When Did You Start Playing NFS?

Howdy All:

Well I've been playing since day one. I bought the very first NFS game to play on my 286 Dx25 cpu and continued to support EA by buying almost every title that came out. Well so far there has been 16 NFS titles that I'm aware of and I've bought-en 14 of them. So I think I'll be adding some more to that count.

Later

Alowgo 

since the first one came out

I started playing NFS Hot Pursuit (2010).

Actually we found Need for speed 4 & Need for Speed 5 Porsche on Sony PS1 in the internet club. Oh we payed 10 cents for an hour in that club can you imagine). but it was quite expensive in my country for children). It was our lovely game in one rank with Twisted Metal 2 and Road rush 3.

The time passed I was 12 y. old & in 2006 my father brought a PC at home i remember it's characteristics: 1.6 GHz 1 core CPU, 512 Mb Ram and 128 Mb Video) It was my first "own"(father used it very rear) computer & NFS Underground 2 was a first game I honored to complete on 100% career. Then MW 2005 cannot load on this computer. After some time father brought a new GPU: 512 mb. And with that GPU and some tweaks i finally started passing MW 2005 on "middle" graphic settings, and that time Need for Speed carbon appeared. I still remember very low graphic settings 24 fps and i try to put a vinyl on the hood))

  The time passed when Pro street appeared. That time computer was totaly upgraded. all except Hull; GPU and CD-rom. so it was 2core 2.8 GHz 2 Gb Ram and 512 video. I could run ProStreet on middle graphic settings with extra CPU cooling. but from pro street I do not like the direction which NFS series went, as i say on: Test drive, F1, & Project cars , Dirt serie "lazy track race series".

   After was Undercover but the graphics part in this game was really wasted so i played till middle career and stopped. Shift, which had come in that future was also "lazy track race series" so i just tried it a little and uninstalled it. Shift 2 even did not try. When appeared Hot Pursuit 2014 it was really fresh remake of previous hot pursuit. So i played it offline it was interesting. but multiplayer was unbalanced, so I stopped it.

Need for speed 2015 i pre ordered. you can still find me in the late evening(in my country) drifting in canyons there. good game, but except riding and watching a videos nothing there.

   I think 2015 was EA's first try to see what they could do on this new engine. & Payback have same Game Engine as 2015. So I expect all undone in 2015 to be released in 2017. So we'll see it in a month. hope to meet you there fellows))

Started playing with Underground, from there:

- Underground 2 (one of my favorites)

- NFS Most Wanted (wasn't bad, was just spoiled from UG2)

- NFS Carbon (same as MW)

- NFS Pro Street (tried, didn't like it)

- NFS undercover (tried, didn't like it)

- NFS World (absolutely loved the game)

- NFS Shift (tried after World shutdown, didn't like it)

and those are the last I've played.

Hot Pursuit was my first followed by Porsche Unleashed - have played all of them since Porsche Unleashed.  When Underground was released I was the envy of my friends because I had an 800x600 resolution digital projector - so they would all come to my house to play NFS:Unleashed. on an 8 foot projected screen on the wall.

I was such a huge fan by NFS:U2 that I had a friend in the US ship me MW Black Edition (it was not available in the UK) - it cost me a freaking fortune - I think about 150 USD to buy the game and get it shipped and pay the taxes once it hit the UK.  I really enjoyed it though so it was worth it.

I would never do that now though - EA lost their way and started using NFS to milk money out of its loyal fans.  With NFS World everything just went insane - the money grab was real - in my mind they still haven't learned any lessons.  I actually preferred The Crew to 2015 and it is pretty clear that NFS 2017 is directly competing with the Crew and stole some of their ideas (the old wrecks for example, the extreme offroad stuff...).  If they don't include wheel support I am unlikey to buy this release.

@PaladineUK You can't say that Need for Speed stole any ideas from anyone. Forza Horizon had extreme off road events and that was out before the Crew. You can't blame EA for being diverse with this game by adding different race events and car types.

Yeah and Forza had old wrecks covered in rust hidden all over the map too did it - that you could discover and refurbish?  Come on, there is a point where you go from being a fan to brainwashed.  There are some very distinct similarities between NFS:Payback and The Crew to claim EA is being Diverse is just silly.

I don't necessarily believe these are bad features to add but at least be honest about it.