The little chat in the shoutbox stirred something inside of me. A sort of almost childish fondness for my early NR2003 days. And I know that everyone has been new to this 18 year old title at some point, some people veterans dating back to NASCAR Racing 1 or The original Indycar Racing(or if you are truly a dinosaur Papy's Indianapolis 500 ).
And over all those years, you make some memories. So what are your most fondly remembered moments in your early NR/Papyrus Career?
I started around 2015/2016-ish. For the first few weeks I was running the default content as is, straight off the disc (yes, I DID buy a legitimate disc copy, sadly that has been lost a long time ago). A bit later I added a few addon cars from TeamSBR to fill out missing full time teams (mainly the Ganassi dodges) and I eventually started tooling around with the in game paintbooth, which while archaic, I got pretty decent at working through. Through that I made my first carset, an eclectic mix of characters from my favorite videogames/cartoons, others completely fictional cars/drivers( I had a #30 Dogecoin car I do remember.)
About this time I found out about mock seasons and alternate universe carsets, so I gave it a whirl myself. This was my first proper carset, having around 46-50 cars, all based around an alternate 2015/2016 season. It has long been lost to time, but little tidbits I do remember are Danica Patrick was in the 2nd(3rd?) HScott Motorsports car sponsored by TaxAct, while the #9 for Richard Petty Motorsports was occupied by Dakota Armstrong with his Winfield colors who I had pegged as running for ROTY.
At this time I had no wheel, nor any idea of how to hook up a controller, add additional tracks and mods, or paint using an external program. My favorite tracks at the time were Bristol(fast and high banked, good for the lack of percision with a keyboard) and Kansas of all tracks (I don't know why, but Kansas was one of my regulars for driving at.) Due to the impercise and sub-optimal control setup I mainly stuck to arcade mode, and AI strength rarely ventured past 80-85 percent. But it was a hoot nonetheless.
And over all those years, you make some memories. So what are your most fondly remembered moments in your early NR/Papyrus Career?
I started around 2015/2016-ish. For the first few weeks I was running the default content as is, straight off the disc (yes, I DID buy a legitimate disc copy, sadly that has been lost a long time ago). A bit later I added a few addon cars from TeamSBR to fill out missing full time teams (mainly the Ganassi dodges) and I eventually started tooling around with the in game paintbooth, which while archaic, I got pretty decent at working through. Through that I made my first carset, an eclectic mix of characters from my favorite videogames/cartoons, others completely fictional cars/drivers( I had a #30 Dogecoin car I do remember.)
About this time I found out about mock seasons and alternate universe carsets, so I gave it a whirl myself. This was my first proper carset, having around 46-50 cars, all based around an alternate 2015/2016 season. It has long been lost to time, but little tidbits I do remember are Danica Patrick was in the 2nd(3rd?) HScott Motorsports car sponsored by TaxAct, while the #9 for Richard Petty Motorsports was occupied by Dakota Armstrong with his Winfield colors who I had pegged as running for ROTY.
At this time I had no wheel, nor any idea of how to hook up a controller, add additional tracks and mods, or paint using an external program. My favorite tracks at the time were Bristol(fast and high banked, good for the lack of percision with a keyboard) and Kansas of all tracks (I don't know why, but Kansas was one of my regulars for driving at.) Due to the impercise and sub-optimal control setup I mainly stuck to arcade mode, and AI strength rarely ventured past 80-85 percent. But it was a hoot nonetheless.
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