It's all kicking off, isn't it? E3 season is getting underway, and publishers are starting to wake up and make some noise about their upcoming projects. Today, it's EA's turn to share some news, this time regarding the Need for Speed franchise. Having skipped last year after the poor reception to the microtransaction-infested Need for Speed Payback, it seems the publisher is ready to bring the storied racing series back.
Posting in an EA forum, DICE's Ben Walke has provided an update on what's happening with NFS. As it happens, a new game will arrive later this year, but there are currently no details to go on. It sounds as though the team has gone back to the drawing board to figure out what's best for the franchise, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
You'd think that we'd get a glimpse of the new NFS at EA Play, the publisher's E3-adjacent event, but it seems that's not the case. "Are you going to hear more about the next NFS title? Yes. Is it being released this year? Yes. Will we be doing anything in June? No," Walke plainly states. That's that, then.
Are you excited about Need for Speed coming back? What do you want to see in the next game? Start your engines in the comments below.
[source answers.ea.com]
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Well thats a bummer. Doesn't exactly exude a ton of confidence. On a side note, never understood the lootbox/MT backlash Payback got. I 100%ed the entire game, played for 30+ hours and never once felt my progress was being slowed and leaned to forcing MTs.
But honestly if they just released HD remaster of all the PS2 Era NFS games that's probably their best choice at the moment lol. I will undoubtedly get whatever this year's game is however.
I don't expect much from NFS any more, but when I do I'll play something pre-2006
JUST GIVE THE LICENCE TO CRITERION!
... OR BETTER YET JUST HAVE THEM MAKE A NEW BURNOUT INSTEAD!!
@viciousarcanum Criterion had it and did new versions of Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted and their new game is Burnout Lite sans crash mode. Seemingly as out of ideas as Ghost.
They need to go open world. Forza-esque.
@daveofduncan with some exceptions, NFS has worked with open worlds for over a decade now.
@redd214 while it'll take me a while to get to Payback (even if I'm one step closer today after finally beating Hot Pursuit 2), it's been on my radar since release and it sounds like many fanmouths' poison may well be my cure - all the grinding and lootboxing that people complain "pushes them to pour money into MTX" sounds like the most damn RPG this franchise has ever been! And that's before we get started on the other advertised stuff like cars to find out there. I sure hope the next game will be inheriting all of these, with a wallet cheat option or without it.
@nhSnork yeah it was a solid, if unremarkable game. The MT outrage was WAAAYY overblown from my time with it. Sure you can pick it up for peanuts now.
@Cycologist their Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted are literally the only great NFS title since Most Wanted ('05) and Criterion didn't make Dangerous Driving, former employees did.
I was pretty excited when the last NFS game was revealed, but lost all interest after hearing about the monetisation policies in that game. Until we know exactly what loot boxes and microtransactions are in the next NFS, I'm not going to get excited for it.
I absolutely loved Most Wanted and Rivals. 2015's Need for Speed was okay but a bit disappointing and Payback I could not get into at all, the progression system ruined it.
I love the gameplay and open world for single-player but always thought they should have made static races for online multiplayer that you could just queue up for with matchmaking without it being a full open world.
@viciousarcanum criterion by another name. Personally the PS3 games I'd rate highest are Carbon and the Run (gasp). The Run got a lot of flack for the non-racing bits but otherwise it was good. The rest didn't appeal to me for one reason or another.
Although I have not played the last 2 versions of NFS (2015 and Payback), I'm still a fan of NFS and I hope to see the new version, however, I still hope that they really take "the original idea" with which NFS was born, the idea that the original developers captured in the first 6 games (1994-2002), and especially one of those ideas is the variety of options of the single player game, of course without forgetting the multiplayer and career and history mode.
But, well..., it's my wish and I'll keep waiting for that NFS.
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