The Original Gran Turismo 4 Challenge! - An Overview Of Gran Turismo 4 Driving Missions
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2023
- Among the many events featured in Gran Turismo 4, Driving Missions are among the most infamous ones. In this video I decided to tackle all 34 Driving Missions in Gran Turismo 4 and showcase why they are the original Gran Turismo Challenge.
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Music played in this video (in order of appearance)
Distorted Drive - Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3
Gran Turismo 4 Soundtrack - Driving Missions
Gran Turismo 3 Soundtrack - Car Dealership
Gran Turismo 3 Soundtrack - Tune Shop
Need For Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed - Modern Era Menu (PSX)
Ace Combat 04 - Hangar
Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift 2 - Home (Daytime)
Battle Of The Empire - (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3)
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Another quirk about Mission 34 is you may also need to rely on luck for how good the AI will drive with the 1st placed car. I was able to get some 9'15 and 9'14 and still lose because the 1st place got a 9'13 every time. I had to get a 9'12.218 to beat the mission, and still only won by 0'00.627, which means the AI also got a time below 9'13 on that attempt. This mission is really unfair and you should really do everything you can to save time, even exploiting the game mechanics (cut corners on grass, and use the wall on carousel).
I missed this while writing, yes, the times of the 300 SL can be varied, for some absurd reason. 2-3 seconds is a massive variation when you think about it.
There is a mission where you drive a Skyline in Trial Mountain. My game either bugged out (it can happen reading from disc) or it was PAL mess, but my car started like 5 seconds after the ones I saw in a video, I literally had to smash into them like an idiot to be able to win, and I can drive well trust me.
@@kresimircosic9035 That's a PAL thing, they moved the lead car closer in NTSC. It is still possible to do even without hitting the car in front, but it is much more difficult.
Cutting corners on grass takes practice by too its own. The uneven surface & lack of grip can easily unsettle the car.
But the carousel wall-ride is a very viable exploit.
Weeks and weeks of grinding mission 34. Finally beat it yesterday and the payoff was among the most satisfying of any game I’ve ever played. So much lost sanity. So worth it.
I spent over four hours in a livestream trying to beat it, I was insane by the end.
Well done. I didn't have to grind any missions back in the day, but i have had to grind levels on cuphead so i know the feeling. Far more satisfying when you overcome a struggle!
You aren't wrong it took me and my friends thousands of times.
My wife who was also really good at the game as well. We were just hell bent to win it
Oh wait I thought it was the rng of the test track r34's
Avantimed and Luxury Van-pilled, one of the videos of all time.
Only the best, of course.
I've finally did it. Mission 34. After those hard 19 years. I admit that I was using wallrides and cuts but I fucking did it. Fells finally good. Now only skyline slipstream battle remains... before long endurance races for 100% completion. I'm currently at 96%.
We'll look the other way for once, don't worry.
Salute to you for doing the endurance races. I restarted twice, completing three full games with everything besides the endurance races. Did b-spec for the formula 1 car and never touched the others.
I know you did but we never say it enough so PLEASE think of doing regular backup saves !
the mission with the superbird at seattle circuit did my head in many times
Welcome to the club! It took me a really long time in my livestreams.
I drove a 68 cutlass supreme at the time so I knew exactly how to drive a dead brakes high hp muscle car at the time
Honestly, considering how every single time is harder in PAL, giving us Mission 34 as an easier end is well deserved.
Fair enough! Traumatic memories still remain.
@@YellowbirdYT No question about that!
Well I am one of those one to where I finished Misson 34 in one go But I don't know what version a PS2 is
Also I don't have the cover to the game
I was just about to jump into driving missions for the first time. Thanks for the entertaining guide!
You're welcome!
Good luck I'm not trying to scare you but I wish you all the best and mission 34 I salute you.
@@seddyx8994 Thanks! I'm still getting through the ia license right now, but I'll try to remember to report back if/when I finally get through all the driving missions
@@YellowbirdYTeven Setsuna Yuki completed those 34 missions in a single try.
@@damarfadlan9251 i did too. Three times. Still satisfying despite other people requiring days or even weeks to complete.
You can't deny this video was entertaining though, and that's what we are here for at the end of the day.
I was only ever able to beat 16 missions or so in GT4
These include the first 10, the slipstream missions and 2 one lap magic missions
Seems like a good time to get back into them!
Completing Gran Turismo 4 100% in both A-spec and B-spec, probably my biggest achievement as a gamer. B-spec races were tricky, even the longest ones like the 8 and 9 hours required attention all the time, when i set the pace and the pit stops for tires and fuel i sometimes just changed channel and watched some TV and i checked in every now and then to be sure my car was leading the race. A-spec had very tough tournaments and challenges. The Opel and Renault dealer tournaments were hard as hell, no one mentions them that much. Mission 34 is infernal, here's what i did: at the end of the straight, after failed attempts with clean driving and all that stuff, i just hit the only Mercedes left (it's a hard challenge all around, but getting to the second place wasn't THAT difficult but i might be completely wrong since i did this more than 10 years ago) from the back at full speed. Flat out. I sent it outside the track and i got 10 seconds of penalty at limited speed because of that, but since i was going VERY fast the game didn't have much time to slow down my car. So the penalty basically reduced to 6-7 seconds. After i get the control of my car again i just had to overtake the opponent that couldn't do a thing given the huge differences in performance (if i already didn't overtake it during the penalty time) and then crossed the line. YAYYYY!
Really good analysis of what makes these missions unique, interesting, and frustrating all at once!
Thanks! Yes, it took a lot of frustration during livestreams to put my thoughts together.
I recently 100%'ed GT4. Funnily enough, I got Mission 34 done on the first try, but needed like 7 or 8 tries for Mission 11. And the Toyota is so slow every attempt feels like it takes f o r e v e r. I hated that mission so much and now I finally know why it's so bad. I wasnt aware the cars have weird tires and setups like that. I always thought they're all just stock cars.
Is Europe/Australia the PAL version? If yes then that probably explains why M34 was easy
Australia uses the PAL format, like Europe! And yes, mission 11 is pretty hard actually. The timings can be tight, on top of the handling issues.
Still have my copy on PS2. 99.9% completion with only M34 left. Still can’t do it 🤣
You never know, sure, it will take a while to get used to the SLR!
same here nearly 20 years trying maybe get the old girl out and try again🤔
I love mission 34. The driving missions in general are great. No tweaking your car or buying an overpowered one to blitz a race, just a pure racing challenge!
I enjoyed golding all of the licence tests several times as well though, so maybe these just suit me.
Hopefully the algorithm will make this popular
Thanks, it would be nice!
Oh, and the Skyline r34 challenge on the countless kilometers test track!! That was also a difficult one.
Hello, the algorithm sent me here. Love the TXR3 music in the background, gonna check some older videos first, but you likely gained a subscriber
Thank you! Welcome aboard.
This was fun to watch live ❤
Well thank you! It was fun to play it live for sure, haven't done missions in years.
So for mission 34, i got 3rd on my first try with a time of 9:25. Yeah. Im gonna need some work.
You'll get there!
The 400 speed on mission 18 isn't about your car but rather a nod to the Sauber C9, which was a car that pretty much hit 400 during the championship back in the day, forcing the addition of the two chicanes on the big straight. As for the missions in general, some are extremely annoying, especially the ones that make you wait at the starting line for ages, that's the main reason I've only bothered with 1 lap magic ones on just one playthrough out of them all, really unbearable, even with emulator having turbo to get through the wait faster!
Waiting two minutes to then tackle a 7 minutes lap in a flawless manner. Insanity.
@@YellowbirdYTme, Ayumu Uehara and Shioriko Mifune all picked Missions 23 and 34 as the hardest in GT4.
I never completed mission 23 and 34 ever since I first played GT4 around 12 or 13 years back. Even when I got around playing it in emulation I still haven’t figured out how to complete those two even after reading and watching countless guides lol. And that’s going through 6 or 7 play throughs😂
Guess I’ll have to wait until I can replace my laptop and try it out again 😅
(I still feel unsatisfied not completing the missions until this day)
That sounds like a good excuse to try them out!
Do it! Great feeling when you overcome a challenge.
Happy to see another YB upload!
Thank you! Always good to have such messages.
Took me two goes to pass Mission 34 on a PAL - but that was so long ago, the replay must be in black and white and it has a Piano playing the background and you could see me twirling my moustache after tying a young fräulein to the railway tracks in the wait before the start!
First go, I was getting used to the car - taking it easy - a nice sunday drive get to know this blobby fat chunkster that is the McMerc SLR. Have to see if I saved the replay. (I must have!)
Not sure what I disliked most:-
The horrific engine note of the Mercedes or the nasty driver aids spoiling any feel in the car.
For the Al go go go rithm !
The stock SLR sound in GT4 is... Yes, totally ill-suited.
It's incredible how I managed to complete all the missions (including mission 34) at 8 years old. And I didn't know any English haha. I was addicted to this game, I left the PS2 on while I slept and while I was at school on B spec to do the endurance races. I did this hidden from my parents because they thought it would damage the video game 😂
Thinking back, I did several incredible things when I was a kid and had free time, I remember finishing Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 just exploring the game's mechanics as there was no translation into my language.
I feel that way about the original mortal kombat 2. Beat it with every character when i was a kid... played it years later on emulator and that game is savage (shao khan is so cheap).
This is fun because it's a soul crushing experience for me
They can be done with enough practice, but yes, they are frustrating.
Hey dude, just had a play around with my controller settings and set the trigger sensitivity to 25. It makes it way easier to hold half throttle mid corner, which stabilizes the car better (stop blipping the throttle) and makes...me faster at least. Good luck with the next 100 laps.
Skyline Slipstream Battle. People can say how difficult Mission 34 is, but that's mostly down to skill more than anything. Yes there may be a small bit of RNG in terms of AI pace but it's only really difficult due to the combination of car, track and time difference.
The Skyline Slipstream Battle is the stuff of nightmares. You're having to work with 4 AI skylines to catch up to a 5th Skyline that's way out in front. On paper it doesn't sound hard, but in reality... it's a NIGHTMARE!! The Skylines you're working with will do anything to impede your progress, from brake checking to ramming and even just backing off before attempting an overtake on you. The RNG of that challenge is so bad that it could theoretically take you longer to beat it than Mission 34.
It is a lottery, absolutely.
I had more issues with that one too. Couple of restarts on that, but the 3 and 1 lap magic races were all fine.
Am I the only one who just, didn't struggle with Mission 23?
Not even as a kid. I know the gap between 2nd and 1st is huge but, it hasn't taken me, lifetime, more than 10 attempts, if that, on a couple of different playthroughs.
It's just the amount of RNG required paired with the required strategy can make for a difficult event.
I liked mission 11, the track is short and easy to learn and the time is forgiving. Mission 13 in Paris was a nightmare tho, after 30 minutes of attempts without a single one getting me further than 3rd place I gave up and left it for later.
i remember struggling playing mission 34 on a ps2, i couldnt pull that off, years later on the emulator wasnt as hard as i remember for some reason, mission 14 on the other hand was always a mess until i get the hang of it, now if u think mission 14 on the retail version of gt4 is hard, try that on the online beta vanilla, that is almost impossible,, u have to be 200% perfect compared to the retail release
Those tires are atrocious.
Take me for a drive in that Stratos pls, Yellow ~?
17:54 😅
It's not mine, you know!
@@YellowbirdYT you dont have one from the randomizer ?
R34 Slipstream was my Nemesis. I rather drive SLR mission than bringing the AI to cooperate
Valid take.
Thank you Italian Jimmy broadbent. 😊
I'm not Italian, actually. But Argentinian, thanks!
ciao Yellow Bird I have been TRYING NEARLY 20 YEARS ON MISSION 34 I have seen numerous videos on how to beat it alas i still cant do it if i do i will have 99% completion just a few long races to finnish lo lPS im on pal😒
in gt 4 prolouge you also overtook some cars in the later stages... i believe they also tried to implement them in gt 4 license test but ended up as seperate missions instead maybe? thats my guess at least
It’s crazy that everyone knows these are the two impossible missions, I just beat mission 34… My game is at 99.3% I just need to beat the slipstream GTR challenge 😭
Images which speak.
@@YellowbirdYT question. HOW DO YOU beat 100% game.. I’m at 99.4%, and I’ve completed all the licenses, all the driving missions, all endurance, profession japanese.. etc EVENTS And I’m still not at 100%. I have a literally beat everything. whats missing!!?????
A little out of topic but the japanese version of gt4 actually has fully voiced narration for each car by anime va junichi suwabe.
this is the greatest gt4 video of all time.
I aim to entertain, thank you!
Yellowbird posting early
Least I can do for you all, always something in the works!
He's an early bird.
The worst was the test track r34's. You have to get the perfect ai cooperation to complete it. I bet i tried it 1000 plus times
what people don't mention is, that NTSC and PAL handle very differently. In PAL version handling is very sensitive to bumps and kerbs, so it's very hard to drive on the absolute limit of the car (honestly especially on the nordschleife it feels like you're driving a truck, even in decently fast sports cars.
I guess one day I'll have to try PAL vs NTSC and compare their handling.
@@YellowbirdYT If I remember correctly, I mentioned this once in a chat. Genaraly speekeng in NTSC the cars feels quite twitchy and it is difficult to get a feeling of when you car is close to a spin, in the PAL version it is easier to get out of slides, but cars are less responsive, so it's feels like is harder for them to make a turn. PAL cars drive more predictably, more like real racing cars, at least that's my feeling.
Never played the ntsc version, or on emulator.
Is the pal rom available anywhere? And is it true to the original?
@@turbo8628 well what you are legally allowed to do is get a pal copy and rip an image of it and then play. if you find a rom somewhere, you still need to legally own a copy of the game (not sure if the version needs to be the same), to legally play it on emulator. everything else is illegal.
@@infern0soracle330 pal version will have a pal rom, no ntsc version.
I know i need to owm the game for legal pruposes but wouldn't know how to rip a rom?
The game is fairly cheap second hand... wouldn't trust a second hand ps2 though.
yellowbird ur so cool and amazing how do you handle such fame
For me the worst was always the one with the toyota 2000gt with the free tires. That one was horrible
Yes, the comfort tires destroy handling!
One lap magic NEEDS Fast Forward -_-
For me, honestly, mission 23 is way more challenging rather than mission 34 which I've completed on my second try when I got there for the first time of my life
That is rather curious!
how is it more challenging?
@@Super00michele00 cause in mission 23 you can't rely on your skills, thanks to the stupid AI who can't properly catch your slipstream or overtake you. Mission 34 is only about your skills and experience.
@@benjaminwild4002 I actually tried it yesterday. I am such a noob that can't do neither, but i have to agree. Even if you must be a pro to do M34, the splitstream seems really based on luck ... welp.
@@Super00michele00 it is based on luck. And I'm not a pro :p
Seems like final mission, Mission 34 require perfect driving on the SLR McLaren.
It kind of does, yes, specially when you consider the 300 SL can be faster at times.
I took a saturday off and tried a the dificult driving missions, how hard can they be. After hours of playing the results got worse and I almost lost my sanity. In the end I told myself its half skill issue and half playing on emulator with keyboard only :) First few attempts I thought I was " flying" in the SLR but couldnt overtake even one opponent :(
Nobody knows why Polyphony made these missions so hard they are almost unbeatable without cheats or endless reeeestarts...
Playing with keyboard is really hard, I think winning any races with this setup is commendable.
"The Ford GT LM race car handles like a dream"
What?
This mission took me so fucking long to complete because the incredibly aggressive ESC (which you can't turn off) makes this car completely suicidal and unpredictable. One time you go into a corner at full speed and the grip is insane, the next you go in and it oversteers, and when you correct it , the ESC decides to put all the brakes on on the outside wheels, spearing you directly into a wall in microseconds with no chance for recovery. I can never predict which will happen. How did you disable ESC?
Hope I will have time to watch these livestreams, but my life is very busy. 😔
It happens, don't worry!
you think These 1-Lap Magics are hard?
FM7 has some, and the Bottom 3 Difficulty Settings make them harder, some even become Literally Impossible
i mean... idk why but Mission 23 was pretty easy to me and i did it on my second atempt
Mission 23 is the definition of BS. At least 34 requires alot of skill and precision. But 23 is mostly luck based in hoping the ai cooperate with you. I also realize the reference in the r8 mission with the bentley as the leader
Pretty much, Mission 23 can be a matter of luck. Even if I find it to be rather consistent once you understand it.
@@YellowbirdYT yeah I agree. Love thr content by the way.
Game n1
Slipsteam is Too hard im play this at playstation 2
It can be, just takes patience.
Funny how none of the overtakes on this video are clean
mission 34 in PAL version wasn't super hard, i struggled much more with the R34 slipstream and the Mini cooper tsukuba license, but in GT7 the mission are impossible, the one with the kei car was pure pain
I was one of those that completed the driving mission 34 in 3 attempts...
But it wasn't skill, it was frustration... I cheated.
I disabled the Ai, forcing them ALL to wait 2 minutes before enabling them at the start and had a fair / unfair race through the ring with a very natural finishing order as a result.
Did the same with the penalty system as I found it unfair, Action Replay cheats FTW :P
Welcome to the club, but yes. Having a clean, legit run feels so rewarding!
I realised I drove on Opera Paris way too much when I beat Mission 13 by nearly 10 seconds.
EDIT 1: Just for future reference, Plymouth's pronounciation is closer "PLEA-METH", as opposed to "PLI-METH".
Yes, kind of butchered and when I realized it was too late to correct it. I still have to balance speed and proper pronunciations.
@@YellowbirdYT I have no idea why he's trying to get you to pronounce it wrong. It's "Pli-muth", which is what I heard you say.
Am I only one who thinks that Merc battle was easy😂 i playes this game on (eu version) ps2
yes
It is slightly easier on PAL! (European Version) - You can beat it with a time of 9 minutes and twenty seconds while you need 9 minutes and fifteen seconds to beat it in NTSC (American Release)
Same. I also played on pal though... no longer have my ps2 or the game, but curious to see what this is like emulated... and what the ntsc version plays like.
I have only played the PAL version, but for me mission 23 was way way harder than mission 34, although tbf I've raced on the nurburgring in this game thousands of times, so the track itself isn't a challenge any more, I mean, IA-15 I can beat with at least a 30 second lead without trying (it might even be more, but I would have to boot the game to find out)
But I have never tried mission 34 in the ntsc version, which from everything I've heard and read is way harder.
The driving line you are taking are awful