Need for Speed is Stupid
So it occurred to me, nearly a year after I purchased it, that my computer still has really impressive specs and can actually run PC games. Well, since I have nearly a terabyte of storage, I decided to busy myself filling it with some new computer games. I snagged both Lego Star Wars games (super cool), F.E.A.R. (playing this one pretty heavy), and Need for Speed Carbon (…yeah).
Now, I’m not a HUGE racing game fan. When I DO play racing games, I like them arcadey, drifty, and/or totally unrealistic. I don’t want to worry about wear on my tire tread. Not fun. If I wanted to play that game, I could go out to my driveway and check my oil or something. I want to be driving in oncoming traffic and jumping eight lanes of elevated highway. I want to ram my opponents off cliffs and fire missiles at them. You know, stuff you might get in a little trouble for in real life. Anyway, I guess maybe I had heard somewhere that Need for Speed was a good balance of realism and fun, so I downloaded it. I also figured racing games always look really good, and I wanted to see what my computer could do. Okay, the game is fun…I guess, but the “story” is retarded. Street racing is stupid, and the game takes itself (and this ridiculous counterculture) so seriously, I feel dumb playing it. Just the fact that I’m playing a game that encourages me to modify my spoiler or purchase new rims makes me feel like I’m somehow compromising my principles, as if I’m playing a game in which the object is to purchase and wear designer clothing, or rollerblade around town and spread the gospel.
So anyway, yeah, it’s pretty. My computer can run it at 1280×1024 on full quality settings at like a zillion frames a second. Experiment completed, Need for Speed has been uninstalled. Barf.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I bought a Need for Speed for my gamecube this summer based on a previous version of the game I actually had a blasty blast playing. Needless to say, this new one didn’t do what I was expecting.
I don’t want to drive around and get parts for my car. I don’t want to watch a story based around getting parts for my car with bitches and bad assed dudes. The only Need for Speed I ever played was basically, get in fast car, go real fast, outrun cops. It was fun to just blast around and try to beat the AI. This street racing thing has got to stop. It is ruining racing games.
And they need to put missile launchers back in car games. Imagine playing Burnout 3, launching your car into oncoming traffic, barrel rolling through the sky while blasting missiles in every direction.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
F.E.A.R. is pretty cool.