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It’s for better or worse, Kaz’s masterpiece. GT games have came out since, but streamers and fans flock to this one like moths to a flame for a reason.
@@michaelgomez4994 I dislike the progression though. 3 and 4 were the best games. Gran Turismo 5 is where it started to go downhill… Levels for cars? PP? GT6? No second hand market. Can buy everything if you get the money… And they force a starter car on you… And GT7 is the worst with those menu books
@@michaelgomez4994 I never played thr GT ganes online so the campaign is the most important part for me. I recently tried out GT5 and although it isn't bad I disliked the leveling system and the number of events. So I booted up GT6 and I am having a blast with it, there are more events, more cars, no leveling system. I qm currently at International B events and after I am done I am going to go back and check out GT4 since I recently restored and softmoded my old PS2 Slim. But so far after playing GT5, GT PSP, GT6 and GT Sport I can say that GT6 is the best in the series for my. But who knows maybe GT4 will change my oppinion.
@@Swat_Dennis The leveling system in GT5 ain't good but having PP is kind of nice as it limits your ability to cheese events and encourages you to get more cars and upgrade your existing ones
In high school instead of partying, we would play the endurance races. In lieu of alcohol, it would be water and energy drinks. Naps in between turns. I'd give everything to go back to those days.
You know a game is good when you feel nostalgic for it despite having played it first when you were 18. At least that's how it was for me! GT4 will always be the goat 🐐 Great review!
While I do prefer GT3 in terms of simplicity and personality, I have to admit GT4 is incredible and I’m glad I played it over the Christmas break last year up to the start of May.
GT3 and GT4 are the reason I'm into cars today. I used to get up super early on weekends to go downstairs, boot up the playstation and play these games until my parents pried me away. I can admit that my feelings towards these games are heavily influenced by that nostalgia, but having played them both on PCSX2 since, I really do believe they are some of the greatest racing games of all time, even today. The plethora of weird and quirky cars in GT4 especially had me fascinated, and it became a big part of what I do now, all these years later. I thoroughly enjoyed the re-review!
I played all the games with my dad at around 8 or 9 years old. He stopped at GT3 saying it didn't feel as good anymore (I think he liked arcade style games more at that point in his life). I kept going with GT3-GT7. I want to show him 2 and then 7 this week for Christmas. I think it would blow him away as he really has not followed gaming since GT2-GT3 oddly enough. Also your content reminds me of those days with dad. It's a good memory I am making with your amazing content.
This game was one of the best games I've ever played in my childhood. But I can't see myself finishing it ever. It's just too long. When I was a kid time felt limitless. Now I always feel like I'm running out of it.
I remember when this cam out. I took the day off work and smashed 14 hrs of gameplay. Ties with RE4 for my favorite game ever. Sidenote, I worked at a toy store when the ps2 was coming out. We got a shipment in 2 weeks b4 they went on sale. Went home that night with a ps2 and my mind was blown. Side side note....ps2 is hooked up in the living room. Tonight my 6 yr old is getting his first taste of gran turismo
holy shit someone JUST found hidden cheat codes in this game 20 years later? thats probably the biggest bombshell featured in this video hot damn. thats so cool man
I didn't grow up with Gran Turismo, yet I deeply appreciate how GT4 handles just about everything. I played it for real just a year or two ago and honestly I'm astonished by how much it holds up. Menus are so good that sometimes it makes me _want_ a car.
The summer I got this game is so, so, so special to me. I just became a teenager, me and my older brother loved cars, and we spent hours upon hours racing, tweaking and modifying, buying, selling, and just living this game. Still one of my favorite games ever.
The new emulation related things that have been coming out for this game recently have been outstanding. I know you didn't cover them in this video but the amount of new features and enhancements you can do with the game (as well as new things still in the pipeline for it) are incredible and make the experience much, much better than you could imagine.
True...disabling the interlacing, 360 degrees car cam, better pressure sensitivity on controller, GT3 style chase cam, it all makes GT4 play even better....
GT2's emulation experience has shifted dramatically into a whole new, amazing experience separate from OG hardware as well. honestly id have never known about all the great strides GT2 and GT4 have been making in the field of emulation if it weren't for a lot of YOUR videos covering it so thank you for that, Rowdy.
@@caifabe8050 Caifabe, have u watched clips from Gran Turismo 5 Unseen? Those unseen clips are based from 2010 Racing Game of Gran Turismo 5. One clip in particular featuring all 12 Nijigasaki members singing Colorful Dreams Colorful Smiles. 👍
Along with WWF No Mercy on my N64 , GT4 is probably equal on my most hours played list. Absolutely adored this game back then. Weirdly i don't play the newer ones at all.
Emulation has been so good this past year. I mean,I'm literally replaying Gran Turismo 4 on my PHONE! And the fact that there is absolutely no slow downs or anything is amazing. Emulation really enhances old games and makes you see more of what the developers had in mind.
When that music hits at 6:16 something just starts to feel different. Like the inner childhood spending hours and hours upon this game, Finding new exciting stuff to do and race around the most beautiful tracks at the time. Man, the nostalgia and memories are something that I will never be able to explain. Thanks for the video!
It really DOES feel like a theme park - almost utopian with how like… safe and free it feels. Even if I can’t afford everything right off the bat, I sure as hell will enjoy the time I spend there and feel oddly… grown-up(?) while doing so
A tip for B-spec when in an emulatior: Pressing "Tab" key turns on the Turbo mode which lets the game run at double the speed. You can also press "F4" to unlock the frame limiter and let the game run as fast as your computer can run it. When combined with X3 speed from the telemetry screen you can really drop the times needed for the endurance races if you want to go through them using B-spec. You just have to pay attention to re-apply the telemetry fast forward every time the driver pits, but you should be able to finish a 24h race in less than 4 hours this way.
7:43 The music is region specific it just happens that this time around the PAL version has, appart from a few japanese songs, all the songs from the other regions.
Two weeks before my 9th birthday, I was in the hospital for a week with pneumonia. When I got out, my parents let me get a PS2 and this game for it. It really helped me feel so much better and was a feeling I'll never forget. Great nostalgia from the game. It was fun, difficult, and the music was fantastic. Can't believe it's been so long that this game came out now.
IMHO GT3 is still my favourite of the entire series, the PAL soundtrack, the way cars handle, the variety of tracks and championships, Arcade Mode still being a thing were you can both try out cars that you have yet to obtain in GT Mode while maintaining a feeling of progression, and many other things (like the 2 ending movies). I'd argue that GT4 is objectively the best game of the series, easily, but GT3 just hits me way harder both thanks to nostalgia as well as being a great game on its own. Still, GT4 was so much fun. I miss GT games being this good. Great review!
This game is the reason I said my first swear! I was 9 years old, doing a race. 1st place, going well, suddenly a guy passed me! With all the fury a 9 year old could muster, I said "You arse!"
I still play GT4 to this day on my PS2 Slim. Granted, I had to buy a Component to HDMI converter to play it on my 4K TV, and switch my TV's aspect ratio to 4:3 in order to get rid of the blurry picture, but still, when I bought GT4 in 2005, I was blown away by how incredible it looked. Even 20 years later, it remains one of the best looking PS2 games ever made.
Loved going back to GT4 after finding the cheats. Licenses all gold, endurance races done in 10 seconds and a car shopping spree that would make Jay Leno blush.
This was one of my favorite games when I was 10. I recently acquired a ps2 and bought a used copy of GT4 at a local store and I’ve been grinding this game way harder than I have any game on PS4 in recent years. The last few months playing have been a wonderful nostalgia trip and I plan to keep playing!
The rear car camera always felt ok for me because it allows me to see the next corner quicker in twisty circuits but I still prefer the hood view in pretty much every game I play. Lovely video on perhaps my favorite game (of any genre) of all time.
@@CurtisSmal as a Fellow GT & PC fan, There is no argue VR in GT7 is great but that alone isn't enough to justify the game poor shape,, the overall game is a disappointment, No career, payout is way way too low & will take ages to purchase a specific car + in-app purchases was the biggest turn off to even consider buying the game to begin with, i might just wait for them to fix half the game, or get it at a decent discount, genuinely I Still enjoy GT Sports more, Glad i still have my PS4 for that reason, because there is no real reason for me to buy a PS5 at the moment
Can we take a moment to appreciate how outstanding emulation is nowadays? I can play GT4 on a Windows computer with an Xbox controller. If you told somebody back in 2005 that it'd be possible, it'd blow their minds and that's only 18 years ago.
I remember vividly when I was a kid, I would spend hours just navigating through the showrooms looking at the cars. The license tests were hard for me at the time and I had no idea about B-Spec mode so I would grind the sunday cup until I had enough credits to buy new cars.
This game was a major part of my childhood One of the many things I remembered was taking any variety of sports car (usually thhe Cien) and racing a head-to-head to win that Toyota rally concept, solely to sell it again and again to buy something else. Another one was Buying the Saleen with said money, and getting its horsepower to 800, which was mind-blowing for me at that age.
Dude the License tests are my favorite part. It's a very Japanese style of you taking baby steps to master something. Like the guy who spends 5 years on the rice before he can do the Fish. You must get all golds before you have truly earned your License.
Damn I remember attempting then24 hour at the nurburgring, and using b spec mode to help me out when I needed a break or just wanted the game to play for me for a littlembit while I went did other things. All in all it still took like 13 or 14 hours but man, the prize money and winning a formula 1 car for theneffort was so worth it. That was one of my childhood highlights in gaming.
Fun thing I found out emulating this on the steam deck- GT4 supports controllers with analog triggers! God knows if these existed when the game came out, but their inclusion makes the game shockingly modern when emulated with a modern pad.
I found my old ps2, I got at 6 years old. I need to revisit all my old games as I never ever finished a single one of them. I didn’t even speak English back then, not even a bit let alone enough to understand menus, missions, lore and storyline.
Luckily, there is a patch for modern controllers for this game that unlocks the full motion of the triggers. It controls like gt5 with the triggers and feels pretty good.
The game pacing is SOOO much better if you take the license test as you need to progress. Not only does it help you to net get burned out on the tests, but you won't start out with 1 or 2 over powered cars, meaning you'll have more incentive to explore the different cars in the game. I used to do it your way, and it took me so long to see the light...
I've been playing GT4 a bunch on emulator lately, and it really does breathe new life into an already excellent classic. Playing the game with a Logitech G29 wheel really makes each car feel far more distinct, and even the force feedback is emulated properly! Connecting the game to RetroAchievements also adds a lot of challenge as many of the set's achievements require me to limit my car's power for more A-Spec points and drive cars I never would have tried otherwise, as well as adding online leaderboards for license tests and certain time trial challenges. All that, along with upscaling textures and adjusting the chase camera, greatly improves what was already an excellent experience. It's great to see all the improvements people have been adding to these games in recent years, including the GT2 Plus and GT3 Epilogue mods.
I remember playing this on PS2.. So much love was put into GT4.. From the graphics, to the little things 13year old me wouldn't know about. This game is goated and id love a ps5 remaster because i dont think they've done better than this title since
Wait, I thought the music /was/ region-specific? I remember downloading the NTSC version and it was missing so much stuff - Snow Payrol, Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian, even Go With The Flow by QOTSA, which I CANNOT imagine playing GT4 without haha.
Last month I finally, FINALLY beat GT4 (100%) after owning the game for almost 15 years. On PCSX2 but still, I finally did it. All A Spec too. It was such a great feeling finally finishing the last lap at Le Sarthe 24H and receiving my black Formula GT.
Back in the day I quit the PS2 after GT3 and switched to the PC with the advent of Windows XP and the challenge of Grand Prix Legends. I have recently purchased a Steam Deck and this is the first game I want to nail. It would seem that there were some cheats within the game that have recently come to light and they have proved quite handy!! A great game and I'm having a ball playing it.
29:57 I couldn't disagree more, stiff camera is akin to bumper or roof cam, where camera is stiff and rigidly connected to a car because you need to instantly see any car movement, I actually hate floating 3rd person camera because every car movement is very poorly communicated like having a delay (sometimes it can even block you from seeing turn apex), some people like floaty camera which is i guess easier at first, but if you want to extract every bit of performance out of car and track you need stiff locked camera.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I have none for this game, so some of the stuff you were raving about seemed like defects to me. Nostalgia truly blinds, but that's what makes it so pleasant and i wouldn't change it for anything.
One more thing for anyone wanting to start playing the game: 1.6.0 PCSX2 lets you use the Qemu wheel plugin, the 1.7.X Nightly versions do not support wheels, but run much better and let you use mods more easily. Since I'm running with a wheel I run on the former. When using that, in Emulation Settings change EE/IOP Clamping Mode from Normal to Full (but only after you finish the licence tests), this fixes the text display issues. In Video GS Plugin settings, disable the Large Framebuffer, enable hardware hacks and in that submenu enable Merge Sprite, Wild Arms Offset, put in Half-pixel Offset to Special (Texture-aggresive), Round Sprite to Full and Texture Offset to X:60 and Y: 00 - This will make the rims on the cars not shake during the replays like you can see in this video.
24:25 The GT4 disc is dual layered and if your PS2 laser is bad, then it won't read it. I remember buying 2 copies of GT4 in 2009 because my PS2 wouldnt read my OG GT4 disc. I replayed the laser a few years ago and it runs fine.
22:48 When Jeremy Clarkson played the NSX in Laguna Seca, he chose Sports Medium tyres that comes preset in GT4 to make it easy for beginners. He should have changed it to Comfort Soft tyres which is modeled after the UHP tyres the NSX would have had as stock. Sports Medium are track tyres. With comfort soft, I was barely 3 seconds quicker than Jeremy's real life time.
I never played gt4 until we did the speedrun of it. I love gran turismo 4 more than anything and had a phenomenal time playing it. It turned me onto gran turismo and I've been buying and playing them for 3 years now pretty consistently
There is a secret menu on the PS2 version where you can change the chase cam & adjust it how you want I found it by just typing it in on TH-cam & It works because I still have my PS2 version of GT4
This game is amazing, I've been playing it on my PS2 through OpenPS2Loader because the dvd drive on the console is broken, and it's been working fine! I recommend it for those who have problems playing on the ps2.
You can pause and save the endurance races, when you go to the box and save the game. Then you can continue the race days later. In the box you can also switch to b-spec mode.
still remember my dad buying this for me when i was 10 in some supermarket before christmas. was reading cd case the whole ride home, couldn't believe it said something around 700 cars. good times..
I'm so glad you mentioned the stiff chase cam! Why PD have stuck with this cam for all the following GTs I have no idea. Its the main gripe I have with all the games following 4, yet based on the fact they've never gone back to a chase cam more similer to GT3 or the Forza Motorsport games, I can only assume that their aren't many complaints about it. For me, its the one of two things that stops me from wanting to go back and play it. The other being that when emulating, mapping the throttle and brake to the triggers of a modern controller doesn't really work and they act more like digital buttons. Fianlly, not a major issue, but I also personally preferred the analogue HUD dials from 3, as opposed to the digital design in 4, which again has remained the same ever since.
I must be one of the few that really prefers a stiff chase cam. I find it one of the few actually usable chase cams in games - when the cam is loose, I find it almost impossible to work out the slip angle of a sliding car and correct for this - GT5/6's stiff camera is amazing for drifting, because I don't have to guess what is car and what is camera movement.
What I remember? Pennzoil Nismo Skyline GTR on Norschleife over and over again to set new private records. And nowadays, still hopiong it comes on PC to in some time. Imagine this game, in native 4K with 60+ fps with full gpu power
My fave GT!! Loved the coffee breaks :D Do you ever play with the view from inside the car? I play with the one where you just see the hood. I prefer to see the full vehicle I'm driving, but if I wanna win, chase cam is definitely not it.
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I like to think the inclusion of New York in GT4's intro paid tribute to 9/11 victims. Also are you excited for the GT film?
It’s for better or worse, Kaz’s masterpiece. GT games have came out since, but streamers and fans flock to this one like moths to a flame for a reason.
gt5 is better then gt4 more cars/tracks 1080p 60fps similar physics & great online play
@@michaelgomez4994 I dislike the progression though. 3 and 4 were the best games.
Gran Turismo 5 is where it started to go downhill… Levels for cars? PP?
GT6? No second hand market. Can buy everything if you get the money… And they force a starter car on you…
And GT7 is the worst with those menu books
major thing for me is that GT4 can be easily emulated on PC & Android phones, while GT5 & GT6 is still not so stable for emulation
@@michaelgomez4994 I never played thr GT ganes online so the campaign is the most important part for me. I recently tried out GT5 and although it isn't bad I disliked the leveling system and the number of events. So I booted up GT6 and I am having a blast with it, there are more events, more cars, no leveling system. I qm currently at International B events and after I am done I am going to go back and check out GT4 since I recently restored and softmoded my old PS2 Slim. But so far after playing GT5, GT PSP, GT6 and GT Sport I can say that GT6 is the best in the series for my. But who knows maybe GT4 will change my oppinion.
@@Swat_Dennis The leveling system in GT5 ain't good but having PP is kind of nice as it limits your ability to cheese events and encourages you to get more cars and upgrade your existing ones
In high school instead of partying, we would play the endurance races. In lieu of alcohol, it would be water and energy drinks. Naps in between turns. I'd give everything to go back to those days.
You know a game is good when you feel nostalgic for it despite having played it first when you were 18. At least that's how it was for me! GT4 will always be the goat 🐐 Great review!
While I do prefer GT3 in terms of simplicity and personality, I have to admit GT4 is incredible and I’m glad I played it over the Christmas break last year up to the start of May.
LOL, I play this when I was 5yo, and I dont know what gran turismo mode mean back then, so I always played the quick race mode XD
Never forgetti that in the top 100 Racing Games, Beetle Racing from 1999 is ahead of GT4 😂
@DustinEdenYT you and ColourShed (Spencer) make my favorite Gran Turismo videos on TH-cam. Cheers to you both!
@@derosiflo6524 nope. Gran Turismo 2 and Formula One 97 and 06 PS2 are also ahead of GT4. Although fractionally.
GT3 and GT4 are the reason I'm into cars today. I used to get up super early on weekends to go downstairs, boot up the playstation and play these games until my parents pried me away. I can admit that my feelings towards these games are heavily influenced by that nostalgia, but having played them both on PCSX2 since, I really do believe they are some of the greatest racing games of all time, even today. The plethora of weird and quirky cars in GT4 especially had me fascinated, and it became a big part of what I do now, all these years later.
I thoroughly enjoyed the re-review!
same games was so good pscx2 makes so many good games replayable
It's not just you, GT4 is considered by many to be the racing GOAT
I played all the games with my dad at around 8 or 9 years old. He stopped at GT3 saying it didn't feel as good anymore (I think he liked arcade style games more at that point in his life). I kept going with GT3-GT7. I want to show him 2 and then 7 this week for Christmas. I think it would blow him away as he really has not followed gaming since GT2-GT3 oddly enough. Also your content reminds me of those days with dad. It's a good memory I am making with your amazing content.
myt friends are all into new cars at dealerships. Im like 3000 gt vr4 for me.
This game was one of the best games I've ever played in my childhood. But I can't see myself finishing it ever. It's just too long. When I was a kid time felt limitless. Now I always feel like I'm running out of it.
cant wait for the re-re-review in 6 years !
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I remember when this cam out. I took the day off work and smashed 14 hrs of gameplay. Ties with RE4 for my favorite game ever. Sidenote, I worked at a toy store when the ps2 was coming out. We got a shipment in 2 weeks b4 they went on sale. Went home that night with a ps2 and my mind was blown.
Side side note....ps2 is hooked up in the living room. Tonight my 6 yr old is getting his first taste of gran turismo
holy shit someone JUST found hidden cheat codes in this game 20 years later? thats probably the biggest bombshell featured in this video hot damn. thats so cool man
I didn't grow up with Gran Turismo, yet I deeply appreciate how GT4 handles just about everything. I played it for real just a year or two ago and honestly I'm astonished by how much it holds up. Menus are so good that sometimes it makes me _want_ a car.
The summer I got this game is so, so, so special to me. I just became a teenager, me and my older brother loved cars, and we spent hours upon hours racing, tweaking and modifying, buying, selling, and just living this game. Still one of my favorite games ever.
The new emulation related things that have been coming out for this game recently have been outstanding. I know you didn't cover them in this video but the amount of new features and enhancements you can do with the game (as well as new things still in the pipeline for it) are incredible and make the experience much, much better than you could imagine.
True...disabling the interlacing, 360 degrees car cam, better pressure sensitivity on controller, GT3 style chase cam, it all makes GT4 play even better....
I can play GT4 at 60p even on my phone, which is from 2018.
GT2's emulation experience has shifted dramatically into a whole new, amazing experience separate from OG hardware as well. honestly id have never known about all the great strides GT2 and GT4 have been making in the field of emulation if it weren't for a lot of YOUR videos covering it so thank you for that, Rowdy.
I used your guide to set up the high res textures and remove interlacing, thanks!
@@caifabe8050 Caifabe, have u watched clips from Gran Turismo 5 Unseen? Those unseen clips are based from 2010 Racing Game of Gran Turismo 5. One clip in particular featuring all 12 Nijigasaki members singing Colorful Dreams Colorful Smiles. 👍
Along with WWF No Mercy on my N64 , GT4 is probably equal on my most hours played list. Absolutely adored this game back then. Weirdly i don't play the newer ones at all.
Gran Turismo 7 feels very nostalgic, it has GT3/4 vibes 😉
@@PolYGame Gotta agree, GT7 is spectacular. I love GT4 which I run on SteamDeck, but recently got a PS5 and wow - blown away by GT7.
@@PolYGame but only on the intros, everything else went downhill due to online only for even playing single player career mode.
2 of my favorite games of all time
GT7 is everything that was wrong with the series, while also dropped everything that was fun. Feels like a parody of Gran Turismo.
Emulation has been so good this past year.
I mean,I'm literally replaying Gran Turismo 4 on my PHONE! And the fact that there is absolutely no slow downs or anything is amazing. Emulation really enhances old games and makes you see more of what the developers had in mind.
i'm currently playing trough gt4 on my pc. A very smooth experience.
Thanks to the recently discovered cheat codes, I’ve got well over 3 billion credits and all gold on the licenses because I didn’t have the patience.
@@georgem2768 what cheat codes
@@esnebta Select, Left, Right, Right, Down, Up, Up, Left, Down, Up, Right, Left, Down, L1, R1, Select - This gives you 10,000,000 credits.
Select, Select, R1, R2, L2, L2, Select, L1, R1, Select, R2, L2, Select - This golds a license test.
@@kirby1225 what emulator do you use? I'd love to re-play this
When that music hits at 6:16 something just starts to feel different. Like the inner childhood spending hours and hours upon this game, Finding new exciting stuff to do and race around the most beautiful tracks at the time. Man, the nostalgia and memories are something that I will never be able to explain. Thanks for the video!
It really DOES feel like a theme park - almost utopian with how like… safe and free it feels. Even if I can’t afford everything right off the bat, I sure as hell will enjoy the time I spend there and feel oddly… grown-up(?) while doing so
Fun fact: the Japanese version of this features voice acting reading each car’s descriptions.
Shocking...
A tip for B-spec when in an emulatior:
Pressing "Tab" key turns on the Turbo mode which lets the game run at double the speed.
You can also press "F4" to unlock the frame limiter and let the game run as fast as your computer can run it.
When combined with X3 speed from the telemetry screen you can really drop the times needed for the endurance races if you want to go through them using B-spec.
You just have to pay attention to re-apply the telemetry fast forward every time the driver pits, but you should be able to finish a 24h race in less than 4 hours this way.
7:43 The music is region specific it just happens that this time around the PAL version has, appart from a few japanese songs, all the songs from the other regions.
It’s funny you post this cause I’ve been playing the hell outta GT3 lately and maybe this video will get me back into GT4. Love those games so much
Agree. Seems like Gran Turismo 7 has the magic word to GT4: HITORI DAKE NANTE ERABENAI YO!
@@purwantiallan5089 Wth does that mean
Two weeks before my 9th birthday, I was in the hospital for a week with pneumonia. When I got out, my parents let me get a PS2 and this game for it. It really helped me feel so much better and was a feeling I'll never forget. Great nostalgia from the game. It was fun, difficult, and the music was fantastic. Can't believe it's been so long that this game came out now.
IMHO GT3 is still my favourite of the entire series, the PAL soundtrack, the way cars handle, the variety of tracks and championships, Arcade Mode still being a thing were you can both try out cars that you have yet to obtain in GT Mode while maintaining a feeling of progression, and many other things (like the 2 ending movies). I'd argue that GT4 is objectively the best game of the series, easily, but GT3 just hits me way harder both thanks to nostalgia as well as being a great game on its own. Still, GT4 was so much fun. I miss GT games being this good. Great review!
To each their own, personally GT4 is best in everything in the entire series
I remember a few years ago finding photos I took as a kid when the game launched. It really hit me hard. this was a game that really stuck with me.
I remember undertaking the 24 hour Nordschleife…it took me 3 days and I never hoped more about the electricity staying on than during that time!
This game is the reason I said my first swear! I was 9 years old, doing a race. 1st place, going well, suddenly a guy passed me! With all the fury a 9 year old could muster, I said "You arse!"
I still play GT4 to this day on my PS2 Slim. Granted, I had to buy a Component to HDMI converter to play it on my 4K TV, and switch my TV's aspect ratio to 4:3 in order to get rid of the blurry picture, but still, when I bought GT4 in 2005, I was blown away by how incredible it looked. Even 20 years later, it remains one of the best looking PS2 games ever made.
Grand Valley in GT7 is... a sight to behold from GT1 to now.
It's a completely different circuit.
I hope they bring the old one back.
Man moon over the castle always make me drop a tears, what a beautiful music
Loved going back to GT4 after finding the cheats. Licenses all gold, endurance races done in 10 seconds and a car shopping spree that would make Jay Leno blush.
This was one of my favorite games when I was 10. I recently acquired a ps2 and bought a used copy of GT4 at a local store and I’ve been grinding this game way harder than I have any game on PS4 in recent years. The last few months playing have been a wonderful nostalgia trip and I plan to keep playing!
The rear car camera always felt ok for me because it allows me to see the next corner quicker in twisty circuits but I still prefer the hood view in pretty much every game I play. Lovely video on perhaps my favorite game (of any genre) of all time.
The absolute best game ever made, the goat, undisputable!
To me this game was the peak of the series. Since then the way they've implemented progression has ruined it.
That and the car lineup in gt7 with so few road cars
Gt7 in vr is the greatest simulation Racing i've ever played
@@drunkensailor112 I haven't played GT7 in VR but I've played a lot of racing games in VR with a wheel on PC. Takes the experience to a new level.
@@ClellBiggs as a fellow PC player, GT7 VR is better than anything ive played, and ive played them all.
@@CurtisSmal as a Fellow GT & PC fan, There is no argue VR in GT7 is great but that alone isn't enough to justify the game poor shape,, the overall game is a disappointment, No career, payout is way way too low & will take ages to purchase a specific car + in-app purchases was the biggest turn off to even consider buying the game to begin with, i might just wait for them to fix half the game, or get it at a decent discount, genuinely I Still enjoy GT Sports more, Glad i still have my PS4 for that reason, because there is no real reason for me to buy a PS5 at the moment
A timeless masterpiece, so many things they got just right. The menu soundtrack is easily one of the best ever put in a game.
Timeless game, it's eternal, glorious. Nothing will ever beat it.
God damn this is my first real gaming memory. 23 years old now. Feels like a lifetime ago
On PCSX2 you can change controller sensitivity and Gt4 plays so much better as the cars aren't as sensitive and feel a tad more realistic
Agree bro. All 13 Nijigasaki characters including ShioPomu also love Gran Turismo 4.
Favorite in the series. Best ost and best cover art in the series too imo. Still get the replay theater music stuck in my head sometimes.
Setsuna Yuki also love Gran turismo 4 man.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how outstanding emulation is nowadays? I can play GT4 on a Windows computer with an Xbox controller. If you told somebody back in 2005 that it'd be possible, it'd blow their minds and that's only 18 years ago.
i still have nostalgia over your original GT4 video, i was a freshman in high school at the time. time flies
I remember vividly when I was a kid, I would spend hours just navigating through the showrooms looking at the cars. The license tests were hard for me at the time and I had no idea about B-Spec mode so I would grind the sunday cup until I had enough credits to buy new cars.
This game will forever be ingrianed in my childhood, still the best GT. Got a platinum on GT7 but this game has so much memmories.
you can also use frameskipping to make the endurance races very quickly end on b-spec.
This game was a major part of my childhood
One of the many things I remembered was taking any variety of sports car (usually thhe Cien) and racing a head-to-head to win that Toyota rally concept, solely to sell it again and again to buy something else.
Another one was Buying the Saleen with said money, and getting its horsepower to 800, which was mind-blowing for me at that age.
Still my fav in the series, I would love to see a full 4K remake, the Times Square, Grand Canyon and El Captain would be glorious.
Best game ever in my opinion! So many hours played as a kid for years
Dude the License tests are my favorite part. It's a very Japanese style of you taking baby steps to master something. Like the guy who spends 5 years on the rice before he can do the Fish. You must get all golds before you have truly earned your License.
Damn I remember attempting then24 hour at the nurburgring, and using b spec mode to help me out when I needed a break or just wanted the game to play for me for a littlembit while I went did other things. All in all it still took like 13 or 14 hours but man, the prize money and winning a formula 1 car for theneffort was so worth it. That was one of my childhood highlights in gaming.
Fun thing I found out emulating this on the steam deck- GT4 supports controllers with analog triggers! God knows if these existed when the game came out, but their inclusion makes the game shockingly modern when emulated with a modern pad.
I found my old ps2, I got at 6 years old.
I need to revisit all my old games as I never ever finished a single one of them. I didn’t even speak English back then, not even a bit let alone enough to understand menus, missions, lore and storyline.
Luckily, there is a patch for modern controllers for this game that unlocks the full motion of the triggers. It controls like gt5 with the triggers and feels pretty good.
One of my favorite TH-cam channels.
Awesome creator ❤
The game pacing is SOOO much better if you take the license test as you need to progress. Not only does it help you to net get burned out on the tests, but you won't start out with 1 or 2 over powered cars, meaning you'll have more incentive to explore the different cars in the game. I used to do it your way, and it took me so long to see the light...
I've been playing GT4 a bunch on emulator lately, and it really does breathe new life into an already excellent classic. Playing the game with a Logitech G29 wheel really makes each car feel far more distinct, and even the force feedback is emulated properly! Connecting the game to RetroAchievements also adds a lot of challenge as many of the set's achievements require me to limit my car's power for more A-Spec points and drive cars I never would have tried otherwise, as well as adding online leaderboards for license tests and certain time trial challenges. All that, along with upscaling textures and adjusting the chase camera, greatly improves what was already an excellent experience. It's great to see all the improvements people have been adding to these games in recent years, including the GT2 Plus and GT3 Epilogue mods.
Which emulator you're using?
@@Solidus_Hamza PCSX2 Nightly, stable build doesn't have achievement support yet.
Warms my heart to see this vid uploaded after I finished the GT Championship in this game recently.
The game really makes you feel like gran turismo
Gonna like 5 of your videos RN bc you deserve more views.
one of the best PS2 games ever, still have mine!
I remember playing this on PS2.. So much love was put into GT4.. From the graphics, to the little things 13year old me wouldn't know about. This game is goated and id love a ps5 remaster because i dont think they've done better than this title since
This also was the first Gran Turismo with more than 2 camera modes. I always prefered the new hood cam.
People talk about how GT dropped off but holy shit, GT7 in VR is insanity. It's what I dreamt of as a kid.
Great Reviews! I'm very surprised someone like you didnt play Command & Conquer games. Specially C&C Generals is a game you would probably like.
Wait, I thought the music /was/ region-specific? I remember downloading the NTSC version and it was missing so much stuff - Snow Payrol, Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian, even Go With The Flow by QOTSA, which I CANNOT imagine playing GT4 without haha.
the opening cut scene with the song Panama was friggin EPIC
My dad and would play this game together every single day after I got out of school around 2007. Great times.
One of the most beautiful memories I have is playing GT4 with my dad while listening to Jamiroquai.
I've recently bought a PS2 just to play this game :) looks like the best racing game ever made
cause it IS
Last month I finally, FINALLY beat GT4 (100%) after owning the game for almost 15 years. On PCSX2 but still, I finally did it. All A Spec too. It was such a great feeling finally finishing the last lap at Le Sarthe 24H and receiving my black Formula GT.
Was looking forward to this review mate, well done
Back in the day I quit the PS2 after GT3 and switched to the PC with the advent of Windows XP and the challenge of Grand Prix Legends. I have recently purchased a Steam Deck and this is the first game I want to nail. It would seem that there were some cheats within the game that have recently come to light and they have proved quite handy!! A great game and I'm having a ball playing it.
That bassline has been in my head rent-free for DAYS!
Found my old PS2 when I went home for Christmas. I saved over my GT4 save though in my excitement 😢
29:57 I couldn't disagree more, stiff camera is akin to bumper or roof cam, where camera is stiff and rigidly connected to a car because you need to instantly see any car movement, I actually hate floating 3rd person camera because every car movement is very poorly communicated like having a delay (sometimes it can even block you from seeing turn apex), some people like floaty camera which is i guess easier at first, but if you want to extract every bit of performance out of car and track you need stiff locked camera.
GT4 Beta Online is one of the most played online games on PS2 in 2023
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I have none for this game, so some of the stuff you were raving about seemed like defects to me. Nostalgia truly blinds, but that's what makes it so pleasant and i wouldn't change it for anything.
The dive cam in the replays being timed to the track music was phenomenal I want good replay cams to come back!!!
Great video man! I’ve still only played GT5, GT6, GTS & GT7, I really need to pick up a PS2 and the older GT games one day!
One more thing for anyone wanting to start playing the game:
1.6.0 PCSX2 lets you use the Qemu wheel plugin, the 1.7.X Nightly versions do not support wheels, but run much better and let you use mods more easily.
Since I'm running with a wheel I run on the former. When using that, in Emulation Settings change EE/IOP Clamping Mode from Normal to Full (but only after you finish the licence tests), this fixes the text display issues.
In Video GS Plugin settings, disable the Large Framebuffer, enable hardware hacks and in that submenu enable Merge Sprite, Wild Arms Offset, put in Half-pixel Offset to Special (Texture-aggresive), Round Sprite to Full and Texture Offset to X:60 and Y: 00 - This will make the rims on the cars not shake during the replays like you can see in this video.
Wicked video mate! I did the exact same thing with the Toyota Rally Raid Car 😂 loved trying to drift in that game too
24:25 The GT4 disc is dual layered and if your PS2 laser is bad, then it won't read it.
I remember buying 2 copies of GT4 in 2009 because my PS2 wouldnt read my OG GT4 disc.
I replayed the laser a few years ago and it runs fine.
This was an awesome Review! Peak content!
22:48 When Jeremy Clarkson played the NSX in Laguna Seca, he chose Sports Medium tyres that comes preset in GT4 to make it easy for beginners. He should have changed it to Comfort Soft tyres which is modeled after the UHP tyres the NSX would have had as stock. Sports Medium are track tyres. With comfort soft, I was barely 3 seconds quicker than Jeremy's real life time.
Great review of GT4!
I'm currently playing this on my ps2 slim with logitech dfgt. Darn that mission 34!
30:38 It is my understanding that the camera tinkering is a developer menu withing the game, not a mod.
11:57 man i bursted a laugh so loud my neighbours asked if everything is aight
I never played gt4 until we did the speedrun of it. I love gran turismo 4 more than anything and had a phenomenal time playing it. It turned me onto gran turismo and I've been buying and playing them for 3 years now pretty consistently
There is a secret menu on the PS2 version where you can change the chase cam & adjust it how you want
I found it by just typing it in on TH-cam
& It works because I still have my PS2 version of GT4
This game is amazing, I've been playing it on my PS2 through OpenPS2Loader because the dvd drive on the console is broken, and it's been working fine! I recommend it for those who have problems playing on the ps2.
You can pause and save the endurance races, when you go to the box and save the game. Then you can continue the race days later. In the box you can also switch to b-spec mode.
Welcome back Colourshed
still remember my dad buying this for me when i was 10 in some supermarket before christmas. was reading cd case the whole ride home, couldn't believe it said something around 700 cars. good times..
That mercedes benz sonax 190 is one of my favorite cars of all time because of that license test, one of my favorite license tests of all time!
I'm so glad you mentioned the stiff chase cam! Why PD have stuck with this cam for all the following GTs I have no idea. Its the main gripe I have with all the games following 4, yet based on the fact they've never gone back to a chase cam more similer to GT3 or the Forza Motorsport games, I can only assume that their aren't many complaints about it.
For me, its the one of two things that stops me from wanting to go back and play it. The other being that when emulating, mapping the throttle and brake to the triggers of a modern controller doesn't really work and they act more like digital buttons.
Fianlly, not a major issue, but I also personally preferred the analogue HUD dials from 3, as opposed to the digital design in 4, which again has remained the same ever since.
I must be one of the few that really prefers a stiff chase cam. I find it one of the few actually usable chase cams in games - when the cam is loose, I find it almost impossible to work out the slip angle of a sliding car and correct for this - GT5/6's stiff camera is amazing for drifting, because I don't have to guess what is car and what is camera movement.
Gran Turismo 4 is still one of the most beautiful games of all time for me, the style is timeless
i have more memories from gran turismo 5 prologue everything felt so real
What I remember? Pennzoil Nismo Skyline GTR on Norschleife over and over again to set new private records. And nowadays, still hopiong it comes on PC to in some time. Imagine this game, in native 4K with 60+ fps with full gpu power
I’ve been waiting for years thank you
My fave GT!! Loved the coffee breaks :D
Do you ever play with the view from inside the car? I play with the one where you just see the hood. I prefer to see the full vehicle I'm driving, but if I wanna win, chase cam is definitely not it.
Man today I was literally thinking "colourshed should make another gt4 review" and then you post this lol
Never knew of anybody complain about the "stiff" chase camera in GT4 lol.
Honestly I prefer it over the overly shaky cam from the forza games, I wouldn't mind a bit of movement but definitely closer to GT4s
@@zalcan3620 Same here. Its very distracting