current gen cars. Change my mind on that!
See, at least with the Eutechnyx games, Xbox and PS got patches. I had NTG2011 on freaking WII and once that game hit the shelves that was it. Glitch city. Despite that, it'll still be one of my favorites because that was the first Nascar game I ever had (and the first on the Wii, not looking at you Nascar Cart you Mario Kart ripoff). I remember seeing the trailer and the Wii logo and almost screaming
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What did you think of the Eutechnyx NASCAR game series?
Using Jeff Gordon and The Rainbow Warriors All Day
Inside Line was far and away the best game they produced. Sure it had its problems but it was the most solid we’ve seen in the last 12 or so years
Don’t look at them through rose tinted glasses. The 704 games are much worse but these weren’t far behind.
Better than Heat...
So which one is the best if you had to pick?
Imagine if what we saw in Eutechnyx game trailers was the actual game
Pretty sure this is the case with every video game.
Who do you think will win the championship next year carnation!
Their trailers was 3D animations while the game was other stuff
@@BANGITSME87 yes. But this was worse by miles.
Especially 2011 and inside line
For real, if they can create the racing and view in the trailers why can't they transfer that to gameplay?
Nascar gamers during Eutechnyx: "These games suck"
Nascar gamers after Eutechnyx: "I guess they didn't suck that bad"
We didn’t have it good. We had better
A metaphor for NASCAR fans in general. Everyone hated the 2018 package until it was gone.
Maybe that was what the heat series was aiming for
@@StarTheKid16 yup I quit nascar in 2019 but it came back in 2020 and I got interested again. I quit in 2019 bc the racing was so boring.
It's nothing new - even back when EA was making their Thunder games people at the time thought they were shit, especially compared to Papyrus' then-new offerings; it wasn't until years later when people saw them for how good they were.
Hell, it's not even limited to NASCAR, EA or sports games in general - there's a reason the "people don't like a game until it's _not_ the newest one in the series" attitude is (was?) named the *Zelda Cycle.*
Those wrecks in Inside Line were epically insane
Same I grew up with ntgil and I loved every bit of it I had it for the Wii and xbx 360a
Yeah inside line was the best for me
inside line was god with its crashes, only complaint was that if you barely touched the wall the entire side of your car was destroyed
Nascar racing 2003 season for PC :::: HOLD MY BEER!
People back then: *Complained about Eutechnyx*
People now: *Complain more about Heat*
*Damn... we didn’t know how good we had it back then....*
Damn it’s like the exact same thing for the COT lmao
Facts 💯 I liked the eutechnix games
I enjoy playing any NASCAR Game
Even the ones that suck
Oh hi Denny
No complain here I got two NASCAR games from ETX series and 1 heat game the ETX is better.
Inside Line's soundtrack is criminally underrated
Tell me about it
@@MJY5drives look it up on TH-cam and listen for yourself
FACTS
So true
Uncle Kracker's "My Hometown" is such a banger
Random Guy: “How tough are ya?”
Me: “How tough am I? I played NASCAR The Game Inside Line!”
Random Guy: “Ha, yeah so?”
Me: “On the WII....”
Me as a 6-7 year old
I actually remember it being really fun, I was a child tho
Played a ton on NASCAR 15’ on PS3 tho
That actually me tho
I played both 2011 and Inside Line on the Wii
Oh yeah, I had both and loved them on the WII. I just find it hilarious that Inside Line on the WII has better physics than Heat 5 does.
@@lanesanders1530 The only issue with the wii version was the ai running the same line that they started or restarted in.
Iceberg - Most underrated game
Iceberg - I don't see what's so special about this game
Designer looking at Eutechnyx: *We got the Paint Booth...*
Designers looking at Heat: *No.*
*Eutechnyx >>>>> Heat*
Every day of the week
Every week of the month
Every month of the year
Every year of the Decade
Every decade of the century
Compared to the Heat series, this was actually a good series.
Better looking than the Heat series
Dude playing with hot wheel is good compared to heat
Heat actually isn't that bad. It's a perfectly serviceable NASCAR game. And this is coming from someone who played all the EA Nascar games.
I prefer them compared to the new ones
@@Nick-cv5rm I have NASCAR Heat 4 (2019) on my pc.
I’ve have had the most fun on NTG:IL and 14/15. Met most of my game friends on those games. It was those series of games I started taking racing games seriously.
If NASCAR 15 still supported online gaming, which it might, idk. I bet a lot of people would dust off their 360 or ps3 and put some laps in.
I too have so many good memories racing..
Especially the ones where pit strategy came into play. Conserve to much fuel, you lose, don't conserve enough you lose. You know the deal 😄
The trailer is hilarious, there's no way a car could flip like that at Dover lmao
*joey logano wants to know your location*
@@pandaexpress7326 Lol I completely forgot about that
Brandon Aguilar I also forgot about that lol
Yeah Sliced Bread experienced a bad physics model at Dover, once.
Clint bowyer is wonder too
I remember 12 year old me would have such a good time playing Inside Line. I would turn off cautions, go to Bristol, and turn the track into a parking lot. The best way to spend an afternoon.
NASCAR the game inside line on the wii was my childhood
Same bro
I did too. I believe that’s the last NASCAR I’ve ever played.
Same. I probably sunk at least 100 hours into that game
Nascar 2000-09
Eutechnyx starting making the games right when I started getting into NASCAR. I had NTG11 for the Wii, which (at least in my experience) really wasn't as buggy as everyone says it was. Then I played Inside Line, 14, and 15 religiously. I know they had flaws, but I'll always love them.
I still play ‘14 to this day. And I’m coming from NASCAR ‘98 on Nintendo 64
Same here plus I forgot I still got inside line to this day.
7:47 nobody gonna talk about this?
I actually have NASCAR 2011 on the Wii, for the controller I used the Mario Kart Wii steering wheel controller.
I did too! The graphics were so awful
@@mattshaggy5046 2011 was okay. Inside Line on the Wii was AWFUL.
Yeah I played 2011 and inside line on the wii. I liked playing 2011, but the steering for inside line was impossibly sensitive and make it barley playable for me nowadays.
@@NascarRacingFan5 I remember playing NASCAR 2008 on PlayStation 2 in 2014.
same
7:23 let's not forget who captured that glorious moment lol
or who called that glorious moment
I loved NASCAR 2011 so much the burn out feature was great and the different camera views were cool and the replay on the cautions were IMO was hella great 👍
My favorite eutechnyx game was actually nascar the game 2011 because I loved how easy it was to flip at any track if you caused a big enough pileup, or with superspeedways, you spin out with enough speed that it propelled you upwards.
The blowers with the ai make me happy
I always remember loving these games, probably just nostalgia
V E R S T H A P P E N I N G
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Why is there an F1 fan on a NASCAR video? I thought I was the only F1 fan that does this.
@lol shit I was just surprised to see another F1 fan on a NASCAR video.
Your upload made me play Nascar 15 last night, did a long race at Bristol and wow, I'd forgotten how good it can be as you say when the problems don't flare up.
I remembered playing 2011 and inside line as a child
Me remember playing NASCAR 2008 on PlayStation 2 in 2014.
My favorite was either Inside Line or 14' mostly cause online racing with my buds and all our cars. My buddy Austin made snd raced a Snuggle Softener car and I ran all sorts of schemes
Do you can make a video talking about what you expect from Motorsport.com Games taking over NASCAR games from 2021?
Great point on having multi groove racing with this series. Between that and the paint booth, ill take these over the heat series. There will probably never be another nascar 03-06 but these weren't bad at all.
ive played nr2003, nascar 2011, nascar 15, and heat 4 & 5. I love all of them. Honestly, the only complaint I have about Heat thats not about other players is that it doesnt have a real paint booth like NASCAR 15 or multiple setups you can save
Iceberg, you make me feel old brotha, I was 21 when NASCAR: the game came out
Same here lol
There are two target audience segments. The first is the casual gamer that likes racing and is waiting for the next release of the EA, Eutechnyx, and Heat game series. The second is the serious gamer that is looking for realism and more a simulator feeling. I played NASCAR Racing 3 on PC as my first racing game and had a blast. I went to NASCAR 08 (EA), and then the Eutechnyx series and had fun there, but it was not really what I was looking for. I ended up getting iRacing on PC Christmas of 2014 and never looked at console racing games or any other racing game since. It is more expensive and will not appeal to someone who wants to pickup race, so people on there are more serious (past the rookie and Class D series).
Inside Line was and is the one of the few NASCAR games I’ve ever played with this one being on a regular
Also underrated soundtrack
Thought this was going to be another run of the mill review, this was quite enjoyable to watch
Dirty to Daytona was my absolute favorite. The soundtrack and the first real journey from dirt tracks to the Winston cup. Loved it
i love how in the trailer they had PRN announcing the race lmao
NASCAR 2011 was one of my favorite for the reason I had a lot of options to customize cars and I went all out with it.
My favorite series due to nostalgia. I unfortunately wasn't really able to play the EA series games, but the Eutechnyx series was something I wish to go back to. I'm very aware of its flaws and issues, but to me, I think that's what made the many memories I have with my brother and cousin. Nascar 14 and Inside Line especially were great games to me and would do almost anything to somehow play those games again because of how fun they were. Besides online/glitches, single player content was pretty fun to me. But no matter what others think, I feel that we can all agree that this was better than the current Heat series.
I remember getting this game in 2013. It was the first NASCAR game I ever had. Did I do career mode? No, instead me and my brother went into quick race, drove the opposite way, and smashed everybody. I also remember refusing to slow down, and wall-riding all the time. The only race I ever won was at Martinsville, and it was only like 10 laps and I smash through everyone to the front lol.
I loved inside line and 13. I spent hours setting up setups i got off the internet. Then spent hours late at night racing with some good players. We would have great racing for hours.
The NASCAR 2012 The Inside Line Intro was very NOSTALGIC.
when it was not glitchy and AI was not bad, Eutechnyx was great. The reason people remember it so fondly is because they haven't played it as much right now so they are not being bombarded with these two issues. Back when any game is "new" it is being played a lot so people are going to notice all of these glitches and it will make it not fun for them. Hopping back into the game years later for a fun lighthearted series will not reveal those deep issues again
I will always love the Eutechnyx series flaws and all. I made so many friends during that time and helped me get through some tough times in my life. I don't really keep in touch with any of them anymore as we all moved on in our lives but that's ok I'll always have the memories
We didn't appreciate what we had while we had it 😔
NASCAR 2011 was one of the main games I played while growing up, I miss this game
I mean, there is a reason I'm working on my 6th season on NASCAR 15.
The way the cars drove were very rewarding. The way you drove, determined how the car lasted during a run. I ran 100% length races, multiple times at Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas and Britol. Talladega is to much work. 50 laps into the 188 lap race, my eyes hurt and I was exhausted. Constantly looking on the mirror and throwing blocks, sometimes to 3 different rows of aggressive racers..lol
But, Atlanta, if you make tire and fuel X1, on a 100% difficulty and length, you are in for a battle. Twice, I was in second, gaining on first by .5 secs a run on a leader with a major lead. Passing them on the last run with 30 or so laps to go. Working hard, getting the car right and making sure I got the most out of the car, every lap, while not heating the tires up and ruining the handling, etc..
I'm about to bust the 360 out and aim for my tenth title in a row and that 200+ win mark. The game will let you know of milestones you hit and that makes it even better. It told me I tied Jimmie Johnson for most consecutive cups, and I cant wait to hear what it says when I get six, tie the most for the 7th, and then 8th.
I've kept track of all my wins, for each season and career. As you can tell by this long ass comment, I am a huge fan. I've played almost ever console NASCAR game and I only wish it had the in-depth career mode like NASCAR Thunder 2003. EA sports, it's in the game..lol couldn't help myself with the ending there. 😄
Take care everyone.
I’ve been playing a lot of NASCAR ‘13 lately. Found some more golden bugs too. Cars I paint show up on the track without a body on them every time 😂
Have you ever played NASCAR the Game: Inside Line Wii? That's the definition of... what?
Homestead in my opinion is the best track in nascar 14 your side-by-side for the entire race and it's so much fun
I remember I used to watch my bigger brother play Nascar: Inside Line on our wii. I loved to watch him drive backwards into the pack of cars at Daytona or something. I kept begging him to do it because it was funny.
I think a lot of people liked it cause it was their childhood. My personal favorite was NASCAR '14/'15 cause I played it so much as a little kid. It had so much, like custom paint schemes, an actual point system for online leagues, online racing, and the consistent bugs at certain tracks. Like the Pocono barrel glitch which was fun to play around with all the time. I also liked the Career mode.
Wanna do something for shits and giggles on Inside Line? Run Bristol without cautions and try to wreck the AI, you’ll easily get either a 42 car road block or cars continuing to crash into each other.
During ETX's reign, you also had NASCAR in GT5 and GT6 (the latter allowing Gen 5 vs Gen 6 races) and NASCAR Unleashed, an attempt to be another NASCAR Rumble.
Perhaps NASCAR in GT (and Forza) can be a topic for another video?
I think the reason we love the Eutechnyx games so much nowadays is of course because the Heat series is the stuff of Satan’s Nightmares.
Obviously, unlike Eutechnyx, Monster added stuff every year to Heat and improved it slowly. But Eutechnyx didn’t change their formula because we thought the dumb AI were funny, the glitches were weird and random, the paint booth was incredible, and the multi-groove racing was king. We liked the game, flaws and all. So they stuck to copy-paste after Inside Line, and we for the most part didn’t mind.
But Heat started as a flaming turd. Now after 5 years it is still just a turd. Heat 2 and 3 improved the game by adding the Xfinity and Trucks and later the Dirt series. Heat 4 expanded on Career mode and improved the AI drastically. But the games are still shit. For all it’s improvements it’s still based off the same game from 2002. And Heat 5 literally added nothing. These games are copy-paste, but followed by adding a fancy WordArt outline. They don’t add the things we truly want, like a paint booth, multi-groove racing, and a fun experience.
Look to the F1 games. After Codemasters took over from Liverpool Studios, they made a crap game, F1 09. This is the equivalent to NASCAR 2011. From there, they made some good games, F1 2010, 11, and 12, like Inside Line. Then we saw a stagnation and downward slump from 13 through 14 to F1 2015, the equivalent for the NASCAR games of the same years. Unlike Heat, who for all their talk still make the same game every year, by 2016 Codemasters got their act together. They made great games since, including expanded career mode in 2017, driver transfers and F2 in 2019, and the ability to make your own team and sign drivers in 2020. Meanwhile, for 2020, Heat added a time trial.
Fuck Monster Games, go Eutechnyx. We want good racing back.
NASCAR: The Inside Line was an absolute blast to play. It's a shame they had to stop making them.
The biggest flaw was that that it was virtually impossible to get an opponent to DNF...and Kansas. Good lord, Kansas AI was a mess.
I play NASCAR 15 victory Edition all the time and one glitch I get is that sometimes a wreck happens and the cars that crash are still crashed on the track. Immediate caution which is annoying
I want to be able to save multiple custom cars at a time, that would be cool
That trailer look so good though with the little details of the movements
I love the blow over physics from the 2011 game and the damage physics as well
NASCAR '15 also has Jeff Gordon on the original cover.
I... Get ready for a long comment.
I knew this would be the Eutechnyx games just from the title and thumbnail.
Every one of their games were great.
My brother and I would run our own season, every Sunday we would do a 50% length race at the day's track, using our own custom cars and made up driver names.
We would stay up late playing races all night until our parents basically had to come shut off the console.
We laughed at the jumps at Sonoma, we raged when there would be a late caution or we raced dirty. We smiled and had good close races to the line.
Their games were definitely my favorite NASCAR games I have ever played for so many reasons. The memories. The graphics. The physics. The tuning. The customization. Yeah, NASCAR Heat players, you could build your own paint scheme to be whatever you wanted. We even made custom decals to make the cup cars have stickers like Xfinity cars - which was the only downside to those games imo, no lower series.
When I heard some people that were high up at Eutechnyx made 704 Games and were taking over the games, I was stoked, but then was sadly disappointed by them throwing out literally everything Eu had worked toward and started from scratch. Inside Line and NASCAR '15 were definitely the best games to come out of there.
I'm sad they're gone, but I'm also still hopeful each year that 704 will make a great improvement on the last one, even though it seems all they can do is reskin cars each year.
But yeah, my thoughts? Perfect.
I enjoyed nascar 14 for the main purpose of it focusing on the cup series and the paint booth I actually made a Mtn Dew paint scheme that looked like the actual design for the cans.
I played 2011 and it was fun but online was really a shit storm but funny at times. I love the detail in NASCAR 15 you can look left right and down and use the mirror in the car like your really inside the car also I love when your engine overheats water spews out of the overflow on to the windshield like a geyser wich really impressed me. I often spend hours playing in the paint booth I love it but it could be better. I think a new game should have some features like Grand Turrismo were you can hire other drivers and have them drive for a team you own and you can play as a crew chief type role. I would also like to see a race gear shop like you can purchase helmets gloves suits and shoes when you unlock helmets say you buy Austin Dillions Maverick Top Gun helmet you run into Dillion in a cut scene and he gives you the Top Gun helmet you can wear it in any race or you can place into your helmet collection when not using it.
My favorite was inside line simply because it was the only good Eutechnyx game with the Gen 5 cars and I loved the Gen 5 cars
My favorite Euteneix games were inside Line NASCAR 14and 15
Nascar 2011 the game will always be my favorite Nascar game.
Mine is NASCAR Heat 4
704 is improving though but for my favourite in the Eirechnyx series is easily NASCAR 14
Thats how it is. People complained a lot about Eutechnyx when they were making games and now Nascar Heat as well. People will look more fondly back at the heat series after it is gone. Don't think that Eutechnyx was much better than Heat because I expect a video several years later remembering fondly back to Heat 4 and maybe even 3 and 5
Nascar Heat games can't even let you change left sides only Eutechynx and EA can automatically gets a 5/10 for that. 5 games in and you still can't that's stupid.
@@alexthesniper1952 remember when people used to complain about the AI in Eutechnyx? 5 years in and they couldn't even fix it. thats stupid
@@rlakhani4109 5 years in and you can't change left side tires that's even more stupid.
@@alexthesniper1952 well the terrible AI is more game breaking
It was amazing. Inside the line created some of the best memories
The last NASCAR game that I played that I really enjoyed was 2003 on the gamecube. EA started getting way to technical on the car setups (which is fine for hardcore enthusiasts, not so good for those who aren't car engineers). Imagine if iRacing could be scaled down for console.
Ai from Heat 5 + Physics, Graphics from Inside Line =
GREATEST GAME EVER!
dont forget the custom paint booth from '15
So, what I'm hearing, is that the only reason that people like the 11-15 games better is because they had a paint booth? And not the actual racing experience?
@@sleepdeep305 The physics were also a helluva lot better. You could actually feel the car getting loose, and you had to control the throttle more. In the Heat games tho, you just hold it wide open, maybe get off the gas a little, but its nowhere near the feeling you get from the Eutechnyx games. Also, the graphics in the Eu games actually looked more realistic. In the heat games, they look like a the devs just made a huge lego set for the tracks and threw some gloss on it to try and make it look realistic. So yeah, the Eutechnyx games were just all-around better.
Bridges by transparent when you start up inside line was the best part
Nascar 14 would always glitch on me when I played it. Never had problems with Nascar 15 or the others.
Nascar inside line. Still play it all the time. Auto club, Sonoma and Atlanta are the 3 best tracks with Bristol coming in a close 4th
Inside Line will forever be one of my favorite games just cause of how much I played it when I was younger. Not to mention it had a killer soundtrack.
Nascar '14 was my jam in particular. Can't even begin to quantify the hours spent racing in it online. Just a plain damn fun game to drive in
I fondly remember playing '11 because how great the graphics were and the paint schemes were. The glitches were hilarious as well
NTG 2011 was and is my favorite nascar game ever. maybe its because I'm biased and remember it through the lens of a younger me, but I just have so many fond memories with it. the racing was fun, the wrecks were awesome (I always used to do backwards big ones and my mom would tell me to play the game correctly lol) and it was just a great experience overall for me. i had it on the xbox 360 and the wii, played them both to death
Inside Line is my favorite console NASCAR game. So much nostalgia and so much fun.
I still have a soft spot for '15 and play it every now and again. Legitimately enjoy it quite a bit, even though all the Eutechnyx games had their problems - I also remember seeing the '11 trailer and being incredibly excited and then let down months later lol
I liked the ETXD games to be honest. The one thing that I remember was somehow starting 43rd in the All-Star Race, which meant I could get a giant run on everyone. That being said I loved whipping out a special paint scheme for that, or the 500, or just because. Yes it had glitches and bugs, but the career mode was actually very, very in depth and fun, talking bout NASCAR 15 here.
Plus it had Brad's Miller Lite scheme, so...
Also, I never had an issue with the multi groove racing, I had a fantastically good high line Atlanta/Charlotte/cookie cutter setup that if I hooked it up right, could run the high line all day and be majorly fast
I only had a Wii. When NASCAR 2011 came out, I was incensed that the ‘custom car’ feature was just picking a preset paint job, while the Xbox and PlayStation games got the paint booth. Even the EA games for the GameCube had a more robust custom car mode than 2011 did. Did it stay this way on the Wii version of Inside Line?
there are so many things that these games got right it's impressive how 704 just never took notes of it
NASCAR 2011 playing with my dad and learning how to play racing games and NASCAR 15 because of memories
A part of me hopes that they never fix the “screen to screen” issue in online NASCAR modes. Something is just so hilarious about seeing someone veer off to the left at darlington only for their car to just yeet itself back into existence.
A truly weird and interesting Nascar video game was Nascar Rumble on the ps1. A power up based circuit racing game with crazy physics, bad jokes, and nascar trucks, cars, and old school superbirds. Look up some gameplay if youre bored.
The paint booth was the best. Everyone loves it. That’s all the Heat series had to do to be a phenomenal game. I personally play NASCAR 06. That’s the best in my mind.
I own every console nascar game ever made and I really enjoy nascar Inside Line, the driver lineup and dlc paint jobs were awesome. I only wish they had at least included the nationwide series roster. I still play it every once in a while
Wow do I feel old fondly thinking of Dirt to Daytona, Nascar Thunder 2003 or the N64 game with Dale's number 3.
I grew up with Nascar thunder 2002 and Nascar 07 on ps2. I loved 07. I eventually got Nascar 15 for Xbox 360, and it was an alright game. If the AI was smart, and there wasn't as many glitches, it could have been one hella good Nascar game.
NASCAR 2008 in PlayStation 2 was good. Started playing this game in 2014. But on 26/5/2020 got the NASCAR Heat 4 on my pc. ;)
I was 9 when 2011 came out and i remember how great it looked
The inside line at the glen on the wii would often crash the console. If you got stuck on the barrier when entering the pit road it would throw a caution and would never stop loading
My cousin used to have an xbox 360 and we used to play either Nascar 2011 the game or Nascar inside line ( Most likely nascar 2011). We would only play the game because my cousin found out that if you turn cautions off, and run at bristol, and if you just send it into the first corner and gain like 15-20 spots and wreck half the field, it would create a road block, and it was the funniest shit to a 7 year old and a 10 year old at the time. It was amazing. The plate racing was amazing, although we never got to do it cause we always did bristol or just fucked around. Either way it was amazing. The dumb AI was the only reason we liked it. I wish there was a way that you could make the ai the same today as it was back then. The racing was awesome and it was overall fun. I also had inside line for the Wii and I did a 500 lap race at martinsville, I was leading the race on the last lap when I was dumped by jimmy johnson on the last lap and I finished 38th, driving in reverse. Those were the good ole days.
Edit: it might've been Nascar 15. They all look similar honestly. I remember those three all.
Edit two: I'm watching drive through's video and now that I see the trivia I think that it was nascar 15 that my cousin had.
NASCAR Inside Line is my favorite non arcadiy NASCAR game, I love NASCAR Unleashed (which is also by activision) for its silliness. I also love the "redo" button in Inside Line and the paint booth. I do not have the console for the Heat series...but watching game play videos... eehh...I would still play 'em...it is the game of the greatest sport after all
What do you think of going waaaay back in time and talking about the NASCAR sims from Papyrus? I had NASCAR Racing 2 (along with CART Racing before it, and Grand Prix Legends some time after) and put in a lot of seat time on that one. It might not have been as flashy as the EA or Eutechnyx games, but Papyrus had a well-deserved reputation for realistic physics in their driving sims. BTW, most of the team from Papyrus went on to design iRacing.
As a teenager I LOVED NTG 2011 and NTG Inside Line! The graphics were so damn good and I actually kinda liked the damage model. I never really played career mode, just did season mode with Jeff Gordon at 100% race length on the hardest difficulty. AI was way too easy though.
And nascar15 give you free paint schemes when the victory edition update happened
The 2011, 2012, and 2014/15 games were all really good and you can’t change my mind
I actually loved this series the game, physics and the racing, and the paint booth
I loved the Eutechnyx series. I will admit it had issues. But, for me, I only played career mode on these games. I didnt league race or play online, unlike now. The career mode did lack, but what it lacked it was made up in the gameplay. Cars in the Eutechnyx engine had weight to them. They drove really well and the fact different racing lines were viable made for great replayability. The AI, although lacking, were incredible to race against; it didnt matter what track you were at either. They raced good anywhere. I have alot of good memories from these games. If you asked me, the perfect NASCAR game would a fusion of Thunder 2004's and CftC 2005's Career mode and the Eutechnyx handling model and, of course, the current gen cars. Change my mind on that!
I think just the car camera is already better than heat
*and that’s just a camera angle*
See, at least with the Eutechnyx games, Xbox and PS got patches. I had NTG2011 on freaking WII and once that game hit the shelves that was it. Glitch city.
Despite that, it'll still be one of my favorites because that was the first Nascar game I ever had (and the first on the Wii, not looking at you Nascar Cart you Mario Kart ripoff). I remember seeing the trailer and the Wii logo and almost screaming