I'm actually quite excited for the new Need for Speed - An unpopular opinion noone asked for.

[TendieGremlin]

I get that people like to dunk on it nowadays, but I've enjoyed the reboots if not for the driving mechanics, but because of the overall concept and return to the roots. Microtransactions in Payback weren't bad at all too (although, preferably there wouldn't be any). And if the improvement will be as great as it was between NFS 2015 and Payback this might be the game I'll be buying instead of Borderlands 3.

So yeah, sue me.

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

Just remake underground 2 already.

 

[FeverGlitch]

You do you. People can't take your fun away if you're thinking the game scratches the right spots for you.

On my perspective though, I take a very highly cautious step/low expectation on looking at Need For Speed Heat. The trailer really didn't hit the right notes for me and didn't show anything really that would spark my interest. Except for seeing the Volvo Polestar 1, the return of the Lancer Evo X and aesthetics wise.
From the look of it, it owns this Prostreet mixed with Underground-ish flair to it but from the gameplay snippets alone, it looks way too much like Payback, and it turned me off seeing that.

I don't hate Payback and 2015, yet call me an oldfag but it didn't really grasp me on believing that the next-gen NFS games have something to offer. The reveal of 2015 did it better just because it had a huge switch bringing back the old days of Underground and Carbon and NFS was having somewhat of a losing streak. It was refreshing but the execution per se was on the game kinda weak but okay.
From that publicity stunt that the development team is doing by deleting (or private, I dunno) all their videos from the NFS Youtube channel, it seems that they're taking this game absolutely serious. They need really need to reveal gameplay footage, better some extended ones to see and analyze if it's actually interesting, to begin with.
Gotta hope for something good.

 

[TendieGremlin]

You do you. People can't take your fun away if you're thinking the game scratches the right spots for you.

On my perspective though, I take a very highly cautious step/low expectation on looking at Need For Speed Heat. The trailer really didn't hit the right notes for me and didn't show anything really that would spark my interest. Except for seeing the Volvo Polestar 1, the return of the Lancer Evo X and aesthetics wise.
From the look of it, it owns this Prostreet mixed with Underground-ish flair to it but from the gameplay snippets alone, it looks way too much like Payback, and it turned me off seeing that.

I don't hate Payback and 2015, yet call me an oldfag but it didn't really grasp me on believing that the next-gen NFS games have something to offer. The reveal of 2015 did it better just because it had a huge switch bringing back the old days of Underground and Carbon and NFS was having somewhat of a losing streak. It was refreshing but the execution per se was on the game kinda weak but okay.
From that publicity stunt that the development team is doing by deleting (or private, I dunno) all their videos from the NFS Youtube channel, it seems that they're taking this game absolutely serious. They need really need to reveal gameplay footage, better some extended ones to see and analyze if it's actually interesting, to begin with.
Gotta hope for something good.

I think the trailer was pretty bad but what was actually shown was quite promising.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

They need to stop using frostbite for racing games. That is all I have to say.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

The Need for Sped

 

[Fuck Y'all]

>again "Burnout Paradise but all cars are far heavier" driving model

nah, I'll pass

 

[Terror Rism]

fast car good
not fast car? not good!
this is all i care for in any racing game

 

[FeverGlitch]

The gameplay trailer is up and it looks actually interesting, in my opinion.
At least they drop the shitty speed cards thing from Payback and use the usual system from 2015 and the other games.

 

[Billy_Sama]

I used to love to play NFS Hot Pursuit and Underground 2 on the Gamecube but that was also back when I wasn't worried about a company like EA trying to milk me with microtransactions and DLC

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I played a lot of the older ones back in the PS-PS2 days, but the last recent one I've played was Rivals. It's fun for when I just want to do a little tearing around without much regards for real world physics and I have to say it's enjoyable having the random one on one multiplayer throwdown races.

 

[SpiceWeasel21]

Porsche Unleashed remains my favorite NFS game, with the original (co-branded with Road & Track) being a close second. Forza is more my jam these days, so this new NFS entry doesn't hold a lot of appeal for me.

 

[sasazuka]

Here's some more gameplay footage, though you gotta skip the first five minutes if, like me, you're not all that interested in non-performance customization.

I like the way the Nissan GT-R looks before they did anything to it. Most of those cosmetic changes make the car look like a muscled-up Decepticon.

I'm currently playing Midnight Club: Los Angeles and, any time I win a car, I do reverse customization to change the look of the car back to stock.

It looks a bit like Most Wanted 2005 in daytime (except in a Miami-inspired city rather than the vaguely New England/New York/New Jersey setting of Most Wanted) but then it's Carbon at night.

The cops swear. I find that a little jarring, though it's possible that they had cops dropping s-bombs in the previous two games. I wouldn't know, as with @The 8 of Spades, the most recent Need for Speed game I've played was Rivals.

 

[Block Me]

Criterion's NFS Most Wanted is one of my favorite games ever, alongside Hot Pursuit 2, so the franchise holds a lot of fond memories for me but I haven't enjoyed any of the recent games developed by Ghost. This looks like more of the same so I'll most likely be skipping it until it ends up on Origin access.

 

[Saint Kelly]

Not entirely thrilled about the day portion of the game featuring tamer cops and sanctioned races. But I think I'll be picking this one up after skipping every game in the series since The Run came out, which I enjoyed.

Gonna bail the moment they hint at micro-transactions tho.

 

[heyitsmike]

Seven months of support and done. What a joke and a waste of $60.

https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-heat/news/need-for-speed-shifts-gears-into-the-future

 

[The Last Stand]

Seven months of support and done. What a joke and a waste of $60.

https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-heat/news/need-for-speed-shifts-gears-into-the-future

At least there's cross play added to extend the playerbase.

Although who still remembers NFS: Heat now?

I've played Rivals, I did not like the fact that I was always connected to the Internet. I couldn't pause and I had other players around me.

EA promised that the next Need for Speed would be a "social experience" which scares me. Sometimes I just want to play a game by myself.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Seven months of support and done. What a joke and a waste of $60.

https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-heat/news/need-for-speed-shifts-gears-into-the-future

Am I wrong, or is this not the first NFS to get its servers shut down in a short period of time?

 

[The Last Stand]

Am I wrong, or is this not the first NFS to get its servers shut down in a short period of time?

They're not shutting the servers down; EA (or Ghost Games) is just discontinuing updates and DLC for Need for Speed: Heat.

For example, the 2015 reboot of Need for Speed had six content updates. The last one, the Speedlist Update, came out on April 27, 2016. Need for Speed (2015) initially came out on November 3, 2015 (March 15, 2016 for PC). That's six months of support.

The last mainline Need for Speed game to get its servers shutdown was Need for Speed: ProStreet. That came out on November of 2007, its servers were axed on April of 2012. As of now, Undercover onwards still has their servers active.

 

[Rotollo]

Wait, this series isn't dead? that's surprising