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I can understand that for an experienced and dedicated player Akina might seem boring; particularly solo. I feel this would be "Akin" to calling the AE86 a boring car. Sure you might in time outgrow it but I think that's more of a comment on your skill as a driver than the run itself. As someone who flat out isn't any good and trying to be better I love Akina online with other people. There's enough margin of error to push a little harder without every corner being death, I can much easier let people by who are way faster, the straights vs hairpins lets me see handling vs power in a very obvious way. Even the long straights are engaging for someone like me still trying to understand the right line, time and pressure with which to brake.In the same way the AE86 is a car that teaches the driver, I feel the same about Akina as a run. But I guess you are the one who teaches around here, so I'd like to hear your opinion on Akina as a method for learning.
Reminds of this race with Seiji, right before Takumi overtook him. He had that disgusted look on his face because racing on akina was too easy for him.
i think one of my friends who plays both AC and various F1 games put it beautifully into words: "mt. akina is comparable to shanghai international, meh to drive on, but excellent for racing. you'll find practice or qualifying boring, but in a race, with an equally skilled opponent? then, the track comes alive."
I love Tsuchisaka, its flow doesn't break the tempo till the very end, especially the old version with start near the tunnel, makes you you wanna keep going for hours!
"Beginners can drive fast on a straight line, that's cake. Intermediate drivers start to work a little better by mastering the corners, but the truly advanced drivers find their own course." - Ryosuke Takahashi. Put bluntly, if you find the track boring you just aren't going fast enough, push the knife's edge my man.
@@TSRB Am I? There is no principle of what makes a touge good or bad, every touge is unique and that's what set them apart. Now Akina is very unique because the layout is not similar to any other touge, whereas "narrow touges" are all about s-turns and consecutive corners, hence sharing a similarity. There is really nothing that can decide whether a track is bad or not, it's one own's intuition and how far you can take that course to the limit. It's not the track that's boring, you're boring yourself out.
im fast up transfagarasan and many touges but at akina i always get bored.. i should practice it but every time i go for it i go to fast and crash and when i drive it slow to learn the track i get bored as hell but yeah i think to be fast on akina must feel great i just dont enjoy putting in the hours
pretty funny that in initial D they talk about akina perfectly matching the 86 and how keisuke could hardly use his 350 horsepower but after the second hairpin you're pretty much flat out 80% of the course
@@KatarinaWasTaken someone pointed out the straights in this version of Akina pass are longer than the real one so it might’ve gotten edited for the non-drifters the Competitive racers are
I don't even have favorite Touge I guess.. but I like to think that Nagao is like my home course cuz it's the first Touge map I ever played at when I first started.. I learned all the basics there, made few friends there and had a ton of fun and races with random players.
Nagao isn’t my home touge but honestly might be my favorite, it has SUCH good flow on the corners. It’s nice cuz you really don’t have to brake super hard it’s more about just connecting consecutive corners
Usui's rythm is amazing. It feels like a never ending weight-transfer dance. One of the few tracks where you don't have to memorize every turn, but adjust to the frequency and swim along it, because it doesn't give you a break. Simply hypnotizing.
To me, Akina is the Dust 2 of the togue world. It's a classic. The 4 sections are like 4 movements of a concerto, each with a different tempo/approach (at least in TA) It's kind of like Suzuka, in that regard. Iroha, then, would be like Laguna Seca. Tsubaki Line is kind of like the Nordschleife. Plenty of flow, but also extremely technically demanding as well as being demanding on consistency, not to mention countless blind corners that can only be mastered through repetitious experimentation. My personal favorite though (though Akina comes close due to some stupid sentimental attatchment I have), is gonna have to be Happo - it's the most intense rally course on asphalt.
I had a talk with the creator of the early version of Akina, and he did tell me the map wasn't exactly on scale with the real life version. After looking it up on google maps, I had to agree with him. I'm still waiting for a version that will stand up to the real thing.
Eh, akina might be easy to drive but it’s pretty hard to get genuinely fast on. Not necessarily because of how hard the track is, but because people have put the most hours into that map by far. People have pushed the limits of akina further than any other touge imo
@@d3admaub938 yeah i have seen guys doing 4.30 with the 86 when my best is 4.40. I drive with controller so i’m not very smooth but still. They are scary dudes.
I guess I might be the only person who finds Akina to be the hardest touge out of all others. For me my reality is completely the opposite touges that you said was more technical I feel are simple and easy to drive but going fast or me trying my best to be fast on Akina is a real challenge just 1 run on Akina drains me. For me its like the Nurburgring of touges.
for me there is no bad tracks in touge as long as you can physically drive it to the end ofc. Because unlike race tracks they were not meant for this and this means you have to addapt to the track you'r on and have to abuse it's mechanics, it's all about learning what is the track about. That's why i like touge, it's more of your relationship with the track rather than learning patterns you can apply to almost every track ...
I just had to double check if the mudslide is still there so I went on google maps. As of 2014 when they last took the photos, so 10 years ago now almost mind you, it was still there. Incredible lol. The same 2 yellow gates too.
My favorites are easily Irohazaka and Hakone Imbound. Irohazaka for fast paced zig zagging, and Hakone for wide open sweeping turns that you fly down at 180mph
That touge with back to back hairpins is my fucking favorite. I can’t define the thrill of goin through those. I play it all the time on Initial D 8 at my local arcade !
It's cool to see everyone's favorite track. Ranges from iroha, happ, akagi, tsuchi, tsubaki. I'd definitely have to say momiji is my absolute favorite.
i don't know if this is the game's limitation or poor set up, but you should try using 16x anisotropic filtering on your GPU settings, it's literally free, 0 performance cost, and will make the further asphalt textures look sharp, right now they are blurry
Ah I see.... No wonder I felt weird why does Initial D characters from 1st and 2nd stage can speak all the time during racing. They're clearly bored AF
The thing about Akina is that it works great as an INTRODUCTORY course for touge racing, as it is relatively wide and easy by touge standards, but still teaches the skills needed to master the touge (slip angle, 4-wheel drifting, engine braking, inertia drifting, gutter techniques...). Obviously once a driver learns these skills, it becomes possible to apply them to more demanding courses like Irohazaka, Momiji, Happogahara, Shomaru, Sadamine, Tsuchisaka, Tsukuba, Yabitsu, Nagao, Nanamagari, Tsubaki, etc...
Personally, for me, Touge has a different approach to the race track, a race track is exactly what you mentioned in the video, but Touge is a "chilling street" where you swing from side to side with the car, feeling the curves and listening to some music at the same time, eventually drifting/sliding or going fast in some parts
TSRB: "Akina is wide, too easy and boring" Me (who's just started) trying to get a proper racing line or drift through the hairping and ending up in the guardrail: Excuse me?
May I add, if anyone really wants to feel like there's no space even to open the door look no further than any Monte Carlo or Rally Argentina stages not "official" touge, but you gotta drive yourself through them
tsubaki line feels harder to drive on than akina because the section where there is no guardrail entierly. if you mess up on that part thats it your gone and also it has many blind corners unlike akina
Haruna is alright to me, it's one of the 3 mountains of Jomo in Gunma. Takigahara and Irohazaka are places to push one's limit, nearly perfect for 3 pedals and a stick driving.
I held a former world record on Akina, thousands of hours there and several touge courses. And, to this day, Akina is the most enjoyable touge of all❤. I love Akina dynamics and corners
Maybe those aspects are what makes akina the best touge. Having a racetrack with the appereance of a touge can teach both experiences and most importantly, sit the bases to learn how race other touges.
My favorites, based on my limited Arcade Stage 5 experience, would have to be Happogahara and Nagao. I also think Yabitsu is really cool based on the gameplay from the new Initial D game.
Ive been driving on the 2017 akina prob for almost 2 years now and I cant break sub 18, while some drivers get sub 10s (same car btw). Thats why its difficult, it requires knowledge as well as great skill to master. While nagao and isui are boring for the little driver growth they offer. These as well as other tracks you mentioned are just too easy. In the first five tries you can get within 5 seconds to the fastest lap times (a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). A real test for your talents is still akina
I would be mad if I wasnt kind of bored myself. But Akina does act like some kind of holy land for weebs coming into sim racing, gotta pay respect to the OG course(in Initial D's context)
When I started sim drifting I was originally drawn to touge maps than flat drift tracks so I tried Akina since it was all any server was running so I thought it must be good.. Even as an inexperienced driver with much to learn I found Akina really boring after the first few runs. I never really thought about why but this video perfectly sums up how I feel about Akina, I couldn't agree more.
I actually only drove Akina twice and honestly didn't like it that much. I favor EK Tsukuba, Hakone Ohiradai, Dousojin, Shobudani, Shomaru and Nagao. Usui is a bit, idk, too tight? Not narrow, but just odd for me. It's hard to drive when doing grip, Usui is really more of a drift Touge in my experience. Maze is nice.
Yeah I really like usui more for drifting with like the Wdts cars or something too. Make this distinction for a lot of tracks. Some are for drifting with the wdts cars others are for grip racing with the kunos cars.
@@Dominik189 oh ofcourse. It's just more of a personal preference. Also whatever the server happens to run. Like if I learn a track drifting I just pick up habits and it becomes a drift track in my mind.
I grew and built my technical skills on Akina and I will never stop running it, but I agree. I honestly prefer Sadamine over any other touge, just because of how beautiful it is. Driving wise and looks wise. The low speed winding corners at the start let you prepare for the high speed section ahead, which then goes back to low speed corners. It's the most fun I've had on a touge and I highly recommend you drive and practice it.
>finds straights on Akina long and boring >drives an MX-5 On a more serious note, Shomaru would be one of my favourites. Very tight and unforgiving. On the other hand I don't see a way for more than 1 car to race there (at least at my skill level) I'd definitely like a different touge server, you can only drive on Akina so many times before it gets boring, even with other people
I mean you can just look at what track online are populated and what isn't , EK Akina always has populated servers so that's where people migrate to. Tracks that flow too well get boring pretty quickly that's not challenging.
This Akina is way too wide, which can fit in 3 to 4 vehicles shoulder to shoulder. There are TH-cam videos showing how narrow the real mt. Haruna/Akina is. If you think the footage is too slow, you can try with 2x speed.
I really enjoy lane drifting tsukuba fruits line online when the server has competent drivers, been doing it at least a couple times every week for over a year now
it really depends on the car you are driving on it. the nd really is boring because its stabke and predictable on the high speed sections. with the tuned 86 you are constantly in a flowing state sort of sliding but not really too much so you dont have to correct with tbe steering wheen but more with the pedals. i started out on akina i think 3 or 4 years ago and im still driving it every now and then. my best time was lousy 5:19 but for me its still the most challanging, frustrating and fun touge tracks
Also remember it's not MAZE it's like mah zay! Great videos by the way!! I love all your content so don't wanna make it seem like I'm flaming you. Just want to point out that japanese is bi syllabic so the pronnunciation is different.
And you'ld think why Takumi earlier on kept telling his dad that he needs glasses was because he got soo fast on the easy course that he felt everything was slowing down and even when competition came, he beat them easily and even smashed Ryosuke and Keisuke. Once he got to Usui Pass and battled Mako, he nearly shat his pants before composing himself and then again with Irokazaka when he was battling Ken Kagoshiwa. Heck if you think about it, nearly everywhere Takumi battled, he always nearly shat himself because those courses like the ones with Tomoyuki Tachi from Todo at Happogahara and even his final battle on the Hakone Skyline was a total twisty track with no bars for error and little overtaking space thus he panicked when getting pushed whereas on Mt.Akina, he got soo used to it and with the track being soo forgiving, he doesn't have to worry of people giving him pressure. Also, why do I love Irohazaka? "Pulpsy". Keichii Tsuchiya. 'Nuff said.
Honestly, Akina (haruna) is both boring and fun at the same time. It offers low speed, quick cornering and long straights to build up speed again, but at the same time is littered with narrow corners that are hard to slide through. I think it's redeeming feature is the gutters (yes ik, cliche as hell but it's the only thing that really brings it's status up).
Akina is not my favourite togue (I like Usui, Akagi the most), but I disagree with difficulty point. Due to togue characteristics it is INSTANTLY more difficult than ANY typical race track that I have driven (personal opinion), due to tricky steepness and (some) narrow corners. Executing racing lines is much more easier on typical racing track in F1 car, than in togue (including Akina) in
So to iterate on what you are saying, Akina is a perfect touge to learn the ropes? Great! Can't wait till I get all my sim stuff around March. I want something both easy and iconic to start me off, so your criticism elevates this track for me.
this is your opinion but i know other people would think the same way and also akina wasn't designed to be a race track it is just a way to get to the top of a mountain but still, nice video
I used to love Akina but grew to love Irohazaka downhill because how sharp its hairpins are and the next one I love is Initial D (PSP) Myogi ring touge.
In real life Usui is really boring. Because they put these massive tire shredders in the middle of the road to discourage racing. The best roads to drive in japan are unknown and outside of initial d because they don't have anti race measures. My personal favorite road to drive is called Asama Yama
God i wish i could drive and slide like you do. Everytime i try to drift in Assetto i either spin, understeer or both while almost slitting my wrists with my wheel. Absolutely love your content though and kinda agree on the Akina statment.
Man I'm still struggling with akina to get a record I'm like 20+ secs off the fastest guys on akina with the 86. N I struggle with wataru's home course. Forget it what it's called. But touges like usui and momji I find easy. N btw I drive akina well I mainly only drive that when I'm on AC. It has got to a point I don't even go on the sim anymore. But it's cuz I'm stubborn and don't wanna go to other touges til I master akina (like takumi lol)
Pretty good video, I agree with it. You demonstrated each of your points and views nicely, and it's all neatly put together. With that said-- try Project Kaido's Mt. Akina (Haruna), it just recently released. I think you'll find it's a lot more interesting to drive.
I should scan my home course and put it on a set of Corsa my home course literally has little elements of everything you've been saying I I like have to scan this and put it on it is amazing I haven't named it yet but we'll we'll get there
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2017 version of akina was better
try fruits lane by far my number 1
@@repingers9777 Exactly!!
I can understand that for an experienced and dedicated player Akina might seem boring; particularly solo. I feel this would be "Akin" to calling the AE86 a boring car. Sure you might in time outgrow it but I think that's more of a comment on your skill as a driver than the run itself.
As someone who flat out isn't any good and trying to be better I love Akina online with other people. There's enough margin of error to push a little harder without every corner being death, I can much easier let people by who are way faster, the straights vs hairpins lets me see handling vs power in a very obvious way.
Even the long straights are engaging for someone like me still trying to understand the right line, time and pressure with which to brake.In the same way the AE86 is a car that teaches the driver, I feel the same about Akina as a run. But I guess you are the one who teaches around here, so I'd like to hear your opinion on Akina as a method for learning.
This is the best news I heard today :DDDDDDD
You understand why takumi didn't like driving when the story started, he had to drive this road for 5 years straight.
Rare smartness so true
oh no now it all makes sense 😂😂😂
This comment needs to be near the top.
Reminds of this race with Seiji, right before Takumi overtook him. He had that disgusted look on his face because racing on akina was too easy for him.
This mans got 1000+ iq
i think one of my friends who plays both AC and various F1 games put it beautifully into words: "mt. akina is comparable to shanghai international, meh to drive on, but excellent for racing. you'll find practice or qualifying boring, but in a race, with an equally skilled opponent? then, the track comes alive."
That could be said about most tracks though it's not the track at that point let's be real it's your opponent
I gotta agree with the other reply here, the track could suck but of course it’s engaging when you have opponents
Takumi from initial d : no, not really
I love Tsuchisaka, its flow doesn't break the tempo till the very end, especially the old version with start near the tunnel, makes you you wanna keep going for hours!
not my favorite touge but its by far the best touge for racing others
u make awesome videos
@@alsa4real thanks! 😅
tshucisaka is a great touge, battling on it is just so fun and competitive
Sadamine and Tsuchisaka are my favorites
"Beginners can drive fast on a straight line, that's cake. Intermediate drivers start to work a little better by mastering the corners, but the truly advanced drivers find their own course."
- Ryosuke Takahashi.
Put bluntly, if you find the track boring you just aren't going fast enough, push the knife's edge my man.
wrong
@@TSRB Am I?
There is no principle of what makes a touge good or bad, every touge is unique and that's what set them apart. Now Akina is very unique because the layout is not similar to any other touge, whereas "narrow touges" are all about s-turns and consecutive corners, hence sharing a similarity. There is really nothing that can decide whether a track is bad or not, it's one own's intuition and how far you can take that course to the limit. It's not the track that's boring, you're boring yourself out.
@@TSRB Low margin for error is a joke right? What times are you pulling in kunos touge cars? (2017 and ek ver)
im fast up transfagarasan and many touges but at akina i always get bored.. i should practice it but every time i go for it i go to fast and crash and when i drive it slow to learn the track i get bored as hell but yeah i think to be fast on akina must feel great i just dont enjoy putting in the hours
pretty funny that in initial D they talk about akina perfectly matching the 86 and how keisuke could hardly use his 350 horsepower but after the second hairpin you're pretty much flat out 80% of the course
I think in Initial D land Akina is curvier
@@ralexcraft990 and steeper, you're correct to be fair, but you'd think they'd have chosen a course that matches it better
@@KatarinaWasTaken someone pointed out the straights in this version of Akina pass are longer than the real one so it might’ve gotten edited for the non-drifters the Competitive racers are
@@ralexcraft990 oh i see
@@ralexcraft990 such a shame, though
I don't even have favorite Touge I guess.. but I like to think that Nagao is like my home course cuz it's the first Touge map I ever played at when I first started.. I learned all the basics there, made few friends there and had a ton of fun and races with random players.
Nagao isn’t my home touge but honestly might be my favorite, it has SUCH good flow on the corners. It’s nice cuz you really don’t have to brake super hard it’s more about just connecting consecutive corners
Usui's rythm is amazing. It feels like a never ending weight-transfer dance.
One of the few tracks where you don't have to memorize every turn, but adjust to the frequency and swim along it, because it doesn't give you a break. Simply hypnotizing.
To me, Akina is the Dust 2 of the togue world. It's a classic. The 4 sections are like 4 movements of a concerto, each with a different tempo/approach (at least in TA)
It's kind of like Suzuka, in that regard.
Iroha, then, would be like Laguna Seca.
Tsubaki Line is kind of like the Nordschleife. Plenty of flow, but also extremely technically demanding as well as being demanding on consistency, not to mention countless blind corners that can only be mastered through repetitious experimentation.
My personal favorite though (though Akina comes close due to some stupid sentimental attatchment I have), is gonna have to be Happo - it's the most intense rally course on asphalt.
I had a talk with the creator of the early version of Akina, and he did tell me the map wasn't exactly on scale with the real life version. After looking it up on google maps, I had to agree with him. I'm still waiting for a version that will stand up to the real thing.
Exactly the real life Akina is smaller with shorter straights
I wonder if they modeled the track after the version from the Arcade Stage games
@@therock238360 more than likely which would make sense on why it's so wide
There's a guy working on it now
I'm pretty sure this is literally running the track from arcade stage. theres the PK2022 akina which is much better
Akina looks like one of the road course for newbies to me.
Irohazaka, Happogahara, and Akagi are my favorites so far.
Akina is only fun if you're battling. Driving alone on Akina is pretty boring.
true.. I use Akina mostly as a warmup when I don't play for a week or longer or when I'm switching cars to warm up in a new car again lol
Eh, akina might be easy to drive but it’s pretty hard to get genuinely fast on. Not necessarily because of how hard the track is, but because people have put the most hours into that map by far. People have pushed the limits of akina further than any other touge imo
@@d3admaub938 yeah i have seen guys doing 4.30 with the 86 when my best is 4.40. I drive with controller so i’m not very smooth but still. They are scary dudes.
@@d3admaub938 true
I guess I might be the only person who finds Akina to be the hardest touge out of all others. For me my reality is completely the opposite touges that you said was more technical I feel are simple and easy to drive but going fast or me trying my best to be fast on Akina is a real challenge just 1 run on Akina drains me. For me its like the Nurburgring of touges.
for me there is no bad tracks in touge as long as you can physically drive it to the end ofc. Because unlike race tracks they were not meant for this and this means you have to addapt to the track you'r on and have to abuse it's mechanics, it's all about learning what is the track about. That's why i like touge, it's more of your relationship with the track rather than learning patterns you can apply to almost every track ...
I just had to double check if the mudslide is still there so I went on google maps. As of 2014 when they last took the photos, so 10 years ago now almost mind you, it was still there. Incredible lol. The same 2 yellow gates too.
I really enjoy tsubaki line, it just has the right mix of tightness, and mixture of corners, and it flows well too
My favorites are easily Irohazaka and Hakone Imbound. Irohazaka for fast paced zig zagging, and Hakone for wide open sweeping turns that you fly down at 180mph
That touge with back to back hairpins is my fucking favorite. I can’t define the thrill of goin through those. I play it all the time on Initial D 8 at my local arcade !
It's cool to see everyone's favorite track. Ranges from iroha, happ, akagi, tsuchi, tsubaki. I'd definitely have to say momiji is my absolute favorite.
I'm glad to see most people agree here, I thought I was crazy when I didn't enjoy Akina that much
I don't agree
This is kinda like saying Monza is bad
@@christiantaylor1495 but Monza is sick
Akina is a "home track " for test and tune and master technique, according to the Initial D manga
usui is still my favorite bc of that c-121 corner and how tight the roads are
I think akina a signature feature is the gutters not the hairpins
i don't know if this is the game's limitation or poor set up, but you should try using 16x anisotropic filtering on your GPU settings, it's literally free, 0 performance cost, and will make the further asphalt textures look sharp, right now they are blurry
Akina is a good touge for beginners. It has wide and long straights and high margin of error. But it becomes bland after you get experience
Ah I see.... No wonder I felt weird why does Initial D characters from 1st and 2nd stage can speak all the time during racing. They're clearly bored AF
The thing about Akina is that it works great as an INTRODUCTORY course for touge racing, as it is relatively wide and easy by touge standards, but still teaches the skills needed to master the touge (slip angle, 4-wheel drifting, engine braking, inertia drifting, gutter techniques...). Obviously once a driver learns these skills, it becomes possible to apply them to more demanding courses like Irohazaka, Momiji, Happogahara, Shomaru, Sadamine, Tsuchisaka, Tsukuba, Yabitsu, Nagao, Nanamagari, Tsubaki, etc...
haruna, ek usui, gunsai, and happogahara are my favs rn
Personally, for me, Touge has a different approach to the race track, a race track is exactly what you mentioned in the video, but Touge is a "chilling street" where you swing from side to side with the car, feeling the curves and listening to some music at the same time, eventually drifting/sliding or going fast in some parts
TSRB: "Akina is wide, too easy and boring"
Me (who's just started) trying to get a proper racing line or drift through the hairping and ending up in the guardrail: Excuse me?
I always crash on the hairpins, so it's plenty challenging to me
May I add, if anyone really wants to feel like there's no space even to open the door look no further than any Monte Carlo or Rally Argentina stages not "official" touge, but you gotta drive yourself through them
tsubaki line feels harder to drive on than akina because the section where there is no guardrail entierly. if you mess up on that part thats it your gone and also it has many blind corners unlike akina
Haruna is alright to me, it's one of the 3 mountains of Jomo in Gunma. Takigahara and Irohazaka are places to push one's limit, nearly perfect for 3 pedals and a stick driving.
I personally really love Mount Akina 2017, but I really dislike the EK Mount Akina that was ripped from IDAS.
I held a former world record on Akina, thousands of hours there and several touge courses. And, to this day, Akina is the most enjoyable touge of all❤. I love Akina dynamics and corners
What do you think of other touge such as Akagi, Irohazaka, Tsubaki Line or Happogahara?
Maybe those aspects are what makes akina the best touge. Having a racetrack with the appereance of a touge can teach both experiences and most importantly, sit the bases to learn how race other touges.
Happogahara gang. Momiji line is also really cool and underrated af
My favorites, based on my limited Arcade Stage 5 experience, would have to be Happogahara and Nagao. I also think Yabitsu is really cool based on the gameplay from the new Initial D game.
Ive been driving on the 2017 akina prob for almost 2 years now and I cant break sub 18, while some drivers get sub 10s (same car btw). Thats why its difficult, it requires knowledge as well as great skill to master. While nagao and isui are boring for the little driver growth they offer. These as well as other tracks you mentioned are just too easy. In the first five tries you can get within 5 seconds to the fastest lap times (a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point).
A real test for your talents is still akina
Drive in Shomaru and you'll even have time to think "This is boring"...litterally.
I don't know if you've tried Akina 2017 but it is much better than EK Akina.
5:59 *Rage Your Dream starts playing*
I would be mad if I wasnt kind of bored myself. But Akina does act like some kind of holy land for weebs coming into sim racing, gotta pay respect to the OG course(in Initial D's context)
If you want Akina to be less boring, try out driving a supercar (my personal favourite is DB9)
also what is the background music?
When I started sim drifting I was originally drawn to touge maps than flat drift tracks so I tried Akina since it was all any server was running so I thought it must be good.. Even as an inexperienced driver with much to learn I found Akina really boring after the first few runs. I never really thought about why but this video perfectly sums up how I feel about Akina, I couldn't agree more.
I actually only drove Akina twice and honestly didn't like it that much. I favor EK Tsukuba, Hakone Ohiradai, Dousojin, Shobudani, Shomaru and Nagao. Usui is a bit, idk, too tight? Not narrow, but just odd for me. It's hard to drive when doing grip, Usui is really more of a drift Touge in my experience. Maze is nice.
Yeah I really like usui more for drifting with like the Wdts cars or something too. Make this distinction for a lot of tracks. Some are for drifting with the wdts cars others are for grip racing with the kunos cars.
@@zwenkwiel816 actually a lot of tracks can do both. EK Tsukuba, Nagao and Dousojin are good for both drift and grip.
@@Dominik189 oh ofcourse. It's just more of a personal preference. Also whatever the server happens to run. Like if I learn a track drifting I just pick up habits and it becomes a drift track in my mind.
Mistake on 6:30, you said number 4 when the video says #3. Small mistake my hearing and eyes were able to catch. Otherwise great video!
Akagi and sadamine have been my favourites ever since i drove on them
True. As a big fan of initial D. I find myself barely racing on Akina
I grew and built my technical skills on Akina and I will never stop running it, but I agree. I honestly prefer Sadamine over any other touge, just because of how beautiful it is. Driving wise and looks wise. The low speed winding corners at the start let you prepare for the high speed section ahead, which then goes back to low speed corners. It's the most fun I've had on a touge and I highly recommend you drive and practice it.
Honestly, Sadamine is the track I practiced drifting it. I can't even count the number of runs I've done on that track.
I know this is an old video, but I love this channel, I've always had this opinion and damn near never heard it seconded. Love the videos
now we know why takumi want to race at other course in initial d second stage
>finds straights on Akina long and boring
>drives an MX-5
On a more serious note, Shomaru would be one of my favourites. Very tight and unforgiving. On the other hand I don't see a way for more than 1 car to race there (at least at my skill level)
I'd definitely like a different touge server, you can only drive on Akina so many times before it gets boring, even with other people
I mean you can just look at what track online are populated and what isn't , EK Akina always has populated servers so that's where people migrate to. Tracks that flow too well get boring pretty quickly that's not challenging.
3:58 so that wasn't Iketani's fault after all!
This Akina is way too wide, which can fit in 3 to 4 vehicles shoulder to shoulder. There are TH-cam videos showing how narrow the real mt. Haruna/Akina is. If you think the footage is too slow, you can try with 2x speed.
Nice vid as always, but please consider adding links to the mods used in the description.
I mean its like the first track in Trackmania. Its not about how nice akina is, its about PR and WR xD
So that's why takumi didnt want to drift akina anymore
Mt. Outski is a fun road to do it has a couple different levels of the course
It literally feels the same as akina
I really enjoy lane drifting tsukuba fruits line online when the server has competent drivers, been doing it at least a couple times every week for over a year now
it really depends on the car you are driving on it. the nd really is boring because its stabke and predictable on the high speed sections. with the tuned 86 you are constantly in a flowing state sort of sliding but not really too much so you dont have to correct with tbe steering wheen but more with the pedals. i started out on akina i think 3 or 4 years ago and im still driving it every now and then. my best time was lousy 5:19 but for me its still the most challanging, frustrating and fun touge tracks
Does the gutters not count as a signature feature?
*I'll make my move into the last 5 Hairpin*
Great Video. Can I ask what music you use for this? :)
also the irl akina (Mount Haruna) has speedbumps before every corner lol
Sounds like PK Akina would fix all of your problems haha!
I have had absolutely great times running down mount Akina. If it is so shitty why is it so popular?
do you have a link to the playlist you use in your videos?
Usui really is one of my favorite places to drive
Also remember it's not MAZE it's like mah zay! Great videos by the way!! I love all your content so don't wanna make it seem like I'm flaming you. Just want to point out that japanese is bi syllabic so the pronnunciation is different.
When i first started playing AC, nagao was my 4th map and was my favorite and it still is.
what filter do u use in those first scenes? makes it look old and unsaturated i like it, pls tell me asap
And you'ld think why Takumi earlier on kept telling his dad that he needs glasses was because he got soo fast on the easy course that he felt everything was slowing down and even when competition came, he beat them easily and even smashed Ryosuke and Keisuke.
Once he got to Usui Pass and battled Mako, he nearly shat his pants before composing himself and then again with Irokazaka when he was battling Ken Kagoshiwa. Heck if you think about it, nearly everywhere Takumi battled, he always nearly shat himself because those courses like the ones with Tomoyuki Tachi from Todo at Happogahara and even his final battle on the Hakone Skyline was a total twisty track with no bars for error and little overtaking space thus he panicked when getting pushed whereas on Mt.Akina, he got soo used to it and with the track being soo forgiving, he doesn't have to worry of people giving him pressure.
Also, why do I love Irohazaka? "Pulpsy". Keichii Tsuchiya. 'Nuff said.
Honestly, Akina (haruna) is both boring and fun at the same time. It offers low speed, quick cornering and long straights to build up speed again, but at the same time is littered with narrow corners that are hard to slide through. I think it's redeeming feature is the gutters (yes ik, cliche as hell but it's the only thing that really brings it's status up).
Akina is not my favourite togue (I like Usui, Akagi the most), but I disagree with difficulty point.
Due to togue characteristics it is INSTANTLY more difficult than ANY typical race track that I have driven (personal opinion), due to tricky steepness and (some) narrow corners. Executing racing lines is much more easier on typical racing track in F1 car, than in togue (including Akina) in
So to iterate on what you are saying, Akina is a perfect touge to learn the ropes? Great! Can't wait till I get all my sim stuff around March. I want something both easy and iconic to start me off, so your criticism elevates this track for me.
My Wilson on La canyons is not too difficult but quick and flowy
Who else remembers Mt. Akina was even labled as "easy" on the Initial D arcade game haha
this is your opinion but i know other people would think the same way
and also akina wasn't designed to be a race track it is just a way to get to the top of a mountain
but still, nice video
I used to love Akina but grew to love Irohazaka downhill because how sharp its hairpins are and the next one I love is Initial D (PSP) Myogi ring touge.
The title is me after crashing after Alina T1.
i think that akina is one of the best starting touges to get used the the way of touge driving but once you get good its kind of just boring
Maybe just me but I like Sadamine. I just enjoy racing others on that touge idk why
This is why takumi was able to master it so perfecly:3
wait how were you using him in the first few clips ?!
In real life Usui is really boring. Because they put these massive tire shredders in the middle of the road to discourage racing. The best roads to drive in japan are unknown and outside of initial d because they don't have anti race measures. My personal favorite road to drive is called Asama Yama
God i wish i could drive and slide like you do. Everytime i try to drift in Assetto i either spin, understeer or both while almost slitting my wrists with my wheel. Absolutely love your content though and kinda agree on the Akina statment.
Time and patience my friend!!! Good luck
Yeah I've been doing this for years lol. Practice, practice, practice.
It teaches you braking and line control but thats about it. Akagi is the most fun.
where did you get the takumi driver model?
yea thats why takumi was always so bored while driving on akina
Man I'm still struggling with akina to get a record I'm like 20+ secs off the fastest guys on akina with the 86. N I struggle with wataru's home course. Forget it what it's called. But touges like usui and momji I find easy. N btw I drive akina well I mainly only drive that when I'm on AC. It has got to a point I don't even go on the sim anymore. But it's cuz I'm stubborn and don't wanna go to other touges til I master akina (like takumi lol)
the thing is that you who read that never deive Mt Haruna in real life
Bro, how good your content can be, keep it up!
Pretty good video, I agree with it. You demonstrated each of your points and views nicely, and it's all neatly put together.
With that said-- try Project Kaido's Mt. Akina (Haruna), it just recently released. I think you'll find it's a lot more interesting to drive.
whats your time on kunos ae86 tuned (any setup) on vanilla akina?
bro the third 86 an 6:10 just died
ive started by usui and I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!!
I should scan my home course and put it on a set of Corsa my home course literally has little elements of everything you've been saying I I like have to scan this and put it on it is amazing I haven't named it yet but we'll we'll get there