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Hot Pursuit VS Most Wanted VS Rivals
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LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
A warning to those who intend to buy Most Wanted: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=585681
Wii U version comes with ULTIMATE SPEED PACK* on disc though
*- 5 cars (Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, Hennessey Venom GT Spyder, Lamborghini Aventador J, McLaren F1 LM and Pagani Zonda R)
- 25 challenges
- 70 + objectives
- 42 license plates
- 5 billboards
- 8 awards
ambar_hitman
Member
Primarily a PC gamer so for me Hot Pursuit>>>>Rivals>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Most Wanted.
Finally someone with some sense.
Rivals has disappointed me.
The dumbest thing in Rivals is having a great amount of points after just one event, and now all I want to do is get back to the freakin' hideout and a cop breathes on me and busts me because my car is nearly dead after the event and the nearest repair shop is 2.4 miles away.
Oh yeah, and now I just lost ALL of those points. Stupid.
This is why Hot Pursuit is > Rivals. Also, simple online matchmaking is so much better than the odd online open world in Rivals.
So far I have found absolutely nothing even close to "bad" about it.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Hot Pursuit was the only NFS I bought that I traded in before I even got close to finishing.
It had this weird issue that I could never explain properly. It ran at around 30fps I guess but seemed to frame skip or something. I'd be driving down a highway and suddenly a corner would appear out of nowhere will no time to react. It happened all the time so in the end I just got frustrated with it and sold it.
Most disappointing NFS I've played, although I haven't played them all. Rivals is great though.
It had this weird issue that I could never explain properly. It ran at around 30fps I guess but seemed to frame skip or something. I'd be driving down a highway and suddenly a corner would appear out of nowhere will no time to react. It happened all the time so in the end I just got frustrated with it and sold it.
Most disappointing NFS I've played, although I haven't played them all. Rivals is great though.
cr_blah_blah
Member
I like playing Rivals but it feels so disjointed and I constantly end up in a menu. The checklist stuff is the worst way to handle objectives since it forces you back into menus so often and quickly.
Haven't played Rivals. I thought I would like Most Wanted a lot more than Hot Pursuit because it was open world like Burnout Paradise (and from the same devs) and that was one of my favorite games ever, but it really wasn't as good. It was a fun game for sure, but it wasn't as good as Hot Pursuit.
KevMan1815
Member
One thing that bothers me about Most Wanted is you can't select the color of your car. My two year old son hated that I couldn't give him a red car without driving through the repair station at least a few times.
On Wii U you just tap the Gamepad screen to choose colors, night/day, different cars, etc... Its really nice
It does it in real time too so no loading screens breaking up the pace.
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DidntKnowJack
Member
Rivals > Most Wanted (Wii U version) > Hot Pursuit
HP would have taken the crown if the handling model wasn't complete shit. It has the best overall "game," but it's ruined by it's slide-y controls. Yes, I found them that bad.
Most Wanted is specifically good on the Wii U because you're given the option to instantly get rid of the cops. When I played it on PS3, I despised it simply because trying to get rid of the cops became 90% of the fucking game. The handling was better than HP's, though.
And even though I rank Rivals #1, it's flawed as well - for instance getting into races with friends is God damn near impossible. It's mainly a single player progression in a multi-player universe. But the car handling feels PERFECT. It's fun, but as I said it's still flawed.
HP would have taken the crown if the handling model wasn't complete shit. It has the best overall "game," but it's ruined by it's slide-y controls. Yes, I found them that bad.
Most Wanted is specifically good on the Wii U because you're given the option to instantly get rid of the cops. When I played it on PS3, I despised it simply because trying to get rid of the cops became 90% of the fucking game. The handling was better than HP's, though.
And even though I rank Rivals #1, it's flawed as well - for instance getting into races with friends is God damn near impossible. It's mainly a single player progression in a multi-player universe. But the car handling feels PERFECT. It's fun, but as I said it's still flawed.
I play in single player
SkylineRKR
Member
Rivals is a mix between both MW and HP but I don't know if I like it better than HP.
HP had no open world and it made for better tracks to race others on. Also normal matchmaking against other races. But Rivals has better controls.
Seriously though, Ghost needs to tone down those AI cops in Rivals.
HP had no open world and it made for better tracks to race others on. Also normal matchmaking against other races. But Rivals has better controls.
Seriously though, Ghost needs to tone down those AI cops in Rivals.
schwabdizzle
Banned
Most Wanted was way better than Hot Pursuit.
UnluckyKate
Member
I like the roads better in HP but the fact that you race for 2 minutes and get 5 minutes of loading, unskippable cutscene, menu and another loading before the next 2 minute race makes it second after Rivals where I can play an hour being a cop without being interrupted
Hot Pursuit > Most Wanted > Rivals
Don't get the hate for Most Wanted and the praise for Rivals. Hot Pursuit was the most fun to me. Most Wanted took away the cop-part, the part I enjoyed most in HP, but it did have a vastly more interesting open world with more stuff to do and more ways to evade the cops than just outspeeding them. Rivals brings back playing as a cop, which I love, but the world itself had a massive downgrade compared to the Most Wanted world, the frequent disconnects resetting your progress take the fun out of the game, you can now only outrun cops by outspeeding them, cops seemingly materialize out of thin air while playing as a racer, cops get in your way all the time when playing as a cop, PvP has turned into driving circles around repair stations and having to unlock every upgrade for pursuit tech all over again on every car is time-consuming.
Don't get the hate for Most Wanted and the praise for Rivals. Hot Pursuit was the most fun to me. Most Wanted took away the cop-part, the part I enjoyed most in HP, but it did have a vastly more interesting open world with more stuff to do and more ways to evade the cops than just outspeeding them. Rivals brings back playing as a cop, which I love, but the world itself had a massive downgrade compared to the Most Wanted world, the frequent disconnects resetting your progress take the fun out of the game, you can now only outrun cops by outspeeding them, cops seemingly materialize out of thin air while playing as a racer, cops get in your way all the time when playing as a cop, PvP has turned into driving circles around repair stations and having to unlock every upgrade for pursuit tech all over again on every car is time-consuming.
TJP
Member
Most Wanted - Brilliant fun in both single and multiplayer with solid but expensive DLC (which I bought). Great once the patches for the PC version allowed for better anti-aliasing and a higher frame rate. Still playing this now.
Rivals - I'm not that far into this game however it has been a lot of fun despite some rather poor optimisations for the PC version. EA Ghost have taken the best bits from HP and MW and melded them into a solid experience. Playing it at 60fps (thanks Guru3D forums) makes for a better experience too.
Hot Pursuit - Single player was okay, didn't much care for the Cop mode. Features a useless 'free roam' mode with no cops, racers, weapons or time trials...there is nothing to do other than drive around.
Rivals - I'm not that far into this game however it has been a lot of fun despite some rather poor optimisations for the PC version. EA Ghost have taken the best bits from HP and MW and melded them into a solid experience. Playing it at 60fps (thanks Guru3D forums) makes for a better experience too.
Hot Pursuit - Single player was okay, didn't much care for the Cop mode. Features a useless 'free roam' mode with no cops, racers, weapons or time trials...there is nothing to do other than drive around.
AstroZombie
Banned
Original most wanted shits on all other arcadey nsf games
Yep, from a great height.
The Antitype
Banned
Most Wanted was interesting conceptually but pretty bland in practice.
Rivals is a dumpster fire of bad design and balance decisions.
Hot Pursuit is the clear, clear winner.
Rivals is a dumpster fire of bad design and balance decisions.
Hot Pursuit is the clear, clear winner.
The Antitype
Banned
lol, wut? No.
The game needs balancing quick, because once you get into the higher tiers of cars on the racer side, the game starts getting irritating to play. And it's not a matter of difficulty so much as most of the game becomes busy work. You spend most of your time trying to lose cops between events, than you do actually participating in them. And not by choice.
I don't mind the risk/reward of banking stuff. That's cool. I don't mind the rubber-band AI in races and cop pursuits, it keeps them fun and intense.
It's the Heat levels and how quick on the trigger cops are to go after you that's an issue.
I can start a race (or any event), cops get involved, it's great. Then the event ends, and I have to lose the cops. Also great.
I spend the next 15 to 20 goddamn minutes losing the cops, because even if there isn't a single goddamn cop left in the viewable area of the mini-map, they can still magically see me. I see the escape bar building up and then BOOM, pursuit resumed AGAIN, despite the fact that there isn't a fucking cop within 5 miles of me. This happens 10 goddamn times in a row, before I say fuck it, head to the nearest hideout and bank 200,000 bucks, even though I would have preferred to have made that money actually completing events.
I like racing against and battling cops. It's fun. But not when all I want to do is drive to the next fucking event and start it, or figure out how the fuck to approach a particular jump.
I've never played a game that so actively impeded the player from enjoying the content therein as Need for Speed Rivals.
The cop campaign is pretty fun, but then it has pretty much nothing to do with racing, just destroying shit.
pop_tarts
Member
It's a very hard choice because I loved Rivals I plat it and Most Wanted. The thing that Most Wanted did better than Rivals was their atmosphere and sound. When you go into a tunnel it sounds like a tunnel with the growling of the engine echoing pretty sweet. The lights of the headlights reflect pretty flippin cool too. And lastly I loved the canyon part of Most Wanted, it felt like I actually was driving there the way the rocks just felt like it grew out of the ground to make a wall on both sides.
What Rivals did right was variety of their enviornments from the wicked trees to the snowy mountains it looked great. The lighting abeit annoying at times felt pretty nice too.
Most Wanted challenges felt better as well When you smashed through a billboard to make a time it would put your face (avatar) on the billboard with your jump distance. They should have brough those back. Glad they didnt bring the gates back though.
So If I could only play one for ever it would probably be Rivals, Most Wanted, Hot Pursuit
Most Wanted's controllers needed getting use to, didn't play too much of Hot Pursuit
What Rivals did right was variety of their enviornments from the wicked trees to the snowy mountains it looked great. The lighting abeit annoying at times felt pretty nice too.
Most Wanted challenges felt better as well When you smashed through a billboard to make a time it would put your face (avatar) on the billboard with your jump distance. They should have brough those back. Glad they didnt bring the gates back though.
So If I could only play one for ever it would probably be Rivals, Most Wanted, Hot Pursuit
Most Wanted's controllers needed getting use to, didn't play too much of Hot Pursuit
Original hot pursuit > all nfs
petethepanda
Member
Perhaps it's because I don't really enjoy them, but I've owned all three (picked up Rivals just due to the lack of other stuff to grab on PS4) and I swear they all feel exactly the damn same. I don't know what it is but they entirely lose my interest after two or three hours.
At least Most Wanted had those unique intro sequences for races. The X-treme "You may wonder why I do this... but I wonder why you don't, man" garbage in Rivals is so bad.
At least Most Wanted had those unique intro sequences for races. The X-treme "You may wonder why I do this... but I wonder why you don't, man" garbage in Rivals is so bad.
AstroZombie
Banned
And then the doctor prescribed a lower dosage?
mullet2000
Member
People were complaining about how bad the dialogue is, and don't get me wrong, it is bad...but it's the exact kind of stupidity that will cause me to have laughing fits every time dialogue happens. It's so goddamn funny to me.
There's some dialogue on the cop side about avenging one of the cops that was smashed by a racer or something that had me nearly pissing my pants.
Valkerionseven
Member
This!
AstroZombie
Banned
Bwhaahahaha.. . oh wait. Youre serious? I should laugh harder ..BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. Hot Pursuit is literally one of the WORST games of last gen design wise. PERIOD.
jaydogg691
Member
Wow, so much hate for Most Wanted.
Most Wanted is my favorite of the three, especially the Vita version. Most Wanted on Vita is pretty much the console version on the go and it does make for an enjoyable experience. Even though I had both the PS3 and Vita version, I went on to play the Vita version more just because I could take it on the go.
As for Rivals, the game is pretty much the campaign of Hot Pursuit with the open world of Most Wanted 2006. Rivals is fun game, but there are some problems I have with the game (speaking for the PS4 version). There are times I encountered glitches through out the world as in weird detection with the road causing me to crash and fail an event. Also, the cop evasion is pretty much broken. There are so many off roads and jumps in the world that you would think could help you evade the cops, but they just keep coming back.
As for Hot Pursuit, it was a great game at the time and pretty much set up the bases for Most Wanted. The only thing I didn't like from the game is the Cop campaign and is also a problem for me in Rivals.
Most Wanted is my favorite of the three, especially the Vita version. Most Wanted on Vita is pretty much the console version on the go and it does make for an enjoyable experience. Even though I had both the PS3 and Vita version, I went on to play the Vita version more just because I could take it on the go.
As for Rivals, the game is pretty much the campaign of Hot Pursuit with the open world of Most Wanted 2006. Rivals is fun game, but there are some problems I have with the game (speaking for the PS4 version). There are times I encountered glitches through out the world as in weird detection with the road causing me to crash and fail an event. Also, the cop evasion is pretty much broken. There are so many off roads and jumps in the world that you would think could help you evade the cops, but they just keep coming back.
As for Hot Pursuit, it was a great game at the time and pretty much set up the bases for Most Wanted. The only thing I didn't like from the game is the Cop campaign and is also a problem for me in Rivals.
Blackage
Member
I'm finding it impossible to derive any enjoyment from Rivals. It doesn't matter what you're doing, within 60 seconds you have 17 cop cars on your ass and you're spending 15 minutes trying to shake them. I don't know why they bother having game modes or objectives, really. You just end up doing the same thing, over and over again.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Original Hot Pursuit 2 for ps2 is the best they've ever made, so he's almost right.
AstroZombie
Banned
As one of the biggest Criterion fanboys alive i have zero trepidation in saying that Hot Pursuit is a fucking TERRIBLE game. AI rubberbanding that would make mario kart blush. 3 classes of cars 'slow and sort of manuverable', 'sorta fast but i can steer' and lastly 'wow this is really fast.. and .. really wobbly'. Tracks where the shortcuts are.. uh.. longer than the way? Game was completely soulless.