5 Reasons The Need For Speed Franchise Should Take a Hiatus

James writes: "Entering its 23rd year of existence, the Need For Speed franchise has promised, and on many occasions delivered, a scintillating and breakneck sense of speed accompanied by fast and frenetic racing. Lately though - and let's be blunt here - the series is better off being smothered to death with a duvet cover.

Here are five big reasons why Need For Speed needs to at least take a sabbatical, and at most needs to crash through a windscreen and impale itself on a tree branch."

[Vasto]

Its called the Forza effect.

[InMyOpinion]

Forza Horizon 3 maybe, but not a direct competitior. That's one game I wish was on the PS4 though.

[yeahokwhatever]

You mean releasing games too often and burning out the fans?

[Vasto]

The fans are speaking with their wallets. Haters speak with words on forums.

https://cultureofgaming.com...

[yeahokwhatever]

"The price drop on ‘Forza Motorsport 7’ continues to push it back up the chart" So, just not too much of their wallets? Forza 7 isn't a bad game though, but they get released too often to justify the minor changes.

[Razmiran]

You are right, they saw how microsoft shakes their customers down with microtransactions and decided they would get a piece of that

[InMyOpinion]

If they had just designed the AI (f*ck rubberbanding) and the online better the last game had potential to be great. Graphics, controls, customization, modes (especially drift) were really good. For me though, the poor AI implementation was a game breaker and made me sell it.

[yeahokwhatever]

the AI, you're right, it wasn't fun. But I disagree with your assessment of the controls. As a fan of racing games, driving in this game felt like the driving in an FPS whenever they shoehorn in a driving segment. Just felt weird. It sort of feels like driving in sand or mud. Too much rolling resistance. It just doesn't feel like driving.

[C-H-E-F]

the AI was trash!!!!! Especially when you have a maxed out car lets say 399 and you're racing cars that's a 315 they zoom right passed you like you're nothing, catch up, etc. rubberbanding was always an issue in NFS, they never create proper AI.

[Derceto]

Thank god you decided to only name 5. We'd be here all week if you tried to name them all.