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Almost 9 years since Midnight Club.
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Man some of those later races were intense as hell.
I would love NFSU 3, but knowing EA, it'll never happen. I would love to see a new take on the Juiced franchise, to see if it could be made into an actual decent game.
Didn't Juiced or Juiced 2 have interior modifications like steering wheels and bucket seats? Can't think of any other games that let you do that.
Yeah, Juiced 2 did. It also had off-the-wall tuners like the Seat Leon Cupra and Renault Megane and I loved it for that, lol
It was influenced by Mega Man 2 & Ninja Gaiden II (NES).
Difficult challenge, but with a palette of tools (abilities) to overcome the challenge.
SliChillax
Member
Import Tuner Challenge for Xbox360 had it
Yea, I remember loving almost everything about it except for the driving lol.
Shutokou Battle game right? Never tried it, might have to look into that
Yeah. ITC is basically TXR for Xbox 360. Pretty good game too, if you can look past the jaggies lol
lem0n
Member
Midnight Club 3 DUB Remix is still one of the best experiences on XBL for me. Everyone just hung out and modded cars and had car shows online. We raced occasionally but it was all about looking good and showing off, and I loved it lmao
Good game, hard to find now though. At least it was for me, I had to get off ebay as no stores had a used copy. It's Tokyo Xtreme Racer but with way less cars. The trade off, though, is the cars that are featured have tons and tons of customization options.
Good game, hard to find now though. At least it was for me, I had to get off ebay as no stores had a used copy. It's Tokyo Xtreme Racer but with way less cars. The trade off, though, is the cars that are featured have tons and tons of customization options.
AstroNut325
Member
I feel like the only person who preferred the first two games without the licensed cars. Just pure, simple and fun arcade racing.
This is my opinion as well.
I miss the soundtracks more than anything.
3 was amazing. House real big!
https://youtu.be/p4lcBHED9hE
3 was amazing. House real big!
https://youtu.be/p4lcBHED9hE
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Does Rockstar still have all those studios? What are they doing right now? I hope they're working on games other than the new Red Dead.
psychotron
Member
I felt the same way. After how much I loved Dub Edition, LA just didn't work for me at all.
Quadraphonic
Member
Midnight Club LA was a pile of tone-deaf trash that showed they had no god damn clue how people played or enjoyed the game.
In MC3
ER (Which included the entire map of MC2 in it), police were a bit of a presence, but never more than an afterthought in races. That was fine.
In MCLA, the police were on your ass ALL THE GOD DAMN TIME. You had no freedom to drive around the city. It was infuriating. The whole game was a fucking cash-in. The achievements were fucking dumb. Like driving 100 miles on 2 wheels. Holy shit, that takes literal hours to do. There was even a T-Mobile sponsored achievement.
But the turd on the shit-cake of MCLA was the adaptive AI.
If you won a race, the AI got tougher and better. If you lost, it got easier.
Guess what? Sounds good? Except there's a catch. Remember Burnout Paradise and the "I'll never patch in the ability to restart a race" patch that put in the ability to restart a race?
People restart races. MCLA punished you for doing so by NOT adjusting the AI.
Every single person that had a good experience with MCLA is not someone who restarts races. Why do I know that? Because if you did, the game became nearly impossible after an hour or so. If you restart races, that means you are literally ONLY winning races, because you never crossed the finish line to lose, so the AI becomes an unbeatable punishing beast. That shit ain't fun.
In MC3
ER (Which included the entire map of MC2 in it), police were a bit of a presence, but never more than an afterthought in races. That was fine.In MCLA, the police were on your ass ALL THE GOD DAMN TIME. You had no freedom to drive around the city. It was infuriating. The whole game was a fucking cash-in. The achievements were fucking dumb. Like driving 100 miles on 2 wheels. Holy shit, that takes literal hours to do. There was even a T-Mobile sponsored achievement.
But the turd on the shit-cake of MCLA was the adaptive AI.
If you won a race, the AI got tougher and better. If you lost, it got easier.
Guess what? Sounds good? Except there's a catch. Remember Burnout Paradise and the "I'll never patch in the ability to restart a race" patch that put in the ability to restart a race?
People restart races. MCLA punished you for doing so by NOT adjusting the AI.
Every single person that had a good experience with MCLA is not someone who restarts races. Why do I know that? Because if you did, the game became nearly impossible after an hour or so. If you restart races, that means you are literally ONLY winning races, because you never crossed the finish line to lose, so the AI becomes an unbeatable punishing beast. That shit ain't fun.
canedaddy
Member
It's my favorite racing series by far... loved 'em all. The mix of speed, vehicle variety, wide-open courses and (in latter entries) customization is pure magic.
MC3 was the pinnacle for me but MC2 and MC:LA were also outstanding.
It's a shame that people found LA too hard. It's challenging to me but in a good way. I'm an old man with diminished skills and I beat the game, loving every minute of it.
I doubt we'll ever see another Midnight Club, which makes me very sad.
MC3 was the pinnacle for me but MC2 and MC:LA were also outstanding.
It's a shame that people found LA too hard. It's challenging to me but in a good way. I'm an old man with diminished skills and I beat the game, loving every minute of it.
I doubt we'll ever see another Midnight Club, which makes me very sad.
I recognize your name from the Gamefaqs days 🤓 The Rimbuk debacle (and user of course😉
were legendary. A group of us played PS2 MC2 beyond the day they shut the servers down in 2014. Eventually, the server we used stopped working so well, and we gave up.
I'd throw crazy money at a remastered collection that was online capable.
Midnight Club LA was a pile of tone-deaf trash that showed they had no god damn clue how people played or enjoyed the game.
In MC3
In MCLA, the police were on your ass ALL THE GOD DAMN TIME. You had no freedom to drive around the city. It was infuriating. The whole game was a fucking cash-in. The achievements were fucking dumb. Like driving 100 miles on 2 wheels. Holy shit, that takes literal hours to do. There was even a T-Mobile sponsored achievement.
But the turd on the shit-cake of MCLA was the adaptive AI.
If you won a race, the AI got tougher and better. If you lost, it got easier.
Guess what? Sounds good? Except there's a catch. Remember Burnout Paradise and the "I'll never patch in the ability to restart a race" patch that put in the ability to restart a race?
People restart races. MCLA punished you for doing so by NOT adjusting the AI.
Every single person that had a good experience with MCLA is not someone who restarts races. Why do I know that? Because if you did, the game became nearly impossible after an hour or so. If you restart races, that means you are literally ONLY winning races, because you never crossed the finish line to lose, so the AI becomes an unbeatable punishing beast. That shit ain't fun.
This is an interesting observation. Gotta remember this.
Thanks. I cant remember if I did restart alot of races or not.
About the police, yea...they forced you to drive more careful at times. I thought it was cool tho.
Zoidberg Jesus
Member
I hope they bring back this series someday. If Fire Pro Wrestling can live on, so can Midnight Club.
I recognize your name from the Gamefaqs days 🤓 The Rimbuk debacle (and user of course😉
A group of us played PS2 MC2 beyond the day they shut the servers down in 2014. Eventually, the server we used stopped working so well, and we gave up.
I'd throw crazy money at a remastered collection that was online capable.
I still consider it the finest game I ever made.
Jerry Orbach
Member
I found the challenge level just about perfect, but I also played the Complete Edition. Is it possible they changed how the adaptive difficulty worked in a patch? I remember the other drivers stayed pretty close but never passed me unless I made a mistake, which is more or less exactly what you want in an arcade racer.
Green Yoshi
Member
I played Midnight Club: Los Angeles after GTA IV and thought that the graphics were disappointing.
Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix for Xbox OG deserves a remake.
Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix for Xbox OG deserves a remake.
Would kill for an MCII and MC3 Dub remake with achievements and leader boards. Those two games were the pinnacle for me.
I remember spending countless hours playing CTF in MCII with the power-ups enabled.
Then remember when I got online with MC3, racing around in my Toyota Supra in Tokyo on the highways and then doing drag races in Detroit.
Soundtrack in MCII was great and the Paris map was really fun
I remember spending countless hours playing CTF in MCII with the power-ups enabled.
Then remember when I got online with MC3, racing around in my Toyota Supra in Tokyo on the highways and then doing drag races in Detroit.
Soundtrack in MCII was great and the Paris map was really fun
House real big
Cars real big
EVERYTHING REAL BIG
MC3 Dub has so much content for a PS2 game, it's amazing that it was between that and need for speed.
Two racing franchises literally at their peak. We had most wanted and MC3 Dub edition.
I remember just being blown away by the car customization in 3, there was just so much for a street racing game.
MC:LA was ok, but something felt a bit off about it and I can't wrap my finger around what it was. Still incredibly fun though
AlteredForms
Banned
I feel like the only person who preferred the first two games without the licensed cars. Just pure, simple and fun arcade racing.
I'm still tearing it up on MC2 online. There's a small PC community that races via Tunngle.
brokenbeans
Banned
I miss the days of when R* had regular releases not just 1 game every 5 years.
Get MC2 on PC if you have the option. It's, at this point, very accessible to just about any PC. And then get MC3 on Xbox.
Quadraphonic
Member
They did tweak it by that point, when they added south LA.
Kresnik258
Member
I'm still kicking myself that I didn't grab Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition for PSP on PSN before it got de-listed.
WizardofPeace
Member
I feel like the only person who preferred the first two games without the licensed cars. Just pure, simple and fun arcade racing.
I spent so many hours playing this with my friend, its ridiculous. Really wish we could get another one.