>figures out the open world car free roam format on the PS1 while GTA was still 2D top down >does nothing with it and allows GTA to steal their thunder and become one of the highest grossing series everIs there a bigger fumble in video games?
>>722563581Gaming history would have looked alot different if they made Driver 2 for the PS2 instead of dragging the PSX into 2000Driver 2 has the template for what would become the open world sandbox but is held back alot by the PSX hardware with the horrible pop in, the shit framerate and simplistic maps
>>722563581>open world car free roam formatNo it doesnt. Driver was not open world, it was linear tracks. It had an illusion of open world though. You must have never played it.What it did do, at the time, was perfect 3d car controls that GTA 3 then blatantly ripped off.GTA was already onpen worl though, just GTA3 made it 3d
>>722563581It was too hard for me 30 years ago :(
>>722563581>>722563821Too focused on the driving, GTA succeeded solely because you could get out of the car and beat hookers to death. Solely. I was there, it was literally all anybody talked about in regards to GTA 3
>>722563581>Is there a bigger fumble in video games?Monolith made the best FPS games ever. Then they just died lol
>>722563581> Is there a bigger fumble in video games?There are few strong contenders
>>722563940>driver>focusses too much on driving
>>722564032>make smash hit Shadow of Mordor and sell millions>follow up with even better Shadow of War and sell millions + another millions from live service bullshit>dieI am completely baffled. Is WB games THAT retarded?
>>722567217Yes
>>722567574Wait wb games is dead?! Fuck no more mad Max or shadows of Mordor!?
>>722563581> Own Driver 1> Remember it being kinda serious crime drama> Play Driver 2 many years later> It's wacky as fuckMy perception of this series is messed up
>>722563940This, GTA (the older ones at least) is always about freedom, fucking shit up in general, not just driving.Driver I think is trying to be like those driving scene in movies like Bullitt or the Driver. They're kind of ahead of their era in a way, now that every AAA game want to be cinematic.
>>722564130Im still so mad that arma 3 never got a proper in depth epoch port over that didnt have any issues around the time standalone bombed. Shit kept the hardcore players on Arma 2 epoch/dayz until the playerbase just completely died off waiting for anything new in '16/17 after playing for god knows how long and bambi's being just non existent because of the skill gap needed at that point
>>722567697Monolith, the dev behind those is dead, killed by WB, the publisher, because... who fucking knows why.
>>722563581>be PUBG>top of the world>a failed horde survival game from Epic copies your game into a side mode>no one cares, the game has been dead for months>"hehe let's sue them">everyone reports it>millions of views>"wait...">millions of children suddenly learn about "free pubg">millions of children see it's "cartoony" and their parents won't scold them for playing it>millions of gamers see it's not made by a bunch of retards and actually works well>Ninja blows up>now you need to resort to mobile slop and farming chinks, as you fade into irrelevancyPUBG needs to be studied.
>>722563581I wonder what it is about that particular highway in Driver 1 and the aesthetic for me.The sunny cloud blue skybox, the lighting and cars and the way the road is lit.I love it so much.
>>722563940Can confirm. My friends and I played GTA2, Driver, etc and when GTA3 came out all we cared about was how awesome it was to get out and beat hookers to death with a baseball bat and blow cars up.
