Unbound and NFS overall feedback
[Trigger Warning: Long Text and I don't care, if it is too long for some... . You asked for feedback 😉 / ps.: English is my second language!]
First of all I want to start a little bit with my NFS history.
I started playing NFS back when NFS II came out. In the late 90'. Back then, we got all parts burned from friends. Now I have them all original, all but edge. I played NFS II so much and then Hot Pursuit. I love Knockout races. What is the problem with that in newer NFS parts? I love to play a cop myself and running from them. I love both. Going on to High Stakes. We got the ONLY NFS with PINK SLIPS! And is is damn easy, to make fast cash, once you found out the mechanic! It's making fun, beating the opponents all the time, which car is best end even I lost my BMW M5, because it is too slow, I took it so often, you just can abuse it. Pink Slips are NOT a bad thing and everybody should cry about it, is not a "real virtual "hard" gangster street racer"... . Sorry, had to shout this out. ^^
I also loved the CONCEPTS of Sportscars in NFS II a lot! I don't need an open world, even when I love them, if they are filled enough with hot spots, actions and cool places for the photoeditor. I love all kind of cars. Doesn't matter, if usual tuner cars like in the Underground parts. And honestly, I LOVE the customization of UII!! The huge amount of parts, HiFi, WINGDOORS, split hoods, everything paintable, or in carbon. I even play the old games these days on my win10 monster PC in full widescreen! And I will ever play them. Way more, than modern NFS games.
And here is why: They even work today! The Hot Pursuit Concept is, well... hot. 😉
And YES; I also got an original boxed Copy of THE NEED FOR SPEED SE from 1994!! Even THIS is working on Win10.
Now let's go to some critique.
I hope I could express, how much I love the franchise itself. I even HAD a NFS Carbon Basecap! Saldy it got broke, I had to throw it away. But I won an Unbound T Shirt and I LOVE it! ^^
But I have several problems with. You have pretty cool working concepts.
But everytime, a "new" NFS is announced, it will be slightly different, to the previous one. Maybe some new stuff will be added, but some will allways cutted.
Why? To name some examples: Autosculpt! Be a Cop mode! Knockout, Drift Events, Drag Races, URL, Speedcross... Extreme Builts like in NFS Payback. WHY? I don't understand it. PINKSLIPS! Setting Options... Wheel Support must be added intwo fallowing NFS from NFS 2015 on. WTF? In NFS 2015 we had so much Stance Sliders! Why are they cutted in fallowing NFS? Because of "glitching"? Come on! What is not glitching? Well, this is unfair. 😉 Don't worry. ^^ But I see so much quality stuff in all parts, I just can through CAR PARTS! Because of missing shadow layers or something. We have flying assets in the world. We have places we stuck into and can't escape a pursuit! In HEAT I got stuck UNDER a crash barrier in the back of it. I has been offroad. I just touched that area under the barrier hast been placed ABOVE on the road and I has got busted. I wish some continuous development for NFS. Stop cutting insane stuff! Increase the content and give us freedom to set up everything. Oh and where are the awesome pursuit breakers? And speedbreaker?
I really hate the IMO trash talking in the Unbound "story". It is no real story for me. Just some "patch" of having a kind of story, is way wo overWOKE to be in the modern society trends. I have no problem with "cringe" characters or aspects. But after I quiet the talking and the subtitels, I could "enjoy" the "story".
I don't want to criticize the wish to catch up everybody. But I recognize, the audience is not mention player like me, are 36 years old and playing NFS for more than 20 years!
I also have to say something to the maps and dlc policy.
We have so awesome games like U/UII, MW, Carbon and so on. I have everystill enjoy. Especially modding! Apropos... : There are mods, you can easaly combine Rockport with Palmont City. We have NFS WORLD! There is a combined map. I think a lot of people would love map extensions. The old NFS allways promised to publish tons of stuff. Either nothing comes, or one or two DLCs. Or something l really have to criticize hard: EA resells cars, has been included in the previous game, like the NFS ICONIC Car packs! There are so much more cool cars you can add! So don't resell cars for way to much money. I won't buy such DLCs!
So back to the maps. Why we can't get a huge Upgrade, with a new city, new gameplay, cars and stuff? Other games like GTA are understanding this. 😉
In NFS "Not Wanted" or "Fake Wanted" we got an airport as a playground! Insane! Give us MORE! ^^
I also don't need any passersby / NPCs walking around in the NFS world. Or even in a racing game. Most time I try to hit them, even I know I can't. ^^ I like details way more. In old NFS Parts we had balloons in the sky. fireworks. Bird sounds, church bells... A restaurant had a partysound. It is definately cool, to have animated boats, ships, plains, trains and a TRAIN on the MAP! YES! Trams and Metros and stuff are also cool to have to have a living city. When I have this, and even if not, I don't need walking "humans".
And one other important aspect for me... The soundtrack! This one in unbound I also quiet totally.
I'm a big Rock Fan, Metal and Punk. Well, it has been clear, there is "Hip Hop" only in Unbound.
So I had no big expectations. But I silented it and so it is OK.
U + UII and MW had the best OSTs in my opinion. We had a nice mixure of a lot of kind of music!
I also love the music in NFS II - IV.
And also unbound you could expand!
For example. Bring a ROCK PACK... 10 Rocksongs, 10 Offorad vehicle, 10 Offroad courses and maybe a sidestory or not.
For a FAIR price I'd buy it!
Bring a Jazz Pack! 10 Jazz Tracks, 10 classic or mixed with modern limousines for cruising and customizing them to have some insane lowrider, DUB styled customs and so on.
Bring 10 Metal Songs, 10 Muscle Cars. Classic and new and give us customizing like BIG BLOCKS! They are in the gamefiles! We had the classic Camaro in Heat with a BLOWER! Why we never get them for customizing? There are MODS unlocking them!
Make Pack with 10 Pop Songs, 10 compacts cars or "hipster" cars and let us "pimp" them like we had it in U/U2.
For all packs some clothes for the character editor and some driving effects...
Maybe here and there some new city areas to have some more gameplay or playground. Unbound is way to short. Way to less. Way to "lightwighted". IMO. And again. I don't critizice your efforts! 😉
What I'm absolutely partying is, you include concepts from modern car artists! Like Yasid Design and others! Cheers to that!
Unfortunately I can't 3D model yet. I am a drawer and a photographer. So I just could do some concepts. ^^
All in all I really wish you get the MANPOWER, the time is REALLY neaded to publish a real big fish in NFS history and all the MONEY to develop everything you want to bring us.
And please do more such crazy stuff like you did with the japanese Lamborghini Diablo with LED stripes. And glowing paint, parts or transparent tuning parts like transparent spoilers, hoods and stuff. And not big wings only. We love to decide between different spoiler sizes.
And I got another point now. I love, you have VW in the game! And some VERY LESS cars have a "lot" of tuning parts. Not that much like Underground II, but well. You have GOLF Models in the game. The Käfer / Beetle. The Honda Civics. These are Cars got customized in tons of variations! Look in the scene. At Hot Wheels. Tuning car movies. Maybe music videos. There are also a lot of older tuners. Abflug, Abt, Rieger, Mugen, etc. . Not "just" Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk (wich are damn cool to have in games, by the way!).
I won't preorder any NFS again. And I will wait, until it is finished, OR insane mods are published. The history teached me to wait. 😉
If somebody reads this... . Thank you for your attention.
I'm curious about the future of NFS in any kind. Until then I'll enjoy all the insane mods and stuff, we can do in the last 26 years in NFS.
Have a nice day.
