When Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit originally dropped in 2010, it did so to high praise...
Written By: Robert Kollars
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When Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit originally dropped in 2010, it did so to high praise...
Written By: Robert Kollars
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As an offline player, in the immortal words of Diamond Dallas Page, that's not a bad thing, that is a good thing. Cinematic stories have long been the worst part of the franchise once they really started emphasizing it in the PS3/360 (although the terrible vehicle handling of the Ghost Games era is right there in terms of worst NFS sins). Laughably bad narratives that constantly disrupt the flow of the games is one reason I've embraced the remasters of entries like this or Criterion's Burnout Paradise."This holds true especially if you’re an offline player. There is no storyline, character arc or some sort of personal redemption that awaits. "
I don't need a story in a racing game (certainly not a bad one on par with Fast and the Furious fanfiction) to feel fulfilled in single player, all I want is a 20-hour relentless gauntlet of driving challenges where my only goal is to beat them all. To put on my Tony Stark voice, that's how Burnout did it, that's how the NFS Hot Pursuit series (the best of the NFS subseries) did it... And it's worked out pretty well so far. As much as I love Maggie Q, I rather her and any other actors and narratives the dev teams try to foister on me leave me alone, I just want to put petal to the metal start to finish. The only time I should stop is to navigate a menu to pick my next race or upgrading a vehicle. Thats all I ask, that's all I need.
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