I'm in the same boat. My interest dropped instantly when I saw the snippets
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Need for Speed Heat Official Reveal Trailer (PC/Xbox One/PS4 - November 8th 2019)
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2015 was a garbage game though. It wasn't at all fun to play and the upgrade path was incredibly dumb.
I bought it on PS4 near launch and thought it would be Underground 3, it most definitely is not remotely that. Underground games felt like you were steering controlled chaos. That was always the best thing about Black Box era NFS games. They didn't try to toe the line between arcade and racing sim, they were unapologetically arcade racers. Ghost needs to go back and play the Black Box catalog and take pointers.
2015 is a boring slog with no soul...
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I picked up NFS Underground 2 a couple weeks back on the original Xbox, and after this trailer dropped yesterday, I played it for the first time last night. I immediately got sucked in and played for like an hour without realizing it. It's such a basic game, but it does what it sets out to do pretty well. I'm surprised by how many things you can customize, too. You can even dyno your car ffs. And there's practically no story to speak of in that one, so this trailer makes me wonder why they can't just go back to basics and make something they know is fun, then build on it from there.
I swear this is basically the rivals trailer, right down to the philosophical street code or whatever.
idk this looks gloriously cringe story wise. I never played Payback and 2015 was too nice with the positive messages and shit.
I hope it plays better than that game, I'd be willing to try this after some impressions and a price drop.
I hope it plays better than that game, I'd be willing to try this after some impressions and a price drop.
I SAID RIGHT NOW
Open-world racers have only be done well by a few studios like Playground Games, the NFS worlds just don't excite me. My favourite NFS was Underground that was focused on circuits or sprints which I vastly preferred.
Oh, and split-screen racing is more essential for me these days, outside of series that I deeply enjoy 1 player like Wipeout. I'm willing (And so are many others) to take the image quality hit if it means I can enjoy a good game with my friends next me.
Open-world racers have only be done well by a few studios like Playground Games, the NFS worlds just don't excite me. My favourite NFS was Underground that was focused on circuits or sprints which I vastly preferred.
Oh, and split-screen racing is more essential for me these days, outside of series that I deeply enjoy 1 player like Wipeout. I'm willing (And so are many others) to take the image quality hit if it means I can enjoy a good game with my friends next me.
The reveal would be a lot more refreshing if this gen didn't have multiple NFS, Forza Horzions and The Crew's already (which are all based on open worlds for those who don't know). I read about TDU 3 rumours as well earlier in the year. I'd have a much easier time ignoring the story/character aspect without all the other titles around. Either they nail Heat as a Open world racer where it matters or they don't or it'll just end up average/mediocore. For now I don't really care about it and i'm not surpised by that fact.
Wreckfest releases this month on consoles.
I really don't care about the stories in racing games so the NFS 2015 and Payback were kinda there and i'm sure this will be the same. If there's one more thing to love about Hot Pursuit 2010 and Most Wanted 2012 it's the racer vs cop aspect of the game (more on Hot Pursuit).
Day races on tracks vs night races on the streets with cops on your tale sounds good to me. Just hope the handling feels better than the other Ghost games.
The Undergound games had an engrossing campaign, like many of Blackbox's games had, which none of the Ghost games had. That's the biggest difference to me and the biggest strength of the Underground games. Customization and car selection were also much better.
Otherwise I can't say I was ever a huge fan of Black Box's kinda sluggish grippy driving model. Burnout and Midnight Club at the same time did it much better, cars had grip but you could also powerslide in a heavy way, and the sense of speed was much better. The Ghost games NFS games are too slippery, oversimplified, and weightless, but they're most definitely not simcade.
Based on the trailer the story seems to be cheesy as fuck while simultaneously taking itself way too seriously. I just want a simple rags to riches story in my racing game. I don't need insufferable characters and over the top plotlines. Midnight Club: LA had the perfect amount of story in it. It wasn't great but it didn't get in the way. Keep it simple.
I like the setting though. Hopefully the gameplay is a lot better than the last few NfS games at the very least.
I like the setting though. Hopefully the gameplay is a lot better than the last few NfS games at the very least.
I might not have liked any of the NFS games released this generation, but I'm pretty sure all of them sold well.
Wreckfest is a huge letdown after flatout. Its extremely boring and has some of the most uninspired and uninteresting tracks/racing ive seen
I'm excited. They stated the speed cards are gone and we now earn upgrade parts by winning races. You get to choose what time of day you want to play in at your garage, and free roam cops are back. Payback was pretty terrible imo but I have to admit the customization in it was good, and this one supposedly has even more customization than payback.
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Use some logic, if they werent succesful we wouldn't get another one after Payback.
It's funny Payback was held back because no one cared about the story and the speedcards were just shit. That being said, it became a good game but it could have been greater.
This looks like an in-game screenshot, and it looks really good.Kyza Evo X pre-order bonus
Ooooh that looks nice! Speed, cops, traffic, night, wet roads, city, just show me some nitros too and I'm ready to open my wallet!
Wrechfest seems like an alright Flatout spiritual successor, but I'm afraid the console ports will be interesting. I "know" a developer, who worked on it and he said that the complette physics engine is only using one thread of the CPU. Which is ridiculous. Maybe the Xbox One X verison gonna be acceptable. : |
Definitely. Payback is a joke with its cards system, looks worse, plays worse - you name it. Best Ghost NFS is still Rivals though.
Which ones exactly?
- Payback - Not street gangstas
- 2015 - Not street gangstas (probably the most "in" the car culture version of NFS but still bad)
- Rivals - Not street gangstas
- Most Wanted 12 - Not street gangstas
- The Run - we dont talk about this game
- Shift 2 - Not street gangstas
- Hot Pursuit 10 - Probably the best racing game of last gen.
- Shift - Not street gangstas
- Undercover - finally some street gangstas....but doesnt have anywhere near the same feel as this game.
- Pro Street - Not street gangastas
- Carbon - was a decent sequel to Most Wanted
- Most Wanted - The Icon not a gangsta is sight.
- Underground 2 - Basically the fast and the furious
- Underground - Brooke Burke was in this...the cringe was what we wanted.
No gangstas....no real story in the pre-Underground era so I wont bother listing them.
So which "bad" Need for Speeds are you actually talking about.
Because, the truly bad ones Payback, The Run and 2015 all didnt have gangstas and looked/sounded very different to this game.
Undercover was about an undercover cop so yeah it had street gangs or whatever....but theres no way this and Undercover shared anything style wise.
So please tell me which "same old generic street gangsta crap on the previous bad nfs" are you actually talking about?
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Since when Payback, Rivals and NFS 2015 are street gangsta crap? lol
Its when people dont play the games they randomly spew ignorant hate.
I think Undercover is most - ohh street syndicate stuff....but even it doesnt have "street gangsta crap" like patientx is talking about.
I've watched the trailer a few times now and I think what they were trying to do is work the yelling police officer into the start of the song. I think...
I got NFS Rivals for under 5 dollars yeara ago and olayed about 1 hour of it, enough of that driving model. EA love to reboot the NFS series and making it look like exactly the previous games lol
I like the idea of the game though, more interested in the legal races (daytime).
I like the idea of the game though, more interested in the legal races (daytime).
No MTs or lootboxes?
If this is true it's a day 1 purchase for me!
If this is true it's a day 1 purchase for me!
Ten bucks says the game will get loot boxes a month or two after launch.
I'm interested in this. Forza Horizon 4 is a fantastic driving game, but a poor racing game IMO. The progression system makes none of the races significant - your placement literally does not matter at all. I also don't like how the rewind mechanic factors into races, and makes it too easy to always just rewind at will to win every race. That takes away all the excitement and tension.
The racing is built with using the 'rewind' feature in mind (needing to move through narrow checkpoint flags, for example). It's way too frustrating turned off. So you can either easily win by rewinding throughout the race (just not a fun mechanic IMO) or turn it off, miss a checkpoint, and then the whole race is thrown away.
That said, the even bigger issue with the racing is definitely the awful progression system. Worst I have ever seen.
Good thing the driving, exploring, and many other events (PR stunts, mini stories, collectibles, etc.) are so damn good to make up for the racing.
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Never played the PC version but i was a huge fan of the Flatout 1/2 and UC on the 360 so i was hoping for this to become something like Flatout.
This consoles were never going to run the game like the PC version runs so Bugbear might have tweaked the game a lot to run on PS4/X1
What i find weird is that the game launches next Tuesday and there´s no previews/marketing around this launch. This after being delayed from a November release.