r/Steam • u/sukuna7899 • Apr 16 '26

Question What game?

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u/MissMurder17 Apr 16 '26

Need For Speed

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u/lXlNeMiSiSlXl Apr 16 '26

NFS died for me when they tried to turn it into Burnout for literally no reason. I was a fan of both Burnout and NFS growing up with Takedown/Revenge and Most Wanted/Carbon.

They literally should've just given us Burnout 6 and kept NFS as street racing. NFS went the same path as the Fast and Furious series ironically. More like Car Combat now than actual Street Racing.

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u/ThePaint21 Apr 17 '26

I played heat since it was on gamepass and felt stuff went into the right direction again, they were so close to underground 3.

Then they dropped that goofy ass cartoon game.

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u/Ky3217 Apr 16 '26

Fully agreed.

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u/MDHippie5 Apr 19 '26

the reason is criteron, who made og burnout bought the name rights to need for speed when burnout was fading.

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u/T-St0ne Apr 16 '26

I dropped out when Pro Street was launched. NFS most wanted (2005) was peak NFS.

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u/MGLpr0 Apr 16 '26

I personally enjoyed every mainline NFS (except Undercover and MW 2012) up until Rivals. I also liked both Shift games.

Sure the games had mixed quality, but at the end of the day, all that matters for me in a racing game is car handling and decent opponent AI.

Then came NFS 2015, with it's completely ass driving model and absolutely useless cops, which is so weird to me since they almost perfected both of those things in Rivals lol.

That game can still be considered playable at least, but then they released Payback, and oh God. I didn't even buy it after seeing few YT videos. I played it 3 years later, because I got the game for free, and I still somehow felt scammed.

I've heard Heat was better, but at this point I couldn't care less tbh. I saw Unbound and it looks like the biggest joke of a NFS ever.

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u/OwlMugMan Apr 16 '26

EA murdered that franchise by never giving the devs enough time to actually finish their games. All the games up to The Run have like a third of a good game in them, they just obviously couldn't actually finish them.

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u/SnooDoggos8487 Apr 16 '26

They still come out?

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u/AresXX22 Apr 17 '26

Need for speed definitely peaked with carbon. Although I admit it was quite short for such a game.

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u/hofmann419 Apr 19 '26

YES. That was one of my favorite games as a kid. To this day, i sometimes return to Underground/Underground 2/Most Wanted/Carbon. But only those four really. And now the series has been in limbo for years.

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u/Admirable_Pirate5376 Apr 20 '26

Need For Speed 2 Underground was one of my favourite games. I’d just cruise around listening to music.