Why this game was a big deal, and why you can't buy it. 

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CMR 2... my childhood

It's not abandoned cause a company still owns it. - Once Codemasters is defunct, you can call it abandonware. But that'll be a long wait.

​@@michaelmonstar4276 That's their problem to be honest. If they're not selling the game, it's not lost revenue. It reminds me of a situation where we needed quite a niche type of dictionary for a university course... only 5000 of them were ever printed... in 1987. So yeah teacher was like. "Don't get the PDF scan of this book from this site, using these search terms, because that would be breaking the copyright..." *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

Exactly. There is a reason that software piracy for older games is so big, and that's because the game is either impossible to buy, or costs a fortune (relatively speaking).

@@michaelmonstar4276 ermh, technically yes, it is. They decided to not profit from it anymore, then its not my problem if I get the itch to play it now.

Yeah, no need to feel guilty about taking a look at the Pirate Bay nor boarding the Black Pearl.

Actual Factual. I wanna OWN the stuff I buy. Nobody should be able to pull something I PAID MONEY FOR away from me if I don’t want to.

the idea of buying games on a streaming service at all seems pretty cheeky, it'd be like buying albums on Spotify or movies on Netflix

@@NALTOdeluxe This also applies to Steam. If Steam goes under, your account gets hacked/banned, you're screwed. At least GOG provides the installers.

@@JZStudiosonline true

Wow what a nostalgia trip. I remember OnLive. I used to play Unreal Tournament and Assassins Creed 1 on their little 30-60 minute free trials because i was too broke to afford them.

It's the car licences. Its always the cars. Grid, grid 2, dirt rally, dirt 2, dirt 3 all gone for the same reason.

@@spongeboimebob I expect legal issues like that with MLB and NFL sims. :( That's why the VDrift project changed the names of automobiles.) (In this case, a name that's based on one not IRL, FTW!)

@Man of the Rain Oh! Well, I have to add Grid to my list as well. There must be tons of games in my library that aren't available due to licensing.

That's what the video said...

I still have my Dirt 2 PC disk. Guess it’s time to install it again.

in the UK at least its legal to download and poses pirated material but it only breaks the law when you provide the material to other people. its odd I know but I did research and as far as I can make out its real

@TacticalMoonstone I've yet to ever actually see anyone get pegged with legal trouble for condoning piracy lmao, and considering RU-vid is absolute chock full of tutorials on how to set up torrent software and download torrents I really don't get the point of pussyfooting around saying "just go torrent this game the publishers don't want to sell it to you and don't care about preserving it"

CM for the past few games they pulled from sale gave the game away free for a week beforehand. CM doesn't care, it's just a licensing thing and they weren't making enough money from sales to re-up the licenses. Which actually really fucking annoys me that M$ still charged for Forza 7 before pulling it, especially since Forza 8 isn't coming until probably this time next year based on historical launch windows.

​@@NachozMan Torrents are not illegal. It's just a system for sharing files. You _can_ obviously use them for breaking the law, but that's not because of the tech.

@@NachozMan windows updates are downloaded through torrents, torrenting was never illegal since its just a technology in file sharing and delivery

@SNES Nes same

@SNES Nes I mean, yeah. A lot of newer games, such as The Crew, Forza, NFS, F1 and WRC don't support the likes of Ray Tracing, which is the only real, massive change to visual quality in recent years. I think we're reaching the peak of PC gaming, VR or something similar to it, may well he the way forward.

I'm sorry but if you compare this game to Ride 4, Onrush, Dirt Rally 2, Forza Horizon 4, or other recently released racing games then Dirt 2 looks really poor in comparison. It's also got that piss filter every game of its time had that looks awful today. Gameplay wise it's still a boatload of fun but it absolutely shows its age.

@@CyberPunkSimms older games were just better at hiding their low fidelity graphics with a shit load of post process effects + the lower resolutions. It looked believable with the sacrifice of making it look like the screen is smeared with Vaseline. We have come a massive way with how much more natural and pristine/ clear games look which is really evident if you compare games from 10 years ago with newer ones at high resolutions. Newer games have more accurate lighting and are much higher in fidelity overall which is a benefit at the high resolutions. Also don't forget that this is a RU-vid compressed video on a racing game (closed environments are usually good looking and it's hard to see small details in motion)

@@YashaAstora I disagree, I played forza horizon 4 everyday for 2 years on Xbox One S for a year and a half and PC for 6 months(ish) (Ultra settings, 4K)

Kinda depends what games, though. - Racing-games have always been able to be ahead of the curve (pun intended) because they needed to render less in the world. Basically just an environment that is only seen directly from the track (and occasionally off-track), besides the fact that you speed by things anyway so you wouldn't have time to really look at things in detail, especially since you need to keep your eyes on the road and competition. - Obviously games would expand beyond the kind of "cardboard scenes" you'd see in the '90s and early 2000s, with more and more open environments and landscapes, plus more animated crowds and other elements. But it still needs way less than your RPGs and the like. That's why they could increase the quality on things, as not a whole lot needs to be rendered at the same time. It's a controlled environment, it's kind of predictable (not a random open world or sandbox), so they could optimize it for that. - And clearly Codemasters went all-out generation after generation, improving their EGO Engine and whatnot, so we ended up getting these games that last since pretty much DiRT 2 (the one title before, Racedrive GRID, is still OK but clearly lacks the fidelity). And I also feel there is this cut-off around the year 2008 where games are between "slightly too old" (for today anyway) or "just hold up". Take 'Crysis', for example, which was mindblowing at the time, but didn't hold up enough with CryEngine 2, so it got a remaster to polish things up more recently. It was just slightly expired being developed in like 2006/2007. Most higher-quality games after that point indeed tend to hold up. - It's also that overlap in console-generations, where a few years later it moved from 7th to 8th gen. and even the best-looking PS3 and X360 games (such as Crysis and DiRT 2) still hold up, though some got remasters like say the Uncharted trilogy, which were just too much to ask from something like a PS3. - But it's cool that we've gotten to this point. :) We're so spoiled! XD

Seems so. I had a few PC games from this era but I didn't have the hardware then. Modern Warfare 2, World at War, DiRT 2, NFS Shift and maybe some other. I reinstalled some of them when I got a hardware that's relatively overkill for games of the time and I gotta say, graphically, they mostly aged well. Mostly. I'm glad we have walked away from low-saturation brown filters and obnoxious lens flares nowadays.

Graphics have stagnated hard as fuck, RTX lighting isn't even all that impressive for how much it nukes your FPS, comparing it to games with masterfully crafted volumetric lighting with good ambient occlusion like the beautiful lighting in RE2/RE3make it's hard to see why certain things are even having time wasted on them whilst meanwhile gameplay mechanics suffer.

Stagnation!

@@NachozMan Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition has entered the chat.

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Listening to this channel is like eating a home cooked meal. No fast stupid cuts, to fluff just good.

Definitely

@@RandomGaminginHD it’s a nice and relaxing channel with no cringe intros, it’s perfect

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Awesome, and thank you :)

Same feeling here, but you should add Tech Yes City for more used parts hunt

@@Cross64786 Adrian's Digital Basement is pretty good 2 for for that older tech stuff, usually apple stuff, but I like how he tries and repair some of the older stuff he gets.

I agree. Both RandomGaminginHD and LGR remind me of a good friend I had growing up, named Brian. He's the guy who got me into PC building\gaming in freshman year of high school (back in 2001 xD, I'm an old man). We were in summer school together (which was ironic because we're both nerds) and he had downloaded a SEGA Genesis emulator on the teachers computer and we were playing Pirates Gold on it xD I'd never seen an emulator until that point and I was blown away. I asked for PC parts for xmas that year and built a SUPER budget rig and kissed the N64 goodbye. I think it was an MSI KT-133 motherboard, 128MB RAM, Amd Athlon Xp 2500+ Barton and a Voodoo3! LES GO! Still have the CPU, although it's in a better motherboard now (need to rebuild that thing and make a retro rig). Good times.

Who is lgr?

I remember that game!

@@joeonyt196 I spent many a hours playing that game, acting like I was sick and firing up the Xbox when my parents left for work. Just to play that lol.

@@cowgoesmoo3850 I remember playing it when I was a kid really fell in love with it and I remember not getting past a race

Haha I still have it in my Steam, and can still download it. It's just very hard to get your hands on it, I guess.

I used to play the demo of that game, man, it was a good demo. It really did showcase the game well

what? ray tracing maybe?

10000000% DXR. Just got my first pc, decent build If I say so myself. At first Ray tracing blow my mind.... but then I realised how it can tax my performance, and everything became clear. Plus ssr don't look bad at all!! In fact a few times I've asked myself is this Ray tracing and its not. Yeah, yeah, yeah it looks pretty sometimes for sure , and if I can use it I'll use it. I'm just happy to play ultra without it just for performance gain. The loss for me isn't worth it at 4k so I only use dxr at 1440p which still looks great. But it's all good we can all just buy even more expensive gpu and fight off miners and scalpers using our keyboards and mouse as weapons.

You can mention creative EAX, Nvidia hairworks, nvidia soft shadows, nvidia volumetric lighting, ATI true form(before tesselation) along RTX. It's been the same since the inception of the GPU from 3dfx with miniGL drivers

@@vasopel Raytracing yep, it's shit, tanks your FPS in every game that has it available, and honestly developers that take the time to setup good dynamic volumetric lighting and ambient occlusion make the lighting quality difference is completely negligible while actively playing, it might look a slight bit nicer if you only stare at it and look for the difference, but in actual gameplay the anywhere from 10-30 fps drop depending on what game you play isn't worth it at all.

@@NachozMan a 10-30fps drop? Last two games my PC played were rdr2 and starwars fallen order, they played only at 720p at 30fps (locked) :-D

Rip. Following the trend of EA bought dev studios they’re probably going down the drain in the next few years. ;-;

Oh no?? :/

@@waveyan wasn't codemasters going very badly to begin with?

@@odioalospoopers pretty sure they needed to be brought tbh otherwise they would have made losses then and there. I think ea idea is to save it make back the losses and just dissolve them over time while making lots of profits, times that by the amount of others they brought to waste and you can the money roll in. I clearly no nothing about math or how a company works..... but I do have a wild imagination

It was on DEC 2020, not this year, tho, you should't worry about EA forcing codemaster to add multiple dlcs to their games, since codemaster already does that.

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Wait what you never heard or played Dirt series, how old are you like 10 year old !? wtf !? XD

@@milosstojanovic4623 he said barely heard about it. i also never played the old dirt series tbh.

@@Daxter250 fair enough - every kid who had a console and liked cars growing up had at least one of the dirt games. Hence you’re seeing the massive nostalgia trip in the comments.

@@Daxter250 Oh thats kinda sad, Dirt 2 is the best game in the series by far. They tried going back to it in Dirt5 but failed

This game is the reason I only buy games on steam. I own the disc, but I'm still very sad to don't own a steam key.

I was supposed to own it on Steam because I bought it same year of release. Backuped it. Then it dissapeared from my library. (1st. Time not being able to restore and play my backup) Then a Humble Bundle opportunity came to recover that game in 2014, got the ticket, re-downloaded and backuped that last version added to my library. Then was gone again in 2017. (2nd Time not being able to replay my beloved Dirt3). What the ffffff... Steam? Are you serious ?????!!!!! I barely enjoyed it, because of life. This can't be the end.

I loved the 'in your face' UI design and the 'dude bro' late 2000's culture

Yup, came bundled with a PowerColor 5850. My first game on STEAM as well.

Game is now all over torrents, half an hour after Random HDG mentioned it :D

If you own it then it's not illegal to download.

Dirt 2 and 3 were incredibly well optimized, ran perfectly on my old potato pc

i actually have it on a steam, but it was pretty much my first game that I bought in my teen years :D

@@Jeesus353 i used to run dirt 3 with the lowest possible settings and would get around 30 fps in the integrated graphics of intel i5 650

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Yea, music is very important and the campervan menu is epic. Also the firework at the track is very entertaining. If they would bring a "Feel like a Rockstar"-DLC for Dirt Rally 2 (with awesome soundtrack, campervan menue and firework) I would instantly buy it.

I played the shit out of this game in high school and that soundtrack seriously shaped my taste in music.

still is.

It felt sooooo much better than the first motor storm!!!

Okay, can I get the game then? :D i have to keep a usb dvd player around to be able to install and play it :D

@@TechOrigami You cant get it through Steam anymore, I got it back when it was available. If you bought it back then they cant legally take it away just because the licences have expired so it stays in your library forever.

@@Gassit this is one of my favs, along with The Movies game, and sadly both aren't digitally available anywhere

@@TechOrigami Surely there's at least a noCD crack for it. That way you won't have to keep using the disc. Or, if you're uncomfortable with that, you can likely find software to make an exact copy of the disc and then mount it. Honestly, that nonsense about requiring the CD was what got me into the cracking scene. I'd I'd never searched for a way to play my new CD-ROM games without having to get out the disc every time, I might have never become aware that cracks were a thing.

@@ZipplyZane yeah, it's the drm that leads to cracking. Will have to try the iso mounting thing

I think this is the last one I played properly, but dirt rally 2 ran on anything and was a great benchmarking game, or maybe it was dirt rally 1? Idk one of them ran on almost any cpu lol

@@RandomGaminginHD probably dirt 1 and cool video as always, cheers

Showdown, 4 and 5 were also not that good. Truth be told, Showdown might be the best out of those. 2+3 were where it's at and when DiRT3 was free on steam a few years ago, I used the chance to replay it to full including online and it was just as great as the first time 'round in 2011-2013.

spend more for the 3200g twice the gpu performance almost

3200G if you have the money. But remember, dual channel or bust :P

It's still in your Steam account if you bought it back in the day.