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Need for Speed Most Wanted by Criterion [use new thread]
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Metalmurphy
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Looks like frostbite engine. The Run looked amazing, and now that criterion isbehind this one its not gonna have shitty gameplay.
Metalmurphy
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Also, what happened to the bmw no longer being the cover car? 
Takamura-San
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I wonder what super model they are going to hire to "teach you the ropes" *wink* *wink*
I would.
I would.
Ventilaator
Banned
Stop using these names over and over again guys. Like, 50 years from now, saying "I played X" needs to be followed up with a dozen clarifications.
JetBlackPanda
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If its open world..
DAY ONE
DAY ONE
slaughterking
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Another Criterion game. Good. Not a Burnout game, though. Bad.
JetBlackPanda
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The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
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Weird that its the same name but whatever I LOVED Most Wanted.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
I can never keep all the Need for Speeds clear. Always get them mixed up.
snoopeasystreet
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I can't wait until 2014 when Critereon releases NFS Underground.
Acquiescence
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Excellent - it's Critierion so it should be good. Please be more like Hot Pursuit and less like Burnout Paradise; don't need any of that open-world shit dragging down the experience.
Criminal Upper
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I wouldn't.
How about being less like Hot Pursuit and more like Burnout Paradise so we don't drive cars that control like molasses.
When I played Criterion's HP I was hoping it would handle like a Burnout game, but nope.
Metal Gear?!
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Most Wanted was open-world...
It hasn't been that long since the original Most Wanted... it was on the 360 even!
Dr.Palutena
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Most definitely .
ChimpanzeeThat
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EA really don't care about Burnout any more, do they? Paradise was such an awesome title, well received and it sold okay too, so why ignore it?
How to piss off fans and alienate gamers by Electronic Arts.
How to piss off fans and alienate gamers by Electronic Arts.
SolidSnakex
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NFS is significantly more popular than Burnout. Hot Pursuit was Criterion's best selling title by quite a wide margin.
Why wouldn't we?
I'd rather have paradise 2 than some NFS game with basically no single player because of Autolog boring nonsense. Also every second I played hot pursuit I wish it controlled better aka like burnout.
Seriously just call it need for speed paradise and make it play like burnout. The idiots that buy stuff just because it says need for speed will be happy it plays well and burnout people will be psyched. Everyone wins.
Acquiescence
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How about being more like Hot Pursuit and less like Paradise so that we can have some genuine challenge and variety in the game. None of this "You've upgraded your license - now you can play all the same races again in a setting you've discovered everything of in the first hour!" bullshit that was inherent in the latter.
I've never played it, so that's disheartening to hear.
ChimpanzeeThat
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Hot Pursuit was good, but Burnout is a different kettle of fish to Need For Speed as a whole and is being silently killed so EA can put out something decent with the NFS brand attached to it rather than the dross that has come from it in more recent years.
BruiserBear
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SO HYPED
DAY ONE
DAY ONE
I predict it's an open world version of Hot Pursuit
brotkasten
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I absolutely hated the driving physics in Criterion's HP, so I'm really saddened that they're doing the rebootmakesequelwhatever of my favorite NFS.
day 1 that shit.
Agent Icebeezy
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I see people that want a return to the old style Burnouts, but I'm fine either way. That said, Most Wanted was the most fun I've ever had with an NFS game so I'm hyped for this.
I disliked the 30 FPS in Criterion's Hot Pursuit but I dealt with it because the game play was still good. My problem with the game was all the extra bullshit that took me out of racing or prolonged the amount of time between races. Pass a cop for the first time on a race? BAM short cutscene to show the cop and to highlight the awesome car he's driving! Earn an upgrade or three? Time to sit through some prolonged unnecessary cut-scenes to show them off!
I blame a lot of this on the NFS license. I honestly don't give a shit about having licensed vehicles or not, or what their features are. I'm completely fine with having generic cars with stats represented by a few bars.
I also found a few of the events in the game hellishly difficult, but this was only a problem because the game wasted so much of my time with the aforementioned bullshit. I don't mind retrying stuff over and over to get better at it, just make the process quick and painless. Imagine if every time you had to retry a track in Trials you had to wait 5 sec for the track to load, and then every time after first two checkpoints that you already mastered the game took your control away for 3 seconds to focus on some random object in the background.
Burnout Paradise is still my favorite racing game this gen, and it makes me sad to see Criterion fail to live up to its potential on their follow up releases.
I blame a lot of this on the NFS license. I honestly don't give a shit about having licensed vehicles or not, or what their features are. I'm completely fine with having generic cars with stats represented by a few bars.
I also found a few of the events in the game hellishly difficult, but this was only a problem because the game wasted so much of my time with the aforementioned bullshit. I don't mind retrying stuff over and over to get better at it, just make the process quick and painless. Imagine if every time you had to retry a track in Trials you had to wait 5 sec for the track to load, and then every time after first two checkpoints that you already mastered the game took your control away for 3 seconds to focus on some random object in the background.
Burnout Paradise is still my favorite racing game this gen, and it makes me sad to see Criterion fail to live up to its potential on their follow up releases.
The Antitype
Banned
I'm with you, but I will say you and I are a rare breed. People like seeing cars they recognize down to the detail in racing games, the same way they like to see real-world weapons in their first-person shooter.
Considering Burnout Paradise barely made a dime, it will be a long time before Criterion get another crack at making a big, main-line Burnout game. It's my favorite racing game of this generation too.
The cynic in me thinks making Criterion work on NFS titles, a franchise that typically sells well, is their way of making Criterion pay them back for all the free DLC they let them put out for Burnout Paradise.
Still, Hot Pursuit was awesome, and Criterion + Police Chases is a hard formula to screw up. Looks like it's time to buy a Need for Speed game again.
seattle6418
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Why not Undergorund 3? If you are going to try to revive the series, should use the strongest name out there.
I'm pretty sure that's an E92 M3...
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