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Need for Speed Underground 2 now runs in your browser, with thousands in online free roam (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 25 points 4 days ago (17 children)

Instead of playing this AI slop that has to play on chrome, according to one comment, why not help GOG get it. It's currently near the top for most votes on the GOG wishlist.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

    Oh damn, was the original a mmo that anyone could just grab real quick and start playing?

    Edit: I just checked. Lol this is an old game made by EA! Won't someone think of EA?! Give them your money for an unsupported and inferior product so that they can put that money into their own AI powered games!

    Your "support EA, not slop" comment, is wild. Are you on drugs? Do you need sleep? Or does your anti-AI stance only apply to the poors? Brb, I'm going to download a car.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    No it's wasn't an MMO. It also wasn't vibe coded and didn't require chrome. Which by all accounts makes it better than this garbage.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    This doesn't require chrome either, I just drove around on Safari on my phone. Firefox is definitely going to be supported then.

    The original required Windows which I consider worse than requiring a browser, even if you can run it via Proton.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Sorry, I just edited my comment.

    Do you know what supporting EA buys you? More AI, but this time it costs more, funds the police state, terrorism, torture, slavery, the subjugation of women and queer people, and you are very limited in what you can do with it.

    If you prefer your "slop" to have the fascist seal of approval, that's a choice you can certainly make. But don't come here and try to play dress-up with it as if you are fighting for humans.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    funds the police state, terrorism, torture, slavery, the subjugation of women and queer people

    we still talkin bout EA here?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The world's premier anti-consumer gaming company who's profits now all go to Saudi Arabia? Yeah

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    This is one of those rare cases where I’m like, you know what? I’ll allow it. Just this one time.

    It runs good too. It’s hard to make this game run well on modern computers, and it’s next to impossible to find through legitimate channels. So what’s all these people whining about, other than the perpetual AI moaning, which honestly is getting almost just as bad as the AI tire pumping.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I have my old PS2 and the disc still sitting around :D

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    My biggest regret is selling my old game consoles because it was becoming a burden to store them in our old place. Our new place is much bigger and I could easily have them all in my office.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    You can easily emulate them all these days. I know it's not the same, but often times, that's actually a good thing. It's far less of a hassle to play older titles on modern devices than to hook up an analog output era console to a modern TV and getting a good image quality out of the combination. Not to mention, performance and resolution were often much worse than you remember. Hell, some emulators even fix bugs and you can easily play ROM hacks or other mods that way - which sometimes also fix bugs, like a fan-patched version of Gran Turismo 2, which makes it actually possible to complete the game.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago

    Not gonna happen. Car, music and other licensing makes this practically impossible. These licenses are only for a limited number of years - renewing them is often ridiculously expensive, to the point of usually making no economic sense. It's the main reason why old racing games like this one are not available digitally.

    Even Rockstar was forced to re-release their older GTAs with some music tracks removed (and they had to patch it for existing owners as well). If it's too expensive for them and far higher profile titles, you know it's not going to happen for a game like Underground 2.

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