EA confirms that Need for Speed is finally dead; Criterion Games to work on Battlefield franchise

[iamthemilkman]

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Why'd we get a bunch of crappy Need for Speed games for years instead of a new Burnout? Didn't Paradise do really well at the time? I know some people didn't like the open world, however I remember a lot of people playing it and talking about it when it originally released. Anyways, looks like we're never getting another Burnout. I won't miss Need for Speed, though.

 

[ThatOneLum]

Ahh this is kind of sucky news.

We're playing Burnout 3: Takedown in the Nostalgia Society this month and it's been an awesome time. Sort of sad to see Criterion only doing more FPS nonsense forward until the end of time. Will get @diapered to pour one out for them the next time he drunk-drive crashes.

 

[zombie100379]

Burnout 3 was the highlight of the series anyway - where can you really go from there ? i will tell you what racing game needs to come back - "split second" , that game should have been huge - it needs another chance.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Means of 2 things
1: A new talent dev team will take the rights and do something with it, most likely a remake or a remastered
2: Its truly dead

Take your picks

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

Probably for the best
As knowing EA, if they ever made a Burnout game these days, then it would be a buggy watered down MTX ladden slop fest like so many other games nowadays.

 

[DjQuick2008]

EA should just sell the rights then to someone willing to make a go of it gaming past 2020 has been a farce. Only thing ive enjoyed is my introduction to steam around a year ago.

 

[BrawlMan]

Not even socked in the slightest. The last game I cared about was Rivals. I heard heat is pretty decent, but they've been milking this franchise to the ninth degree.

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Why'd we get a bunch of crappy Need for Speed games for years instead of a new Burnout? Didn't Paradise do really well at the time? I know some people didn't like the open world, however I remember a lot of people playing it and talking about it when it originally released. Anyways, looks like we're never getting another Burnout. I won't miss Need for Speed, though.

Paradise did well enough, but EA felt there was a much else they could do, and nobody else at Criterion was interested in making another one. Outside of that one mobile spinoff, nobody cares about, and you can't even get anymore.

 

[DjQuick2008]

heat is amazing was well worth the graphics upgrade you get on a PS5 even if the servers are a little dead at times.

 

[Vreeves]

A damn shame. I loved both NFS and Burnout back on the PS2 days. Sure the quality of newer NFS has been hit or miss, but at least I thought the franchise would continue in some way. I guess NFS Unbound was really that bad, huh?

EA being EA, i'm not surprised at this decision. There's also the fact that car licenses for games have been getting more and more expensive to get, so one or two failed games is enough to stop making more.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Not even socked in the slightest. The last game I cared about was Rivals. I heard heat is pretty decent, but they've been milking this franchise to the ninth degree.


Paradise did well enough, but EA felt there was a much else they could do, and nobody else at Criterion was interested in making another one. Outside of that one mobile spinoff, nobody cares about, and you can't even get anymore.

Then they went on to make 10+ years of Need for Speed games that offered absolutely nothing new. Wild.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Both Burnout and Need For Speed deserved better, damn it U.U

 

[RageBurner]

How jaded and out of touch a statement, but unsurprising given EA's reputation, coupled with the fact the company imploded and is being bailed out by foreign investment at a loss.

Only the biggest cash cows will remain, and even these will continue to rot and produce vile, tainted milk.

 

[DjQuick2008]

glad i still have a ps2 can revisit the best years.

 

[bombatomba77]

Just makes me want to play Need for Speed 2 on PSX again. The physics were so delightfully janky it was a hoot. Also makes me wonder if the PC version was the same...

 

[DjQuick2008]

ive PS3 version of carbon not played yet saving it for winter.

 

[Vardalis]

Another legacy studio cast to the yearly entry AAA-slop mines.

The crash can't come soon enough.

 

[BrawlMan]

glad i still have a ps2 can revisit the best years.

I got the 360 version of Most Wanted (2005) and Need for Speed Nitro (Wii) in my collection. Hot Pursuit (2010) I do not have anymore, and Rivals I traded in a long time ago, and don't see myself returning. I might pick up Carbon for some Initial D/Tokyo Drift nostalgia.

 

[DjQuick2008]

I got the 360 version of Most Wanted (2005) and Need for Speed Nitro (Wii) in my collection. Hot Pursuit (2010) I do not have anymore, and Rivals I traded in a long time ago, and don't see myself returning. I might pick up Carbon for some Initial D/Tokyo Drift nostalgia.

ive most wanted for ps2 yet again have very limited playtime underground 1 and 2 are my thing and ive got the HD versions from here. keep meaning to play the ps3 version of the run ive got it as well.

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at this stage im ready to bin most of my subscriptions and consoles now gaming PC was a big buy but i know ill get more out of it.

 

[BrawlMan]

keep meaning to play the ps3 version of the run ive got it as well.

I really have no idea what EA was trying to accomplish with The Run. It just looked like a worse or even more gimmicky version of Undercover. And eve Undercover itself was just a worse version of MW2005. The only difference being your the undercover cop, and is pretty much a less interesting version of the original The Fast and The Furious.

Raycevick on The Run & other NFS titles.

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[DjQuick2008]

I really have no idea what EA was trying to accomplish with The Run. It just looked like a worse or even more gimmicky version of Undercover. And eve Undercover itself was just a worse version of MW2005. The only difference being your the undercover cop, and is pretty much a less interesting version of the original The Fast and The Furious.

was playing fast and furious super cars earlier not a bad arcade job. similar to cruis'n blast

 

[BrawlMan]

was playing fast and furious super cars earlier not a bad arcade job. similar to cruis'n blast

That's because F&F Super Cars is running off the same engine as Cruis'n Blast.

 

[DjQuick2008]

That's because F&F Super Cars is running off the same engine as Cruis'n Blast.

yeah raw thrills love to see their games.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I think it is good that finally the franchise ended .

I like Need for Speed because i want to drive my favourite luxury cars in beautiful tracks that looked like awesome vacation resorts followed by cool and chill techno soundtracks that made it really stylish to drive around . The perfect vibing arcade-racer .

The whole street-racing thing was great at first but became overloaded when suddenly characters appear with an charisma of spitballs and an attitude like vanilla pudding with a glass of water at the side or worse ! A running " How do you do fellow illegal tuning-heads and shady racers ?"- meme .

 

[outrider]

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Why'd we get a bunch of crappy Need for Speed games for years instead of a new Burnout? Didn't Paradise do really well at the time? I know some people didn't like the open world, however I remember a lot of people playing it and talking about it when it originally released. Anyways, looks like we're never getting another Burnout. I won't miss Need for Speed, though.

I "Need to See" EA going bankrupt. And, it's IP's sold off for pennies on the dollar to real developer owned companies again.

 

[Lena CE]

How jaded and out of touch a statement, but unsurprising given EA's reputation, coupled with the fact the company imploded and is being bailed out by foreign investment at a loss.

Only the biggest cash cows will remain, and even these will continue to rot and produce vile, tainted milk.

It is supremely sad that executives at least pretending to care about the medium, even if it was clearly PR speak. The way they are so bold and confident in just being cold and anti-worker/anti-art speaks so much to how far the industry has fallen.