The Real Reason Racing Games Declined (April Fools)

[@Canvas12]

Honestly Jake is the goat bro. This man single handedly explained why racing games have declined in less than 3 minutes without making a 10 min, 20 min, 30 min video on it like 99% of the other KZbinrs out there. He is the real deal Let him cook

[@NFSBeast2365]

Amen!

[@jackyu5883]

This man singlehandedly solve the problem of modern racers in 4 minutes, send this video to every developer and the genre will be saved again

[@QF_Dan72]

If a game doesn't have fast moving traffic, the game is trash. You are very brave for speaking the truth

[@unnderneath]

Midnight club need to return

[@GamerAlexVideos]

As a L.A. Rush enjoyer and expert, I can confirm everything here is 100% objectively and subjectively correct. The impact of L.A. Rush itself in the genre can not be understated here, nevermind the 'ahead of its time' traffic cheat that is UNMATCHED to any other racing game TO THIS DAY! Thank you JakeMG for standing up to the evil corporations that don't care for this amazing game and genre.

[@t.k3579]

This vid might be just an april fools joke but you brilliantly described two points: 1. The crazy amount of armchair gaming experts making 1 hour (youtube revenue go brr) "video essays" that adds nothing new to the discussions but just affirms opinions already mentioned by gazillions of other gamers. 2. The traffic cheat in LA Rush, try to mention a modern game that lets you have fun with cheats, there's none. You just can't have that sort of "experimental" fun factor in video games nowadays.

[@gameovertapes]

Just made a petition to make all the old Criterion developers develop L.A Rush 2, we need to stand up if we want to make a change. Racing game gamers, rise up 😤

[@shawklan27]

Bro playing familiar games I've played before like the burnouts, midnight clubs, flatouts to discovering some solid titles I've never played before like juiced, tokyo drift and auto modellista on my ps2 lately made me realise how insanely strong the quality of racing games used to be.

[@revolverocelot3741]

Actually the reason why NFS MW 2005 was so beloved was because of the Burger King Challenge

[@EMOSEN]

Very based video , he is soo true

[@_anon]

I've been saying this for years. Forza devs have been pouring so much time and energy into character customization from clothes to hair styles to even prosthetics. Yet they don't even stop and think to add the most important character customization of all: big head cheat.

[@Artificeral]

I actually think this fast traffic cheat looks super fun. It's like a reverse Burnout. Like, every traffic car goes as fast as a player's car would in a Burnout game, and your car is the traffic they would smash into.

[@m.raihanammarfachrezixpplg7898]

Dang man, you just made me remember of my save file got corrupt after I forgot to turn off the traffic mod before I leave the game lol. One more fun cheat I remember was a gravity field (I think) in 1st GRID where every opponent you touch gets fricking slingshot'ed really hard into the air and wrecked into the wall. And it just works perfectly with how the game physics work

[@yugenboy]

Turns out, the real reason why racing games are declining is the lack of 2000's chaos

[@heimanlee5955]

I can recall when Japan was the place for smaller developers get on their takes on driving/racing games-likes of Touge, Shutokou and even Super Taikyu. There was even a PS1 game of drivers license tests simulator before Chrysler's similar web game.

[@hereskyubi3333]

Apart from this video being for Apirl Fools, I get some points here. The traffic and sense of speed not only challenged players, but also made it more fun to weave between cars in your vitrual tuned up Honda Civic. Burnout Revenge is a great example, where the traffic can even be used as a weapon. I'm not saying that racing games should allow you to take down other racers by having you chuck traffic in their general direction, but you get my point.

[@Korrmotive]

very well explained. 10/10

[@navox4658]

Ahhh I should know that now is 1st April

[@Canvas12]

Lol it’s still March 31st for me

[@NFSBeast2365]

😂😂😂

[@miniotgf]

Out of all possible songs i didnt expect the gran turismo psp soundtrack

[@RiC3R69]

And That's Why I'm Still Playing Racing Games From PS1 & PS2 Era

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

I like how they add crazy modifiers to enjoy racing games in a different way, like Heavy car on NFS High Stakes, but on a side note I'll tell you also another main reason racing games are declining in the mainstream, lack of variety, and it seems as the colorful, fun side of racing games has rubbed off on a lot of people, hell, even racing gamers i know loved arcade racers from back in the day and these days, only are interested in racing sims a hundred percent and won't accept any new arcade racers that ever comes out, it's a depressing mindset, I know.

[@KemonoGamer75]

I adore the Camaro from L.A. Rush so much. Infact i do love American classic muscle cars.

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

@@KemonoGamer75 I love muscle cars too, but I'm not a fan of LA Rush, it sucked!

[@aggressivedriver9109]

The best video essay of all time!

[@Rohit.Gaikwad]

0:23 Gran Turismo PSP Version Music Dealerships

[@wildsword6856]

Had a feeling that you were going to post on April fools day and I hope that racing games can make a huge comeback especially arcade racing games

[@ChadSpittingTruth.]

Sadly this comment look like twitter argument, Also you fell off and get good

[@wildsword6856]

How is my comment is a Twitter comment even though it's not and how and "sadly you fell off and get good" who says I was popular, what are you talking about?

[@wildsword6856]

If you have such a problem with me them let's talk if not just leave me alone

[@SpeedsterGT7913]

Translated by Google: Hey in this 2023 we are going to have many racing games like: The Karter 2 KartRider Drift Disney Speedstorm The Crew Motorfest Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Forza Motorsport reboot Track Mania And others.

[@sideswipebl]

Finally, now I get it

[@Crusherblaze]

Blur is cool though because it is a Combination of NFS and Mario Kart

[@TheCanadianGTR]

this is one of the real videos of all time

[@ViperRacing7]

As far as I can see, I can smell the sarcasm but at the same time you actually have a point. Games just straight up don't have cheat codes anymore or anything similar, the closest we get is the time savers pack stuff which was started to be put in games from around Burnout Paradise and beyond (I believe anyway) and for me that was the end. Why work your way through progression when you can skip straight to the finish, a theory that still makes no sense to me and ruins racing games in general. But hey that's just me, great video as always Jake :)

[@Paulowpalace]

Yo, what the...that's not the only...wait...(Checks calendar) aaaah, April 1st.

[@illustriousfreedom.9745]

Couldn't have picked a better time to put this one up lmao

[@Baschemon]

LA Rush was my jam... just because of this I'll be playing this later today!

[@ChadSpittingTruth.]

Yet, now the history repeats itself

[@boifixed]

I forgot today is 1st of April..

[@RalcolfWolfcoon-cj2zi]

I didn't know you play L.A. Rush? It's one of the most hardest games of all time.

[@teddysadcat]

Jake was so real for this vid, he should run for president

[@shakerx4117]

Exaaaaaaaaaaaaactly you're right , modern racing are just lifeless compared to old games (i liked how you used la rush as an example, it was so much fun)

[@shira_yone]

Very real and true

[@sonic49ph]

ngl I felt bored for the slow traffic. Mods could do the work, but it's not the same as cheats. Racing games should be more precise on everything.

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

Who made LA Rush?

[@nikolygtx8848]

i started up Forza 5 and i was showed in cutscenes that they are all inclusive, they had fat black guy, disabled guy, they made sure pronounces are correct, there are non white characters, if you don't make them, all that while having no story telling, not to mention i needed to play bullshit intro races i had no joy in playing, took me 30 min to start no story game, settings need restart of game, that again need 10 min to start up even with everything skipped, and i cannot stress this enough, we are not even 1% hyped for those events that they are forcing in racing games ,i would rather download some need for speed and play it again then this uninterested crap of game, can be in race in old need for speed in 1 min

[@despe954]

good thing he didn't say nothing about NFS Carbon so that should have get remaster :) before L.A Rush :tf:

[@mahiru20ten]

i feel like lack of "cheats" in current era games makes people have less fun playing. We could have something like cheats activated lobbies in online play or something like that.

[@997tt7]

The real reason why racing games declined (real) My favourite moment was when Jake said "it's racin' time"

[@twongi3000]

Is that fuckin uhhhhh gran turismo psp music

[@MerrillDragonAge]

warra video 👏 👏 👋 👏 👏 👏 👏 warra video 😔😞☹️ completely agree 🎉😢😭

[@a_p_vox]

Despite of how pretty well summarized the answer of Jake was, I'll put it in simple words so anyone can understand: The cause of the decline for Racing as genre, is the LACK OF FUN!

[@USSHammerology]

Seems like IRacing destroyed sim racing. No one wants to compete with that sim site.

[@OpheliaViolet-Z07]

The boat: ight imma head out

[@KemonoGamer75]

Ay :>

[@dyaanahmad5079]

Blame on critics

[@TallTapper]

because car

[@Jazative]

real

[@joaquintamayo3126]

With this inflation can’t expect nothing good

[@snuron]

no fast traffic cheat from LA Rush? Hah, interesting.

[@SpeedsterGT7913]

Translated by Google: I don't think they will die because today there are racing games that are alive like Forza Horizon 5, Need For Speed ​​Unbound, Gran Turismo 7, Wreckfest and others.

[@fryrob2019]

I dont agree with this one. This makes game more messy

[@ahmadrafi8087]

Dont take it f-ing serious

[@fryrob2019]

@@ahmadrafi8087 yes I am serious.

[@speed4brainz]

😂

[@weaz3r379]

real