He also appears to go along the route of memory-holing the older GTA games when a new one is out as if the older games are not touched again by stunters.
This is so legit it came to mind as I watched it back fresh this evening! I've been watching loads of VC/SA videos lately over the past month or two and they're all contemporary. Didn't really realise how much I separated things within the context of the video. Might have to add some clarifications to the description.
It's understandable you not trying to push that from the purpose of the video of introducing stunting to newbies, and you also did have what looked like a VC video clip from Ltab that was somewhat more modern compared to the other VC example shown, so it is somewhat nit-picking. For the casual gamer it's hard to really point out that regardless of the newer games coming out, those previous games were, quite often, just as popular (if not more popular) than the newer GTA titles to stunt in.
Most of the old-school stunters prefer VC and SA. There are VC guys who, when SA came out, stuck to VC as they weren't a big fan of that engine. There are SA guys who discovered VC and some hated it and some loved it. And most SA and VC guys did not really dig GTAIV that much. You're right in pointing out the RAGE engine was a contributing factor to that, as bike stunts being quite floaty (as well as the packer, a crucial stunting vehicle, not having a full ramp to utilise for stunts) seriously putting off that older generation of stunters.
GTAV was a game-changer as you said for the popularity of stunting. The massive Nomad Union video was one of the only times that my old TMS crewmate Turtle Dick earned money from stunting - every single previous stunt video had music that invariably meant we could not monetise our hard work in showcasing our abilities. With some videos getting mildly viral (SA Smackdown probably the best example of that) the first generation of stunters somewhat missed out on potential extra money from their talents in stunting.
Saying all this makes me feel like I'm talking about brilliant boxers of the 90s and 00s who are envious of the big paydays that today's heavyweights get to enjoy and so are coming back for 'one more fight', though.
You did a great job with the video and I feel like people who might have expected every single nuance of GTAStunting's history to have been included in the video to think again as to what the goal of the video was.
I'm not sure how easy it is for dubious stunters to cheat in GTAV (I know it is quite anti-modding in general but people still find ways), but the fact of the matter is that the VC and SA games are frustratingly simple to get away with cheating in. Unless it's obvious when looking at it, anyone can get away with slightly modifying the data file of vehicle properties to give themselves maybe a touch more speed or their bike slightly less heavy. If the sort of YouTube popularity and general social media scene was as prominent back then as it was today I can only assume the incentives for people to adopt such measures would've grown a hundredfold. The older generation of stunters never had a monetary incentive to stunt so it simply boiled down to trying to impress your peers.
Anyways, as I said it's a good video. I gave it a like.
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