Need For Speed's Supercar Era Was Overhated 

Man, BlackPantha should watch your videos. You understand the core of these game rather than being obsessed by little features of it.

„NFS should go back to its roots“ Meanwhile NFS literally did that but the „fans“ were too stupid to realize that 😂

I love how the Shift series is not even fit in any of the NFS era you've mention. They both feels more like an early beta access of Project CARS rather than an actual NFS

I remember people saying that NFS should go back to its roots back in 2013, when these games were the literal definition of its roots

Tuning culture made NFS fans stubborn and close minded AF 🤦

Man, to have a modern Hot Pursuit style game would be amazing. I've been playing Hot Pursuit Remastered for over 2500+ hours since 2021, and play it nearly everyday because of how simple yet utterly fun and thrilling it is. It's truly a shame we likely won't get a game like it again.

Never got the hate for the newer nfs games. I loved rivals. It's crazy to hate on a game because you cant play as a clapped out civic.

Ngl I much prefer this era to the modern era and it’s not even close. The gameplay was and still is better, even rivals clears all the modern games imo. These games weren’t perfect but they were a lot of fun. I miss this era of need for speed 🙁

Ultraviolet, your deep dive into Need For Speed's Supercar Era is a revelation! 🏎💨 It's refreshing to see someone shed light on this underrated period of the franchise. Your analysis of why these games were over-hated and what made them special really hits home. Thanks for giving this era the recognition it deserves and showing us a new perspective on these high-octane classics. Keep up the fantastic work! 🚗🔥

Something that didn't helped this era is that the mechanics and design philosophies trace their origins to Burnout and not NFS, same with the Ghost era. The Black Box era still had the same driving physics and engine that of the classic era just upgraded each game.

I'ma say this Both The Run and Rivals really deserve a 2nd chance, The Run was the perfect concept for a racing game aimed at action game fans but being too short and Rivals' concept of multiplayer Cops vs Robbers was really jank but was fun as hell when it worked. Someone need to retake those concepts (and a part of me seeing from how its shaping really wishes that Resistor is indeed the spiritual succesor of The Run)

Need for speed was ruined by its so called die hard fans. It's bizarre that they didn't like pursuit weapons. ( literally hotpursuit and rivals are the only games that feature it). It's a grounded take on car combat with racing. They are too focused on progress and customisation that later nfs games had to lock spoilers and hoods behind dumb errands like complete 5 billboards. Classic nfs games had no customisation ( just pre existing color options for cars ) and they were okay with it. Unbound has customisation , but there is nothing to do in the game! 2 types of event, annoying cops that serve no role in the game other than to make you run around in circles trying to get to the meet up to start a race, way less tracks or circuits ( you try playing races and it's the same race after a few in game days), no transfer over of offline garage, rampant use of meta cars in mp with severe grinding almost to the point that it might be free to play as it's own game. I wonder why these people want to endlessly grind.

The Supercar era were my favourite NFS games! So much so that I own the Limited Editions for all of them. I never bought any NFS game after Rivals. Stuck with the same formula since 2015 is not my style.

This is why I laugh at the "true" fans of the franchise who all want an MW remake or something that has to do with tuning meanwhile the game series itself started out as a supercar racing franchise.

I am not kidding when I say that Most Wanted 2012 is one of my favorite games in the series. I love Fairhaven, driving physics, criminally underrated soundtrack and police that drives as if meth is the most important ingredient in every officer's morning coffee. Multiplayer is probably the most fun I've ever had in a racing game.

Everything nowadays is style over substance. Pretty graphics, impressive VFX and "realism" are enough to receive shallow praises by the general public. Nothing new or innovative is being made. Sequels, Remakes and Adaptations. Media consumers and studios prefer to swim in the same rusted bucket of warm spit because it's a place they know. No surprises, everything goes as expected. And dump unnecessarily large sums of money into it, to have the best spit possible.

Another Hot Pursuit style game with over-the-top fictional bodykits like MW2005 might as well keeps people happy. If what people mainly complain about supercar-era NFS is the lack of customization, then that will do.

If MW12 wasn't a victim of development hell and wasn't rushed, it would be a good game. But too bad it was rushed, since not everyone knows it's complex development history. I swear like they only watch BlackPanthaa and get mad at you for liking MW12.

innovation and experiment : ❌ repeated mechanic and endless grinding ✅

One thing that killed the series for me is not about the cars, it's about having to CONNECT EVERY DAMN TIME to the internet. I am working on ships, so you can guess that 90% of the time, whenever I'm onboard, I couldn't even have access to it's offline/single player content. Yo' mans just wanna customize and drive around offline I have purchased ever single one of these games on steam, and only Hot Pursuit Remastered is playable atleast offline. 💀 I don't care whatever cars EA wants to put in their games, for me, the more the merrier. But the damn fucking always-online "feature" is a bummer. I grew up with the Blackbox era. Played almost all of it growing up. And only got the chance to play Need for Speed II on a friends Windows 98 PC. That was amazing.

I may be biased towards this era since NFSMW2012 was one of my first racing games, but I'm able to justify my love for it as well. The cars are fast so you're never bored by snailing around in a stock Punto (no offense ofc, MW2005 is still very good), the graphics in all 4 of these games are absolutely fantastic and arguably better than the ones in recent NFS entries, and the map design, which you already mentioned, really perfects the experience for me. I bought NFS Heat on sale for 4 bucks and the map felt way too bland compared to something like Rivals or even MW2012. A real fall from grace in my books, only because the player base wanted something else... Edit: I forgot to mention how good the OST was in the Supercar era, definitely check it out if you're interested

Finally someone not blinded by nostalgia stares at blackpants

Rivals is one of the greatest NFS games ever, the adrenaline, the energy, the vibes is unmatched Too bad people care about changing everything in their cars but not about the actual gameplay

So the problem is the community behavior, not the games. I prefer Rivals, The Run over MW2005

They SHOULD NOT have called NFS 2012 Most Wanted! It was a cash grab calling it most wanted.

I actually quite like 2012, I want another game with a similar car list. It had an amazing soundtrack. And was just fun to mess around in, plenty of ways to play. But yes it had quite a few faults. Still one of my favorites games.

Tuning culture has ruined racing games for me and especially Need For Speed as there is no more uniqueness with the cars. These old NFS games with no tuning upgrades or bodykits are great because it lets you become open minded and appreciate the cars in the game for what they are and perhaps even use cars that the player may not like at first but learn to appreciate its advantages and disadvantages.

Honestly I always liked the 2010-2013 era of NFS games, but then again it's mainly because I grew up playing Test Drive Unlimited 1 which had no customization besides changing the color of the car and tuning.

90s and early 2000s NFS "Classic Era" is still the greatest. I loved how NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 and Rivals brought back that classic era of NFS, the open roads, dynamic weather changes, driving sports cars, supercars, hypercars against the police, was fun! The Underground fanboys ruined it. We need a NFS Rivals 2 or a High Stakes 2, or even a Hot Pursuit 4 type of game!

As someone who grew up with the tuner era of NFS, I have began to appreciate what the series started out as, supercars racing in scenic locations. I enjoyed playing HPR & Rivals, which were super fun games.

I'd love to see a video covering NFS Shift 1 and 2, love the style of those games

I ADORE the supercar era! I still play HP10 MW12 and rivals to this day!

This is something i've been saying for a long time now that the racing game community is to blame for why the racing games scene is so dead and bland now. The reason everyone is chasing Forza (Even a game like TDU) is because the community wanted it. They want every racing game to have Forza's handling and open world with NFS's customization so of course every new title is basically a Forza clone including NFS itself now. And then they complain that every game is the same, like yeah goofballs you made it happen, when studios look at feedback they see you wanting those features so now take it.

I am a firm believer that nfs rivals has the greatest gameplay in the nfs franchise aside from maybe hp 2010 or most wanted 05. The police chases in rivals were insane, physics were fun, and the map felt alive and was absolutely beautiful. It's sad that it was so overheated. (Note: this was the first racing game I played and the second video game I played on my Xbox so I may be a little biased haha)

The game's title says it all, Need for Speed, not Need for Wang Side Skirt Bumper Flamethrower. People says super cars with weapon is unrealistic but how about NFS World's power ups?

Hot Pursuit 2 is still my favourite NFS. I just bought a new mint condition disc after my old one broke this week. Heres to many more years of this game

Split the franchise: Need for Speed, Need for Street or something, Make it Super clear, Profit! I personally much prefer the supercar era, these games are simply more excitng and fun.

Here is my take (ofc you are free to disagree) - NFSHP 2010 was a great game overall. - NFS the run was a 9/10 demo game. Even the quicktime events were a fun filler. The only issue? It lacked any sort of content past the main storyline. - NFSMW 2012 was a mess. It was essentially a worse burnout game. Agreed the upgrades had to be earned but you do not feel a connection to the game since all the cars are handed over to you. - NFS rivals is an underrated game with one of the most brutal police systems and "ride or die" gameplay. Even the map was beautiful AF, the only gripe? Always online and issues with the server. (for context my first NFS games was MW2005 -> carbon -> prostreet)

Really good video. I've always been a huge fan of the Hot Pursuit games, and the fact the last one we got in that style was Rivals back in 2013 is a massive shame. People have to remember the series started out not as Underground, and yes... there are fans who don't want another Underground styled game. Also, you are one of the few RU-vidrs that I know who calls out the Ghost Era for not being great, which is quite refreshing.

In my personal opinion, the Supercar Era of NFS as you call it, is the best one in NFS. Hot Pursuit, The Run, Most Wanted and Rivals are all exceptional games that received far too much unjustified hate for not being the exact same as before, even if every single on of those games is a million times better than games like Undercover and Underground 1. I remember how in the early 2010's, people were crying and moaning about NFS needing to go back to its roots, because apparently the roots of NFS is Underground. The original games were fast cars going fast as their very basic principle, the 4 games of the Supercar Era are fast cars going fast and more. They're the perfect embodiment of what the original NFS games wanted to be. But now, because all of the crying from people, that are basically manchildren, that just can't take their rose tinted glasses off and admit that Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005 are deeply flawed games despite how good they may be, we get to have the weakest era of NFS, even if I do think the newer games do some things pretty good. We do not need NFS to become Forza Horizon. Forza Horizon is already the best at doing Forza Horizon despite how some would prefer the earlier Horizon titles and some the newer ones. The Crew has tried for 11 years to be Forza Horizon and it has never quite got there, even if I do enjoy Motorfest quite a lot. Test Drive Solar Crown is already being tried to be sold by media as the Forza Horizon killer, but I can already tell you it won't reach that level, even if it may be a good game. NFS needs to change once again. Perhaps the games can be in rotation, one is a Supercar type game, the next one is a Tuner type game and so on and so forth. I don't know, but they need to be their own thing. Trying to chase Forza Horizon and Most Wanted 2005 will not work at all. They should stop listening the loud people that cry every time because the game isn't a carbon copy of UG2 or MW'05, for no matter what they do, they will never be satisfied. Even if a perfect remaster is done, they'll find a way to bitch about it. They should make a good racing game, one that we don't have nowadays.

HP2010 was a phenomenal game and the only game they absolutely nailed brake to drift. I dont like break to drift but in this game, it was well implemented and fun.

Most new NFS games are overhated imo. The run was a masterpiece. MW 2012 was unfortunate with it's name and HP2012 was a blast

For me, the Classic Era is the actual Golden Era and the Supercar Era is a close second. The Blackbox Era had a few truly great games in Hot Pursuit 2, Most Wanted, and The Run, although the first one is based on the Classic Era, while the last one fits into the Supercar Era. The Modern Era has been so bad, that I've lost interest in the series.

I think it all boils down to a case of mistaken identity. People identify NFS with tuner culture and games like 2015 and Underground. But NFS from it's start wasn't about that. It started as a supercar racing franchise, then tried to return to that after Black Box. And the fans NFS made from the Black Box era weren't happy with that.

We need to go back to this era. Tired of the obsession with customisation, which adds nothing to the gameplay experience. Hot Pursuit 2010 is still my favourite NFS. And yes I've played the Black Box era games

Need for Speed fans don't know what they want, that's the problem. NFS tries something different, they will complain, then go back saying the last game was better and it's a repeating cycle all over again. I wouldn't say Unbound was a 10/10 either but it has been a unique NFS title and give the team all respects for trying something different. I blame the Underground tuner boys honestly, they're full of nostalgic hate and dislike innovation and want to consume the same slop. Can say the same for Forza Horizon aswell, nothing much changes throughout these games.

Considering most of the die hard NFS fans were originated from Most Wanted, Underground, Pro Street, and any 2000s tuning culture, it's no surprise that they overlooked what NFS were originated from.

A joy to see you uploading so often!

NFS MW 2012 had extremely well designed cutscenes before racing or to introduce the Most Wanted cars. This is what I remember most about this game, the designs around events in general were really well thought out. It's far from being the best NFS of course, but it's even further from being a bad game.

prostreet/shift was so good and nobody gives it a home 😢

As someone who grew up on Hot Pursuit 2, The MW05 era and then playing the hell out of HP2010 and MW2012... this video is EXACTLY how I feel. Need for Speed is supposed to mean blasting off in the slickest of supercars. The supercar posters from childhood with the plate ND4SPD evoked that emotion. Not shitting on customizing tuners but it's getting repetitive. The HP and Rivals Weaponry is something i had the most fun with, and makes the games not just races from point A to point B. NFS as a franchise should definitely go different directions

NFS Prostreet was over hated too by its launch but pple start to recognize it I LOVE prostreet so much it’s even my favorite game of the series idc about the cop chases the vibes trough the festival and cars are everything to me ❤ also you got yourself a new sub man Great job 👏

as an owner of ps3 copies for nfs mw 2012 and hp 2010... and has played hp2 2002 these games are some of the best looking ps3 games

That NFS2 intro man. That is how you do a damn game intro. I still play that game from time to time still to this day.

Hot pursuit 2010 is my favourite nfs game. That might be because i don't care about customization. Just let me choose my car's colour and I'm good. I understand that a lot of people like to create their personal cars, but it's still one of the least important features of a racing game IMO

Man I remember absolutely loving rivals when I got it years back. It was peak.

as someone who loves modern nfs and its customization, i recently played rivals when it went on sale. it was VERY fun, literally just an edgier, faster, and overall better version of hot pursuit. if customization is a necessary sacrifice for me to get more games like rivals, then i’ll gladly pay the price.

Need for speed IS SUPERCAR, some people dont get that the Import tunner era was until the 7th entry on the series

HP2010 is the Metal Gear Rising of NFS Games

HP2010 is the game that got me into racing games for the first time, I still remember playing it in 2nd grade on my Xbox 360 (in 2016 cuz I was late to the party lol). A year later or so I got Rivals, and then sometimes later I got my Xbox one (which I still have today) with FM7, The Crew, and NFS Payback, and I've been a fan of racing games ever since. Sometimes I feel that since I grew up with a NFS game that lacked customization, it's part of the reason why I'm able to respect cars just how they are, and I'm really not bothered if a racing game doesn't have 'good' customization. It's so weird that NFS these days is desperately trying to "redeem" itself to the people who hated the supercar era games, while in doing so the game quality and overall innovation just keeps going lower and lower. I know I'm almost definitely biased saying this, but it would really be nice to see a new iteration of the hot pursuit/supercar style NFS games, it would be a great refresher and a way to break the chain of copy-paste NFS games. In a better world, perhaps we would have some sort of cycle of NFS styles, where, instead of NFS trying to be everything at once, the different styles would branch out and truly explore and innovate into their own ways, somewhat like how FH and FM used to alternate yearly. As cool of an idea that would be, it's (near) certain to never happen due to the current state of the AAA 100% ensh!tification guarantee. But it's still cool to think about such possibilities.

I absolutely LOVED that era, and still do! In fact, I'm not a fan of the tuner culture and I did express it once publicly, that made a lot of fans angry. NFS was meant to be a supercar game, with wild tracks and physics to have fun with.

my problem with these games was the fact that all of them were Burnout wannabes, and created by the same people who made the Burnout games, the reason this era doesn't stick well with many people is because they play Need For Speed for Need For Speed, not Burnout with super/hypercar licensed vehicles if I wanted to play Burnout with supercars then I would've played Burnout, not need for speed trying to have an identity crisis, ever since 2010

"but the fans of the franchise have made it clear, the superficial changes mean more than innovation" DAAMN

Another great video, man, i enjoyed it, you make me feel vindicated to just go with a flow back in a day because when even before HP 2010 was released, the fanbase was about to split into two camps and go backwards, because unfortunately for many people "going back to the roots" was too drastic of a change and this thinking that tuner car customization as a must for NFS game was what made me move away from community, i personally enjoyed HP2010, MW 2012 and Rivals, heck i even spent hours playing Shift spin off subset, because i was so disappointed with the failure of Undercover and HP 2010 felt like a fresh air to the series after years of Blackbox era games. Keep up the good work, man.

As a first: I can see why they needed to shift their focus to supercars and hypercars, as the focus of the tuning scene was already diminishing since Most Wanted 2005. They added Supercars and Hypercars in there as well, and in order to give the tuning more depth, they introduced autosculpt in Carbon, which was a good addition. Plus, the supercars era was a direction back to the roots to the oldest games in the series. I wouldn't say this in itself is controversial... it's the games, in particular one single game, that brought them into the downward spiral. Hot Pursuit: It was an okay game. I wouldn't say it's a gem, I wouldn't say it's outstanding, but it certainly had its charm. I'm not too much of a fan of the Burnout drifting for real cars, but I can see past that. It also had lots of Supercars in it, just like Hot Pursuit 2 had. It's a legitimate continuation of Hot Pursuit. The Run: Haven't played it too much, it was one of the first NFS which I skipped, but I'm interested to play it. The story honestly looks interesting. Most Wanted 2012: Hot Pursuit, but worse in every way. It had nothing to do with the old Most Wanted except the Blacklist. Again, I can tolerate the drift model of the cars, but having literally no story, very little normal cars, no real progression system, searching for cars in the city instead of deserving the right to use them/buy them... Yeah, you can risk things, no problem. You're allowed to take risks. But in my opinion, EA/Criterion failed with each risk they took. If they would have called it anything else than Most Wanted, it could get more fans behind, but when you're competing against one of the most loved NFS parts, if you make a legitimate successor, then don't release such a hot mess where only the name reminds of the predecessor. And then the scenes where the police cars stack behind each other and build a giant wheel... No thanks. Dear devs, I don't know what you smoked, but don't smoke it anymore. Rivals: Another "Meh" game. It's not a bad game at all, but it's not good. IMHO, Most Wanted 2012 is one of the reasons why NFS is dying a slow death. That game was so fucked and such a disappointment, NFS would have needed to have absolute bangers afterwards to redeem themselves. However, not a single game was a banger. The last ones were probably Hot Pursuit and Shift. They really try to freshen up things with every game, and still they fail. The series has been on life support for 10 years, and it's not improving. As for my part... I'm not surprised in the slightest.

NFS's latest years have really cemented my opinion of the franchise as the clout chaser of racing games. It doesn't have its own identity anymore. It used to be just a way for you to drive some high-end cars you would not be able to drive otherwise. That's why I always had a soft spot for HP2010, because it went back to the *real* roots of the series (despite how hard some Underground/MW/Carbon fanboys want you to think these games are the actual roots, which they aren't - never were, never will be). And even though I don't like vehicular combat (or powerups in racing games in general, sorry Blur and other Mario Kart type games), I still had a blast playing it in multiplayer with a few friends. Nowadays, I just couldn't care less about any new NFS game.

New UltraViolet video. Today is a good day.

So people really don't remember that need for speed was more about driving high end exotics and being chased by cops rather than tuning and beefing up your ride🤣 so called fans my ass

I agree with everything you said, but Most Wanted is an iconic name, and you can't just bait fans like this, which is what EA did with that game. I'm right; gameplay and multiiplyerwise, the game was ahead of its time, but using an iconic name instead of creating a new IP just seemed like a cheap way to sell the game. Sadly, it's a very EA thing to do. They did this with Battlefield Hardline, which was a great game, but they should have sold it as a separate IP, not with the battlefield name. BF games such as Millinery Shooters and Hardline were cops v robbers. Honestly, the game was innovative in game modes, and I very much enjoyed the beta, but I knew the game would die fast because no one asked for this. NFS started with supercars; the identity that the consumers see, especially its big fanbase, is "underground car culture with the cringy and semi-serious story," where customization and police play essential roles and competitive multiplayer. From the supercar era, HP and RIVALS were fun, but MW2012 failed because it tried to do something different with a name already taken. I enjoyed the video; how is your voice so great for narrative?

Tbh this was the era that i enjoyed NFS the most, from the cinematic hot pursuit, to the fun MW12 and the chaos of Rivals. This was also when i got my first xbox and found my friends that have been with me for 10 years now.

1:42 What song is playing here?

Honestly my favorite nfs game was MW 2012. I know I know “how could you?!?” I genuinely loved this era. It was more about making the game fun than giving you the ability to drive a ricer at 300 mph.

I DON’T WANT A “META” I WANT FERRAR F40 AND PORCHE TYRBO……,,,, Jokes aside, all I want is a simple arcade racer from EA. Closed circuits, exhilarating handling (sort of like Grid but less slide-y), the hottest, fastest cars and the cops right on your tail. Like Hot Pursuit without Brake To Drift or like if EA made Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune.

I've played every nfs from hot pursuit onwards. Rivals is one of my favorites. Great map, great soundtrack, great gameplay. I'm always replaying it and calling friends to do so

I have no idea why alot of people fight over what NFS should be. I never played the 80's or 90's nfs but currently play TDU2 so I know having exotics without any visuals feels amazing but at the same time, I was fixated on WRC as a kid. A race where you see these ordinary looking cars, some had modified bodykits, plastered with decals and sponsorships. When I had the opportunity to torture my PC that had no GPU (I think it only had like 80 or 200mb of VRAM) to run the first UG and MW 2005, I instantly went and placed all kinds of decals and sponsorships onto it like I was part of some illegal betting group. It was fun, although I always see dark lines covering the car due to how my graphics card is non existent. NFS for me isn't just the tuners nor the exotics nor the police, it's just a game that you enjoy because you like it. In fact, I'm jealous most of the people here can run modern NFS because my laptops certainly can't. I can run UG2 and MW 05 now along with HP 2010 but I wanted to experience sticking some fancy sponsorship decals and cool racing liveries onto any BMW or lexus and call it my "GTE cars". I never had that opportunity and I would trade my damn soul if I could have a laptop that could upgrade itself to have the most modern specs imaginable so that I can just run newer racing titles. I might not be considered a true fan of the NFS series because I don't have a side to choose but, NFS was my childhood, along with some other games like Colin Mcrae Rally, some obscure dakar rally game that I played on my mom's keypad nokia (forgot the name), and possibly more. So yeah, even if the franchise gets stale, I'll still love it because it gave me a good past even if I won't have the power to play it. Tbh, I never watched the vid because I can feel that he'll rant about how old nfs is good and why new nfs is bad or it's sticking to different things that made it harder to progress. I'll still give it a view later but for now, I wanted to calm down but I'll still leave a like because I ain't an asshole and I know you poured hours into this.

Interesting video, very much enjoyed it. Do you think the aesthetic risk they took on Unbound was a key change in the wrong area, and the core game still felt stubbornly familiar?

I think the largest problem with NFS is the split community which is constantly flaming and hating each other. I like many different NFS and don't care if any other person dislikes or likes it. The devs shouldn't try to listen to the community because someone who likes some game more than some other game is always going to be butthurt.

Well these games wont get any recognition from Ea, they should just remaster mostwanted 05 cause thats were most if all the fanbase is .

OMG, thank you for concisely explaining the eras instead of reading the wikipedia page for each entry like other youtubers would do

This video really sums up my personal issues with the NFS community. These games got so overhated for not being NFS MW 2005 basically. The sense of speed and graphics and car sounds of HP 2010 and the remaster are phenomenal. It's one of the few games that I've 100% completed. And the weapons give Hot Pursuit that extra kick to make the Cop Chases more entertaining and terrifying. Most Wanted 2012 had some of the most fun events and one of the most fun open world maps ever, but people don't like it because it has the name Most Wanted attached to it. At a certain point these complaints from NFS "Fans" have gotten so convoluted that they end up going back on themselves and it actively stops companies from doing something new. They hated the graffiti effects for being too cartoony yet a lot of people enjoyed NFS Nitro for its cartoony boxy style. They hated any references of LGBT people or politics in Unbound and Heat that built the background characters of the city and progressed the story and complained about wanting an escape from reality and yet the weapons of HP 2010 were too much for them. The music of NFS Heat and Unbound has been criticized even though they're purposefully crafted to fit the theme of the game and theme of the location just like the grunge metal and rap music of MW 2005 and the electronica of NFS Carbon. NFS has rarely ever strayed far from its formula (besides NFS Shift which was also fun but I digress) and yet somehow people still find a way to hate on anything outside of the black box or classic eras. It's genuinely disappointing.

naming current era "ghost era" is melting my heart

In this supercar era, I only played Most Wanted. And I liked it because I hadn't played Most Wanted 2005 so I didn't have any preconceptions about the game and what I saw was a Burnout game in a more grounded setting (with the weird stuff happening in pursuit event intros), which makes sense because Criterion made both the Burnout series and Most Wanted 2012.

MvC2 music in the background?

I would except Most Wanted 2012 more if it was called something else, instead of digging up an old name to grab at nostalgia.

Folks, it's called Need For Speed not Need For Fartcan Honda Civic

Rivals was my favourite one as well as Hot Pursuit 2010, but the RUN was so different from any racing game i still go back to it now and then, no other game ive seen has done something close to the cannonball run (except the CREW 1 as a side mission)

Yo moses did you change your talking voice or is this your commentary voice cause your voice sounds different in the FH2 video you made 3 years ago

Underrated? Yes. The problem i found with these games myself is that they become tiring very fast. Not that the modern games are not like that (except maybe heat and payback). MW'12 biggest mistake was indeed its name. It was a fun game. I personally like that better than the rest of nfs of this era. And lacking customisation was not a big deal for me. But it felt weird to drive a random car parked on the side of the road, in a parking lot (parking lots should return). And also getting a random paint job, we shouldve had the freedom to choose the colour. Rivals, got game but got boring really really really fast. F&f style vehicular weapons are not my thing. I only used those while i was a cop. The Run i havent played it long enough to make an opinion. I dont even have it. I played on my friends pc. Hot pursuit, i haven't played it at all. At the moment, i would say unbound is getting good with updates like drag and drift. And next update is hp inspired..so looking forward to it.

Tbh, the reason I didnt particularly like this era, is because of the atrocious brake to drift handling. It might suit jdm cars, but supercars? The only man who would drift with supercars is Chris Harris. It just didnt fit with the cars. Its sad because otherwise the map, the soundtrack, the graphics, everything was spot on. As for the customization in the supercar culture, its more and more common nowadays. Novitech, Renntech, TechArt, Mansory, Hamann just to name a few

And here I am still enjoying the classics. I'll take Need For Speed High Stakes any day over all the other ones.

Even though my first NFS games were NFS-HP2 (2002) and MW 2005, I was a diehard fan of supercar era and the reason why I loved it so much because it was very simplistic compared to other eras. There was not so much to grind in the games which saved time and the ultimate and last thing that matters in racing games is 'Speed' which the supercars served the very purpose. Customisation doesnt change things, they are just for personal taste and only appeal to stand out among the crowd. Other reasons for liking the supercar era were realistic graphics, smooth handling and physics, vast open maps and broad roads, compeititive Ai cops and racers and lastly OST(I even listen to MW '12 and Rivals ost during leisure time).

The vehicular warfare made me stick to NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 and NFS Rivals more than the games focused on customization and the shitbox to awesome cars. In the latter case of the two games, I always liked rivals due to the fact that the cops were ridiculously overpowered forcing you to play your cards right or you might get yeeted off a cliff. Now I may be biased, but I’ve adapted to the games focused on customization. NFS Unbound (past its shit story and soundtrack). I liked the linkups and customization I could do to the cars. At least you can tamper with a LaFerrari put a Fxxk body kit on it. I’ve might’ve missed the point of the video, but I guess I’m speaking from experience.. (you thought I was done?! Well it’s time to talk about cars. With the super car focused games, we haven’t seen a lot of cars that haven’t been featured in the newer games such as the. GTA Spano, Ferrari Enzo, and the FF, Mercedes/Mclaren 722 roadster and slr McLaren, Ferrari F50, and why not one more version of the Aventador, the 720-4 anniversary. BMW M3 GTS, the Lambo Veneno, the regular Huayra, 2005 ford GT, 911 GT3, where are the Lamborghini Gallardos?! Alright that’s enough ranting about a bucket load of cars that will probably never make a return)

Say what you want about Most Wanted 2012. That game was my childhood and I have to listen to people thrashing it almost a lot of the time when it gets brought up. If I were to thrash Most Wanted 05 I bet there would be tons of controversial and trash talking about how good it is. Which is why I’ve never played Most Wanted 05, if you don’t give my game a chance then I’m not giving your game a chance either

I grew up during the golden era, and these games definitely have a special place in my heart, but my all time favorite will always be The Run. I'll never say it's objectively the best, it's just the one that speaks to me the most. Also the challenge series in that game were AMAZING.

I always have thought nfs has been divided by the high speed (1-high stakes, Porsche 2000, mw2012, hp2) and the tuner timeline (mw 2005, underground, etc)…I prefer the high speed era but I can’t deny I’ve grown up with both, Porsche made me have a addiction with the brand though 😂😂

i honestly kinda think this video is pretty shallow, with an antagonistic view on why players dislike these games. Didn't bring up the fact that this was the start of the 'break to drift' era of nfs, another thing that the series still hasn't recovered from. The entire era played like the burnout series, and it was made by the same team while, also killing the burnout franchise at the same time. I might piss people off by saying this but, if the super car era was called by a different name, then a lot of the hate would have been avoided entirely. One era is not worse than the other, they are both perfectly fine on their own, but because they are under the "nfs" title it automatically sets an expectation in players minds. You can't blame the players for going 'wtf man?' after being conditioned across 5 games and an entire console generation to expect more of the same. The distaste for super cars is simple. These cars so unobtainable in the real world, any fantasy of building out your dream car that you might actually own one day is gone. To buy these cars, it's not enough to just have the money, you have to “invited” to purchase these cars. But with all that said, this whole decades long nfs discourse could have been avoided if they just called it these games "Hot Pursuit" or something and dropped the nfs tag entirely. If most wanted 2012 was called "hot pursuit 3" then reception would have been much better. To my knowledge, there was nothing in the marketing to tell players that it wasn't a direct squeal. It's like being upset that you went to a burger convention with hotdogs and getting a stick up your ass that people are annoyed with you. It doesn't mean that everyone there hates hotdogs, its that there's an expectation. The ghost era of nfs i find kind of sad at this point. It's just chasing the past and never being able to match what players expect, because nostalgia goggles are one hell of a drug. Playing Heat and Unbound is like watching someone in their mid 30s having a crisis and trying to recapture the fun they had as a teen, or just not able to grow up and move on at all.

If I'm being honest, the "supercar era" was better than anything that came out last 10 years, my opinion.

People often forget that the very first NFS games were also all about supercars. Underground, Carbon and MW were more in style when we put them in context of the tuner era, and now they think that was the "true NFS"

"even though it's only because of change that we got that golden Blackbox era in the first place" THANK YOU! I've been saying this for a while, we need innovation back in need for speed! Maybe someone should bring back the weird ideas Blackbox had like Terrorfive. Or make new weird ones, the possibilites are endless.

ugh, yet another miss moses, whoever you hired to write these videos is terrible!