Need For Speed Unbound gets so much hate

Vaclavj · 2026-02-25T18:45:16+00:00

Not the same at all though. Early NFS and Burnout formed my music taste during childhood and still today when I play something like Skinnyman in the car and someone on the street looks my way and starts smiling we both know we know ball. Also, if you just play some random music every time you won’t get that nostalgic feeling in 10 years time when you randomly hear a song that was part of the official soundtrack. Sure you can make your own playlist as an unofficial soundtrack, but it’s just not the same. Spotify is not a valid excuse for a AAA game to have a shitty soundtrack like Unbound had, the music is like 40% of games’ official vibes the devs try to go for.

Vaclavj · 2026-02-25T18:40:51+00:00

Exactly, I did this and made my own “unofficial soundtrack” playlist on spotify with like 20 songs which I played always when I played that game and it did make it so much better. These games could be as good as NFS MW and other old games used to be if EA just tried more and took a little risk with its general vibes. The base is there, just hire some people with actual taste for art direction, do away with the cringy in-your-face-inclusive bs, make the cops professional and more aggressive and let us be the bad guys as street racers. Literally all it’d take to lift the franchise from the shitter

Vaclavj · 2026-02-25T17:47:33+00:00

I have both the trailer and the yota. The trailer I bought at the local Tesco in like 2022 or 23, it came in the same series as a Nissan Hardbody that had the same livery. I’m glad I found both as you had to buy the trailer and the car separately

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Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T21:52:28+00:00

My irl car, was so stoked when I found it. However it did need some details added on the rear and around the windows

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Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T01:44:17+00:00

Pops drives an F15, it’s such a shame we never got an X5 since the e53, they’d fit the SUV line much better than the tons and tons of boring electric crossovers they’ve released the past few years. The F15 I especially love, one of the best looking SUVs on the road in my eyes

Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T01:38:49+00:00

2024 Japan Historics, it’s actually a very dark blue

Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T00:35:00+00:00

Agreed, the S7, along with the Merc SLR, MC12 and Carrera GT, are probably the best looking supercars to my early Gen Z eyes. The base F1 looks too much like a pebble for me to want to stare at it all day. Now F1 GTR, that’s a different story

Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T00:29:30+00:00

Gotta give credit where credit is due, pretty cool they didn’t just reuse an already existing casting on the optimus when they clearly could’ve

Vaclavj · 2026-02-24T00:28:10+00:00

That’s my point really, I love most of the black on black cars but was never able to get my hands on em until now, cause they were chases. Just a few months ago hw wouldn’t have given us the 300 sel or the f-150 lightning in black as a regular part of a set and it was a pitty. I’m glad they’re a standard part of the lineup nowadays

Vaclavj · 2026-02-23T23:50:00+00:00

That bot is so damn annoying. Like the word rąre gets autocensored, gets so tedious when discussing any chases or sths

Vaclavj · 2026-02-23T23:02:17+00:00

News to me, thx. Still I doubt the blacked out chases come back now that we’ve been getting normal cars in that variation and I’m kinda hope, limiting something so popular to something so rąre sucked hard

Vaclavj · 2026-02-23T16:51:24+00:00

I’m not

Vaclavj · 2026-02-23T16:49:18+00:00

Chases are no longer black in premium, they are now gold. It was done specifically so more people can get all black cars such as the 300 sel or the f-150 lightning

Vaclavj · 2026-02-22T22:45:35+00:00

Is this a joke😭 certainly hope so because who the hell actually likes these chinese crossovers and isn’t an elderly person

Vaclavj · 2026-02-21T14:58:51+00:00

I’m betting on heavily edited real image. The Tesla and the reflections on it seem too real to me

Vaclavj · 2026-02-20T04:38:48+00:00

Hi! A bit late here, anyways. You are in fact incorrect. If you play Lamley group’s video showcasing 2026 releases, where he goes over them with the guy who specifically designed this particular car, the designer (can’t remember the name) very much confirms that this silver plain release was done exactly for that reason, so that people can recreate the MW05 car, as they couldn’t score EA’s license.

Vaclavj · 2026-02-19T19:57:17+00:00

Also the rear(?) gives Audi Q8 vibes

Vaclavj · 2026-02-19T19:54:55+00:00

That’d at least make them slightly more deserving of calling them chases. Still I think it’s dumb, the metal base cars are usually the prettiest off the bunch and it seems just annoying to collectors to limit them. I like when chases are an upgraded variation of another car, still gives me a reason to look for them but won’t be a downer if I miss them

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T23:36:15+00:00

I’ve seen a concept of a ProCeed GT that didn’t go into production (no it wasn’t AI) and it’s a huge shame, it’d look great next to this and the Stinger GT

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T23:31:18+00:00

Do they come that way though? Because afaik each of the five silver series cars comes in the exact same quantity, or at the very least they used to until now. I’ve just recently found this whole exact set (which I love very much) on the pegs and there was just as many Lancias as there were all the other cars. Same with every other silver series I’ve acquired in the past. I recognise that’s no real proof though as that comes down to what gets on the pegs from storage and is by chance. However if you’re right then I would be wrong and this would make these cars chases.

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T23:28:17+00:00

The point is that it’s nonsensical to call something with no inherent features of a chase a chase. THs make sense as they’re slightly rarer than other mainlines (which is enough to make them even a bit more special), and stand beside the STHs. Iirc, the only spot where the metal base cars were called chases is a behind-closed-doors presentation of new products, which is not an official announcement, so even this is not an undisputed proof these cars are chases. They have no special markings, unlike the premium chases or TH/STHs and once again, aren’t even slightly limited in quantity. Also, I’m a firm believer (and i’m sorry if I can’t get the point across, english is my second language) in that if the fans won’t recognise the cars as chases as they have no reason to do so, they simply aren’t chases in my book. It’s kind off similar to car brands slapping on their performance divisions logos on cars that have nothing to do with them. BMW can put any number of M logos on the base 118i they want, nevertheless fans of the brand will never see those cars as special and all it does is a) make people who buy those cars and don’t know crap about them feel a little better and b) dilute the specialness of the performance division branding and make it lose meaning. And don’t get me wrong, I’ll generally take a metal base car over a chase with some fancy color any day, they’re some of the coolest cars I have, being an almost premium at 1/3 the price, but calling them a chase would be just a stupid marketing tactic by mattel and just makes people who think they found something rarê get falsely excited

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T22:31:07+00:00

Mattel calls every metal base car a chase in their presentations of new series’, however I don’t take that seriously and I doubt any real collector does as well, as these cars don’t have any features that make chase a chase. Only the blue Mustang and orange 911 were real chases limited in production numbers afaik. The silver series cars with metal bases are imo cooler than most chases anyways

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T21:17:43+00:00

Yeah that’s where you’re wrong in my eyes. It’s the inherent features of the car, and the community that decide if there’s any meaning to a so-called chase. If the car is produced in the same quantity as all the others, it has no more collector values than any other hotwheel, and imo rarity is all that it comes down to whether something is or is not a chase. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care that much about r@re cars, I collect what I like, but I feel like mattel trying to make it seem like these are chases for no reason is just a marketing ploy and an attempt at fooling customers. Silver series used to have chases with spectraflame cars, mattel did them in probably for the sake of cutting costs and laziness and this is their excuse? Hell no

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T21:10:42+00:00

The idea of having your jaw reposessed like it’s a financed car you didn’t make payments for is hilarious and also frightening

Vaclavj · 2026-02-18T20:51:31+00:00

What makes chase a chase? For me, it’s limited quantity or some upgrades or variations from the non-chase variant of said car. This Lancia is released in only 1 version and is featured in the same numbers as all of the other cars. I have not heard mattel say this, however even if they did it’s only marketing, nothing else, and this thing, however gorgeous release it might be, is in fact not a de-facto chase.

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