As Good as it Gets, Grand Prix Legends in 2021
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2021
- This is Grand Prix Legends, as good as it gets in 2021. This sim from 1998 has been painstakingly modded and improved over the years by its community and hardly resembles its stock self. Stunning recreated circuits and more accurate car/physics models immerse you in what racing would have been like in the 1960s. Other sims have come a long way, but there is something special about GPL which brings me back year after year. As a complete package, nothing can compete with GPL, and its only getting better and better...
Install Tutorial coming soon!
Mods used in Video:
Spa67: spa67.gplworld.de/
1967x: 67f1.gplworld.de/
FFBv3: www.mediafire.com/file/yt7bqz...
Head Movement V3: gplmotorworks.gplworld.de/
No Letterbox: gplmotorworks.gplworld.de/
and countless many others....
Email - gplaps67@gmail.com
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Appreciate everyone who watches/supports my videos! I wanted to try something a little different with this to show off GPL in all its glory. I hope you enjoy 18 minutes of flat out pure, beautiful racing. Who could imagine a sim from 1998 could do this... More videos coming soon!
I do really appreciate your vids but you shouldn't pronounce the 's' at the end.
Francorchamp is phronetic.
Its a pleasure support a classic car game channel! ;)
Are there any more online servers like VROC or is it all offline?
Great video, really looking forward too the install video. I was at the store the morning it came out, I love this game but have tried reinstalling it many times but it would never run correctly. Would also like to see how you set up force feedback, much appreciated.
This was beautiful. I'm not sure what's more impressive: that Papyrus was able to create this sim 23 years ago or how far the modding community has been able to push it.
However you look at it, it means that Papyrus did something right and made it easy for modders to update it far beyond it's lifecycle. There are other games that I tried and even if they are "updated" the problems are way to big for it to be enjoyable.
Another game that leaps to mind is STALKER. Although not as heavily modded graphicly as this one, there are complete conversions that practically turns it into a new game and it's still a joy to play.
@@azynkron Falcon 4 is also still active today with Falcon BMS and that game is from 98 as well :)
GTA San Andreas modding community is pretty damn impressive too
Perhaps both!
@@ferrari2k Incredible sim! Old school with great graphics.
It's nerve racking to drive this era in a game, i can't imagine the nerves of steel they had in real life with lack of track safety and car. A passion drove them that's for sure
Many of those guys went through much worse in WW2. People today can't even handle wearing a tiny cloth mask.
Yeah I once saw an interview with one of these guys. It was a bit earlier, back in the 50's - but he basically told the interviewer he was glad he wasn't being shot at so the racing didn't seem so scary.
More than passion... adrenaline. They lived fast and died hard. True man accept the dangers of living by their own rules and dont blame others.
PS: Fangio once said he was a survivor first and then a champion.
@@truantray ahem
Many drove by prestige as well. Many well made men who payed for everything themself like swedish driver bonnier and Many more. Brats playground back in the days
GPL stays perfectly planted to my hard drive until someone puts a "raise fist" function into Assetto Corsa
Honestly....how is this not a thing? How is it in 2021 we cannot flip the bird?
@@truantray I only know that I do it plenty in VR and am perplexed that my AC hands don't mimic the same action
@@truantray I can see modders creating that feature, but not the devs, since the game and most other sims are rated for a general audience. They don't want to risk it, because you can never tell what minor indecency can mess up the rating.
@@carl8790 You can already raise your hand in F1 games
it is now a thing lol. full hand motion and all fingers with VR.
Graphically it feels less photorealistic than new sims, but way more artistic and still detailed. Really charming and unique in that way. Like comparing digital to film photography. Just has more mojo
The comparison is spot on. Film has more soul, even though digital may have deeper resolution and graphical integrity.
The modders in the early 2000s were literally artists who got amazing depth and realism using textures over simple poly models.
I like the look of this and all of the later Papyrus sims. On a decent modern computer, it looks like Hi-res digital TV, which I like better than the blendy (did I just create a new word?) film look.
@@truantray original 1998
Jochen doing you the dirty on the run down to Masta - fist shake was well deserved!
But hey that's rindt right, very aggressive haha
haha that was brilliant
It amazes me that a game this old, can still convey the sheer intensity of speed, and visceral tension of a race back then, and do so beautifully!
Stunning to watch and a pleasure to marvel at your skill, thank you 🏁👌😉
Plus the crashes....the crashes were awesome and have since been nerfed by licenses.
It always was the best sim - and frankly it still is.....
2021 Eau Rouge: The most dangerous turn of the track.
1960's Eau Rouge: The safest turn of the track.
Speed sure can make a difference.
Let me correct that for you
2021 Eau Rouge: The only dangerous turn of the track.
1960's Eau Rouge: Just another dangerous turn of the track.
Loved how you raised a hand at 5:40 when Jochen chopped you off 😅
Notice how Rindt started from behind Jake and overtook him, then Gurney a lap after, and then McLaren the lap after that. Why? Because on race day he had a better race pace than he managed on qualifying. This unpredictable and dynamic behaviour is unique to GPL, compared to modern sims where AI always performs the same, race to race, session to session.
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season does that as well. Sometimes an AI will qualify well and then fall down the order in the actual race, sometimes vice versa, and sometimes their qualifying pace will be on par with their race pace. More games need to do this
@@gp75motorsports that is because it's from the same dev, Papyrus
@@davidenativo Sometimes the sheer detail in Papyrus' sims still floors me even today. Their games were way ahead of their time when they released and are still deeper in some respects than a lot of current sims, even.
I love these little details and appreciate that papy games have them. To be clear though gmotor games and crammond games have the ability to set individual quali and race speeds so it's not entirely unique to just papyrus. Some carsets probably use them to a better degree than others.
Papyrus was 20 years ahead of the sim game. Don't forget: actual crash damage physics, random mech failure, overrev failure, full marshaling. Features we all lost to the altar of better graphics, like balloons in races.
Even though I spent most of my time veereing all over the road with keyboard or joystick back in the late 90's, I still recognised GPL as something unique.
Seeing Spa driven like that was a joy. Though No.14 might have deserved a punt, if I'd been driving!
I can't wait for the install tutorial
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Its really the aesthetic of GPL that hooks me. Something about its graphical style is super pleasing, but I cant put my finger on what it is exactly.
Spot on. I think it kind of looks like an oil painting in motion.
Haven't played this in 10-12 years (possibly more?) One of the most unforgiving/most rewarding sims I've ever tried. One of the last races I was in with some friends at Spa, I thought I'd try about 10 beers prior to the start.... The video I made of the 14 rolls and flips my Honda did off of Blanchimont was fking hilarious.
Dude your videos have such a nice, chill vibe to them they put me in a positive mood. Thanks man
GPL was the real game-changer. Masterpiece.
I am from Belgium,sometimes i go drive large parts from Les Combes to the last section before Blanchimont.Wich are public roads nowadays only interupted by few roundabouts.The creators from this track in GPL did a fantastic job.
Back to the good ole days of sim racing when the AI actually seemed to have personality rather than the bots we are stuck racing against in every single sim today. GPL forced me to learn the Green Hell because I was addicted to constantly improving my GPLrank, spending hours hotlapping just to find that next 0.1
Thats what i call a real simmer, "spending 10 hours for 0.010s"
To be fair to iRacing, They're still plugging away at the AI and my god they made something fun as hell to race with. Just need to get the Lotus 49 in there to recreate a 67' Indy 500.
That sound!
It's crazy to think that within ten years of these cars, they would all have massive wings, airboxes and there would be a 6 wheeler on the grid!
Unbelievably fantastic for this ol' granny to be so beautiful in 2021... I was so happy to just finish some laps without crashing in this SIM... watching you mastering it is just incredible🤤😃
Absolutely amazing. Thank you Jake for all you do for these older sims. It makes my heart smile.
How good is that! Awesome video, great to see!
THIS and Papyrus Indy Car Racing are the sims that got me into sim racing. Back on my 486DX2...when you got to the point where you could slide around the corners and become one with the momentum. I still fire it up every now and then. One of the best modding communities. The replays were awesome as well. Nice drive!
Happy to see install tutorial coming soon, I need the help, thanks man, and by far my fav channel
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This just looks far more charming to me than all the modern games, old tech was way cooler.
Charming is a good word, I know what you mean
@Federico Riggio AC will never give you the same thrills GPL gives, even with the same vehicles and circuits
There just would be too many money back requests if such a hard-to-play sim would be released today.
Actually, I guess that's true with modern IRL """F1""" too.
@@ceeam "dumb games for a dumb generation" as i saw on a comment section regarding flight simulators, totally agree with that...
I feel like sometimes the amount of effects, particles and all the other distracting this are... Well distracting
Proper usage of GPL's most unique feature at 5:38!
The author should use the side-look GPL feature too in his videos, IMHO.
@@ceeam he does
I always waved to all of the corner workers on my cool down lap heading back to the pits haha.
That had to provoke a fist!
Saw about at least two, maybe as many as four more times I would have done it right after that.
@GPLaps This was incredibly soothing, and I really enjoyed it. Your driving skills are exceptional. Thank you😍
i keep coming back and watching this over and over. this indeed is something else! the word beautiful is falling short to describe entirely...
thank you for the experience, much appreciated.
regards.
This was amazing! I love your regular videos but this feels like you dumped me into the cockpit of the car and as far as possible, I participated in the race! Nope I wasn't controlling the car (thankfully!) but this has got to be the closest simulation of these golden days of F1!
Again Thank you!
I absolutely loved GPL and Spa was my favourite track. Thanks for bringing it back to watch again after many years. Rouen and Mosport were great too.
I swear you're the only sim racing channel that I can actually sit down and watch an entire race with. Besides SouthPaw Racer's Maxx Bantz races of course.
Grand Prix Legends and Richard Burns Rally are in a class of their own!
true master pieces, ive revisited these so many times over the years... they have aged well!
Brilliant video Jake. Long time GPL`er here. Love the stuff you do in general but the GPL stuff is awesome!. Great drive too. Top drawer!
Nicely driven! This brings back memories, I used to race online at VROC back when it started, and I helped run the UKGPL league. :)
Wonderful being able to hear the cars... loved it!!!
EPIC run, I know how hard this is, and you my friend were in The Zone! GPL was ahead of its time for Sim Racing! What a paradox.
I don’t know why it popped up in my playlist two years after it was posted, but after watching the video I’m inspired to reload GPL. Thanks for sharing!
500th like ;-) I still remember when I bought my first PC in 1998, thinking how nice it would be to have a F1 GP PCgame with older cars..and it to my joy, it was released shortly after. Enjoyed it back then, did only a few upgrades (available at the time) and never was that good to keep at it & lost touch with sim racing after a while. Nice to see the quality upgrades/textures. Very smooth and some nice racing to boot. Great stuff !
Just watched a couple of your videos, this and GTR 2, great games, lots of hours spent playing them!
Great video and sim!
Did we collectively state 20 years ago, ‘yep, these are the graphics done now, we need no more’. Incredible work keeping this fresh.
Thank you for the amazing video. Was so relaxing to watch. (I'm sure it wasn't relaxing to do!)
Still the best sim I ever played with wheel and pedals. I loved the game but had no idea it was still being played with these brilliant community updates. Looks like I my have to get some new gear ! Fantastic !
This is stunning!
Great drive! Played this game a little when it first came out but never drove them with any great skill until many years later racing the ported version of these cars in Assetto Corsa with a bunch of mates in our sim racing group :D
Now look and what you've done! I'm going to have to find and dust off my GPL disk and give it another run! Great vid! Cheers!
GPL is such a tremendous and enduring achievement. It’s hard as nails, requires aeons of patience, obsesses over the detail and is almost completely incomprehensible to those who lack a knowledge of Grand Prix racing in the 1960s. I love it.
Brilliant! Love to see racing like this- the way it should be
Very well driven mate, like a lunatic
Nice race! Good car choice!
Great Video! Thanks for doing it.
5:33 Great wheel to wheel fight, beautiful racing 👍💪😀, best regards from Katowice, Poland.
You made that Cooper look better than it had any right to be on a high-speed circuit like Spa, amazing job. The Cooper is probably my favourite car to drive in GPL, probably because of its forgiving handling that won't punish my sloppy driving too much.
Wow....this sim is so hardcore.... fantastic driving....Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍
Good video. Just the racing without the commentary adds quite a bit of authenticity. I bought GPL the day it was released. Still sim racing today. I also took up residency at the local movie theater when Grand Prix arrived.
I remember when that sim came out. I had a Logitech Wingman Formula Force wheel/pedal set. With a gear driven wheel and non load-cell pedals that sim was undriveable. I assume that nowadays with a modern rig (i.e. DD + load-cell pedals), it must be a bit more manageable. Nonetheless, this sim caters to a small percentage of the sim racing community because it is so hard to keep the cars on the track. Based on what i just saw on this video, I would venture to say that you are a talented driver; well done.
I had the wingman wheel back in the day too. It wasn’t undriveable- I clearly remember finishing 7th at Monaco and 5th at the Ring at 100% settings against the AI…. at full race distance. Probably why I’m generally unimpressed with just how easy newer sims are to drive at the limit these days.
@@DSW964 I guess you are a superhero. Well done.
Of course you can drive GPL
without fancy gear. It's even manageable with a standard Xbox controller.
@@LudwigBeefoven Lol- May have felt like it after finishing a race, but I was still just sitting in front of a computer. It did however help me learn the layout of historic circuits, and also give an advantage with consistency once I transitioned to RL racing.
I still have the original CD version of this game (box and manual included) despite going through a divorce and relationships that didn’t work out in the past, losing most of my possessions along the way. That’s how much I hold value of this game 😎 Seems crazy but I never wanted to lose the copy as it was a way to get strength in troubled times cutting laps in it. Now it’s all online but I’ll still hang on to the original copy. Great driving BTW 👏
Congrats to have this masterpiece as physical copy.
Your videos inspired me to pick this up again. I’m using an Xbox controller and although a little easier than keyboard, it’s still a nightmare but great fun. I feel a real sense of reward when I’m able to complete a clean lap!
When I got bored of Gran Turismo and Windows XP came out this game is why I purchased my first PC. It was notoriously hard, undriveable some reviewers said. I started with an analogue pad, similar to the Playstation's and after a year of practice stepped foot online using VROC. What an experience and this was on dial-up, real gentleman racing, where everyone respected the rules and their fellow racers. I remember the first time a wrecker slammed it into reverse on the grid and trashed half of the racers before the race started, it was a complete shock. I recently got my first wheel due to my daughter moving out and a bedroom becoming a playroom. I now run mostly Assetto Corsa but my original GPL is still there, it is now in full screen and the force feedback is way better than I could of imagined. Love this channel, recently got the GTC mod and Auto Union after your recommendation. Keep up the good work, onwards and upwards!
The background scenery is spectacular! Missing some polygons but better looking than some modern titles.
Thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you. :)
I played this a lot in the early 2000s, playing with keys and eventually a momo red wheel. Brings back league memories watching this. Such a brilliant game. I hated it to begin with as it was too difficult but it rewarded the time you put in to it with a balance of low grip, throttle steering goodness. So ahead of anything else at the time but more of a hardcore game because it wasn’t instantly accessible
Aaaaaahhhhh I just love watching your videos😩
Great race, what an epic track.
Brilliant driving! Awesome.
Great and exciting race, but boy did I ever miss your usually rich commentary.
ON IT :) Great stuff, Jake :) ( Bathurst Australia)
I only played GPL for a while in about 2006. But I will never forget the feeling it gave into the wheel through force feedback. It was a simple FF model, but there was something magical about the way it communicated the attitude of the car under throttle.
I just got this working on my triple screens and omg! So much fun! Feels amazing too.
So satisfying to watch!!! Cant explain why!!
Thanks for posting it. It looks like you like to keep the revs at 8,000 or above whenever possible. I'll watch it again to pick up cues about shift and braking points, etc. for Spa.
just be careful, if you’re going to do a long race keep them under 9,500 to not blow the engine
Awesome video. Raw racing in one of the best Sims ever. Something I noticed with the audio seems like compression artifacts over the engine sound. Pretty sure it's not me
Thanks for the compliments! unfortunately thats just kind of how gpl sounds
This looks incredible wow
In 1998 I was only 9yrs old,and on days I wasn't allowed in the garage to help build the racecar my dad and his best friend put together at the time. They both planted my ass in the seat and turned on GPL. Thanks to my dad,BIll and GPL, this sim started my love of motorsports. This brought back some great memories. Thank you GPLaps
Wow, i was about to eat breakfast but i just had to watch this amazing race first
This is the sort of thing that speaks for itself, no explanation needed :)
This game is one of the rare games where you feel speed like it somehow makes you feel like you are going fast where other games almost feel as if you are sliding on ice around the track, this one you feel connected and it is like you actually feel your tires. Really fun once you get it working and all because of this site I was able to do so.
Good racing. Was fun watching it.
I think a modern game along these lines would work very well. Instead of rendering everything in full 3d, use sprites wherever possible to reduce compute time and then focus more on physics and AI processing and increasing framerate, work on sound design, and really nail the immersion. Retro shooters have really made a comeback, aping the stylings of original Doom and Quake with low res textures, low poly models, and frantic pace of gameplay. I really believe that the same could be done and really see a revitalization of the sim racing genre outside of the current usual suspects. Flag-waving about best looking cars and fully rendered engines and suspension animation is great but, why do it at the sacrifice of good AI and driving mechanics?
Because that's all kids who game care about. Why do you think GT3 is the most popular sim racing, because it's got drivers aids.
@@truantray tf is a gt3? Gran Turismo 3?
@@jwork5680 GT3 cars probably
It’s amazing how back then you had no information the whole race. You’ve got the rev counter and couple of pressure and temp gauges on the dashboard, and the pit board updates you on the lap number and who is ahead of you, but that’s it. Even if they did have radios, at huge tracks like Spa and the Nurburgring, the signal wouldn’t reach all the way around the track.
I'm a big fan of the 1955 mod, it's simply amazing with the brake fade.
Awesome! I bought it in 1999 when I was at the high school and I used to play it for years on my Pentium II. But I had only a joystick at that time (the same I used for flight simulators), not a proper steering wheel.. its realism is still impressive today and it was incredibly advanced back in the days when it was released - some of my friends gave up trying after just a couple of turns :)
Brilliant!, no ground effects, no computer, just sheer driver skills and raw engine power.
Another classic video, thanks.
Looks stunning! well put together. I would think most pc's without top spec can handle these fx easy nowadays my pc in 2004 was p3 2.8ghz and geforce ti4600 which was top stuff then ran the game well in standard form.
I used to get round here most laps in 3.12 race trim with the Eagle back in 2006 but it took some effort! nerves of steel!
Appreciate the insane 5K resolution - spectacular.
you drove great! and i know how hard the game is !
I bought GPL when it first came out and loved watching this but one of the things I remember about GPL is that you could have a huge battle to overtake someone but once you actually get past them, they sit relatively close behind you and never really challenge to take the place back. That seems to be the case with the 14 car here. Your battle to get past him was epic but then he just never tried to get back. The same happened with the next two overtakes (Rindt and Hill?) although the battle wasn't quite so epic.
I wish I knew where my original install set was, would love to give this a try again, it looks so good now it's been updated.
Hehe! Brings back great memories. The track looks so different from what i remember. Eagle ftw 😎
Still amazing in 2021. Great tracks and textures.
Great driving. Have not played GPL since 15 years (don't play anymore since then). But GPL is still the best. Whow! Really, really cool graphics.
This is great. This is my all time favorite driving game. I wish I still had my copy.
I had this on my old PC, best driving game I've ever played (with a PS3 analogue keypad). I've still got the disc so must install it on my new PC soon! This has just reminded me. Epic game.
Whoooboy! Gotta watch this again.
@GPLaps
I have a great (I think) idea for a video series:
Take Kunos' default 250F and run a championship against Simdream's 1958 grid on the various great historic tracks available for AC, roleplaying as a privateer driver in 1958.
That game and its modding = good. I prefer Race07 myself, but the main thing is having fun driving. I am impressed you got 2nd as it seemed to me you lacked a bit of top speed in the top gear against some others. Good stuff!
Remember playing this game as a kid when it first came out and it absolutely blew me away. There were car physics! It was hard! I quickly began to appreciate the limits of the tire grip, the motion of the suspension and chassis while steering, accelerating, and braking. Mind bending stuff for a kid who was playing Super Mario Kart a few years earlier.
helll that was intense!
Well done ! this Ferrari (3rd) was dangerous ! you have beat him !
So far advanced for its time. Epic!