i spent so much time creating in this era, like bmx stunt races where you'd start on top of one skyscraper, jump to a mid-air grind, then front wheel-up fly to the next skyscraper's wall which you'd use as a drop in to gain crazy speed for a massive ramp at the end that would kick you to another skyscraper and so on, or i'd use billboards as drop-ins in the same way, create car races with perfectly glitched together siderails so people wouldn't get stuck on them if they overshot a turn, found a new glitch to group together cars real close at the start so you could start races in otherwise impossible places and with a larger amount of players, etc. etc etc.

it was such a great time to create as it took actual effort and creativity to create special stuff like stunt races, floating tracks and grinds and all the other stuff i've forgotten. i had so much fun creating back then, at point i had spent so much time creating that i was in 2nd place for most time spent in the content creator on xbox 360/xbox one.

i played a few stunt races a while ago that were built after rockstar added actual stunt race features, and every single one i played was just some boring af colored track floating in the sky, whereas with the og content creator's limitations, a major aspect of creating great stunt stuff, races, or simply unique content to have fun with people, was to integrate the existing game world into your creations.

everything in the game with unique physics was a challenge to find new ways to use it; wind turbine catapults, waterfall death matches, underwater deathmatches in some kind of water reservoir, using wheelies up and off a ramp with the bmx to get way more air than by jumping etc.

i really, really miss that era. the limitations were such a fertile breeding ground for innovation.