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Need for Speed: Carbon - Retrospective

Mitchell Diedrich

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An overview of the story and gameplay elements of Need for Speed: Carbon, the game that made everyone mad by being not Need for Speed: Most Wanted (except it kind of is).

I'm Mitchell Diedrich, and I like to talk about video games, and, sometimes, other stuff.

Chapters
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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Prologue
06:36 - Welcome to Palmont City
10:36 - Kenji's Bushido
20:32 - Angie's 21st Street
27:07 - Wolf's TFK
29:03 - Darius' Stacked Deck
35:22 - Rumination

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20 Comments

@mitchelldiedrich Creator 3 years ago Pinned

On acquiring the game: towards the end of the video, I mentioned that I received a nastygram from my ISP. After this video released, I discovered a different way to obtain the game that doesn't run that risk. I won't share that information here because I very much like my channel and don't want to jeopardize it, but my Discord server may be of interest to you: https://discord.gg/2ndtX7JY

@kushkeniry3798 3 years ago

The live action cutscenes are 10 times better then the horrible ones we get now

@SleepDaemon 3 years ago

4:39 the "Activate Windows" watermark that you see through out the entire game is the best thing a game could have.

@Leequidude 3 years ago

My dad played this game a lot but there was one moment that we will never forget. It never happened again. During the final canyon duel with Darius, Darius fell off the cliff. We couldn't replicate it again no matter how hard we push him lol. That was like a one in a million moment for us.

@bodivanbodivan3668 2 years ago

Whats funny is the fact that instead of sending a text message to tell you how much they hate you, they rally the entire crew, wait in an alley until you drive by, then pull up on you, let down their windows, and speak for 12 seconds just to then pull off in unison. Its utterly amazing.

@Crogatho 3 years ago

Everything is a DB-9, didn't you know? The toyota across the street is actually a DB-9 in disguise.

@dylanthomas9907 3 years ago

Bodykit sculpting. That was a whole new level of amazing

@Bruno80796 3 years ago (edited)

At the prologue, when the guy with the red coat asked cross what's the player's bounty, cross should've said "he is the most wanted"

@AndrewSmith-ub6xs 3 years ago

one important cultural factor to remember when discussing NFS:MW and Carbon respectively, and I swear no one ever mentions it; NFS:MW ('05) was still riding high off the 'street racing' persona success of 2 Fast 2 Furious ('03), and Carbon (October '06) was running hot off the success of The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (June '06). The fact that you could kind-of 'replay' those moments from Tokyo Drift was a peak moment in my childhood.

@momoiroyui 3 years ago

OP: Muscle cars bad

NFSC players: Skill issue

@xxDROCK 1 year ago

Darius: What’s his bounty?
Cross: $150k
Me: Pretty sure it was 10 mill in Most Wanted

@FGC292 2 years ago

When I was a kid playing this, my only memory of this game is that it has a huge emphasis on the color blue for some reason.

@n00bGT-R 3 years ago (edited)

a bunch of corrections:
-muscle cars arent shit in this game in fact they are the exact opposite, they are kinda useless in tier 1 but in later tiers they have far superior acceleration than the rest of the cars in the game (corvette and viper are known to be the most op cars of the game because of their insane acceleration, you can beat darius canyon duel easily by overtaking him in the first turn with those two)
-the minimap is actually supposed to show the race course, i personally never had that issue so its probably a problem with your copy
-the game is called Carbon because of the Carbon Canyon which is where you do all the boss races

@Lugnificent 3 years ago

Man if carbon didn’t have such a short story and half it’s content cut it would have been way bigger than it is today. Still such a great game and mods keep it alive as ever. Great video

@spidre-nw7od 2 years ago

The "supra" wasn't a DB9, it was obviously a 370z

@matthewwarner3618 3 years ago

Darius pulled the Disney villain plot twist move💀

@C4RB0N3TA 3 years ago

They were making these Games with love unlike these days

@xristaka8199 3 years ago

One of the greatest racing games to ever exist.

@weakestlink20 3 years ago

What I really like about Palmont City's style is how each of the districts are designed with your car class in mind at the start. Downtown is tight and technical as fuck, things that tuners don't have much trouble with. Kempton on the other hand is chock full of wide roads and has lots of soft turns, making life easier for muscle cars and giving them the ability and flex their might. Fortuna and Silverton are rather varied in their layouts, Fortuna moreso because Exotics aren't the most distinct in terms of playstyle, and Silverton is where it all comes together.