Be Excellent To Each Other

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So any PSN+ers playing this? I can only see Zio at the moment.

Thing is, although the controls still annoy me it isn't as bad when you get up to high speeds due to having to make smaller adjustments (or something, I don't know). So I've kind of managed to adapt.

The cynical in-game purchase options that are shoved in your face every 30 seconds are aggravating.

The rubber banding is beyond ridiculous.

And yet I seem to have become horribly, horribly addicted. I don't know why. The racing through the open world just works really well somehow. I've only played the first couple of hours, mind you.

Anyone?

I will probably give it a go at some point, but I've got so many games to play first!

I've just got this over the weekend for the Wii u. Again, only played a couple of hours, I'm not very good but having fun. Haven't been able to win the first most wanted race yet. Not sure if it is my sort of game.
Extra bonus in that it doesn't nag you into buying dlc because they haven't released any on the Wii u.

I honestly didn't have a problem with the controls at all. Wired 360 pad playing the PC version. Framerate is halved on the consoles (best case scenario) so you will have more input lag. I certainly noticed it when playing the 360 version of Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed, gets quite irritating in a twitchy arcade style racer.



Yeah I think this game goes far too far in pushing the DLC, even after buying the (allegedly) 'Ultimate DLC Pack' it was still nagging me about stuff I was missing.

It did sour it for me but it didn't break the game. But whoever decided they'd put DLC-only cars in the starting area so you're coming across them after only a few minutes of play, seriously needs shooting in the face. Especially when the Ultimate DLC Pack DOESN'T include those cars so you're still fucking left with jackspots that you can't knock off the map.



It felt like fairly standard-issue Criterion to me Harks back to the Burnout 3/Revenge days I think, they eased off with it a bit in Paradise.

It works both ways though, you can win a race from last place on the last lap if you put an absolute stormer in, but by the same token a single crash at the end of an otherwise faultless race can see you drop from 1st to 4th - comes down to whether or not you like that dynamic I suppose.



I absolutely played the arse out of it, finished it all off, and then dropped it completely, it burned very brightly whilst it lasted though, and I'm quite content I got my money's worth out of it, even with the DLC which didn't add a massive amount of content, truth be told. (The airport area wasn't as good as the extra island you got in Paradise.)

Great game and I can only assume it's getting a bit cheaper now, definitely one to check out IMO.

Dear Lord, a couple more hours in and the game has turned into an utter turd of random unavoidable crashes losing me the race AGAIN AND FUCKING AGAIN.

I have never played a NFS that wasn't shit. How silly of me to think that this one would be different.

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I didn't think it was that bad TBH, it certainly didn't get me as close to a CONSOLE DESTROYING RAGE as Hot Pursuit did.

It's always come with the territory on Criterion games, it's easy to get the old rose-tinteds on but I recall all the Burnouts were capable of chucking out random crashes when the mood took them, certainly from No.3 onwards.

I've had a couple of hours on this and it's pretty good. Thing is, I can't tell the difference between this and Burny P apart from a different map, some UI stuff and game types it's pretty much the same. Even the mountains look the same.

I couldn't get into Burny P though and I'll probably hit a barrier on this as well since I've little interest driving to the next course. I just want race, after race, after race. I want to learn the courses and drive better than the next person but when I get to the race now I've been faffing about for five minutes milling about town and my interest starts to wane. Thank god for the quick retry on the races though. Glad they kept that from Burnout 3; one big smash and you might as well not bother.

It's very pretty though and always makes me sit up and pay attention when you're blasting down the road into incoming traffic making minute adjustments to your racing line. It utterly demands your attention and is as exciting as racing games go - i just wish it'd give me a list of races to get going on though and let me roam about if I ask politely in the menu.

Shame Lasermink's retired though as I just blasted through a speed camera shaving seconds off his time! Stupid but it made me smile!

The correct way to get into Burny P is to attempt to fit onto Dimrill's plank.

Oh, you'll see the difference soon enough. It's when the police starts to get involved less casually, and police cruisers just veer in front of you out of nowhere to lay down a spike strip mere millimetres in front of your car, puncturing your tyres and halving your max speed. Then another cruiser will ram you from behind - instant death, and THEN when you return to the race, your tyres are STILL flat, your speed is STILL halved and there's no service station in sight. Then you retry and the same thing happens again. And again. And again. That's when this game can get to fuck.

Ford GT up yo' ass!

I had a Colin McRae on the PS1 moment there. Y'know, when you're playing a racing game and you think "Fuck Yeah! Brum Brum BRUM!" I was busting around the airfield like a man possessed. Awesome.

Also, the music ain't loud enough over the sound effects. I'll sort that out.

Wheeeee! It actually is Burnout! This should keep me distracted until GTAV, I hope. I like how the entire soundtrack is Avril Lavigne too.

You've just persuaded me not to download it.

He was a boy, she was a car
Can I make it anymore obvious?
He was a twat, she did braking
What more can I say?

He wanted her, she'd never crash
Secretly she most wanted him as well
But all of her mechanics, stuck up their exhaust
They had a problem with his baggy. erm. tyres

He was a skater boy, she said, "Brrrrrum brum brum brum"
He wasn't good enough for her, she had a pretty grill
But her superjump was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth

There's an airfield! With hanging fuselage sections!

I had a wicked race round there in my Ford GT. Brum, Brum, Brum ... errrrrrrrrk ... Brum.

I said as much 5 posts up. FACT.

SNORK! FML insurance... awesome.

This game is fun fun fun with extra fun, grilled. With cheese.

Except for the police.

I reinstalled this last night as I remembered it being fun and I like to have a racing game 'on the go' that I can just dip into if I fancy some arcade racery japes and highjinks.

Reinstalling through Origin was swift and painless, and when I launched the game it helpfully brought down my old cloud save and I basically started playing exactly where I left off nearly two years ago.

Except this wasn't helpful, because what I was presented with was a game that was already completed (I didn't 100% it but anything of any significance in both the base game and DLC, I'd done). Imagine firing up GTAIV for a nostalgic playthrough and right from the off Niko's standing on top of the world in a game where there's basically nothing to do.

No problem, I thought, I shall simply press the NEW GAME button and start over.

Except this game doesn't have a NEW GAME button.

Having looked around for a bit, thinking I must surely be missing it, as a NEW GAME button is so basic and fundamental, I resorted to the Google-o-Tron and it turns out that, guess what, there really isn't a NEW GAME button in Need For Speed Most Wanted.

What you have to do is:

1) Quit out of the game
2) Delete all locally saved game data at - C:\Users\Fannyface\Documents\Criterion Games\Need For Speed(TM) Most Wanted
3) Turn off cloud saves for the game in Origin
4) Launch the game and play for long enough for it to generate a local autosave/save folder at the above path
5) Quit out of the game
6) Turn on cloud saves for the game in Origin
7) Launch the game and when it presents you with an error about save game conflicts, choose to force the local save over the cloud save
8 ) Quit the game, and congratulations, you have now pressed what in the past would have simply been called a NEW GAME button

So basically, if you leave Origin to its default behaviour, you can only ever play NFS Most Wanted once.

Incompetency or a SINISTER way to direct you to buy a new game? Either way, annoying.

By strange coincidence with my thread resurrection a few days ago, this game is now free to download and keep forever on Origin.

If you've got a PC/laptop that can run it, well worth checking out IMO.

The price is certainly right.