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What do YOU want out of the next Need for Speed?
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Yup this. Still by far my favorite car racing game. Racing the Zodiacs was a blast. Shame the series died.
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Ghost Games is now the NFS developer, they actually have ex-Criterion people.
Criterion is working on a new IP and BF Firestorm.
I want to see another Hot Pursuit like the one by Criterion. Just give me that game with a new map and cars.
What they should do is to cease having the Marketing folks feel like they have the overall control of the franchise.
Instead, they should empower their talented development staff to make the game that they want to make.
That was the approach that I and my team took when we asked to have a crack at the franchise. As a fan of the series since the original 3DO title, the game would only have to feature 'exotics' (sorry, but we just use that term in Europe) and cop chases. The result of that was NFS HP 2010.
We had fight after fight after fight every step of the way to make that game and keep that vision intact. It was hard to tell people what Autolog was when we were still building it.
After working on two NFS games, I was done.
I quit Criterion in 2013 and set up my own independent development studio, TFE.
Our new game "Dangerous Driving" is coming in two months. For those of you looking for good solid high speed driving action on fictional courses on Islands, Deserts, Canyons, Forests and Mountains with big sweeping arse-out drifts in and out of traffic, then this might be the game for you.
Oh and we have a Pursuit Mode in there as well, where you drive as a Cop and ram multiple targets off the road against the clock.
We have 30 tracks across seven locations, 21 unique closed courses with 9 point to point courses, 5 tiers of Vehicles, with six car classes, with four model variants in each class. 75 offline events and over 273 miles of roads with a LOT of fast sliding corners.
Instead, they should empower their talented development staff to make the game that they want to make.
That was the approach that I and my team took when we asked to have a crack at the franchise. As a fan of the series since the original 3DO title, the game would only have to feature 'exotics' (sorry, but we just use that term in Europe) and cop chases. The result of that was NFS HP 2010.
We had fight after fight after fight every step of the way to make that game and keep that vision intact. It was hard to tell people what Autolog was when we were still building it.
After working on two NFS games, I was done.
I quit Criterion in 2013 and set up my own independent development studio, TFE.
Our new game "Dangerous Driving" is coming in two months. For those of you looking for good solid high speed driving action on fictional courses on Islands, Deserts, Canyons, Forests and Mountains with big sweeping arse-out drifts in and out of traffic, then this might be the game for you.
Oh and we have a Pursuit Mode in there as well, where you drive as a Cop and ram multiple targets off the road against the clock.
We have 30 tracks across seven locations, 21 unique closed courses with 9 point to point courses, 5 tiers of Vehicles, with six car classes, with four model variants in each class. 75 offline events and over 273 miles of roads with a LOT of fast sliding corners.
Ghost have never produced a single NFS close to what Criterion released. In fact Ghost seem to get worse with every entry.
- Drop the fast&furious crap
- Drop the MT's
- Decent Arcade physics
- Skills should be the major factor for winning or loosing, not upgrades and grinding
- Races in daylight!
- Lengthy tracks not in cities
Sounds awesome! Any idea when the store page will be up on Steam so I can wishlist it?
- Drop the MT's
- Decent Arcade physics
- Skills should be the major factor for winning or loosing, not upgrades and grinding
- Races in daylight!
- Lengthy tracks not in cities
Sounds awesome! Any idea when the store page will be up on Steam so I can wishlist it?
Chopping out the advert. If it's any consolation the hard work put into both the game and the business management for Hot Pursuit paid off in one of the best arcade racers ever made, so thank you for that. The Most Wanted remake kept a lot of what was good from HP too but I feel that at that time the writing was on the wall for what used to be Criterion Games. A shame, because a third in the same vein would have been killer.
The only reason I am telling you about my game is the most people haven't heard of it.
Yet I see day in and day out on forums around the world...
"I wish there were games like Burnout"
"I wish there were arcade racers"
Well, here we are. I've been making one and it's just like the ones everyone is asking for...
Yet I see day in and day out on forums around the world...
"I wish there were games like Burnout"
"I wish there were arcade racers"
Well, here we are. I've been making one and it's just like the ones everyone is asking for...
EA can't offer me what i want because regardless of the product it will be filled with microtransactions or always online or bullcrap like that.
In an ideal world? A sequel to Underground 2, not an evolution of the franchise but just Underground 2 with a new spin on it.
In an ideal world? A sequel to Underground 2, not an evolution of the franchise but just Underground 2 with a new spin on it.
I'm currently done with the franchise, because they keep releasing these Need for Speed x Burnout hybrids.
Why can't both be their own thing? Why are we shoving Burnout mechanics into Need for Speed games? Why can't we go back to the simplicity that Need for Speed games used to have?
Don't see this ever changing and I find it extremely disappointing.
Why can't both be their own thing? Why are we shoving Burnout mechanics into Need for Speed games? Why can't we go back to the simplicity that Need for Speed games used to have?
Don't see this ever changing and I find it extremely disappointing.
Keep the customization from NfS 15 and Payback, improve on everything else. Plenty of games with exotic cars so make something like Underground. Make a proper game that appeals to the car fanatics and different car cultures not just Ferraris and Lambos. Nice avatar OP, I just ordered a ZL1.
Preach, Alex. Need for Speed needs
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I skipped NFS Rivals at the beginning of this generation and recently picked it up for 5 bucks... and quickly discovered that is actually what it is essentially, a new Hot Pursuit game. All the elements are the same, they just changed the branding. Ghost Games created a pretty beautiful world and the handling, while I don't think quite up to the HP series history, was reasonable.
BUT
The shoe-horned ubisoft-like open world elements, requiring you to free-drive, online requirement, collectathon, currency system... these were pretty big structural mistakes. As pointed out by Alex Ward in this thread, it really smacks of publisher interference.
It'd be great to hear from F8RGE in this thread - you're from Ghost Games, right? I'm sure you can't say too much but it would be nice to hear your perspective on the series moving forward.
I want Underground 3. The Underground sub series was the only time I fully enjoyed NFS. Tuning and customizing your car the way you want and cruising and racing through city streets was the best. I don't want stinking Lambos. I want real regular cars like a Corsa or a Golf or a Civic that I can build up to beat any stock Ferrari. Al that together with a rockin' soundtrack.
I can get behind that.
Just put the old burnout and NFS on pc. Can't compete against forza or GT nowadays. Regarding an underground game... The mid 00s hip hop and tuner aesthetic is Going to feel fake nowadays
Yeah count me as one of the people that didn't know about this game until now. Also count me as a sale and a stan.
I want it to be Burnout 2 Point of Impact.
But with real cars, tons of customization, and a separate cops mode.
And NO open world bullshit.
But with real cars, tons of customization, and a separate cops mode.
And NO open world bullshit.
Wheel support
Manual shifting
Offline playable
Give me those three things and I'm 99% in. In a perfect world we'd be back to a track based game with exotic cars and locations ala NFS High Stakes but we all know that's never going to happen.
Manual shifting
Offline playable
Give me those three things and I'm 99% in. In a perfect world we'd be back to a track based game with exotic cars and locations ala NFS High Stakes but we all know that's never going to happen.
Let the series go underground (no pun intended) until people start feeling nostalgic for mid 00's music and fashion. Then make bank.