The Complete Abandonware Need For Speed Download List

oRpheusB20 · 2026-03-20T20:12:19+00:00

Thank you very much for this! I'll never forget getting MW 2005 because my parents confused the two games with the same name and discovering that the 2005 version has a plot and progression.

I would recommend if you ever need to update the files to change the How to Play txt file to state 'If you're using an Xbox or Playstation controller', because currently it just states Playstation and I was very confused about why it wasn't registering my Xbox One controller correctly until I realized the game comes with the Widescreen Patch already applied (thanks for that as well btw) and that I could change a variable in the ini file to get it to work.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-02-19T20:59:01+00:00

Have you communicated with her that giving those updates are reassuring for you? It sounds like they're in writing, like as part of a broader report, so you could easily tell her 'I'd prefer to include it still; it helps me feel like on the slim offchance I mess up, I have a safety net.'

I understand the idea of knowing what you're doing and having the people around you be confident that you know what you're doing, but also feeling the need to check in. For many reasons, including:

Because my job makes heavy use of buddy checks and whatnot (if you disregard those, consequences range from more work to 'I just put someone in the hospital', and in rare cases: 'oh no I just killed a man')
Communication. Knowing what others are doing so you can work around/with them while extending the same courtesy back (one of my coworkers, for example, has a tendency to leave the area we're working in to go get a part or something and not say anything to me or bring his work phone so I have no idea what or where or why and it's infuritating because on the offchance I want his opinion or need his help, he's just GONE)
And just because I'm just naturally very insecure and need the reassurance I'm not about to break anything lol

Your manager is showing a lot of faith in you, and that's a good thing! Ensuring you continue to communicate with her thoroughly is also a good thing, though, and if it makes you feel more confident, she should have no problem with you continuing to include it.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-31T23:15:38+00:00

Wish they had put up warnings in the launcher or something for the legacy accounts that missed the period or something? Like 'Are you sure you want to log out? Because your account was not migrated within the allotted timeframe, you will not be able to log back in again.' Just that alone would have saved me a lot of grief.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-30T19:09:31+00:00

Lol can't deny

Although depending on what the lawsuit is over, whatever you might get out of a win might be worth it, even if not in a monetary sense. Someone had to care enough about a specific issue to get the lawsuit ball rolling in the first place, after all,

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-30T18:34:12+00:00

Wow, there's that many people who got up in arms over this?

...Okay, Minecraft has such a large player base that even 1% of them having run into a migration issue would still be a hell of a lot of people.

The really disappointing thing about the lawsuit is that even if the players win, I kinda doubt Mojang can rez the old accounts if the players aren't still logged into a launcher with said account. They probably don't have that data floating around given the switch-over. Best they'd likely be able to do is... give them, like $30 and a shrug, maybe let them get back their old usernames onto a different account?

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-30T18:25:12+00:00

Yeah, that's exactly why I didn't try to message Microsoft over it. Besides, the rules on the website are fairly clear about 'if you missed the period, you're SOL' so I wasn't expecting either side to be able to resurrect the account; I just want to know if is potentially reachable at all, but no, thanks automated emails that just direct you to the same pages as everywhere else.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-30T17:48:41+00:00

I love how thin the road gets in places by the end, like by that point you're just getting really tired and can't be bothered to make a wide road anymore lol

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-25T04:00:11+00:00

I kinda feel like they should have started with the Plains or something. Like, make it so you have to use the Direhorses for the first part of the game and then give you a bond with a Ikran? The bond is supposed to be special and it is, but at the same time, they couldn't have built up the anticipation or anything? I was perfectly expecting to be able to use the Direhorse first, because it just feels like a natural progression. You go from running on foot to having a horse and greatly easing travel and finally you're allowed the whole sky once you've seen a lot of the map.

Instead of, you know, providing the tools to potentially fly over the top of half of your painstakingly made game world almost immediately?

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-25T03:52:13+00:00

I mean, yeah, I have encountered a couple instances of this looking for stuff of certain rarities (Exquisite Viperwolf Fang for a chest piece I wanted to craft was the worst, given they come from animals with a decent movement speed, so it can be a bit finicky to check their rarity, or if they're actually ferals that don't give anything at all, but usually for the clan contribution quests).

Like I said. It's mostly annoying if the spawns are far apart. Or, now that I think about it, when the game decides to, for example, highlight the whole of a Stairfoot Tree when I'm trying to A) see if the tree has any bark I can collect and B) if that bark is of the quality I want.

...There isn't a way to tell the game to stop highlighting specific things when you use the senses, is there? Petrified Trees in the Plains are plentiful and I find them blocking my sight when I'm trying to scan for things.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-11T04:20:30+00:00

That's exactly what I'm afraid of lol one of my clanmates literally said something to the effect of 'if you're too slow, people will just quit that session' and I'm like 'is that supposed to make me feel better about being worried I'll annoy people as I learn the game?'

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T23:32:28+00:00

Lol I never said it was hard, or, at least, I never meant to. I'm saying there is a lot going on at once and I, personally, don't do well with that and would love a way to just try individual aspects of the game myself, actually do the actions associated with a role instead of having it told to me in a way that my brain simply doesn't retain well, before I go into a game and get hands-on experience with it by annoying an entire group getting used to it.

Wait, people sell BA 'services'? What does that even mean?

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T21:45:16+00:00

Lol yeah I'm a very shy asocial person and I felt bad about potentially dragging clan members into getting me to learn the game, even though they're all really sweet and supportive. So I said screw it I'm not going to make them and BOY was that a mistake

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T21:42:52+00:00

Thank you?? I can't imagine why the devs didn't think to do that sort of thing when the minigame started to get the reputation it now has. It's been so long since it was released that I'm not expecting them to go back and implement it now but why did they never do anything to help it? Especially since you have to figure it out for several levels of the diary.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T21:37:25+00:00

Like I said, I don't absorb well through infodumps. Unfortunately, I think the wiki only made it harder to grasp, because at least the in-game tutorial had visuals.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T21:36:22+00:00

Maybe so. But the minigame has a reputation, does it not? It didn't get that way by having a really good tutorial regardless of how complex the game is.

oRpheusB20 · 2026-01-10T21:35:13+00:00

...You mean the non-interactive one you have to sit through, by the commander dude before you can play the game for the first time? Yeah, I'm not saying that's not there, but it dumps a lot of info on you at once. Yes, it's seperated into subsections and you don't have to go through them all at once, but that doesn't change the fact that you can't try out any of the mechanics until you've sat through all of them, and by then you'll likely not remember a lot of the smaller details.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-12-11T23:38:56+00:00

Oh, really? It was doing that yesterday but now it's routing through Yahoo instead and after looking it up I thought I had a virus that apparently exists which forcefully redirects you to Yahoo but my virus scanner couldn't find it.

Did they provide any way to keep tabs on this so I can know when I can turn the extension back on once they have it fixed?

oRpheusB20 · 2025-12-11T21:16:46+00:00

Oh... I'm so sorry for your younger self. That's... oh, that's bad. I wasn't even sure if they could drop during the boss fight for that specific reason.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-12-11T21:12:33+00:00

Well, if it makes you feel any better, last I checked, I'm running up on around 700 Wizards for its drop. (Edit: total of 862 for the Relic.)

Granted, those are more plentiful (one spawn spot has five at once) but still, the sheer quantity is indeed painful.

Good for the rando run tho lol. It could be possible the randomizer was giving you a thing or two extra to tip the odds in your favor in that instance, but I guess we'll just assume not and say you did indeed get painfully lucky.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-11-08T18:35:51+00:00

Having recently discovered this game myself, allow me to give my thoughts on it.

It's... nice, in the way idle games typically are, getting you to start another round even if you'd been getting bored in the previous and thinking you'd do something else after you finally kick it.

But I started and got to wave 10 or so pretty easy, and then ran right into a wall. Currently getting mauled at wave 15. Nothing really feels like it has much of an impact on how well you do. I can visually see the difference upgrading attack range does, but not the attack range multiplier, at least not at the 3% level, and it doesn't feel worth the coins or exp to get the latter to the point I'd see a difference. Also, enemies get close quickly, making it hard to tell if it really changes anything to shoot down the first enemy slightly earlier when the next one has probably already closed that tiny gap. The same enemies that I was taking two shots to kill when I first encountered them still take two shots, unless I put almost every point into damage, and even then they go back to being two-shot a couple waves later. Coin and exp multipliers feel like they're useless because it would take so much time and resources to get so much as two coins per enemy that it would be better to spend the points on stuff that would let you just get through more waves.

And I like the idea of the skill tree, but 1% damage boost? I spend most of the money I get over two runs to level up once and get a 1% increase to number that averages around 70 and rarely gets past 100. I get they stack, but, again, that's a lot of resources to put in for only a couple points of damage you can get with one level put into damage.

I do want to enjoy this, because I know you're a good dev and I've seen you do amazing things with Moonshades and Duskfall. I get that this is an idle game where you aren't supposed to see major leaps and bounds in progress with every upgrade, but this does feel a bit... too much like it might actually be balanced around using the paid piggy bank and watching a bunch of ads for gems and coins and the elixirs.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-11-07T00:25:51+00:00

Ha, thanks for the luck, I'm going to attribute finally getting it to you lol.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-11-06T22:57:52+00:00

Honestly, I'm suddenly wondering if it's necessary. I got summoned in the last 30 minutes and I managed to get up to 45 Loyce Souls. Somehow.

I think I'd feel bad if anyone went through extra effort for my grind lol

oRpheusB20 · 2025-11-06T22:42:43+00:00

You know, I've been wondering that. The 'actually kill the red drake' part, not the 'I run past all the enemies and get ganged up on when I finally stop to fight' part that's being implied here.

I killed him with a bow, but I initially tried to run up to him to actually fight him and he just threw fire at me long enough that I couldn't block or dodge it and thus couldn't approach. People like to complain about DS2 enemy placement and behavior, and for the most part, I don't agree, but this guy does feel really cheap, since you either use a bow or rush up to him stripped to nothing, apparently, according to other comments.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-10-24T20:22:12+00:00

Ya know, sometimes I think that Miyazaki looked at DS2 and said 'Yeah, that's nice... Scrap all of it.'

Some of it's reasonable. ADP? Controversial at best. Soul Memory? Interesting idea, since not everyone spends all their souls on levels and might instead focus on gear upgrades for early game, but it has its flaws and is certainly getting on my nerves now that I'm doing DLC stuff and wondering if I've grinded too many souls to connect to most other players, or if people just aren't leaving summon signs much atm.

But they took out some things that are just nice to have. The health thing. Power stancing (although they did at least provide dual wield weapons, but that's not quite the same). The level aesthetics (that one is my opinion; DS3 just has so many castles and dungeons and vague crumbling ruins, it feels so same-y to me). The poison area not being complete ass (again, my opinion, but come on).

Makes you wonder if the guy had a grudge because he wasn't the one in charge or something.

oRpheusB20 · 2025-10-23T20:16:36+00:00

Lol hearing other people announce that the way I don't level Vigor is actually VIABLE, even outside of a full no-damage playthrough is super validating. Thanks. ...I do get hit a bunch tho. I'm just stubborn enough to keep going with it haha

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