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Hot Pursuit III, High Stakes, Porsche Unleashed... the only Nfs titles where I'd sometimes go into 1st person mode and try to drive the car "normally", using turning signals and trying to obey traffic laws - pretending as if I'm going on a road trip.. the atmosphere of these games were just that immersive to me, not to mention cheat codes that allowed you to drive traffic cars too. I don't recall ever doing this in the newer titles.

I love this game, but I enjoy playing it even more on the PS1. Why? 1. On the PC version we can also drive a McLaren F1 GTR, but the Playstation version uses a McLaren F1 GTR Longtail - and that's much cooler! 2. The car sounds are much better, 3. Some tracks contain much more detail (Dolphin Cove, Route Adonf for example) Why are the versions so different? Because there were two studios working on the different versions.

yeah high stakes was such a complete game, everything eas perfect really admire this game even now! id love if they would remake it exactly the same just with upgraded grafix ❤

That’s legitimately a revolutionary game. I can literally tell from your video having never even played it myself but having played many many other racing games for 30 years😮

I loved these games back when i was 18/19.. Me and my m8 played the crap out of need for speed 2, the cheat codes for all the other tracks and cars/assest made it soo much fun, need for speed 3 was a great game as well, even need for speed 4 was good, i managed to get an ozzy copy so i had the extra Australian cars! I will play them again one day, and the pc versions as this was all Ps1.

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I don't know if anyone who grew up playing this in 1999/onward can take anything past HS seriously except Most Wanted of course that is objectively better than the rest. Nostalgia has nothing to do here. Just take the cockpit view and you won't know that this game is older than all of the TikTokers ewing at everything good old. Granted NFS SHIFT felt great but it fell off quick for me. The new Hot Pursuit was really good but it was repetitive. Everything else is just shovelware.

These first installments were really beautiful and fun to play. Not just these games but many of their contemporaries had to rely on creativity to make us feel something while using a very limited number of polygons. I remember Rally Championship 2000 (the one with Seat Ibiza on the cover) and how much atmosphere it breathed just by setting the right mood and easy playability. I'm one of those people desperate to get that same feeling again in modern games. I really wish they continued the Driveclub franchise because it seemed to go the right way.

The PS1 version was so much better. I dont get whata with people and the PC version. Its just practically an expansion on NFSIII. Copied and pasted. On the PS1 it was a totally new game, with excluaive tracks, vehicles and graphics.

I always liked NFS more than Gran Turismo back then. I GT had lame sound, almost all cars sounded the same, handling was similar, no damage effects, it was just have a ton of vehicle skins to play with but no speed or soul. NFS had fewer cars but each car was a joy to drive, realistic handling, each vehicle had a recognizable unique sound, visual and performance damage.

One thing that was special for the ps1 version to me was the high stakes multiplayer mode wher each player used their own savegame file and staked the car in the race

Still better than any after Porsche

My first NFS :(

Loved High Stakes, thanks for giving this game the recognition it deserves :D The PC version was too floaty in the handling for me tho, it is down to personal taste and I loved how HS changed in regions like the Japanese market getting the R34 Skyline. Auzzie here, so I loved pounding round Durham Road in a HSV VT GTS Series 1 punting AU1 XR8 Falcons into the highway buttreses lol Bought the game again a few years ago and, though loading on the PS3 is quicker, it's reeeealy pixelated. More than I remembered. I would also struggle to finish the championship as a teen and I never got to beat the Porsche Cup or drive on the race tracks in single player due to only obtaining as high as bronze in that championship. As an adult, I became hyper fixated on beating the championship as it was considered a bucket list item for me (sad, I know) the stilted controls on console and the overly aggressive AI as well as those bloody curves made it a painful experience and I never nailed down all 3 race tracks. I sinched the first and then would drown in the standings with the latter races every time. I don't know how but, last year I tried the tournament again to much of the same results on the tracks with me coming first in the first race, dipping to third in the second and only just scraping 4th in the third race but, to my surprise, I had unwittingly tangled with my main adversary in the points and sent him to the back of the grid on the last race while upsetting the standings for the rest of the pack as we duked it out rather violently through the corners all the way down the ladder. I was ready to throw the controller down on the couch with the same well known frustration I had experienced for the last 20 years until I saw I had beat "Nemesis" in the standings by a single point and won the championship! It honestly felt like playing a completely different game after that, finding it hilarious how easily I could beat the field in the McLaren in the first tournament up against BeeEms and Merc soft tops after unlocking the ability to race any car in any tournament or seeing how bad I could lose in the last tournament fending of CLK GTR's and F1's in my reasonably stock Porsche. I surprisingly didn't drown as bad as I thought, I managed to secure second! Most of all, the cutscenes in the menu screen would continue to haunt me for decades, seeing a red Ferrari F50 pounding round one of the parabolic corners from one of the racetracks while thinking I could never experience it with the coveted gold trophy just out of reach for me. Being able to re-enact that scene for the first time ever was pretty surreal for me and helped to really re-kindle the nostalgia and sense of progression I felt from first playing the game All there is left for me to do is finish that damn Porsche Cup!

I remember playing NFS II on Win 98 on my dad's computer and I wore that game out. When I got older I got NFS hot pursuit 2 on PS2 and I played that till the wheels fell off. I loved the little cutscenes and background info on the cars, I learned a lot about cars and it was something in particular that taught me a ton about cars and made me an even bigger fan as a kid. In retrospect, the NFS Underground games were probably the car enthusiast response to Gran Turismo with all the mods and stuff

My favorite NFS to this day. Ps1 version - it's just magic. Tracks, music, cars, difficulty - perfection

15:00 I'm gonna stop you right there. I played hot pursuit mode ad nauseam. I would hop into my black Porsche 911 and do laps around the map dodging cops and hitting jumps. Stakes didn't matter, it was just fun to see how long you could last. And I was one of the fortunate few who did have a Voodoo to run this on, and it looked fantastic. This game was a gem, thank you for putting a bit more shine on the tires for it.

Great review - have subscribed

I would say every game from that era was somehow revolutionary

I’m so glad I watched this. I played for 40 minutes and was about to give up thinking this game is a mess. Your explanation how the game is supposed to be played made me give it another chance and I’m so happy I did. Fantastic game and story.

I’m so glad I watched this. I played for 40 minutes and was about to give up thinking this game is a mess. Your explanation how the game is supposed to be played made me give it another chance and I’m so happy I did. Fantastic game and story.

I know it's subjective, but you didn't mention the INCREDIBLE SOUNDTRACK - which among all the other amazing things about this game - really elevate it above most games from this period and especially games since then. I even had the songs burned on a CD so I could listen to them in my first car. Anyways thank you for the look back, it was a great trip down memory lane!! :)

NFS 4 is still best, very realistic drive

We always play High Stakes mode with our friends and move cars around on our memory cards.

When AI can RErender these old games, it must be an epic

Playing High Stakes on PS1 with my childhood friend in the early 00's are some of my fondest gaming memories.

12:42 License tests were mandatory from very first Gran Turismo , they were not introduced in later games.

I disagree with the handling aspects, for me the PS1 version manages to have more solid gameplay, leading the player to calculate braking time to make turns. On the PC, the cars simply slide and take any curve at any speed, giving it a very arcade look.

I always knew it wasn't just nostalgia or that is one of my first racing games played, and first we owned

9'57" That smash at the corner made me furious back then. 😅😂

My NFS history started with this game and ended in 2006 with Carbon. Took a very long break and now got back into the series with 2017s Payback and oh boy things have changed.

I just discovered your channel today with the need for speed video and I am well entertained. I rarely come across channels that are of such good quality but unfortunately still end. Thank you so much for uploading this

Thank You! It brings joy to my heart. The HS IV is the first racing game I've ever play in my life.

Looks pretty much the same as the first one - which is a good thing

My first ever NFS game when I played it back in 2001. Sadly my copy didn't have music or the intro video but it was a fun time. More saddening is that whenever I try to play my childhood, it only lets me play one race and then crashes. Try to start it back up, and continues to crash after the intro. Is there anyway to play this game without risking a virus? If any NFS era needs a remaster, it's the 90's, Most Wanted is still very playable.

How did you get the game to play on PSP/PS VITA?

Anyone who played “NFS 3: Hot Pursuit” in ‘98 - which was itself a pretty amazing game - and then “High Stakes” the following year, remembers just how groundbreaking “High Stakes” was by comparison. The production values and car handling was like no other racing game before it, and the music stood on its own as an amazing soundtrack.

I still have my original copy of Need for Speed: High Stakes on PS1. I LOVED that game as a kid. A lot of my time was spent just staring at that papaya-orange McLaren F1 GTR long tail.

How do you play them now with that kind of high quality? Would love to revisit the classics with scaled up quality like this

One of the best racing games ever created.

Fun game. I was stuck on PS1, being a kid at the time and all but I played it through and it was fun though hard at points. I played it again (I still have the game) and completed it as clean as possible to aim to get the Safe Driving Bonus from each race. And the long as Endurance event with the best car in the game. That being the F1 GTR. I had an Australian localized version so I got the Australian road cars the HSV GTS and Ford Falcon XR8 (the 97 versions so they weren't as powerful) as well as the V8 supercar Commodore which is Touring Car representation (fully upgraded HSV GTS in body, but couldn't be further from it in soul considering it was just a tier below the CLK GTR and F1 GTR and it had better stats than the Porsche 911 Cup Car which was literally just the fully upgraded 911 with I think just better handling).

Knights of Honor 1 was by far my favorite grand strategy but it was broken. When they finally launched 2 it was like Christmas. It could use some updates but totally re-playable and so much less clutter and junk than other grand strats. I'll admit I never play battles in the new one, it needs a rebuild on that feature. But I'm fine without it, the game is more challenging with auto resolve anyways. As for marshal limit you can just install a mod there are multiple.

Great video, but you forgot to mention one very important feature of this gem: split screen mode! As a father I find it very important option to play with my kids sitting together in front of one screen/TV and have fun. That way this is something one can do together with another person. And this is quite a different experience than an option to play through a computer network (LAN or internet). So remember about split screen in racing games. 🙂

HS still looks and sounds better than most of the modern games. More taste, more soul, more features and vision.

Great! Its on sale now in steam 31 October 2024. I hate too complicated Strategy games so this one, i will pick up.

WOW 🤯 I have played it a million times on PSOne/2/3, but I have never seen it this good and polished before😮. So much more detail than any PlayStation!

I couldn't get into this game, I'd played Porsche 2000 before it, so it felt too much of a step back for me.

Only two 90's racing games with carrer mode? Nah bro there's also Ridge Racer Type 4 and Racing Lagoon both of which also have stories that revolve around your career progression.

I got a Playstation 1 for my 11th birthday, and my Dad let me pick out a game for it. For some reason, I chose Need for Speed High Stakes. I spent countless days and nights playing this game on the Playstation, so this game holds a special place in my heart. My favourite car was probably the Porsche 911 Turbo, as I found it the most well balanced car. Looking back now, the game was actually rather beautiful for it's time. EA really did a good job creating beautiful environments with the limitations of the hardware at the time. I never had a chance to play it on PC, but it certainly looks even better than the PS1 version. Hopefully I can find a good emulator and relive some cherished childhood gaming.

NFS III, High Stakes, Porche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit 2 is the gold standard. The physics where perfectly arcadey and the environments were fantastic.