@@boris001000 Yet it wasn't enough with only two markers, I wanted the car, the vinyl and the special aftermarket part haha, and you never get the R8 or the Evo, Murcielago and Challenger ;-; F
Carbon is the only game to do "boss battles" in a racing game well. I remember the final boss of Underground 2 being one of the most boring things ever: an overly-long circuit race against a guy who isn't any faster than your average racer. Canyon battles are not long, they are intense and feel climactic, everything a boss should be.
@@MRsmilingSHARKmost wanted boss battles were the same circuit, sprint, and drag combos. On carbon, the canyon duel has a different thrill where it's just you and the boss. No traffic, risk of falling off, and tight corners.
@@saiftama And the music omg, I remember being terrified for the races in the canyon as a kid, the darkness, the risk, the music, the points, the face of the boss and the lack of speed breaker and NO2. I think Carbon is the only race game that can be considered as a suspense game too. Most Wanted bosses were good, but they are not even close to the bosses on Carbon.
Can I just say I LOVE how you are a UA-camr, that actively watching and comments on other folks videos!! I dunno why, but I just love it and I don't see it much!! Maybe it's just me!!
For me it's NFSU2. I even heard and saw great things from the first one (my cousins used to play it at their home but didn't let me) so I can greatly recommend both of them lol. All of my 3 dream cars are playable at least in the second one (RX7, 200SX, R34). Sometimes I even hop into quick games to do some downhill drifting. It's got better drifting mechanics than 99% of car games out right now.
@@Doomeiner I remember playing underground on an arcade cabinet, that was a good time. Definitely felt like I missed out by not playing underground properly on a playstation or something. May have to pick it up and do a bit of catch up!
It's so weird seeing footage of this game now...I remember being so positive when it came out that this was clearly the peak of photorealistic graphics and nothing could EVER possibly top it
Seriously, I remember being a kid and playing this game for the first time and thinking there was NO WAY graphics could ever improve. Amazing menu music too
I remember playing multiplayer so much that I once had a race where this guy was like “oh shit, you’re #3 in the leaderboard” and I didn’t know what he meant until I checked the leaderboard a few days later to see that I was #3 in the leaderboard in the entire world! I was in awe as I was just a kid 😂 This is my unintentional claim to fame.
@@everyday_andrey I see! I did play a very specific track very very well. Also at the time, the leaderboard chart I was looking at didn't have incredibly unrealistic results like that. Perhaps it's before the exploits.
I remember going to a gaming store where somz of friends are making a chalange of who can get most drift point and the one that was wininng got like 300k and i was like wtf i went in i got like 27million or something 😂😂 i know i had to go out more often
This was the last game my father played before he passed, I still have the ps2 and the disk, shit I even has his memory card but I can't touch it without crying. God I have so many memories with this game
Bro buy a second memorycard copy the saves and put it in a Safe Place so eben when something Happens to the Card u will Never loose his saves . Maybe do it 2 times then u can put the Original Card and the Backup in 2 different Save Places and the third Card u can use it to Drive against Ur Dads Ghost car (times he drove on Tracks) so u can still Play with him ♥️
Awesome video! I personally think Ekstrak’s soundtrack and menu music deserved more praise though. Stuff like “Limited Slip” or “Induction Kit” (the exotic theme menu version in particular) is legitimately on the same level as the old NFS soundtracks from Rom Di Prisco for me, just creates such an incredible vibe and atmosphere.
I finished this game AT LEAST 15 times, I roleplayed hard with the crew and car types, I made many crews with its own distinct colors and vinyls, each using different car types and companions. To be honest, I think the game was meant to play like this, with all those elements going together to make each playthrough somewhat unique. I think I'll reinstall, haha.
The OG music in the Canyon's is fucking terrifying to even listening to when going over 160KM/H... You never will know that you might slip and fall to your death!
NFS Carbon was the Closest thing to a Dark and Japanese based Need For Speed , That's why i prefer this over Underground and Most Wanted, Hell they even had the Hachi-Roku.
So… I played Carbon as a kid. But I played Own the City on the DS. I’ve never seen gameplay from the actual console version. However, it appears the DS version is a surprisingly faithful port to a handheld console.
@@TigerChamp99 To be fair when the PSP was actually current, 30fps on a handheld was fine especially for kids. I played the PSP version as well as the PS2 version, and since have gone back to the 360 version which is the ideal way to play. Funnily enough though, I kind of prefer Own the City conceptually, since it had health bars and some really cool race/mission variety that wasn't present in the console versions. That said, nostalgia plays a big part in it, and driving around a (at the time, beautiful) reasonably sized open world on a handheld device was such a novel concept especially back then. God I love the blackbox games
I want to be devil's advocate and say Rivals cop story is one of the best in the franchise. *SPOILER* You have a cop, bit of an edgelord yeah, but it shows that taking down streetracer is not just a duty for him, its' an ideal. All the time he play for the side of the law, he didn't realize his hypocrisy. Dangerous takedown in middle of traffic, even taking a racer car just to have a disguise to do more clubbing (some even argue that he did so just to get Vehicle Response Team to come, so that he can join their rank for better cars and recognition - which ngl would make a pretty good arc if this is a movie series). But in the final race with Zephyr, it broke all his limits, his hypocrisy. Only in his near death experience, that he realised without his badge, he isn't much more than a speed freak with violent temper. So in the end he only focus on what really matters: the need for speed. If it takes the best ex-streetracer to be cop, then it would take the best cop to be streetracer. When you compare it with the run-of-the-mill 'I want to be the very best' formula of majority of other NFSs, it is something different. It's just the way it was presented might felt lacking, and if you don't have an imaginative mind to really delve into it what amounted to a slideshow of monologs, it just felt flat. The lacklusting gameplay didn't help either. If this is made into a 1-season tv series though, with all the details fleshed out, probably more people can get behind the story.
Searched NFS Carbon on UA-cam on a whim. Was greeted with a spectacular hour long deep dive into the game I spent my childhood playing on my brothers and I’s crappy GameCube. Seeing these cutscenes again gave me a hit of nostalgia I didn’t know I had in me. So thank you sir. Thank you for making a internet rando’s night.
EA doesn't understand anymore that the music sets the mood of the game. The track list in old NFS games were the best. Metal, Hip Hop, and immersive/scary techno set one hell of a memorable mood. It makes the game way more enjoyable, you can feel the adrenaline with powerful songs. The latest NFS games have very soft songs which makes the games way less enjoyable... EDIT: If you guys played NFS Hot Pursuit REMASTERED recently, tell the truth. The music in that game makes the the game feel SO FAST and Captivating with the ever ending roar of the engines and that frigging.... (pause) TURBO 🚗💨 🚓even though the cars have no mods other than the paint, the game is SUPER enjoyable.
@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont Couldn't agree more. while i can understand that Ghost Games were going for songs that fit the vibe of Miami but at the same time they forgot the importance of having tracks that fit the action on screen. For example, Reggaeton and Trap would have been better for free roaming and during the downtime at the Garage instead of accompanying races at all times. The lack of variety is criminal. Hard Rock, Metal and Synthwave would have fit the action perfectly during the Night cycle as i try to escape the cops at Level 5. On a side note, i made 2 separate playlists for my ''Alternative Soundtrack'' to NFS Heat featuring styles of music based from the time cycles. For instance, i added House, Synthpop and Indie Rock for the Day Cycle whereas for the Night Cycle i focused primarily on Post Hardcore, Synthwave, Electronic, Metal and Hard Rock. Check them out and give me your thoughts. Day cycle: open.spotify.com/playlist/3wUuIyMCEf0E2c6Jf9vojx?si=33fa6c8d603a469c Night cycle: open.spotify.com/playlist/1i7G5fe4IyxiWchhce2hR6?si=a7aa1f68d94f4454
@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont it's stupid how EA has so much money to license music, and yet the entire heat soundtrack is made up of deep album cuts. not to mention it's so short, you hear the entire tracklist within the first hour of gameplay.
i don't mind not being able to jump into races outright, but fuck man going up n down jackson heights and navigating the industry section just to find a race turns the fun into a chore and makes me not want to play UG2
and still its the thing u remember, better than new era NFS, you finish storyline and its boring af in NFSU2 u had to grind etc to not fuck up the progress and thats just one of many things that made the game memorable@@piscessoedroen
I have a soft spot for the rock and rap mix that was in Most Wanted since it all meshed so well, but Carbon has so many great tracks and the vibe fits the game perfectly. In my opinion both game soundtracks fit thematically, and both go hard as fuck lol
carbon had an extremely distinct soundtrack, prob because it was alot of genres most ppl didnt listen to in the mid 00s, like trip hop, real electronica not "edm" but actual synthy electronica, uk punk and rock, very very different songs youd normally hear at that point
_"The quality of those hours... Is what matters"_ I remember in my hometown where I go to this Game cafe and everyone is an Underground 2 junkie, I get talked shit for being bad at drag race (or the game in general)... Then carbon came and after spending three hours of winning races and defending turfs with the Dodge charger I pinkslipped from Angie, I got Kenji to fall off the cliff. My timer was up and I got up to see the audience that piled up behind my seat... Underground wasn't my game... Carbon is where I reign the streets. Edit: and the canyons
Same thing happened to me with MW. Everyone was tuning their rides with Underground 2's massive options but then most struggled to evade a spike strip on MW. A game cafe that used to run on the basement of an old supermarket in my city actually set up a contest to beat the final 30-minute chase challenge in MW. I did it with overtime, 37 minutes and a few seconds. I got a weekend of free plays and about 10 bucks in cash for it, but it felt incredible. All the other competitors lasted between 10 and 15 minutes
I played Carbon as a kid on the Gamecube that my dad and I basically shared. I went back recently when I got a PC and played it again and it seems even better than I remember (granted it helps that I'm WAY better at racing games now.) I never even knew the AI _could_ fall off the canyons in those races until a couple of weeks ago when Kenji did the same for me. I just assumed they were scripted not to do that, but it's actually the opposite. They even have their own cutscene that plays before they... well, die, pretty much.
@@DanArnets1492 the thing about autosculpt is that it adds vertically but not much horizontally also remember that autosculpt makes the largest abominations known to man... like the biplane golf
For me, the autosculpt design were just bad looking. Though indeed not as horrendous as Underground 2, like i only goes for that 'Borillo' bumpers (Stratospeed Formula 7 in ProStreet)
I played nfs carbon after watching initial D. Can't tell you how much difference in my enjoyment this made. Heck I even learned drifting and started enjoying canyons, which I hated back when I was a kid. After finishing the career mode I spent many hours tuning and testing different cars in the drifting and canyon stages. Absolutely changed my opinion about the game!!!
Played it recently with a mod pack that included a corolla initial d decal and another mod that allows you to enable/disable drift physics on the fly and it's so fucking fun dude highly recommend you to back to experience this, the mod pack I used was called redux
Tokyo Extreme Racer Drift 2 on PS2 is Touge racing. With mapped out Japanese mountain passes.Its not an easy game to pick up and play if You want to drift but, with practice it becomes a lot of fun. You also don't have to drift, it's optional for the most part, despite the name. And the car selection is awesome if your into older Japanese cars.
This was my first PSP game and holy shit - I was about 12 and my dads name is Michael/mick, and he had a similar face/long hair as the game character so obviously being a kid I was like "I will avenge me fathers death!". Let me tell you man I was not ready when I realized I'd murdered my father and stolen his his gf lmao
Need for Speed Carbon is one of the games of my childhood, I'd like to experience it again so I'm totally for a remaster (as long as it's not a lazy one)
I had a cracked version of NFS MW 2012 and liked it back then I recently bought it again, only to find out absolutely all the cars I encountered were dlc If it ends up in a similar way, I'll be pissed
"When are we getting a video on Driver San Francisco?" "Now THAT sounds more up my alley." The wait for new videos is excruciating already, but this? You got me hoping and hyped for something years out on the Raycevick timeline
Bro The music "Trevor Morris - Sounding Streets" Hit so hard as a 10 year old kid, the breakdown of the music started when you were close to the finish and since kids make more mistakes while playing, the adrenaline rush was very real, as I could easily bin it at 95% and have to start the race all over.
Pointing out NFS’s approach to tuning is completely spot on, I almost never touch tuning in most games besides a couple values here and there, whereas in NFS I easily change every value in a car to fit my play style
31:39 holy shit, he's talking about "pretty fly (for a white guy)" by the offspring. That makes so much sense when you compare the music video to Ronny.
From what I can tell, you replayed this on PC and yes, the drift events on there are the easiest thing ever. I don't know whether it's intentional or a bug, but you rack up score way higher in this version than on the others (at a guess I think it's probably bound to your framerate)
I still remember being 12 years old discovering NFS word on my sisters laptop and playing on it in 2012. Game was a massive grind-fest without paying for those damn speedpoints! Still love it though :c
Damn, NFS world, what a game, i remember playing it and grinding for the Darius R8, and then the update that eliminated tiers came up and killed the game.
Might be my favourite NFS of all time, this game is what I think about when it comes to car culture. Heavy bass, loud engines, nighttime through a nice looking city, and the soundtrack just all complimented each so well man.
@@tydendurler9574 - That game is extremely limited and repetitive. Also, it's clear the physics engine wasn't made for the slower cars at the beginning!
Giving more credit to the music, Ekstrak’s parts in the music were not only themed after the type of car you drove (tuner, muscle, exotic), but also when you were in last place. I was 7 when I realized this and loved when it happened every time.
"Who would have the motivation to... Darius.", liked that bit :D As a kid I always felt that the storylines of MW and Carbon were criminally underdeveloped, because I liked them. I was 9 when Carbon released and characters like Darius and Niki were THE definition of coolness to me and it was frustrating that so little about a story is actually said. Always wished for something like a comic/book to elaborate on the story :/
@@adamoutulny2345 sell all your cars except for one and then get it impounded, hit 'exit to main menu' and you should be able to start a new career on the same save file. This is pretty useful if you forgot to unlock cross corvette
I have to say that Kenji's line "I heard you were back in town. Now I wanna hear your gone!" Is so quotable that my friend and I say it far too often. Great video 👌
I can remember playing that game with my older sister when I was in second grade, she was used to pimp my cars and I drove them haha awesome memories. Now we are in our 20s. It's so sad that such awesome games don't publish anymore.
I think one important thing that's being glossed over is, most wanted had that whole funky over the top thematics going on with wild cop chases being the selling point, but carbon distinctively went for a depressing, darker tone here that left you felt alien and alone in palmont city, the city itself was cold to you which unlike the warm colour palette of rockport had welcomed you as a newcomer, back in palmont - you're the one who left, the one who abandoned it. The city remembers, the people remember, its why its so bleak and cold, its to signify this big change in tone that you're just an outcast here, no longer part of the city anymore. The cold ending with the villian just leaving like that, also makes you feel like you stayed an outsider, an outcast, you won but your victory wasn't even acknowledged. It's why the romantic drive off was cut. It's as if, to palmont city you were never welcome and you never mattered. This dark tone is especially felt in the canyon duels, where its just you alone and that cold unsettling chills are immediately felt, the fact that you are truly alone and no one would ever care if you were to die on that canyon by an accident. It's the lack of stakes that carbon has that makes it so different, yet good in its own way. You just cannot directly compare it to most wanted like this, afterall its not named Most Wanted 2, unlike something like underground 2. This is truly its own thing, and I personally think this review as amazing as your videos are kinda missed that point and that made me feel very sad.
The amount of times I restarted the story mode in this game as a child was unbelievable. Still remember those days like yesterday. I would gladly pay for an remastered version of this game.
I miss the days when racing games had storylines, nowadays racing games is just generic legal racing with only good physics and graphics that would probably bore you to death after 20 minutes, people also says all racing games are the same while in reality it's just GTA but without getting out of your car.
But racing games with cringeworthy stories are still there...just look at NFS Payback and Heat. There is no point on comparing legal track racing with good physics to arcade street racers with tunings and chases,it's comparing apples to oranges,totally different games for a totally different public.
@@Brenooliveira072 I mean back then illegal racing are variated from FNF games to SRS or Midnight Club, nowadays the only one that had balls to bring that is EA and you know that they are not what they are used to be anymore.
@@AhmadWahelsa Most of these were just NFS imitations with nothing really special apart from MC wich Rockstar abandoned. These kind of games aren't that worth it these days because it's much harder to license real cars on them and the illegal street racing scene is no longer as strong as it used to be.
@@AhmadWahelsa Thing is, GTA Online/VMP racing scene is so unbelievably strong, that they might as well focus on a single game with that. Buying cars is like the primary driver of GTA Online economy, and the cashiest of cash cows.
I swear this the best video about nfs carbon I have ever seen on youtube. I wish the time would go back and ea would watch this video during the production of carbon. Carbon had and still has so much potential. Ea could simply remaster this game and ad all the deleted scenes to the remaster. If they do so they could safe the nfs franchise if they continue with the story from carbon. They could basically take some things from fast and furious 4 were letty gets in to crash and loses all her memory. This would be so good. Bro this video just puts me into emotions and lets me think about how great need for speed back then was...
41:00 immediately gave me chills of nostalgia.. fond memories of playing this game for many many hours and i still play sometimes.. probably my most favorite childhood games
Someone needs to slap the owner of Take Two real quick and ask what the fuck happened to Midnight Club. I don't know what happened to arcade racing. It seems like the only decent racing games anymore are all sims except for Forza Horizon and Dirt (Which while great don't scratch the itch to the same extent). Even then it's basically just Forza Motorsport because Gran Turismo only comes out once every planetary allignment. Switching back and forth between the realism of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec/4 and the pure adrenaline fantasy of Need for Speed Most Wanted and Midnight Club to then go on to play the absolutely blistering power of Burnout Takedown... Many great games have come out since, but no era felt quite so packed with options and possibilities and so much consistent quality. 2005 was the best. Being 11 years old in the age where creativity was the only king in the games industry is something I will always be grateful for.
Motorstorm was my absolute favorite 😁 I hope he looks back on that series next - they had a prolific series all the way to 2011 until something happened to Evolution Studios
The canyon race music is so good in this game I remember when I played as a Kid with a PS2 and these races had me at the edge of the seat by how intense they were
36:08 You are wrong on this, but your end point remains correct. You do actually meet Samson, Colin (I'm actually not sure about him), and Yumi before you recruit them. The caveat is that it's in the races themselves. They will appear in various races with their respective vehicles before you recruit them, with them even using tier 1 vehicles that are otherwise out of sight and out of mind. So while you do in fact meet them before you recruit them, it's far from a proper introduction, and it's a detail that is very, very easy to miss. Even if you catch the detail, when they say things like "You know I'm good" and likewise, it doesn't feel like such statements have much weight behind them, since they are nothing more than a name on the leaderboard of a race you're in before they call you and talk to you.
The canyon mode races are by far the best NFS mode ever produced(for me). Tracks were technical, it wasn't about shoving everyone else into the obstacles(or traffic) and as a cherry on the top - moding your car based on your style/taste was actually very reasonable. I played the game multiple times just to use different approaches in the canyons. Such underused mode. Also somebody didn't realize that Need for Speed is iconic for many things and one of which is the police. I was so sad when I realized that the police was shifted away from the Most Wanted status. Damn :( This could have been so much better game...
I remember playing this game so much as a 7 or 8 year old kid. I still feel time stop and vision zoom to cops when I see them on the road, 15 years later as a 23 year old adult.
I like that the Lotus Elise thing got pointed out I always feel like that car gets sold short in NFS games anybody who's had the chance to drive one can tell you just how well they handle and how snappy they can be.
This video is amazing, jesus, from start to finish, so much detail, fluidity and style. I wasn't even expecting a section for the battle royale mod at all (still need to play it). Thank you for covering these games with such care and attention, they were a big part of my childhood and i still remember and play them fondly. You're awesome, Ray :)
Man I wish more arcade racers come up with a handling model like Most Wanted/Carbon. Getting really sick and tired of the tap brake to drift mechanic, it was pretty fun in the burnout games, but like 20 games that use this handling model later, there's only so much I can take. Edit: Wreckfest actually has pretty fun handling, so there's that.
You have this incredible ability to take a hour of my life to discuss a game I have never played or will ever play and make it one hundred percent worth it.
This video came together so well! The pacing is effortless, the content engaging and jokes in all the right places, I'm glad I got to contribute my small part 😁
but ON GOD bro: NFSU, NFSU2 NFSMW and Carbon had the WORST rear spoilers that were never real, RICER AFFFFFFFFFFF. at least carbon you could shape it, and *coff* Undercover, had the first best ones in the franchise. no tunned car is completed without some chill but dope Spoiler. UNLESS, the body, wheels and paint already work in harmony. is like a gorgeous bald woman but ok by me.
Finally found the time to sit down for this, great work as always. While I've been busy with other games and school and stuff your videos have given me a renewed interest in racing games especially and I've totally bought some based solely on having seen your videos. Hopefully I'll be able to find the time to play them sooner rather than later but yeah. Good stuff again Raycevick!
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"This video contains spoilers" it's NFS game, I hope it has spoilers
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Lmao good one
my thoughts exactly
Nice
playing this as a child, nothing annoyed me more than finally completing a canyon drift and *not* winning the boss's car afterwards
That and the unique vinyls.
Haha autosave off go brr
@@boris001000 Yet it wasn't enough with only two markers, I wanted the car, the vinyl and the special aftermarket part haha, and you never get the R8 or the Evo, Murcielago and Challenger ;-; F
I got the murcialago super quick in carbon and cheese the game, literally just get ahead and slam brakes around the 3rd corner and pin him
Lmfao I remember this.
"This game contains spoilers."
Yeah, also carbon fiber hoods, roof scoops, and adjustable riding heights.
Look 2 comments below u
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@@taner873 believe it or not more than one people can come up with the same joke.
"This VIDEO contains spoilers"
@@grod5998 t tyo try to
Carbon is the only game to do "boss battles" in a racing game well. I remember the final boss of Underground 2 being one of the most boring things ever: an overly-long circuit race against a guy who isn't any faster than your average racer. Canyon battles are not long, they are intense and feel climactic, everything a boss should be.
NFS most wanted
@@MRsmilingSHARK debatable, the canyon races crush Most Wanted's boss battles any day
@@etam8099 agreed
@@MRsmilingSHARKmost wanted boss battles were the same circuit, sprint, and drag combos. On carbon, the canyon duel has a different thrill where it's just you and the boss. No traffic, risk of falling off, and tight corners.
@@saiftama And the music omg, I remember being terrified for the races in the canyon as a kid, the darkness, the risk, the music, the points, the face of the boss and the lack of speed breaker and NO2. I think Carbon is the only race game that can be considered as a suspense game too.
Most Wanted bosses were good, but they are not even close to the bosses on Carbon.
Tonight: James commits arson. Richard gets kidnapped by the Martian Mafia. And Raycevick blows my mind with his intros again.
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Whitelight when are you going to do far cry 4 years later?
I love bo’om gear too
Can I just say I LOVE how you are a UA-camr, that actively watching and comments on other folks videos!! I dunno why, but I just love it and I don't see it much!! Maybe it's just me!!
_Greetings_
need for speed double drop :)
A pleasure to have you here!
Man i just watched your video
Two need for speed reviews in one day this is a miracle
What’s duke nukem doing here?
Omg this Friday couldn't have been better. NFS II SE and NFS Carbon.
Need for Speed: Carbon was my first Need for Speed, definitely holds a special spot in my heart.
Are you guys 15 or something
Same, it taught me drifting
@@Kazikox Nope, I'm in my mid 20s, just never played NFS, was more of a burnout guy myself!
For me it's NFSU2. I even heard and saw great things from the first one (my cousins used to play it at their home but didn't let me) so I can greatly recommend both of them lol. All of my 3 dream cars are playable at least in the second one (RX7, 200SX, R34).
Sometimes I even hop into quick games to do some downhill drifting. It's got better drifting mechanics than 99% of car games out right now.
@@Doomeiner I remember playing underground on an arcade cabinet, that was a good time. Definitely felt like I missed out by not playing underground properly on a playstation or something.
May have to pick it up and do a bit of catch up!
It's so weird seeing footage of this game now...I remember being so positive when it came out that this was clearly the peak of photorealistic graphics and nothing could EVER possibly top it
Same
then crysis came out 1 year later
I felt the same way. It was the most realistic racing game I'd ever played. The Gamecube version doesn't hold a candle to the Xbox version
I think Test Drive Unlimited is the better evidence
Same, I was so sad when I came back to it this year, I remembered it to be so much better looking
"[...]firing on all cylinders"
*shows a Mazda RX8*
lol
🥚
Its LS swapped
firing on all triangles^^
Very good 👏
The soundtrack also changes depending on what type of car you have: Tuner, Muscle or Exotic. They all have their own versions of the base tracks
Id consider Carbon to be my favorite nfs and i had no idea, thats awesome
Well I never noticed because I prefer having 🔥🔥Eurobeat🔥🔥 blast my ear drums
Such a cool detail! I've used the muscle car theme as ringtone for a while at least twice
You know for a game that's *15 years old* it looks astonishing.
never felt like it was that old, did it?
still the best nfs game, at least miles better than Most Overrated
@@Jeyeyeyey I will forever take Carbon over mostwanted
Seriously, I remember being a kid and playing this game for the first time and thinking there was NO WAY graphics could ever improve. Amazing menu music too
@@foxinflames4life359 started playing carbon in 2009 when i got my ps3 i still cant believe this game came out in 2006
I remember playing multiplayer so much that I once had a race where this guy was like “oh shit, you’re #3 in the leaderboard” and I didn’t know what he meant until I checked the leaderboard a few days later to see that I was #3 in the leaderboard in the entire world! I was in awe as I was just a kid 😂 This is my unintentional claim to fame.
It has different leaderboards for different tracks. Most top 3 in the world was cheaters with 00.00.05 like results 🤣🤣🤣
@@everyday_andrey I see! I did play a very specific track very very well. Also at the time, the leaderboard chart I was looking at didn't have incredibly unrealistic results like that. Perhaps it's before the exploits.
I remember going to a gaming store where somz of friends are making a chalange of who can get most drift point and the one that was wininng got like 300k and i was like wtf i went in i got like 27million or something 😂😂 i know i had to go out more often
Too bad that I only started doing multiplayer a few months before the servers were shut down... Only me and a couple people I knew still played
Niiice. I was in the top 10 in a drift races i loved when i was 11. Carbon is a masterpiece
This was the last game my father played before he passed, I still have the ps2 and the disk, shit I even has his memory card but I can't touch it without crying. God I have so many memories with this game
F for your Father😢😢😢
may your father rest in peace.
@@rolexflex thanks homie
Bro buy a second memorycard copy the saves and put it in a Safe Place so eben when something Happens to the Card u will Never loose his saves .
Maybe do it 2 times then u can put the Original Card and the Backup in 2 different Save Places and the third Card u can use it to Drive against Ur Dads Ghost car (times he drove on Tracks) so u can still Play with him ♥️
I Kno how u feel, my pops loves nfs it's about the only driving game he can play. Can't really anymore. Screw cancer
"Blockers are torpedoes"
Cut to shot of Kyvat!
Hehe
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Good thing Maldonado isn't in this game!
@@BlackStar2161 As a Venezuelan...
It hurts because it is true... 😭😭😭
Awesome video! I personally think Ekstrak’s soundtrack and menu music deserved more praise though. Stuff like “Limited Slip” or “Induction Kit” (the exotic theme menu version in particular) is legitimately on the same level as the old NFS soundtracks from Rom Di Prisco for me, just creates such an incredible vibe and atmosphere.
my man roman
Look for his track called "Porsches" here on youtube. It became the base for NFSC main theme.
Couldn't agree more. The soundtrack is one of the best, still.
My man roman is here! Didn't expect you here! Loved this game so much it was my childhood! Remember me mate I'm a fan of you
Agreed, sir!
I finished this game AT LEAST 15 times, I roleplayed hard with the crew and car types, I made many crews with its own distinct colors and vinyls, each using different car types and companions. To be honest, I think the game was meant to play like this, with all those elements going together to make each playthrough somewhat unique. I think I'll reinstall, haha.
"Are you a murderer on the Game Boy Advance?
Yes. Yes you are."
This line was so beautiful god damn
And it hit me more because I grew up with that port, and I remember that scene.
"This video contains spoilers"
Jimmy Broadbent fans: "Can I put a WANG on this?"
MASSIVE ASS
H O N C C
pls no punterino
@@jvccr7533 confirmed
Somalian racer
When i was a kid, the canyon duel theme scares the heck out of me
Same
I quite enjoyed it when i was a kid, it's strange what scares some kids while it doesn't scare others
The OG music in the Canyon's is fucking terrifying to even listening to when going over 160KM/H... You never will know that you might slip and fall to your death!
I liked it
Your parents raised you gay
NFS Carbon was the Closest thing to a Dark and Japanese based Need For Speed , That's why i prefer this over Underground and Most Wanted, Hell they even had the Hachi-Roku.
Underground 2 also has the HachiRoku tho
you couldn't contain it, you had to say Hachi-Roku, instead of being a normal human being and just calling it ae86.
@@sebastian89312 (regular car reviews voice) WEEABO! WEEABO WEEABOO WEEABOO! YOU JUST LIKE THIS CAR BECAUSE ITS FROM A CARTOON! A BOOOOORING CARTOON!!
Agreed
@@sebastian89312 there's two types of ae86 you idiot! a levin and a trueno! both are called the 86
So… I played Carbon as a kid. But I played Own the City on the DS. I’ve never seen gameplay from the actual console version. However, it appears the DS version is a surprisingly faithful port to a handheld console.
DS version of NFS Carbon - Own the City runs at 60fps unlike the PSP's 30fps.
@@TigerChamp99 that explains a lot, actually.
@@TigerChamp99 To be fair when the PSP was actually current, 30fps on a handheld was fine especially for kids. I played the PSP version as well as the PS2 version, and since have gone back to the 360 version which is the ideal way to play.
Funnily enough though, I kind of prefer Own the City conceptually, since it had health bars and some really cool race/mission variety that wasn't present in the console versions. That said, nostalgia plays a big part in it, and driving around a (at the time, beautiful) reasonably sized open world on a handheld device was such a novel concept especially back then.
God I love the blackbox games
i.. feel old. when i played it, i was 22
@@dharkbizkit lol I'm 22 now
"Are you a murderer also in Game Boy Advance?" "YES. YES YOU ARE"
Fucking ded. And they thought Rivals' edgelord storyline was bad.
God Rivals story makes me cringe
Newton's third law states for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now race boi
Blah blah stockholm syndrome blah blah riots and shit blah blah now go out and race
There's even a Story? I only see bad recycled Most Wanted 2012 with HP2010 features.
I want to be devil's advocate and say Rivals cop story is one of the best in the franchise.
*SPOILER*
You have a cop, bit of an edgelord yeah, but it shows that taking down streetracer is not just a duty for him, its' an ideal. All the time he play for the side of the law, he didn't realize his hypocrisy. Dangerous takedown in middle of traffic, even taking a racer car just to have a disguise to do more clubbing (some even argue that he did so just to get Vehicle Response Team to come, so that he can join their rank for better cars and recognition - which ngl would make a pretty good arc if this is a movie series). But in the final race with Zephyr, it broke all his limits, his hypocrisy. Only in his near death experience, that he realised without his badge, he isn't much more than a speed freak with violent temper. So in the end he only focus on what really matters: the need for speed. If it takes the best ex-streetracer to be cop, then it would take the best cop to be streetracer.
When you compare it with the run-of-the-mill 'I want to be the very best' formula of majority of other NFSs, it is something different. It's just the way it was presented might felt lacking, and if you don't have an imaginative mind to really delve into it what amounted to a slideshow of monologs, it just felt flat. The lacklusting gameplay didn't help either. If this is made into a 1-season tv series though, with all the details fleshed out, probably more people can get behind the story.
Ray is like the Internet Historian. Silently posts a video, blows up internet.
He posted a couple of days ago too
But Ray doesn't have NordVPN man or R-AIDS
@@JK.Productions or Shadowman
Blows up a very small but dedicated community*
@@JK.Productions Internet Historian is the only youtuber that gets me through Shadow Raids ads, with Shadow Man.
Searched NFS Carbon on UA-cam on a whim.
Was greeted with a spectacular hour long deep dive into the game I spent my childhood playing on my brothers and I’s crappy GameCube.
Seeing these cutscenes again gave me a hit of nostalgia I didn’t know I had in me. So thank you sir. Thank you for making a internet rando’s night.
“are you a murderer on the Gameboy Advance?
Yes. Yes you are.”
-Raycevick 2021
I love it solely for Autosculpt. Also Colin's and Darius' intros crack me up to this day
Colin is dancing, he's just too fast for the camera to capture his moves
@@dalelumina3
*that dead stare*
EA doesn't understand anymore that the music sets the mood of the game.
The track list in old NFS games were the best. Metal, Hip Hop, and immersive/scary techno set one hell of a memorable mood. It makes the game way more enjoyable, you can feel the adrenaline with powerful songs.
The latest NFS games have very soft songs which makes the games way less enjoyable...
EDIT: If you guys played NFS Hot Pursuit REMASTERED recently, tell the truth. The music in that game makes the the game feel SO FAST and Captivating with the ever ending roar of the engines and that frigging.... (pause) TURBO 🚗💨 🚓even though the cars have no mods other than the paint, the game is SUPER enjoyable.
I really want to like Heat, but the lackluster soundtrack ruins it so bad.
@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont The sad part is that the game is actually great, but like you said, it lacks a soundtrack list that captivates the audience
@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont Couldn't agree more.
while i can understand that Ghost Games were going for songs that fit the vibe of Miami but at the same time they forgot the importance of having tracks that fit the action on screen. For example, Reggaeton and Trap would have been better for free roaming and during the downtime at the Garage instead of accompanying races at all times. The lack of variety is criminal. Hard Rock, Metal and Synthwave would have fit the action perfectly during the Night cycle as i try to escape the cops at Level 5.
On a side note, i made 2 separate playlists for my ''Alternative Soundtrack'' to NFS Heat featuring styles of music based from the time cycles. For instance, i added House, Synthpop and Indie Rock for the Day Cycle whereas for the Night Cycle i focused primarily on Post Hardcore, Synthwave, Electronic, Metal and Hard Rock.
Check them out and give me your thoughts.
Day cycle: open.spotify.com/playlist/3wUuIyMCEf0E2c6Jf9vojx?si=33fa6c8d603a469c
Night cycle: open.spotify.com/playlist/1i7G5fe4IyxiWchhce2hR6?si=a7aa1f68d94f4454
Forza does the same. Horizon 4's radio selection is horrendous
Racing game music is a lost art, I tell you
@@Hoonters-goona-Hoont it's stupid how EA has so much money to license music, and yet the entire heat soundtrack is made up of deep album cuts. not to mention it's so short, you hear the entire tracklist within the first hour of gameplay.
i loves tha fact that in UNDERGROUND2 you had to find the shops, it was actually fun and interactive as well as finding money or information icons
Yes! We should explore the open world, in the new series we start with a map full with icons, even fast travel is enable from the start, really boring
i don't mind not being able to jump into races outright, but fuck man going up n down jackson heights and navigating the industry section just to find a race turns the fun into a chore and makes me not want to play UG2
it wasn't fun at all
and still its the thing u remember, better than new era NFS, you finish storyline and its boring af in NFSU2 u had to grind etc to not fuck up the progress and thats just one of many things that made the game memorable@@piscessoedroen
Carbons soundtrack is straight fire honestly
Carbon was my first NFS and I love it
Same. No other NFS has done it for me.
I have a soft spot for the rock and rap mix that was in Most Wanted since it all meshed so well, but Carbon has so many great tracks and the vibe fits the game perfectly. In my opinion both game soundtracks fit thematically, and both go hard as fuck lol
@@ds90seph yes mate I agree. Carbons soundtrack is pure vibes and full of bangers. NFS needs to take a page from them in the future
carbon had an extremely distinct soundtrack, prob because it was alot of genres most ppl didnt listen to in the mid 00s, like trip hop, real electronica not "edm" but actual synthy electronica, uk punk and rock, very very different songs youd normally hear at that point
_"The quality of those hours... Is what matters"_
I remember in my hometown where I go to this Game cafe and everyone is an Underground 2 junkie, I get talked shit for being bad at drag race (or the game in general)... Then carbon came and after spending three hours of winning races and defending turfs with the Dodge charger I pinkslipped from Angie, I got Kenji to fall off the cliff. My timer was up and I got up to see the audience that piled up behind my seat...
Underground wasn't my game... Carbon is where I reign the streets.
Edit: and the canyons
Same thing happened to me with MW. Everyone was tuning their rides with Underground 2's massive options but then most struggled to evade a spike strip on MW. A game cafe that used to run on the basement of an old supermarket in my city actually set up a contest to beat the final 30-minute chase challenge in MW. I did it with overtime, 37 minutes and a few seconds. I got a weekend of free plays and about 10 bucks in cash for it, but it felt incredible. All the other competitors lasted between 10 and 15 minutes
I played Carbon as a kid on the Gamecube that my dad and I basically shared. I went back recently when I got a PC and played it again and it seems even better than I remember (granted it helps that I'm WAY better at racing games now.) I never even knew the AI _could_ fall off the canyons in those races until a couple of weeks ago when Kenji did the same for me. I just assumed they were scripted not to do that, but it's actually the opposite. They even have their own cutscene that plays before they... well, die, pretty much.
lmao you say that as if Carbon is difficult
@@r3uvsgaming
Context is important... I forgot to say I'm the only who drives a charger... Everyone else drives either exotic or tuner...
@@64_jhex ah, a man of culture. Toretto will proud of you
I still want autosculpt back, autosculpt was amazing
too bad they were overshadowed by kits
I hated kits because they were too rice-ish. I always used Autosculpt to make the cars look like GT/touring cars
@@DanArnets1492 the thing about autosculpt is that it adds vertically but not much horizontally
also remember that autosculpt makes the largest abominations known to man... like the biplane golf
For me, the autosculpt design were just bad looking. Though indeed not as horrendous as Underground 2, like i only goes for that 'Borillo' bumpers (Stratospeed Formula 7 in ProStreet)
@@divecolosio4988 2 of 6 autosculpt body kits in Carbon were from Underground 2 (but 1 was even in Underground 1)
@@LK9T9akaSEKTOR i nearly forgot which ones you were talking about.
Lol, no wonder
I played nfs carbon after watching initial D. Can't tell you how much difference in my enjoyment this made. Heck I even learned drifting and started enjoying canyons, which I hated back when I was a kid. After finishing the career mode I spent many hours tuning and testing different cars in the drifting and canyon stages. Absolutely changed my opinion about the game!!!
Played it recently with a mod pack that included a corolla initial d decal and another mod that allows you to enable/disable drift physics on the fly and it's so fucking fun dude highly recommend you to back to experience this, the mod pack I used was called redux
Watch Fast Furious 3 (Tokyo one). That movie and Carbon mix is like modern day EA and laziness: you can't have one without the other.
Tokyo Extreme Racer Drift 2 on PS2 is Touge racing. With mapped out Japanese mountain passes.Its not an easy game to pick up and play if You want to drift but, with practice it becomes a lot of fun. You also don't have to drift, it's optional for the most part, despite the name. And the car selection is awesome if your into older Japanese cars.
YESSSSSS YOU TALKED ABOUT NEED FOR SPEED CARBON PSP’S INSANE TWIST LMAOOOOO
This was my first PSP game and holy shit - I was about 12 and my dads name is Michael/mick, and he had a similar face/long hair as the game character so obviously being a kid I was like "I will avenge me fathers death!".
Let me tell you man I was not ready when I realized I'd murdered my father and stolen his his gf lmao
@@peterlawrence5114 I just read this. My god, I’m laughing so hard.
LGR and Raycevik both talking about a Need for Speed game, released within a minute of each other?
Ohhh yeah
Absolutely insane. I love it!
Season 2 of Mandalore/Sseth conspiracy confirmed!
ayooo! i gotta watch the LGR one after this. didnt even know he put one out
I literally just watched LGR NFS 2 review
"Blockers are torpedoes" - shows Kvyat ramming Vettel lmao
LMAO
AOLM
”Firing on all cylinders” - shows a rx8
“You came like a torpedo!”
@@LuisTrey I was just racing man
15 years later… NFS Carbon is still a masterpiece.
No, that game is shit.
Far from a masterpiece. But far from bad too.
@@FreshTillDeath56 It sold 8 million copies, it's definitely a masterpiece of a racing game.
@@jakebeckmann9372 nah, there's lots of good selling games that were trash. I liked Carbon, but I don't call it a masterpiece.
@@FreshTillDeath56 Maybe for him is a masterpiece, like are you aware that different people have different opinions?
Need for Speed Carbon is one of the games of my childhood, I'd like to experience it again so I'm totally for a remaster (as long as it's not a lazy one)
I pull up the menu music on UA-cam to listen on repeat sometimes when I'm working.
EA would probably fill it up with microtransactions.
I had a cracked version of NFS MW 2012 and liked it back then
I recently bought it again, only to find out absolutely all the cars I encountered were dlc
If it ends up in a similar way, I'll be pissed
I would kill for a remaster
@@nielsmichiels1939 It already had paid DLC on the 360 and PS3.
"When are we getting a video on Driver San Francisco?"
"Now THAT sounds more up my alley."
The wait for new videos is excruciating already, but this? You got me hoping and hyped for something years out on the Raycevick timeline
@@NLmitchieNL same, thanks for the reminder
"First I'm gonna take your ride then I'm gonna take your girl "
the best fucking line in any fucking game ever
Razor the best villian ever
@@sebas87gamingncomedy06 razor > thanos
no cap
Dropping f-bombs is becoming... pathetic.
For a 16 year old..
speaking of the game feeling shorter than it is. This video is so incredibly well paced and structured that it only feels 10 minutes long
Darius looks like a character from Lazy Town lmao
Lazy town, oh my god Im old now.
He's Karl Agathon
from Battlestar Galactica
Huh. I never noticed that.
Your production quality has gotten insane man. Top notch writing with a ton of talent assisting you with visual has really elevated your channel.
Bro The music "Trevor Morris - Sounding Streets" Hit so hard as a 10 year old kid, the breakdown of the music started when you were close to the finish and since kids make more mistakes while playing, the adrenaline rush was very real, as I could easily bin it at 95% and have to start the race all over.
Pointing out NFS’s approach to tuning is completely spot on, I almost never touch tuning in most games besides a couple values here and there, whereas in NFS I easily change every value in a car to fit my play style
I only remember how fucking fast sal was,only to realise when i grew up that he was just rubber banding pro max😂😂😂
Such a cheap-ass boss challenge.
I hate sal, he keeps on brakechecking me. Speedrunning this game later on gets cancer bc of cops and sal.
This is my most memorable NFS yet, the canyon missions are always exciting and you even get to drive the boss car.
31:39 holy shit, he's talking about "pretty fly (for a white guy)" by the offspring. That makes so much sense when you compare the music video to Ronny.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who first thought about that song when Ronnie's actor commented about it. Indeed it makes too much sense.
I'm mad the actor didn't say the actual song title because, man, he's literally paraphrasing the lyrics!
I was like "Oh my god, is he talking about" and then he talked about the 13/31 line and I was like "OH MY GOD HE IS"
From what I can tell, you replayed this on PC and yes, the drift events on there are the easiest thing ever. I don't know whether it's intentional or a bug, but you rack up score way higher in this version than on the others (at a guess I think it's probably bound to your framerate)
True, I play the PC and PS2 version back to back and the PS2 version is a lot more challenging
@@konrad8541 nah i dont think its a bug, i play on xbox 360 and the scores are still ridiculously easy
NFS World music hits me hard, I never forget the high school days logging in everyday after school
Same, I'm so glad Soapbox Race World brought it back
I still remember being 12 years old discovering NFS word on my sisters laptop and playing on it in 2012. Game was a massive grind-fest without paying for those damn speedpoints! Still love it though :c
There is a project to bring back Carbon Online too, search on youtube and you can see some videos of the closed beta
World is live again.... From 2017
Damn, NFS world, what a game, i remember playing it and grinding for the Darius R8, and then the update that eliminated tiers came up and killed the game.
Might be my favourite NFS of all time, this game is what I think about when it comes to car culture. Heavy bass, loud engines, nighttime through a nice looking city, and the soundtrack just all complimented each so well man.
You're talking NFS:Underground?
@@tydendurler9574 - That game is extremely limited and repetitive. Also, it's clear the physics engine wasn't made for the slower cars at the beginning!
Giving more credit to the music, Ekstrak’s parts in the music were not only themed after the type of car you drove (tuner, muscle, exotic), but also when you were in last place. I was 7 when I realized this and loved when it happened every time.
"Who would have the motivation to... Darius.", liked that bit :D As a kid I always felt that the storylines of MW and Carbon were criminally underdeveloped, because I liked them. I was 9 when Carbon released and characters like Darius and Niki were THE definition of coolness to me and it was frustrating that so little about a story is actually said. Always wished for something like a comic/book to elaborate on the story :/
I still cry when i hear kenji insulting my ride
It's a huge ego boost to go into that cutscene with a tier 3 car, yes you can get a tier 3 car early in the game legitimately
This is your last chance to face reality and back off!
@@Anxmaly666 how tho?
@@adamoutulny2345 sell all your cars except for one and then get it impounded, hit 'exit to main menu' and you should be able to start a new career on the same save file. This is pretty useful if you forgot to unlock cross corvette
@@Anxmaly666 okay thanks, i'll definitely try it out
I have to say that Kenji's line
"I heard you were back in town. Now I wanna hear your gone!"
Is so quotable that my friend and I say it far too often.
Great video 👌
“It’s your last chance to face reality, and back off!”
Played it as a kid, never could beat that R8. Rebought it a while ago, still can't.
Some things never change.
Use the Corvette
@@malcolmmayes6594 I could overtake him in first corner with a Vette but it took a lot of tries
Yeah, just use Vette or a Viper
@@renesisrx3069 I used a Cobalt SS to beat him. It wasn't easy but I did it
@@kirbyswarp I don't remember that car being in the game
I can remember playing that game with my older sister when I was in second grade, she was used to pimp my cars and I drove them haha awesome memories. Now we are in our 20s. It's so sad that such awesome games don't publish anymore.
I’m not even 3 minutes in, and my nostalgia is in overdrive
i'm 28 and watching this made me feel older than yoda
Good ol Carbon'
6:56 There was gonna be catgirls in repo man? now we know what happened to that game, it was to dangerous to be relased to the public
I think one important thing that's being glossed over is, most wanted had that whole funky over the top thematics going on with wild cop chases being the selling point, but carbon distinctively went for a depressing, darker tone here that left you felt alien and alone in palmont city, the city itself was cold to you which unlike the warm colour palette of rockport had welcomed you as a newcomer, back in palmont - you're the one who left, the one who abandoned it.
The city remembers, the people remember, its why its so bleak and cold, its to signify this big change in tone that you're just an outcast here, no longer part of the city anymore. The cold ending with the villian just leaving like that, also makes you feel like you stayed an outsider, an outcast, you won but your victory wasn't even acknowledged. It's why the romantic drive off was cut. It's as if, to palmont city you were never welcome and you never mattered. This dark tone is especially felt in the canyon duels, where its just you alone and that cold unsettling chills are immediately felt, the fact that you are truly alone and no one would ever care if you were to die on that canyon by an accident. It's the lack of stakes that carbon has that makes it so different, yet good in its own way. You just cannot directly compare it to most wanted like this, afterall its not named Most Wanted 2, unlike something like underground 2. This is truly its own thing, and I personally think this review as amazing as your videos are kinda missed that point and that made me feel very sad.
You summarized the theme of the game perfectly
Valid take
I couldn't have put the words together on my own but that is actually how i feel about it. Very well written.
YES!!!!!! THANK U FOR THIS! NFS Carbon ambience it's pretty dark and kinda off putting
underrated comment
How can u not mention Neville more? He is the reason this game was so fun to play. His introduction, his lines, his appearance. Comedy gold.
"IM THE MONKEY"
“I’ll even put up with this guy”
Racycevick released this just as I'm doing a playthrough of Carbon again, perfect timing!
That intro was god-like.
i disagree
@blood feast island man ur also gay
I feel like every new Raycevick video is his best to date.
And it still holds true
❤️
No pressure
@@Raycevick uwu
Fun fact: the canyon song you showed, "konbawa" literally means good afteroon.
15 years later, I can still see the signs of frustration on my collectors edition box.
The "you're the murderer" twist was actually quite surprising to me. I wish all the NFS games were this wacky
Ik they're fun but people are just gonna complain that the story is "cringe-worthy" again
22:45
I LOVE how everything fits in correctly to make a small masterpiece
What song is that anyway?
It's called make my day from Initial D
The amount of times I restarted the story mode in this game as a child was unbelievable. Still remember those days like yesterday. I would gladly pay for an remastered version of this game.
The soundtrack is SOOOO 2000’s. Like I could hear these in Batman Beyond
I miss the days when racing games had storylines, nowadays racing games is just generic legal racing with only good physics and graphics that would probably bore you to death after 20 minutes, people also says all racing games are the same while in reality it's just GTA but without getting out of your car.
But racing games with cringeworthy stories are still there...just look at NFS Payback and Heat. There is no point on comparing legal track racing with good physics to arcade street racers with tunings and chases,it's comparing apples to oranges,totally different games for a totally different public.
@@Brenooliveira072 I mean back then illegal racing are variated from FNF games to SRS or Midnight Club, nowadays the only one that had balls to bring that is EA and you know that they are not what they are used to be anymore.
@@AhmadWahelsa Most of these were just NFS imitations with nothing really special apart from MC wich Rockstar abandoned. These kind of games aren't that worth it these days because it's much harder to license real cars on them and the illegal street racing scene is no longer as strong as it used to be.
@@Brenooliveira072 Yeah i know that, it's sad that Rockstar could just easily reuse GTA cars in Midnight Club and they are done.
@@AhmadWahelsa Thing is, GTA Online/VMP racing scene is so unbelievably strong, that they might as well focus on a single game with that. Buying cars is like the primary driver of GTA Online economy, and the cashiest of cash cows.
I swear this the best video about nfs carbon I have ever seen on youtube.
I wish the time would go back and ea would watch this video during the production of carbon. Carbon had and still has so much potential. Ea could simply remaster this game and ad all the deleted scenes to the remaster. If they do so they could safe the nfs franchise if they continue with the story from carbon. They could basically take some things from fast and furious 4 were letty gets in to crash and loses all her memory. This would be so good.
Bro this video just puts me into emotions and lets me think about how great need for speed back then was...
41:00 immediately gave me chills of nostalgia.. fond memories of playing this game for many many hours and i still play sometimes.. probably my most favorite childhood games
i miss nfs, miss those burnout moments, blur, racing was an absolute pure era of racing bliss, split second rip :(
Throw motorstorm in there too
Someone needs to slap the owner of Take Two real quick and ask what the fuck happened to Midnight Club.
I don't know what happened to arcade racing. It seems like the only decent racing games anymore are all sims except for Forza Horizon and Dirt (Which while great don't scratch the itch to the same extent). Even then it's basically just Forza Motorsport because Gran Turismo only comes out once every planetary allignment.
Switching back and forth between the realism of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec/4 and the pure adrenaline fantasy of Need for Speed Most Wanted and Midnight Club to then go on to play the absolutely blistering power of Burnout Takedown... Many great games have come out since, but no era felt quite so packed with options and possibilities and so much consistent quality. 2005 was the best. Being 11 years old in the age where creativity was the only king in the games industry is something I will always be grateful for.
Motorstorm was my absolute favorite 😁 I hope he looks back on that series next - they had a prolific series all the way to 2011 until something happened to Evolution Studios
and SSX
Gran turismo 4 and burnout paradise for me was probably my 2 favorite games of all time
This intro alone is pure art.
At 1:53 you can see a Bug an the Rims.
I guess this is my daily "damn I feel old now" moment.
Fun fact - I fried a video card with this game.
RIP. Do you remember the model?
This isn't the quality of a standard UA-cam review I was expecting. Over an hour of information, compliments and criticisms. Very very well done.
The canyon race music is so good in this game
I remember when I played as a Kid with a PS2 and these races had me at the edge of the seat by how intense they were
oh god, it gave me so much anxiety maaaaaan
I'm re-living my anxiety just watching him play them hahahaha
36:08 You are wrong on this, but your end point remains correct. You do actually meet Samson, Colin (I'm actually not sure about him), and Yumi before you recruit them. The caveat is that it's in the races themselves. They will appear in various races with their respective vehicles before you recruit them, with them even using tier 1 vehicles that are otherwise out of sight and out of mind.
So while you do in fact meet them before you recruit them, it's far from a proper introduction, and it's a detail that is very, very easy to miss. Even if you catch the detail, when they say things like "You know I'm good" and likewise, it doesn't feel like such statements have much weight behind them, since they are nothing more than a name on the leaderboard of a race you're in before they call you and talk to you.
the only thing i remember "Carbon" for is the unique soundtrack that i still listen even today.
Hard Drivers is immediately what I think of.
Same bro
Now that Flatout 2 is turning 15, I'd love to see a retrospective on that games history or even if the entire series lol, this was super fun to watch!
15 years later... This hit hard...
Shit you're so right! :o
*insert saving private ryan getting old*
World : We need to reduce our carbon emissions
EA: Say no more.
The canyon mode races are by far the best NFS mode ever produced(for me). Tracks were technical, it wasn't about shoving everyone else into the obstacles(or traffic) and as a cherry on the top - moding your car based on your style/taste was actually very reasonable. I played the game multiple times just to use different approaches in the canyons. Such underused mode. Also somebody didn't realize that Need for Speed is iconic for many things and one of which is the police. I was so sad when I realized that the police was shifted away from the Most Wanted status. Damn :( This could have been so much better game...
I remember playing this game so much as a 7 or 8 year old kid. I still feel time stop and vision zoom to cops when I see them on the road, 15 years later as a 23 year old adult.
NFS Carbon is why I work in the games industry today. Thanks for making this video. Real trip down memory lane.
Adam Jensen in this game is a legit wtf moment
we never asked for this
He's in the Expanse as well. Never knew.
_I never asked for this_
ha ha ha quote from deus ex very funny and more original reading this a second time
@@stevieboymkii The expanse is like the best scifi show in decade or something :)
This game will always hold dear to my heart, as my favorite nfs game
I remember this gem vividly in my childhood 💎
I like that the Lotus Elise thing got pointed out I always feel like that car gets sold short in NFS games anybody who's had the chance to drive one can tell you just how well they handle and how snappy they can be.
loved mine the brown turd.
its one of the best cars in most wanted
This video is amazing, jesus, from start to finish, so much detail, fluidity and style. I wasn't even expecting a section for the battle royale mod at all (still need to play it).
Thank you for covering these games with such care and attention, they were a big part of my childhood and i still remember and play them fondly.
You're awesome, Ray :)
Man I wish more arcade racers come up with a handling model like Most Wanted/Carbon. Getting really sick and tired of the tap brake to drift mechanic, it was pretty fun in the burnout games, but like 20 games that use this handling model later, there's only so much I can take.
Edit: Wreckfest actually has pretty fun handling, so there's that.
"This video contains spoileres"
please tell me that pun was intended
Hello my dear lord and saviour.
As a child, I somehow admired Sal, as he could do 320+ km/h easily even with Tier 1 RX-8. Most rubberbanding AI ever. Sal was the most OP wingman IMO
You have this incredible ability to take a hour of my life to discuss a game I have never played or will ever play and make it one hundred percent worth it.
This video came together so well! The pacing is effortless, the content engaging and jokes in all the right places, I'm glad I got to contribute my small part 😁
But let's be honest guys, NFS UnderGround series was and forever be the OG rice simulator.
I wouldnt say simulator but as an arcade yes u definitely right bro
@Maybe Daniel no india 🇮🇳
And that's why we love it
but ON GOD bro: NFSU, NFSU2 NFSMW and Carbon had the WORST rear spoilers that were never real, RICER AFFFFFFFFFFF. at least carbon you could shape it, and *coff* Undercover, had the first best ones in the franchise. no tunned car is completed without some chill but dope Spoiler. UNLESS, the body, wheels and paint already work in harmony. is like a gorgeous bald woman but ok by me.
It was very much a product of its time.
As a 9 year old, i LOVED this game! the "flaws" did not matter to me, i just wanted to drive fast and get territory
Finally found the time to sit down for this, great work as always. While I've been busy with other games and school and stuff your videos have given me a renewed interest in racing games especially and I've totally bought some based solely on having seen your videos. Hopefully I'll be able to find the time to play them sooner rather than later but yeah. Good stuff again Raycevick!
"Blockers are more accurate torpedoes".
"Shows Daniil "Torpedo" Kvyat"
I see what you did there...😂😂
As an F1 fan myself, I loved it!
This is accurate
"Blockers are more accurately TORPEDOES"
*shows Kvyat*
a man of culture i see....
Honestly never expected to enjoy an hour worth of NFS carbon retrospective but here we are. Loved it!