Classic NFS games

> Please, explain to me why is there so much hate for ricers. Why would a car with a very powerful engine and expensive and well made race inspired cosmetic enhancements be so hated?

First note that EA itself made fun of "ricer" cars in the intro video for High Stakes (1999). Some people think that the "other" car is a Honda Civic, but others think it's a VW Golf, and it seems there's a Porsche logo on the hood of the VW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSgIzglbSE

In real life, some of the modified tuner cars back then had mostly visual upgrades with little done for performance, and in some cases, the visuals included logos (big decals) for stuff the car didn't have, and in some cases, for the wrong model or brand of car. Honda Civic's seemed to be popular for stuff like this for a few years around that time. Some of the cars had "coffee can" mufflers, which made them loud, but did little for actual performance. The association of cars like these with gangs in some US cities didn't help matters either. An actual Honda Civic ad (2003):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F74dd04ggo

> why would this be a licensing issue?

I don't know if there is an licensing issue, I only mentioned that it's a possibility. I don't know the issues involved with selling older games via a new outlet (from EA CD/DVD to Origin download).

I agree 100% with that, but the cars that I have in these games are monsters underneath the hood and I have used the very best decals the game has. Up until I had unlocked the tier 3 decals I only had logos from components that are in the car. But I don't know, it seems as if even if you have a powerful car, you'll still be mocked if you put any sort of vinyls on your car, not matter how well they are made.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSgIzglbSE That is a Honda Civic, judging by the headlights and stoplights, it's a Civic all right.

But this picture, this is how you properly "rice" a car.

> even if you have a powerful car, you'll still be mocked if you put any sort of vinyls on your car

In real life or in a game? In a game, it doesn't matter to me. In real life, as posted above, some people were getting carried away with vinyls, and also stereo systems. That's not much of a fad anymore. As for Underground 2, using wide bodykits made it more likely to hit walls and also to slow the car down more if you did hit or slid along a wall, so that was a case where a visual customization, wide bodykits, adversely affected times, since at some tracks, wall riding was faster. I used vinyls in Underground and Underground 2, but would never use them on a real car. In NFS World, I left most or all of the decals that came with special versions of cars, although I did tend to change the color schemes.

For Underground, one of the vinyls had a glow effect:

http://rcgldr.net/nfs7/n7rx7.jpg

Then there was this photo shopped "6 star" car for Underground:

http://rcgldr.net/nfs7/rx7.jpg

and this unusually modified 240SX for prostreet:

http://rcgldr.net/nfsp/240sx.jpg

"but would never use them on a real car"

I'm not very sure on using them on a car myself. But what's the reason in your case for not using them? 

> what's the reason in your case for not using them?

I have a black car with black interior, not a good color scheme for vinyls (for some models, perhaps a red stripe). As for cars I've seen, it seems to be somewhat common to have some form of black trim on yellow cars. I have seen heavily modified cars at local car show, the most extreme case a Willy's with an intake stack and blower that is higher than the top of the windshield (next to last image):

http://rcgldr.net/crshw.htm

"I have a black car with black interior"

What car do you have?

It's a 2006 Corvette Z06 (first year of the C6 models). The prices for used ones became reasonable a few years ago. It's the car on the right in the last photo of the car show photos.

Thought as much, after seeing the photos. Well I wouldn't put vinyls on a Muscle Car like that either. I don't know, it just wouldn't match. I mean, the type of vinyls that you'd put on a Supra aren't the same ones that you'd put on a Corvette. To me, cars like the Corvette or the Viper should stop at stripes. The type of double stripes that the Viper had. Car selection is important, not all cars fit the bill for visual customization. For the cars that do, vinyls are a great way to make your car look unique. Spoilers and bumpers do to, and it gives the car a more sporty type of bodywork. They'd be useful for me as well, If I had the possibility to, I'd take my car around public racetrack as often as I could. I would attend car shows too. I've never been to one because where I'm from people can't really afford cars that are worth showing off.

For corvettes, the main exception to stripes are the yellow ones, with black center trim stripes, and sometimes pin stripes on the side. Vipers and Mustangs often have center stripes.