WARNING: Toca World has a widescreen option in-game and without knowing (to this very day, someone was cool enough to point it out), i recorded the whole thing with widescreen "on" instead of "off". Thats why the video (especially during racing) looks kind of smashed and thats my massive mistake. I am very sorry about that and will make sure to look at the options in the game before recording in the future. Still hope you can look past this massive blunder from my part (yes, i am an idiot) and have fun with the video.
I played Toca World Touring Cars to death back in the PS1 days. It was such a great experience in either 1 player or 2 players split screen. I seem to remember 4 players was not so hot, but cool that it was even there. I always preferred the car that was painted like a cow. I really loved the clanking noises when you car was in a bad state. One of my most played PS1 games. To me, this was the best realistic car-racing game on PS1. Other great racing games include Crash Team Racing and Sled Storm. The holy trilogy of fun racing games on PS1.
I will do the whole Crash franchise at some point (also the remakes...but will take a while) and yes, the original CTR is the absolute GOAT of racing on the PS1. I agree with Sled Storm as well (PS1 or PS2 version). I would add Ridge Racer (Type 4), Road Rash, Rollcage, NFS4, Hot Wheels Turbo Racing and a few more.
@@dragondavemk7917 I can't really agree on Sled Storm for PS2. I remember looking forward to it and then loathing it for being crap and too "BIG". The other PS1 games I didn't play much, so I cannot comment 🙂
@@Evilkingus While the PS2 version doesnt hit as hard as the PS1 version, i dont remember it being that bad. But then again its been 15+ years and honestly, maybe i am even confusing it with "Whiteout" (PS2). I would have to play it again to be sure.
If you have the game set to widescreen when you record you need to make the video widescreen as well. Everything is horizontally crushed and it looks awful.
I noticed that while recording and had no idea why it was doing it. Yes, i am an idiot when it comes to stuff like this. I didnt even go to the options in the game at all until this very day and there i noticed that widescreen was indeed on, seemingly by default......i dont know. Kind of weird but now the video is done and i cant do anything about it. Maybe in the future if i revisit the franchise again or something, then i make sure to have widescreen off. Thanks for the info.
While I loved playing the game, especially for the career and the big number of real life tracks, its graphics are boxy and shit! Comparing the cars' and tracks' models to Gran Turismo on the same machine is day and night. The only thing that saves Toca is that it had more opponent cars at the same time in the track (which is related to performance).
Thats why i said at the very end of the video that certain aspects in the Toca trilogy are better than in GT (like the penalty system) but overall the GT duology is better franchise, especially GT2. But i havent tackled GT yet (but will in the future), thus i didnt want to say much more than that.
I will say that the ability to play split screen with a grid of bots is what makes this win over GT for me. It is just so much more fun than head-to-head. Still to this day, I hate that I cannot play multiplayer with bots on GT7 - it's either head-2-head or a full grid of randoms.
I didnt cover the multiplayer at all (never have in any of my videos) because i would only be able to play with myself.................not in that way (maybe). As a result, i dont think i am the right guy to cover MP in the first place even tho its part of the game. I'll admit tho that also as a result of that, i dont much care about MP either. Make of that what you will. I've always prefered SP. However, i can certainly see how a MP like in Toca World would be more fun than any GT MP and why people liked to play it. But then again, the purpose of both franchises despite them being racing sims are quite different from one another.
WARNING:
Toca World has a widescreen option in-game and without knowing (to this very day, someone was cool enough to point it out), i recorded the whole thing with widescreen "on" instead of "off". Thats why the video (especially during racing) looks kind of smashed and thats my massive mistake. I am very sorry about that and will make sure to look at the options in the game before recording in the future.
Still hope you can look past this massive blunder from my part (yes, i am an idiot) and have fun with the video.
I played Toca World Touring Cars to death back in the PS1 days. It was such a great experience in either 1 player or 2 players split screen. I seem to remember 4 players was not so hot, but cool that it was even there. I always preferred the car that was painted like a cow. I really loved the clanking noises when you car was in a bad state. One of my most played PS1 games. To me, this was the best realistic car-racing game on PS1. Other great racing games include Crash Team Racing and Sled Storm. The holy trilogy of fun racing games on PS1.
I will do the whole Crash franchise at some point (also the remakes...but will take a while) and yes, the original CTR is the absolute GOAT of racing on the PS1.
I agree with Sled Storm as well (PS1 or PS2 version). I would add Ridge Racer (Type 4), Road Rash, Rollcage, NFS4, Hot Wheels Turbo Racing and a few more.
@@dragondavemk7917 I can't really agree on Sled Storm for PS2. I remember looking forward to it and then loathing it for being crap and too "BIG". The other PS1 games I didn't play much, so I cannot comment 🙂
@@Evilkingus While the PS2 version doesnt hit as hard as the PS1 version, i dont remember it being that bad. But then again its been 15+ years and honestly, maybe i am even confusing it with "Whiteout" (PS2).
I would have to play it again to be sure.
This game crawled so Dirt 2.0 could run!
If you have the game set to widescreen when you record you need to make the video widescreen as well. Everything is horizontally crushed and it looks awful.
I noticed that while recording and had no idea why it was doing it. Yes, i am an idiot when it comes to stuff like this.
I didnt even go to the options in the game at all until this very day and there i noticed that widescreen was indeed on, seemingly by default......i dont know.
Kind of weird but now the video is done and i cant do anything about it. Maybe in the future if i revisit the franchise again or something, then i make sure to have widescreen off.
Thanks for the info.
While I loved playing the game, especially for the career and the big number of real life tracks, its graphics are boxy and shit! Comparing the cars' and tracks' models to Gran Turismo on the same machine is day and night. The only thing that saves Toca is that it had more opponent cars at the same time in the track (which is related to performance).
Thats why i said at the very end of the video that certain aspects in the Toca trilogy are better than in GT (like the penalty system) but overall the GT duology is better franchise, especially GT2.
But i havent tackled GT yet (but will in the future), thus i didnt want to say much more than that.
I will say that the ability to play split screen with a grid of bots is what makes this win over GT for me. It is just so much more fun than head-to-head. Still to this day, I hate that I cannot play multiplayer with bots on GT7 - it's either head-2-head or a full grid of randoms.
I forgot about this, it is 20+ years ago! You are right, that was interesting indeed, I was playing that way with my brother!
I didnt cover the multiplayer at all (never have in any of my videos) because i would only be able to play with myself.................not in that way (maybe). As a result, i dont think i am the right guy to cover MP in the first place even tho its part of the game.
I'll admit tho that also as a result of that, i dont much care about MP either. Make of that what you will. I've always prefered SP.
However, i can certainly see how a MP like in Toca World would be more fun than any GT MP and why people liked to play it. But then again, the purpose of both franchises despite them being racing sims are quite different from one another.