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If you beat THIS mission, you probably are a gaming God (lemmy.ml)

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[-] dandi8@fedia.io 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just beat this level yesterday!

It becomes easy... Once you know what the tricks are supposed to be, which the game doesn't tell you at all.

For me, these were the tips I needed:

There's a dedicated button for burnout, which makes it super easy to do the 360
the slalom only counts if you do the pillars on one side of the garage BOTH WAYS
To do a backwards 180, drive backwards, then push one direction, then halfway through push the other direction.

Supposedly the PSX version also has a video in the options menu which shows you a dev completing the course, with button prompts on screen.

Oh, and there's a cheat code in-game to skip this level entirely.

[-] hushable@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago

Oh man this was rough. Virgin GTA player vs chad Driver player.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

Driver (1-3) taught me skid and spin recovery so well that it allowed me to recover through a full 360 on an off ramp without incident...other than my heart beating out of my ears.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My gta5 high speed driving through traffic saved me from having a head on collision, there's a spot on the highway where 2 overtaking lanes pass each other, I was over taking on my side, then a car was overtaking a car that was over taking a car and was half on my side, I went full Franklin, slowed time and passed between them like a glove.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Username checks out.

But in all seriousness, I'm glad you and everyone else invovled didn't get hurt there. I'm sure your heart was beating in your ears, was it not? Lol

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

Weirdly I was quite calm about it, just zoned in on a spot down the road and let it happen.

[-] Million@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, I have had that happen before. See that gap between two cars and squeeze through to avoid collision, but somehow manage to hit both of the cars and your car is in someones backyard pool. While the cars you "squeezed through" blast their horn for some reason... (in gta)

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago

I swear they made the cars magnetically connected to backyard pools, I lost countless cars to peoples pools.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago

My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a "slalom"?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day's work, bada-bing bada-boom.

People definitely would've given up nowadays.

[-] TheMinions@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Completely untrue. They would watch some loud obnoxious guy on YouTube teach you how to do it in a clickbait video that’s 10 minutes and 5 seconds long with a sponsor.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

What a memory this unlocked!! The physics of this game made you feel like you were 100% driving a real car. I almost want to play it again now, but honestly I bet that not being able to actually drive as a kid was half of what made it so mesmerizing.

Now it might just be like driving to work :(

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I love my emulators and I have to say that whilst the game has obviously aged, there's still something a little satisfying about throwing the car around in these games.

That said, the map - which looks like it was designed on graph paper - leaves a bit to be desired nowadays. It does get a little boring.

Driv3r really should have been the pinnacle of the series, but it just stands as a testament to why you should never rush your game out. San Andreas was quite possibly the most hotly anticipated game of all time; they were never going to beat that.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Driver San Francisco is the pinnacle in my opinion

[-] Million@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I dont really remember much about the first game besides the mission in the post, but i do remember driver 2 being really difficult game.

That one mission where you have to hijack the truck or something like that, and the car that is pursuing you will just kill you 5seconds into the mission if you slowed down for a turn lol

After 50 resets of the mission i just desided that i will not even try to follow the truck if it takes 2/3 possible paths, just reset and hope for easy route and then T-bone the truck hoping to complete the mission in the first 10seconds.

Or the mission that asks you to take out like 3 cars across the map, with a really strict timelimit, and sometimes the car you hit takes 50% damage per hit, sometimes 5%.

I was definitely going insane at some point in the playthrough.

Also ReDriver 2 PC port of driver 2 exists and is fully playable.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Was there more to the game than this?

[-] HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yes.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

What game is this?

[-] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago

DRIVER

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

[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's not true. There was a tutorial movie in the game. It even displays am input overlay. That's how I learned to beat it all those years ago.

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[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago

If you can dodge a wrench, you dodge the pillars while slaloming.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt7crOA00hE

[-] SnotFlickerman 10 points 3 months ago

I cut my teeth on Interstate 76.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

It beat me.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] dunz@feddit.nu 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Dathknight@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

I still can hear this picture!

Luckily you could skip it, so I was able to play the rest of the game.

Later a gaming magazine had a guide with an optimal route, that helped me to finally beat it. (after hours of practice)

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Un4@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They could also just change the game they sold. I had an early print of Need for Speed Carbon for PS2. I couldn't unlock most of the cop cars due to a bug, iirc. Later burns fixed it

[-] Un4@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Interesting! Back then I had a playstation and a pc. Never have i ever had a patch for any of the games i owned. The magazine mostly had demo versions of games, freeware or sometimes even a full version of a game. However never seen a path! Perhaps i was an ignorant kid not aware of such features.

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In the magazines I bought, they had demos and maybe a crude review video. And when they had some spare space on the CD or DVD, they'd add a folder with patches.