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Can't wait to blame Kuru if the next NFS is bad

Hearing reassuring words from developers honestly means nothing in 2024. We all know developers want what's best for the game, but they always end up rushed by greedy management that doesn't know anything about making a game

11:58 "you guys can get excited again" We will talk about this again when the next game will be officially revealed. I don't have high hopes

'sup

As much as I'd love them to listen properly, I HIGHLY doubt any significant change will ever happen nowadays. It's the same old story since what, 2015? They invite some influencers/content creators over, they tell us "they're listening, guys, really", and in the end either they don't listen, or then implement the changes, but really poorly. Prove me wrong Criterion, but we all know how lackluster the new NFS games are, as much as I still like them.

This feels like deja-vu from 2014. Crazy that almost 10 years have passed since NFS got a reboot and now it's happening all over again.

If this can be mentioned at the next meeting. Bringing back EA trax, being able to set what song plays during when was nice. I hate having to skip songs mid race

"They gonna take our criticism this time round" i feel like i heard that before. (not sure who i heard it from but it was need for speed related)

no more health bar, black box style handling, good cops

"Some people say give the customers what they want, but that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, 'If I'd ask customers what they wanted, they would've told me a faster horse.' People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page." - Steave Jobs

Something i really miss is dynamic music like in the most wanted pursuits

For the music, they need to have range, they need variety to be honest, GTA Vs soundtrack has become timeless for this exact reason, there’s alot of music for everyone and thats what NFS needs soundtrack wise

fun physics with no brake to drift, no over the top cinematic crash cameras when hitting a car, a pursuit system that finally tops MW2005, a rock/metal soundtrack. done.

Guess it's time for the NFS youtubers to perform this song and dance again.... See you when the next NFS2015 derivative drops

I’m not going to lie, Kuru this is one of those moments where I can’t help but feel ominous about it all. Regardless of the devs doing what players want - publisher is going to want to monetise the shit out of it. Along with the other people in this comment section, if this new NFS doesn’t end up improving upon Unbound then this’ll a curse for you and other content creators.

I swear we go through this with every release, and the same thing happens…time will tell if history repeats itself.

I think one good idea would be if Criterion made a full remake/remaster of MW05/Underground 2 to basically "learn" what worked for these games, to then build on that. Starting with Unbound and going "how do we make this good" might not be the way to go.

the next NFS is either gonna be super good and everyone loves it OR it will be the last NFS...

Picture this, A game that has the prostreet story that follows a grassroots style racing series that has the heat and unbound night racing aspect would be awesome. Carry over the kings of each displine where you have to beat them both in day and night in order to take their spot

We need custom designed bodykits like Underground 1 and Underground 2 introduced, heck even porting them would make the customization much better also the spoilers, roof scoops, hood scoops, the vinyls, the whole customization and dialed up to 11

I hope they keep pushing the envelope of experimental art styles in some form, it would be a shame if they chalked up Unbound's failure to mostly the art and go back to being safe/generic

Kuru as an advisor is the best thing that any racing game developer can have.

For music I would just love to just see radio stations each with different genres. And to bring NfS back into the mainstream I would love to see them collab with other games

congratulations on the 200k!!!!!!!

Progression is my biggest complaint for most of the recent racing games, like it doesn't feel satisfying when you get to the fastest cars within the first 3-4 days and then there's no insentive to continue playing with no end game content. Something that i've seen and liked in CSR2 is the constant crew championships every 2-3 months where you have to compete to get new cars and rewards, also the car tier system should be like in NfSC where certain cars are Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3 and you just have to fully max their upgrades to get the most out of a car in its specific tier unlike how you have to look up tunes for every car online for Forza Horizon. One thing to add is that if they want to bring back the engine swapping they can make it so it changes the tier for the car depending on the potential for the engine, lets say you want a Tier1 Miata to be raceable in Tier2 you would have to put an I6 engine from a BMW. Or they can just add faster versions of slower cars in higher tiers for the people that would like to keep the car's stock engine but race it in different Tiers.

I hope that you mentioned atmosphere. I find that I really loved the atmosphere of the older titles the most. It's why heat kinda worked and why prostreet is one of my favourites despite the many flaws that the game had, It really felt like I was at a car event with the music choices and the overall presentation. Having the menu's be a camera next to your car in a crowd really sold that idea for me.

I hope it will be A WHOLE makeover: New graphics/physics engine, new gameplay concept, new ambience theme (forza/motorfest taking heavy inffluence, Prostreet?) and for once at all ONLY focusing pn true racing/franchise fans, not anymore "popular" stuff to make everyone to play it/buy it, that needs to be for a full arcade title like a new Burnout. Anyway i hope the can rescue the saga with your help and we will be on your side in every moment, because you are the reason why we still play.

I'm starting to have hope in NFS again, now I really hope they don't mess this up

Imma be real it's never gonna happen but I just want another Underground-type game with either no cop presence or easy cops cuz I'm really just there for the night street racing vibe lmao

I'm saving this video for later...

That sounds really promising. I am excited what the future will bring!

If the next NFS has the “Game Moments” camera, please have it be like the MW05 ones. The camera’s in Carbon suck because of the weird quick zoom in on the car and sometimes the camera zooms out too far if the cops are taking jumps with you and we don’t talk about Undercover.

Him playing Most Wanted in the backround of talking about that is definitely not suspicious.

I definitely want some more car options like Plymouth Pontiac and Saturn Oldsmobile all different ones that have been discontinued but still I'd love to see those old cars in new games basically more variety options

ngl this gives me back some hope for nfs. i completly gave up on the franchise after unbound

Glad that you and Theo (BlackPanthaa) were able to go there and voice out your pieces regarding Need For Speed since the franchise is on the verge of going downhill. Although we can’t be certain with the franchise’s future, I hope that through the talks and all, the developers will finally come to their understanding that the community’s voice needs to be heard, and so it has. It’s all down to them now. I (and I imagine the community) have hope that the franchise can be capable of still being considered one of the best racing games.

i never thought that u Kuru, and many other Need for Speed KZfaqrs, that they listened to you. im happy to see, what we get in the next years 😇

i actually want a sequel to Rivals for a change

7:22 good soundtrack for next nfs confirmed. finally. i hope it also get a proper multiplayer with matchmaking or ranked mode. more gameplay variety (drift, drag, sprint, circuit, wangan, pursuit). more endgame content (challenge series, speedlist/speedwall rank, bounty leaderboard, easter egg, etc).

That must be amazing being invited to something like that. I would feel so much proud of myself on your place. Thank you for representing our community!

I'm going to stay pessisimistic about it. Cool to see how they are reaching out though.

I think theres a few things they can still add to customizing cars, like maybe interior customization and first person view? Would be kinda cool definitely would give another 1 up on Forza since the only interior thing thats visible is a roll cage

This is a really exciting development. Of all people out there, I would really trust Kuru the most to know the best things to say to a developer. Even outside of Need for Speed, games like blur and the other greats...there's a lot of overlap between us. I look forward to hearing what comes next

This makes me really happy! I hope they listen to you guys and finally bring back the good times of our childhoods. I don't think they will since they made so many mistakes with the latest games but yeah there is still that 1% of hope from my inner child.

Wtf let ea and criterion cook for once???🔥

They invited BlackPanthaa, the guy who liked and suggested the ideas for: Faster B2D mechanics, the roulette upgrade system in Payback, open lobbies with races instead of having playlists aswell, rediculous customisation that everyone clowns on and who still has allegations of engaging with a minor. Yeah Kuru, I wish I had as much hope as you

Can't wait for all the Kuru memes when the new launch and miracolusly be good.

Ive been teased. Ill wait for the official announcement. Good that you among others gave excellent feedback.

Handling, just make the handling and sense of speed exactly like MW and Carbon that surely will solve majority of the problem. That's the first thing to fix. Unless it's a pro street sequal then its needs to be equivalent to the og.

Congrats for your 200k Lord Kuru ! 🤯🥳

Gz to 200k

Black Betty music on next trailer teaser

how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

They can start by releasing a bundle composed of NFSU, NFSU2 and Most Wanted, all remastered. I'm afraid that if they didn't release those since the fame of remastered games and the free money brought with them, it's because of data lost, legal rights... I mean, I still don't understand why they don't do it, there must be a reason. I dream about playing these games on ps5 with trophies. I know I'm dreaming awake, but this is the real thing I could enjoy from them. Thxs Kuru for your effort and communication about it. Let's hope for the best.

Can't wait to see kuru's character driving a Golf in a boss battle!

How it should be no matter the size of the community. I wish this was a regular thing with devs

This sounds soo promising!

*Nice man*

Honestly, I am glad that all major points were covered, especially the fact that all of you were on the same page. It would have been a huge problem if you guys had conflicting feedback, which is not very productive. But since all the main points were addressed unanimously, the devs have a more clear picture now. I do hope all of that will convert into a better game

Ngl this gets me excited for NFS 2027.

We need Pro street 2

Just hope they get rid of the damage bar and improve on the handling would be cool if they could do something similar to underground 1 and 2 also 2005 most wanted as those are the 3 best need for speeds with the best handling. Would also be pretty cool if we could go back to 2000s era racing game music to as I discovered so many new bands and musicians who are still my favorites to listen to today. Love the need for speed series and have been playing since the 90s. Hope they can start making them better again.

Hopefully no more health bar for the player, i prefer the mw 2005 approach of being boxed in etc

You 100 percent deserved to be there

I'm hopeless

Its great that they allowed some real world feedback and the points shut be on their whiteboard at all times. However there are so many moving parts to a new game and I believe in a good next NfS when I see it, the management and shareholders like to mess things up. Stuff like always online even for single player will be hard to " correct" in future titles. Atleast you can say that you gave your suggestions, now its on them how tgood they deal with it. Keep giving feedback, do some actual playtesting where obvious stuff gets flagged and corrected.

Anyone remember the cops vs. racer mode on nfs undercover on ps2? We really need sth like this to come back in future nfs games

we'll see.

I really really hope, they actually do something with the entire feedback. Plz Criterion, we need this next one to be good.

Honestly I liked shift for the drama in the cars, speed, everything If they did good on how shift plays I would grab that

they did a similar thing with the F1 games back in 2016 and 2017 and it basically did nothing much to game apart from adding their faces to the game which made it more obvius how often they re-used character modesl since their faces were just so familiar

Honestly.... BRING BACK CANYON RACES... I CANNOT EXPRESS THAT ENOUGH!!

Confiamos que Kuru traerá el lanzamiento del NFS most wanted remake y tomará el papel de Rog en el inicio. 😎

They listened so well the corporate big wigs put the NFS title on hold for Battlefield.

So Most Wanted Remake confirmed by Kuru 😎👍

I just want NFS to have it's own dedicated engine. but its like hoping for Bethesda to update their engine

seems like a good direction this is going. But why didn´t this happen earlier? In my studies at the university we get to hear it again and again how important stakeholder analysis are and hear what the target group wants. Now some questions, from which side came this the developers? the management or from your side? because it´s always good to have the management behind you especially because they are making the financial decisions at the end. How was the constellation on the meet up? was it an complete package with persons from all areas of development or where they limited with only game physics or graphics or sounddesign or whatever? also here again maybe also someone who makes decisions at the end. could help, because firstly you could put them honey around the mouth how great this will be if this and that happens and also they get more involved with the whole process and seeing that this gets a passionate treatment from the inside and outside might affect the view a bit. and you could also discuss again the priorities like mentioned and try to do such decisions early. that the most important things get all the needed resources from the getgo.

Ah shit... here we go again...

I want to be able to increase the rpm of upgraded engines (10000rpm civic) in nfs and i want to be able to see the engine upgrades, also want cars like the the 2002-2006 celica 1zz-2zz and vr6 golfs and similar cars.

9:00 and booting unbound makes me want to throw my headphones away

honestly the biggest thing i want is a change to the handling model. i don't think tap to drift of that sort is bad but my god do i miss the blackbox era of handling. cars felt very weighty, tuning in pro street for example made setting up suspension pretty useful, and taking racing lines just felt more natural. nowadays i notice that understeer seems to be a big problem in heat and unbound especially, and some cars are worse than others with little way to alleviate it.

You did tell them the light and aero effects of unbound the things similar to mw thay shoud keep, a little more arcade feeling driving wise, like in the blackbox era, i can go all day

Kuru one of my favorite athletes!!! 🎮

Would be cool if the map was expanded with each update to add a breath of fresh air to the game

ProStreet is one of my favorite NFS ever. The concept brought about by Heat (legal racing by day, illegal ones by night) is interesting but the legit racing stuff feels very tacked on. I hope the next game will delve deeper into that aspect of legal 'street racing.' Especially with how popular legit events like Final Bout, Grid Life, and Gatebil are now.

They received feedback since NFS 2015, and they did it wrong for all the games after it. Let's see if we can really get excited again.

They listened but will they change anything and do the fun thing instead of the greedy thing? EA did meetings for other games like apex and "listened" for feedback but still didn't change or fix shlt

now that also means there will be beta/alpha testers(i wonder who could it be) so if anything ever goes wrong the testers(again who could it be) can say something so there will be less mistakes from the start

Finally! I remember you begging for such an opportunity.

most wanted but bigger

I'm living in the good timeline

True even where we hated the game we used to love doesn’t mean we can get updates what happens to it because at the end its our childhood’s games

YESSSSS

I just want a new Burnout😢

Imagine if they had been this open for the fan feedback like 10 years ago...

I still regret getting unbound to. This day i hope the new is better

I kept hearing the word "nostalgia", but there are all kinds of players. Some are old and some are new, but I hope the people that were there were not just talking "I need NFS Most Wanted and everything that would look just like that game". You mentioned about nostalgia for music, but yet again, the songs are always new and they were new at that time in the past as well. You can't expect the same style as in your mentioned underground, mw, pro street or whatever because it's 2024. I love music in Pro Street and MW 2012 and I can only hope to get a similar genre, but not old music in the game. I want them to move on, not cling to the past.

First things first, fire whoever wrote the story and dialogue for Unbound. That shit made MW2005's edgy memefest seem Oscar-worthy by comparison.

I do enjoy the day-night cycle of Heat, one of my modern favourites. I've actually been playing Payback for the first time, (with the UNITE visuals but not the handling) and I have to say I like the story direction Ghost went for that, it's easy to follow, and you understand who are the bad guys, and it isn't just corrupt cops, it's a casino that took over the city that we band other leagues to take down. I do long for the Blacklist and feel that a story similar to Most Wanted 2005 could still work. I'd enjoy something more grounded with some beefing (not Unbound Internet/adopted sibling beef) rather than, oh no a cop took out my intro car, and then oh look it's the iconic BMW we get to smash up. I adore ProStreet, and it is my top NFS game, just because we had beef with the Street King, who is a combination of all the other kings. We also get a sense of progression through our sponsors/promoters. The commentary is so flavourful, and it's something that I think the sanctioned races for Heat lacked. With AI we could be our own version of Ryan Cooper (look at Starfield). I'm not saying I need character creation, Im saying let me have a name, give some commentary, a dope as Junkie XL soundtrack, the challenging high-speed road feels (you know the tracks I'm talking about), toll booth runs, and maybe some kind of rep gain like the magazines from Underground 2 (not that we really read magazines in the car world anymore). I also feel that for NFS, what we really lack are modern enthusiast cars irl, it's harder to customize the modern car because of electronics and an addiction car companies have to 'LuXuRy' and anti-right-to-repair stances to a point that most games we get have a lot of BMWs, Porsches, and a lot of hypercars (which I personally don't like in general). But hey thats just my opinion lol