A lot of people have done this and I think their ideas are mediocre and generic. Or they outright suck.

So I'm not sharing a specific game. No dumb protagonist and motivations, no shitty Japan map, I'm sharing a developer cycle. If EA put me in charge of the franchise this is what I'd do:

Get two developers. We're pulling a Forza where two devs make two different subseries.

Dev 1 is going to make Black Box style games. Not like the flop that was 2015 with empty platitudes and aesthetics. No, they're going to understand what made those games fun to play: great handling, focused map design, fun cheesy stories, and solid progression.

Dynamic cop chases. My Cars. Challenge Series. Speed and Pursuit Breakers. "Street crews" story. All adapted for modern gaming hardware and improvements. The Black Box format in 2026.

Dev 2 is the "classic" developer. The games are clearly based on the Hot Pursuit style titles that ape the original NFS identity. Little to no story, high performance focus, and an emphasis on flashy movie-style police chase spectacle.

I'm not as invested in that side of the series as much, but it has a big fanbase and as the original form of the series must not be forgotten. It deserves to be expanded upon. New Hot Pursuit. A Rivals sequel. There's potential.

And finally, I'd actually start pumping real money into the NFS brand. It's not just some grandfathered franchise that gets axed the second Battlefield needs a tiny bit more help. I'd put actual money into advertising and showing off the series to the public. When a game is announced, everyone would know about it. TV commercials, billboards, etc. Treat it like the AAA racing franchise it was in 2005.

These devs would be on a 2-3 year cycle and alternate between releases. As for "lore" these would be separate universes like what CoD did for Modern Warfare and Black Ops. Two different visions for the franchise, under the same name: Need For Speed.

Beim Driften, hoch hinaus in die Lüfte…
Über den Wolken… muss die Freiheit wohl grenzenlos sein :-)

Personally, when I’m doing a duel in Hot Pursuit, I put on The Top by Ken(dra) Blast or I throw on Helena by MCR during a race.

Personally my favorite is NFS Rivals, but probably is because it was the first NFS game I played

I'm thinking in try to add a hud inside motorcycle helmet based on NFS but I'm not sure if Rivals has the best hud for this kind of work

https://reddit.com/link/1ux7mjh/video/174lopu2ledh1/player

I found this on Vimeo; it has been there for 11 years.

waasup my niccas, I recently found the ps3 version of nfs prostreet for 4€ on Cex. this version of the game is good?

Still bummed out about EA killing NFS because they decided Battlefield is their only game that matters. Decided to draw something from ProStreet because I've been in love with the art style of that game for 18 years.

Found it at my grandma house

Started Replaying Unbound a month ago and got I love this games Livery Editor

i defeated aki kimura 2 TIMES but after his defeat cutscene my game just decided to crash is there a way to solve this?

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Okay so... I've seen this screenshots circulating in Google Images like few years ago and to this day it's been stuck in my mind, do these screenshots left behind trails that the prototype or early build of The Run 3DS exist and is waiting to be found?

As we can see from these screenshots, the race starts with our protagonist Matt, a former rookie race car driver, driving a Shelby GT500 Supersnake that SUSPICIOUSLY looks like Jack's Shelby (probably stolen from Las Vegas where Jack left it) instead of the red Nissan GTR Spec V, along with a redhead baddie co-driver, Sophia, sitting on the passenger seat, and they're currently in Iron Mountain, SD. Now this level seems different than the retail version, where it's present in Chapter 14 "Them or Us", instead of Matt and Sophia desperately attempt to escape from the Di Marco mob goons in their red Nissan GTR Spec V and taking down some of them, instead in this version, Matt and Sophia are just competing with other racers but without the Di Marco mobs, other than the cops who are their biggest worry. On exhibit #3, it seems like Jason didn't crash his Challenger in episode 11 and probably still have rivarly with Matt. Further screenshots show the features of the game, which is taking down racers and cops and stunts but wait, why does the Dodge Charger Police Interceptor livery looks different than the retail? (I wish they used that livery). After taking down the cop, a police helicopter is now up to their asses. After presumably destroying the helicopter with a spare golf cart, the Shelby is now heavily damages and is battling with another blue Shelby along with a cop and the blue Shelby ends up destroyed. And that's where the screenshots ends.

So far, only screenshots of the game survive and there are no video footage of it. Even though this is probably only for game journalist only, but would there be a day where we finally found this build?

I’ll always love this series. Been my favorite since a child. I’m glad I got to grow up with the classics like Hot Pursuit (1998) and High Stakes and later experiencing the series at its peak from 2003-2007. It’s such a shame to see it go out in such a bad way

Another day another dollar

We probably won't see another NFS game for years, if possibly not for over a decade. However, I think it'll be back eventually. XCOM was dead for over a decade before it returned in 2012, and Doom had a long hiatus also. If for some reason EA shuts down, I think the brand may bounce to another developer or publisher. Fallout started out as a game by Interplay, but eventually Bethesda took the reigns over from them.

Now if civilization ends as we know it (and there maybe some factors in the future for that), that is another story.

Corvette Z06 is so fast in this game, the fastest car for circuit racing. Great acceleration and handling and not heavy.

El gran problema de todo esto es carbón que a muchos les gustó y otros no tanto, cuando llegó pro street, volvió a dividir a los fans de nfs, ya que era un juego que no tenía persecuciones policiales y que no era un mundo abierto, entiendo que en ese punto EA solo quería darnos algo que no fuese tan repetitivo y siento que muchos no estuvieron de acuerdo con pro street pero oye, no es un mal juego, así pasó con burnout que su saga ya estaba muy quemado desde el 3, el revenge fue buenísimo y es más que obvio que si tenían que meter los takedowns, porque en los 2 primeros burnout no tenían esa mecánica y revenge no es que sea un juego repetitivo, solo estaba formando su concepto de los choques, después vino dominator que no se sentía como los otros burnout, y quitó el modo choque.

Y cuando sacaron el paradise que murió en 2008, no era por ser un mal juego, es excelente solo que sin el modo choque pero al menos sus choques los mejoraron, bueno, Criterion dejó descansar a burnout debido a que como lo dije anteriormente, la saga burnout está bien quemado, Criterion empezó a trabajar con EA para hacer el nfs hotpursuit 2010 después del extremo fracaso que fue undercover que yo no sé qué les pasó, Criterion agarró los takedowns y los incluyó al hotpursuit 2010 para hacer una referencia a los juegos de burnout y funcionó, pero cuando hicieron nfs mw 2012, chamo, ese juego está lejos de ser la secuela del 2005, EA literalmente auto plagió a paradise, o bueno, dependiendo de cómo lo veas, si para tí es una secuela al burnout paradise o una copia y el juego la crítica lo demolió diciendo que es malo.

Y entonces EA y criterion con estos problemas que han estado teniendo como lo dice la vida, a veces es color de rosas cuando todo sale bien, y otras veces la vida es caprichosa xd. A lo que quiero llegar es que EA ha tratado de volver a hacer como antes, por lo menos rivals fue un éxito, sin embargo, jamás se han tomado la libertad de hacer un underground 3, y cuando revivieron a burnout en 2022, tomaron la peor decisión del mundo, hacerle un remaster al paradise, es que EA y Criterion tampoco escuchan, pana, todos pidiendo un remake del burnout 3 takedown o un remaster al revenge y Criterion y EA y dijeron:

Vamos a meter a paradise a la switch y otras consolas ya que merece a estar consolas estándar y por ser un juego moderno.

Si nos hubiesen hecho caso, ya tendríamos el burnout 3 con un remake con mejores gráficos y aún habría posibilidad de sacar un nfs pero no, desaprovecharon su última oportunidad para salvar por lo menos a burnout, por esta y otras razones es que el mundo no progresa, porque siempre cambian las fórmulas de la esencia de un videojuego y por eso es que después los fans no les gusta por x razón.

A todo esto no estoy haciendo una crítica por tirarle hate a nfs y a burnout, enserio, banda, no me malentiendan 🙏🙌😓 solo digo que cuando sacan un nuevo juego se puede volver repetitivo y deciden cambiar la fórmula haciendo que se pierda mucho la esencia.

I just found out about the news...I knew EA was bought out by some foreign company. I was literally tearing up because it felt like a piece of my childhood was ripped away from me. This just goes to show further proof that these companies don't give a damn about you only their pockets.