When the brand name Need For Speed was born, it was a simple arcade racer. You choose your car and track, press the Drive button and you were off racing against other adrenaline pumping AI opponents. However recently this hasn't been the case....until SHIFT.
EA has announced that Need for Speed Carbon, Need for Speed Undercover, Need for Speed Shift, Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed, and Need for Speed The Run will be removed from digital storefronts beginning today, May 31.
From a preservation standpoint, this is the one thing I hate about digital games. And things will get much worse if game streaming becomes the norm.
The games are already preserved. Hence their existence on the digital stores to begin with. This is no different than when Disney put movies in the vault, only to bring them back years later.
Not true. Mass Effect re-release trilogy did not have some of the DLC content specifically because the contractor that played a major role in it's development did not preserve it, nor did Bioware.
Any idea of when marvel vs capcom 2 is coming back? That's my favorite game of all time and I can't use it on my ps3 as the file is corrupt and can't find an official dualshock or sixaxis to rebuild the database in safe mode. It's really frustrating that I can't use something I paid for that I expected to have forever.
At least it is available digitally. They give you a warning, and if you purchase it, then you will still always have access to it. They will also make it available again one day when it makes sense, but right now I imagine that <100 a day play these games.
Good luck buying Need for Speed: Carbon brand new from a store.
All games have a shelf life. These games are three generations old and had massive circulation. I don't think it is EAs problem if you haven't picked them up by now.
Why defend EA's bad business practice? There's no way to spin this, it's just bad.
NFS Undercover, Carbon,Prostreets, Rivals, 2015 Reboot, Payback , 2012 Mostwanted was no good, far as I'm concerned they can remove Heat too . it doesn't matter anymore if Ea remove them they "All" crap.
Ea went down hill after Blackbox studio left.
Ghost did not improved NFS , Criterion did nothing better and here they are back to screw NFS again. 2022 will be another flop as the first title they made (Burnout for Speed)
Not a fan of those games either, but I think you miss the point: even if someone—for whatever reason—wants to buy those games digitally, they can't. And the transition toward digital platforms makes the issue that much worse. Nevermind buying physical at outrageous prices from online sellers, you literally can't play them if you have an all-digital device.
Kombatologist is exactly right: it is an issue from the perspective of preservation that is likely to get worse with the rise of streaming.
Ah, no. I did Not missed the point. I spoke my personal opinion on those craptastic titles.
Why would anyone in there right mind but those title's Digitally??.......there is a website you can still buy those games around 19.99 I bought the Ratchet and Clank Trilogy PS3 for 19.99 Amazon and EBay price 79.99 wish I remember the name of the site.
I own some of these games does that mean I can no longer download them? Or just purchase?
Paul writes: "Without further ado, here is my list of the best and worst Need For Speed games in the history of the world! I'll run worst to best, so if you want to know which is the best ever Need for Speed game, you’ll have to read on."
Most wanted 2012 imo was awful, on PS3 the graphics are dreadful, and the crash cam was very annoying. Rival is the worst imo, hated that game. My favourite is Hot Pursuit, great game. Also Shift 1&2 are really good.
High Stakes will always be my favorite. Great cars, great music, and you could see through the windows which was pretty mind-blowing at the time. Best of all it was ricer-free.
Lame. The list doesn't even include any of the originals. NFS 1 and NFS hot Pursuit 1998. Must be a youngster who created the list.
He clearly stated that being this was an Xbox centered site he was going to limit his list to games that released on some form of Xbox. He also stated he had been playing them since OG PLaystation, so pretty sure he's not a "youngster"
From my personal experience NFS I personally don't like.......
The Worst : Underground 2 , Carbon, Prostreets, Undercover, Porche unleashed, Nitro, NFS World, 2012 Mostwanted, Rivals, 2015 Reboot last but not least Paycrap.
Best NFS I personally like :
All ps1 NFS : HighStakes (the best) including NFS 3 Hotpursuit , ps2 Hotpursuit 2 (Excellent game ) ..Underground ( Best so far)
2005 Mostwanted ( Excellent game) Shift 1/2 (Spectacular) remind me of GT , 2010 Hotpursuit Great game but race Waaaaaaay to long in my personal opinion . Last but not least The Run . these are my favorite NFS titles .
After The Run in my personal opinion NFS went down hill fast with Open world mapping crap, always online, multiplayer crap, alldrive, drifting in every freaking corners, no gripping anymore,autolog. None of this crapfest is NFS original formula. until Ea contract Ghost Games to return the original formula back in NFS it will always be Shitty game.
Hardcore Gamer: For the price of a pizza, you can get ProStreet, Shift 1, Shift 2, and Undercover.
I thought it had finally gotten comfortable as a car modding / street racer, but then nooooooo ProStreet comes along.
ProStreet doesn't do anywhere near as well as the previous NFS Underground / Most Wanted / Carbon, so then Undercover returns it to open world street racing.
Then that doesn't do well either, and now here comes Shift.
Seriously EA, make up your mind and keep it. If it doesn't do well, just work harder to make the next one better or extend development time. Don't try to reinvent every single time.
/Rant over
are they making another "Street Racing" game this year?
Personally, I welcome NFS's new approach mate. Instead of trying to cram 3 styles of games into one, they have taken the correct route and chosen 3 distinct ways of presenting them.
SHIFT is for the hardcore racer with a little bit of arcade mixed in with regards to using assists and other styles plus a little Grid style thrown in for good measure.
Modeled on real world cars, tracks and seasons. Being built by actual racing driver and game developers who also happen to be race drivers, much like the crew at Turn 10, many of whom do race competitively still, when they aren't working on tight game schedules that is.
Nitro on the other hand is just pure fun NFS style, smash-n-bash chase and be chased as it was in earlier NFS titles.
NFS World Online is also that, but a little more arcade in style and aimed at taking that into a always on, online experience similar to the early Test Drive title on the 360 a few years ago.
Mixing it up with ppl on line in a very off-the-cuff sort of way. Nitro and World Online are not my style, but would most likely be the style for many others.
So instead of trying to be jack-of-all-trades, and master of none, they have taken the right approach and broken the title done to suit each group of users, Many of whom do have either all, or both of the platforms that can satisfy their needs.
Be that on a handheld, or lower end spec console such as the Wii (no disrespect meant) or a PC, and then you have he consoles,both PS3 and 360 for Shift.
Grid 2 (which is being built btw), will be better than before, and actually modeled on real world tracks and cars again, and really, it was a hit. While it wasn't full on Sim, and was never meant to be, it didn't drop the genre down to the level that Bizarre have now stooped to with BLUR.
Shift is designed for a marekt that is growing, Nitro and Online World are designed at an established market that is expanding. So, if you had the right idea, you'd start catering for each of them, rather than lose some by trying to shoehorn it all in one game.
Makes sense to me mate.
Good write up. Im really looking forward to this Need for Speed!
I think nobody really knows what to expect from Need For Speed anymore! It's all over the shop.
But then I liked the old Burnouts before Paradise...and I think I'm in the minority who preferred them.