The Best NASCAR Game Ever Made (NASCAR Thunder 2004)
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Still better drafting, damage, and side drafting than Heat 4.
It also looks way more beautiful, not going to lie, better than any other nascar game in 2020 and earlier.
@@TeenWithACarrotIDK kinda going to have to disagree with you there heat 4s graphics are not that bad damage is alright collision physics could use a little work and bug fixes could be a good factor other than that heat 4 isn't that bad of a game just those tweaks in nascar 21 then I'll be satisfied
Agreed. I have a ps2 with HDMI setup and wireless controller. Far better than the new games. 2004 is the best. Last game of the Winston cup format. 2005 is good too with the featherlight modifieds and Busch grand national. But 2004 has best driving and physics
@@TeenWithACarrotIDK cooper
These games were chock full of content, shame today that this would all be DLC
Yeah, it was certainly a different era when this game came out in late 2003. That's part of the fun and replayability of Thunder 04, unlocking all those thunder plates for the create-a-car sponsors, new paint schemes, tracks, and other goodies.
It's also that the F1 game series is in total danger after EA bought Codemasters.
@@penguinbrony2415 same thing with thunder 03 im still busy collect thunder plates for all the paint schems lol
This makes me sad to a degree. Games back then were feature complete and were worth spending the $60 on. If a sports game of this scale came out today it would be $60 plus $500 for all of the paint schemes.
Yeah back then NASCAR was a top priority to many networks in America. Now it barely break that barrier between being mainstream and partially recognized by there partners.
They should just open a complete paint booth, at least with games like Forza there's 1,000's of amazing schemes that painters create for free. A real "dlc" would be some LM's, K&N cars, etc.
Not true tbh
NASCAR Heat 2, NASCAR Heat 3, and NASCAR Heat 4 all added it up to about $100 each.
@@jc1424 I'm saying if EA was still running it
nah every race would cost 1 dollar to race in career mode
What's so great about this game is the actual day night transition during the game play! That gives this game that sense of actual realism and more dept then current games! Plus we get a track PA announcer and MRN radio commentary from the late Barney HalI and I believe the other guy is Winston Kelly. I use to play alot with 3 other guys on my xbox and it was great fun with when played mind games with pit strategy. Career mode was awesome too.
It's a pretty good detail because this is also featured in NASCAR 98 N64 game.
really its like the developers got extremely lazy
but are we like not gonna talk about how Barney Hall and Winston Kelly are commentating while driving? lol
Anyone else notice how The Trophy said "April 15, 2020" but today is April 14
3:48
the emulator was probably set time wrong idk lol
No I think he pre recorded
AJ MotoFan11 it’s prerecorded 1 day into the future 🤔
Jeff Gordon's rainbow Dupont scheme is my favorite of all time. Growing up, that's what I associated NASCAR with.
Wish the NASCAR games today were like this one.
Same
Me too, the rainbow dupont car is what I think of when I think of Jeff Gordon. Tony Stewart drove the home depot car, Earnhardt Jr. drove the budweiser 8 car, Sr's death was still recent and the number 3 car was pulled, Bobby Labonte drove the 43.
I was never much of a Gordon fan, but that rainbow car was awesome, I hate they changed it.
Same
Back in the day when most game developers made games out of passion than money
Well they made the games for money but they had passion behind it
To this day. I will never stop playing this amazing game
Do you play it online still ?
@@WizardBallz Never have. I dont know how to hook it up
Yep lol. Graphics and gameplay still hold up on Xbox
Agreed definitely the best Nascar game. Lots of content well thought out game. Wish they could do a remake on it
DEKU
*laughs in NR2003*
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*sobs in NR2003*
In all seriousness what ever happened to the real-ish physics in NASCAR games?
20:22 I’m not the only one who has PTSD right here right?
Nope. As soon as he crashed liked that, the first thing I thought was the wreck.
Exactly
Doesn't see how Jeff Gordon & Robby Gordon are rivals.
Circa 2001. New Hampshire race
Was gonna say that lol. Still don't think they've ever made up.
3:47 Hold up. Radman is a time traveler.
He pre recorded I think
@@ajmotofan1197 No. The trophy said April 15 and the upload date was April 14.
Oh then I don’t how he did I that
I'm a 4 time full season full race length champ on thunder 4. Still own it one time champ on every nascar game
I miss how the race intro was 8:23
Game is 100% straight up a rare gem
I taught myself how to revive dead OG Xboxes so I could keep playing this after mine died. I could use an emulator, but I love using classic equipment
tell me how, because mines broken and I miss playing on it😭😭😭😭
A ps2 or ps1 can get you out of the cravings for more original hardware running this classic
@@ThaTruFily jailbroken ps3 slim ftw
@@SergeantRoosters You're bragging? 😹
@@SergeantRoosters If not it sounds cool :D
If you do a season mode, use a Pontiac Driver. I recommend Jerry Nadeau or Johnny Benson.
this gave me a flashback to the beginning of your channel and the NT2004 Career. Crazy how fast time flies, doesn’t seem like it has been that long
Can this game be re-released on modern day consoles?!
I wish
But without dlc
@@Aimee_3526 Re-release, not remake.
Could be ported, doubtful it’s will tho
Licensed sports games like this are licensing nightmares if they want to re-release them. That's why we rarely see them being re-released.
Can you upload a tutorial on how/where to download the emulator and show all of the settings you have to make the game look this good?
@RealRadman
Google PCSX2. It will help you get started.
Agree such a great game. Imagine if they just did some of these things and added features with the new technology we have these days they could make an awesome console game but seems like they always take the easy way out
20:12
*DOIN' FOR DALE!!!*
@Grand Gamer 3 Nice.
I've always found it quite depressing and sad that the pit stops actually has ANIMATED pit crew members actually doing stuff to your car while most modern better looking title of Nascar don't have that from what I've seen at least seriously with all the advancements in how their able to make game look today and how animation look today yet they can't put in an animated pit crew like they did in the past it's beyond pathetic.
Can you do a video on how to set this game up on the emulator
They seriously need to redevelop this game for new gen This game is 16 years old and has better graphics and realism than nascar heat. It’s a shame Nascar heat doesn’t have driver introduction,commentary,national anthem,and flyover and fireworks. Nascar thunder had a better victory lane celebration. Everything about this game was realistic to the actual sport of nascar. Nascar heat was sloppy development it’s as if their development team had never seen an actual nascar race there just wasn’t any realism in the game
Omg best game ever! Cant wait for more! Thank you
I need to know what settings you're using on the emulator. I have a line showing in the bottom half of mine and I get slowdowns from time to time, even in OpenGL
If this game were made today, all the basic paint schemes would come with the base game and there would be at least 13 DLC packs that you would have to get to have all of these paint schemes. There would be a pack for every month, as well as a throwback paint scheme pack. You would also have to spend extra to get the historic drivers. It's such a shame that all they make video games for now is to turn a pretty penny rather than make something enjoyable like this.
nascar racing 2003: I'm joke to you?
04 has 03 beat because of the rivals features
@@ashketchumsdad That's the only thing it has an edge in.....NR2003 is always adaptable and ever changing with mods and online support....NT2004 can't touch that
@@michaelwhite77 That may be true, and I'm not gonna argue against it. But I will still take NASCAR thunder 2004. Career mode too. Nr2003 requires too much tech out of me haha
@@ashketchumsdad its aight dude everyone has their own prefences
Bro I literally just searched this up you literally stole the words right out of my mouth and you're exactly right Best NASCAR game of all time hands down 💯💙💙💙💙💙
I still play this almost every day, I have for nearly 17 years. There have been a few years it's sat in a cabinet or box, but when I see it, it immediately comes out and I pop it into the PS2. No game in the past 10 years has come close.
I’m still playing this game on my PS2 21 years later bc it came out in late 03
Best NASCAR game ever made belongs to NASCAR Racing 2003 Season from Papyrus/Sierra.
This is a fact.
I remember playing this on Xbox, it was sooooo good
All the Ea sports nascar game were terrible. The best nascar games were the papyrus ones made for the pc.
NR2003: Allow me to introduce myself
Jason Striation Oh yeah. Absolutely
Just my opinion
NR2003 is more sim than game. Besides, he mentioned console in the video.
I also really like the first need for speed underground not the second one the first one when you hit the boost the effects were too real
Just be JEFF GORDON!!!! 😂 🐐🐐🐐
M&M's had a marketing deal in 2002 where fans got to choose between a few different colors which one they wanted to see on the track. It was Ken Schrader in NASCAR thunder 2003 that had a teal and a pink and a purple and a blend car and what not.
we need a remaster version to just improve the graphics and leave everything alone but cant really do that since 704 has the liscene to nascar games and ea does not care anymore
Sparkyboi04 EA stopped caring during 2005 when 06 total team control was released
@@budsutton7343 that was not a bad game really
Oddly enough, a year later the 2021 NASCAR game is going back to the same underlying physics engine family the 2004 game was built on. It's just been upgraded a lot since then.
@@nachobroryan8824 thats just physics and graphics (btw the rfactor graphics is great) but if the core career/race mode is not good, its a disappointment
I would like you to use Jeff Gordon for the season mode you said you would do
What system is this running on?
20:21 uh is it me or does that crash look very familiar? What makes it worse is he was driving as Sr...
This game is why I bought a PS2 in 2020. I love this game so much, because it was one of the games that made me become a huge fan of nascar and helped me learn how to drive the tracks.
this popped up in recommended and nostalgia hit me, 2003 nascar thunder was the first game I've ever played, it was on the gamecube.
The nostalgia is palpable, especially once I saw Rusty Wallace's car. Never was much a fan of his, but when I started my career mode back on release day, I struggled quite a lot, only winning races sporadically, and barely getting enough money to scrape by. Then, after a number of in-game years, it said Rusty retired, and his ride offered the packaged sponsorship to me, and I rode that #2 straight into history. Turned my entire career around, and I was with that team for a couple of (real-life) years, breaking all of the records (over 200 wins, 8+ championships).
Do Season mode with the 2003 Champion Matt Kenseth
Im assuming youre using the PCSX2 emulator, but where did you find the ROM for this? I've been wanting to play it for myself again since my PS2 broke
Most people just use their game disk, or rip them to a .iso with imgburn.
Hey dude! NASCAR Thunder 2004 is indeed the best NASCAR game ever created. I have the Original Xbox version of this game, I also have various Nascar games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 from 2003-2009 from EA Sports, and the song Action by Powerman 5000 in NASCAR Thunder 2004 is a badass album in this game. Awesome video dude! BTW you earned a sub, and have a bless day.
Never played this game, but yea games back then were so damn good because they were complete and has so many great features. Nowadays their broken on release day and they charge for everything that should have already been in the game.
#1 Nr2003 #2 NT2004
Place your bets will the new NASCAR game be Better/Worse/Same. I just hope they change the tire model and make the cars slide a little more so you actually have to manage the throttle especially on older tires
NASCAR Thunder 2004 the best NASCAR game ever made??? Uh...have you ever played the Papyrus versions from 2000-03 on Windows?
do a legends car for the season lol
Anyone else see the fuel man holding it with 1 hand at 14:48
And the jack was moving on its own at 14:44
From where did you download the game iso? How come the graphics appears so good? What video settings you used?
Mark Martin for season mode!
Thank you for talkin about such a great game.
I feel somewhere deep in America there is a real American man after work goes home cracks open a few beers goes to the garage with just the PS2 sittin in the corner there hooked to an ollle CRT TV and tells the wife he's playin his game.....
Drove me nuts that the devs used the wrong headlight decals for Chevy in Thunder 2004 AND 2005. Plus the weird body shape
I don’t even care about nascar but I recently bought a ps2 to replace my old one that stopped working and lo and behold there’s nascar thunder 2004 inside of it. I don’t know anything about nascar but it’s actually pretty fun
Yep no argument here.I remember buying this game when it came out.👍🏻
Wrong, best NASCAR game is NR2003
But NT2004 is a good game indeed
Jamie McMurray ran 7 races in 2002 filling in for Sterling Marlin
i can't find the PS2 ISO anywhere, how good is the ps1 version?
What console are you playing these old NASCAR games?
I tried to find this game. I can't find it anywhere. I really wanna play this game so bad. 😔
Just curious, what are your PCSX2 settings? Every NASCAR game slows down really bad on the front stretch and the mirror halves my frames and this is with a GTX 1080
hi! this is what's working for me (i5 4690k/gtx1060):
-renderer: opengl (Hardware)
-interlacing: auto
-internal resolution: 8x native
-texture filtering: Bilinear
-anisotropic filtering: 16x
-CRC Hack Level: Full (safest)
-blending unit accuracy: Basic (recommended low-end pc)
all the checkboxes: unchecked
if someone thinks i can optimize my settings or if i can stress my pc a little more in order to get better graphics, feel free to suggest it
CPU is more important than GPU. This emulator is really sensitive to clock speeds.
Just recently picked this up on eBay along with 2003 and 2002 for XBOX and 2001 for PS2. EAs console NASCAR games were amazing.
Back when you bought a game for 60 and had everything on it, no dlc expansions
It sucks that this game wasn’t released for the Gamecube, yet the edition before (NASCAR Thunder 2003) & after (NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup) was released for the system.
“Hey guys I’m playing one of my fat...” 😂
NASCAR games fell off SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard it’s really sad, played the games all throughout my childhood, I got heat 4 after playing NASCAR 07 last and I was disgustedly disappointed. How can a game from 04 completely blow a next gen game out of the water?? 🤦♂️
I just installed the PCSX2 emulator and NASCAR Thunder 2004 isn't on the compatibility list...
Would love to know the settings on the emulator
Thunder 04, Dirt to Daytona, are the best NASCAR console games, NR2003 is the best NASCAR game ever made
It is but they forgot to put Sadler and Rudd's alternate paint schemes.
Nope, NASCAR 15 victory edition had nothing wrong
Like if a new game had a combo of all
Good nascar games… and if you were to have your first ride in example truex 19 car it’d be so cool to put rookie stripes to personalize
I missed how presentations looked like they put effort into the game, now the newer games are jokes
Sports games were absolutely the best on the PS2. The amount of fan service and content in the mid to later year titles was absurd! lol.. they all played great too w an overall gameplay formula that never really faltered. I remember owning just about every good sports title iin that generation, cant say the same at all for later ones.
Talladega night will be cool since it named before talladega nights was even a thing.
No, just no. The best NASCAR game ever made is NR2003 by papyrus. End of story.
I Would Play This Still If I Could Get The Game And Another PS2 Shame They Don't Make Them No More
Lots of content but the racing isn't very realistic. I'd rather play Nascar 2000 on the PS1.
How do I get this game? I want this one and NASCAR ‘09.
This is most definitely NOT the greatest NASCAR game of all time. NR2003 is the GOAT
But... 2005 was like the same game, except more content. So why isn't 2005 the best?
Will someone please tell me how to improve the graphics using PSX2 emulator??
If you crank the AI aggressiveness and blocking all the way up Daytona and Talladega they will stay in a large draft.
Best Nascar game of all time
Love this game
Low key Bobby Labonte is your favorite driver, I support this 1000% bus schemes in this game are incredible. His default alone is imo the best ever along with Harvicks from the same year.
Ngl I sucked at this game back in the day. I couldn’t handle the car at the beginning of career mode to save my life
Which is better this or thunder 2003 and nascar racing 4 by papyrus? Thanks
Great game. I was at the Michigan race where dale jarret spun out and ended up winning.
My face when I played the thunder challenge on this game then next year.
DALE SR SEASON PLEEEASSEEE
Intimidate almost everyone
The damage SUCKS in the Heat’s. This game was great. They need to fix that before the new ones.
Might be the best console game, not the best nascar game. Thats NR2003
Season Mode for Dale Sr.
NASCAR Racing 2003 Season is what I like best
i cant be the only one who drove backwards on purpose