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The new Need for Speed game is titled "Need for Speed Heat"
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This actually looks really nice. I have a lot of nostalgia for this series despite not really enjoying 2015 and Payback. Hopefully this is the one that returns it to form, cos another failure may kill this series off forever.Leaked art from EA's forum
Honestly if this is actually reflective of what the game looks like, rather than just how they're marketing the game, then I'm excited for it just for the style alone.Leaked art from EA's forum
I am so digging the Miami color vibes from this game.Leaked art from EA's forum
I hope the box art continues this color scheme (I'm sure it will since it'll be here in Miami)
Day one.
rivals was the last 'good' NFS game, and it was already just a very poor clone of Hot Pursuit 2010....
Infact, that's just what i want, a remaster of hot pursuit 2010 at 4K 60 with all DLC
its a shame that the need for speed series has been on the backfoot this whole gen. rivals was a launch title in 20 friggen 13
Infact, that's just what i want, a remaster of hot pursuit 2010 at 4K 60 with all DLC
its a shame that the need for speed series has been on the backfoot this whole gen. rivals was a launch title in 20 friggen 13
Story and open world, I'm out. Time to delete AGAIN my NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 save file and start fresh !
Or this, yes ! And keep the custom playlist feature, it made the game special for me !
Sorry EA, but after Forza Horizon 4 being pretty much everything I need in a racing game combined with your shitty track record of micro-transactions, I'm gonna give this a hard pass.
If that's the aesthetic of the game, I'm sold.Leaked art from EA's forum
Doesn't sound inspiring. I just want a track based arcade racer. EA had a great racing developer in Criterion but... You know...
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Third time's a charm
payback doesn't count ok just trust me THIS is the game
Lootboxes had ZERO impact on NFS. You could get crappy cosmetics (yay neon underglow) or shit that you get from just playing the game. I never bought a single loot box and I'm the type of person that likes to buy loot boxes.
Asked this a while back and got told that nothing is worth the time, even "free", but I have several NFS thanks to Origin Access, is there one worth playing? I'm no big on racing games, but sometimes I want to dig one
Try Need for Speed (2015). It's pretty accessible and fun to play.
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The only racing game that had a Story that actually mattered was Jak X Combat Racing. It picked up from the end of Jak 3 and actually gave a unique twist to racing. Certain game mechanics actually got altered based on story events (i.e. there's a few races where someone messes with Jak's car and you can't use weapons for that set of races, but everyone else can).
Need for Speed + Story = Fast and Furious i guess.
Need for Speed + Story = Fast and Furious i guess.
If the next NFS is a mix of Rivals and 2015 that's okay with me. I really enjoyed Rivals. Also with NFS running on an updated Frostbite w/ HDR at the very least it should be a feast for the eyes.
thats pretty clean. I really dig the logo tbh.Leaked art from EA's forum
This. The neon aesthetic/lights could look amazing with HDR. If EA learned not to have another Payback, I'll be optimistic about this one.
And I don't have a problem with a darker, more serious tone. I mean it's a racing game, the worst thing that can happen is your best friend is killed and you have to avenge them with a race against the villain... hardly anything to get worked up about.
I just remembered, Khyzyl Saleem works for Ghost Games. why they don't make a game based on his style. they can still have the real cars but there'd be a very distinct visual style. especially if they made the world fit around the cars
Starving for this. The last arcade track based game I played was Gravel. Fun game. Not many this gen.
NFS 2015 is a gem, instead of building on top of that they went with creating a poor man's Forza Horizon with the worst car upgrade mechanic that has ever been created in a AAA racing game; Speed Cards. I hated that so much I dropped the game even though I relatively enjoyed other aspects of the game.
If you can forgive the shallow open world and the lame story of NFS 2015 at its core it still has one of the most beautiful atmosphere and graphics.
I'm in.
If you can forgive the shallow open world and the lame story of NFS 2015 at its core it still has one of the most beautiful atmosphere and graphics.
I'm in.
Hahaha right! we've been down this road before NFS.
I personally can't wait to see what generic Shia Lebouf in the first Transformers movie dude we look like this time.
NFS doesn't need a story, and I love me some good day/night cycle (there was even a mod that "unlocked" it in the 2015 reboot).
Everything else is good news, though. Rivals is great, and Ghost Games used to have some top talent there, hopefully they'll be able to pull it off.
Also, '80s Miami neon vaporwave aesthetic is amazing for a racing game.
I think GRID will scratch that itch. Most other track racers are going harder into sim territory. Shift 3 is definitely not happening.
Jeez that is wild. Too bad the game will look nothing like this.Leaked art from EA's forum
It just sucks because I'm off the belief that it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. An open world racer could have closed circuits walled off (like HP2010), even better if there is the option to allow a track to be walled or open (so those who want to take their own route could do it, AI follows the same rules you do), and careful attention should be paid to the walled off tracks so they're varied and fun to drive.
The other thing is the choice to just jump from race to race in a menu if you want instead of need to drive there, but for those who want to drive their they also can. Basically a game that can be open world for those that want it but completely track based and closed circuit for others who want that.
2015 is kinda that game isn't it? It certain has his visual style, even if it's not based in Japan and doesn't allow customization as insane as these screenshots.I just remembered, Khyzyl Saleem works for Ghost Games. why they don't make a game based on his style. they can still have the real cars but there'd be a very distinct visual style. especially if they made the world fit around the cars
it does have his aesthetic, but I want them to go harder. I kinda feel like they're inbetween a rock and a hard place with so many other games dunking on them and their last couple of outings having missed the mark. pushing towards that grungy, almost cyberpunk aesthetic of Khyzyl Saleem's art would allow them to establish a very unique visual flare. as we can see from Saleem's art, they can straddle the edge of stock vehicle look and something fantastical in it's kitting
at the very least, people won't immediately compare it to Forza Horizon or Fast and the Furious, while simultaneously keeping the trappings of the previous games