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I LIVED for these games as a kid. They're a shell of what they were. Luckily, i can play nfs hp2 on my ps2 all day long and live in 2002 happily !
Oh, finally? It only took them a hundred years.
I really liked Need for Speed World and discovered it 1 week before the severs were taken offline.
At least I still have Need for Speed Most Wanted III.
I wouldn't know how to fix the series so that it'd sell. Same as burnout. The arcade open world racing game with a sterile storyline is dominated by Forza Horizon. Cop chases don't seem to spark excitement like before the PS3 era. The last couple of NFS games, I played abit and even though they're about street racing, didn't feel very grungy, youthful angst and peacocking, like I'd expect street racing to be
Street racing doesn't seem to spark excitement like the pre-PS3 era. I'm thinking every game after NFS Carbon hasn't been able to capture any sense of mystique of street racing and that just may be that street racing isn't culturally significant anymore. Fast and the Furious isn't about street racing anymore
With Forza Motorsport seemingly on the way out, there's room for a multiplatform Gran Turismo competitor. Something that's gamepad centric rather than wheel. Seems just as hard to resonate with gamers as these other racing games though
The only way to possibly save the series is for EA to sell it off to another company but I highly doubt that they would do that. They will just let it sit till the next console releases and make a half assed game full of micro transactions and then blame the fans when it doesn’t sell good.
I am biased, but an Underground 3 (with no MTX) with a well written storyline but with lots additional open world gameplay would be a return to form for NFS.
I had some very good memories with Underground.
Unbound was basically Underground 3. Story wasn't exceptional or anything, though.
I tried to play through Unbound and I couldn't deal with the writing. It was "hello fellow kids" to me which I feel has been a worsening problem with video game writing since Borderlands 2. Even worse with it feels to me like video game writing really tried to moralize moral grey's or bad behavior or make characters not just people that want to go fast, make money, feel cool, getting in trouble with the law for going an incredibly dangerous for anyone in your vicinity speed disobeying traffic signals, probably associated with organized crime and just trying to survive but in over their head because their only skills really are just cars, ..., they're actually people just trying to express themselves and find community of deep down kind and good people
Also I felt like I was playing rich/sheltered kids ideas of street racing and people that live in the night. Way too idealistic. Should be way more cutthroat, emotional burnouts just trying to go fast as their happy/thrill place. The sheltered/rich kids fantasy comes to mind when games try to make living among graffiti and gangs as like living among street art and community health organizations. It's the digital nomad view of local (underground) cultures and the digital nomad view of the old guy in the club as a really cool dude rather than probably a bit of a creep and probably very immature and irresponsible
Oh I hated unbound. The music, voice acting etc was so pandering and gross. The animations were kind of neat though.
Le fast and le furious
And the other projects will still end up being slop anyway
Apparently they do -not- have a Need for Speed
I was in Hot Pursuit to post this first, but you beat me to it.
I hate to do it, but we should Shift the conversation to something else.
Way to drive home the point
Gotta pump out more Sims DLC.
I think the saddest part was observing a clear wind down of Sims 4 then last second "lol JK we're not releasing another sims game" and the entire player base seemed to release a collective sigh that some of the structural problems that have plagued TS4 are here to stay
The last good NFS was Hot Pursuit and that was 15 years ago.
I agree, except I feel shift 2 was a neat blip with cool features , for those who like circuit racing, which really isn't what nfs is about though.
Shift 2 was actually pretty good, I forgot about that one.
I thought the same until I played Heat a couple of years ago. Heat is solid and definitely reminds you of the golden age of NFS with Underground and Most Wanted.
Fuck, my NFS : hot percent was 28 years ago.
It slapped tho.
Have they finally had the revelation that the series has been shovelware for the past decade or more?
Don't worry, we are in the age of the Remastered. The coming 30 years are covered.
I genuinely think we need a "Stop Killing Games" like movement to resurrect old games, but with a more public-domain approach.
As in remaking games like NFS, Command & Conquer, Freedom Fighter or Earth-2150 but make the assets public domain so that others can pick up & add things to the setting
Trademarks should expire quicker I guess. That said, copyright in general is broken.
Maaan.
I mean, I would take a Burnout instead. I just wonder if it'd make sense to try that at this point with a completely different market and group of people. I guess we can see if they figure out that Skate reboot and go from there.
Burnout Paradise city and NFS underground 2 I spent so many hours on. Loved those.
That's fine; I lost interest in the series after Underground. NFS was ruined for me anyway when I learned what Rubberband AI was. (Which was also around the same time I started driving real cars, and thus began realizing just how terrible the physics are in all but the most hardcore sim racers.)
Aw that’s a shame. My kid loves NFS Heat. It’s his most favorite game.
I played it recently (after not having played any NFS in like 15 years since I’ve come to hate AAA slop), and I thought it was really fun! The driving dynamics especially, and I was surprised to see so many different cars and so much customisation possible.
Not perfect of course, the music is utter garbage (to my ears) and it could have been more polished, but I definitely didn’t expect I’d play for 30 hours. They were on the right track.
Yet more evidence that the next decade may not be a good time to be a fan of racing games. Feels bad.
First they cancel Dirt Rally (later known as EA WRC), now they cancel need for speed... At this point the only AAA racing games left will be Forza.