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    100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold

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    Image of Karlott Karlott
    10/22/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    The original Need for Speed for its time was sweet, Hot Pursuit 2 was the best the series had to offer IMO, and the Underground games were acceptable. The rest were shit. #needforspeed
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    Image of Eltigro Eltigro
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    <----- has never played any Need for Speed game.

    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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    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    And the very first Need for Speed is still the best, by far. Although, Porsche Unleashed was a decent attempt. #needforspeed
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    Image of whaaabamb whaaabamb
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    most wanted is prob the best of them all #needforspeed
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    10/21/09

    @whaaabamb: Yea Most Wanted is favorite one of the batch, though Hot Pursuit II comes close.

    I really wished that EA would have released them on Steam instead of Undercover and Shift. #needforspeed
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    Image of D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears* D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    I'm counting 14 on the pic.. what's up? #needforspeed
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    Image of LAGamer LAGamer
    10/21/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch: Counted them several times and I get 14 as well. Also it goes from 1994 to 2010 which is 16 years and not 15. #needforspeed
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    Image of D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears* D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
    10/21/09

    @LAGamer: It's severly illogical.

    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
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    Image of Rompehamster Rompehamster
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    The first Underground is still the best in the series.

    Underground 2 kinda fucked up the nice formula they had with the first one. #needforspeed
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    Image of Asbestos_Underwear Asbestos_Underwear
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    The only one I really loved was NfS Porsche. Some of the others were nice, but I really only like the Porsche one. It had that nice balance between arcade and sim. #needforspeed
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    Image of Matthew Weflen Matthew Weflen
    10/21/09

    @Asbestos_Underwear: Agreed on NFS:PU. I played that one to death. It was not only hecka fun, it had great multi-path courses, nice graphics, and taught you about Porsches!

    I liked High Stakes and Underground. But PU is the only iteration I LOVED. #needforspeed
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    My brother got Underground n Underground 2.
    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
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    Image of spannu spannu
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    I always preferred the ones with more of an arcade feel to them, but this is pretty much the point where I didn't know whether to love or hate what I was seeing. #needforspeed
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    Image of Hamster Poop Hamster Poop
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    I love useless facts :)

    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
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    Komrade Kayce promoted this comment Hamster Poop was starred Hamster Poop was unstarred
    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    10/21/09

    @Hamster Poop:

    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
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    Image of Hamster Poop Hamster Poop
    10/21/09

    @Komrade Kayce: I wasn't criticizing the series. My favourite game out of the ones I played was Hot Pursuit.

    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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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit was a glorious game. Good times. #needforspeed
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    The series has been going downhill since Hot Pursuit and for the past years Burnout won me over, but I'm looking forward NFS Nitro on the Wii. Time will tell what the future of NFS holds. #needforspeed
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    Image of ray148 ray148
    10/21/09

    @Shiryu: really? but most wanted was awesome!!
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    Image of Jon Casino Jon Casino
    10/21/09

    @Shiryu: thats funny bring that nitro is basically a kid game have fun with that shift is awesome and is a great game to bring NFS back on the horse #needforspeed
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    10/21/09

    @Shiryu:

    Agreed. Hot Pursuit was amazing, and everything that's come after it has just gotten worse and worse. #needforspeed
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    Image of faunt faunt
    10/21/09

    @d_r_e: Meh. Porche was even better then Hot Pursuit. #needforspeed
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    10/21/09

    @d_r_e: So true, so true... =\ #needforspeed
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    10/21/09

    @Jon Casino: Sorry Jon, I respectuflly must disagree with you on that "kid game". I got nothing against Shift or realistic racers, but I already live in the real world, So I don't really think much of "realistic games with realistic graphics" because... they bore me. To each it's own, sir. =) #needforspeed
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    10/21/09

    @ray148: Did not play that one much, as I said, by that time, I was playing Burnout... =\ #needforspeed
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    Image of Bootes Bootes
    10/21/09

    @Shiryu: Criterion, the Burnout developers, are making one of the upcoming NFS games. #needforspeed
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    10/21/09

    @Bootes: Looking quite forward to that one. =) #needforspeed
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    Image of Hayabusa_San Hayabusa_San
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    The last really good NFS game I played was Most Wanted. I think a lot of people thought the same as me.

    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
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    fuchikoma promoted this comment Hayabusa_San was starred Hayabusa_San was unstarred
    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    10/21/09

    @Hayabusa_San: I got into them at Hot Pursuit 2 and it's still a favorite. I played a little Underground 2, and a bit of Carbon, but the physics seemed to get worse with newer games (Carbon PSP is great in all its silly arcadeyness though!) I tried ProStreet's demo and pretty much hated it.

    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.
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    This brings back memories.

    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
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    Image of D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears* D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
    10/21/09

    @Komrade Kayce: Road rash the one where you had a bike and kicked other racers of theirs?

    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
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    10/21/09

    @D-K, has mastered the dim-mak candlepunch:

    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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    Image of D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears* D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
    10/21/09

    @Komrade Kayce: Oh how time flies.. You and I are becoming relics of a time long forgotten, my friend.. #needforspeed
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    Image of Robotube on PSN wants to play SFHD. Robotube on PSN wants to play SFHD.
    10/21/09

    In reply to 100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold
    Not hard to accomplish when you've made 100 Million versions of the game. #needforspeed
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