The ps3 version runs at 60fps on rpcs3 it has such a clean and striking visual design and generally is just fun to play. The bonus is it doesnt outstay its welcome and is nice and short so I don’t get burned out half way through like I do every arcade racer.
Anyone got a favourite speed for need?
Controversial, but I always preferred Carbon over Most Wanted, purely because I found the Canyon duels to be great fun.
Underground 2 will always be my favourite. Carbon is good, but the map is average compared to Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005, which have incredible maps. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 is also great, a crossover between Need For Speed and Burnout done right (Most Wanted 2012 is an example of it done wrong). The remastered version runs at 4K 60fps on the latest consoles and looks great, obviously on PC it runs at whatever you want. Burnout 3 is another great game, also Burnout Paradise.
I’m currently playing Unbound, the story is trash (almost all characters speak like a gen alpha kid, incredible amounts of cringe), but gameplay is alright, you can choose between the black box need for speed style grip handling or burnout/Criterion style tap to drift handling. Thankfully you can turn off the cartoonish effects for your own car, not the opponent’s cars though sadly. There is some absolutely bullshit map/level/track design with the checkpoints, you can’t hit the apex of a corner of the checkpoint doesn’t allow you to. Also barriers everywhere to catch you out. The music also sucks.
Underground 2 was sick
My mom had a blast with the very first nfs game back on the playstation when we rented it from a blockbuster once. I should play some of these sometime.
Most wanted. In this one I can actually see, while in carbon and underground, I constantly have to look at the map. And the fun part, the cop chases, are actually important there. And the “Pursuit 1” theme is one of my favorites (Edit: its in carbon too). The campaign is way too long, but the challenge mode has a good length.
The porsche game on ps1.
PC version for me. I still play it from time to time because it’s that good
You see how the cars flip when they get hit?
In PC? Rarely though, I mostly send myself flying when I go on a ramp too fast
Always played pursuit against cops. Driving through those roads. Sometimes you see the craziest bumps when the cop catches you. Tbh the physics of rhe cars at the time were crazy good tbh. That and Colin mcrae rally games
There’s not much of that in the PC port. Only the test driver part has police pursuing you and it’s like 3 times tops. Always wanted to play a similar simcade rally-esque game but I haven’t tried anything yet. I heard of Automobilista 2 but I’m too lazy to pirate it
I gotta’ come back to Carbon. I started it briefly after I finished Most Wanted last year. I love the autosculpt feature. The customization is really solid. I kinda’ like the quasi-RPG class system for the car types: tuner, muscle, exotic. The Tokyo Drift canyon drifting boss battles are cool.
I don’t like the city as much. MW felt like a more cohesive product. Also I’m more into Metal than the indie rock Carbon has. Also don’t like that it switched to CG for some of the cutscenes, the composited live action MW and Carbon has otherwise looks really good.
Miss when games like this came out. everything is either sim or '90s Sega-style arcade racer.
I liked Underground 1 a ton when I played it in college, and Most Wanted’s open world was fun enough to get me to (mostly) ignore the piss filter.
I think the Ps2,Xbox,GC version don’t have that filter. It’s just 360 and Pc if I remember
Why emulate it? NFS Carbon had a PC port.
Having a hard time getting pc versions packaged with patches. Last place was annoying 1fitchier links that kept failing so emulating was just easier
Not a need for speed, but for games of that genre and era, I really liked Juiced 2 Hot Import Nights. Wouldn’t play it now, but I picked it up very cheap second hand when I had absolutely no money and very few other games, so I played it way more that it deserved and as such it’s got weird pedestal in my head.
This is me plucking operation winback off the shelf in my local library and then it living rent free in my head for the rest of my life
First game to use sticky cover. N64 version was tough
I played a lot of Underground 1 and 2 on the Xbox back in the day. The car customization was fun, the aesthetic was extremely early 2000s, and the soundtrack was iconic
Only played a couple of NFS games and the most recent one I played is Heat which is pretty cool, specially with friends. I haven’t finished the story, but it is kinda bad, like it’s just super forgettable and kind of annoying to do, and some of the important characters are gusanos which is not something I expected lol. But the actual game outside of that is pretty cool, I really like the idea they were going for where by day you get money and by night you level up, but have to worry about the police and getting caught makes you lose all the progress you made that night, although the day part feels boring most of the time.
the only need for speed game i’ve played was underground rivals for psp, it was alright
i’m not big into racing games but my favorite is midnight club 3 (lil wayne in a che shirt at 2:30 lol)
I need that shirt rn!
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