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MysteryRidahz
05-09-2007, 05:19 PM
Do anyone else besides me think that EA should go back to its roots and bring back the old style of play?
Cop chases, city and outside city areas, weather effects, massive tournaments leagues, and most importantly bring back TECHNO/TRACE MUSIC/Ambient Music.
Also any NFS modders around working on any new tracks/cars for the old series?
itobandito
05-09-2007, 05:53 PM
I definitley do, I miss the NFS1 style, the exotic cars, the original hard rock/trance/techno music. Now all we get are rice rockets with too much rap. It's all about sponsors these days. I hate it.
skaar
05-09-2007, 06:00 PM
That's because the homies are the target market now.
Word.
(ugh)
MysteryRidahz
05-09-2007, 08:41 PM
I definitley do, I miss the NFS1 style, the exotic cars, the original hard rock/trance/techno music. Now all we get are rice rockets with too much rap. It's all about sponsors these days. I hate it.
Yea that rap music is really getting on my last nerves haha. Also, even the rock music which i like, that is getting on my nerves. For a NFS game, we need fast techno / trace music / rock music. Not rock music alone or rap music.
I plan on getting into modding for the NFS scene, so i can keep the old series alive, like other folks are doing.
:popcorn:
roushimsx
05-09-2007, 08:49 PM
I think the series peaked with Porsche Unleashed. I really wish they'd do more games in that style, but they opted to go backwards with Hot Pursuit 2 and starting with Underground, it's not even the same series anymore. It's not that the new ones are terrible (well, the AI is), but Porsche Unleashed set that bar so damn high and everything else hasn't been anything more than merely "good".
Motor City Online would have topped Porsche Unleashed if they hadn't tried to shoehorn it into an MMO model. It had an excellent selection of cars, some awesome tracks, and great physics, but the pay-to-play model mixed with the smaller racing grids over Porsche Unleashed and the higher-than-usual occurrences of latency/lag really hurt it. Double burn that since they shut down the servers, you can't play it AT ALL. That hurts the worst :(
But god damn man, Porsche Unleashed was pure sex. PS1 port wasn't shabby, but the PC version remains one of my favorite racing games of all time. I wasn't sure that they'd be able to pull off the single-manufacturer-license and keep it interesting, but good god did they ever pull it off perfectly. If there's one flaw with the game, it's that it's buggy with Win2k/XP and there's not quite enough fan-patches to fix everything :(
retroman
05-09-2007, 11:03 PM
I couldnt agree more.
MysteryRidahz
05-09-2007, 11:06 PM
I think the last great nfs game is hot pursuit 2. The only flaw in that game is the music and lack of weather effects. Other then that , hot pursuit 2 is just like the old series. Anything after that pretty much sucks.
That's because the homies are the target market now.
Word.
(ugh)
Hey, I don't like what I'm hearing here! I just so happen to be a "homie" as you so eloquently phrased it and I am in no way liking the direction EA has taken with the NFS franchise. Yes, I DO listen to hip hop, but I also know that it makes terrible game music, and i'm not the only "homie" who thinks so. So please, don't blame it on the homies because we'd rather play Fight Night or Madden(or eat fried chicken with hot sauce i guess) than a cop chase game that can't find it's identity. And by the way SKAAR, I resent that statement and it upsets me to see this kind of attitude displayed in a respectable forum as this one.
itobandito
05-10-2007, 10:08 AM
Though i did like hot pursuit 2 I would have to say the last one I really liked was hot pursuit 1 mainly because it had the Firebird in it. Man they need to bring that car back.
le geek
05-10-2007, 10:27 AM
I prefer the 3DO original version... ;)
Cheers,
Ben
Oobgarm
05-10-2007, 10:38 AM
I'll stick my neck out here and say that I'm fine with the newer NFS games. The series really only caught my attention with NFSIII, but I did give the earlier 2 games a whirl and found them to be OK.
NFS Underground was the first to shed the the 'exotic car only' skin and I think it worked very well. There were still exotics in the game, but the inclusion of regular vehicles added to the enjoyability of the game. I find it quite fun to be able to take cars that would be considered daily drivers, 'mod' the shit out of them, and drive them in such a fashion that would be near impossible in real life. Underground 2 moreso, thanks to the open city.
Most Wanted and Carbon each added a small element to the game, story and autosculpting, respectively. Carbon also marked the inclusion of muscle cars to the mix. They both wern't as fun as previous installments, but pretty good in their own right.
I dunno. I always pictured the 'exotics only' type of game to be stuffy and limited. But that's just my personal taste.
slip81
05-10-2007, 10:57 AM
I don't hate the new NFS', but yeah, I'd like to see a return to the series' roots, mainly because it was the only exotic racer, and still pretty much is.
I mean we do have TDU, but it's not the same. I also think EA should just stop doing street racers cause they can't do it as good as other companies, to me Midnight Club is the king of the genre, and, if you can't do it better than them (which I don't think they can), just stick to what you did best; driving very exspensive cars at insane speeds to avoid the popo.
Edit: on a side note now that I'm thinking about it; what ever happened to the Tokyo Drift series? Man those games rocked on the DC, how come the PS2 versions suck so bad?
Oobgarm
05-10-2007, 11:49 AM
Edit: on a side note now that I'm thinking about it; what ever happened to the Tokyo Drift series? Man those games rocked on the DC, how come the PS2 versions suck so bad?
I've not played the new Drift games, but the PS2 and Xbox360 games in the series are pretty much identical to the DC ones.
roushimsx
05-10-2007, 12:47 PM
Edit: on a side note now that I'm thinking about it; what ever happened to the Tokyo Drift series? Man those games rocked on the DC, how come the PS2 versions suck so bad?
The last ones we got were Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 on PS2 and Import Tuner Challenege on 360 (if that's the series you're talking about?), but they brought over Kaido Battle and Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu as budget games. The first was "ok", the second was "fucking hot". Haven't put too much time into the US release of TnD, so I'm not sure if they fucked it up like they did TXR3 (which I didn't even know about until a friend told me of...it's impossible to beat that game without a cheat device :( ).
TnD (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2) is only $15 new, too!
MysteryRidahz
05-10-2007, 06:21 PM
Hey, I don't like what I'm hearing here! I just so happen to be a "homie" as you so eloquently phrased it and I am in no way liking the direction EA has taken with the NFS franchise. Yes, I DO listen to hip hop, but I also know that it makes terrible game music, and i'm not the only "homie" who thinks so. So please, don't blame it on the homies because we'd rather play Fight Night or Madden(or eat fried chicken with hot sauce i guess) than a cop chase game that can't find it's identity. And by the way SKAAR, I resent that statement and it upsets me to see this kind of attitude displayed in a respectable forum as this one.
Just ignore stuff like that. :rocker:
skaar
05-10-2007, 06:45 PM
Hey, I don't like what I'm hearing here! I just so happen to be a "homie" as you so eloquently phrased it and I am in no way liking the direction EA has taken with the NFS franchise. Yes, I DO listen to hip hop, but I also know that it makes terrible game music, and i'm not the only "homie" who thinks so. So please, don't blame it on the homies because we'd rather play Fight Night or Madden(or eat fried chicken with hot sauce i guess) than a cop chase game that can't find it's identity. And by the way SKAAR, I resent that statement and it upsets me to see this kind of attitude displayed in a respectable forum as this one.
That... is beautiful.
slip81
05-10-2007, 10:34 PM
The last ones we got were Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 on PS2 and Import Tuner Challenege on 360 (if that's the series you're talking about?), but they brought over Kaido Battle and Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu as budget games. The first was "ok", the second was "fucking hot". Haven't put too much time into the US release of TnD, so I'm not sure if they fucked it up like they did TXR3 (which I didn't even know about until a friend told me of...it's impossible to beat that game without a cheat device :( ).
TnD (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2) is only $15 new, too!
Yeah it was, not sure why I thought it was called Tokyo Drift. Anyway I'll have to check out Drift 2, as I've only played Xreme Racer 3 and Zero, neither of which I liked.
MysteryRidahz
11-13-2007, 07:42 PM
In a interview i read somewhere, i forget, they said they was slowly getting away from the arcade style of nfs, they have been getting away from it for years. Now we have another nfs game, Pro street, ugh.
EA has been sucking for years, and it continues to suck. I am so glad i still have NFS II, NFS1, nfs III, high stakes, PU, and hot pursuit 2, those are true nfs games. The rest sucks. :(