Indy Racing 2000 - Nintendo 64 Review - Ultra HMDI - HD

[@risseer23]

I get tired when these kids cry about graphics,this is what i grew up on and thought it was the best thing ever.

[@n64glennplant]

All subjective I guess 😬

[@risseer23]

@@n64glennplant It is for sure,also had some amazing times with the N64 used to play Battletanks and Goldeneye with my brother and cousins.

[@Julian_Pepper]

I don't like the "graphics above all" mentality either. It's spawned some of the worst games ever made.

[@roguesquadron521]

I still have this game in my N64 collection. Glad I"m not the only one who remembers it! This and Nascar 99 were my jam until I got a GCN, =)

[@jaguarspeed]

I picked this game up new for 10$ at GameStop. At the time I thought it was a pricing error. It was a new sealed game. Took it home not expecting much, boy was I surprised. Many hours of play out of this very well put together game.

[@mannystovall4179]

Can you do a review on Castlevania and Castlevania: Legacy Of Darkness Glenn?

[@AxlTheScourge]

i've been waitng for that one for a while but they re HUGE games XD 16 hours per charatcer

[@n64glennplant]

On my todo list 👍

[@71dembonesTV]

Paradigm is a developer that doesn't get enough credit, imo. They were ahead of their time. I think I have this one but I don't think I ever gave it a proper playthru. Now that I know they had their hands on it; I'll have to give it a try.

[@n64glennplant]

By far the most underrated developer on the console

[@fionali4502]

I hope you'll review Paper Mario eventually. I'll be looking forward to it despite I'm not a fan of JRPGs and RPGs. There is a series I overlooked due to the box art of each instalment but mostly due to the gameplay but it's nothing to do with the Nintendo 64. As for the Banjo-Kazooie series, the game over cutscene single-handedly put me and my sister off the entire series. I didn't revisit the first game until Halloween in 2015. I soon realised it's not as bad as I initially thought. Banjo-Kazooie may be the granddaddy of double act platformers but it's a series I consider myself not to be a fan of. I just can't see myself getting hooked on it.

[@n64glennplant]

I’ll be doing paper Mario soon I think

[@Chiller31916]

Gruntilda from Banjo Tooie was what spooked me as a kid. Not to mention the game over screen when you save and quit the game o.O

[@fionali4502]

@@Chiller31916 Nowadays the cutscene doesn't scare very much compared to back then.

[@Chiller31916]

@@fionali4502 same

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

another title that slipped under my radar back then. ill be picking it up when i come across one!

[@n64glennplant]

Cheap to get too

[@jakekeys88music]

Gold Cup is so good! I love the Midget class and wouldn't even mind if they had a game fully focused on that. Sprint cars were pretty squirrely. This was a game I passed on because of the box art and all. I bought another game instead of this at first (ECW vs. NWO, I think). It was Mature and I was underage; my dad brought me back to the store to return it. This was the other game at the same $5 price and I'd say it worked out pretty well.

[@Rodney-f8h]

Just got this game in my effort to complete the set but as an Indianapolis resident I get a little thrill out of Indy car games good to hear it has some chops! Looking forward to giving it a go.

[@n64glennplant]

I’m a pacers fan so always enjoy seeing anything Indiana based show up in games

[@MrTamazoid]

Baten Kaitos on Gamecube is the game for me that I ignored growing up due to the name. I vividly recall looking at the box art a number of times in my local gamestore, being confused by the boxart and name and then putting it down. It was only years later that I played it and quickly fell in love with it.

[@n64glennplant]

I don't know that one, maybe ill need to check it out!

[@M1XART]

There was this game called Cart Fury for PS2 that was very similar to Indy Racing 2000, particulary in sense of speed. As for overlooked game, i must admid that i nearly overlooked exelent Star Wars:SOTE, and totally overlooked Rakuga Kids and now it's my fafourite N64 Fighter.

[@n64glennplant]

Oh man I really don’t like rakuga kids 🤯

[@M1XART]

@@n64glennplant Camoon, fatalitys are beyond wildest imagination and character animations are so fluid and smooth...

[@caseyprovost1211]

There aren't enough indycar games so this is one that I have loved in the past. I watch F1 and Indy and love both but I feel like there should be more Indy racing games.

[@n64glennplant]

I’m just happy with the f1 games personally 😂

[@n64glennplant]

I’m just happy with the f1 games personally 😂

[@pal-of-pals]

The Gold Cup mode really reminds me of the Grand Prix mode on the Sega Saturn port of Virtua Racing.

[@comyxcon4gaming860]

Ironically, the go-cart like Indy cars are far more easy to control than the normal, regular ones; whether this unbalanced game mechanic was overlooked by the developers, remains to be seen, but I'd give it a spin; regardless if there are other higher quality Indy racers on the N64. And as always, great review!!

[@n64glennplant]

I love racing games so I guess I always see positives even in the average ones

[@comyxcon4gaming860]

@@n64glennplant They're like hidden gems and completely worth your time.

[@71dembonesTV]

By the way, those midget cars are the most quintessentially 'Murican form of flat track racing in real life. 500hp Big block V8s stuffed into what is essentially a go-kart. Really popular in the midwest especially. Fast, loud, and dangerous. Yee-haw

[@n64glennplant]

Need to see more of them in that case!

[@71dembonesTV]

N64 Glenn Plant Knoxville, Iowa has some of the bigger events. I'm sure there's some YT videos...

[@mannystovall4179]

N64 Beta Project Idea: Resident Evil 0 N64 and Eternal Darkness N64.

[@n64glennplant]

No playable versions of either of those which was the purpose of that series really 🤨

[@kryyptyyk2]

Miss your reviews. :)

[@n64glennplant]

Hope to be well enough to continue soon 👍

[@wadelockard5592]

I wouldn't mind a decent racing game on n64 but one time i watched your review of top gear overdrive and bought it cuz you said it was good and i ended up hating it lol

[@n64glennplant]

world driver championship is the game you want for n64 racing, that and beetle adventure racing are perhaps the 2 best

[@JamesBondSPY007]

@@n64glennplant And RUSH!!! That was MY fav! Rush 2 was an even better sequel!

[@bengolious]

Glenn, what would be your picks for the N64 Classic, assuming Nintendo chose twenty games like they did with the SNES Classic?

[@Daemion64]

This game is pretty good in my opinion, but for a real racing game, nothing beats WDC. That game is just so much fun.

[@n64glennplant]

Yeah WDC is epix

[@TekMoliGy]

one n64 game i skipped because i assumed it would be generic and boring from the name is Polaris snocross. Its actually pretty fun

[@n64glennplant]

yeah I quite liked that too, not superb but more fun than expected for sure

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

5:41 I was disappointed to get *_Final Lap Twin_* for the *_TurboGrafx-16_* for xmas... Boy, was I WRONG: It's amazing RPG !!!

[@thomasphilpott4095]

Love your reviews. What's your fav racing game?

[@n64glennplant]

DKR for Kart racing, but something more serious on N64 probably WDC

[@ruekurei88]

I have a feeling this channel may get a lot more popular when the N64 mini is announced and released.

[@n64glennplant]

Perhaps, but I’ve always said that I’m just happy being organic as I can just about reply to most comments these days 😬

[@n64glennplant]

Perhaps, but I’ve always said that I’m just happy being organic as I can just about reply to most comments these days 😬

[@ruekurei88]

@@n64glennplant Well I hope your channel does blow up. You have great content and this channel is criminally underrated and underappreciated.

[@Soonjai]

I guess I have to give ths one a try then once I´m done with WDC. I really liked the F1WGP games back in the day and I´m still surprised that the concept of the Scenario Mode never took of.

[@n64glennplant]

Yeah that’s such a cool concept wasn’t it

[@NigelXW]

Are you joking? Those graphics are lovely! And, I know I critique the technical aspects of your reviews, I really love them I do, just a few things stick out at me.. my question this time is, why do you leave the interlaced footage, well, interlaced?

[@n64glennplant]

hmm, compare these visuals to those of say F1 wgp 1 or 2 and they pale in comparison. As another person put it below - are they lego cars :)

[@NigelXW]

If that is indeed the case, I'm almost scared to go and see what Lego Racers looks like :P

[@martinalther6661]

Are you doing F1 Pole Position 64 soon? I think that’s the only F1 licensed N64 racer that still needs a review.

[@n64glennplant]

That’s the last f1 hame yup!

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Ah, neat review to see! I've always been curious about this one - I remember seeing screenshots of it in certain magazines and thinking it just looked so.... clean, I guess. "Barren" more like it nowadays maybe, haha, but it always looked like a game where it would control well and have a smooth frame rate. Glad to see it in action and hear that Paradigm, as always, did a great job :) And man, that's a weird topic to hear you bring up when just yesterday I had completed _Anarchy Reigns_ on the PS3 and I was mad at myself for sleeping on it when it originally came out (^-^) I mean, to be fair, the things I didn't like about the looks of it back in the day - the terrible soundtrack, the focus on multiplayer - are still things I didn't care for when I played through it this past week. Plus I really, _REALLY_ hated _MadWorld_ on Wii so I was just closed-off to the idea of any kind of follow-up (even if AR isn't, like, a direct sequel or anything). The thought that they could've refined the design never even crossed my mind back then. But here I was, now enjoying the heck out of it's short-but-sweet single player campaign, appreciating a lot of the unique ideas it brought to the "3D Brawler" and "Free-roaming fighter" genres... and also recognizing some ideas that popped up not only in _MadWorld_ but also in _God Hand_ (when they were Clover) and would later STILL be iterated on in titles like _Transformers Devastation_ and _TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan._ Heck, I even didn't have to suffer through the soundtrack since I played while listening to podcasts or music on my PC. I mean, it wasn't perfect - like any game it had it's share of questionable design choices that could frustrate - but it definitely was worth the play and overall was really good. I found myself feeling pretty bad when the credits rolled, because I know Platinum Games' had a rough go of it until _Metal Gear Rising_ and _NieR Automata._ They had a string of disappointing games, sales-wise, and that always hurts an independent studio like that. It's definitely the fault of gamers like me in the end, at least partially, for sleeping on titles like _Anarchy Reigns._ I definitely gotta keep an open mind more often in the future.

[@n64glennplant]

ive not played that, maybe ill need to look into it

[@wadelockard5592]

Why did you hate madworld if you don't mind me asking? I freakin loved it

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

@@wadelockard5592: Well, I liked _some things_ about it, certainly. I appreciate how well-realized the aesthetic was (the definitely nailed the graphic novel/manga look; it's definitely not half-assed) and, conceptually, I thought it was a pretty good idea for a beat'em up. To have created these elaborate game spaces loaded with stuff to use in your combos and inject a lot of dynamism & variety into the brawling via those challenges and stuff IS a great idea. But in practice I found it really disappointing. If I remember my experience correctly, that stylish black-and-white aesthetic caused everything in the background to.... well, look pretty samey while running around. Made it hard for the props to stand out and get easily noticed while you were actually fighting people. The score multipliers never helped since you needed to hit the score thresholds to move on, so there was no incentive to ever NOT be beating guys up, right? A lot of my time was just relentlessly beating up people with the same few props that I _did_ notice to keep the score up - it was only AFTER the next area unlocked and the spawn waves stopped for the current section that I THEN would be able to look around and spot all the cool stuff I _could've_ used in the combos. Besides a few core things like the tires and meathooks that were seemingly everywhere, I kept finding it really hard to find and use the more elaborate things like the spike walls and.... y'know actually, I forgot a lot of 'em, sorry. It's been years. Eventually it just became a near-constant cycle of "Enter area, kill a bunch of dudes as quickly as possible so the score multiplier doesn't die down, unlock next area, notice the cool stuff that didn't get used as you move to the next area, be sad at the wasted opportunities" :P But yeah, y'know, it's one of these things where I liked it a lot _in theory,_ but I felt too many pieces of the design actually worked against the strengths of the game. Those game spaces were made to be explored, with props begging to be noticed so you could use them in your fighting. It really wanted to be this big, crazy combat sandbox, having players mixing and matching as many things as they could to have a flashy, gory time... and I'm totally willing to bet that maybe the graphic style only killed & muddled details for some people like me and there are others who had no problem parsing stuff from the backgrounds _instantly._ I'm sure there are people who learned the ins and outs of every stage through trial-and-error and can play it like some kind of awesome, incredibly violent, combo'ing machine hybrid of Jean Claude van Damme and Tony Hawk :D But with the timer, the score/combo-multipliers dying down constantly demanding you kill another dude _right this instant,_ and the look of the game preventing anything from standing out, it just never really gel'd (gelled?) with me. I thought it felt real confused, and just wasn't as refined as I wished it was. I wasn't having any fun with it. Platinum's done a much better job with a lot of those ideas for beat'em ups since. Sorry for writing so much and probably sounding a bit repetitive in places. Just wanted to explain where I'm coming from pretty clearly. I hope that answers your question.

[@rojodiver3344]

I'd have to say my biggest overlooked title would be Conkers Bad Fur Day. I think at the time it was promised I'd seen it as "just" another Banjo Kazooie (I know, silly). I started University in 1999 and think by mid to late 2000 I'd played Perfect Dark to death and all the games previous and gave the console to my brother, missing titles like Conkers Bad Fur Day, Star Wars Episode 1: Battle for Naboo and other titles I didn't know we're released.

[@n64glennplant]

That’s always a cool thing to find, when you leave a console before it dies then coming back to find the games you missed out on

[@comyxcon4gaming860]

You must've been kicking yourself HARD over that.

[@pinkeyedweasel]

dude, a mystical ninja starring goemon review would be cool

[@n64glennplant]

Haha so funny you should mention that....come back Friday night 👍

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I overlooked Flatout 1 and 2 because of the name. I thought they were just Burnout clones, how wrong I was!

[@ChloeClements34]

Great review and I thought the same, give it a shot but its likely guff. I really enjoyed and have gone back to it many times. It's better than the NASCAR games and filled niche I never needed to fill.

[@n64glennplant]

Oh yeah the nascar games really aren’t that fun

[@VampireLord1024]

I enjoy PIT maneuvering other NPC racers in racing games.

[@n64glennplant]

thats a fun thing to try

[@VampireLord1024]

@@n64glennplant Yeah, I like seeing the other drivers spin out. I guess I'm a bit of a meanie to them. XD

[@Area51UFOGynaecology]

reminds me a bit of that f1 racing game on atari jaguar, very twitchy controls and you need to spend some time with it before you get used to it

[@n64glennplant]

I think I know the one you mean

[@DOYLETWAT]

Did they just remove the sky box to simulate night time?? Haha

[@n64glennplant]

Likely! Haha

[@SnpAlex14]

I know that is a hard game to review but how about reviewing the ocarina of time? I'd like to see what you have to say! Continue the good work.

[@n64glennplant]

ill do Zelda's one day, to be honest if I wanted the channel to rocket then I could cover them both years ago but I prefer to cover games which people may not have heard of first. don't get me wrong, ill do them but not sure when

[@Schimnesthai]

Looks good,not the best on 64, but good.

[@n64glennplant]

Agreed

[@AxlTheScourge]

Glenn i got a challenge for you. Is there any game on the N64 that Is Realistic like F-1, Has the Speed of F-Zero X but has the Drifting mechanics of Mario Kart? I'd love a realistic racer that rewards you for drifting with extra speed. Drifting is soooo satisfying tn kart racers and i beg for a realistic racer that DOES mimic Mario karts Tight drifting and sparks for tells

[@n64glennplant]

Tried WDC? Ridge racer also loves drifting but that’s more arcade

[@sirdudebrian4026]

They really do say it!!

[@n64glennplant]

haha :) I know what you mean

[@bumpndump9643]

I wonder how many N64 racing games you have left:p

[@n64glennplant]

Not too many to be honest!

[@Imgema]

So what's next for the channel after you review everything?

[@InputArchive]

Imgema Maybe he could do N64 hardware reviews? Or N64 games that have seen ports or re-releases and compare them to the original? There's lots of possibilities

[@hectorcastellanos7025]

Is this game compatible with the T150 wheel? XD VR ready? Hahaa

[@n64glennplant]

that would be funny

[@UrbanArtifact]

Formula Racing is more popular outside of America than in. I wonder why there isn't a Formula racer outside of America in PAL form back then.

[@n64glennplant]

We have lots of F1 racing games including an exclusive on the n64. Indy racing just isn’t popular here, same as NASCAR etc

[@UrbanArtifact]

@@n64glennplant fair enough

[@patbrown911]

The Indy Car Series is pretty popular here in Brazil as well. Now we are falling in love with Nascar too.

[@Jorgemagottnumber9]

I cant tell if those are real cars, or lego cars

[@n64glennplant]

haha I know what you mean fella

[@corbinmartinez9620]

I overlooked 1080

[@n64glennplant]

Damn....damn

[@corbinmartinez9620]

@@n64glennplant I can't believe you saw my comment! Can you sub to me??

[@hondamanvtec2894]

The controller looks f.. terrible Nice graphics 👍

[@n64glennplant]

It’s a fiddly one

[@Wesley_C]

This graphics are looked arcadey.

[@chalkitdowm]

Arguearably ;)

[@n64glennplant]

couldn't help that one, its hard to talk when I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth haha

[@chalkitdowm]

@@n64glennplant The occasional slip ups are part of the appeal!

[@LeoA2600]

The horrible brainless AI ruins what's otherwise a fine game.

[@n64glennplant]

Yeah I much prefer f1 games than this