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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.
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
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 !
The last good NFS was Hot Pursuit and that was 15 years ago.
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.
I hate to advocate for live service but...
An open world MMO racing game with a map that has roadworks that change the layout, on a weekly basis. Cops that do crackdowns on certain makes of cars, Carjackers trying to steal your ride, an ever evolving racing scene, weather events... give me a career mode where pushing my luck and teasing the cops too much costs me real progress. New songs in the radio every month, new events, new storylines and new arcs.
E.A could absolutely put it together and it could be great. But they would microtransaction the hell out of it, P2W, monetise the arse out of it and make it terrible. Because EA
I can't agree more with you! Nfs hot pursuit was the best. I'm talking nfs from 1998.
Nfs 3 hot pursuit was amazing. I found out that if you drove below speed limit the cops wouldnt come after you. Was hilarious watching them go after opponents instead of me
You know there is a modern patch? You can still play this game today. Apply the modern patch by VEG. And you can play widescreen and other fixes.
People still play it today, even multiplayer see also the telegram group: https://t.me/classicnfs
Bless, what an amazing thing to learn on my day off
I play all my ps2 games on pcsx2 (also on linux but it works on all os). Duckstation for ps1. Works perfectly.
I don't know if people play multiplayer online with pcsx2.
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.
I think the Criterion Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted games are underrated. I get why, they're very Burnout-y for NFS fans but don't play just like Burnout, but man, are they sticky and precise and smooth.
And they still look great today, too.
I think Hot Pursuit played more like Burnout than Burnout Paradise for me.
Although the series peaked at Burnout 3.
Hot pursuit is like a polished high budget hypothetical burnout 2.5 remake
Both MW and Paradise have very quirky handling built for their open worlds, but I honestly really love both.
Paradise is such a perfect little gem of a small open world that is entirely consistent and has super clear design rules, sometimes to a fault. MW is a super smooth, compulsive expansion on that. They both hold up amazingly well today, even visually.
The worst part of that most wanted is that its called most wanted. It's a great game but it's name causes it to create comparisons to the og most wanted which for most, myself included, have big nostalgia for
And the other projects will still end up being slop anyway
Have they finally had the revelation that the series has been shovelware for the past decade or more?
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.)
I think undercover was the last true NFS. Fast cars. High speed feeling. Tuning. Cops. Over the top grippy handling at times. Then it turned into cow dung with occasional decent ones but they never got the sense of speed or the fun worlds right for me again.
Yet more evidence that the next decade may not be a good time to be a fan of racing games. Feels bad.
To be fair, Kirby Air Ride is finally getting a sequel, and that may as well be the only racing game we'll ever need ever again.
The indie and AA scene have finally started catching up to those tastes of mine that AAA left behind in the racing genre, for what it's worth. What are you looking for?
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.
Of course they do
NFS 2000 Porsche Unleashed was peak NFS, its been downhill ever since.
Man I think underground 2 was so my favorite
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.
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.
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.
Pffft, 5th, Porsche, part was the last playable anyway...
Oh, finally? It only took them a hundred years.