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Sun Nov 22
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10/22/09
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I remember reading a review of the very first Need for Speed and it wasn't positive. So I've never been that interested in them. Just haven't tried 'em. Oh well, kind of like that saying, 100 million satisfied customers can't be wrong. #needforspeed
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I really wished that EA would have released them on Steam instead of Undercover and Shift. #needforspeed
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You can't assign each game their own year, claim there's 15 games in 15 years when several years don't appear on the scale, such as 1995,1996,2001.
It makes me brain-freeze.. i'll stop trying to get it to make sense.. #needforspeed
10/21/09
Underground 2 kinda fucked up the nice formula they had with the first one. #needforspeed
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I liked High Stakes and Underground. But PU is the only iteration I LOVED. #needforspeed
10/21/09
Which I completed most of U2 before he did, and it was a fairly fun game. I liked learning where the shortcuts where, pimping my ride n all that.
Though I didn't get massively into it to warrant going and purchasing any of the new ones.
I guess if I run out of games to play over the coming months I'll look into them. Not had a new racing game since Prologue. #needforspeed
10/21/09
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Is it just me, or is this article sound like it was written by EA? That's the vibe I got from the article. #needforspeed
10/21/09
Its just you. Name me another 15 year old Racing IP that manages to put out a game every year, and have people buy it.
Its almost like EA are masters of slapping a one digit higher number or new title on the same game and have it sell. I wonder if they do this with any other franchises... hrm...
Well, at least while they're pushing rehash, they've also been helping fund new ips. Which is more than you can say for... you know... that OTHER guy...
(will smith) #needforspeed
10/21/09
I was simply commenting on how the article was written. It sounded like PR and not something written by one of the editors here. #needforspeed
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Agreed. Hot Pursuit was amazing, and everything that's come after it has just gotten worse and worse. #needforspeed
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Just to make it clear, I didn't play Shift yet. But I have played every NFS from Hot Pursuit to Undercover, and just a few are really good. #needforspeed
10/21/09
Now I'm in a like/dislike thing with Shift - it's HARD hardcore for a console racing sim; it's pretty brutal compared to a GT or Forza, so I'm going back to it less and less often. It's anything but a NFS game, but objectively it's great technically and in presentation.
10/21/09
As a kid, my brother and I used to rent a 3DO whenever we went to go visit my father. Of course, we only always ever rented the same two games, Road Rash and Return Fire. On the odd occasion, if either of those titles were gone, I seem to remember playing Gex and Rise of the Robots at some point.
One time when we rented the system, Need for Speed had been left in the tray.
It was pretty sweet, because we weren't into racing games (the only other one I had was some Indy game on my Genesis) but we had fun playing it.
That was a long time ago. I miss seeing the name Need for Speed and getting excited. :( #needforspeed
10/21/09
Ahh, i remember slapping bikers next to me with chains, 2x4's and bottles.. good stuff..
On second though.. that might have been called road rage.. i forget. #needforspeed
10/21/09
Yes, that was Road Rash.
I had a friend who had the Genesis versions. I had only ever played it on 3DO, with the full FMV cutscenes and soundtrack.
Playing the Genesis one was like vomit in a bike helmet. #needforspeed
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