Exactly my thoughts, certainly more at the root of the series than Brake2Drift, Killswitches or things like on-screen damage bars. Good points! Makes me wish I'd played High Stakes and HP2, certainly sounds better than almost every game in the last ten years of NFS.
It certainly has degenerated hasn't it? I try to do what I can to help, but ultimately I'm one person and not everything I say is necessarily right, or will bring in the most profit from unsuspecting consumers.
You should've seen the response I got for remotely criticising NFS Heat engine swaps, it was absolutely venomous, they were spitting acid... All for supposedly "hating on the game before it's out." After that a number of seemingly irrelevant and incompetent insults were hurled, leaving me wondering what has happened to the community. All for indirectly saying Civic Cruiser rubber-banding was "*Better than NFS Heat engine swaps.*" Sorry to bother you with something so off topic, it just seems stupid to me. They must love Payback!
@BVBgamer88 wrote:
IM just curious too know what happen too those guys, that made the first 5 NFS games.
They moved on to develop sports games such as FIFA and NHL. (With FIFA being EA's biggest game series)
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Vancouver
@GK3512 wrote:
BB fanboys are the main source of fans,guess it takes more time to let EA realize the full history and different fanbase of NFS games.
I guess I'm one of those that liked Black Box NFS games such as NFS Underground 1,2, and Most Wanted 2005. 😃
Unlike most, I do not want another Underground game.
Because I'm weird, I like to keep cars relatively stock. So customization matters less somewhat to me, but I can see why it's important for sales and luring in buyers to pre-order. With regards to story, you just can't make the same story again, and if the developers idea of a story is Payback and NFS 2015, then I don't ever want a story based game again. Heat will supposedly be "dark" whatever that means? Working my way up the ranks as a Cop or Racer in Hot Pursuit 2010 was enough for me, and I can understand why people dislike Rival's somewhat hollow story. I didn't like the handling though.
Unless we do something differently, I fear NFS will die or worse become stuck in a cycle of releases with fans asking for better handling, day-night, different story, or to remove "x flaw" that they managed to introduce whilst getting rid of the previous one. With regards to Heat, I worry that they're far too focused on emphasising that they've removed speed cards and micro-transactions (but will they stay true to their word?), that they'll overlook other things, namely decent gameplay. I think that the damage bar will be the next glaring flaw, but not many have noticed it's existence nor the consequences it will have. I just hope that our attempts at banding together to make NFS better might have some success!
@GK3512I am not saying you couldn't do it but imo you can't call it "the root" when it just appeared in 50% of the games first 6 games (or not even in the first). But I think that depends on how your definition is for "root".
@BVBgamer88 Duhh...
