TNFS Showcases - how freaking excellent were they?

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03/18/2016 at 16:51 • Filed to: None

Gotta love those showcase videos (skip to the last quarter or so of each vid to watch). I spent ages watching them over and over as a kid.

I want modern car games to come with stuff like that. :(

DISCUSSION (17)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:01

First computer game we ever bought when I was a kid!!! :D

I feel bad as I think most of the later NFS games have become a shadow of what they could be...(SHIFT and SHIFT 2 were good, but their netcode was really buggy for multiplayer, which my friends and I tried a lot of...)

I still have my NFSSE disk over to my left as we speak, haha!

StingrayJake > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:01

And here I thought rapid camera cuts were a relatively modern editing style.

. . > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/18/2016 at 17:04

I wish I still had mine, but I lent it to a kid who then moved away. :(

TNFS SE and NFSIII are definitely the best games in the series. I haven’t had much fun with any NFS since Underground 2.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:06

I still have my NFS III and NFS: High Stakes disks as well....I think High Stakes was my favorite. We used to love multiplayer doing police chases in that! :)

DoYouEvenShift > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:11

NFS:III was my favorite

. . > DoYouEvenShift
03/18/2016 at 17:12

It didn’t have videos in showcases though. The 360 view thing was cool, but I’d rather have videos. :D

OPPOsaurus WRX > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:12

Ahhhhh those were the days

. . > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/18/2016 at 17:15

I mostly played the hell out of NFS 4: High Stakes because my NFS III disk stopped working at one point. Really missed III and its excellent tracks. I didn’t mind 4, despite its horrendously ugly 3D interiors, but it didn’t have many great tracks. I pretty much only remember Celtic Ruins (track 1) from that game. To be fair, it also had a pretty nice selection of cars.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:23

I will say the music was awesome...I still have a lot of the NFS III and NDS:HS tracks on my “driving” playlist! :)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > . .
03/18/2016 at 17:31

I always thought the interiors were pretty good for their day! Hell, most racing games don’t even have interiors now... :/

. . > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/18/2016 at 17:34

NFS III had nice 2D interiors, unfotunately NFS 4 switched to 3D, which in the late 90's looked awful. And I also really bemoaned the fact that in the mid 00's racing games started coming out without interior views, luckily the trend appears to be shifting now.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > . .
03/18/2016 at 18:23

Agreed! A lot of racing games are becoming more “sim-y” which I prefer to “arcade-y” too, so that’s nice!

NJAnon > . .
03/18/2016 at 19:45

If only I had the chops like the car narrator of those videos.... thats an oppo voice right there :P

Tohru > . .
03/20/2016 at 16:50

“Road and Track Presents The Need for Speed: Special Edition”

I remember being amazed that the cars would leave black marks on the road. And I was playing on a 486!

. . > Tohru
03/20/2016 at 16:51

That’s the bit that absolutely stunned me as well! Also, 486 Master Race. We only upgraded to a Pentium 2 in 1998.

Tohru > . .
03/20/2016 at 16:55

486 DX/2 66mHz with Soundblaster Pro audio card, 32 megs of RAM, a 300 meg HDD, drives for 3.5" floppy, 5.25" floppy, AND CD-ROM, a 56k modem, all connected to an AOC 15" monitor and a Fujitsu mechanical keyboard.

The best computer $3000 could buy you in 1992.

. . > Tohru
03/20/2016 at 16:59

I don’t remember the specs of our 486 PC, unfortunately. I rememebr it having a turbo button and a CPU clock display. :P I played a shitload of Stunts, Lotus III, Crazy Cars III, and a whole lot of other games on that machine though. I recall my parents gave it to charity after they got a 400 Mhz PII with a Matrox G200 and 128 MB of RAM.