LGR - Remembering the Classic Need For Speed Games
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Taking a look back at the classic NFS games from the '90s and early 2000's! Just me rambling on for half an hour about my experiences.
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Music used is from the Need For Speed OSTs [one through five]
Aw man, sorry to hear about your sister :( At least it sounds like you made it through well enough, it's good you had the games to keep you going through that sucky period. Fun retrospective all the same, it's great to hear you share your fond memories of games like these.
I was never that big into racing games myself but I have fond memories of playing several of the NFS games. The original NFS was great just to enjoy the sights as you raced from A to B and crashing as spectacularly as possible. NFS2 felt like a step back to me cause of the more arcade-y feel and lack of cops, but NFS3 I remember having a ton of fun with. After that I kinda gave up on racing entirely and with how bloated the NFS series became after the 2000's I reckon I didn't miss much.
Thanks, man. It's strange how something as simple as a computer racing game can really help you cope.
And yeah, the games became hugely bloated and really lost their way if you ask me. Huge shame!
Huggies LGR
Thanks for sharing your personal stories! Love LGR vids
Did you ever play Heroes of Might and Magic or the old Dnd games?
Sometimes, the simple things are enough. Sorry for your loss, and props for pushing through in your way.
It still baffles me how EA and the most vocal portion of the NFS fanbase treats these games like they don't even exist and instead insist that the franchise's "roots" are in the Underground era...
Maybe because its due to current generation who havent play "real" NFS. Most of current generation started at U2,MW,Carbon thats why they think the roots of NFS is tuners and street machines not exotics. Even my first NFS game is Most Wanted, its our timelines collide. The world is constantly changing.
Back in the post-NFS6 Blackbox era those wishing for the return of the pre-NFS7 days (or at least those who think they were better) was certainly pretty vocal.
I guess HP 2010 gave them enough of a fix? Maybe they grew out of it? Maybe there's so many more people who played NFS7 than those that played the earlier games that their voices simply drowned?
Its sad that they don't actually know how good NFS started out :(
The first one I ever played was Underground. NFS, or any PC game for that matter, just wasn't on my radar in the 90s since our PC was a 486 Packard bell that we kept up until 2003. (My parents blamed me when the 10-year old hard drive failed.) Anyways, Underground was the first to really be heavily marketed, as they were riding the coattails of Fast and the Furious. So, adding to what you said, it makes sense that when a lot of, especially younger people think of NFS, they think of Underground or later not even realizing that the franchise was already about 8 years old at that point.
It annoys me that the 2015 release was marketed as a return to roots - it had already happened in 2010, and definitely didn't happen in 2015 at all.
Though I wouldn't complain much if someone calls it a return to the glory days - I can see how one would consider the post-NFS6 Blackbox era to be that.
I worked on NFS SE for PC and need for speed TWO PSX as quality assurance games tester.
Thats my record you have to beat on proving grounds.
if you are serious, can you tell whith sound tool(s) are used for showcase speaking ? (correctly .bnk files)
I was offered a job at EA right after graduating Full Sail (3D Computer Animation) but turned it down because it was in the sports division and i HATED sports games!
can you help me with this: www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=2237.new#new
@de_Ultimate kinda regret it now, but i make myself feel better by thinking about what one of my friends said about working for them and they supposedly treating employees bad. 🤷♂️
@de_Ultimate Yup, doing it now, as of a year ago, work 4 myself.👍
I loved Need for Speed: Porsche 2000, I got a steering wheel for it... I loved the physics and the career mode. My favorite Need for Speed.
Actually commented too soon, Underground and Underground 2 where awesome too.... TO THE WINDOW, TO THE WALL!
+Andy Begg I still have Need for Speed underground 2! I play it whenever I can to bring back good memories.
First off, huge bombshell like already said. It's criminal these horrible things happen to good people. Sorry to hear that LGR, pained me to learn of that mate. She'd be damn proud I'm sure.
As for Porsche 2000. Definitely my favourite. Played soooo many hours of that on my force feedback wheel and pedals. Loved how the wheel rumbled going over cobbles. Foundry level was fantastic. Need to find a second hand wheel now :)
Great video. Those days were great for games and hardware. Id pine over the P100 (£1400 at the time) with its fancy FPU unlike my families first PC the AST Cyrix 6x86 100mhz. That cost us £1100!!! Still got it and it works! Early HTML and Doom, yummy. My parents worked hard for us to have a PC. Then the 166mmx I saved like crazy with my two paper rounds per day at school for that. Then onto the glorious K6-2, then a 1ghz Thunderbird and many more. TNT2 Ultra, Savage4 with S3TC (mmmm Unreal Tournament on that), Hurcules/Guillemot, geforces, the behemoth 9700pro.. ohhh so many memories... so many innovations. Just wish I didn't have to sell the current stuff to upgrade back then. I'd love to own all my old setups :(
Great vid LGR.
Agreed, my fav NFS.
+SMEG STAR yeah
Hey Clint, I feel for your sister man, that's really sad, I'm sorry :/
ya keemo sucks i have bin tho that its no fun
you could tell by his face he loves his lost sibling, very touching as i'm sure it is a hard memory. She's in a better place now
Tony Tornado yup :/
had no idea about this either until this video
so sorry for your loss clint
@@TheCandoRailfan So? What's your point? And comparing death of your grandad (which you know will happen soon since you're on planet Earth), to a sister because of the sickness, is pathetic....
Great video Clint, thanks for sharing. Its situations like that, that make a game more than an object. More of a memory and a snapshot of your life.
Long time watcher (sometimes 'listener' while I'm playing games) that part about your sister really surprised me to hear - just remembering how excited I was about (the exact same games) at that age - having it juxtaposed with what you had to deal with that would have been just awful. Condolences to you.
fkthewhat Same for me. Also.......love your avatar. What an album.
The Electronic music for nfs was composed by Rom Di Prisco
I loved Porsche unleashed :(
It was a great game, the tracks and environments were well crafted (lots of diverging paths and shortcuts), great soundtrack, I liked the realistic physics too. If it had the car variety and police chases of 3 and 4 it would have been the best of the 5.
played this for many hours, in Evolution mode through most of the tracks and cars. One of my favorite in the NFS series
cool and HARDCORE (especially on the last eras and cars), we had to love it in RU
Was my favorite at the time. I actually enjoyed all the stuff that LGR didn't, lol.
Most played part for me, adore Porshe Unleashed
Damn Clint, when the discussion about NFS III happened it hit me hard, mostly because I can kind of relate to the passing of a family member oddly enough, around a similar time frame. I lost my grandfather in 1999 and at the time, being VERY young I could not really comprehend death so it did not effect me until much later, but I was still sad since my mother was very stricken with grief at that time. I remember being knee deep into the Playstation at the time and oddly enough, using games like Duke Nukem (The PSX ones of course!) and Gran Turismo helped me cope or at least try to move on.
Man, NFS, Midnight Club and Burnout were the kings of arcade racing in the Mid-2000's
High Stakes is my forever favorite Need for Speed. Best OST, best cars, best physics and tracks. Flawless. ;)
Porsche unleashed has the best sim physics in the NFS series. Its definitely a more adult game than a kid game at the time
TightJeans I agree. The physics are great, the different tasks in carrier are amazong and the ost is awesome. For me the best and even better than modern car arcade games.
TightJeans
Agreed. A very deep game in comparison, but it also had significantly higher system requirements, I remember realising.
My system could not run it smoothly at all for several years.
It's great that I still have it, however, and that it now runs beautifully.
If I recall correctly, my steering wheels work great with it, and I now have the Fanatec Porsche wheel as well!
TechRyze Same here but too bad the resolution can't go higher
Need for Speed 2, the racegame any kid loved.
I mean that in a good way.
+Supreme Beats I think Carbon was my most favorite just because of the police chases in open world and utter amount of destructible objects. Most wanted and Underground 2 were also really fun. Any open world racer is a plus for me.
Agreed. I actually thought it looked fine. I didn't think it looked too yellow. I played it to 100% even the challenges. I love the WRX STI the most.
I still listen to the High Stakes soundtrack on a regular
Especially the menu songs Paradigm Shifter and Cygnus Rift by Rom Di Prisco
I have a mix of NFS 3 and high stakes mixed on a cd, and often change the track depend on the environment and weather. Love the Aquatica when I drive in the rain.
Rom Di Prisco & Saki Kaskas 4 president.
So sorry for your loss. I have a sister and losing her would have been devestating. Thank you for sharing. On a lighter note, gaming wise, I feel like I just watched a lot of my Need for Speed Journey 1-4 as a kid. I remember being so excited about those games, and not even fully understanding what a special time in gaming it was. Need for Speed 3 was the pinnacle of my childhood "Need for Speed journey." So much fun with the police. I also kind of remember thinking with Porshe thinking, "what?"
holy shit I came here for games not feels
You made me feel like crying
My heart goes out to you man
calm down
This was a great video. I haven't played a racing specific game since need for speed underground 2.
I always go back just to play that game for memories!
Same!
PlayStation - Need For Speed IV High Stakes, I played the shit out of that!
I remember getting the PC version in 2001. That was one of the three games I would play constantly back then, the others being the first Harry Potter video game and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.
I felt this video. I grew up on Need for Speed 2, High Stakes and a demo of Porsche Unleashed which I eventually bought the full game of (labeled as Porsche 2000). Everything you spoke about was something I could resonate with as a child. The games not working. The cheat codes for NFS 2 and 4, playing with a friend which would always come over, doing the crashing thing and seeing the physics model. Even the cancer thing as I survived having cancer myself as a teen. All of this hit me hard.
Thanks for the vid man, keep up the great work on LGR.
Being the NFS fan you are you would kick yourself for not being able to experience Motor City Online. It was, and is still 15 years later the best racing game I've ever played.Being able to build a car anyway you wanted, staying up late watching the auction house for a rare car to pop up. Racing all night with your club, trying to get the best overall time and having your clubs name listed on the track for that week. Or just sitting around and chatting with the best online game community I ever experienced. EA is doing the fans and themselves a major disservice in not bringing that game back in some way.
Also very sorry to hear about your sister, I lost my brother in 2009 so in some way I can relate, best wishes to you LGR.
It was an amazing game, really awesome.
Pd: There's a guy trying to revive this game, creating a server from scratch.
I had Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit when I was like 5. Best game ever, fuelled my love of racing games. To this day, I have this unseen aptitude for racing games, every time there's arcade racing in a video game I'm naturally good at it. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that NFS:III HP was the #1 game I played.
Need for Speed Most Wanted is still my favourite NFS. I was crushed when I played the "remake" of Most Wanted.
Ive thought about getting it, so far the only NFS one I own is Undergound for the original xbox
Nfs 1994
I remember really liking the graphics in that game, the sounds of the cars and the whole concept of having to scout each car out in the world map in order to be able to unlock it. You'd just drive up to it and switch to it. I thought that was fun. It gave it a bit of a pokemon element to it rather than just heading off to the dealership to buy it.
underground 1,2 and most wanted were best ones
Carbon was my #1 favorite. I actually own a Xbox 360 just for that one game only because it doesn't run properly on Windows 10 and I don't have a retro XP setup yet.
LOL, it's not even part of real NFS games. True, Need for Speed in the title, but nothing common at all. Like Fifa 98 and Fifa 2021 or something like that. Absurd.
OMG i just heard about you talk about your sister, my heart felt feelings go out to you!
In the 90s,one of my best friends from another city drove 4 hours with his copy of nfs and the PlayStation link cable and I went out and bought a 40 inch television to pair it up with a 55 inch i owned, especially for this event.then we had to lug it up 3 flights of stairs.it was all worth it.i could see my car from his screen and vice versa.one of the best gaming moments ever.
3 years late: NFS 3 is what got me into PC games. I still get goosebumps when I see it/start it up. one of the best soundtracks ever!
Thank you for sharing that. I too get nostalgic over the "Need For Speed" series.
Did you ever play the "Driver" series? It's like if "GTA 3" and "Need for Speed" had a baby.
I remember Driver looking great, but Driver 2 having lesser graphics with a lot of fun glitches. Weird.
both driver games were glitched to hell and back. (on ps1 anyway)
get in a police chase, handbrake turn into a wall so that the cops slam into you, suddenly you're flying into space!
they were fun in their own right, but I'm not sure they'd hold up well with today's perceptions on games. driver 3 definitely was a low water mark for the series.
if ya want modern, driver san Francisco is pretty great, for as far as I played it...never finished it, though cuz my gaming pc died.
LGR, this video is definetively one of the BEST you ever made. I mean.. all your videos are simply great and I love you channel, but this one man.. this one is special to me. Thanks for sharing those memories! NFS rocks!!!
Thank you for this Video on my Birthday :3
Happy Birthday
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BMoney8600 Thanks you :3
Random Assault Podcast :3
+LetsPlayKeldeo no problem. Have a good day.
I’m very sorry about your loss.
The first game I had on the 3do. Part 3 and 3 I had on the pc and my gosh it was awesome! I had a 3dfx voodoo 3 3000 and the games looked awesome on that card. I also have high stakes and Porsche unleashed which I enjoyed. However, 2 and 3 is special to me. The days of seeing it running on 3dfx was awesome! Days of running games on Glide and seeing the hay days of Unreal, Quake 2 and 3, Hexen, MDK, Half-life and so forth. To me, 90’s was the golden era of computers. Man, brings back so many memories!!!
Sorry for your loss. Praying for you and your family and friends. I hope y'all feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for y'all. I hope things improve for y'all soon. I wish y'all the very best of luck. God bless y'all my friend. God loves y'all.
NFS III is one of my favorite games of all time. I bought my PS1 with my first job salary, and this was the first game that I bought for it.
And man... I played for 7 hours in a row! Later I migrated to PC gaming and got the PC version to. Man... the music still press my nostalgia bottons.
And... thank's for sharing about your sister.
My mom died from cancer about the same time. I know how you feel.
Cheers from Brazil!
For me Need for speed underground and underground 2 were my favourite as they weren't just set races but had lots of elements including different challenges, unlockable parts of the city and a lot of customisation . I remember taking a bog standard car and making it crazy fast, it was relatable as you could actually own the same car yourself. I remember the controls were really good and pretty easy to use. In terms of other driving games for me South park rally, crash team racing, mariokart and Micro machines whilst not pure sim games they were pure fun.
All of the first NFS games even the original car and driver I played on my dads old 486 has a huge sentimental place in my heart. Thank you so much for the content on this it’s awesome. More more more. Would love some in-depth looks at tracks and cars for 3 4 and maybe underground. Your awesome man.
Need for Speed High Stakes was the one that got me hooked. Ripping down straightaways in the Mclaren F1 never got old.
Need for Speed 2 and 3 were awesome and were kickass games that I played as a kid. Saki Kaskas (sp?) and Rom di Prisco made some awesome musics for that game. (Warped, Gore, Knossos, Hydrous 606, and Little Sweaty Sow were my favourites) I to this day still listen to some of the musics from NFS2 and 3 on occasion because they were just that awesome.
Clint, I relate to this video quite a bit. In fact, you probably opened the floodgates.
First proper video game I've ever played in my life was NFS: High Stakes, around when it came out back in '99. Before that, the only game I remember playing was the Pole Position arcade cabinet, so something like High Stakes blew my mind. I remember being quite excited when I found one of the cars available was a Jaguar XKR (loved Jaguars at the time - both the cats and the cars - and I still do to this day.), even though I didn't buy the gaming on that, since I didn't know it was in the game. From what I remember, I just saw the cover on the shelf (I think we were in a bookshop or a computer store) and begged my parents for it that day. Can't say I regret that.
Oh, and a year or two later, I remember I was in Wal-Mart and ended up finding a jewel case copy of NFS III: Hot Pursuit and at this point, I could say I was a fan of the series.
These days, I've picked up and mainly play the PS1 ports of High Stakes and the other classic NFS games. Yeah, they're missing some stuff the PC version had. But all the critical elements are there and once I popped that disc for NFS: High Stakes in for the first time in years, it was like coming home to an old friend.
Bravo, man. Bravo. I am very nostalgic for Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, and I too, really love High Stakes. (at least the PC version anyway) I really wish the PC versions of these games were ported to today's consoles so I can relive some fond memories. There needs to be an HD Collection of the 90s Need for Speed games for today's generation of consoles.
my heart broke a little ☹️
I played II+III on LAN with my collegues after hours. I worked at a store selling computers and hardware, and after closing time on saturdays and fridays we would hook up all the stores pc's and just have so much fun. We also played Outlaws, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena and of course. Porsche game was great !
I am 16, but NFS3 is the reason I am a huge Corvette fan today. It was the circle back lights that I liked as a kid. Love the new taillights as well now though.
for me Hot Pursuit 2 to ProStreet was my era of Need For Speed and I loved it. Then Shift and Hot Pursuit 2010 came out and all the Customizing was gone and so was I.
One of my all time favorite games is Porsche Unleashed. I'd always loved Porsche and had a poster of a 911 on my wall. Getting to know the company's history and driving prototypes and stuff was awesome. I really liked the limitations of those older cars and their physics. You really needed a lot of patience because it took ages to get around a track, haha.
I'm going to install it again tomorrow. See you in two weeks.
Porsche unleashed at the time was the most beautiful graphics ever.
and to think of it, Need For Speed: Road Challenge most of the soundtracks were from The Prodigy - The Castbreeder (1998)[Fake Album] , at least that what I was able to find out when I ran my copy of the game as an Audio CD :) so I don't know if it was only for the EU region, or the US copy had the same tracks, I found the album on RUclips as well, if anyone needs to find it just copy this into search bar: "The Prodigy - The Castbreeder (1998)[Fake Album]" , but boy, hearing those menu tracks from NFS3 and NFS4 just gives me the chills, sure were good times growing up with those games :)
Nfs 2 was THE SHIT coming home and playing it after school back in the 90's.. Trying to get the mclaren F1 top speed on the test track, The little video clips for all the cars and shit.. The soundtrack! Thanks for rekindling my memories man.
The late 90's/early 00's modding scene was insane. I spent way too much time sampling all the various Half-Life mods that were out there.
Sorry for your sister, that hurts to hear. Strange enough, my mom had cancer when I was 13 and Hot Pursuit 2 was my distraction. My dad got it years later and then it was Demons Souls. They both made it fortunately
Playing Racing games with the keyboard is like a testament of one's skill. It's like FPS games with Dial-up, specifically Half-Life: Counter-Strike, most of the guns didn't work with 450 ms ping, except for single fire shots with the AK or M4, while standing still or crouching. Bullet Registration? Running around spraying and praying was just like giving out free kills to everyone else.
I loved NFS III lots of LAN time, NFS Porsche Unleashed should be remastered.
Awesome to see a original Need for Speed review. Brief lazy or whatever.
I am just glad to see it wasn’t just me and my brother that loved the original editions so much.
We had console, but even years later my 1/18th scale cars reflect the car selection of those early games.
High stakes was a definitely favorite with the Camaros and Firebirds
It sounds like I would’ve loved it that much more on computer.
Sorry for your loss.
Amazing video, brought me back some great memories... I did a lot of crash courses as well hahah, it's amazing how easily we were entertained back in the days, but these were really great games. I got in touch with the series at 3DO system (yep, I had one!), so I never found these "arcadier" appealing, it was just not the NFS that I was expecting, but High Stakes was soooooo damn good, following by Hot Pursuit and then Underground. Amazing games.
I'm currently playing NFS Heat and its actually a great game, honestly, I'm having a great time with it.
Every day I drive to school, I hear Rom Di Pricso ( the soundtracks from NFS 3 ) NFS 3 was my first game ( PlayStation ) . I love the old NFS
High Stakes and Hot Pursuit were huge for me!!
I spent a lot of time in Porsche Unleashed too, I liked the simulation style they went with.
Never seen you do a review of Rollcage Clint, that was an awesome racer with amazing music!
I grew up with these too. I started with NFS II which I got in 5th grade (around 2000) from one of those book fairs. I think I ended up getting the first one for Playstation at some point, but by then I was playing NFS IV, which was my favourite. Porsche Unleashed was awesome. I don't know what happened to my game disk, and I wish they would put em all up on GOG, but alas.. I think it is funny that most of what you didn't really care for in Porsche Unleashed is what I did like about it. Also, I like Porsches. Kind of a chicken and egg thing with that.
NFS 3 is still one of my favorite games of all time. Used to play it so much after school. Lucky enough our Voodoo 2 card did work. Had a lot of issues running Road Challenge, never realy figured out why...
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed still being to me the greatest NFS game EVER. I do love NFSU I and II, and miss all those LAN games we used to do some years ago.. Carbon was great too, but, STILL, Porsche Unleashed was great. When I was a kid I kind of didn't understood too why it was only Porsches, but when I grew up I did play it again and again and it is the best.
I rember at the T-Rex.i was driving every stuff in NFS2 SE.I absolutely Agree with NFS3 hot pursuit.when i saw it for the first time in a PC Games magazine,i was hypnotized.i was reading the 3 Pages again and again.Snow, Rain, Fog, Night,working Headlights,Multiplayer pursuit Mode..i was faling in Love with this Game.it was so much fun to Play it..Sounds,Menue,Grafics,Musik,Effekts,costomizing Car colour,the cops voice at the radio.just awesome.it was a giant step from nfs2 se to nfs3
The Need for Speed was actually my first game on CD-ROM too back in the day. I think it was '96 when my dad brought it and it was the absolute coolest thing. I remember not understanding how to move because you had to press "A" to shift up. I was only used to games like Test Drive 1 on MS-DOS which has no such concept. I still have the original CD-ROM. Too bad it doesn't run on Modern pc's anymore. Even with DOS-BOX i had problems.
Need for Speed 3 was always a favorite for me. My friends and I would stop by my house, when we had no class, and play it with downloaded models(I distinctly remember a Star Wars speeder bike and the Ecto-1)
Added note, I was using an Nvidia TNT2 card. Lucked out and had it in my Compaq Persario.
I too loved watching that Viper series as a kid!!!
These games arguably got me into cars, and also I had NFSSE as my first ever game! I agree with you entirely
I remember getting NF3:HS and being amazed my emachines could produce graphics so good. That was proberly the defining game of my childhood and the non-console game I played the most.
Watched your newest video of NFS and this one came up. NFS 3 and 4 were my childhood. a buddy had NFS3 on the PSX and once i found out it was on the pc i was hooked. Be cool to see a remaster of both or just highstakes.
I too know the feeling about getting games you can't actually play and just look at the cd case imagining what could be.
We all know it’s Square Enix and Disney, but it’s much more than that to most people including myself. I never thought Square Enix at first look of Kingdom Harts. The first time I saw Kingdom Harts I thought that the game was a movie that was made only a video game. I thought that Disney made a movie into a video game and skipped the movie part. I did play Kingdom Harts 1 before the second one, but I did not finish the first one before playing the second one. Before playing Kingdom Hearts 2, I tried to complete Kingdom Hearts 1 but got stuck at the *RED* *DOOR* leading to Merlin's house. At the time I did not know that doors could be open by magic, so I got stuck. But at the time of playing Kingdom Harts 1, I had *A* *LOT* of Disney video games. The reason for playing Kingdom Harts 1 was because I saw it as another Disney game. But after failing to understand that the door only needed *FIRE,* I started to play Kingdom Harts 2. But my love for the game is not there. It’s when I was playing the game, I was taking medication to help my ADHD. Just only a few months (3-4 months) ago, I got told by a doctor that I had KBG Syndrome. But to the ADHD medication, it had an effect on me that made me want to kill myself. It was more known as depression. I already had that but did not know at the time that I had depression. So at the time of playing Kingdom Harts 1 and 2, I never wanted to listen to the story that the games had and I tried to skip the story if I could. When playing Kingdom Harts 2, I still felt like killing myself. But playing the game made me not think of killing myself and made me think about Kingdom Harts 2. The game took me at least 3-4 months to complete from start to finish. Towards the end of playing the game, I stopped taking the medication. It helped *more* off the medication then on it. I may have looked like I had ADHD, but only a few months ago I found out that I had KBG Syndrome not ADHD. So my love for the game is that, I played the game instead of *killing* *myself.* And if it wasn’t for the Disney stuff in the games, I would have never played Kindom Harts and would have *killed* *myself*
The whole “crashing on purpose” was hilarious to do on Need For Speed Porsche 2000. I would do it and the car would just fly high into the sky and watch it in replay. It was awesome! 😅
I played the original Test Drive games on C64 / Amiga and when the first Need for Speed was shown in the magazines I read, I was instantly on board. NFS1 is basically a more modern Test Drive . Awesome game. I disliked when they focused more on circular tracks in the following games, but got on board after a while, but still, the original NFS is the one to beat, IMO. Great cars, great tracks and just on point.
When I was younger there was a local car dealership that had a Jaguar XJ220 (the fastest production car before the McLaren F1) in the window. I used to like looking at it when we drove past the showroom.
I as a kid saved all of my money for years. I never bought a thing. Then Play Station showed up and I immediately kew this is where my money will go. My first game was Need for Speed III. We bought it from the big mall called Metro in the closest city. I took it home and I instantly became the most popular boy in the neighbourhood... Insta friends came to us to play this gem. Anyway it was one of the greatest times from my childhood. That game was a miracle back that time.
Hey Clint i am so sorry to hear about your sister man, i am not a religious person at all but I'm sure she is in a better place. I recently had my own cancer scare so i know what it can do to a family. My heart goes out to you man, its so hard to realize that terrible things happen to wonderful people such as yourself. You also made me realize that there is no excuse to give up. Ive been feeling like giving up the last few weeks and this video was the much needed head wind to help me get over this hump. I know you didnt talk too much about it but just knowing you had to go through that at such a young age makes me feel like i have no excuses. Love your videos man, keep on doing your thang. Also are you from NC? You mentioned charlotte which is why i ask. If so, its nice to see a fellow tar heel doing well!
Sealmeat IsBestMeat I love your profile pic, and name
How are you now brother..
The PC and Playstation versions of Porsche Unleashed were completely different games. The PS version was like the previous NFS games and the PC version took more of a simulation approach. They did the same thing with the NGC, Xbox, and PC versions of HP2. HP2 for the PS2 was more like the earlier games (and was better) while the other versions went more sim. I played the demo of the PS2 version of HP2. When the game came out I got the Xbox version expecting it to be the same game with better graphics. I was stunned when I got home and saw it was a completely different game.
I totally remember the disappointment of PU. I eventually forced myself to grind through and unlock the cars, leaned how to do the e-brake 360s, and honestly it became worth it when I finally got the GT2. HOLY SHIT that car was nuts! Almost made up for it eliminating every other car.
Underground was pretty fun. Loved the drag mode, but NFS3 was always king.
I remember in australia playing it on the 3do then the ps1 i use to just play it and drive .. never worrys about winning playing driving backwards trying to hit cars
My introduction was Need for speed undercover, on the PS2. Man that was a good game.
Hot Pursuit 2 has Rush in the soundtrack. It's worth it just for that.
That's hilarious because when I was a kid growing up in the 90s the viper was my favorite car to I don't know why but it was my favorite and any racing game that had a viper in it I definitely wanted it.
need for speed 3 hot pursuit was my first NFS game on ps 1 and i love it played it so much as a kid
I had that GT90 model car too and holy hell did you just bring back some childhood memories for me. Also took it everywhere with me! 😂
Forza Horizon series of games are really good. Glad you like it man.
Nfs games were super fun for me too! Well, 1se and 2. That maclaren f1 is still a super fun car.
Need For Speed III... I have a buddy and he and I will call each other, and if there is no answer, we leave quotes on each others voice mail... "THIS IS A NEW PAINT JOB" "Pull over now!" You are UNDER ARREST, don't breathe, don't even move! Oh those were the days.
I remember playing NFS 3 at my cousins house with some really big and clunky 3d glasses, but it was AWESOME! driving into the roadsigns made then get in your face.. at least thats how i remember it was
Much like my attachment to gran turismo 2, lots of things were not going well around me, wanted a racing game with a subaru in it, had a choice of gt2 or colin mcrae, saw there was rally in gt and i was sold. Still play it, and id say it enlightened me to two things, 1, modified older cars can be fastand 2, that japanese cars are as cool as i thought even though everyone at school was all about lambos n stuff, ahh so much nostalgia for the kp60 starlet labeled turbo s, that wasn't turbo, and that the game called "jetliner silver metallic" event though it was clearly green.
Lol I was 10 and I loved the Dodge Viper too. Also, I have a similar experience with buying a game I can’t play, being The Sims 2, I bought it even though I couldn’t play it since my PC was crap lol. But one day, I finally was able to play it, and that day was the day after The Sims 3 came out, I’m not even joking.
Thank you it was very touching.
love this channel man keep it up
NFS 3 hot pursuit and NFS High Stakes had, in hindsight, really prodigious soundtracks. dont know if i could judge them as wholly good or bad but there were some definite toe tappers.
I wasn't aware it was a 30min video until It ended
I remember playing the hell out of nfs2 on my Voodoo.. something at the time, and it looked great with 3d Accel. I think they made it more arcadey possibly to compete with Cruisin USA, which came out on the N64 a year prior. Just a guess, could be wrong. I remember there being an unlockable level that was in a movie studio with a T-Rex blocking the track and other over the top track elements. So yeah, quite a departure from the dull highways of the first game, lol. Well, polarising you, I actually fell in love with the series based on the 3do version of the first game, which I thought was such a refreshing racing game at the time merely because it wasn't a circular track. It was just a linear section of road on an 'ordinary' highway, so it felt like you were part of a bigger world. Not isolated on a racing circuit like most other racing games I'd played. The traffic and physics made it feel more immersive and realistic I guess, despite not really being a 'sim'. The traffic definitely helped it feel like a 'street racing' game compared to any driving games I'd played prior. That feeling I got from racing down a highway with pedestrian traffic going about their business, before I slammed them into the ditch cackling maniacally at the feeling of power over these pathetic sedans and grocery getters, was something new and special at the time. My friend and I would play it for hours just terrorizing traffic. Of course that special feeling was fucking ANNIHILATED when GTA3 came out on the ps2.. but that's a different story.
in Australia nfs4 was call hot steaks and you could race as a bbq and when you crashed tomato sauce got splashed everywhere.
Motocross madness 2!! Whip it out to 3rd person view! Gosh I played that sooo much. I never had the box but always wanted that and the midtown madness box. $$
i bought the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 before buying a PC! good old days! some of the best days of my life!
I love the piss filter in Most Wanted, gives the game it's own distinctive looks and personality that separate it from other games
Tuner honda falling apart on start is surprisingly realistic to be honest
Loved NFSIII, played that at LAN parties
High Stakes is my favorite out of the bunch along with NFS III the Playstation version of High Stakes had some good cars that don't exist in the PC version & Vice Versa. In fact I also do mods for High Stakes to keep the game alive and fresh today. The Playstation version of Need for Speed III doesn't have playable cops thought.
I have a surreal group of memories regarding the first 3 of this series, and also Hot Pursuit 2 .... oh my goodness you have Dethkarz nice. Do you have Powerslide though ?
I'm 25 and I have he the same feeling about NFS Underground 2
NFS2 Was my favorite
Also sorry for the loss my dude
I remember playing NFS3 Hot Pursuit with a Voodoo 3 video card. My most favorite racing game of all time. I love the Bugatti in that game.
There's a bugatti in that game?
I believe it was NFS 2 or 3 that could be modded beyond recognition... My speed record was something like 9000 mph, modded car and track om course.