It’s a nice reminder, especially given the toxicity of some aspects of game culture, of the humanity behind games and their place as a hobby we can share with one another. The NeoGAF thread I spied this on was ripe with crying gifs and personal stories from other gamers. Colin McRae Rally 4 Intro Music (Extended) Jonathan Colling. Judging from subsequent comments, 00WARTHERAPY00 wasn’t necessarily looking for attention with their comment, they just wanted to share the story. I stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it. until one day i got ahead of it, i surpassed it, and. You know, when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? yep, you guessed it - his ghost still rolls around the track today.Īnd so i played and played, and played, untill i was almost able to beat the ghost. Colin McRae Rally 04 is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. actually pretty awesome for the time it came.Īnd once i started meddling around. We used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. I couldnt touch that console for 10 years. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together - until he died, when i was just 6. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. Note: spelling and punctuation have been preserved from the post:
In a country where spectators are more at home watching racecars go really, really fast around an oval track, Codemasters latest rally title is set to hit the Xbox in March - at a retail price of 19.
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sports fans to the not-so-popular-over-here art of professional rally driving. On a spooky note - The Besties actually conceived of this very scenario years before this happened - check out their total pre-cog moment starting at 33:45. Colin McRaes name has gone a long way in introducing many U.S. According to a post on Motoramic, a YouTube commenter that goes by 00WARTHERAPY00 shared a supernaturally touching story about racing their father’s ghost in Xbox racer RalliSport Challenge, 10 years after he had passed. This is the most heart-warming video game ghost story I’ve ever heard.