So most people have said that the quality of Need For Speed games have rapidly declined in the past decade and Need For Speed Rivals has marked the beginning of the end for NFS some people have said. I was quite disheartened to hear that the only reason the next installment has been shifted to 2015 was due to time constraints and not because EA knows their games are far below expectation and because this series is on it's deathbed. What would you like to see in the next Need For Speed game?
The State Of Need For Speed
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 09:19
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IDK... What else could we get in a NFS Game that's new, besides the cars? Really, what's the point in making every year a Need For Speed Game that is race, race, race...
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 09:20
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I'm completely satisfied with thinking the franchise is finished perfectly with:
I really loved my first nfs games: High Stakes (1999) and Hot Pursuit 2 (2002).
Then I got Grid 2 and liked it a lot. I don't really need any more driving games now or soon.
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 09:40
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Need for Speed crashed when EA decided to boot Black Box. Black Box flopped a few times, but I think that was because they were moving away from their street racing games and into a bizarre arcade simulation direction with stuff like Shift. And then they got expletive Criterion, who expletive expletived all over my beloved expletive Most Wanted, who literally only made two expletive reboots, no new games, one of which was an expletively TERRIBLE Burnout knockoff. Expletive.
Who knows where Ghost games will take it. Rivals was a bad direction (this multiplayer focus, insipid story). I hope they go back to street racing with a vaguely interesting plot. Most Wanted, Carbon, and Undercover are really head and shoulders above the rest (though Carbon suffers from bad mechanics, and Undercover suffered from a poorly developed open-world--fun to race in, but you'll never find yourself driving to a car shop to buy a car, or buy aftermarket parts).
Additionally, EA has sole rights to the Porsche name in videogames. While most companies with sole rights will share them, EA isn't doing that. In 2000 or something they made an excellent game called Porsche Unleashed, that featured Porsches from way back to the old 356 in the 1950s, up to the Boxter (as the newest model) in like 1999 or 2000. Given that it's been at least ten years, and that Porsche has made so many new models in the last ten years (especially compared to the previous ten), I think it would be great if they made another Porsche-centric game featuring every model out there, and maybe a broader spectrum of race types (maybe some off-road/rally type stuff for the Cayenne).
But yeah, NFS has been in the dump pretty much since around Undercover (The Run was a neat concept, but had poor execution in some ways).
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 10:19
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Underground 3 really, why not go back to the campy, flashy OTT world of 2001 era, 2 Fast 2 Furious Style.
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 10:37
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It should be noted that most of the best Need For Speed games like Shift, Shift 2 Unleashed, and Hot Pursuit are made by other studios rather than EA's in-house developers.
If a Need For Speed game is made in-house, the odds are it's not worth your money.
If a Need For Speed game is made in-house, the odds are it's not worth your money.
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 10:39
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As is the case with most anything EA makes these days.
I do love Hot Pursuit 1 and 2 though. Had an aboslute blast with those. So much more fun than just a plain racing game.
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Posté 07 décembre 2014 - 11:48
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Honestly, I just want SHIFT 3 - sans Nürburgring.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 12:09
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Honestly, I just want SHIFT 3 - sans Nürburgring.
No way, man.
Nurburgring is what makes those racing games great.
In fact, nowadays I simply refuse to buy any racing games that don't have Nordschleife.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 12:12
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No way, man.
Nurburgring is what makes those racing games great.
In fact, nowadays I simply refuse to buy any racing games that don't have Nordschleife.
I'll take it if they at least keep it out of the career mode - keep the track for free races or something.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 12:22
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I'll take it if they at least keep it out of the campaign mode - keep the track for free races or something.
Haha, I love Nurburgring.
In college, my friends and I would play NFS Shift together, and try to beat each other's Nordschleife lap time in the Maserati MC12 GT1. We all bought Logitech G25 wheels, just to do exactly that.
I loved Nurburgring so much that I even completed the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in Gran Turismo 5 with my favorite LMP car, the Peugeot 908 HDi FA P. Gran Turismo 6 only had a Nurburgring 24 "Minutes" event. It was so easy that I won the race countless times with my Honda Odyssey minivan.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 01:24
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I want that feeling that my car is "my car" again. Plus a fully functional split screen mode where I can play offline with my friends. A variety of game modes would be welcome to. Though, it's those types of things that are being phased out in all AAA titles, so I'm not really holding my breath.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 01:56
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I want that feeling that my car is "my car" again. Plus a fully functional split screen mode where I can play offline with my friends. A variety of game modes would be welcome to. Though, it's those types of things that are being phased out in all AAA titles, so I'm not really holding my breath.
Well, Forza 5 offers livery editor so you can use your own designs on your cars. You can do plenty of performance and visual customization.
It also supports two player split-screen but I don't think you can race against AI cars.
Gran Turismo 6 doesn't have a livery editor, but you can still a lot of performance/chassis tuning and some visual modification like wheels, aerokits, and custom spoilers.
Like Forza 5, it supports two player split-screen without AI cars as well.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 01:59
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Well there's always Mario Kart. A race without turtle shells and banana peels flying everywhere is no race at all I say.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 03:18
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It should be noted that most of the best Need For Speed games like Shift, Shift 2 Unleashed, and Hot Pursuit are made by other studios rather than EA's in-house developers.
If a Need For Speed game is made in-house, the odds are it's not worth your money.
YOU ARE CRAZY.
Did you really say Black Box was bad? 
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 03:40
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Grid 2 is awesome:
Though its sequel was meh, so I didn't get it.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 04:56
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YOU ARE CRAZY.
Did you really say Black Box was bad?
Yes.
My favorite Need For Speed game is Underground 2 which was made by Black Box, but they also made all the worst Need For Speed games. Like Carbon, ProStreet, Undercover, NFS World, and the Run.
I didn't even bat an eye when I found out they were getting shut down. They won't be missed.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 05:05
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Burnout...........all I want is a new Burnout game!
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 05:19
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Burnout...........all I want is a new Burnout game!
Yeah, if anything, Criterion should be the one to make the next Need For Speed game. They are the only in-house team who can still make a NFS game that doesn't turn out to be complete garbage.
I also enjoyed Burnout Paradise, Hot Pursuit (2010), and Most Wanted (2012) immensely.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 06:29
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Yes.
My favorite Need For Speed game is Underground 2 which was made by Black Box, but they also made all the worst Need For Speed games. Like Carbon, ProStreet, Undercover, NFS World, and the Run.
I didn't even bat an eye when I found out they were getting shut down. They won't be missed.
Perhaps we see different things in the NFS franchise. My favorite NFS game by far is Porsche Unleashed, which featured an impressive amount of customization--not cosmetic, but performance. I played a few of the earlier titles (the original Hot Pursuit is remembered fondly), but this was really my favorite and I feel a strength of the NFS games: customization.
Oh well.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 06:33
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That customization I'm underground 2."
Amazing
Amazing
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 07:08
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Perhaps we see different things in the NFS franchise. Oh well.
There is no doubt that Black Box's Need For Speed games were the defining low-point of the franchise.
What I really want is another Porsche Unleashed with semi-sim style driving physics. It saddens me to see EA hold the Porsche license and yet they have completely failed to produce a quality product that can accurately represent the Porsche brand.
EA have all the money, and some of the best talents in the industry, yet they still choose to waste their money producing subpar Need For Speed games.
I think we'll need to wait for a long time before EA can make another game that can top Porsche Unleashed.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 07:21
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My favorite NFS game by far is Porsche Unleashed, which featured an impressive amount of customization--not cosmetic, but performance. I played a few of the earlier titles (the original Hot Pursuit is remembered fondly), but this was really my favorite and I feel a strength of the NFS games: customization.
Oh well.
Porsche Unleashed was made long before Black Box was a thing.
It brought the Need For Speed franchise to a whole new level until it was ruined by Hot Pursuit 2 and the Black Box garbage.
Many other racing games now offer more and better customization. What Need For Speed really needs is a game that people can play and talk about for many years, not something like the Run where you played it for a few hours, tossed aside and forgot about it.
Customization is only a small part of what makes a racing game good.
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Posté 08 décembre 2014 - 07:31
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*gasp* Hot Pursuit 2 was not garbage! You take that back. 
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