Games

Need for Speed Underground 2 still has not been topped. The physics felt the best in the series, because slides still felt controllable by using throttle and the wheel. Nowadays slides feel like a mobile drift game that forces gyro controls.

Carbon was the last NFS game I enjoyed, but it didn't match NFSU2, not even close.

The Run was the last NFS game I played that I liked, but it was quite different from any other NFS game. Fine as a one time spinoff but not how I want the next 10 NFS games to feel like.

I tried NFS Unbound and didnt make it more than 2 hours into the game because the game was too interested in preaching at me or talking at me than it was letting me race. Also, the driving model felt really bad, just like the other Criterion NFS games.

Crazy to me that almost universally everyone says NFSU2s driving model was the best and the developers can completely ignore that and instead make something new that nobody likes.

I see the next BF will be developed by Dice and 4 other teams? Well I wish them luck on good cooperation but that sounds really scary team-wise.

But who knows, maybe it'll help. Because Dice is ... ok well I'm old so I don't know if this is still true but I remember them as one of those studios that just keeps fucking things up. Bugs on bugs. Them and Creative Asembly (Total War). But as I said, I'm old, not sure how things look now

Bonus rant: But boy, I remember one bug they introduced in BF3 with one patch. The bug was that the under-barrel shotgun attachement didn't have its own damage, but took the damage from main weapon i.e. 12 pellets x 25 HP = 300 HP. I mean, shit happens but how much of a mess there's in the code that this happens? I'd genuinely love to see that code. And! And! That testers don't catch it during testing! How? That it flows through all the stages up to the production. Do you even have some tests? Is there a QA team? And I know I'm not crazy because as a follow up, the EA tried to step in to put things in order. Rant over

No thanks.

I like Hot Pursuit Remastered and play it every now and then as good arcade racers and getting hard to find.

I haven't enjoyed a BF game since Bad Company 2... and everything newer is truly awful.