I was offered a job at EA right after graduating Full Sail (3D Computer Animation) but turned it down because it was in the sports division and i HATED sports games!
@de_Ultimate kinda regret it now, but i make myself feel better by thinking about what one of my friends said about working for them and they supposedly treating employees bad. 🤷♂️
Yep, he's got a kind of natural fluidity in his speech, he's witty and to the point and uses language in all its facets pretty well. Even the rather high speed of his talking doesn't detract from all that.
Man, NFS 3 Hot Pursuit got me into racing games. I loved that game. I was a freshman in college and I purchased a new PC with an Orchid 3dfx Voodoo Card. It made Quake II, SiN, Pod, etc look amazing! This video really took me back. Great job, LGR. P. S. I’m really sorry to hear about your sister. It’s rough to lose a sibling, especially at such a young age. Glad you’re doing well.
I just found LGRs channel, recently. Instantly hooked. I've been watching his videos for a few months, and this is the first time I saw this one. I was floored. But as sad of a memory as it was, I still loved this video. Just a story, branching off into personal memories and feelings, expressing a feeling more than an idea. I'd love to see more videos like this, connected to personal experiences and with minimal editing. But more importantly, I am so sorry for his loss. No matter how much time has passed. What an incredibly reality changing experience that must have been.
Aw man, sorry to hear about your sister :( At least it sounds like you made it through well enough, it's good you had the games to keep you going through that sucky period. Fun retrospective all the same, it's great to hear you share your fond memories of games like these. I was never that big into racing games myself but I have fond memories of playing several of the NFS games. The original NFS was great just to enjoy the sights as you raced from A to B and crashing as spectacularly as possible. NFS2 felt like a step back to me cause of the more arcade-y feel and lack of cops, but NFS3 I remember having a ton of fun with. After that I kinda gave up on racing entirely and with how bloated the NFS series became after the 2000's I reckon I didn't miss much.
Thanks, man. It's strange how something as simple as a computer racing game can really help you cope. And yeah, the games became hugely bloated and really lost their way if you ask me. Huge shame!
@@TheCandoRailfan So? What's your point? And comparing death of your grandad (which you know will happen soon since you're on planet Earth), to a sister because of the sickness, is pathetic....
I loved 3, I played it so much as a kid. I always loved doing hot pursuit solo in a yellow diablo on atlantica. fun times man. and the song aquilla 303 is so good.
This video made me tear a bit. I just recently stumbled on to this channel and I love it. I'm sorry you had to deal with such a hardship at such a young age.
Rob Flores I know how he feels my mother had breast cancer when I was 3 she survived , but it was still a hard time being a 3 year old not knowing if your mother would live or not , it's a terrible thing anyone can go through no matter who your
It still baffles me how EA and the most vocal portion of the NFS fanbase treats these games like they don't even exist and instead insist that the franchise's "roots" are in the Underground era...
Maybe because its due to current generation who havent play "real" NFS. Most of current generation started at U2,MW,Carbon thats why they think the roots of NFS is tuners and street machines not exotics. Even my first NFS game is Most Wanted, its our timelines collide. The world is constantly changing.
Back in the post-NFS6 Blackbox era those wishing for the return of the pre-NFS7 days (or at least those who think they were better) was certainly pretty vocal. I guess HP 2010 gave them enough of a fix? Maybe they grew out of it? Maybe there's so many more people who played NFS7 than those that played the earlier games that their voices simply drowned?
The first one I ever played was Underground. NFS, or any PC game for that matter, just wasn't on my radar in the 90s since our PC was a 486 Packard bell that we kept up until 2003. (My parents blamed me when the 10-year old hard drive failed.) Anyways, Underground was the first to really be heavily marketed, as they were riding the coattails of Fast and the Furious. So, adding to what you said, it makes sense that when a lot of, especially younger people think of NFS, they think of Underground or later not even realizing that the franchise was already about 8 years old at that point.
It annoys me that the 2015 release was marketed as a return to roots - it had already happened in 2010, and definitely didn't happen in 2015 at all. Though I wouldn't complain much if someone calls it a return to the glory days - I can see how one would consider the post-NFS6 Blackbox era to be that.
Yup. Racing games nowadays are more realistic and other shit, but they don't give the same feeling what ol Porche did. Or maybe i'm just getting too old for this shit :P
First off, huge bombshell like already said. It's criminal these horrible things happen to good people. Sorry to hear that LGR, pained me to learn of that mate. She'd be damn proud I'm sure. As for Porsche 2000. Definitely my favourite. Played soooo many hours of that on my force feedback wheel and pedals. Loved how the wheel rumbled going over cobbles. Foundry level was fantastic. Need to find a second hand wheel now :) Great video. Those days were great for games and hardware. Id pine over the P100 (£1400 at the time) with its fancy FPU unlike my families first PC the AST Cyrix 6x86 100mhz. That cost us £1100!!! Still got it and it works! Early HTML and Doom, yummy. My parents worked hard for us to have a PC. Then the 166mmx I saved like crazy with my two paper rounds per day at school for that. Then onto the glorious K6-2, then a 1ghz Thunderbird and many more. TNT2 Ultra, Savage4 with S3TC (mmmm Unreal Tournament on that), Hurcules/Guillemot, geforces, the behemoth 9700pro.. ohhh so many memories... so many innovations. Just wish I didn't have to sell the current stuff to upgrade back then. I'd love to own all my old setups :( Great vid LGR.
"You had Carbon that wasn't good" That's some serious heresy right there LGR. This'll have to be settled at the canyon. (Also god damn man, really sorry about your sister.)
I still feel carbon gets too much hate. I actually liked it a bit more the most wanted. I liked the blues of the night-time racing in carbon more than the pee-colored yellows of most wanted. Carbon felt more atmospheric to 11 year-old me
Carbon wasn't bad, but it wasn't very good either. I was expecting more from the 10th installment in the series. Instead, it almost felt like the weakest game in the series at that point, alongside the first Underground.
Carbon was supposed to be a complete breakthrough for BlackBox, however it ended up being unfinished thanks to EA. The map is smaller than it was supposed to be, the crew system ended up being completely scuffed and so on... It is also actually the last game with its own soundtrack (Most tracks were made exclusively for the game by Ekstrak but there were some licensed tracks as well)
Man, this is a bit scary.. NFS3 was also one of my favorite driving games at the time and I played it while dealing with the passing of my brother.. I guess it was a good game for the bereaved.
Clint, your a rare person who is passionate about your hobby and that is what I love about your channel, I subbed ages ago and I always come back to watch old games that I remember playing all those years ago, keep doing what your doing, top work from a genuine guy.
Sorry about your loss. I know this video was made 3 years ago, but will never forget. Keep making content, man. your sister would be so proud of you :)
Games like this to me highlight the fact that something NEEDS to be done regarding licensed content in video games. These games were iconic and genre defining and I hate the way these games are just left by the games industry to be forgotten about. With the way things are now, you'll never be able to purchase a digital version of these games patched to work on modern systems from somewhere like GOG, they'll never be remastered with features like modern controller support added to make them more accessible and they just aren't celebrated the way they should be. There are so many important games that deserve recognition as the classics they are, but due to licensed content and the way it is handled within the games industry, it will never happen and that makes me simultaneously sad and angry. The price of these games (especially in reasonable condition) will inflate due to "collectors" exploiting the dwindling supply of working copies until they become unobtainable. The other option is to obtain them by "other means". People shouldn't have to resort to potentially infecting their PC because they've had to obtain a game from an unsafe source. It also doesn't help that video game companies very rarely announce something as freeware or declare it abandoned, so in the vast majority of cases you're in a legal/moral grey area. Also, any online repository of game ROMs and ISOs is at risk of being taken down. I've not looked into compatibility for these games in particular on modern hardware, but that is another potential hurdle.
I was pretty disappointed once I'd realized that they'd done away with original sound tracks up until most wanted and carbon. Although, there were some great songs like by BT in the first Underground game. Underground 2 had Cirrus with back on a mission. Which is a timeless song that I listen to every once in a while even today.
I love this video. Your genuine love and passion you have for these games, as well as hearing about your childhood memories, is extremely touching. Thank you for sharing this😊
It was a great game, the tracks and environments were well crafted (lots of diverging paths and shortcuts), great soundtrack, I liked the realistic physics too. If it had the car variety and police chases of 3 and 4 it would have been the best of the 5.
In my opinion, Need for Speed High Stakes was the best. A game that included all of the last one and added cool things like the career mode (with all those modificacions and stuff) and the multiplayer, giving you the chance of playing Hot Pursuit mode with your friends and against the machine via Lan, Tcp/ip or Serial. Also the soundtrack is one of the best far... A super complete game that has been part of my childhood and still goes.
Agree, such a great concept of winning or losing something valuable. This was real. I can't think of any other game where you can lose something of real value. Except "expensive" or "rare" items in stupid MMOs.
Thank you for sharing something so personal, Clint. I'm terribly sorry for your loss. Video games and other media are such a big part of processing such tragic events. Keep being awesome!
Long time watcher (sometimes 'listener' while I'm playing games) that part about your sister really surprised me to hear - just remembering how excited I was about (the exact same games) at that age - having it juxtaposed with what you had to deal with that would have been just awful. Condolences to you.
RIP Saki Kaskas and also someone worked on Doom The Abyss expansion died recently sorry i forgot his name.... finally i got his name Jan Paul van Waveren maker of Doom The Abyss
WHAT The oroginal NFS soundtrack is the best soundtrack I've ever fucking HEARD. I reached out to many composers like Mark Knight who did Outlander on SNES to thank them for their music but could never get a hold of Saki. This actually makes me sad
your a genuine guy in everything you do but to hear your story about your sister really hit home for me. as long as you make videos for us i will always be watching them and support you. honestly I've put more hours into LGR than i have any other youtube video or series in any form other than the simpsons lol.
I love your videos. I usually watch them with my morning coffee and this hit me in the feels. It took a lot for you to open up like that and I appreciate it. Thanks for all you do man.
I know this is an older video, but I just discovered this channel and I wanna say that my heart goes out to you mate. No one should go through that. I'm just glad you had these games as a way to cope. Lots of love.
I have a mix of NFS 3 and high stakes mixed on a cd, and often change the track depend on the environment and weather. Love the Aquatica when I drive in the rain.
NFSIISE... I remember the videos and audio summaries about the cars almost more than the game itself. "... styling is by Guigarro ..." "The McLaren F1 is effectively a two-seat Formula 1 race car, with very few compromises to make it street legal."
Great video. Funny you mention this. NFS was my first and favourite game on 3DO. I was 15 when it came out in 96. I'm also a Viper fanatic and played it endlessly. The show Viper was filmed in the city I live in Canada. My dad is a police officer and took me to the set many times. I got to sit in all the Vipers and even the morphed one. Interesting fact: The show had 4 Vipers. 2 normal RT/10s, and 2 "morphed" Vipers. 1 of the morphed Vipers only had a 360 V8 in case they crashed it. The other was a full V10 Viper. Dodge charged the production company $56 for each Viper. Can you believe that?? $56!!! There was one condition: the cars had to be crushed at the end of production :(
SO. MUCH. NOSTALGIA. Awesome video showing off the classic Need for Speed games that I grew up with and played obsessively on the original PlayStation.
Damn Clint, when the discussion about NFS III happened it hit me hard, mostly because I can kind of relate to the passing of a family member oddly enough, around a similar time frame. I lost my grandfather in 1999 and at the time, being VERY young I could not really comprehend death so it did not effect me until much later, but I was still sad since my mother was very stricken with grief at that time. I remember being knee deep into the Playstation at the time and oddly enough, using games like Duke Nukem (The PSX ones of course!) and Gran Turismo helped me cope or at least try to move on.
Oh man, let me tell you... Your early Need for Speed experiences really hit home. I mean, my family moved to the USA from eastern Europe when I was five. We didn't really have much for a long time, but I do remember my dad getting a home computer for work. He also eventually came home with some video games. No idea if he actually bought them or just got them from a friend... But one of them was High Stakes. Probably my favorite game in the series. It didn't run. For the longest time it didn't run. At all. We had no graphics accelerator, and the PC we owned was extremely weak. It took ages before we actually got a rig that could play it, but until then I would constantly hang around friends and relatives with computers powerful enough to play it. I loved the crap out of that game. Still have it, still play it. It was racing perfection, even still to this day. The handling felt fluid and simple to learn, yet more rewarding once you started to perform more complex and risky maneuvers. The police chases were outstanding, and constantly made you feel that so-called need for speed which the game bases itself on. Then came along Porsche Unleashed, which is a strange story for me. Never got to own it. Could never afford it. Don't think I could have run it on any of our early home PCs either. But I did know people who had it, and that game was two solid things for me. Namely, crashing into cars and marveling at the vehicle deformation. And turn signals... Yes, turn signals. Usable, key-mappable turn signals which allowed you to drive more... "realistically." Yeah, pretty strange. But it cemented itself in my early memory. So much so that I eventually got a copy and played through it. Never touched factory driver or evolution as a kid. The handling was too realistic and difficult to master. But once I did, the game opened up even further. I started to learn... Actually truly LEARN about cars. The upgrades in career, the little info tidbits that it threw at you about Porsche and its history... What I'm actually leading into here is how this game inspired me to go out and buy an old broken down Porsche 924, and get it roadworthy. Yes, I went out and bought a Porsche just because of early NFS nostalgia. Let me tell you, burning the soundtrack to a CD and playing it in the workshop was pure bliss... I will always love early Need for Speed. Games 1-5 were and always will be the roots of the series to me. As far as I'm concerned, the rest have nothing to do with the originals... I see why you wanted to make this video now. Getting it all out there feels great...
Need for Speed 2 SE brings back some crazy memories and one of my favorite games growing up. The first game I played on my voodoo 3... and looked SO much better with hardware acceleration.
Frostt Hot Pursuit 2 was practically my first love! And it was the GameCube version; and based on my understanding now, that version was probably a complete piece of shit compared to the PS2 version...
Clint I've watched your videos for a couple years now. I absolutely love your channel and thank you for all the great videos you produce. Keep doing what you love :)
Triggered such a nostalgia trip for me, thinking about childhood and games and my family and such. Thank you for that. :) Your genuiness, is a rare thing and I love it!
Oh! Still 360P! This one is hot off the press. I loved NFS Hot Pursuit on PC. I was hopelessly addicted to that game for years, and it's replay value still holds up today IMO.
This is still Clint's most sincere, heartwarming (and heartbreaking) video. It's always strange watching this as a longtime fan (been watching since the Fisherprice DOS game review, hell yeah). He has always kept himself at a distance from his fans and his work and it's worked very well. I think we can all agree that we just appreciate watching someone as charming as Clint talk about pretty much anything is pure joy. This video lets you look a little closer and it's amazing its all because of EA. Thank you Clint for giving us all something to watch when we're stressed or bored.
I'm so sorry to hear you had to go through such a tragic loss at such a young age. I had no idea and I've watched a whole ton of your videos. I'm sure it took a lot to discuss and I think you should be proud.
So sorry for your loss. I have a sister and losing her would have been devestating. Thank you for sharing. On a lighter note, gaming wise, I feel like I just watched a lot of my Need for Speed Journey 1-4 as a kid. I remember being so excited about those games, and not even fully understanding what a special time in gaming it was. Need for Speed 3 was the pinnacle of my childhood "Need for Speed journey." So much fun with the police. I also kind of remember thinking with Porshe thinking, "what?"
Wow Clint, you really gut checked me with your sister's death. I lost my sister in 09 to alcohol/drug addiction. Losing a sibling is one of those thing you just don't understand what it's like unless you go through it yourself. I'm now it's been a long time, but I really am sorry for your loss. Keep up the awesome work!
This is one of my favourite LGR episodes. Have seen it more than once. It shows your passion for this game series, so much that you let us inside one of your hardest times in your family’s life, to make the story complete.
TightJeans I agree. The physics are great, the different tasks in carrier are amazong and the ost is awesome. For me the best and even better than modern car arcade games.
TightJeans Agreed. A very deep game in comparison, but it also had significantly higher system requirements, I remember realising. My system could not run it smoothly at all for several years. It's great that I still have it, however, and that it now runs beautifully. If I recall correctly, my steering wheels work great with it, and I now have the Fanatec Porsche wheel as well!
I spent so much time playing NFS4... great times when video games where all that mattered in my life. Things were so simple back then! I also loved the drum&bass soundtracks, was into trance and prodigy too, we had very similar sound taste. Sorry about your sis man. Great video, nice memories!
Thanks for the video, just rewatched it again:-) NFS3 is also The Game to me. As a kid I was obsessed with it and played it a lot (even though it felt a bit too difficult), hanged out in the showroom mode (a gallery with car photos and videos) or was just repainting the spinning cars on the car selection screen over and over. And the music was great too, I still get goosebumps remembering those gliding synths from the menu and the aquatic track. Also remember how music adapts to the speed the car is going with? Crazy immersive! Anyway thanks for sharing a bit of yourself and your passion for the games. It is very valuable to know there is someone equally fond of things dear to you. P.S. Also at the time of playing NFS3 I used to have a large diecast model of a Viper. And I rolled it on the floor days long, up to the point when the wheels started coming off more often than they should have 😅❤
NFS meant so much to me growing up, I spent years in the modding community with NFS3, 4 and PU. This video brings me back to the mid-late 90s for sure. Love the aussie cover for NFS3 and the background sound track too by the way!
this guy has really expressed his feeling the way these 5 games deserved and you know what all the feelings are mutual i just never had the words to express it
no way man, I've been watching your videos for a while now and love them all, you're lively, smiley happy outlook on things always make me smile, My condolences, I'm so sorry for your loss but so glad for your enthusiasm for these classic games and technology, here's to many years more, live long and prosper
My first computers were a c64 and then a mac plus. I didn't get into pc compatables until my late 20's. One of the reasons I got interested in pc's was NFS 3. I thought the graphics were incredible. So I built my first PC with an AMD 486 cpu and an off name voodoo 2 graphics card with 16 meg of memory. It was a cheap system but it could run games pretty well. I got NFS 3 not long after that and it would only work in software render mode. I did an internet search and it turns out you needed a game patch to run int on some voodoo 2. I got the patch and applied it. I was amazed. The car models and other graphics were like nothing I'd ever seen before. It looked kinda realistic. That's when I got hooked on the series. I've picked up and played many of the other titles in the series. But 3 will always be my favorite. In fact NFS 3, Gran Turismo 1 for the PS1(played on the Dreamcast with Bleemcast) and Re-Volt are my favorite retro racing games of all time. Also, I'm sorry you lost your sister.
I remember really liking the graphics in that game, the sounds of the cars and the whole concept of having to scout each car out in the world map in order to be able to unlock it. You'd just drive up to it and switch to it. I thought that was fun. It gave it a bit of a pokemon element to it rather than just heading off to the dealership to buy it.
I lost my dad when I was 13. Final Fantasy Tactics was that game for me, and I totally get you. Still go back to the game every now and then... It helped me a lot back then. Thank you for sharing your story with us! Wish you all the best!
+Supreme Beats I think Carbon was my most favorite just because of the police chases in open world and utter amount of destructible objects. Most wanted and Underground 2 were also really fun. Any open world racer is a plus for me.
Hey Clint, I saw this video forever ago, but wanted to comment now. You're one of my favorite UA-camrs. You reply to my social media stuff, your content is well thought out, and you seem like a really humble guy. If I ever had a voice acting position available for a gaming role, you're my first person to ask. I want to give to you the awesome content, and hospitality you give to us. Also I still have to send you that stuff via mail.
Being the NFS fan you are you would kick yourself for not being able to experience Motor City Online. It was, and is still 15 years later the best racing game I've ever played.Being able to build a car anyway you wanted, staying up late watching the auction house for a rare car to pop up. Racing all night with your club, trying to get the best overall time and having your clubs name listed on the track for that week. Or just sitting around and chatting with the best online game community I ever experienced. EA is doing the fans and themselves a major disservice in not bringing that game back in some way. Also very sorry to hear about your sister, I lost my brother in 2009 so in some way I can relate, best wishes to you LGR.
Maaan, thank you for making this video! I was born in 1991. And I've played every NFS game you mentioned, I was REALLY into racing , cars and racing games. Hearing you talk about this stuff really brings me back, oddly these games have always felt like a small piece of paradise to me and I loved it. I even played "crash them all" with my friend in NFS 2. Man, so many memories. I'm glad you opened up, this video really made me feel happy :)
I bet back in the early 2000s when Underground was released, a lot of NFS fans complained about the lack of supercars and police chases. Then Hot Pursuit came in the early 2010s and now a lot of people complain about the lack of tuners and customization. It's funny how time works.
I always complained that it doesn't have tuners eh, High Stakes had some semblance of it, but Underground was when it finally gave cars that are fun to play with... and then we had Criterion ones where there's like 80 cars and zero I wanted to ride. So back to Gran Turismo until they changed developer, but I hear they're moving from cool cars back to weird concepts again eh.
Yes some lf us did,for Underground 1 I liked it BUT it didn't feel like a NFS title to me. UnderGround 2 made me a fan of the Tunner Era games. Police chases came back in 2005 with Most btw Wanted
So many memories of Need for Speed II for me. Windows 95, driving the Jaguar XJ220 against Italdesign Cala's on Proving Grounds. I learned I could essentially use the PiT maneuver on them (way before learning it was a police tactic). I would just race and cause all of them to crash and roll. I loved the videos for all the cars and constantly played that game as a kid, along with Wing Commander 4, Prince of Persia, and Red Alert. I remember the outhouse thing too LMAO
as a child of the 90's, I enjoyed II SE through Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2). I think EA ran out of ideas around HP2, since a different company from EA made it and lost the original vibe.
I felt this video. I grew up on Need for Speed 2, High Stakes and a demo of Porsche Unleashed which I eventually bought the full game of (labeled as Porsche 2000). Everything you spoke about was something I could resonate with as a child. The games not working. The cheat codes for NFS 2 and 4, playing with a friend which would always come over, doing the crashing thing and seeing the physics model. Even the cancer thing as I survived having cancer myself as a teen. All of this hit me hard. Thanks for the vid man, keep up the great work on LGR.
Don't worry, although there were great moments and memories there were also countless hours trying to get games working and the endless computer crashes and compatibility issues and parents who wouldn't let you play longer than 10 mins haha. Not to mention zero support, both from business and people around you for most things computer related. Oh and the loading times, flippin heck, you'd spend more than 50% of your playing time waiting for loading and that was on a good computer hahaha. So there are a whole lot of issues that nostalgia happily glosses over haha
+Traian Agreed. I now work in IT and mainly thanks to the reasons lordcrabito mentions, plus early HTML and QuakeC. Conventional memory, extended memory, config.sys.. argghhh!
NfS 4 was the best, especially it also kinda included 3. 2 SE was also great and the one I started the series with. It actually came with my fathers Vodoo card. Loved the "rushhour" cheat code :D Porsche was the first not so good NfS Game, then Hot Pursuit II was ok but all the ones after that were just crap.
Carbon was my #1 favorite. I actually own a Xbox 360 just for that one game only because it doesn't run properly on Windows 10 and I don't have a retro XP setup yet.
LOL, it's not even part of real NFS games. True, Need for Speed in the title, but nothing common at all. Like Fifa 98 and Fifa 2021 or something like that. Absurd.
I remember playing NFS III: Hot Pursuit, it was amazing! I just can't play these modern NFS games, I actually enjoyed playing NFS Underground and the NFS Porsche Unleashed a.k.a. NFS: Porsche 2000. I love Viper too!
I have been binge watching your videos. Absolutely love your channel. I fell in love with your thrift videos and always look forward to the next one. I was so sad to hear about your sister. That had to be very tough to film. I los t my 11 YO daughter a few years ago. Still coping with that. Thanks for sharing something so personal. Sending you happy thoughts and love.
I worked on NFS SE for PC and need for speed TWO PSX as quality assurance games tester.
Thats my record you have to beat on proving grounds.
if you are serious, can you tell whith sound tool(s) are used for showcase speaking ? (correctly .bnk files)
I was offered a job at EA right after graduating Full Sail (3D Computer Animation) but turned it down because it was in the sports division and i HATED sports games!
can you help me with this: www.nfsaddons.com/forums//index.php?topic=2237.new#new
@de_Ultimate kinda regret it now, but i make myself feel better by thinking about what one of my friends said about working for them and they supposedly treating employees bad. 🤷♂️
@de_Ultimate Yup, doing it now, as of a year ago, work 4 myself.👍
Why did I just spent 30min listening to this guy's childhood lol. Dam he could be a public speaker. because he knows how to keep interest.
Without swearing, I might add. Clint has the ability to convey his thoughts and feelings without swear words, and that's a talent.
@@alesin1992 Honestly, swearing isn't that bad. Only when people do it profusely does it become a real issue.
I watch his videos all weekend. He really can keep your interest.
Yep, he's got a kind of natural fluidity in his speech, he's witty and to the point and uses language in all its facets pretty well. Even the rather high speed of his talking doesn't detract from all that.
It’s the golden voice, man!
Man, NFS 3 Hot Pursuit got me into racing games. I loved that game. I was a freshman in college and I purchased a new PC with an Orchid 3dfx Voodoo Card. It made Quake II, SiN, Pod, etc look amazing! This video really took me back. Great job, LGR.
P. S. I’m really sorry to hear about your sister. It’s rough to lose a sibling, especially at such a young age. Glad you’re doing well.
Sorry for your loss. Love your videos. She would be proud of you & the body of work you have created here on UA-cam.
Agreed
Sorry for your sister bro :( it was a long time ago but it still hurts i think
very sad 😖
I just found LGRs channel, recently. Instantly hooked. I've been watching his videos for a few months, and this is the first time I saw this one. I was floored. But as sad of a memory as it was, I still loved this video. Just a story, branching off into personal memories and feelings, expressing a feeling more than an idea.
I'd love to see more videos like this, connected to personal experiences and with minimal editing.
But more importantly, I am so sorry for his loss. No matter how much time has passed. What an incredibly reality changing experience that must have been.
yeah, Clint is one of the few UA-camrs who seem like genuinely good people who have a fun hobby they just want to share with the world
also I've lost family before, it stays with you for life and it's not something I'd ever wish on my worst enemy
"20 years passed like it was nothing!" yeah tell me about it man, cant believe it myself.
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Aw man, sorry to hear about your sister :( At least it sounds like you made it through well enough, it's good you had the games to keep you going through that sucky period. Fun retrospective all the same, it's great to hear you share your fond memories of games like these.
I was never that big into racing games myself but I have fond memories of playing several of the NFS games. The original NFS was great just to enjoy the sights as you raced from A to B and crashing as spectacularly as possible. NFS2 felt like a step back to me cause of the more arcade-y feel and lack of cops, but NFS3 I remember having a ton of fun with. After that I kinda gave up on racing entirely and with how bloated the NFS series became after the 2000's I reckon I didn't miss much.
Thanks, man. It's strange how something as simple as a computer racing game can really help you cope.
And yeah, the games became hugely bloated and really lost their way if you ask me. Huge shame!
Huggies LGR
Thanks for sharing your personal stories! Love LGR vids
Did you ever play Heroes of Might and Magic or the old Dnd games?
Sometimes, the simple things are enough. Sorry for your loss, and props for pushing through in your way.
Hey Clint, I feel for your sister man, that's really sad, I'm sorry :/
ya keemo sucks i have bin tho that its no fun
you could tell by his face he loves his lost sibling, very touching as i'm sure it is a hard memory. She's in a better place now
Tony Tornado yup :/
had no idea about this either until this video
so sorry for your loss clint
@@TheCandoRailfan So? What's your point? And comparing death of your grandad (which you know will happen soon since you're on planet Earth), to a sister because of the sickness, is pathetic....
When you whipped out NFS3 and the menu music started playing brought back so many good childhood memories. NFS3 had a legendary soundtrack.
Years later we have heard it in Mass Effect 😄
I loved 3, I played it so much as a kid. I always loved doing hot pursuit solo in a yellow diablo on atlantica. fun times man. and the song aquilla 303 is so good.
3 was the first NFS game I played and I was hooked
This video made me tear a bit. I just recently stumbled on to this channel and I love it. I'm sorry you had to deal with such a hardship at such a young age.
Rob Flores I know how he feels my mother had breast cancer when I was 3 she survived , but it was still a hard time being a 3 year old not knowing if your mother would live or not , it's a terrible thing anyone can go through no matter who your
Then again really may be I don't each person's experiance with these things is different
Rob Flores yup :/
It still baffles me how EA and the most vocal portion of the NFS fanbase treats these games like they don't even exist and instead insist that the franchise's "roots" are in the Underground era...
Maybe because its due to current generation who havent play "real" NFS. Most of current generation started at U2,MW,Carbon thats why they think the roots of NFS is tuners and street machines not exotics. Even my first NFS game is Most Wanted, its our timelines collide. The world is constantly changing.
Back in the post-NFS6 Blackbox era those wishing for the return of the pre-NFS7 days (or at least those who think they were better) was certainly pretty vocal.
I guess HP 2010 gave them enough of a fix? Maybe they grew out of it? Maybe there's so many more people who played NFS7 than those that played the earlier games that their voices simply drowned?
Its sad that they don't actually know how good NFS started out :(
The first one I ever played was Underground. NFS, or any PC game for that matter, just wasn't on my radar in the 90s since our PC was a 486 Packard bell that we kept up until 2003. (My parents blamed me when the 10-year old hard drive failed.) Anyways, Underground was the first to really be heavily marketed, as they were riding the coattails of Fast and the Furious. So, adding to what you said, it makes sense that when a lot of, especially younger people think of NFS, they think of Underground or later not even realizing that the franchise was already about 8 years old at that point.
It annoys me that the 2015 release was marketed as a return to roots - it had already happened in 2010, and definitely didn't happen in 2015 at all.
Though I wouldn't complain much if someone calls it a return to the glory days - I can see how one would consider the post-NFS6 Blackbox era to be that.
Ahhh Porsche Unleashed! First game my dad let me play on his work PC. Played that so much!
Great game. There was that one race through a maze. And they’d have traffic cones that I used to love to hit because they fly like a mile
Ohh yes. And it even worked on Windows 2000...
Porche 2000 must've been my most played driving game ever. Damn that was good.
Wesuwius it is THE racing game, the thing that got me into racing.
Yup. Racing games nowadays are more realistic and other shit, but they don't give the same feeling what ol Porche did. Or maybe i'm just getting too old for this shit :P
PU: was fantastic. Played the CRAP out of that, and I still have a win 2k partition on disk somewhere pretty much just to play that.
@Jay Morrison Awh now you made me want to reinstal my win and make a 2k partition just to play Porche. Hope you're happy!
I ever play right now and it's awesome.
I loved Need for Speed: Porsche 2000, I got a steering wheel for it... I loved the physics and the career mode. My favorite Need for Speed.
Actually commented too soon, Underground and Underground 2 where awesome too.... TO THE WINDOW, TO THE WALL!
+Andy Begg I still have Need for Speed underground 2! I play it whenever I can to bring back good memories.
First off, huge bombshell like already said. It's criminal these horrible things happen to good people. Sorry to hear that LGR, pained me to learn of that mate. She'd be damn proud I'm sure.
As for Porsche 2000. Definitely my favourite. Played soooo many hours of that on my force feedback wheel and pedals. Loved how the wheel rumbled going over cobbles. Foundry level was fantastic. Need to find a second hand wheel now :)
Great video. Those days were great for games and hardware. Id pine over the P100 (£1400 at the time) with its fancy FPU unlike my families first PC the AST Cyrix 6x86 100mhz. That cost us £1100!!! Still got it and it works! Early HTML and Doom, yummy. My parents worked hard for us to have a PC. Then the 166mmx I saved like crazy with my two paper rounds per day at school for that. Then onto the glorious K6-2, then a 1ghz Thunderbird and many more. TNT2 Ultra, Savage4 with S3TC (mmmm Unreal Tournament on that), Hurcules/Guillemot, geforces, the behemoth 9700pro.. ohhh so many memories... so many innovations. Just wish I didn't have to sell the current stuff to upgrade back then. I'd love to own all my old setups :(
Great vid LGR.
Agreed, my fav NFS.
+SMEG STAR yeah
"You had Carbon that wasn't good"
That's some serious heresy right there LGR. This'll have to be settled at the canyon. (Also god damn man, really sorry about your sister.)
Carbon is my favorite
Porschck
I still feel carbon gets too much hate. I actually liked it a bit more the most wanted. I liked the blues of the night-time racing in carbon more than the pee-colored yellows of most wanted. Carbon felt more atmospheric to 11 year-old me
Carbon wasn't bad, but it wasn't very good either. I was expecting more from the 10th installment in the series. Instead, it almost felt like the weakest game in the series at that point, alongside the first Underground.
Carbon was supposed to be a complete breakthrough for BlackBox, however it ended up being unfinished thanks to EA. The map is smaller than it was supposed to be, the crew system ended up being completely scuffed and so on... It is also actually the last game with its own soundtrack (Most tracks were made exclusively for the game by Ekstrak but there were some licensed tracks as well)
Dude I could listen to you ramble for hours
he never rambles tho
Great video Clint, thanks for sharing. Its situations like that, that make a game more than an object. More of a memory and a snapshot of your life.
Man, this is a bit scary.. NFS3 was also one of my favorite driving games at the time and I played it while dealing with the passing of my brother.. I guess it was a good game for the bereaved.
You just brought back such a big part of my childhood. Thanks!
Clint, your a rare person who is passionate about your hobby and that is what I love about your channel,
I subbed ages ago and I always come back to watch old games that I remember playing all those years ago, keep doing what your doing, top work from a genuine guy.
Sorry about your loss. I know this video was made 3 years ago, but will never forget. Keep making content, man. your sister would be so proud of you :)
Sorry about your sister brother man, life is unfair.
LoC DoGG you listen to canibus? Dude so do i:)
Who writes the rhyme, he writes the rhyme mutha.... lol.
LoC DoGG can't say I've heard that one, but i listen to albums like 2000 bc and Can-I-Bus:)
dizaster destroyed canibus in a battle. i literally felt bad for the guy
Games like this to me highlight the fact that something NEEDS to be done regarding licensed content in video games. These games were iconic and genre defining and I hate the way these games are just left by the games industry to be forgotten about.
With the way things are now, you'll never be able to purchase a digital version of these games patched to work on modern systems from somewhere like GOG, they'll never be remastered with features like modern controller support added to make them more accessible and they just aren't celebrated the way they should be. There are so many important games that deserve recognition as the classics they are, but due to licensed content and the way it is handled within the games industry, it will never happen and that makes me simultaneously sad and angry.
The price of these games (especially in reasonable condition) will inflate due to "collectors" exploiting the dwindling supply of working copies until they become unobtainable. The other option is to obtain them by "other means". People shouldn't have to resort to potentially infecting their PC because they've had to obtain a game from an unsafe source. It also doesn't help that video game companies very rarely announce something as freeware or declare it abandoned, so in the vast majority of cases you're in a legal/moral grey area. Also, any online repository of game ROMs and ISOs is at risk of being taken down. I've not looked into compatibility for these games in particular on modern hardware, but that is another potential hurdle.
I was pretty disappointed once I'd realized that they'd done away with original sound tracks up until most wanted and carbon. Although, there were some great songs like by BT in the first Underground game. Underground 2 had Cirrus with back on a mission. Which is a timeless song that I listen to every once in a while even today.
I love this video. Your genuine love and passion you have for these games, as well as hearing about your childhood memories, is extremely touching. Thank you for sharing this😊
I loved Porsche unleashed :(
It was a great game, the tracks and environments were well crafted (lots of diverging paths and shortcuts), great soundtrack, I liked the realistic physics too. If it had the car variety and police chases of 3 and 4 it would have been the best of the 5.
played this for many hours, in Evolution mode through most of the tracks and cars. One of my favorite in the NFS series
cool and HARDCORE (especially on the last eras and cars), we had to love it in RU
Was my favorite at the time. I actually enjoyed all the stuff that LGR didn't, lol.
Most played part for me, adore Porshe Unleashed
In my opinion, Need for Speed High Stakes was the best. A game that included all of the last one and added cool things like the career mode (with all those modificacions and stuff) and the multiplayer, giving you the chance of playing Hot Pursuit mode with your friends and against the machine via Lan, Tcp/ip or Serial. Also the soundtrack is one of the best far... A super complete game that has been part of my childhood and still goes.
Agree, such a great concept of winning or losing something valuable. This was real. I can't think of any other game where you can lose something of real value. Except "expensive" or "rare" items in stupid MMOs.
I loved high stakes and hot pursuit because the cops went after everyone!! After Porsche unleashed the police AI only targeted you?!?!?!
Carbon was intense though, especially in the Canyon events. The first boss is always the hardest.
Thank you for sharing something so personal, Clint. I'm terribly sorry for your loss. Video games and other media are such a big part of processing such tragic events. Keep being awesome!
Long time watcher (sometimes 'listener' while I'm playing games) that part about your sister really surprised me to hear - just remembering how excited I was about (the exact same games) at that age - having it juxtaposed with what you had to deal with that would have been just awful. Condolences to you.
fkthewhat Same for me. Also.......love your avatar. What an album.
Saki Kaskas , the man behind lotsa Need For Speed music passed =/ Rom Di Prisco posted a FB informing us
RIP
No way D:
That is incredibly sad to hear..
That's terrible! I didn't even know until now, I absolutely loved his music!
RIP Saki Kaskas and also someone worked on Doom The Abyss expansion died recently sorry i forgot his name....
finally i got his name Jan Paul van Waveren maker of Doom The Abyss
Rom Di Prisco is still alive and kicking, it was his colleague that passed away
WHAT
The oroginal NFS soundtrack is the best soundtrack I've ever fucking HEARD.
I reached out to many composers like Mark Knight who did Outlander on SNES to thank them for their music but could never get a hold of Saki.
This actually makes me sad
your a genuine guy in everything you do but to hear your story about your sister really hit home for me. as long as you make videos for us i will always be watching them and support you. honestly I've put more hours into LGR than i have any other youtube video or series in any form other than the simpsons lol.
Man, NFS, Midnight Club and Burnout were the kings of arcade racing in the Mid-2000's
I love your videos. I usually watch them with my morning coffee and this hit me in the feels. It took a lot for you to open up like that and I appreciate it. Thanks for all you do man.
I know this is an older video, but I just discovered this channel and I wanna say that my heart goes out to you mate. No one should go through that. I'm just glad you had these games as a way to cope. Lots of love.
The Electronic music for nfs was composed by Rom Di Prisco
I still listen to the High Stakes soundtrack on a regular
Especially the menu songs Paradigm Shifter and Cygnus Rift by Rom Di Prisco
I have a mix of NFS 3 and high stakes mixed on a cd, and often change the track depend on the environment and weather. Love the Aquatica when I drive in the rain.
Rom Di Prisco & Saki Kaskas 4 president.
Need for speed 3 was my childhoods most loved game. I played it all the time. Awesome episode!
NFSIISE... I remember the videos and audio summaries about the cars almost more than the game itself.
"... styling is by Guigarro ..."
"The McLaren F1 is effectively a two-seat Formula 1 race car, with very few compromises to make it street legal."
Wolfie Inu it's actually a three seater :) driver in middle with side seats slightly back.
dr. Apexx Well, something like that. Don't remember it word for word :P
Great video. Funny you mention this. NFS was my first and favourite game on 3DO. I was 15 when it came out in 96. I'm also a Viper fanatic and played it endlessly. The show Viper was filmed in the city I live in Canada. My dad is a police officer and took me to the set many times. I got to sit in all the Vipers and even the morphed one. Interesting fact: The show had 4 Vipers. 2 normal RT/10s, and 2 "morphed" Vipers. 1 of the morphed Vipers only had a 360 V8 in case they crashed it. The other was a full V10 Viper. Dodge charged the production company $56 for each Viper. Can you believe that?? $56!!! There was one condition: the cars had to be crushed at the end of production :(
Awesome story! I wonder why they charged $50 and not just have it free? The $50 is less than. 01% of its value so it's as good as free then.
SO. MUCH. NOSTALGIA.
Awesome video showing off the classic Need for Speed games that I grew up with and played obsessively on the original PlayStation.
Your story speaks to me in so many ways Clint. Playing the Sims 3 helped me get through my mom's passing. Games can be really helpful.
Damn Clint, when the discussion about NFS III happened it hit me hard, mostly because I can kind of relate to the passing of a family member oddly enough, around a similar time frame. I lost my grandfather in 1999 and at the time, being VERY young I could not really comprehend death so it did not effect me until much later, but I was still sad since my mother was very stricken with grief at that time. I remember being knee deep into the Playstation at the time and oddly enough, using games like Duke Nukem (The PSX ones of course!) and Gran Turismo helped me cope or at least try to move on.
Oh man, let me tell you...
Your early Need for Speed experiences really hit home.
I mean, my family moved to the USA from eastern Europe when I was five. We didn't really have much for a long time, but I do remember my dad getting a home computer for work. He also eventually came home with some video games. No idea if he actually bought them or just got them from a friend...
But one of them was High Stakes. Probably my favorite game in the series.
It didn't run.
For the longest time it didn't run. At all. We had no graphics accelerator, and the PC we owned was extremely weak.
It took ages before we actually got a rig that could play it, but until then I would constantly hang around friends and relatives with computers powerful enough to play it.
I loved the crap out of that game. Still have it, still play it. It was racing perfection, even still to this day.
The handling felt fluid and simple to learn, yet more rewarding once you started to perform more complex and risky maneuvers. The police chases were outstanding, and constantly made you feel that so-called need for speed which the game bases itself on.
Then came along Porsche Unleashed, which is a strange story for me.
Never got to own it. Could never afford it. Don't think I could have run it on any of our early home PCs either. But I did know people who had it, and that game was two solid things for me.
Namely, crashing into cars and marveling at the vehicle deformation.
And turn signals...
Yes, turn signals. Usable, key-mappable turn signals which allowed you to drive more... "realistically."
Yeah, pretty strange. But it cemented itself in my early memory. So much so that I eventually got a copy and played through it. Never touched factory driver or evolution as a kid. The handling was too realistic and difficult to master. But once I did, the game opened up even further.
I started to learn...
Actually truly LEARN about cars.
The upgrades in career, the little info tidbits that it threw at you about Porsche and its history...
What I'm actually leading into here is how this game inspired me to go out and buy an old broken down Porsche 924, and get it roadworthy. Yes, I went out and bought a Porsche just because of early NFS nostalgia. Let me tell you, burning the soundtrack to a CD and playing it in the workshop was pure bliss...
I will always love early Need for Speed.
Games 1-5 were and always will be the roots of the series to me. As far as I'm concerned, the rest have nothing to do with the originals...
I see why you wanted to make this video now. Getting it all out there feels great...
NFS hot pursuit was my childhood, even browsing the menus and listening to the music brings so much nostalgia.
Ah it was 4 not 3
Man, that Need for Speed III menu music still gets my nostalgia going. I was around the same age too, good times.
Need for Speed 2 SE brings back some crazy memories and one of my favorite games growing up. The first game I played on my voodoo 3... and looked SO much better with hardware acceleration.
I grew up with Need for speed: hot pursuit 2
Nathaniel Enochs me too, I played it on an old laptop and it was so fun
Frostt Hot Pursuit 2 was practically my first love! And it was the GameCube version; and based on my understanding now, that version was probably a complete piece of shit compared to the PS2 version...
Me too!!!!
probably still my favorite for the arcade style gameplay
i'm 19 when playing this game
Clint I've watched your videos for a couple years now. I absolutely love your channel and thank you for all the great videos you produce. Keep doing what you love :)
Thanks for watching, I'm glad to hear it!
Triggered such a nostalgia trip for me, thinking about childhood and games and my family and such. Thank you for that. :) Your genuiness, is a rare thing and I love it!
Oh! Still 360P! This one is hot off the press.
I loved NFS Hot Pursuit on PC. I was hopelessly addicted to that game for years, and it's replay value still holds up today IMO.
I only have a 1080p option somehow. Not other choices haha
+Evansmustard The video came out 5 hours ago how did you see it 2days ago?
Patreon
Probably also because of its beautiful Soundtrack.
"I needed it" So would you say that, you had some sort of need...for...speed?
This is still Clint's most sincere, heartwarming (and heartbreaking) video. It's always strange watching this as a longtime fan (been watching since the Fisherprice DOS game review, hell yeah).
He has always kept himself at a distance from his fans and his work and it's worked very well. I think we can all agree that we just appreciate watching someone as charming as Clint talk about pretty much anything is pure joy.
This video lets you look a little closer and it's amazing its all because of EA.
Thank you Clint for giving us all something to watch when we're stressed or bored.
Oh my god Clint, this is the BEST VIDEO EVAR. (Huge Classic NFS fan.)
Same
The Porsche one was (and still is) my favorite
Aurélien Viaud Deftones ✌
Fuck Dylan!
TU who’s Dylan
One of the AI racers, I think. Was almost always first, or second if you were first.
@@alkostach Dylan Praise ans Steele..... Triple Threats
I'm so sorry to hear you had to go through such a tragic loss at such a young age. I had no idea and I've watched a whole ton of your videos. I'm sure it took a lot to discuss and I think you should be proud.
holy shit I came here for games not feels
You made me feel like crying
My heart goes out to you man
calm down
NFS Porsche had short cuts that were kind of like alternate routes
So sorry for your loss. I have a sister and losing her would have been devestating. Thank you for sharing. On a lighter note, gaming wise, I feel like I just watched a lot of my Need for Speed Journey 1-4 as a kid. I remember being so excited about those games, and not even fully understanding what a special time in gaming it was. Need for Speed 3 was the pinnacle of my childhood "Need for Speed journey." So much fun with the police. I also kind of remember thinking with Porshe thinking, "what?"
Wow Clint, you really gut checked me with your sister's death. I lost my sister in 09 to alcohol/drug addiction. Losing a sibling is one of those thing you just don't understand what it's like unless you go through it yourself. I'm now it's been a long time, but I really am sorry for your loss.
Keep up the awesome work!
Hot Pursuit is definitely my favorite old NFS.
+1
HIGH FIVE I LOVE NFS HP
Same here, and so fun to play as every car to. EL NINO!!!
I liked the remake version
I'm salty, that I can't play my copy of NFS III: Hot Pursuit. Gotta buy old Win XP computer to be able to play it...
This is one of my favourite LGR episodes. Have seen it more than once. It shows your passion for this game series, so much that you let us inside one of your hardest times in your family’s life, to make the story complete.
High Stakes is my forever favorite Need for Speed. Best OST, best cars, best physics and tracks. Flawless. ;)
Porsche unleashed has the best sim physics in the NFS series. Its definitely a more adult game than a kid game at the time
TightJeans I agree. The physics are great, the different tasks in carrier are amazong and the ost is awesome. For me the best and even better than modern car arcade games.
TightJeans
Agreed. A very deep game in comparison, but it also had significantly higher system requirements, I remember realising.
My system could not run it smoothly at all for several years.
It's great that I still have it, however, and that it now runs beautifully.
If I recall correctly, my steering wheels work great with it, and I now have the Fanatec Porsche wheel as well!
TechRyze Same here but too bad the resolution can't go higher
"Peed all over the everything"
That's some good word.
Sorry for your loss, love your reviews, good to hear you speaking so freely about personal stories. Greetings from Chile!
I spent so much time playing NFS4... great times when video games where all that mattered in my life. Things were so simple back then! I also loved the drum&bass soundtracks, was into trance and prodigy too, we had very similar sound taste. Sorry about your sis man. Great video, nice memories!
In NFS PU there was a cheat code "Guilliver" it makes your car small and it is super fun we played LAN all the time!!
Thanks for the video, just rewatched it again:-)
NFS3 is also The Game to me. As a kid I was obsessed with it and played it a lot (even though it felt a bit too difficult), hanged out in the showroom mode (a gallery with car photos and videos) or was just repainting the spinning cars on the car selection screen over and over.
And the music was great too, I still get goosebumps remembering those gliding synths from the menu and the aquatic track. Also remember how music adapts to the speed the car is going with? Crazy immersive!
Anyway thanks for sharing a bit of yourself and your passion for the games. It is very valuable to know there is someone equally fond of things dear to you.
P.S. Also at the time of playing NFS3 I used to have a large diecast model of a Viper. And I rolled it on the floor days long, up to the point when the wheels started coming off more often than they should have 😅❤
Spotted the Australian and New Zealand release Of Need For Speed 3. (Top right).
Yeah!!! V8 Holdens for the win.
+John “The Justified Ancient” Jenkins Ford m8
thank you for making these amazing videos.
Thanks for watching!
Sorry for your loss. Glad you got through the hard times to bring me the joy your channel brings me.
Hot Pursuit 2 was my favorite. Never really got into underground cause it departed from super cars.
High Stakes is the reason I own a 2001 M5. HS is the reason a love cars.
expert difficulty hot pursuit is kinda hard
Hans E39
Absolutely, this game is why I love cars
"In Pursuit of a Blue M5 by the Ruins..." Oh the memories...
Props to you man!
NFS meant so much to me growing up, I spent years in the modding community with NFS3, 4 and PU. This video brings me back to the mid-late 90s for sure. Love the aussie cover for NFS3 and the background sound track too by the way!
I’m so sorry Clint. I’d be devastated if I lost my sister. You’re too amazing a dude for this stuff to happen to
Same here! I can't bear the thought of being without any of my sisters
the PlayStation 2 version of Need for speed hot pursuit 2 is my favorite racing game of all time
Peter Caron same
That was a great version. The other versions of hot pursuit 2 sucked!!!!
Peter Caron i can pretty much say the same:) it was without a doubt my favorite game as a kid
+GamerGee pc and xbox version looks awful and seems to be rushed
pcsx2 it for ultimate arcade driving pleasure.
this guy has really expressed his feeling the way these 5 games deserved and you know what all the feelings are mutual i just never had the words to express it
High stakes on pc was the best to me, man I would play that game everyday after school great memories
When I got it our 233mhz IBM only ran it at 5 frames per second maybe 15 frame per second on 320x200. I still fell in love.
This was a great video. I haven't played a racing specific game since need for speed underground 2.
I always go back just to play that game for memories!
Same!
no way man, I've been watching your videos for a while now and love them all, you're lively, smiley happy outlook on things always make me smile, My condolences, I'm so sorry for your loss but so glad for your enthusiasm for these classic games and technology, here's to many years more, live long and prosper
My first computers were a c64 and then a mac plus. I didn't get into pc compatables until my late 20's. One of the reasons I got interested in pc's was NFS 3. I thought the graphics were incredible. So I built my first PC with an AMD 486 cpu and an off name voodoo 2 graphics card with 16 meg of memory. It was a cheap system but it could run games pretty well. I got NFS 3 not long after that and it would only work in software render mode. I did an internet search and it turns out you needed a game patch to run int on some voodoo 2. I got the patch and applied it. I was amazed. The car models and other graphics were like nothing I'd ever seen before. It looked kinda realistic. That's when I got hooked on the series. I've picked up and played many of the other titles in the series. But 3 will always be my favorite. In fact NFS 3, Gran Turismo 1 for the PS1(played on the Dreamcast with Bleemcast) and Re-Volt are my favorite retro racing games of all time.
Also, I'm sorry you lost your sister.
Need for Speed Most Wanted is still my favourite NFS. I was crushed when I played the "remake" of Most Wanted.
Ive thought about getting it, so far the only NFS one I own is Undergound for the original xbox
Nfs 1994
I remember really liking the graphics in that game, the sounds of the cars and the whole concept of having to scout each car out in the world map in order to be able to unlock it. You'd just drive up to it and switch to it. I thought that was fun. It gave it a bit of a pokemon element to it rather than just heading off to the dealership to buy it.
underground 1,2 and most wanted were best ones
I lost my dad when I was 13. Final Fantasy Tactics was that game for me, and I totally get you. Still go back to the game every now and then... It helped me a lot back then. Thank you for sharing your story with us! Wish you all the best!
Romolo di prisco also made a lot of those music tracks. Such a throwback
Need for Speed 2, the racegame any kid loved.
I mean that in a good way.
+Supreme Beats I think Carbon was my most favorite just because of the police chases in open world and utter amount of destructible objects. Most wanted and Underground 2 were also really fun. Any open world racer is a plus for me.
Agreed. I actually thought it looked fine. I didn't think it looked too yellow. I played it to 100% even the challenges. I love the WRX STI the most.
Hey Clint, I saw this video forever ago, but wanted to comment now. You're one of my favorite UA-camrs. You reply to my social media stuff, your content is well thought out, and you seem like a really humble guy. If I ever had a voice acting position available for a gaming role, you're my first person to ask. I want to give to you the awesome content, and hospitality you give to us. Also I still have to send you that stuff via mail.
Thank you so much for sharing. You're channel is now a part of my everyday life and it is better for it.
Being the NFS fan you are you would kick yourself for not being able to experience Motor City Online. It was, and is still 15 years later the best racing game I've ever played.Being able to build a car anyway you wanted, staying up late watching the auction house for a rare car to pop up. Racing all night with your club, trying to get the best overall time and having your clubs name listed on the track for that week. Or just sitting around and chatting with the best online game community I ever experienced. EA is doing the fans and themselves a major disservice in not bringing that game back in some way.
Also very sorry to hear about your sister, I lost my brother in 2009 so in some way I can relate, best wishes to you LGR.
It was an amazing game, really awesome.
Pd: There's a guy trying to revive this game, creating a server from scratch.
OMG i just heard about you talk about your sister, my heart felt feelings go out to you!
Maaan, thank you for making this video! I was born in 1991. And I've played every NFS game you mentioned, I was REALLY into racing , cars and racing games. Hearing you talk about this stuff really brings me back, oddly these games have always felt like a small piece of paradise to me and I loved it. I even played "crash them all" with my friend in NFS 2. Man, so many memories. I'm glad you opened up, this video really made me feel happy :)
I remember my childhood by seeing the gameplay of NEED FOR SPEED II SE.🥺
I bet back in the early 2000s when Underground was released, a lot of NFS fans complained about the lack of supercars and police chases. Then Hot Pursuit came in the early 2010s and now a lot of people complain about the lack of tuners and customization. It's funny how time works.
I always complained that it doesn't have tuners eh, High Stakes had some semblance of it, but Underground was when it finally gave cars that are fun to play with... and then we had Criterion ones where there's like 80 cars and zero I wanted to ride. So back to Gran Turismo until they changed developer, but I hear they're moving from cool cars back to weird concepts again eh.
Yes some lf us did,for Underground 1 I liked it BUT it didn't feel like a NFS title to me. UnderGround 2 made me a fan of the Tunner Era games. Police chases came back in 2005 with Most btw Wanted
So many memories of Need for Speed II for me. Windows 95, driving the Jaguar XJ220 against Italdesign Cala's on Proving Grounds. I learned I could essentially use the PiT maneuver on them (way before learning it was a police tactic). I would just race and cause all of them to crash and roll. I loved the videos for all the cars and constantly played that game as a kid, along with Wing Commander 4, Prince of Persia, and Red Alert. I remember the outhouse thing too LMAO
I'd love to see more videos this long.
as a child of the 90's, I enjoyed II SE through Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2). I think EA ran out of ideas around HP2, since a different company from EA made it and lost the original vibe.
I felt this video. I grew up on Need for Speed 2, High Stakes and a demo of Porsche Unleashed which I eventually bought the full game of (labeled as Porsche 2000). Everything you spoke about was something I could resonate with as a child. The games not working. The cheat codes for NFS 2 and 4, playing with a friend which would always come over, doing the crashing thing and seeing the physics model. Even the cancer thing as I survived having cancer myself as a teen. All of this hit me hard.
Thanks for the vid man, keep up the great work on LGR.
Dang gaming in the 90s sounded really fun than right now xD
Don't worry, although there were great moments and memories there were also countless hours trying to get games working and the endless computer crashes and compatibility issues and parents who wouldn't let you play longer than 10 mins haha. Not to mention zero support, both from business and people around you for most things computer related. Oh and the loading times, flippin heck, you'd spend more than 50% of your playing time waiting for loading and that was on a good computer hahaha. So there are a whole lot of issues that nostalgia happily glosses over haha
I actually think that the compatibility issues helped me learn more about computers.
Dont Forget Bootdisk, EMS Memory, Instal and Configure the Mouse and the Sound Blaster, check the IRQ and DMA Channels.... everything in DOS..... :P
+Traian Agreed. I now work in IT and mainly thanks to the reasons lordcrabito mentions, plus early HTML and QuakeC. Conventional memory, extended memory, config.sys.. argghhh!
On top of that, there was no Internet, you couldn't simply Google the solution to your problem.
NfS 4 was the best, especially it also kinda included 3. 2 SE was also great and the one I started the series with. It actually came with my fathers Vodoo card. Loved the "rushhour" cheat code :D Porsche was the first not so good NfS Game, then Hot Pursuit II was ok but all the ones after that were just crap.
Nfs hp2, your comments broke my heart! All these years past I still listen to Hot Action Cop! I guess it was my childhood game :-)
Carbon was my #1 favorite. I actually own a Xbox 360 just for that one game only because it doesn't run properly on Windows 10 and I don't have a retro XP setup yet.
LOL, it's not even part of real NFS games. True, Need for Speed in the title, but nothing common at all. Like Fifa 98 and Fifa 2021 or something like that. Absurd.
I remember playing NFS III: Hot Pursuit, it was amazing!
I just can't play these modern NFS games, I actually enjoyed playing NFS Underground and the NFS Porsche Unleashed a.k.a. NFS: Porsche 2000.
I love Viper too!
I stopped at Carbon. imo Most Wanted was the peck of Pursuit mode
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