11:55 to 12:30 , don’t worry it’s not your speakers or headphones the audio is weird here because I had to mute a copyrighted track. Just a heads up, enjoy the video !
always online is the reason I wouldn't bother with 2015 even if it's given for free because any inherent lost of internet connection meaning I won't be able to play at all, much less when EA announces they're gonna took NFS 2015 servers offline for good one day down on the line just like what happened to that certain Ubisoft's first installment of their open world racer
If there’s one nfs I say that was a true masterpiece to me, it was hot pursuit. Pure simplicity and absolute perfection of car list plus the map was amazing. I would sell my soul to see a nfs like that in 2024 or 2026.
I stopped playing NFS after Rivals. After Rivals, every game felt the same. You couldn't have said it any better! I miss the old titles. My first NFS game was Most Wanted '05 Black Edition for the PC.
Ending the video with "Riders on the Storm" with those three specific cars going to those specific cities was a really clever and beautiful touch. Underground 2 was my first ever NFS game. So when I saw that green NIssan 350Z cruising off to Bayview with that song playing gave me a wonderful feeling that I can't really put into words here. All I can say is, THANK YOU
Hot Pursuit 2010 = played every Christmas at my parents house with my brother. 1000 hours plus. Bring the golden formula back! Thanks for the awesome video!
Few things in new NFS that I want: 1. Great sense of speed like Driveclub 2. More alive city (more traffic, more pedestrians) 3. Better handling without tap to drift (Unbound was a good way with grip handling, and with Underground update with drifting) 4. Agressive Police AI like Heat with great police chatters like Undercover 5. Maybe new direction with city, maybe from Europe like London, Amsterdam with great vibe of music, London had great history with dnb, Amsterdam has Techno, Trance history. 6. Not 6 version of Aventador, I don't need it.
That - I personally feel is the true era of NFS; from the first game up to HP2. Black Box era felt like they were chasing trends. Good for business, but I would feel like the series is not being true to what it stood for. Either ways, got a lot of folks triggered when I said BB-era NFS is overrated: personally, they are enjoyable and most of us grew up with those games, but they simply lack what NFS really meant to be. Then, enter the band-aid era, where they tried to recapture the essence but just failed to because of changing standards of modern games, and the rest is just slippery slope of recycled slop and zero innovation, coupled with grotesque experiments such as online-only and lootboxes. Either ways, in my honest view, NFS should've ceased to exist after Undercover, and should've brought in a new IP rather than tarnishing the existing one we loved and grew up with.
NFSU 1 is pinnacle era for the franchise IMO no frills no bs just race and no micro transactions just straight story progression to make your car better peak 👌🏻
I personally think that NFS already has an identity... it's just missing it's other half, the Hot Pursuit Half. Like yin and yang, you can't have one without the other, and the latest update in Unbound is not it. Like Modern Warfare and Black Ops, there is room for both. We've been having 4 games of tuning culture already, I think we need to bring it back with a new simpler NFS.
nfs is a franchise that doesn't have or need an identity because all games are so different from one another some games have police, others dont some games have extended customization, others don't some games are open world, others aren't some games are closed circuit, even if most aren't nfs as a franchise doesn't need to "return to its roots" because i i know a portion of the community would complain about that anyway
Its unfortunately rare nowadays to find a semi decent let alone a excellent game reviewer that acknowledges its bias, then further pours it into its love for an IP. Well researched, articulated, paced, informative, passionate yet true to facts. You my good man have yourself a very happy subscriber. Keep up the great work🔥
My first Need for Speed Game was Hot Pursuit 2. My brother and I would play that game for hours on end. The newest Need for Speed game I played was Rivals and I got bored of it pretty quickly. Maybe it’s because I’m older and I barely have time for video games in general but for real I miss those days.
The only modern AAA racing game I actually enjoyed playing was The Crew 1 and now it's considered abandonware. I'm praying that the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer game will be good
A need for speed that has great customization in low end cars and a good sense of speed would be huge, I think it would be a good break from all the super/hyper car racing games
@@Cyb3rSnail yeah I know, I understand the issues that the game have too, but still it is literally the first car game I ever played, so it has a big place for me
I'll never understand why NFS didnt follow the classic era harder following Hot Pursuit. There never had to be an identity crisis. Once the Black Box era died out and street racing fell out of the mainstream, they could've just gone back to what NFS always was and stuck with it, and they would've been ahead of Forza Horizon to the game. I love the Black Box games to death, but what I want more than anything now is a simple, fun racing game like the three HP games. Just a no bs, goregous racing game with exotics and cops. I feel like it would sell well even to regular folk. If a dad buys a PS5 for his kids, and just wants a fun racing game, what are his options? I think racing games are just over thinking themselves to death. Not every game needs to be back to basics, but also not everyone wants a bloated, humungous online game. Just having one option would be great, without it being an indie game with retro graphics. Some people just want a simple game like Mario Wonder.
Somewhat in agreement here, Blackbox NFS era was the most prolific and yeah the games had their fair share of problems. I do think they nailed the arcade handling and simcade for Prostreet the best of the NFS games. My main problem with their games is that they're just too easy. When compared to Grid I really have to push it sometimes, with NFS Most Wanted I can win with my eyes closed, only the police puts up a challenge at times. Also wanted to mention the games before Blackbox, largely forgotten now but I really liked them and imho still have the best music. As for the Criterion NFS, I really don't think they're that bad but they're basically more Burnout Paradise clones than NFS related games and the ones developed by Ghost while competent definately have a drop in the fun departement.
@@KapiteinKrentebol Ghost just …couldn’t get there in my opinion . I agree though I did really like the original Porsche Unleashed though. I just hope the series gets another good entry
In remembering the m3 gtr they did a massive disservice to it, by having razer own the players car (your car) in need for speed unbound, considering that he was that caused that massive oil slick, which caused massive engine failure.
To make a video covering the series' identity without talking about any game before Hot Pursuit 2 and also saying stuff like Most Wanted 2005 brought cops into the series is so out of touch.
or shift, shift 2, or nitro, or high stakes which also had police or fucking NFS WORLD. Like u cant ignore these games and glance over the run these are part of the ''identity'' also how is it that in Unbound taking your car away in the first hour of the game to drive the story along is bad but when in NFS MW And Carbon the same thing happens it is okay? and not mentioned? inconsistent as fuck man
Online only experiences push me off from buying so many games even with big discounts. I just feel like the moment Ill buy one of these games it'll be shut down at any time, reason why I'll never experience NFS 2015 which is a game I'd bear to play regardless of the handling model just because of the graphics
About NFS Payback. There's still no freeroam cops and they're scripted to let you flee upon reaching the evade point And they're equal to a glorified time trial. What Ghost Games did with NFS Payback was a massive mistake at 180° since even Ghost Games didn't have any faith in this game. They should've kept the original concept called Hashtag being inspired by the Underground duology + NFS Pro Street Or continue the same direction of NFS 2015 in order to fix the handling physics being inadapted for urban cities and delete Online Only. Hence why NFS Heat was like a redemption arc where every bad designs from NFS Payback e.g No Freeroam Cops, RNG Upgrade System and MTXs were entirely removed.
NFS Heat was quite good for me. The cops were not as good as MW but still pretty intense and the story was also not as good as MW or carbon but it was still pretty good. The car customization was also really good. I think it's my favorite modern NFS game.
I hope we get one more game with the protagonist of Most Wanted/Carbon, just one more game to finish off his story and the M3. I'm not really a fan of that car being passed around so I really want to see that protagonist get it back one more time. Though that protagonist for sure got his happy ending, but man the NFS2012 early concepts really have me hooked on this idea. We need another seriously toned game, 2015, Payback, Heat, Unbound just are not serious at all.
It is a crime of what criterion was planing for the original most wanted 2012 only to be scrapped . Man I remember seeing that being like “YOU HAD IT RIGHT THERE”
Im glad you started with 2010 Hot Pursuit. This was maybe the third NFS game I had all to myself and the first game I played on my new ps3. I've went on to play most of the other games in the franchise, but HP 2010 is still my favorite. With a loud audio system and a big bright, the game just sucks you IN. Its like a high class burnout. In your face but sophisticated
It seems like most of the franchises that reached their peak in the mid 2000s to early 2010s totally lost their unique identity. Modern nfs handling is terrible, it feels like an asphalt game on console/pc. Besides their soundtracks are awful
NFS must ditch the car customization and return to super cars with amazing tracks to race in that are not in urban areas. And also have some concept cars. That's my dream.
Originally, when HEAT came out, I said the same thing it's also the same thing with unbound cringe ass police radio chatter Nfs pro street Nfs shift Nfs MW Nfs UG1 Nfs the run Are my top favorite
I'm not a long time NFS fan, having played a few of the games over the years, and only recently trying to play through the entire series (including the early NFS titles, and am having a frustrating time trying to get Porsche Unleashed to run on my machine.) I finished Most Wanted recently and intend to continue on. What bothered me with the newer titles vs the "classic" era is that the older games had a more nuanced presentation of the street racing fantasy. Most Wanted especially had no qualms as portraying racers as not really upstanding people. People who race on public roads and drive into oncoming traffic at 120 mph, putting civilians at extreme risk, for fun and profit deserve to be written maturely as perhaps morally grey people. In fact, the cops might even be in the right for trying to stop it. I haven't played Unbound, but Heat suffered from this terribly, with street racers (again, people who do extremely dangerous things that put bystanders at extreme risk) as this bizarre happy go lucky squeaky clean subculture just having fun and twisting itself into knots trying to figure out how to make the police the villains in that context. It felt so unreal and forced. The writing of these games is not ever going to get better. I think the way forward for NFS is to strip it down and get rid of the story entirely, having a more barebones campaign or career mode as in the earliest titles that still provides progression while avoiding the cringe.
It's really sad how the last Need for Speed game i bought full price was Hot Pursuit remastered, the modern need for speed games never caught my attention, a lot of them felt the same to me, i really miss that time when Need for Speed games used to take risks like Prostreet, Hot pursuit, Shift, Rivals, after that it just feels like they're jingling keys to the Blackbox era fanboys by referencing something about Most Wanted all the time
"I have been through all types of developers eras history" no mention of ea canada. Makes a video about the games identity while negleging the first studio and the identity they gave...
This may sound kinda random, but remember when street racing based NFS games had hot babes? The fact that newer NFS games dont anymore signals where the current devs stand. Despite trying to appeal to that golden era of NFS, these devs are refusing to add fun of those older games, and it reflects in their overall work. Just pay attention to the characters that have appeared in NFS since 2015, they're all painfully cringe, by the committe, boring and sanitized, with not a single Brooke Burke like character among them.
I seriously think im the only person who prefers payback over heat. Heat was great, I just liked the handling and map better on Payback. I think Unbound is excellent though, I genuinely don't understand anyone's complaints about Unbound. Best NFS game since Hot Pursuit and Shift 2 if you ask me lol. The dialogue was corny but the story on Unbound is pretty fun lol, thats what you expect from a NFS story imo
It is sad that we will never get something like hp, mw 05, carbon or prostreet; while shift tried the prostreet formula, it just failed within every aspect, such as handling, presentation and progression. Criterion tried to make a mw 2 as can be seen in the beta version of the game, but EA been EA did not allow it to flourish, heat and 2015 was in the right direction to be an underground but sadly not fully there yet, and unbound is just unbound. At this point I lost hope for the nfs series and just hope they stop releasing any more games, as it will only taint the legacy of the franchise.
I don't think they will considering they're setting to use licensed cars for the next game And the fact they're even had a fully licensed out R34 V Spec II and the upcoming JZA80 Supra in the flesh, fresh off the assembly line look only reinforces my point
@@sebastianc.4627not really, customization is here to stay (why tf you would remove a feature that was in the games since it's inception) what I'm saying is, even the game's premise doesn't imply anything doing illegal things (well y'know? Toyota and Honda)
Heat had so much potential and it could’ve saved the series but fucking EA decided to abandoned it only after a few worthless upgrades Unbound was good and fun but it wasn’t enough to save the series like Heat
I honestly would prefer we get a true sequel to close off the story of the MW/Carbon protagonist and the M3 GTR, NFS2012 was supposed to be an actual sequel with that protagonist being the Most Wanted but was sadly scrapped due to time constraints. Hopefully we can get something nice for the 20th anniversary coming up next year.
Current day nfs sucks because of they are making nfs more like burnout.Like health bar,long high jumps,burnout like physics,crash camera and also they need to have a speed limit on their games.In newer nfs cars go way too fast and also cars lose control in faster speed.But in older nfs ug games it didn't used to happen.Also not to mention.Current day nfs uses checkpoint system which I hate.Like older nfs game had open world but they locked the tracks with invisible walls and signs which made the game more immersive because you didn't had to lokt at the floating checkpoints.Which I hate in most modern day racing games.Also not to mention old ug games had hidden races,shops,bonuses,sponsoship and magazines which made the game world more exciting to explore and also no fast travel is what made ug-2 more memorable to me.Also it hads it's own racing league with professional in game racing tracks.Also are we forgetting drag racing with manual shifting.Almost 1 decade later they brought that back in nfs unbound but just in multiplayer but still it's more dumbed down version.So many things are missing in current day nfs games.Also the handling is most important.
I haven't enjoyed a NFS game since Most Wanted 2005 ( yeah I know that a lot of people say that as well ) maybe even Carbon was somewhat enjoyable but the one's that came after it I just did not enjoy Need For Speed has lived long enough to become the villain
I never player nfs most wanted so the car being overused it doesn't bother me because the car itself holds 0 weight for me I played all the other nfs games tho so if they bring out Eddie's skyline then I'm down , I believe they did that for the an expansion in unbound
Underground 2 was the series high point for me - man I spent hours customising my cars while Snoop Dogg's 'Riders On The Storm' bumped in the background. The perfect next entry for me would essentially be an Underground 3. Here in the UK the early 2000s tuner culture vibe is currently having a bit of a renaissance so it would be cool to jump back to that time period but maybe have some modern elements thrown in as well.
I really do want to see the artstyle that Unbound uses for its characters and fx because it just looks so cool. I just wish they either continue to use the artstyle going forward, use it for a different game, or another dev team uses it for their games. It's a great artstyle that doesn't suffer from the same uncanny valley issues that a lot of modern games with avatar racers have now like FH and TCM.
11:55 to 12:30 , don’t worry it’s not your speakers or headphones the audio is weird here because I had to mute a copyrighted track. Just a heads up, enjoy the video !
“A race to recapture its identity” couldn’t have said it better myself
I try haha
2015 had so much potential its painful
@@nicolasenriquegarciacastil974 100% agree
always online is the reason I wouldn't bother with 2015 even if it's given for free
because any inherent lost of internet connection meaning I won't be able to play at all, much less when EA announces they're gonna took NFS 2015 servers offline for good one day down on the line just like what happened to that certain Ubisoft's first installment of their open world racer
If there’s one nfs I say that was a true masterpiece to me, it was hot pursuit. Pure simplicity and absolute perfection of car list plus the map was amazing. I would sell my soul to see a nfs like that in 2024 or 2026.
I would love to see another hot pursuit game, simplicity is sometimes the best
I stopped playing NFS after Rivals. After Rivals, every game felt the same.
You couldn't have said it any better! I miss the old titles. My first NFS game was Most Wanted '05 Black Edition for the PC.
It still feels the same so you’re not missing out on much , you had a great start to the series
Ending the video with "Riders on the Storm" with those three specific cars going to those specific cities was a really clever and beautiful touch.
Underground 2 was my first ever NFS game. So when I saw that green NIssan 350Z cruising off to Bayview with that song playing gave me a wonderful feeling that I can't really put into words here.
All I can say is, THANK YOU
Need for speed shift 1 and 2: "am I a joke to you?"
7:53 THAT IS CRAZY!!! I have heard a LOT of dialogue for NFS:MW (‘05) and this audio actually made my eyes wide open.
Hot Pursuit 2010 = played every Christmas at my parents house with my brother. 1000 hours plus. Bring the golden formula back! Thanks for the awesome video!
No problem , thanks for stopping by !
Few things in new NFS that I want:
1. Great sense of speed like Driveclub
2. More alive city (more traffic, more pedestrians)
3. Better handling without tap to drift (Unbound was a good way with grip handling, and with Underground update with drifting)
4. Agressive Police AI like Heat with great police chatters like Undercover
5. Maybe new direction with city, maybe from Europe like London, Amsterdam with great vibe of music, London had great history with dnb, Amsterdam has Techno, Trance history.
6. Not 6 version of Aventador, I don't need it.
Not a bad list at all
And no online only bullcrap
I know Black Box era is more popular but I wish people talked more about older NFS games like Hot Pursuit 1 and High Stakes
That - I personally feel is the true era of NFS; from the first game up to HP2.
Black Box era felt like they were chasing trends. Good for business, but I would feel like the series is not being true to what it stood for. Either ways, got a lot of folks triggered when I said BB-era NFS is overrated: personally, they are enjoyable and most of us grew up with those games, but they simply lack what NFS really meant to be.
Then, enter the band-aid era, where they tried to recapture the essence but just failed to because of changing standards of modern games, and the rest is just slippery slope of recycled slop and zero innovation, coupled with grotesque experiments such as online-only and lootboxes. Either ways, in my honest view, NFS should've ceased to exist after Undercover, and should've brought in a new IP rather than tarnishing the existing one we loved and grew up with.
Never played Hotpursuit 1 but Highstakes was my first entry to NFS and that was a challenge love it. 😊
NFSU 1 is pinnacle era for the franchise IMO no frills no bs just race and no micro transactions just straight story progression to make your car better peak 👌🏻
Building your car in NFSU 1 was so much fun….loved that infinite tunnel
That Undercover cop chat was funny
@@amingo9100 when I first heard that line , I did laugh the writers were clever. Thanks for stopping by !
“Racing games are dying”
I hope the next Mario Kart makes that statement age poorly. 🙏
Also this is a great video, I subscribed!
@@sullivans2004 thank you very much ! I appreciate it !
I wish for a better state of racing games. Hopefully Night-Runners and TXR 2025 will be the catalyst.
@@MrWaifuTaker I have hopes TXR I think it will be a great time , hope the night runners project turns out good to
I personally think that NFS already has an identity... it's just missing it's other half, the Hot Pursuit Half. Like yin and yang, you can't have one without the other, and the latest update in Unbound is not it. Like Modern Warfare and Black Ops, there is room for both. We've been having 4 games of tuning culture already, I think we need to bring it back with a new simpler NFS.
Would love to see a hot pursuit 3
Glad that the NFS universe still kicking. Enjoyed your video and I also doing NFS replayed (and videos) in my Linux setting.
nfs is a franchise that doesn't have or need an identity because all games are so different from one another
some games have police, others dont
some games have extended customization, others don't
some games are open world, others aren't
some games are closed circuit, even if most aren't
nfs as a franchise doesn't need to "return to its roots" because i i know a portion of the community would complain about that anyway
Personally NFS Undercover holds a spot rent free in my head. Not the best NFS but I’d say easily #2
@@GoldenJoe9176 We all got our list , the most important thing is what is fun and enjoyable for you
Its unfortunately rare nowadays to find a semi decent let alone a excellent game reviewer that acknowledges its bias, then further pours it into its love for an IP. Well researched, articulated, paced, informative, passionate yet true to facts. You my good man have yourself a very happy subscriber. Keep up the great work🔥
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it !
I've been really enjoying myself playing older racing games. It seems like new racing games in terms of arcade are slowly dying.
W video
@@Threelapz appreciate it ! Thank you !
This was actually a pretty nice video to watch. You doing a good job bro
@@devyndnk5417 appreciate you stopping by !
Always a good day when a new Cybersnail video drops!
@@charlieAJohnson Thanks for stopping by my guy !
Cybersnail drop is the best way to start the weekend
@@PrayPull appreciate it my guy !
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 was my first entry into this franchise. I went forward, not playing any of the earlier ones. I LOVED The RUN (yes I know...)
NFSU 1 is pinnacle era for the franchise IMO no frills no bs just race and make your car better
@@jacobhammond6783 yep just climbing up the ranks , used to love the magazine shots you had to take too
Pro street is my all time favorite NFS. My second would be NFS 2015, those night aesthetics hit different 😊.
You're right in every word
@@omar05015 appreciate it , thank you !
That outro was perfect
Appreciate it !
My first Need for Speed Game was Hot Pursuit 2. My brother and I would play that game for hours on end. The newest Need for Speed game I played was Rivals and I got bored of it pretty quickly. Maybe it’s because I’m older and I barely have time for video games in general but for real I miss those days.
NFS use to be peak , hope it returns to that soon
@@Cyb3rSnail you and me both man! I know I want to show my future kids my OG Need For Speed games.
yeah I just wanna call out the irony of a guy calling himself snail talking about need for speed
@@CorruptedDogg …..you have a point lmao
The only modern AAA racing game I actually enjoyed playing was The Crew 1 and now it's considered abandonware. I'm praying that the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer game will be good
A need for speed that has great customization in low end cars and a good sense of speed would be huge, I think it would be a good break from all the super/hyper car racing games
@@amingo9100 couldn’t have said it better myself
great video
Thank you ! I appreciate it
Thank god someone put Undercover on the map
@@absurd.inc. it gets a lot of hate , even though I know why I still like the game
@@Cyb3rSnail yeah I know, I understand the issues that the game have too, but still it is literally the first car game I ever played, so it has a big place for me
midnight club mentioned :0
sick games i hope Rockstar revives it
So do I, they are way too busy making money with GTA but, there is always hope!
@@Cyb3rSnailI love Midnight Club. Best game from Rockstar IMO
I'll never understand why NFS didnt follow the classic era harder following Hot Pursuit. There never had to be an identity crisis. Once the Black Box era died out and street racing fell out of the mainstream, they could've just gone back to what NFS always was and stuck with it, and they would've been ahead of Forza Horizon to the game.
I love the Black Box games to death, but what I want more than anything now is a simple, fun racing game like the three HP games. Just a no bs, goregous racing game with exotics and cops. I feel like it would sell well even to regular folk. If a dad buys a PS5 for his kids, and just wants a fun racing game, what are his options?
I think racing games are just over thinking themselves to death. Not every game needs to be back to basics, but also not everyone wants a bloated, humungous online game. Just having one option would be great, without it being an indie game with retro graphics. Some people just want a simple game like Mario Wonder.
Somewhat in agreement here, Blackbox NFS era was the most prolific and yeah the games had their fair share of problems.
I do think they nailed the arcade handling and simcade for Prostreet the best of the NFS games.
My main problem with their games is that they're just too easy. When compared to Grid I really have to push it sometimes, with NFS Most Wanted I can win with my eyes closed, only the police puts up a challenge at times.
Also wanted to mention the games before Blackbox, largely forgotten now but I really liked them and imho still have the best music.
As for the Criterion NFS, I really don't think they're that bad but they're basically more Burnout Paradise clones than NFS related games and the ones developed by Ghost while competent definately have a drop in the fun departement.
@@KapiteinKrentebol Ghost just …couldn’t get there in my opinion . I agree though I did really like the original Porsche Unleashed though. I just hope the series gets another good entry
Underground 2 will always be my favourite Neee for Speed game. Need for Speed Burnout should be their next game
In remembering the m3 gtr they did a massive disservice to it, by having razer own the players car (your car) in need for speed unbound, considering that he was that caused that massive oil slick, which caused massive engine failure.
You should check out the indie scene for street racing games. You've got night runners, car x street & Japanese drift master.
Real nice video dude, you ever played Juiced back in the day? Was another decent racer
@@carljeffery5289 appreciate it ! That was one of the few that I didn’t get to play , looked fun as hell though will pick it up at some point
To make a video covering the series' identity without talking about any game before Hot Pursuit 2 and also saying stuff like Most Wanted 2005 brought cops into the series is so out of touch.
or shift, shift 2, or nitro, or high stakes which also had police or fucking NFS WORLD.
Like u cant ignore these games and glance over the run
these are part of the ''identity''
also how is it that in Unbound taking your car away in the first hour of the game to drive the story along is bad but when in NFS MW And Carbon the same thing happens it is okay? and not mentioned?
inconsistent as fuck man
Online only experiences push me off from buying so many games even with big discounts. I just feel like the moment Ill buy one of these games it'll be shut down at any time, reason why I'll never experience NFS 2015 which is a game I'd bear to play regardless of the handling model just because of the graphics
@@amingo9100 Yep I agree moment I hear “online only” it’s just not worth the time and money
About NFS Payback.
There's still no freeroam cops and they're scripted to let you flee upon reaching the evade point And they're equal to a glorified time trial.
What Ghost Games did with NFS Payback was a massive mistake at 180° since even Ghost Games didn't have any faith in this game. They should've kept the original concept called Hashtag being inspired by the Underground duology + NFS Pro Street Or continue the same direction of NFS 2015 in order to fix the handling physics being inadapted for urban cities and delete Online Only.
Hence why NFS Heat was like a redemption arc where every bad designs from NFS Payback e.g No Freeroam Cops, RNG Upgrade System and MTXs were entirely removed.
@@MobDKGr yeah I remember the bait crates , I thought they fixed it ….damn lol
@@Cyb3rSnail
Yeah.
They did a feature being a waste of time.
Fortunately, it's forever gone.
Now, Freeroam Cops are back to stay.
NFS Heat was quite good for me. The cops were not as good as MW but still pretty intense and the story was also not as good as MW or carbon but it was still pretty good. The car customization was also really good. I think it's my favorite modern NFS game.
😂Need for speed hot pursuit 2010 was a good game💯The race called
“Calm Before The Storm” The Bugatti at the end of the tunnel is extremely fast.😂
I hope we get one more game with the protagonist of Most Wanted/Carbon, just one more game to finish off his story and the M3. I'm not really a fan of that car being passed around so I really want to see that protagonist get it back one more time. Though that protagonist for sure got his happy ending, but man the NFS2012 early concepts really have me hooked on this idea. We need another seriously toned game, 2015, Payback, Heat, Unbound just are not serious at all.
It is a crime of what criterion was planing for the original most wanted 2012 only to be scrapped . Man I remember seeing that being like “YOU HAD IT RIGHT THERE”
Of the reboots, payback has the best handling imo. That's the one thing it had going for it
Blackbox Studio is the Identity of Need for Speed.
Criterion and Ghost Games will "NEVER" be.
TL;DR: I have a need, a need for speed.
@@vew3rita120 Damn Straight !
Im glad you started with 2010 Hot Pursuit. This was maybe the third NFS game I had all to myself and the first game I played on my new ps3. I've went on to play most of the other games in the franchise, but HP 2010 is still my favorite. With a loud audio system and a big bright, the game just sucks you IN. Its like a high class burnout. In your face but sophisticated
@@SicSemperBeats it’s such a good game
@@Cyb3rSnail it is! I meant “big bright TV”!
It seems like most of the franchises that reached their peak in the mid 2000s to early 2010s totally lost their unique identity. Modern nfs handling is terrible, it feels like an asphalt game on console/pc. Besides their soundtracks are awful
@@cakes9962 I was debated on covering the soundtracks but, I think I would get a little to mad lol
@@cakes9962 I was debated on covering the soundtracks but, man the music taste has gone downhill and hit multiple trees and rocks on the way down too
Nice video! Did you use Sharefactory?
@@NFSBeast2365 thank you ! And yes that’s my editing software I use , it’s not the best but it’s what I’m comfortable with
@@Cyb3rSnail that’s dope! I love Sharefactory too!
❌You forgot need for speed nitro❌
NFS must ditch the car customization and return to super cars with amazing tracks to race in that are not in urban areas. And also have some concept cars. That's my dream.
Originally, when HEAT came out, I said the same thing it's also the same thing with unbound cringe ass police radio chatter
Nfs pro street
Nfs shift
Nfs MW
Nfs UG1
Nfs the run
Are my top favorite
@@tylercouture216 not a bad list at all
@@Cyb3rSnail 🙂🏁
I'm not a long time NFS fan, having played a few of the games over the years, and only recently trying to play through the entire series (including the early NFS titles, and am having a frustrating time trying to get Porsche Unleashed to run on my machine.) I finished Most Wanted recently and intend to continue on. What bothered me with the newer titles vs the "classic" era is that the older games had a more nuanced presentation of the street racing fantasy. Most Wanted especially had no qualms as portraying racers as not really upstanding people. People who race on public roads and drive into oncoming traffic at 120 mph, putting civilians at extreme risk, for fun and profit deserve to be written maturely as perhaps morally grey people. In fact, the cops might even be in the right for trying to stop it. I haven't played Unbound, but Heat suffered from this terribly, with street racers (again, people who do extremely dangerous things that put bystanders at extreme risk) as this bizarre happy go lucky squeaky clean subculture just having fun and twisting itself into knots trying to figure out how to make the police the villains in that context. It felt so unreal and forced. The writing of these games is not ever going to get better. I think the way forward for NFS is to strip it down and get rid of the story entirely, having a more barebones campaign or career mode as in the earliest titles that still provides progression while avoiding the cringe.
It's really sad how the last Need for Speed game i bought full price was Hot Pursuit remastered, the modern need for speed games never caught my attention, a lot of them felt the same to me, i really miss that time when Need for Speed games used to take risks like Prostreet, Hot pursuit, Shift, Rivals, after that it just feels like they're jingling keys to the Blackbox era fanboys by referencing something about Most Wanted all the time
I agree 100 %, I hope Criterion focuses their efforts on the next release to make something really interesting.
The CLK GTR should be the new McGuffin.
i think it's very subjective. The police giving call outs in nfs hp vs nfs heat was a biased take.
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@@GreggyAck Thank you ! That means a lot !
"we own the night" - instant uninstall
"I have been through all types of developers eras history" no mention of ea canada. Makes a video about the games identity while negleging the first studio and the identity they gave...
Man i wanna find my copy of hot pursuit now
This may sound kinda random, but remember when street racing based NFS games had hot babes? The fact that newer NFS games dont anymore signals where the current devs stand. Despite trying to appeal to that golden era of NFS, these devs are refusing to add fun of those older games, and it reflects in their overall work. Just pay attention to the characters that have appeared in NFS since 2015, they're all painfully cringe, by the committe, boring and sanitized, with not a single Brooke Burke like character among them.
That is the dumbest reason I've ever heard for a game sucking.
@@paulpangilinan6671 Then you cant read proper.
I seriously think im the only person who prefers payback over heat. Heat was great, I just liked the handling and map better on Payback. I think Unbound is excellent though, I genuinely don't understand anyone's complaints about Unbound. Best NFS game since Hot Pursuit and Shift 2 if you ask me lol. The dialogue was corny but the story on Unbound is pretty fun lol, thats what you expect from a NFS story imo
😂I beat need for speed unbound without getting busted no matter how tough those cop cars are, including the Ford raptor that does a lot of damage😂
It is sad that we will never get something like hp, mw 05, carbon or prostreet; while shift tried the prostreet formula, it just failed within every aspect, such as handling, presentation and progression.
Criterion tried to make a mw 2 as can be seen in the beta version of the game, but EA been EA did not allow it to flourish, heat and 2015 was in the right direction to be an underground but sadly not fully there yet, and unbound is just unbound.
At this point I lost hope for the nfs series and just hope they stop releasing any more games, as it will only taint the legacy of the franchise.
They need to make it look more realistic and no police cars should have nitrous and add 2015 need for speed. The cops were slow.
⚠️Need for speed undercover was the worst game they tried to make a freeroam version of need for speed pro street⚠️😂😂
Tokyo Xtreme Racer needs to really look into and play Shutoko Revival Project for Assetto Corsa and be better if they want to have a game worth buying
@@sebastianc.4627 I’d agree gotta capture that vibe and aesthetic
I don't think they will considering they're setting to use licensed cars for the next game
And the fact they're even had a fully licensed out R34 V Spec II and the upcoming JZA80 Supra in the flesh, fresh off the assembly line look only reinforces my point
@@adlibbed2138wym? We don’t get customization?
@@sebastianc.4627not really, customization is here to stay (why tf you would remove a feature that was in the games since it's inception)
what I'm saying is, even the game's premise doesn't imply anything doing illegal things (well y'know? Toyota and Honda)
@@adlibbed2138 you mean no illegal street racing?
payback is better then 2015 and every newer nfs
Heat had so much potential and it could’ve saved the series but fucking EA decided to abandoned it only after a few worthless upgrades
Unbound was good and fun but it wasn’t enough to save the series like Heat
We need nfsmw remaster im also very passionate
I honestly would prefer we get a true sequel to close off the story of the MW/Carbon protagonist and the M3 GTR, NFS2012 was supposed to be an actual sequel with that protagonist being the Most Wanted but was sadly scrapped due to time constraints. Hopefully we can get something nice for the 20th anniversary coming up next year.
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post Burnout Criterion Games EA didn't give them full control again
The real question is, What is the real identity of Need for Speed?
Super cars with non urban tracks with a few concept cars in
Current day nfs sucks because of they are making nfs more like burnout.Like health bar,long high jumps,burnout like physics,crash camera and also they need to have a speed limit on their games.In newer nfs cars go way too fast and also cars lose control in faster speed.But in older nfs ug games it didn't used to happen.Also not to mention.Current day nfs uses checkpoint system which I hate.Like older nfs game had open world but they locked the tracks with invisible walls and signs which made the game more immersive because you didn't had to lokt at the floating checkpoints.Which I hate in most modern day racing games.Also not to mention old ug games had hidden races,shops,bonuses,sponsoship and magazines which made the game world more exciting to explore and also no fast travel is what made ug-2 more memorable to me.Also it hads it's own racing league with professional in game racing tracks.Also are we forgetting drag racing with manual shifting.Almost 1 decade later they brought that back in nfs unbound but just in multiplayer but still it's more dumbed down version.So many things are missing in current day nfs games.Also the handling is most important.
I haven't enjoyed a NFS game since Most Wanted 2005 ( yeah I know that a lot of people say that as well ) maybe even Carbon was somewhat enjoyable but the one's that came after it I just did not enjoy Need For Speed has lived long enough to become the villain
I never player nfs most wanted so the car being overused it doesn't bother me because the car itself holds 0 weight for me I played all the other nfs games tho so if they bring out Eddie's skyline then I'm down , I believe they did that for the an expansion in unbound
No more NFS burnout. Go back to basics E.A
I totally I agree with your opinion
Except NFS 2015
If you ask me I'll say that game was worse than payback
Atleast because of it's p2w physics
Underground 2 was the series high point for me - man I spent hours customising my cars while Snoop Dogg's 'Riders On The Storm' bumped in the background. The perfect next entry for me would essentially be an Underground 3. Here in the UK the early 2000s tuner culture vibe is currently having a bit of a renaissance so it would be cool to jump back to that time period but maybe have some modern elements thrown in as well.
@@BeanieRob I just hope EA gives the devs more time to craft something good this time around
nah payback's good
I really do want to see the artstyle that Unbound uses for its characters and fx because it just looks so cool. I just wish they either continue to use the artstyle going forward, use it for a different game, or another dev team uses it for their games. It's a great artstyle that doesn't suffer from the same uncanny valley issues that a lot of modern games with avatar racers have now like FH and TCM.
Nah, it's cringe.
@@charmingpeasant9834 care to explain how it is cringe? cause i dont get it?
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Hello !
Ngl I like what their doing with unbound tbh
Try carx street racing
20:38 the only festival racer i need rn is Motorstorm 😭
@@f.o.8547 Motorstorm needs to make a comeback !
Dude, if you're not sure about game quality, check the ESG score... Best index!!
Will do !
10:54 some one never played NFS UG2, Rachel would be disappointed.
MP in Unbound is fun with the Cops, Drag, Drift updates. But the story is ass