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There's really no shortage of great games out there, but only a handful really stick with us and continue to entertain us even as their graphics and gameplay formulas become obsolete. Maybe we like the atmosphere so much that everything else becomes secondary; maybe we have such strong memories associated with that one game that it transcends being purely a piece of software and becomes something greater... Or maybe it simply never stopped being great and we want to keep on going even if we already know every inch of it.
I actually have several candidates for this sort of thing, but I'm gonna go with a "wild card": Need For Speed III, a game that encapsulates all of the aforementioned points.
I remember spending HOURS cruising around its game world, trying to unlock everything the old-fashioned way (no internet to look up passwords and cheats for me at the time!), wearing my damn disc drive down because I played the game so much. I also had no shortage of arguments with my sister because I kept hogging our one PC and kept her from being a perfectly normal teenager who uploaded an endless barrage of pictures LOL.
But, mostly, I remember this game as the last one I got to play with both of my parents before everything went south on the "home front".
All of that aside, though, I still think it's a great game AND my favorite racer ever -- I can boot up any version of it (even the inferior PS1 port) and have a blast with it because the vibes are immaculate, the music rocks and the maps/courses are designed in a way that feels real.
Yeah, I'm gonna be playing this one forever.
What about you?
I actually have several candidates for this sort of thing, but I'm gonna go with a "wild card": Need For Speed III, a game that encapsulates all of the aforementioned points.
I remember spending HOURS cruising around its game world, trying to unlock everything the old-fashioned way (no internet to look up passwords and cheats for me at the time!), wearing my damn disc drive down because I played the game so much. I also had no shortage of arguments with my sister because I kept hogging our one PC and kept her from being a perfectly normal teenager who uploaded an endless barrage of pictures LOL.
But, mostly, I remember this game as the last one I got to play with both of my parents before everything went south on the "home front".
All of that aside, though, I still think it's a great game AND my favorite racer ever -- I can boot up any version of it (even the inferior PS1 port) and have a blast with it because the vibes are immaculate, the music rocks and the maps/courses are designed in a way that feels real.
Yeah, I'm gonna be playing this one forever.
What about you?
