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[Wheelman75]

So I was playing Need For Speed: Most Wanted, and an idea came to me. It's called "Interactive Custom Soundtracks". Basically, the way it works is that you create a custom soundtrack as usual, but unlike other custom soundtracks, you can choose whether certain tunes will play at the menu screen, during gameplay, or both! It'd be awesome if next-gen consoles had this feature! What do you folks think?

[PostalDude]

Agreed. Would be pretty cool. And thank Jebus they put that feature in, there are some horrid songs in that game.
Did you get some of those mods I showed to you?
/offtopic.

[Miller]

I played some other NFS games on console platforms owned by friends. Is this not what I saw in Underground, or was that only what you could do with the music tracks that came with the game?

That was not really my kind of music, but I did buy "Body Rock" and "The Only" after hearing those tunes. My friend did not like it when he would ask me what I wanted to hear while we raced, and I would tell him to turn it all off except those two songs. I know the rest of the tunes were not crap, just not my thing. Catchy, though. One of the other tracks I supposedly do not like was going through my head just the other day, and it has been a long time since I last played the game.

I have not played many driving games, including Need For Speed. I bought NFS3 and NFS4, and will be getting NFS5 now that I found out it has the driver's view (cockpit view, dash cam, whatever) and a replay feature. I thought that had stopped with NFS4. Too bad no weather effects in NFS5 like in NFS4, or does NFS5 have that, too?

I hope I did not ruin your thread with the part of my post that came after the question regarding the topic.

[RacingFreak]

Good idea through, but it`s already used. Remember NFS2, NFS3 and MM2? These and many another games from that era had interactive BGM. MM2 used direct music producer for it`s interactive audio (which program is awesome. I tried to compose soundtracks and it does good things). Another information here.

@Miller: I have NFS: 2000 (Porsche Unleashed) years before and it`s AWESOME. I think it`s the last good game in the whole NFS Series. Also It`s 3D engine and such, is just the better from NFS: HS for Playstation (remember that NFS: HS for PC and PS are a lot different). The only bad thing is that NFS: PU doesn`t have split screen feature, but it`s still cool to drive all these Porsche cars during `50s to `00s. And the carrtuning is cool (it`s better than that Underground and Carbon s**t and such horrible nitros and spoilers).

That`s my opinion on that. If my post is annoying through, delete it.

[Miller]

They have this music feature thing in NFS3? I did not know that.

I did not have that game very long. I tried it, and was not impressed with it, so I gave it to my nephew. Cars seemed to hover above the track and they also would not smash up the way I had hoped to see. For me, even Forza 3 fails because I cannot get into a game in which a head-on collision does little more than scratch up the paint.

Thank you for the reply, TheOldGamer.

[Wheelman75]

Agreed. Would be pretty cool. And thank Jebus they put that feature in, there are some horrid songs in that game.
Did you get some of those mods I showed to you?
/offtopic.

You mean the police car ones? Well, I've seen them, but I haven't downloaded them because I don't have the PC version of Most Wanted. If I did have that version, I would definitely download them.

I played some other NFS games on console platforms owned by friends. Is this not what I saw in Underground, or was that only what you could do with the music tracks that came with the game?

That was not really my kind of music, but I did buy "Body Rock" and "The Only" after hearing those tunes. My friend did not like it when he would ask me what I wanted to hear while we raced, and I would tell him to turn it all off except those two songs. I know the rest of the tunes were not crap, just not my thing. Catchy, though. One of the other tracks I supposedly do not like was going through my head just the other day, and it has been a long time since I last played the game.

I have not played many driving games, including Need For Speed. I bought NFS3 and NFS4, and will be getting NFS5 now that I found out it has the driver's view (cockpit view, dash cam, whatever) and a replay feature. I thought that had stopped with NFS4. Too bad no weather effects in NFS5 like in NFS4, or does NFS5 have that, too?

I hope I did not ruin your thread with the part of my post that came after the question regarding the topic.

Yeah, that's what gave me the inspiration for this idea. However, in Underground thru Carbon, you can only do that with the regular music tracks. There was no option for custom soundtracks in those games (maybe in the PC versions, but I'm not sure how to do that). With my idea, you could do it with your own custom soundtracks.

Also, it's OK. No thread ruining here. In fact, I have something else to add: There's a challenge or two in the PS2 version of NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 that has a dashboard view, but only in that specific challenge(s).

Good idea through, but it`s already used. Remember NFS2, NFS3 and MM2? These and many another games from that era had interactive BGM. MM2 used direct music producer for it`s interactive audio (which program is awesome. I tried to compose soundtracks and it does good things). Another information here.

@Miller: I have NFS: 2000 (Porsche Unleashed) years before and it`s AWESOME. I think it`s the last good game in the whole NFS Series. Also It`s 3D engine and such, is just the better from NFS: HS for Playstation (remember that NFS: HS for PC and PS are a lot different). The only bad thing is that NFS: PU doesn`t have split screen feature, but it`s still cool to drive all these Porsche cars during `50s to `00s. And the carrtuning is cool (it`s better than that Underground and Carbon s**t and such horrible nitros and spoilers).

That`s my opinion on that. If my post is annoying through, delete it.

No no no, that's a different feature altogether. What I'm talking about is the ability to create a custom soundtrack & choose which songs will play at the menus, during gameplay, or both.

However, now that you mention it, I thought of another interesting feature: You can set certain songs to play during an "extreme" section, sorta like how the first few Driver games had normal & police chase music.