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

[RageBurner]

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.

Indeed. If you ask me, we are well into the event horizon, and there's no possibility of escape.

 

[CocaFeca]

As sad as it is, i think is for the best for nfs, the last truly enjoyable ones were carbon and most wanted, perhaps nitro if you could ignore the aesthetic (i couldn't) but on ps3 onwards the game were just so "meh" there wasn't really anything remarkable about them, nobody really gives a shit about the last 19 years of need for speed and it shows, compare how talked about most wanted, underground 1 and 2, Porsche unleashed, etc, are when compared to the likes of rivals (not the psp one) or most wanted (2012), heck, the "more interesting" one in the last 15 years was on the run, and it was because of the abundance of cutscenes and quick time events, nothing else.

As for burnout...yeah, it's extremely disappointing, but can't get really frustrated or angry when the series hasn't had a game in almost 20 years.

Rest in Peace.

 

[Darklink]

Even as someone that hasn't played either game series, this kinda thing just sucks.

"No, we don't want to make a unique game that generally sells alright and has a dedicated fanbase. We just want to make more Live Service Money Printing Machine, and nothing else".

 

[BrawlMan]

erhaps nitro if you could ignore the aesthetic

I love the aesthetics in Nitro and will happily defend them. At least Nitro has an identity and did the cartoon aesthetics better than Unbound ever did. I consider Rivals (the PC versions sucks though) and Heat the last good NFS games.

 

[outrider]

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.

Even calling it an "industry" just shows how off the beaten path it is. Should be a field or a way of life.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

DICE wasn't the developer of Battlefield games? Or now they went to other projects and for that, Criterion would take the riends?

 

[extermist]

Reminder that EA killed the Burnout series when they bought Criterion and moved the devs from those games over to NFS and made the RenderWare engine in-house only.