The Need For Speed Special Edition: An LGR Retrospective
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Date: 2022-04-14
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live23
My absolutely favorite game when I was a kid, amazing memories. This game was and is art. It would be interesting to discuss different teams that developed NFS. First one was developed by EA Canada, NFS2 by EA Seattle, this is why they differed so much! I remember that Seattle team screwed things up so much that the Canada team needed to jump in and help them outI think Porsche Unleashed was also made by EA Canada, hence great physics and similar feeling. But after that things went more or less downhill. anyway thanks for the great video. The original need for speed was a revolution at the time!
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My absolutely favorite game when I was a kid, amazing memories. This game was and is art. It would be interesting to discuss different teams that developed NFS. First one was developed by EA Canada, NFS2 by EA Seattle, this is why they differed so much! I remember that Seattle team screwed things up so much that the Canada team needed to jump in and help them outI think Porsche Unleashed was also made by EA Canada, hence great physics and similar feeling. But after that things went more or less downhill. anyway thanks for the great video. The original need for speed was a revolution at the time!
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Basillicus
Cool to see that NFS(SE) was so important to other people too. When I first saw it running in my friends PC (along with Duke 3D) it totally changed by perception of gaming. Compared to earlier DOS games and 8/16bit console games which I always felt were mostly kind of shit, it had awesome music, realism, photorealistic 3D graphics (or so it seemed back then, and overall so many degrees of freedom! That was essentially the moment when I became PC gaming enthusiast, although I got a decent gaming PC myself only in -97.
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Cool to see that NFS(SE) was so important to other people too. When I first saw it running in my friends PC (along with Duke 3D) it totally changed by perception of gaming. Compared to earlier DOS games and 8/16bit console games which I always felt were mostly kind of shit, it had awesome music, realism, photorealistic 3D graphics (or so it seemed back then, and overall so many degrees of freedom! That was essentially the moment when I became PC gaming enthusiast, although I got a decent gaming PC myself only in -97.
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Gorgen2k
Fun to hear that you also liked the viper. NFS 1 was the game that got me in love with the viper and i still dream of owning one someday. Never bought nfs 1 so i had to borrow it from my cousin, but i still remember the day when i bought NFS 2 and looking at the box when i was taking the buss home from the town. I would stare on the box and could not wait to get home to try it out. And in NFS 2 i fell in love with the Jag XJ220 i just loved to play the video of the car and i loved the song as well.
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Fun to hear that you also liked the viper. NFS 1 was the game that got me in love with the viper and i still dream of owning one someday. Never bought nfs 1 so i had to borrow it from my cousin, but i still remember the day when i bought NFS 2 and looking at the box when i was taking the buss home from the town. I would stare on the box and could not wait to get home to try it out. And in NFS 2 i fell in love with the Jag XJ220 i just loved to play the video of the car and i loved the song as well.
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TK86
I loved that game, but to be honest I like the one from '94 for the 3DO most, on PC I like the normal TNFS most, that's the one, which comes closest to the 3DO version! TNFSSE feels way too arcady for me, like as if they tried to implement NFSII physics into TNFS as an experiment. what a shame. still not a bad game though, but I think normal TNFS even on PC has a much more realistic physics model! So if I had to choose which one to play from all those versions, I think I'd choose TNFS '95 for PC (Y)
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I loved that game, but to be honest I like the one from '94 for the 3DO most, on PC I like the normal TNFS most, that's the one, which comes closest to the 3DO version! TNFSSE feels way too arcady for me, like as if they tried to implement NFSII physics into TNFS as an experiment. what a shame. still not a bad game though, but I think normal TNFS even on PC has a much more realistic physics model! So if I had to choose which one to play from all those versions, I think I'd choose TNFS '95 for PC (Y)
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Cat
The way I see it the NFS series started as a masterpiece and just went downhill ever since. There are a few good games there and there but after like 15-20 games produced. the first three were pretty much the best for me.
Maybe they should remaster the first one. Keeping the same gameplay or having it more realistic. you know like doing what the first one was aiming to do at heart: simulating the thrill of racing dream cars on the road at full speed.
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The way I see it the NFS series started as a masterpiece and just went downhill ever since. There are a few good games there and there but after like 15-20 games produced. the first three were pretty much the best for me.
Maybe they should remaster the first one. Keeping the same gameplay or having it more realistic. you know like doing what the first one was aiming to do at heart: simulating the thrill of racing dream cars on the road at full speed.
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Trumble
I had NFSSE and I would race for a bit, and inevitably get bored and do the same thing, pit maneuvering cars and slamming into them head on to see how many flips I could make my car do. Anytime I played racing games, (especially old 3d rally car racers for DOS) it always eventually devolved into finding that one spot on the track you could catch big air and trying to hit another car mid air. I love the nostalgia I feel watching these reviews.
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I had NFSSE and I would race for a bit, and inevitably get bored and do the same thing, pit maneuvering cars and slamming into them head on to see how many flips I could make my car do. Anytime I played racing games, (especially old 3d rally car racers for DOS) it always eventually devolved into finding that one spot on the track you could catch big air and trying to hit another car mid air. I love the nostalgia I feel watching these reviews.
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Eric
I can't believe how much this review mirrors my own experience. I remember buying NFSSE when I was 12 years old at Costco, when we too did not have a PC with a fast enough processor (or a CD-ROM drive. I also remember staring at the back of the box so excited to play it. I begged my dad for a new computer, and behold for my birthday that year, a new computer with a Pentium processor at 133mhz showed up. Still one of my favorite games as a kid.
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I can't believe how much this review mirrors my own experience. I remember buying NFSSE when I was 12 years old at Costco, when we too did not have a PC with a fast enough processor (or a CD-ROM drive. I also remember staring at the back of the box so excited to play it. I begged my dad for a new computer, and behold for my birthday that year, a new computer with a Pentium processor at 133mhz showed up. Still one of my favorite games as a kid.
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AllboroLCD
Bought this one as shareware on a floppy at a computer fair which were the go to for hardware/software for me back in the 90-s. They would usually be in hotel banquet halls and held every 4 months or so. Most of the merch was OEM non box stuff and could always be gotten way below retail price. Anyways I wore my NFS disk out playing it and lending it to friends so I picked up the CD version a year later at another computer fair!
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Bought this one as shareware on a floppy at a computer fair which were the go to for hardware/software for me back in the 90-s. They would usually be in hotel banquet halls and held every 4 months or so. Most of the merch was OEM non box stuff and could always be gotten way below retail price. Anyways I wore my NFS disk out playing it and lending it to friends so I picked up the CD version a year later at another computer fair!
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Driftshift66
Hey LGR, what's your opinion on the current SRT line of Vipers? Personally, I'll always be a fan of the 2000 Viper Competiton Coupe.
The one car that has always held dearly in my heart is the Lamborghini Diablo, especially the 1997 SV Edition first unveiled in NFS3: HP. I'm happy that it has been included in so many recent NFS titles. That and the Viper have always been two greats in my book. Both legendary cars.
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Hey LGR, what's your opinion on the current SRT line of Vipers? Personally, I'll always be a fan of the 2000 Viper Competiton Coupe.
The one car that has always held dearly in my heart is the Lamborghini Diablo, especially the 1997 SV Edition first unveiled in NFS3: HP. I'm happy that it has been included in so many recent NFS titles. That and the Viper have always been two greats in my book. Both legendary cars.
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R. a.
There was a book that could be bought along the same lines. I had the cars for 1994. It was chuck full of pictures, specs, and such. It was like $6 or 7 bucks at the time. But I studied that book for hours on end. That was back when publishers actually cared about quality verse content. Quite amazing memory and like you I was a big fan of the VIper RT 10. The first versions of this car was gorgeous.
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There was a book that could be bought along the same lines. I had the cars for 1994. It was chuck full of pictures, specs, and such. It was like $6 or 7 bucks at the time. But I studied that book for hours on end. That was back when publishers actually cared about quality verse content. Quite amazing memory and like you I was a big fan of the VIper RT 10. The first versions of this car was gorgeous.
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