Comments on: Um, The Game? Need For Speed: Shift Trailers

By: r4

r4 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:12:36 +0000

I like to drift my car every where. Not only in drift race, I am doing drifting in race events also. I like to do this. Good videos to see, it gave me some more idea about drift.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:41:04 +0000

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By: Pstonie

Pstonie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:39:12 +0000

You got some issues Stan, I think you need some counseling. To help your ass from bouncing off the walls when you get down some.

On another note, yes that appears to be some good racing action you posted. There are games available that provide that flavour, if that’s the only thing you’re into.

By: Clippit

Clippit — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:52:45 +0000

LOL. this is retarded, seriously. what really rubs me up the wrong way with these videos is the sheer pretentiousness of it. absolutely nothing is left unsaid, unexploited for maximum drama. it’s so typically american and it makes me wince. racing cars is not about “l LIKE TO GO FAST” or “BASICALLY, IT’S SUPER SUPER FAST”. even drifting, retarded as it is, isn’t as retarded as they’re making it out to be. proper racing and stupid drifting both revolve around driving a car in an aggressive manner, with just enough maturity not to SLAM INTO A HUGE ROCK OH MY GOD SO FUCKIN’ EXTREME!
i’m going to have to have a lie down now…

ps: this is exciting motor racing, and it doesn’t involve dumb stupid americans, hektik spoilaz, or gratuitous editing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCij9mYIokA

By: Pstonie

Pstonie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:48:54 +0000

My favourite drifting in a game was Carbon (where you could even do a clutch kick), until I tried the no-assist drifting in GT5 Prologue. It’s difficult to say the least, especially with a normal controller. But that just makes it more satisfying when you finally get it right. After that assisted drifting feels like a broken game.

If you took all the best bits of Carbon and Most Wanted you’d have something that would really make the demise of the franchise something worth lamenting.

By: Richard Beer

Richard Beer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:30:19 +0000

I have to say Shift looks pretty awesome if you’re after some realistic seat-of-the-pants stuff rather than the almost cartoony usual NFS fare. Although I think I would miss the police chases if I bought it.

You are, however, bang on about the trailers, John, which is a real shame. They’ve been produced beautifully. Someone who really knows their stuff has made simple race footage into a really artistic few minutes. But where’s the in-game footage to parallel it? The 5 or so seconds we do have would suggest that it’s there. Missed opportunity IMHO.

By: DerangedStoat

DerangedStoat — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:44:07 +0000

With all the focus of drifting they have in these, I am quite sure that Shift will not be a proper sim in the vein of GTR2 and the like.
Drifting properly is hard and probably one of the least accessible forms of motorsport, anyone can power-on oversteer out of a corner, but drifting properly requires quite a bit of finesse, and would require a lot more feedback than most controllers, even force feedback wheels can give you.

Don’t get me wrong, drifting in GRiD was fantastic fun, but it was in no way a simulation of the feat.

I think the reason that most people keep comparing Shift to GRiD is because they expect Shift to be very similar in terms of simulation.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:27:10 +0000

Thanks Psychopomp, I didn’t want to have to say it myself.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:05:30 +0000

A return to form for the NFS series would be lovely, but I don’t know that I particularly want a sim game. NFS was originally about, well, speed above all else. Sim racers are generally more about technical, precise driving. That’s well and good, but there are a real proverty of good arcade racers with a strong sense of speed. In fact, in the wake of the NFS series going to shit, the only one I can think of is Burnout.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:01:44 +0000

The assumption that Shift will be shit because all the recent NFS games were shit is a wrong one to make. It’s worth doing a tiny bit of reading up on it or heck, even reading John’s post, before dismissing the game entirely.

And yeah, a trailer with 5 seconds of in-game footage is the equivalent of those movie trailers which just show you a bunch of explosions. Need moar substance plz.

By: BrokenSymmetry

BrokenSymmetry — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:04:15 +0000

Why is nobody talking about NFS:Shift itself? Everything I’ve seen from it (and read from people who actually played it) points to it being a racer very similar to PGR, with a much better in-car experience. I’m looking forward to it greatly.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:41:18 +0000

I miss pre-”street culture” NFS. Hot Pursuit 2 was brilliant, as were most of the earlier games in the series. Most Wanted was ok, but once they started with the FMV and forcing a plot into a racing game it was all down hill from there.